Ep 9. The Master Plan

The Saint volunteers to help a girl find her missing brother - and plunges into a fantastic dope-smuggling drama.Tony Lane (PAUL GREENHALGH) has disappeared, and its because of his friendship with Tony's sister Jean (LYN ASHLEY) that Simon Templar, the Saint (ROGER MOORE), volunteers to help her in her search for him.The search takes them to a club in Soho and brings the Saint face-to-face once again with the club's owner, Cord Thrandel (JOHN TURNER), a very tough gent, Cord, as the Saint knows well: he served two tours in Vietnam with conspicuous bravery, was then court-martialled for smuggling, and there's not much he hasn't done since.Cord suspects what is happening right away, and both the Saint and Jean are tricked and locked in a cell beneath the club. They succeed, however, in getting away and, in doing so, learn where Tony is living. And they reach him just in time. Cord has left him in a gas-filled room which will give the impression that he has committed suicide.The youngster has been stricken with conscience. Cord has a hold on him and has been blackmailing him into helping in the distribution of heroin, smuggled into the country by the Chinese. Tony's efforts to break away from Cord have nearly proved fatal for him, but now the situation is even more hazardous because of the risk that he will tell the police what he knows. Cord, masquerading as a doctor, makes another attempt on his life when Tony is in hospital. This attempt also fails.But Cord hasn't given up yet, and both the Saint and Jean are the objects of his attentions. Cord is also worried because the Chinese agent, Mr. Ching (BURT KWOUK), has arrived in England to supervise the collection of the next consignment. Mr. Ching is quite open about his aims: he belongs to a Chinese organisation which intends to undermine Britain and America by increasing the number of drug addicts to a fantastic degree. But the Saint gets to the warehouse first and switches bins -