An old black and white film plays on a TV while an unknown person eats crisps and drinks beer. In the background a man lies dead on the floor with a knife in his back.

Lee and Amanda are sitting in a bar called Monk's having a drink as Amanda wanted to see where the agents go in their spare time. Two reporter's, Marsha Stone and Jay Negata, enter the bar and tell Lee that another agent has been murdered. They say that it doesn't appear to be an 'us' and 'them' problem as agents from both sides are being targeted using the same M.O. - first a note and then the hit. Tonight's death was of a French agent.

Lee and Amanda leave Monk's and chat for a few minutes outside as a concerned Amanda tries to convince Lee to let her drive him home. While talking, Lee is approached by a blind old man called Wendell who passes him a note. Lee reads it and goes to put it away but Amanda takes the note and reads it out loud - "A warning, I've got my eye on you". Lee confirms it's the same note that the other victims got but he intends to ignore it.

Later that night, Lee is quietly reading in his apartment when his doorman knocks on his door. He has a package for Lee. When Lee opens it up a jack in the box pops up with a note attached to it which reads - "Getting nervous?"

Next day at the Agency, Lee, Francine and Billy are going through the list of murdered agents in an attempt to find any connections. Lee jokingly suggests that Francine is the link since she's dated most of them. Billy is concerned for him but Lee tells him not to over react. He leaves Billy's office and sits down at his desk. Suddenly, he hears a ticking noise and begins to search frantically for what sounds like a bomb. He finally opens a bottom drawer which reveals a camera that startles him when it flashes as it takes his picture. Francine and Billy race over to his desk and Francine picks up the camera. She looks at it and hands it to Lee who then shows Billy what's written on the side - "Photo of a dead man".

Billy takes action and decides that Lee needs 24 hour protection. He accompanies an unhappy Lee to dinner and then tells him to drive back to the Agency where another agent will follow him home. Lee gets in his car and as he tries the start the engine a masked man jumps up from the back seat and tries to kill him. They struggle and fall out of the car where the killer manages to stab Lee. A woman passing by sees them and screams causing the killer to run off and leave an apparently dead Lee laying on the ground.

Lee's funeral. All his Agency friends are there including Amanda. Francine places a bottle of champagne on his coffin and the crowd disperses leaving just Billy and a crying Amanda that just can't believe Lee's gone. Billy tells Amanda to go home promising that things will be better the next day.

The next day arrives but Amanda's still upset. Dotty and the boys go away for the weekend to Williamsburg. Dotty had offered to stay but Amanda said she needed the time alone. While remembering Lee, she begins to cry again but is startled when she suddenly hears his voice. Upon turning around she sees Lee, alive and well, standing in her family room holding an overnight bag. She gives him a hug and then gets angry with him for deceiving everyone with his death. Lee explains that he almost did die three days before when the killer tried to murder him and Billy and he decided it would be better if he stayed 'dead' so the killer would move onto the next victim therefore leaving Lee free to investigate the case. Only Amanda and Billy know about the plan and Amanda soon realises that as Lee can't show his face too much, it'll be she that will have to do the legwork. Already unhappy with this turn of events she gets another shock when Lee then informs her that he has to stay at her house for the duration too.

At the Agency that evening, Francine is reluctant to go home and talks to another agent. They hear a scream and rush out into the corridor where a guard let's them know that a colleague, Agent Vernon, is dead - he's hanging in the stairwell.

Back at Amanda's house she has been pleasantly surprised at Lee's domesticated side when he cooks her dinner. They then go to the King Edward Apartment Hotel where the French agent was found murdered in room 1204. They bribe the desk clerk to get the key to the room so that they can look for any clues that the police might have missed. While checking the room, Amanda goes into the bathroom and looks through some personal belongings that have been left. Suddenly the masked man jumps out from behind the shower curtain and locks the bathroom door before trying to strangle Amanda. Lee breaks down the door and the intruder escapes through the bathroom window dropping a ticket stub to the Bonneview drive-in. Amanda finds the stub and while they continue to check the rest of the room they hear someone knocking on the door.

