Another excellent review Thomas. I love Casino. I will be watching it this weekend and posting my thoughts shortly.
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Mission_Impossible_1966@yahoogroups.com, filigrane <filigrane@...> wrote:
>
> 148-CASINO
> (produced by Laurence Heath)
>
> Prologue:
> Focus on a roulette of a casino and its players. In the back of the place,
> Orin Kerr gets down the stairs near a bar, snaps his fingers and orders two
> hoods in suit to nab a swindler (³Gray-haired man and his right hand²) at
> the crap table number two. Kerr heads to the cheating player whose arms are
> held by the two hoods. The player tries to explain himself but Kerr orders
> his hoods to throw him away: ³Don¹t
kill him boys. Just make him wish you
> had². Kerr continues his tour, stops a blonde woman and orders her to go to
> Blackjack table number three (he writes down a note that he gives her) and
> to ³pick up a thousand². He then calls a card dealer and instructs him
> discreetly in the ear. Bill Wicks pops up from the rear and informs Kerr
> that Cameron just called and he wants to meet him downtown at the Hurion
> Warehouse. Kerr asks him the meaning of ³wants² and Wicks anwers: ³Well, he
> wasn¹t asking, boss, he was telling.² At night, under a heavy rain, we see a
> car arriving through the windshield of another (from an out of focus
> headlight to an in focus of the car). Wicks comes out with an umbrella and
> opens the door to his boss who enters the warehouse. Kerr meets Syndicate
> man Steve Cameron, accompanied by Aquarius chief accountant Mel Simpson and
> Cameron¹s
hit man Joe Hogan. Kerr asks Cameron what¹s Simpson doing here?
> Simpson tries to mellow Kerr, Cameron orders him to shut up and explains to
> Kerr that he is a mole from the State Attorney General¹s office and that
> they found a microfilm about his books on him (Cameron shows the evidence).
> Kerr takes a close look at the contents of the film while Cameron comments:
> ³From there, it¹s only one step to breaking the code and figuring out
> exactly how much money goes back East.² Cameron lectures Kerr about this
> breach of security: ³You spend $2 million building a new vault in the
> casino. And then you hire him.² Kerr refuses to be reprimanded, explains his
> career and justifies his activities for the Syndicate. Cameron is playing
> with the bow tie of Kerr and tells him the organization doesn¹t trust him
> and that he was sent to manage. Kerr stares at the accountant, moves
towards
> him and puts on his right black-leathered glove to gently hits his right
> shoulder, takes the handgun given by Hogan and exclaims: ³All right,
> SimpsonŠLet¹s go². Kerr walks to isolate himself from the group and Simpson
> follows him. Simpson worries: ³What are you going to do?² And Kerr replies:
> ³You made me look bad.² Simpson continues: ³Orin! These other guys, the hard
> typesŠYou¹re different. We can make a deal.² Kerr smiles and concludes:
> ³HmmŠI just seem to beŠ(Simpson looses his smile) Too bad, too. (Zoom in
> on Kerr¹s face) You were so good at figures.² The three underworld men watch
> the execution at a remote distance (all seen in profile: Hogan in the
> foreground, Cameron in the middle and Wicks in the background) and we hear a
> gunshot. Wicks looks at Cameron and moves forward to his boss who comes
> closer to Cameron. Kerr gives
the gun back to Hogan (while Wicks puts on the
> blue coat of his boss) and he tells Cameron in a sinister way: ³Good night,
> Mr. Cameron². When Kerr is on his way to leave, Cameron gives him a last
> piece of advice: ³Kerr? Be more careful. Next time, it could be you² and he
> turns around to listen. Kerr and Wicks finally exit. Cameron and Hogan stare
> at each other.
>
> Tape scene:
> It is the complete scene from ³Mindbend².
> The camera pans over the bay from a village boathouse, a man walking up a
> gangway to a lighthouse-like observation tower where Jim gets up the outside
> stairs, stops to look around, carries on to the top floor and opens a door
> to enter the place. He now goes up the interior stairs to reach the top of
> the tower, steps ouside, bends down and in a squatting position, he unlocks
> a grey footlocker. He grabs the A4 envelop and the
reel player.
>
> Summary:
> To force Orin Kerr to testify and cooperate with politician Peter Wiley
> (working for the State Attorney General¹s office) in the bill that will ban
> corruption in the game, the IMF steal Aquarius casino¹s money from the
> high-tech vault to discredit him in the eyes of the Syndicate and its
> representative Steve Cameron who wishes to take his social position and taps
> his office.
