OUR
MAN IN TEGERNSEE
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Whilst on a courier
assignment in Munich, Amanda is arrested and put in jail for passing
counterfeit twenty dollar bills. Billy
orders Lee to fly over and help her but Scarecrow isn’t happy as he’s had to
give up a long weekend in the Poconos with his girlfriend. Once he arrives, Amanda is released into his
custody but she’s not allowed to leave the country. Amanda is understandably upset at this turn of events but Lee
says that it goes beyond the twenty she slipped the shopkeeper. As Amanda objects to Lee’s less than
sympathetic attitude, Inspector Volkenauer approaches them to clarify something
on her statement. It’s obvious from the
encounter that Lee doesn’t like Volkenauer but once Amanda explains that it’s
her sons she bought to train set for when she used the fake twenty dollar bill,
the German policeman takes his leave.
After having a rather
‘loud’ conversation with Dotty from a payphone to let her know she was alright,
Lee takes her to a nearby café and explains that a lot of counterfeit twenty
dollar bills have been passed around lately.
Amanda tells him that she bought a present for Dotty, then went to the
train store to buy a set for the boys and that’s where the owner changed Marks
for Dollars but he won’t admit it hence leaving Amanda as the guilty party.
Lee decides to visit,
Harry Hollinger, their man in Tegernsee, a small resort about 45 minutes
outside of Munich. Lee says that he
worked with Harry a couple of years before and that he should be able to help
as he didn’t miss much.
They arrive in Tegernsee
and find Harry in a bar getting drunk.
After introductions, Lee asks if they can talk and Harry tells them to
wait outside while he settles his tab.
Outside, Lee tells Amanda that Harry obviously isn’t on a case as he
wouldn’t be in that state. Harry then
joins them carrying glasses and a bottle of schnapps. Lee and Amanda try to talk to him but Harry’s more interested in
the drink. Lee is disappointed but
Harry doesn’t care as he claims that nothing ever happens in Tegernsee.
Elsewhere in Tegernsee, a
man called Muller is being ‘severely reprimanded’ by his boss, Portillo, for
using their counterfeit money in Munich.
The money was to be used to get his Neo Nazi group into power and he
tells Muller that his stupidity has brought a spy to the town. Muller apologises and says he’ll sort it out
but Portillo tells him he’s a liability.
The next morning, Lee,
Amanda and Harry have breakfast on the patio of Harry’s house. Harry apologises for passing out the night
before then explains that he doesn’t know anything anymore since the Agency
sent him to Tegernsee as a kind of punishment for getting ‘sloppy’ on an
assignment one and a half years earlier.
While they chat, Muller
sneaks up on them unnoticed, carrying a rifle and hides behind a tree obviously
waiting for a perfect moment to shoot.
Back on the patio, Lee
tells them that the counterfeit plates date back to the 1930’s/40’s which meant
that they’re probably the one’s from Hitler’s time when he planned to destroy
the economy during the war.
Suddenly, Muller shoots at
them and they take cover. Muller runs
off and Lee and Harry give chase but they don’t catch him. As they walk back to the house for Amanda,
Volkenauer arrives expressing his surprise at Amanda’s not being at the hotel
and says that she’s a strange tourist what with counterfeit money and
assassination attempts being made. He
then leaves and Lee as Lee attempts to reassure her that everything’s OK, she
spies a boat on the nearby lake and notices that there are divers aboard. They go down and speak to the divers to see
if they know anything of the Nazi’s using the lake as a dumping ground. They don’t, but then mention, Old Gunther, a
local historian around 80 years old so they decide to go and pay him a visit.
Not very forthcoming to
Harry, Old Gunther helps them when Amanda appeals to him saying she can’t go
home to her family until he gives them any help. He tells them that he told Muller about the Nazi’s dumping stuff
in the lake and Harry calls a friend to see if he can find out more about
Muller. He comes back with information
on how Muller was a milkman but gave up his job six months earlier but doesn’t
appear to need money as he’s bought a new car and had his house painted. Amanda isn’t convinced saying that a milkman
wouldn’t know how to counterfeit as he’d need knowledge about special paper and
ink.
