Dangerous Assignment: Memory Chain

Dangero, Sir Simon, starring Brian Donlow, as Steve Mitchell. Danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, they'll trouble.

But when I walk into the commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to end up with me dangling from the wrong end of a rope. Oh, here he is, Commissioner. Thanks, Ruth. Steve, I suppose I pulled you right out of a big deal, as usual.

Oh, no, it was all very innocent this time, Commissioner. Matter of fact, I was down at the rifle range, improving my marksmanship. What? Honest. Hello. Well. From where I stood, it looked like he was closing in on a target for tonight.

That's what I thought. I have your plane ticket at my desk when you're ready, Steve. Okay, Rose. Well, where am I going this time, Commissioner? To Munich. Your plane leaves in one hour. You'll be looking for the memory chain.

Memory chain? No relation to the daisy chain, is it? I'm afraid not. Go ahead. I'd have a pretty hard time passing myself off as queen of the May. Hmm. So seriously Steve, this is the toughest proposition we've ever been up against.

It's a skillfully organized pipeline through which vital information is leaking out of this country to Eastern Europe. I see. There are no documents involved. It's all done by a system of runners. Each runner memorizes the information and passes it on to the next one by word of mouth.

And right now a vital chemical equation is somewhere along that pipeline. Any idea how far along the chain it is by now? Yes. So we caught up with the first runner in Lisbon for two days, too late.