>
> Cast and details:
> € Aquarius Casino manager/dandy playboy Orin Kerr played by Jack Cassidy
> € Kerr¹s henchman Bill Wicks played by Frank Christi
> € Syndicate controller Steve Cameron played by Richard Devon (returning from
> the season 1 ³A Spool There Was²)
> € Cameron¹s hit man Joe Hogan (with a moustache) played by Eddie Ryder
> (returning from the season 2 "The Town")
> € Aquarius cashier/Cameron¹s spy Kelp played
by Frank Farmer (returning from
> the season 5 "A Ghost Story")
> € F.B.I. agent posing as Kerr¹s chief accountant Mel Simpson played by Biff
> Elliot
> € West Coast politician Peter Wiley played by Walker Edmiston
> € Blonde showgirl Jane played by Dee Gardner
>
> Jim Phelps
> Jim poses as the ³late² former mastermind robber and convicted Roger ³Russ²
> Neeley who used to steal $734,000 from the mail train; Jim customizes the
> circuits of the connections from the Utility room to bypass Hogan¹s bug and
> replaces it with a recording of Kerr¹s voice. In the recording entitled
> ³Kerr¹s Dialogue², Kerr calls Jim by the name of McCann.
>
> Lisa Casey
> Casey poses as gambling junky Miss Alice Johnson, helped by Jim who pays his
> $400 debt; Casey carries a magnetic handbag to remove a money box. Both Jim
> and Casey go to the deserted
town Sandsville to get the stolen casino loot
> back and are threatened in an old barn by Kerr followed by Cameron and
> finally, Barney as a mobster.
>
> Barney Collier
> Barney poses as Caribbean mobster representative Frederick Dawson, wearing a
> fancy English suit and a pair of tinted spectacles. He poses as a Heating
> and Air Conditioning repairman who drives a white van.
>
> Willy Armitage
> Willy poses as Blackjack croupier Sam Evans, sent by Chicago gangster Bill
> Collins; Willy discreetly substitutes his money box with Casey¹s one and
> alerts Barney with his wristwatch.
>
> Divided story
>
> Act 1
> In the corridor of the Aquarius casino next to a flower shop, Jim heads to
> the Utility room and opens the circuits closet. Cameron walks in the same
> corridor, crosses the flower shop and enters a secret room where
Hogan
> eavesdrops on Kerr via a tape recorder. Cameron asks him some news about
> Kerr but nothing except he is talking with a blonde showgirl. The camera
> shows the listening system: from the tape recorder to the line that goes
> through the wall. Cameron exits. Jim examines the eavesdropping line and
> draws a walkie-talkie pen from his jacket and calls Casey so that she lowers
> the wire. At Aquarius Room 311, Casey answers with the same device. She
> opens the grill of the vent and inserts the wire. At the gaming room, behind
> the wheels of fortune, Willy appears, crosses the place, stops near Kerr¹s
> private office and knocks at the door when Wicks opens up. Willy introduces
> himself as Sam Evans from Chicago and Wicks lets him in while cashier Kelp
> watches them and presses a red button on a telephone to alert Hogan who
> raises the sound level of his recorder and
listens to Wicks who introduces
> Sam Evans (Willy) sent by Bill Collins to Kerr who acknowledges his arrival.
> In his office, Kerr leaves the lunch table of showgirl Jane and walks to a
> desk to check out Collins¹ letter which contains spelling errors. Kerr asks
> Willy what is his job? He answers: ³Blackjack². Kerr points a chair to Jane
> (that he calls ³June²) at the gaming table and invites Willy to take a seat
> (behind a painting of a nude woman). Kerr gives Jane a pile of chips and he
> adds: ³Plus anything you can win from Mr. Sam Evans here². Wicks gives two
> piles of chips to Willy. Kerr passes a deck of cards to Willy so that he
> shows his Blackjack¹s ability. Willy is blending the cards like a pro under
> the eyes of both underworld men. Jim grabs the wire from the vent, inserts
> it through the bottom of the closet, connects it to a portable device that
>
he opens to apply the listening line of Hogan. Jane is playing (she made a
> splitting and a stick) against Willy who deals cards in silence and unfolds
> his. He wins and asks her to place her bets again. Hogan is still listening.
