It Takes a Thief
Season 1
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Alexander Mundy - smooth, suave, sophisticated - is the world's greatest cat burglar. Finally arrested after years of pilfering, he strikes a deal with American agent Noah Bain: a full pardon if Mundy agrees to use his skills to steal for the SIA, an American espionage agency. Technically under house arrest, Mundy travels all over the world performing daring acts of thievery in the name of Uncle Sam.
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16 Episodes
- It Takes One to Know One
E2It Takes One to Know OneNoah sends Al, undercover as Roger Hampton III, an American millionaire gambler, to the Principality of Montefiore, a buffer state, which is friendly to the U.S. Montefiore has the richest and classiest casino in all of southern Europe, and with a tourist economy like Monaco's, if the casino collapses, the country collapses. The Montefiore currency, though solid, is vulnerable. It is called the Diamond-Franc, because it's based on Europe's last and biggest batch of family jewels, which are on display in the casino. The S.I.A. has uncovered an organized plan by enemy agents to steal the Montefiore Crown Jewels, and if they succeed, Montefiore will rapidly sink behind the Iron Curtain. Noah does not want this to happen. Al asks Noah in disbelief, ""You want me to prevent stealing?"" Noah replies ""It takes a thief, to spot a heist!"" - A Very Warm Reception
E4A Very Warm ReceptionNancy Ross-White, an S.I.A. agent, has infiltrated the Istrian Embassy, in Washington, D.C., posing as the social secretary to the ambassador's wife. The S.I.A.'s objective is a microfilm record of Istrian agents operating against the interests of the United States. An S.I.A. agent was already killed in the embassy, outside the main reception salon, by special police honor guards under the command of Colonel Savrille, while trying to find the microfilm. Noah wants Al to get into the embassy, find the hidden safe, and steal the microfilm: ""a classic heist"", or it's back to San Jobal prison for Al. - One Illegal Angel
E5One Illegal AngelAl steals ""The Sorrowing Angel"", a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth $500,000, from the National Gallery. It will be used to bait Francisco Arascan, a South American dictator in exile who has ""one of the world's great private art collections"". The democratic government that ousted Arascan, wants the S.I.A. to find out his plans for taking back his former country. Noah gives Al a genuine 16th century canvas, with a hidden microphone woven into a piece of it. Al has recruited a first class art forger, who can copy a da Vinci so that it will pass any examination, turning the forgery into a ""listening device"", to find out Arascan's plans. Noah wants Al to sell Arascan the genuine da Vinci, and then switch in the fake! - Locked in the Cradle of the Keep
E14Locked in the Cradle of the KeepAl meets Boris in an alley to make a ""swap"", information for money, as part of a plan by the S.I.A. to establish Al's cover as a defector and traitor. Noah pulls up in a car, start's shooting, and yells at Al that ""No agent goes double on me and lives to enjoy it"". Al then flies to an Eastern block country and makes contact with the ""underground"". Al learns from Ilsa, a member of the underground posing as his girlfriend, that his contact, Professor Gorokhov, was killed the night before. The underground does not know what Al has to steal, only where it is, and whatever it is, once revealed, will cause a great upheaval in most of the Iron Curtain governments. Ilsa takes Al to the State Museum and tells him that whatever he has to steal is in there. As to where in the museum it could be, all Ilsa can tell Al is what the professor's last words were as she got to him before he died, he said, ""The keep, the crib in the keep..."" - A Matter of Royal Larceny
E15A Matter of Royal LarcenyAt a royal bash, Samantha Sutton, an American beer heiress, the third wealthiest gal in the world, who's kooky and a ding-a-ling, got a little stoned and shoplifted ""The Royal Orb"" of San Marco. Noah wants Al to place it back in the Royal Tower room before an international incident occurs. In a plot by the Prime Minister to take over the country, Garth had C3, an unstable plastic explosive, placed inside the orb and it is timed to explode and kill the new king during his coronation ceremony. Al figures this out and has to get to the coronation before the bomb goes off! - The Lay of the Land
E16The Lay of the LandNoah wants Al to borrow the unpublished memoirs of The Duchess of Lambrose, so they can be microfilmed, and then returned, without her knowing. The Duchess was one of the most sought after women of her time, and her memoirs deal with the most important men in Europe and America of the past forty years; kings, prime ministers, generals and dictators. The memoirs could prove embarrassing to the west, as some of her admirers were important American diplomats. Noah wants the microfilm in order to read the memoirs before they are published, and find out just what the diplomats whispered into her ear. The S.I.A. wants to make sure that there are no incriminating secrets in the memoirs that may jeopardize the security of the western world. The memoirs are to be published after the duchess' death, but Noah suspects that the enemies of the U.S., who want them published now, will try to accelerate the publishing date, by ""knocking her off!""