They go to Muller’s house
and see him getting into his car. When
he sees them, he speeds off and they give chase. Muller stops near a barn and into it. The spies also stop and Lee and Harry get out leaving Amanda in
the car.
Lee opens the barn door
but when he sees nothing, he goes back outside. Meanwhile, Muller opens up the hayloft door and jumps down,
hiding behind the barn door so that Lee can’t see him. Just as he’s about to shoot Lee, Harry
appears behind him and shoots him instead.
Lee rushes back over but Muller is dead, along with their only
lead. Amanda gets out of the car and
walks up to them just as Harry beats himself up about killing Muller when he
only meant to wing him. Amanda points
out that he saved Lee’s life but he’s not comforted. As they decide what to do with Muller’s body, Volkenauer pulls up
in his car and Amanda tells him that there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation
then turns to Lee to come up with one!
Later that day, the three
of them walk down the street discussing the fact that they had to tell
Volkenauer who they were but Lee’s not happy as he hasn’t really got the
authority to do anything over there.
Determined not to give up even though Harry says they’re dead in the
water, Lee suggests they check known associates of Muller’s as counterfeiting
isn’t a one-man job. Harry says he’ll
check Tegernsee and Lee and Amanda decide to check the town on the other side
of the lake. Harry walks off,
apparently enthusiastic about the case and Lee and Amanda watch him, happy that
he seems to be more back to his normal self.
Unfortunately, Harry isn’t
his normal self as he’s actually involved in the counterfeiting ring himself
and goes straight to Portillo to tell him that Lee must die because he’s
getting too close. Portillo says that
it’s Harry’s job as he is the one that joined them with the promise of keeping
the authorities out but Harry insists he needs help or the operation will be
blown.
Lee, Amanda and Harry all
meet up in Tegernsee a while later and Harry tells them that he has a lead and
Lee says he has one too, a Karl Portillo from Paraguay where there’s a large
Neo Nazi movement. Harry plays it down
and says that he has the better lead which is that Muller had been joined at the
hip with his cousin for the last six months and they’d been spending lots of
money. He also explains that the
‘cousin’ has a saw mill on the outskirts of Munich and suggests they go check
it out. Lee agrees but says he needs to
check in with Billy first. That done,
they drive to the small town on the outskirts of Munich to find there’s a
festival on. Lee tells Amanda to wait
in the car until he and Harry get back and she reluctantly agrees.
Lee and Harry drive out to
the saw mill which looks deserted.
Harry says that the workers are probably at the festival and they go
stealthily up to the mill to investigate.
Harry goes one way and Lee the other then he goes inside where he’s
ambushed by Portillo and his men. With
Lee pinned down, Harry leaves and goes back to get Amanda.
At the mill, Volkenauer
comes to Lee’s aid and they catch Portillo.
It’s obvious that Lee had asked for the inspector’s help and when they
walk back to the car, Lee asks about Harry.
Volkenauer says that one of his men was waiting by the car and that he
should have him in custody. When they
get there however, the policeman has been knocked out and the car is gone. Helping to semi-unconscious policeman up, he
confirms that Harry had driven off and Lee immediately surmises that Harry’s
probably gone after Amanda and, using Volkenauer’s car, Lee and the inspector
race back to the town.
At the festival, Amanda is
looking around the gift stalls when Harry arrives and, pulling out a fake note,
he offers to buy the hat she’s looking at.
Amanda realises what it is and asks after Lee and Harry tells her that
he set him up just as Lee had set him up with Volkenauer. He then asks Amanda to be his insurance policy
and makes a grab for her but she evades him and runs into the middle of some festival
street dancers.
Meanwhile, Lee and
Volkenauer arrive and Lee tells the inspector to wait by the car as it’s
Harry’s only escape.
Still trying to evade
Harry, Amanda just thinks she’s succeeded when she turns around to find him
standing there. He grabs her but, then
out of nowhere, Lee suddenly grabs him and they get into a fight. Lee wins and Harry tries to tell him it
wasn’t personal but Lee disagrees.