> Jim sticks the device to the circuits panel and cuts the line of Hogan with
> a pair of red pliers. He closes the panel and the door of the closet and
> leaves the Utility room and walks to the elevator. Jane looses again and
> Willy takes her chips when the hand of Kerr stops his course. He tells Willy
> that he is a cheater: ³You tinhorn chiseler you² and gives back the chips to
> Jane who hardly understands to have been conned. She gets up, thanks Kerr
> and on her way to leave the room, she tells Willy that he is okay. Wicks
> watches her exit and Kerr gets up and lectures Willy in a very serious and
> upset way. Willy apologizes and justifies himself
by saying: ³I thoughtŠ²
> Kerr doesn¹t like these two words and repeats them to underline Willy¹s
> wrong attitude. Wicks watches both men in silence while chewing his gum.
> Suddenly, Kerr changes his tone, smiles and congratulates him: ³That¹s
> pretty good². Willy smiles as well as Wicks. Kerr tells him he can work from
> now on and that Wicks will show him the way. Willy thanks Kerr. In her
> bedroom, Casey has finished to get dressed in front of a mirror when someone
> knocks at the door. She lets in Jim who reports that they are connected to
> Hogan¹s line and the warning line of cashier Kelp. She tells Jim she is on
> her way to cash another check and exits. Barney makes his entrance in the
> gaming room, gets down the steps of the bar, takes a look around, crosses
> the place, stops near slots machines and takes another look around, heads to
> Kerr¹s office and
knocks at the door. Wicks opens up and Barney introduces
> himself as Frederick Dawson. Wicks relates him to the Caribbean Syndicate,
> confirms that he is expected and points him the way in. Cashier Kelp pushes
> the red button of a telephone. Still in the bedroom of Casey, Jim takes the
> wires that he connects to a portable unit while sitting near a desk and he
> takes an audio reel labeled ³Kerr¹s Dialogue². In his office, Kerr pours two
> glasses of whiskey in the shelves bar and moves to Barney to pass him a
> drink and proposes a toast: ³To a pleasant stay, Mr. Dawson². Barney thanks
> him and Kerr explains he¹s contacted his organization to make a change. Jim
> listens to the real conversation while his tape player provides an audio
> background to Hogan who believes hearing Kerr and Barney dealing with money.
> At Kerr¹s office, Barney explains he is here to evaluate the
casino
> operations. Kerr reassures him when Barney gives him his newspaper that
> refers to his exposed public image. Jim is still listening and Hogan too.
> The headline of The Star Dispatch reads: ³State Investigator Calls Orin Kerr
> Syndicate Official² and a picture of Peter Wiley (Barney makes him notice
> that he used to be a very discreet man) and he then looks at the bottom of
> the page to read the news about a train robbery and the picture of
> mastermind burglar Roger Neeley (Jim). Kerr reassures Barney again by
> telling him that by tomorrow his name will never be mentioned in the
> newspaper because the State legislature will end. Barney is relieved,
> informs him they will have another meeting and that he stays here for a few
> days. They shake hands (Kerr offers him unlimited credits at the casino) and
> he exits. Wicks opens the door to Barney and asks his
boss if is he really
> thinking about making a change? Kerr confirms and explains he needs some
> money to buy and run the casino alone. Casey crosses the gaming room and
> stops at the cashier desk. Mr. Kelp identifies her as Miss Johnson. She
> tells him she is still loosing and begs for another $300 check. Mr. Kelp
> offers her $200 and she¹s satisfied, writes her check and he passes her the
> chips. He warns her to go slow. At the flower shop secret room, Cameron
> steps in and asks Hogan what¹s happening? Hogan informs him that Kerr is
> planning something, lets him hear the tape and he learns that Kerr will pay
> $500,000 to Dawson tonight. At Casey¹s bedroom, Jim pours himself a cup of
> coffee when someone knocks at the door. Jim puts back the coffee pot to the
> next table, draws his handgun from his pants and asks the identity of the
> person. It¹s Barney who enters
and takes off his spectacles. Jim asks him if
> everything work well and Barney acknowledges. At the roulette table, Casey
> is interrupted by Wicks who tells her to follow him because she is in
> trouble. Casey doesn¹t understand, starts to get upset because she¹s got
> money on the carpet. Wicks asks her to remain calm and holds her left arm.
> She gets up and ³33, black² win. Wicks tells her she just lost. They move
> out.
>
> Act 2
> Hogan and Cameron finish to listen to the tape. Cameron ascertains that Kerr
> talked to the Caribbean connection and Hogan asks his boss if the Syndicate
> will let Kerr operate. Cameron believes that Kerr has found a new way to
> make more money. Kelp presses the red button of his telephone and Barney
> switches on his tape player and listens to the office via a headphone. At
> his office, Kerr pours himself a glass of whiskey,
walks around Casey who
> sits near the desk, calls her Alice and lectures her about her phony checks.
