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Ban of Mino.

Yeah!

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'd better have something.

Could be important.

from Singapore.

Cleo? Yes, and don't tell me who this is.

There's only one person in the world who phoned me at four in the morning.

Right, darling.

And in the middle of something erotic, I'm sure.

Right. And unless you tell me the Third World War has started, nothing can get

me out of this bed.

It's something closer to home than a world war.

I can't discuss it over the phone.

You must see the Manila...

Interpol chief immediately.

He'll give you all the details.

And I mean right now. But it's four in the morning and I'm supposed to be on

holiday.

Chief, hello?

Morning, Phil.

Morning, Chief.

I don't mind getting out of bed this early in the morning for all this money.

It's all yours.

That's one of the reasons why your chief in Singapore asked you to see me

immediately.

You must be kidding.

What did I do to deserve all this?

Good money.

It feels and smells like real money.

That's the whole problem.

It's too real to be fake.

It's been accepted by every bank in Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, and here

in Manila.

And this kind of money is now in general circulation in five Asian countries.

Only an expert... Using sophisticated technical equipment and chemicals can

us that these are bogus currencies.

If this continues, the result will be a great economic disaster in the region,

as people will lose faith in their own currencies.

Whoever is behind this must be trying to prevent the ASEAN from becoming a

powerful economic bloc in Asia.

Interpol agents from five member nations.

I'll now try to find the source of these fake currencies.

Up to this time, I've not received anything positive from my agents.

And I suppose I have to end my holiday here in Manila and go home to Singapore

to do my part.

How did you guess?

Simple. Every time Sims calls me up at some unearthly hour of the night, I

always end up with a big mission.

What time do I leave? No hurry.

You can go back to your bed.

Finish whatever you were doing.

And then pack your bags, take the 9 o 'clock flight.

Sims will meet you at Singapore Airport.

How was the trip, Cleo?

Fine.

Garcia briefed you on a fake currency situation.

We have to move fast before this thing gets out of hand.

That's why I cut short my vacation in Manila.

Do we have any leads?

Unfortunately not. You have to work it out from scratch.

Well, if we can't find them, let them find me.

Your plan is very dangerous, Bill, but it might work.

Well, if it doesn't, you lose an agent.

Me.

A motorcycle has been following us from the airport.

There's nothing to worry about. I'll take care of the cyclist.

That's my favorite journey agent. Okay.

Did the chief assign you to tail me? No, Cleo. I just want to work with you

again on a mission. It must be something more exciting this time.

Yes.

Shopping. I'm filthy rich today, and I have to buy some things which I don't

really need.

Can I go shopping with you?

No. Wait for me here. Okay.

Good morning. May I help?

How much is that?

$29 ,500.

May I look at it?

Okay,

I'll

take it.

Here's 30 ,000.

I'll get my change in the watch later.

I still have shopping over there.

Okay.

Here you are.

Come with me, please.

Arrange for her bail and bring her to me.

Consider it done, Argo.

Five, let's go.

Can I have my pee, please?

Thank you.

Miss Wong.

Hey, come on.

Welcome to my villa, Miss Wong.

One simple question, and I expect a straight simple answer.

Where'd you get this money?

Suppose I don't tell you.

Simple.

We'll just have to kill you.

And if I tell you where I got it?

Your death will be painless and instant.

Either way I die, is that it?

Yes. Because you are not supposed to see me or this place.

Suppose I tell you that Interpol gave me the money to spend so that the

syndicate behind the bogus money will capture me and bring me to their hideout

for questioning. Will you...

Believe me?

That's too simple a plot for me to believe.

The Interpol is known for using intricate plans for the simplest things.

Then you'll have to kill me the long, painful way. I can't tell you anything

more.

Let's go outside and see how the wrestlers will tear you limb from limb

rag doll.

Boys!

playmate.

A live doll.

But she's not as gentle as she looks.

So you can play rough with her.

Thank you.

Well, that's in the interval.

I'll go to the gang and send Tosa. Right.

lessons in martial arts.

We have been grilling Argo and his men for practically the whole night.

And all we can get from them is the information that the fake money is

from Hong Kong.

What we don't know is how it's being brought in and who the mastermind is.

The important thing is that we have Argo and his men.

The spread of fake money, at least here in Singapore, will be stopped.

