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 Diana Prince (LYNDA
CARTER) receives a phone call from Steve Trevor (LYLE WAGGONER)
telling her to turn on television and watch the football game. It
seems as though strange things have been happening to the underdog
football teams. They have been winning over teams that have been as
much as sixteen-point favorites. Steve and his friend Bill Michaels
(RON ELY) are at the game for the first-hand observation. The leading
pass receiver, "Gluefinger," from the favored team, is
kneeling beside his coach getting last minute instructions. While this
is going on, a weird little man named Brubaker (HARVEY JASON) is
jumping up and down, yelling through a megaphone, for the home team.
There is a rear peep-sight on the megaphone and a small mouthpiece
protruding out of the larger one on the speaking side of the
megaphone. As he brings the megaphone close to his mouth, he closes
his mouth around the smaller one, sights and blows something.
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Gluefinger slaps at his neck as though stung by a mosquito.
Gluefinger runs out on the field, the play is called and Gluefinger
runs to the end zone, standing there alone, waiting for the ball to
come to him. He puts his hand a up to catch the ball and it hits him
right on the mark -chest high and into his waiting hands -but he
bobbles it. He juggles the ball clumsily and lets it squirt out of his
hands. He stands staring at the ball. Two plays later the place kicker
seems to trip over an invisible obstacle and misses the ball
completely. Brubaker is smugly satisfied and Steve and Bill are
baffled. Bill later explains to Diana that this hat been going on for
five or six weeks -the team what has been most heavily favored to win
has been upset because their best athletes fall apart in the clutch.
After the game, Brubaker heads for a bar where he placed his bet and
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In the meantime, Angie Cappucci (SCOTT MARLOWE) and the entire
organization want to find out who is betting such long shots. Through
a few contacts, they find out it is Professor Brubaker and decide to
pay him a visit. Frightened and in need of money to continue his
experiments, Brubaker agrees to demonstrate how he can temporarily
control the motor movements of athletes.
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Diana and Bill decide to talk to some of the ballplayers who
have been losing the games. They attend an awards dinner where many
former top college players are to be the guests.
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While Romain Gabriel (Himself), Eddie Bell (Himself), Deacon
Jones (Himself) and Laurence McCutcheon (Himself) are vying for
Diana's attention, Angie and Brubaker are in the crawl space above the
ceiling drilling a hole. Tubes with fisheye lenses which take in the
entire room beneath them are inserted into the peepholes. Through a
walkie-talkie, Angie contacts a walter, Sam (CRAIG T. NELS0N), who has
a small earphone tucked in his ear and tells him to begin. The waiter
takes out a small tube, similar to the little blowgun Brubaker had
concealed in his megaphone, and as he passes Gabriel, he puts his
hands to his mouth as if stifling a cough, and blows through the tube.
Gabriel slaps at his neck as though stung by a mosquito. Sam does the
same to Bell, Jones and McCutcheon. Brubaker then tells Angie that
within twenty minutes he will be able to control mood changes as well
as foul up muscle control. He then signals confusion and a fight
follows among all the athletes. Diana slips out of the room, whirls
into Wonder Woman, returns facing the likes of McCutcheou and Jones.
She vaults over them, yanks all the athletes apart, stops the fight
and shoves them all back into their chairs. Whirling back to Diana,
she is confused as to what has just taken place and why.
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Angie and Sam realize that because of Bill, Diana is involved.
Posing as a delivery man, Sam pays Bill a visit, fakes a cough and
blows a dart into his neck. Diana arrives a few minutes later, and
during a calm conversation, Bill suddenly turns violent. He lunges out
for Diana, but trips and falls, knocking himself cold. In close
examination of his neck, Diana plucks a small dart out of Bill's neck
with a pair of tweezers. Through the computer back at IADC
headquarters, IRAC informs Diana that the man she is looking for is
Brubaker. |
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Diana pays a visit to his lab, whirls into Wonder Woman and as
she crashes through the window knocking iron bars aside, Brubaker
makes a run for it. She unleashes her lasso, whirls it, throws it and
Brubaker is lassoed. He confesses to Wonder Woman that Angie Cappucci
promised him money for his experiments and also that he heard Angie
tell someone that if the organization puts up $1 million on the next
game, he can guarantee them ten million in return.
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During the game, Diana, Bill and a number of IADC agents are
supplied pictures and comb the football stadium looking for Angie. |
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An hour passes; Angie is not located but the underdog team is getting
all the breaks. Diana is convinced Angie is around. She leaves the
stadium, walks underground toward the tower and whirls into Wonder
Woman. At the entrance to the tower, two heavies try to stop her, but
she easily takes care or them. She leaps upwards to the tower parapet
and sees Angie punching out combinations on his transmitter, thus
telling Brubaker what to do. He sees Wonder Woman, runs toward the
inside of the tower and climbs to the top. She leans up after him,
scaring him so that he loses his grip and falls. She jumps down and
neatly catches him in her arms. Brubaker is set free and Steve and Diana Just know that Angie
will be taken care of by the mob. |
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