> Barney carries on listening while Hogan and Cameron hear another version of
> the conversation dealing with Casey¹s boyfriend. At his office, Kerr tells
> Casey that the balance on her bank account is of $37.52 and she owes them
> $400. Casey does the naive act of winning at the roulette and Kerr replies
> with irony: ³Oh, where have we heard that song before? (Wicks smiles and
> looks at his boss) Dear Alice, what are we gonna do with you?² Casey
> continues her naive act and tells him a friend will help her. Kerr replies:
> ³Oh, another old, familiar refrain² and gives her three hours to raise the
> money and must remain in the premises otherwise she will be banned from the
> casino. Casey confirms, stands up, takes her handbag and leaves. Wicks looks
> puzzled and Kerr
asks him what¹s on his mind? Wicks tells him that she
> cannot raise the $400 in three hours and Kerr replies coldly: ³I don¹t want
> her to². Wicks smiles and points a finger (as a handgun) at his boss as a
> friendly act. Kerr smiles and laughs in a diabolical way too. At the secret
> flower room, both underworld men learn that Casey will bring his boyfriend
> to Kerr. Hogan asks his boss what does he think about it? Willy goes to the
> cashier desk, Kelp passes him a take box, informs him to work at table #2
> and to bring back the box at the end of the shift. Willy makes a derogatory
> remark: ³Why, uh‹is that supposed to be hard to remember?² Kelp replies in a
> dead serious way: ³We got comedians in the lounge² and passes Willy the key
> of the box. Willy walks out and replaces a Blackjack employee who takes his
> box back. Willy installs his. Jim and Casey head to the
office of Kerr.
> Smoking a cigarette, Wicks lets them enter. Kelp presses the red button of
> his telephone. Barney activates the tape player and listens to. Cameron and
> Hogan hears Kerr calling Jim by the name of McCann. Hogan asks his boss if
> he knows any McCann? They hear Kerr talking about working with Jim. At his
> office, Kerr receives his payback of $400 in the hand of Jim who is leaving
> with Casey that he lectures. Kerr calls him Mr. Neeley. He is surprised and
> Kerr shows him the local newspaper. He is on parole for a 1959 job he claims
> not to do and reveals to have been framed. Kerr wonder how did he manage to
> pay $400 after spending 12 years in prison? Jim justifies himself and tells
> him he has good friends. Kerr remains suspicious and asks him if he plans
> ³to do some more gambling²? Jim says no and is going to stay in the region
> for a few days and
tells off gently Casey that she ruined his fun. She
> apologizes. On his way to leave, Jim is offered $1,000 by Kerr. Jim doesn¹t
> understand the meaning of this act. Kerr says: ³Charity². Jim accepts the
> present and tells if he wins he pays him back right away and if not in a
> couple of weeks. Kerr specifies that drinks are on the house. Jim smiles,
> thanks Kerr and leaves by the door, smiles again at Kerr and exits. Kerr
> tells Wicks that there must a reason why Jim has still friends. Barney
> continues listening and the underworld men hear Kerr and Jim refering to the
> arrival (8:00) of an armored truck and that the plan of the stickup will be
> explained in Alice¹s room. Hogan tells his boss they plan to heist the
> casino¹s vault. Cameron remains cautious, is not convinced and he is on his
> way to have a talk with Jim and Casey. At Casey¹s apartment, Barney
rewinds
> the tape and tidies up the equipment in a case that Casey brings him when
> Jim passes him the wire. Barney leaves with the case. Jim asks Casey the map
> and she opens the top drawer of a desk and passes it to him. Jim sees the
> name of a town named Sandsville when someone knocks at the door. Jim hides
> behind the door with a handgun and Casey asks the identity of the person. A
> voice says ³telegram². She opens up and Cameron and Hogan force their way
> in. Jim take them by surprise and orders them to raise their hands. At
> night, Barney drives a white van named ³Copley Heating and Air
> Conditioning², turns on the left, gets down, stops in front of the fence of
> the Aquarius Theatrical Storage and honks the horn twice. A Security guard
> comes out of the ³Employees Only² door, walks around the van, takes Barney¹s
> log to sign it and gives it
back. The guard pushes the red button to open
> the fence and Barney drives on, turns on the right, runs in a long corridor,
> turns on the left and parks. He comes out of his vehicle, walks in front of
> the hood, gets up on the front ladder, reaches the rooftop to open the
> ceiling ventilation shaft. At the gaming room, people play at the roulette
> (same footage used at the start of the prologue) and Jim and Casey play at
> the Blackjack table supervised by Willy. Jim calls the waitress and asks her
> another drink. At the bar, Kerr is smoking a cigarette, accompanied by
> Wicks, and stops waitress Candy and orders bartender Charlie to fill up
> Jim¹s glass real full. Wicks tells his boss that Jim already had too many
> drinks. Out of the blue, politician Peter Wiley pops up, stops at the
> counter and greets Kerr: ³Well, Kerr, you¹re in an expansive mood tonight.²
>
Kerr introduces Wiley to Wicks who shakes his hand. Kerr asks Wiley the
> purpose of his visit: ³Well, Peter, what brings you here? Spoiling your
> image?² and Wiley replies: Oh, making sure you know, if you ever need a
> friend, you¹ve got one. For a little testimony, of course². Kerr asks him
> what is he drinking? He replies quickly: ³Nothing². And tells gently:
> ³Thanks. Good night² and exits. At the Blackjack table, Jim is over-excited.