Yes.

But what about the other ASEAN countries?

A very good question, Cleo.

I think you'll find some answers in Hong Kong, if you're up to it.

Hong Kong?

Well, why not?

Hello, miss. I think you'll be interested in a shipment of strawberry

It just came in from the Philippines.

I have a sweet tooth.

I'm sure it will taste sweet.

It had better.

Money, I'm paying you for the information.

Leave it up to...

one person in the world who knows where to phone me at this time of night, and

that's Cleopatra Wong.

Your call is through, miss.

Hello.

Hello, boss.

Did I interrupt anything important?

In this room, and at this time of night, you know very well you did.

Now, what's so important?

Or are you just trying to get even with me?

I'm here in Manila.

To follow up a very hot lead I got in Hong Kong.

I'm going up north at sunrise to see some strawberry plantations.

Strawberries? Yes.

And I might go into the strawberry jam business.

And I suggest you do the same.

You'll find it very profitable.

And if I were you, I'd buy up all the shipments of strawberry jam now at the

Singapore piers. Those that came in from Hong Kong are the best.

Strawberry jam from Hong Kong?

Yes, darling.

And I think you should get up from bed now before the big distributors and

retailers beat you to it. But it's only four in the morning.

Yes, I know. But you might already be too late.

Strawberry jam?

At the Piz?

For breakfast with buttered toast.

Yes.

No, for business.

My name is Chan May Wan from the ASEAN Week magazine.

May I take your picture? Sure, go ahead. Take all you want.

Would you like some berries?

What I'm interested in is strawberry jam. Do you make some?

Yeah, we make for our family and friends.

Who makes the jam then in big commercial quantities?

Well, the biggest strawberry jam factory in this area...

It's the Catholic monastery over that hill.

The nuns buy up all the berries that we can harvest for them.

Thanks for the information. You're welcome.

Bye -bye. Bye -bye.

Thank you.

No pictures, please.

I'm a reporter from Asian Weekly.

I'm doing a feature story on old monasteries in the Philippines. Sorry,

pictures.

Oh, can I go in then? Sorry, no visitors allowed.

Please, go away.

Pardon the poor quality. This camera uses very small negatives.

Ah, these pictures don't prove anything, Cleo.

I can't believe that the nuns in this monastery will involve themselves in

a big crime as printing and distribution of fake currency.

Perhaps they're being forced to do it.

Or they don't know that they're being used.

What about this helicopter?

We traced its owner and we've got a lead.

We've checked that. The chopper belongs to a private charter company.

A priest flies to the monastery every week to say mass and to hear

And these wooden crates?

Can't we intercept a shipment and open them? The customs police already did

that. They didn't find anything unusual.

Nothing but strawberry jam.

What about a warrant to search the monastery?

We can't do that.

Unless we have enough evidence to convince the judge.

But even that won't be easy.

There's such a thing as separation of church and state in this country.

And the last thing I want on my hands are complaints of religious persecution.

But you get me the evidence, and I'll see what I can do.

You'll get the evidence, Chief.

Good hunting, Cleo. See you.

Make one wrong move and you're dead.

All we want are the negatives of the pictures you took this morning.

The negatives and the pictures are in there. Let's go get them.

There is your evidence, Chief.

Don't tell me that nuns in this country sport automatic rifles underneath their

monastic uniforms.

Maybe they belong to a new religious order.

Don't you think?

Or maybe they're just protecting the secret formula for their strawberry jam.

Against ants and cockroaches.

Well, gentlemen, I appreciate your sense of humor, but this is no joking matter.

With this evidence, I think we can get a warrant to search the monastery.

I have a better plan, Chief.

I requested these gentlemen to be here because they are part of the plan.

George is a crack shot and a cold -blooded killer.

Dante is an aerialist who moves like a deadly panther.

Alex is an explosives expert.

And Ben is one agent I can trust with my life.

The five of us together, plus this special equipment, which I ordered from

lad, can face up to anybody and anything in that monastery.

Well, shall we go, gentlemen?

Good hunting.

Unless you bastards do just what you're told, you might all end up in jail or

dead.

Our Singapore connection has been busted by Interval.

Aerial pictures of the monastery were taken yesterday by somebody posing as a

reporter.

We tried to recover the negatives, but our men failed and got themselves

Now tell me, will anything incriminating show up in those pictures?

