Ep 4. Legacy For The Saint

The Saint plays his part in a gangster's astute plot to trick his four greatest enemies into carrying out a gold robbery for him.Ed Brown (REGINALD MARSH) is a man with a sense of humour - a retired big-time gangster who has discovered how to enjoy life until his Rolls goes up in a bomb explosion. And it is the Saint, Simon Templar (ROGER MOORE), who finds the wrecked car and is asked to fly to Switzerland to break the news to Ed's finishing- school daughter Penny (STEPHANIE BEACHAM). She takes the news calmly: her father, she explains, was almost a stranger to her.Ed's will is a remarkable one and accompanied by a home-made cine film which is shown to his daughter, his friend Charlie (ALAN MacNAUGHTAN), a crooked lawyer, and four of his rival gangsters - Tony (T.P. McKENNA), Pietro (EDWARD BRAYSHAW), Dickie (BRIAN COBURN) and Mark (BRUCE BOA).Ed's figure on the screen tells them that he has a million pounds deposited in Switzerland, and the sum will go to whoever can match this amount. Its a rich reward none is likely to ignore - but a challenge to murder. The Saint realises right away that the gangsters will soon be at each other's throats, It is also significant that a million pounds' worth of gold is being shipped from Southampton to London in a week's time, and it looks as though Ed was planning another job. He had all the details.Penny is horrified when she learns the truth about her father, and the gangster take th precaution of holding her captive. They agree, reluctantly, to the Saint participating in the robbery, threatening trouble for Penny if he tries anything funny.Ed's macabre sense of humour seems to have been justified. The invitation to murder is accepted. Mark is the first one to get bumped off, and the Saint takes control of the hold-up operation. It involves his assuming the guise of a policeman, and enjoying himself tremendously as he outwits Inspector Teal (IVOR DEAN). The hi-jacking of the bullion i