> Kerr asks Wicks how much is Jim into them for? Wicks says ³five grands² and
> Kerr is astonished. Jim receives his drink and thanks the waitress while
> Willy turns his head towards the bar and sees Kerr that signals him to stop
> Jim dead: Kerr uses his hand as a knife and pretends to cut his throat. Jim
> looses. At Casey¹s apartment, Cameron and Hogan are sat, gagged and tied up
> to chairs back to back but try to escape. Barney
takes a bucket device fom
> the rooftop of the van and installs it to the ceiling of the ventilation
> shaft by sticking it. Jim looses again. Willy looks at Kerr who gives a nod
> to Wicks. Barney gets down the front ladder, walks to the front seat, slides
> in a door, enters the back, switches on a wall computer and looks at his
> wristwatch that gives the international time. Willy tells that the house
> wins and Jim looses again. Kerr gives a nod to Wicks (same footage). Jim
> gets furious, takes the hand of Willy and accuses him of cheating, Willy
> gives a nod and two security men master him and throw him out of the table.
> As a diversion, Jim complains to Kerr while Willy takes down the money box,
> bends down under the table, catches the handbag of Casey to swallow and hide
> his box and grabs the device-ladden box. Casey bends down, takes her hand
> bag and leaves the
table. The customers watch Jim¹s scene. Kerr orders Jim
> to follow him into his office to have a talk. Jim refuses but the two
> security men bring him by force to the office along with Kerr and Wicks.
>
> Act 3
> Willy arrives at the cashier desk and gives the take box. Kelp asks what¹s
> going on at his table? Willy replies: ³Oh, some drunk lost a few bucks.²
> Kelp takes the box and leaves his post when Willy looks at his wristwatch
> and presses the top button to send a buzzer signal to Barney who sits at the
> computer console and watches a monitor. Kelp enters the security corridor
> leading to the vault, gets down the stairs, presses the top button on the
> wall to open a trap door, inserts and lets slide the take box inside and
> presses the bottom button to close up. The box moves on a conveyor belt,
> opens itself from the front and lets appear a camera. Barney
watches the
> travel of the take box, switches on the ³steering² mechanism, and turns the
> knob so that the box pans and drives on the left. The box falls on the floor
> and is upside down. He switches on the ³roll-over² mechanism and the box
> lifts up itself on one side, he switches on again the ³roll-over² mechanism,
> the box lifts up itself on one side again and finds its balance. He switches
> on the ³drive² mechanism, turns the knob and the box runs in the vault,
> stops in front of the two batteries. He switches on the ³drill² mechanism
> and the box bores a hole one one battery which blows up. He switches off the
> robot box and gets out from the back of the van. At Kerr¹s office, Jim feels
> sick because of the drinks. Kerr pours a cup of coffee and gives it to him.