Later, as Lee and Amanda
leave the police station in Munich, Lee tells Amanda that Harry will get the
book thrown at him and Amanda says that it’s a shame that he didn’t just tell
the Agency about the counterfeiting ring as that probably would’ve got him back
into the Agency’s good books again. Lee
agrees and then they turn as they hear Volkenauer calling out to them. Amanda is worried at first that she might
still not be able to leave but is pleasantly surprised when the inspector asks
her out for dinner. She declines saying
that she hopes to be on her way back home by then.
SCENE’S TO WATCH OUT FOR:
Lee speaking to Amanda
while she’s in jail and letting her know how unhappy he is to be there.
Amanda phoning Dotty from
a payphone and having to shout that she’s been arrested much to Lee’s acute
embarrassment.
Lee telling Amanda not to
worry about calling home as she’s a good mother and Dotty and the boys know
she’s alright.
Lee trying to convince
Amanda to stay at the festival as he and Harry go to saw mill.
ROMANCE:
There are a couple of
little moments of affection and jealousy in this episode that are rather
nice. The sweet moments are when Amanda
touches Lee’s arm in a gesture of comfort when he tells Harry he’s wrong and it
is personal. Amanda always seems
to reach out and touch when he needs it most and although he may not have
realised it at those times, I think they all make an impression on him over
time. Another moment is when they walk
around a post and link little fingers and smile – what that action actually
means has been a subject of conjecture for a while so I’m going to guess and
say it’s a superstition thing – still very cute to see though.
The jealousy in this
episode all comes from Lee. Quite
subtle for a change, but still obvious and it all seems to centre around,
Volkenauer. He never appeared to like
him from the word go and liked to goad him, but the ending when he asks Amanda
out for dinner, Lee’s face is priceless – one minute jealous as hell because he
asked her and the next very smug because she turned him down. For a secret agent who’s supposed to keep
his emotions under wrap’s, he frequently slips up with Amanda around J
QUOTES:
LEE: The flight over the Atlantic Ocean was very nice.
Nine hours and forty-five minutes, but very nice.
AMANDA: You're angry with me.
LEE: Now why should I be angry?
LEE: The German government is very, very unhappy and
the American government is very unhappy.
AMANDA: I am very unhappy.
VOLKENAUER: Should any other questions arise, you will
be available?
LEE: Well since you have her passport that's a rather
academic question don't you think?
AMANDA: Yes, of course I'll be available.
VOLKENAUER: Thank you Frau King. I hope you enjoy your
stay in Munich.
LEE: How could she miss.
HARRY: Hey!
This definitely calls for a drink.
LEE: No, no, it’s a bit early, huh?
HARRY: Hey, would you lose all respect for me if I
said it’s 5 o’clock somewhere?
LEE: What are you talking about, man? I never had any respect for you anyway.
LEE: Harry, I told Amanda you were the best man in
Germany to help her. Now, it took us at
least 45 minutes to drive out here and a half an hour to find you and uh,
you’re…you’re drunk.
HARRY: Now that’s not only judgmental, it’s premature,
I am not drunk, I am drinking.
AMANDA: Did you see the look in his eyes? He thinks
I'm guilty.
LEE: He's a cop. It's his job to think you're guilty.
LEE: Amanda, the truth. Sometimes it's highly
overrated you know that.
LEE: Amanda, just for a change, will you do what I ask
you to do?
AMANDA: That’s not very nice to say, ‘just for a
change’, I am very good at following orders when they are clear.
LEE: Then follow this one; stay here.
LEE: Where the hell were you?
VOLKENAUER: I was fascinated to watch an American
operative in action. Just like John Wayne.
VOLKENAUER: This, I believe, would be your Senor
Portillo.
LEE: Not mine.
VOLKENAUER: You are much too modest, Herr
Stetson. Impetuous, but modest.
HARRY: You understand pal, it was nothing personal.
LEE: Wrong again Harry. It was very personal.
VOLKENAUER: Frau King, I don't wish to detain you any
further but one question.
AMANDA: Yes?
VOLKENAUER: What are you doing for dinner this
evening?
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