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 A young boy (HAROLD P.
PRUETT) and his dog play ball in the remains of a condemned building,
but the activity is too much for the crumbling structure and it begins
to collapse. The boy is frozen in terror untiI someone (DIANE LANDER),
who looks exactly like Wonder Woman, suddenly appears on the scene.
She manages to coax the boy to safety, but she is trapped in the
falling debris.
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Diana Prince (LYNDA CARTER) is now at the bedside of the
impostor Wonder Woman talking to a doctor (MURRAY MAC LEOD) who
explains that he called the IADC because the woman appeared so much
like the real Wonder Woman. Diana and the doctor go to a separate room
to check the costume that the mystery girl was wearing. As they
inquire about the outfit at the nurse's station, Roman (BOB SEAGREN),
an extremely muscular man, wearing a white lab coat, walks past them
and enters the girl's room. Diana couldn't help but notice his
physique and as she glances back at him she notices that he has
disappeared and the door to the girl's room is just swinging shut.
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Diana rushes to the room just in time to scare away the
intruder who leaps out the window onto an adjacent roof. The doctor
now discovers that they just saved the girl from a lethal injection of
air into her bloodstream. Diana orders police protection for the girl,
now that her life appears threatened. Diana arranges strict security
measures at the hospital and makes it clear that no one is to enter
the room unless they are cleared first.
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Noting the tight security, Todd Daniels (JOHN O'CONNELL), a
well-built, boynext-door type, places a call to the police officer
from a pay phone in the hospital corridor. With the policeman now
distracted by the phone page, Todd slips into the room. The officer
returns to Diana just as the two notice the girl's door swinging shut.
Todd is given the third degree by the officer, but Diana is
sufficiently convinced that he is sincerely just a friend. Perhaps
allowing him to stay will give them clues later on.
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At the ballroom of the Myerton Hotel, Edgar Percy (JOSEPH
MAHER) and Stuart Austin (KENNETH TIGAR) discuss the final
arrangements for Percy's elegant presentation to some of Washington's
most affluent socialites at Austin's hotel. Austin excuses himself to
answer a page. The caller, who has plagued Austin before, threatens
the safety of several of the more prominent guests. Austin is more
angry than frightened. The voice, disguised so that Austin cannot
recognize it, is Percy's.
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Austin, not one to take chances, visits his friend Steve Trevor
(LYLE WAGGONER) at the IADC headquarters, where they arrange for IADC
protection since several key government officials will be in
attendance. Steve will inspect the ballroom later to insure its
security.
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The girl regains consciousness and recognizes Todd. Afraid of
what she might say, she orders him to leave, but he is persistent and
stays long enough to find out some clues to her trouble. The only
thing he gets is the name "Percy."
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Meanwhile, Diana is nearly run over in a parking lot while on
her way to the IADC. Austin and Trevor now make the final security
arrangements at the hotel. Percy, from his trailer parked in the
hotel's parking lot, puts the finishing touches on a lifelike mask of
Steve Trevor.
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Diana returns to the hospital and speaks with the girl who she
now knows as Nancy. Nancy nearly slips on a few of her words and gives
Diana just enough information to be of help. Diana traces the some
clues and again finds the name Edgar Percy. With that tidbit of
information, she decides that she too will be at the Myerton Hotel for
the Edgar Percy Models presentation. When she arrives, she notices the
security screening at the ballroom entrance. She waves at Steve, but
there is no sense of recognition. She is alarmed by that. She also
notes that the IADC guards do not act as IADC guards normally would.
She is suspicious. She deftly penetrates the security and slips into
the backstage area.
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The program begins and the Edgar Percy Models dressed in
roaring twenties attire, parade on stage. One model, with a gun firmly
in her grasp, fires a shot. The audience is not sure whether or not it
was real, but they still sit and assume that they are being
entertained. But their grins soon turn to grimaces as they are forced
to turn over their valuables to the other models. Then, a Wonder Woman
look-alike swoops into the ballroom. Now waiters, who the audience is
told are actually IADC agents, enter and "arrest" the
models/thieves while "Steve Trevor" tells them that they
need to photograph the jewels as evidence. Now the real Wonder
Woman makes her move and quickly disposes of the criminals,
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All this time, Percy has been sitting in his trailer, oblivious
to the shambles that his plan has become. Wonder Woman now pays him a
visit and sees that he is arrested. With the real Steve now released
along with the other IADC men, Diana meets him in the hotel's lobby.
Steve invites Diana to the most elegant restaurant in town, after all
he is wearing a tuxedo and it's a shame to see it go to waste.
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