> Kerr offers him a cigarette and lights him. Kerr asks him how is going to
> pay his checks
(³You¹re five grand in the red²)? Barney is back in the
> ventilation shaft, activates the bucket device that bores a hole in the
> ceiling and emits and projects sparks. He puts on his protective spectacles
> and his gloves. Jim tells Kerr that the Blackjack game was crooked. Kerr
> asks him again how is going to take care of his debts? Jim gets up and tells
> Kerr he is on his way to play and win at the crap table. Kerr refuses he
> plays until he pays back and threatens to call the police. Jim is annoyed
> because he is on parole and it will send him back to the pen. Kerr insists
> heavily to get his money. Jim agrees to obtain him the amount. Kerr asks him
> when? Jim says: ³Couple hours². Kerr agrees and reminds him to be fair: ³I¹m
> sure you intend to play it straight². Jim drops his cigarette in the cup of
> coffee and leaves. The device finishes off the hole and
Barney removes it
> and his spectacles. He gets down, grabs a yellow telescopic valve from the
> rooftop, unfolds it, drags it to the ventilation shaft, inserts it in the
> hole, turns the braces to fix the valve on the top of the hole. He gets down
> the ventilation shaft and the rooftop (same footage used during Act 2) and
> resumes to the back of the van and sits in front of the console. He switches
> on the pump device, starts to turn on the knob of the generator and the
> turbine and goes to the maximum level. Suddenly, all the wads of bills fly
> over the room and go down to the hole. Barney watches the glass tube
> container fill itself up. He turns the knobs back to 0. The vault is empty.
> He switches off the device, gets up, takes a US Mail bag from a stool, moves
> to unlock the glass container and removes the metal basket. He opens the
> mail bag so that he will empty
the bills. Jim and Casey come out of the
> elevator, head to the basement when Wicks points his finger at them to his
> boss. Kerr gives him a nod and they move to the basement.
>
> Act 4
> The Security guard makes some ³go ahead² signs to Barney who drives his way
> out of the Aquarius storage. In the hall of the casino, Willy calls the
> casino hotel authorities on the public phone, asks to talk to the bell
> captain and tells him to check out Room 311. Jim drives Casey in his blue
> car (shot day for night) and runs on a countryside road and they are tailed
> by Wicks who drives Kerr and tells him that they are heading to Sandsville.
> A young bellhop unlocks Room 311 and his Captain switches on the light. They
> see tied up Cameron and Hogan and release them. Jim continues his ride (same
> car footage) and tells Casey that Barney is on his way to Sandsville and
has
> taken a shortcut to be over there before them by ten minutes. Wicks and Kerr
> still tail them (same car footage). Hogan is reading the map left by Jim on
> purpose and shows his boss the ghost town Sandsville, located in the desert.
> They both come out of Room 311 and head to the cashier desk. Cameron orders
> a fund empoyee to open the glass door. Cameron, Hogan and Kelp step into the
> vault¹s security hall. Cameron asks Kelp when will the door to the vault
> open? Kelp says ³ten seconds². Hogan asks Kelp who are the two armed guards
> (carrying two money bags to transfer the fund)? Cameron asks Kelp if the
> guards belong to the casino? Kelp confirms with astonishment. The door of
> the vault opens up, Cameron is the first to enter followed by Kelp, Hogan.
> Cameron sees no money in the shelves and asks Kelp where are the funds and
> Kerr? Kelp doesn¹t know anything.
Cameron moves out of the vault with Hogan.
> At Sandsville, Jim passes by the bank and parks near a hotel. Jim and Casey
> walk to a livery stable. Jim opens the door. They enter the barn and find
> Barney up in the first floor who gives Jim the ok. Jim gets up the stairs
> and searches the mail bag with Barney. The car of Wicks parks behind Jim¹s
> one. Kerr comes out. Casey turns his head because of the noise of the car
> and Jim tells Barney to go out. Barney gets up a ladder leading to the roof.
> Jim stands up and takes a pile of bank notes from the mail bag when Wicks
> orders him to freeze! Kerr orders Jim to bring down the loot but Jim
> complains: ³Kerr, I waited twelve years for this. You¹ll get your money.²
> Kerr makes a death threat to Jim to send Wicks up there and orders him to
> get down. Jim puts back the pile of cash, walks down the stairs and passes
> the loot
to Kerr while lecturing Casey: ³You stupid‹this is all your fault!²
> Kerr orders Jim to shut up, dives his hand in the bag and enjoys the sight
> of the bank notes when Cameron and Hogan popup from behind and point their
> handguns at them. Hogan closes the door, confiscates the guns of Wicks and
> Kerr and throw them out far away and takes the money bag. Cameron accuses
> Kerr of stealing the money from the casino. Kerr is lost. Cameron warns him
> that he is about to die. Kerr justifies himself and tells the money come
> from a mail job done twelve years ago by Jim. Kerr orders Jim to confess his
> robbery but he refuses: ³You don¹t really think I¹d do anything to save your
> neck, do you?² Kerr insists that the loot¹s money comes from a 1959 job.