Well, all the rules have been strictly observed.

Nothing unusual can be seen from the air. Why, even our people inside are

maintaining their costume of nuns and monks.

That better be the gospel truth, or else I'll send you all to hell.

Now go to your posts and hide all those guns, damn it.

This is excellent.

Keep up the good work.

Maybe we better do some more Philippine peso.

We don't know what's up there and what we'll be up against.

But I'm sure something illegal is going on inside there.

Like printing of fake currencies, huh?

And those nuns in your pictures don't look real at all.

I wonder where the real nuns are.

We're here to find that out.

Maybe they're being held captive in the basement of this building here.

Ben and I will go in first, through here.

I suppose we can follow after the fireworks, huh?

Oh, you might want to wait for Christmas.

Good luck.

Okay, time to work.

After you.

Damn you.

Sir.

All

right,

fathers.

You may now pack your unholy asses.

I can see that the change in costume makes a hell of a difference.

You all look so respectable and saintly.

Why do we have to be dressed like it is?

Do I have to tell you again, you meathead?

Mendoza, tell him. Yeah.

In the first place, the weather is cool.

We're supposed to be monks.

So we dress like monks.

Now do you understand, stupido?

Si, si.

Come on, you guys. Quit the jokes and listen to the man.

Wow. The money that we have been printing and distributing from this

is now widely circulating in five Asian countries.

Very soon, the people of these areas will lose faith in their own currency.

Their economy will be in shambles. And that's where we come in.

We buy companies that are in distress.

And before long, we shall have complete control of Asian industries.

What about our people in Singapore that got caught by Interpol?

So? What about them?

Well, suppose they sing a different hymn.

Each connection works independently, and they can sing their hearts out, but our

link with them can never be established.

The only people who know about our activities here are the nuns we all

And I think it's about time we sent them all to heaven.

Now, let's hear some reports.

What about Indonesia?

The rupiah is sinking.

It will hit bottom by the next time our shipment is in Jakarta.

What about Thailand?

Good for us. Terrible for the Thais.

In the bet.

Slowly. Sinking in value.

And Malaysia?

Malaysian dollar is holding on.

But give us time.

Kuala Lumpur is already flooded with our money.

Good.

Well, enjoy your spiked coffee, fathers, while I visit the nuns.

I suppose this must be the Indonesian shipment.

Yes, and after this we'll send out the Malaysian dollars.

That is right, sisters.

Keep on praying. Your day of deliverance is near.

When, Mr. Monk? When?

Very soon.

At break of dawn tomorrow, all of you will be on your way to meet your maker.

Understand?

God will bless your soul.

Hey, it's us, see?

We couldn't have waited for Christmas, so we followed you here.

There seems to be no other way in except through the roof.

All the doors are guarded.

We'd better go up then.

Okay.

Bye.

All right.

Or you're a dead nut.

You, move.

So,

you're a...

Sir if you're the police we were just forced to do this we were kidnapped from

printing press in Manila

Then

who is this she's the one in charge here

you and the other printers try to escape

But first, you take care of her.

Move!

I'll

see

you all in hell!

Give my regards to Satan!

Have no fear, sisters. We're here to set you free.

We've come from Interpol.

I'm Sister Veronica, the superior of this congregation.

Wait for our signal.

It's you.

You look like a monkey lying down there.

Come on, let's get the hell out of here.

We'll clear the way for you. Wait for our signal at the side door, okay?

Be careful. Those nuns and monks are no pushovers.

We know.

This is the shortest way.

Come on.

I think we'll be safe here now, Miss, uh, who, uh... Wong.

Tia Patra Wong. Miss Wong.

You can go back to the monastery when the fireworks stop.

We shall be praying for you.

You son of a bitch.

How are the nuns?

Oh, they're all safe there.

Good.

Hey, what are you waiting for?

Yeah. No, yeah.

Throw up that building.

Okay, okay.

Take it fast, man.

Are you sure? Yeah.

Ooh.

Beautiful.

Okay.

Let's clear up the building.

I'll take the back and the side. You take care of the front.

All right? Okay. Let's go.

still in here. The enemy's back there.

Get back there.

Move, you unholy asses.

Come on.

I'll go after the helicopter.

Thank you.

Thank you.