SERIES WONDER WOMAN

016 DEATH IN DISGUISE FEBRUARY 10, 1978

"Death In Disguise" - LYNDA CARTER "Death In Disguise" "Death In Disguise" - LYLE WAGGONER

España [Spain]

Español: "La Muerte Disfrazada"  ["Death In Disguise"].

Italia [Italy]

Italiano: "La Morte Travestita" ["Death In Disguise"].

France [France]

Français: "Un Diamant Pour Wonder Woman" ["A Diamond For Wonder Woman"].

Deustchland [Germany]

Deustch: "Tod auf Bestellung" ["Death Upon Order"].

Danmark [Denmark]

Danske: "Døden I Forklædning" ["Death In Disguise"].

Brasil [Brazil]

Portuguese: "A Morte Disfarçada" ["Death In Disguise"].

Greece

Greek Greek: Japanese ["Death In Disguise"].

Japan

Japanese [Japanese]: Japanese [ Romanji ] "Diana Prince shoumetsu sakusen" [ "The Strategy for Neutralizing Diana Prince" ].

"Death In Disguise" - SAUNDRA SHARP as Eve.
"Death In Disguise" - JOEL FABIANI as Nightingale.
"Death In Disguise" - GEORGE CHAKIRIS as Carlo Indrezzano.

Episode Number: 16, according to broadcast order and 17 according to production order.

Production Number: 166717.

Original Airdate: Friday, February 10, 1978. Second Run: Friday, May 19, 1978.

Writer: Tom Sawyer.

Director: Alan Crosland.
Guest Stars:
Joel Fabiani [ Woodward Nightingale ].
Jennifer Darling [ Violet Louise Tree ].
Lee Bergere [ Marius Makropoulos ].
Charles Pierce [ Starker / Finley ].
Art Batanides [ Krug ].
Christopher Cary [ Elden Beamer ].
Special Guest Stars:
George Chakiris [ Carlo Ricardo Indrezzano ].
Co-Starring:
Saundra Sharp [ Eve ].
Carol Worthington [ Major Anita Finley ].
Featuring:
Katharine Charles [ Corporal ].
Jack Kissell [ Plotkin ].
Maurice Marsac [ Maitre D’ ].

SYNOPSIS

"Death In Disguise" - CHARLES PIERCE as Starker / Finley. "Death In Disguise" - JENNIFER DARLING as Violet Louise Tree. "Death In Disguise" - LEE BERGERE as marius Makropoulos.

In a very expensive Washington, D.C. hotel, an attractive, nicely dressed woman is shown her room by the bell captain. As he leaves, she removes a gun from her vanity case. She then removes a manila envelope from behind a picture frame and takes out several pictures. They are head shots of I.A.D.C. agents -among them Diana Prince [LYNDA CARTER] and Steve Trevor Jr.  [LYLE WAGGONER]. She walks to a mirror and after admiring herself, she removes earrings, her eyelashes, eye makeup, lipstick and wig. The she is a he and his name is Starker [CHARLES PIERCE], a hired assassin. The phone rings and he tells the caller that he will only carry out his assignment if Diana Prince is killed.

   While riding through a park to an arranged meeting, Diana is being followed by two men, also on horses. She notices them and rides away quickly then dismounts. She whirls into Wonder Woman and instructs the horses in the way only Wonder Woman can to throw the men off. She sees a gunman in the tree above her and shakes the tree trunk, he falls from the tree and she catches him. The two men run away but she takes the gun from the gunman, and splits it down the middle then bends it around his body. She asks him why he was trying to kill Diana Prince and he tells her it was for money. After turning him over to the police Diana reports to Steve and tells him about her experience and what Wonder Woman was able to find out by using her lasso. The gunman, Plotkin [JACK KISSELL] was hired to kill Diana. While going through his personal effects Steve only finds one clue, a telegram from a person with the initials W.N.

Steve Trevor: Well whoever this Plotkin character is his personal effects don't tell us much. Looks like he was a no good drifter who'd sell his mother for a buck.

Diana Prince: Wonder Woman used her lasso, but all he could tell her was that he was hired by the other two to take me out.

Steve Trevor: And the other two?

Diana Prince: Got away.

Steve Trevor: Yeah. What do you make of this? Found it in his wallet.

Diana Prince: (reads telegram) "Sir, this will confirm demolition of CARI as requested. My people will move on their respective assignments with all due speed. Completion guaranteed before 9:30 am,26th. W.N" Demolition? Sounds more like they're talking about murder to me.26th is tomorrow.

Steve Trevor: And you must've been one of their respec-tive assignments.

Diana Prince: And whoever C.A.R.I stands for is the prime target.
Steve Trevor: W.N....Woodward Nightingale?