They both jump in bed fully clothed just as the desk clerk walks in wanting to know what all the noise was about. He gives them five minutes to get out. Once he leaves they get out of bed and Lee shows Amanda a black box he got off of the back of the TV. It's the property of the Niemen's Company who compile the TV ratings and Lee thinks it could prove important.

Meanwhile in the cemetery someone is digging up Lee's grave.

The next day Amanda reports the findings of the Hotel room to Billy. Everything seems to be the same as the list Billy has except for the ticket stub. Billy tells Amanda that the results of the Niemen's box should be back soon and she, in turn, tells Billy that Lee thinks that the killer went back to the room to get something he left behind when he murdered the French agent. Amanda gets up to go and Billy tells her that there's no more news on the agent killed at the Agency and they're checking all personnel files. Just then, Francine walks in and is surprised to see Amanda as she thought Amanda only worked at the Agency in conjunction with Lee. Amanda pretends that she is upset and that Billy was consoling her then leaves.

That night Lee and Amanda come back to Amanda's house after seeing the same movie that the ticket stub was for. It was a Buzz Blade film which was a spin-off of the TV series, Buzz Blade Secret Spy. Russell Sinclair played the title character until he made the movie which bombed and ruined his career - he had't been heard of since. Lee checks through the Niemen results and discovers that Buzz Blade Secret Spy was the programme being watched at 1.30am the night the French agent was killed. He determines that this couldn't have been the agent because his time of death is fixed prior to midnight which means it must have been the killer.

Lee suddenly notices some suitcases and then has to run outside when they hear Dotty come downstairs - she and the boys have come back early because a bad storm hit. Lee sits outside in the bushes and the storms hits Arlington causing him to get soaked. Billy calls and Amanda has to hand the phone out through the window to Lee who's still sitting out in the rain. Billy tells him that some personnel records are incomplete but the personnel officer no longer works for the Agency so Lee asks Billy to find her - quickly.

The next day, Amanda goes to Lee's apartment to pick up some items he needs. While there the masked man appears and captures her. Meanwhile, Lee has located the former personnel officer, Mrs. Peters, and is asking her questions about Russell Sinclair who played Buzz Blade. She confirms that Sinclair applied to the Agency for a job as a spy after suffering horrendous injuries during the filming of the movie. She felt sorry for him and gave him a night janitor job instead.

Back at the Agency, Francine is going mad at Billy because she has found out that Lee is still alive but she wasn't told. She had visited the grave and found it dug up. She gets even angrier when Billy tells her that Amanda knew all about it but Billy defends his actions saying that Lee needed a safe place to stay. The phone rings and it's Lee telling Billy that he has a lead on the killer. Billy then tells Lee about his grave and Lee immediately hangs up and dials the number for his apartment. Sinclair answers and threatens to kill Amanda unless Lee goes there alone.

In the apartment, Sinclair has tied Amanda to a chair and tells her about his accident and that the young spies had to die because they can do what he can't anymore. She tries to reason with him but he's quite mad. Lee arrives at the apartment and climbs up the fire escape then in through his bedroom window but Sinclair is waiting for him and jumps out holding a rapier to Lee's back. He makes Lee go into the front room where the walls are covered with dynamite in a bid to recreate the final day of the film shoot when the accident happened. Sinclair bends and lights the fuse allowing Lee the chance to knock the rapier away from himself and grab another rapier off of his wall and they begin to duel. During the fight Lee stamps out the fuse only to have it relight again as he moves away. Realising he can't win the fight with Lee, Sinclair climbs out onto the fire escape but loses his grip and falls to his death.

Amanda calls out to Lee to remind him of the burning fuse. Lee pulls the fuse from the dynamite and stamps out the flame again then unties Amanda. He walks off but she calls him back because he forgotten to untie the one around her chest. He grins and walks back over.

