still dominating the world's headlines are the disappearances, one after the other, of an oddly assorted group of vips. first to vanish: u.n.c.l.e. agent robert kingsley, from hong kong. it is believed that kingsley was in charge of the agency's scientific intelligence division. to look at this, the world's future on a scrap of paper. we can change mankind's personality, mold it to any shape we want. steer it in any direction, with this. mrs. kingsley, your husband has disappeared. oh, it can't be... he's not in that kind of work anymore. it's true, mrs. kingsley. i don't believe it. next reported missing: german scientist dr. kurt erikson and his teenage daughter, anna.

for history as the world knows it -will soon end. -sit down, doctor. oh, excuse me, dr. erikson, your daughter. have we kept her waiting outside? no, anna will be coming on a separate plane. she should be leaving berlin any moment now. i'm sorry i have to go, but i'll be back. believe me, i will be back. look, i came all the way from america to be with you, you and your father, on our vacation. steve, do you think that i want to leave you? this is ridiculous. i love you. the most spectacular disappearances of all were those of top european military leader general maximilian harmon and his aide, captain gelser...

ten hut! men, you are no longer in the service of the country we just left. you are an elite security force, the last soldiers this world will ever see. then, within hours, four more prominent people whisked away. israel's dr. naomi fisher, world's leading authority on food production techniques. public relations expert jeffrey j. mackie of london. wizard. mr. kingsley, there was no need for you to kidnap me. if you had told me of your plan, if you had invited me, i would have come running to help you achieve it. gentlemen, i'm with you every inch of the way. next reported missing: professor david garrow of new jersey, genetics genius. hello?

to this diverse group, and what progress u.n.c.l.e. has made in its search for the answer. we're 80 miles west of our last reported position, and still over the himalayas. instead of snow, there, uh... we're under attack.

thrush central to hong kong. this is to report that phase one has been successfully completed. thrush recruiting center reports that kingsley and all expert personnel are now at the operations control complex in the himalayas. repeat: this is to report that phase one has been successfully completed. kingsley and all required expert personnel are now at the operations control complex in the himalayas. mrs. kingsley, i hope your husband appreciates he will, mr. webb, until he finds out who's supplying me.

napoleon solo. i could use a man like him. a spy by any name gets shot. no, general, that won't be necessary now. now, mr. kingsley, you had me join this enterprise as your chief of security. if you insist on disregarding my advice... wiping out the opposition is no achievement, general. any brute with a gun can do that. no, i want him, i want him to approve of my plan. other u.n.c.l.e. agents will follow him. and we will assess each case, if and when it arises, general. missile defense unit.

5-mile radius. immediately, sir. destroy anything that shows up...anything. yes, sir.

well, that proves we're on the right track, at least. who was in that one, general? we don't know.

you know i couldn't risk that. you were an u.n.c.l.e. agent, you've killed before, when necessary. general, it was because i had to kill that i brought all this about. to create a world in which... why do you think i'm here, to play soldier? kill for the sake of it? i want that new world, too. that's why i'll protect this, this center of that world, from sabotage and invasion. now, you must let me do my job, no matter who dies. general, you are a strange mixture. you pursue a merciful ideal... mercilessly. i'll take that as a compliment. thrush central to honk kong. transportation center. this is our final report.

s of the kingsley installation. repeat: this is our final report. the last cargo, including drugs to immobilize the defense force, is now within 100 miles of the kingsley installation. thank you. mr. webb will be happy to hear that. this is mrs. kingsley. congratulations to all of you for a job well done. now, all we have to do is wait.

father, you must tell me what's going on! i cannot tell you anything, now please! i have work to do, i have meetings to attend to here. i just saw one of those u.n.c.l.e. agents under guard...why? that's not your concern, darling. not your concern, or mine. concern...father, do you realize that's he's being kept a prisoner...why? you know, your duty to me is obedience. efore... without worrying me with questions. -never one like this. -please, don't question me now, -please! -never one like this. this one is different. this time, i had to leave someone. someone that... i'm very fond of. i had to leave him without any explanation to come here because you told me so.

and now, i feel as though i'm never gonna see him again. and if that's the case, i feel i have a right to know why, or go back to him. you can't do that. i cannot tell you anything now, and you cannot go back. you intend, you seriously intend, to make the whole world think and act -the way you want it to? -that's correct, mr. solo. by blanketing it with a docility gas dr. erikson has developed. the capsule you say you found in my office was only a small sample. mr. solo, please consider. you and i, we have fought the seemingly endless battle against evil. don't you see that this way, my way,

-it's a blasphemy. your plan denies humanity its freedom to find its own way to better times. walk out. walk out! kingsley can't operate without you. you're the experts. solo, i'm a soldier. and i've realized just about every ambition of my profession, except its evolution, which is something i prayed for from the time i saw my first battlefield casualty. to walk out on the world's one chance to cleanse itself of the filth of war. you're not alone in craving peace, general. but your method of achieving it... the method is certain. peace assured forever, by one radio broadcast from here ordering it. one straight order.

geneticist. your life work is the biological improvement of man. will you pervert that science into the creation of a... of a generation of robots? don't you realize that you're invol... i realize my wife and son will suffer... if i don't cooperate. beg of you. think over carefully everything you've heard. reconsider your conventional moral objections... and join us, leading a new world. let there be eight wonders.

-sergeant, take the prisoner. -yes, sir. follow me. you have been declared infiltrators and potential saboteurs. by virtue of the military authority vested in me, i sentence you to immediate execution. death by shooting. captain gelser. ready...

steve! fire! dad! that's my father, dad! that's my father. dad. he's dead. i can't tell you how much i regret this. dad! general, i want him kept under custody in his father's quarters.

sergeant, take the prisoner. steve! steve, what happened? steve, what happened, steve! stay away from me, you're with them. steve! stay here, now, you can't do anything. the same goes for solo and kuryakin, general. under guard in guest quarters, until i send for them. -but, kingsley... -in guest quarters. -captain gelser? -sir. return the prisoners to their quarters. take the prisoners to their quarters. you're tying my hands. there'll be no more discussions, general.

no more killing, i hope i make that clear. -but... -no more. dr. erikson! dr. erikson, how soon can we launch the gas? well, i've...i've been thinking in terms of weeks. there's so many technical details to take care of. our schedule... it's u.n.c.l.e.'s schedule that worries me. agents dropping out of the sky, at they're planning right now? we need time, we cannot do this thing overnight. dr. erikson, we must expedite the attack. get u.n.c.l.e. into obedience like everyone else. what's to happen to the prisoners? -nothing. -the young garrow? i owe that much to his father. and solo and kuryakin? may i suggest, mr. kingsley, they they be the first

all right, general. get them ready for the test chamber now. and the rest of the world within hours. -hours, robert? -that's right, darling. as soon as erikson's preparations are completed. now, don't ask me any questions, please, just believe me. this change of plan is essential. all right, robert, whatever you say. -hurry, darling. -i will, robert. and, margitta, i think of you every minute. me too, darling. i haven't left the apartment in days, waiting for your call. i love you.

attack time? -it makes no difference. -no difference? we'll never get the members of thrush central to the installation on time. they'll be... gassed, like everyone else. we go ahead exactly as planned, only we do it sooner, and without thrush central. just...you and i.