Diana Prince: Nightingale... well he never makes a contract unless someone's talking at least six digits.

Steve Trevor: Well this is certainly his style. For once we'd have the chance to be one up on him.
Diana Prince: If we can figure out who the prime target is.
Steve Trevor: Hmmmm... Cari... C.A.R.I...

Diana Prince: Steve, that big industrialist who's in Washington for the trade meetings... Carlo Indr..

Steve Trevor: Indrezzano.
Diana Prince: Indrezzano?

Steve Trevor: Yeah it fits. He'd certainly qualify for a Nightingale assassination. Let me see what I can do with that... yeah here it is, his full name is Carlo Amadeo Ricardo Indrezzano.

Diana Prince: So his initials are CARI. Well it sounds like I'd better get myself ready for a watchdog assignment.

Steve Trevor: Yeah. But Diana I understand that Indrezzano has quite a reputation for being a swinger.

Diana Prince: That's what I'm preparing for!

Steve Trevor: Alright, but be careful, you've already been set up once.

Diana Prince: Yeah...gotcha!

   Diana leaves to prepare for her assignment, to protect Carlo Indrezzano [GEORGE CHAKIRIS]. In the meantime, Krug [ARTHUR BATANIDES] and a hit man from St. Louis, Beamer [CHRISTOPHER CARY] visit Nightingale at his cabin. They enter a broken-down shack, rug pulls a lightbulb, a door slides open and he leads Beamer through the doorway into a modern elevator. A few floors down, the doors slide open and they walk down a few corridors until they reach another door which slides open to reveal an elegant apartment. They are greeted by Violet a former hit-person now a reluctant secretary, she tells them to go through. The room they enter is filled with weapons of execution and pictures of Nightingale's victims, one picture frame is empty. Nightingale is waiting for them with the question of why Diana Prince has not been taken care of as yet. Krug promises she will be out of the way by tomorrow evening. By tomorrow evening Starker will be able to go after Carlo.

   Disguised as carpet repair men they arrive at the restaurant where Diana is to meet Carlo later that day. They claim that they have been called to repair the carpet and cut away the carpet below the public telephone. They create a secret trapdoor and replace the carpet. Then return to their van. Carlo, definitely a ladies' man, is delightfully surprised and pleased to see Diana. He has never seen a bodyguard look like that.

Diana Prince: Are you going to eat standing Mr. Indrezzano?

Indrezzano: You are Diana Prince?
Diana Prince: You were expecting me.

Indrezzano: Indeed no. I was expecting a... never mind what I was expecting. What I found was perfect.

Diana Prince: Mr. Indrezzano.
Indrezzano: Carlo please.

Diana Prince: Carlo, I must say that you are everything that I expected.

Indrezzano: With you as my bodyguard I shall remain eternally in danger. You don't look like a government agent.

Diana Prince: I left my trench coat in the cleaners.

Indrezzano: Oh then I shall have to keep you out of the trenches.

   Diana, trying to avoid Carlo's advances, spills coffee on her lap. She excuses herself and goes to the ladies' room. The maitre 'd approaches the table saying there is a phone call for Miss Prince. Carlo takes the call and as he enters the phone booth, a trap door opens and Carlo drops into a trash chute. Krug and Beamer grab him and when they see it is not Diana they decide to keep Carlo anyway and use him as bait. Diana returns and immediately realizes what has happened. She rushes out, whirls into Wonder Woman and starts after the van. She leaps in front of the van and stops it from moving forward. Krug throws the van into reverse and as he speeds off, Beamer throws Carlo out of the van. Wonder Woman runs over to Carlo and frees him.

Wonder Woman: Are you alright?

Indrezzano: What happened?

Wonder Woman: Let's just say that we just cheated the jaws of death out of a meal.

Indrezzano: You mean you saved me?

Wonder Woman: Yes.

Indrezzano: That's impossible, it's ridiculous, you're a woman!

Wonder Woman: I have been told that once or twice...

   As this is happening Nightingale calls Starker for a situation report. Starker still wants Diana Prince killed. Nightingale says that she will be dead within the hour. Starker is unconvinced but asks Nightingale for further details regarding his assignment. He is told to call back at 3:30,when the information will be available.

   At 3:30 Starker calls Nightingale and is told that Major Anita Finley [CAROL WORTHINGTON] has just been assigned to IADC and she is to report immediately, but that Starker must take her place.

   Back at the IADC Steve and Eve [SAUNDRA SHARP] find out from IRAC that Carlo's associate Marius Macropolis might actually be one of his biggest threats because of his ruthless business tactics but they believe that he lacks any motive, that he would have nothing to gain from Carlo's death.

