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 Slipping through the
electronic security and armed surveillance at the Torrence Aerospace
plant, James Kimball (RENE AUBERJONOIS), well-known in black market
circles as an ace intercorporate thief, finds his way to the plant's
research and development lab. Once inside, he finds his quarry...three
rough-hewn but lens like crystals about the size of half-collars.
Suddenly an alarm goes off. Kimball's detail of the security system
obviously omitted a crucial sensing device.
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Kimball realizes that he cannot be caught, especially with the
crystals in his possession. He hears security guards racing toward the
lab so he dashes to the shipping and receiving areas. There he finds a
large shipping crate addressed to Sylvester Crogan...Los Angeles Le
Baron Hotel c/o Space Questicon. He stashes the crystals in a pedestal
and shuts the crate. Kimball slips away unnoticed.
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Steve Trevor (LYLE WAGGONER) receives a frantic phone call from
the security chief at Torrence Aerospace. When Steve hears that it is
the lab's Collimating Crystals, crystals designed to concentrate a
laser beam, he immediately dispatches Diana Prince (LYNDA CARTER) to
the Southern California based plant. The crystals, he understands, are
used in the NASA space program to assist in measuring great distances,
"But in the wrong hands," he explains, "they make small
tactical laser weapons not only possible, but practical."
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Diana arrives in Los Angeles and arrives at the Le Baron Hotel,
where she will be staying. Much to her dismay, she quickly sees that
the hotel is the sight of the space Questicon and that the place is
filled with science fiction freaks. She makes her way through the
crush of people to the desk clerk who explains that Paragon Studios is
promoting the convention right on their nearby studio lot because it
ties-in directly to their popular series "Space Quest,"
which they are bringing back. The hotel lobby is packed with people in
various costumes from the many science fiction shows and movies.
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Simon Rohan (PAUL LAWRENCE SMITH) a trader in stolen technology
and his thug, Mr. Munn (GEORGE CHEUNG), encounter Kimball on a jogging
path. Rohan is anxious about the crystals. Kimball assures him that
they will be delivered on time. Sylvester Crogan (STEPHEN ANDERSON),
the college-aged son of Dr. Crogan, runs into Diana in the hotel
lobby. He and Diana have met before and "Sly" has quite a
crush on her. "Sly" tells her that the Torrence Lab has lent
him their moonrock collection to use in his exhibit at the Questicon.
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The pressure is on Kimball as the day wears on. Diana has
already seen pictures of him in her dossier of suspects and she spots
him immediately when he steps into the hotel. She quickly whirls into
Wonder Woman and chases him up to a roof. There he manages to escape
by dropping a heavy object off the high perch. Wonder Woman, realizing
that saving the lives of the people on the street below is more
important than catching Kimball, leaps off the parapet and hurtles
toward the ground, getting there just in time to catch the falling
object. Diana returns to the convention hall where Sylvester shows her
around. Kimball now arrives and asks for Sylvester Crogan. When he
sees that he is with Diana Prince, he makes a quick exit.
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At the Le Baron Hotel, Kimball cons his way into the Black
Avenger's room, where he steals the Avenger costume from the actor
(KEN WILSON). Munn now enters the room in his desperate search for
Kimball, but Kimball is back at the convention. Diana finds Kimball,
now dressed as the Black Avenger. Diana excuses herself whirls into
Wonder Woman, rejoins Kimball to search for the crystal. Meanwhile,
Rohan and Munn have found Sylvester, but his quick thinking leads them
all to a storeroom. Once inside, he turns out the light and locks the
door. "Sly" finds Wonder Woman, now in the midst of quite a
melee, as she and Kimball go after a scepter, carried by an actor as
part of his costume, which has the crystals mounted on top. Diana
seizes the scepter but in the confusion, Kimball gets away.
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The building is now sealed off by police, so Kimball resorts to
another costume, this time as a robot. By answering questions
incorrectly, he gives himself away as an imposter to the young fans.
Diana is within earshot and quickly collars her man.
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