SCENE'S TO WATCH OUT FOR:

Amanda trying to persuade Lee to let her drive him home.

Amanda using her plant and animal job cover to tell Dotty how she really feels about her Agency work.

Lee turning up at Amanda's house when she thinks he's dead.

Amanda and Lee going to the King Edward Apartment Hotel.

Lee wanting to go out and Amanda pointing out that he's supposed to be dead.

Tag scene where Lee unties Amanda.

ROMANCE: 

Obviously, Amanda was extremely upset when she thought Lee was dead. In that roundabout way of hers, she even told her mother that she shouldn't get attached to a 'plant' in her job because when a 'plant' dies it feels like she's lost a friend. So, she admits that she's attached to Lee and likes him a lot.

When Lee returned, after her initial joy, she became angry because it was all a lie. She told him she cared about him and he apologised for upsetting her. It was the first time that they'd hugged each other properly. Usually Lee just comforted Amanda but this was different. Seeing how upset she was showed us just how deep her feelings ran and Lee's admission that he did care if she cared about him showed that he had similar feelings. Sweet moment.

The tag scene was also very nice. We're now starting to see that a bond is being formed although neither will admit that. At the end when Lee unties Amanda, he seems regretful that they won't be sharing their hamburger supper like 'real' people. Of course, when Amanda says that he's not really disappointed about missing the dinner though because he's 'alive' again, he agrees. He then asks if she's disappointed about missing the dinner and she also denies it. We can see that both are lying!!

Definitely some undercurrents beginning to surface in this episode.

QUOTES:

AMANDA: Wouldn't it be safer if I drove you?

LEE: Safer?

AMANDA: Yes. I mean, I know I can't punch, but look, if anybody tried to attack you, I could confuse them to death. You know I can do that.

LEE: Oh, that I do. And believe me, when I need a blackbelt confuser, I will call you.

LEE: You were saying?

FRANCINE: I was?

LEE: Yeah, good on the dance floor and good in…

FRANCINE: Backgammon.

LEE: Backgammon.

FRANCINE: Mm, one of the best.

BILLY: Lee, I'm worried about you.

LEE: Me? Oh, Francine  and I haven't played backgammon in years.

LEE: Look, are you going to be taking me to dinner every night? I mean, what kind of agent can I be when there's somebody with me all the time?

BILLY: A live one.

AMANDA: The hardest part about this work is the feelings. Lee said not to get involved. He was right about that.

LEE: I never thought I'd live to hear you say that. Actually, I didn't live to hear it. Not officially, of course.

LEE: Look, was it a nice funeral? Not too fancy?

AMANDA: Oh, how dare you make jokes! I have been really upset about this. I thought I'd lost a friend, and that hurts. And I was frightened, too, and… look, I know you don't like tears, I know they frighten you more than bullets, so I'm sorry about this little scene, but you brought it all on yourself because it would have been totally unnecessary if you hadn't been killed, which you haven't been, and I cared that you were dead, and I don't care if you don't care that I care.

LEE: I do care. Really. Thank you.

LEE: Look, Amanda, no one I know would ever look for me here and everyone you know is out of town. So if you could just get past the psychological barrier of having me around, everything would be great! So where do you want me to put my things, hm?

AMANDA: Guatemala.

AMANDA: Renting a room with no luggage. Can you imagine what that desk clerk must think?

AMANDA: Thank you.

AMANDA: Do you know what it must take to offend that man's sense of decency? I'm so glad that I was the one to do it.

AMANDA: Killers, maniac's, prowlers. You know, before I came to work for you people the worse person in my life was a grumpy milkman.

LEE: I'm sick of being dead. I miss my apartment, I miss restaurants, I miss night-clubs.

AMANDA: This is probably very healthy for you. No, really. Real people do not go to restaurants and night-clubs every night, they stay home and make hamburgers and watch television.

LEE: Amanda. Are you going to try to make me into a real person again?

AMANDA: No. But the exposure certainly couldn't do you any harm.