   Starker intercepts the Major as she drives into her new parking spot. He kidnaps her, dresses as a woman and Starker, who is now Major Finley, reports to Steve Trevor. Starker is a master of disguise.

   Meanwhile Diana finally gets rid of Carlo by promising to meet him the following day, at 9:45am,at her office and she enters her apartment, leaving Carlo with her replacement, a male agent.

   Alone in Finley's office, Starker assembles a welding gun out of a hairdryer and various other objects and begins to melt the metal grate that leads from his office in the air conditioning duct. Alone in the building that evening, Starker, now minus wig, inches along a duct carrying a lethal-looking bomb. His destination is to the computer room. He reaches it and pries open the grate and looks down into the room below. He sees IRAC and after replacing the grate he begins to work on the bomb.

   That evening, in her darkened bedroom, Diana hears a noise and runs to the closet. A door opens and Krug and Beamer enter. They fire their guns toward the bed and as they leave, Diana, now Wonder Woman as she has changed in the closet, returns to her bed to see bullet-riddled pillows and blankets. She jumps off her balcony and lands on top of their speeding van. She finds herself in front of the cabin. She uses her lasso to catch Krug and Beamer. She asks them how she can get to Nightingale then places them in the bucket of a digger which she raises high into the air and tells them that they will remain immobile until the police arrive. She enters the cabin and with her fingertips pries apart the stainless steel doors and comes face to face with Violet who pulls out her gun. Wonder Woman grabs her wrist and she drops it. Nightingale joins them and invites her into his room.

Wonder Woman: Woodward Nightingale, cage and all.

Nightingale: What you've left of it. Please come in, we'll have a chat.

Wonder Woman: There's really nothing to chat about. I'm afraid you've drawn up your last contract Nightingale.

Nightingale: What a pity. My brilliant career over just like that.

Wonder Woman: You should've ended that career when you were laid off your job as executioner.

Nightingale: And let all that knowledge go to waste? Why that would've been criminal.

Wonder Woman: Just tell me who the latest person is scheduled for demolition.

Nightingale: All in good time Wonder Woman. A picture of that unfortunate person will grace that empty frame.

Wonder Woman: I'm not really interested in your gallery of victims.

Nightingale: Ah but you should be interested in this one. It is, has, for quite some time been intended for...you

   Wonder Woman notices the miniature cannon aimed squarely at her. Nightingale fires and Wonder Woman catches the tiny, yet deadly, cannon ball. After confronting him about his reasons for wanting Carlo killed, he admits that his secretary made the mistake of spelling IRAC backwards and it came out CARI. He wants IRAC destroyed because the computer knows too much about a scheme to destroy Carlo by one of his associates...Marius. She ties Nightingale and Violet up, and rushes to the save IRAC, with only a few minutes to travel over forty miles.

   With all her Wonder Woman speed, she reaches the IADC and warns Steve and everyone to clear the building. With blinding speed she enters the computer room and hears a ticking. She looks in every direction and as the ticking grows louder, she sees it is coming from the grating above her. She leaps up toward the ceiling, breaks through the grating and grabs the bomb. She lands, then removes the timing device and the ticking stops. Wonder Woman has saved IRAC. She then captures Starker, the real Major Finley is found and Carlo's associate is put behind bars along with Nightingale.

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STATS MEDIA TRIVIA

RUNNING TIME:
48:37 (48 minutes / unedited) / 60 minutes on commercial television.
VHS:
Available on commercial VHS format on a collector's edition series released by Columbia House Video.
DVD:
Available on commercial DVD format in the 4-DVD box-set "WONDER WOMAN: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON".
INFO:
Sixteenth regular episode of "THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN".
AUDIO:
"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the opening credits.
"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the end credits.
VIDEO:
"NO MONKEY BUSINESS WITH WONDER WOMAN".
"STARKER UNMASKED".
TRIVIA:
This is one of several episodes when Wonder Woman uses her lasso but we do not see it.
The telegram that Diana and Steve read is dated 1-24-1978.
Carlo and his associate discuss business at the Hacienda Health Spa, the location for Diana's honeymoon in "I Do. I Do".
Diana meets Carlo for lunch at Le Maison Verte... when Nightingale's men check the reservation list to confirm that Diana will be there it shows that Carlo has booked a table for 1:50pm.
Major Finley's license plate is G108 2135
Wonder Woman somehow manages to travel 47 miles in under 4 minutes.
SKILLS STATS:
SPINS: 2 times.
LASSO: 1 times.
BRACELETS: 0 times.
JUMPS: 4 times.
THROWN BADDIES: 0 times.
MISCELLANEOUS SKILLS: Splits a gun, stops car, bends door, catches miniature cannon ball.
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