Dangerous Assignment: The Canal Zone - A Piece of String

Danger of Sassignment, starring Brian Donlady 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, though, trouble.

But when I walk into the commission this office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to wind up with somebody trying his best to hand me a present. A loaded dynamite with a lit fuse.

Morning, Commissioner. Ruth left the note on my desk if you wanted to see me. Uh, incidentally, where is she? Not the Red Cross blood bank donating some blood. I gave it a day on. day on. I've got a date for the same thing. Every American should donate blood to the Red Cross.

But right now, take a look at this. A piece of strength? Describe it to me as accurately as you can. What? Is this some kind of a game? You know better in a moment now. Describe that piece of string to me. Okay, okay, it's about a foot long. 11 inches to be exact. Okay,

11 inches. It's got four knots. Right. And they're unevenly spaced. Well, it's about all I can see. So you're a string-saver commissioner. Is that what you call me in here to tell me not exactly in the first place I have a hunch that's about the most important piece of string in the world right now why and in the second place

it's not mine along to Jim Slater oh Jim back that's good Jim's dead Steve well hey let me have that again he was murdered in Panama the night before last Jim Slater yeah I know he was one of your best friend Steve that's why I figured you'd want to take over his assignment yeah I do but I never knew what Jim was