> Cameron picks up a few bills, reads the dates, smiles and gives the money to
> Kerr so that he checks the dates. Kerr stares at
Jim and reads the dates
> outloud: ³ ¹60, ¹62, ¹68, It can¹tŠ(zoom in on the bill¹s note) ¹69... (he
> stares at Jim again) It can¹t be². Cameron tells Kerr that the money is
> fresh and comes from his safe. Kerr stares at Cameron when armed
> Barney-as-Frederick Dawson bursts the door open and orders to hold it.
> Barney states to Kerr that he doesn¹t care where the money originates and
> orders Cameron and Hogan to drop their guns. He explains that he followed
> them down to Sandsville and is only interested in the deal Kerr made with
> his Caribbean organization. Kerr comes closer and agrees with Barney who
> takes his bills and orders him to wait outside and tells him he will take
> care of the underworld men. Wicks asks Barney what is going to do with him?
> Barney asks a confirmation to Kerr who answers: ³Nobody¹s okay with that
> kind of money laying
around². Barney orders Wicks to move with the others
> and watches Kerr leave when Wicks bends down to grab his gun. Barney orders
> him to hold it‹Hogan drops the money bag‹and leads the three hoods to a room
> and locks up the door. Barney puts back the bills into the bag‹that Jim
> carries‹and exits alone with it. Kerr smiles at Barney and turns around to
> see a black limousine arriving. Kerr moves to the back seat¹s door when
> smiling Peter Wiley comes out and offers him two alternatives: to testify to
> the Legislature or to catch a ride into town with Cameron. Kerr replies with
> a rare sense of composure: ³Do you know, Peter, suddenly, I feel terribly
> public-spirited? I was just thinking, Å’what an outrage that the Syndicate
> has moved into gambling in this state.¹ We really ought to do something
> about that. Shall we?² Wiley invites him to take a seat and looks
at Barney
> who closes the door behind him. The limousine leaves. Barney sees a car
> (off-camera) and goes warn his IMF friends in the barn. Jim seats in the
> front, Barney invites Casey to seat in the back and does so when Willy
> drives them out of there: freeze frame.
>
> Comments:
> Actor Jack Cassidy appeared in one ³I Spy² episode entitled ³The Trouble
> with Temple² and guest starred three times on ³Columbo²: see ³Murder by the
> Book², ³Publish or Perish² and ³Now You See Him². Character-actor Walker
> Edmiston previously appeared in four episodes of ³The Wild Wild West²: see
> ³The Night of the Fatal Trap², ³The Night of the Colonel¹s Ghost², ³The
> Night of the Turncoat² and ³The Night of the Camera². During the apartment
> scene, Jim informs the team that Orin Kerr designed his own computerized and
> automated fund vault and shows an
edifying film; Casey tells Jim that audio
> tapes were recorded with an actor imitating the voice of Orin Kerr. As in
> ³Double Dead², Jim tells the team they have arrested a hood so that he will
> be replaced. As in ³The Code², Barney operates a moving robot that transmits
> images and drills. The tape scene that takes place in the lighthouse-like
> observation tower is here fully shown and already used in a re-edited form
> in ³Minbend². This is the last mob money plot of the season after "Run for
> the Money", "The Bride", ³Bag Woman², "Double Dead". As in ³Blind², ³The
> Miracle², ³Bag Woman², a Federal agent is trapped during the prologue. The
> bar set, that is in the casino, is recycled from ³The Tram² and ³Encounter².
> As in previous episodes (³Shape-Up², ³The Connection²), Willy wears his blue
> stripes gangster jacket. During Act 2 when Willy leaves the
cashier desk
> with the box, we can see again the actress who plays Gladys Collins in
> ³Encore². Notice the grotesque red outfit of the waitresses who wear gold
> mini skirts. As in many episodes, some minor characters receive no credits:
> the two casino hood security men, waitress Candy and bartender Charly. The
> yellow valve comes from ³Image². As in ³Encore², the set that concludes the
> episode is recycled from a western film. As in "Bag Woman", Lalo Schifrin's
> "Intrigue" is heard in the prologue and also Act 1 but in the gaming room.
>
> Review:
> This is a good update of the season 3 game/vault-oriented ³The System² in
> which a female IMFer (Cinnamon/Casey) poses as a gambling junky to beg for
> checks to play and a casino manager (Johnny Costa/Orin Kerr) is forced by
> the IMF to testify against the big brass but with a sophisticated and
>
eavesdropping leaning (see Joe Hogan, Jim and Barney) that recycles the
> stolen loot ploy from "The Mercenaries": Jim plays the part of Rollin and
> Barney bores again a hole in the ceiling. As the previous season 5 "The
> Merchant", this casino episode is broadcast at the end of the season. The
> gangster cast is very good, especially the casino duo of Jack Cassidy and
> Frank Christi who displays his nasty hood attitude by chewing his gum. The
> techno vault heist of Act 3 is the pinnacle of this entertaining episode:
> inside the delivery van, Barney orders the moving robot hidden inside a take
> box to blow up the batteries of the alarm system, bores a hole in the
> ceiling of the vent, then place a pump to suck in all the bank notes thanks
> to a supersonic device and put the loot in a US mail money bag. Notice three
> consecutive turns of the events from gangsters during the barn
outcome of
> Act 4: Kerr/Wicks followed by Cameron/Hogan and Barney! The twist ending
> comes from ³Shape-Up², meaning a power figure must work with the law to cut
> short corruption. This is writer Howard Berk¹s third script, after
> ³Encounter² (alcohol) and ³Blues² (drug), in an addiction related trilogy:
> here, gambling.
>
> Stock music:
> € ³Intrigue² (prologue: the customers bet at the roulette; Act 1: Willy
> crosses the gaming room; Barney makes his entrance in the gaming room)
> € ³Blind² (prologue: Kerr moves towards the accountant and puts on his right
> black-leathered glove to gently hits his right shoulder; Act 2: Willy takes
> down the money box, bends down under the table and takes the handbag of
> Casey; Act 4: Hogan asks Kelp who are the two armed guards?)
> € ³The Visitors² (prologue: Wicks looks at Cameron and moves forward to
his
> boss who comes closer to Cameron)
> € ³The Contender² (Act 1: Jim crosses the corridor of the Aquarius; Jim
> examines the eavesdropping line; Act 2: Barney gets down the front ladder
> and enters the back of the van)
> € ³The Bride² (Act 1: Jim grabs the wire from the vent and connects it to a
> portable device; Jim sticks the device to the circuits panel and cuts the
> line of Hogan; Still in the bedroom of Casey, Jim takes the wires that he
> connects to a portable unit; Jim listens to the real conversation while his
> tape player provides an audio background to Hogan; Jim is still listening
> and Hogan too; Act 2: Barney switches on his tape recorder and listen to via
> a headphone; At the secret flower room, both underworld men learn that Casey
> will bring his boyfriend to Kerr; Barney activates the tape player and
> listens to; Barney continues
listening and the underworld men hears Kerr and
> Jim refering to the arrival of an armored truck; Act 3: the device finishes
> off the hole and Barney removes it)
> € ³Encore² (Act 1: Willy takes the chips of loosing Jane when the hand of
> Kerr stops his course; Wicks asks Casey to remain calm and holds her left
> arm; Act 2: Willy goes to the cashier desk and Kelp passes him a take box;
> Jim and Casey hear someone knocks at the door; Act 3: Willy returns to the
> cashier desk)
> € ³Run for the Money² (Act 2: Cameron and Hogan finish to listen to the
> tape; Act 4: They both come out of Room 311 and head to the cashier desk)
> € ³The Killer² (Act 2: At Casey¹s apartment, Barney rewinds the tape and
> tidies up the equipment in a case that Casey brings him; Barney drives a
> white delivery van to the Aquarius Storage fence; Act 3: Barney is back in
>
the ventilation shaft, activates the bucket device that bores a hole in the
> ceiling; Barney gets up, takes a US Mail bag from a stool, moves to unlock
> the glass container; Act 4: Jim and Casey find Barney up in the first floor
> who gives Jim the ok; Cameron and Hogan popup from behind and point their
> handguns at Jim and Casey)
> € Jazz music heard in ³Cat¹s Paw² (Act 2: At the gaming room, people play at
> the roulette and Jim and Casey play at the Blackjack table supervised by
> Willy)
> € ³Takeover² (Act 2: Barney takes a bucket device fom the rooftop and
> installs it to the ceiling of the ventilation shaft; Act 4: Barney comes out
> of the Aquarius storage; At Sandsville, Jim passes by the bank and parks
> near a hotel; Barney puts back the bills into the bag and exits alone with
> it; Wiley invites Kerr to take a seat in the limousine and looks at
Barney)
>
> ***IMF Out***
>
> Thomas
>
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