It Takes a Thief
Season 2
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Alexander Mundy - smooth, suave, sophisticated - is the world's greatest cat burglar. Finally arrested after years of pilfering, he strikes a deal with American agent Noah Bain: a full pardon if Mundy agrees to use his skills to steal for the SIA, an American espionage agency. Technically under house arrest, Mundy travels all over the world performing daring acts of thievery in the name of Uncle Sam.
Where to Watch It Takes a Thief • Season 2
26 Episodes
- The Packager
E6The PackagerAl breaks into the safe of a rich man's home but it turns out it was only a test, the man wants Al in on a ""package"" worth $10,000,000, to steal fifty atomic fuel capsules. If Al doesn't pull off the job, the man will expose Al's arrangement with the S.I.A., and once exposed, they'll have no more use for him, and then they'll send Al back to prison. - A Case of Red Turnips
E9A Case of Red TurnipsNoah gets Al out of bed at 1:30 in the morning to watch ""The Red Turnips"", an avant-garde film made by Lester V. Griffin. Al wants to know why, and Noah tells him that all of his questions will be answered, except for one, maybe, ""How do we prevent Al Mundy from being killed within the next 48 hours?"". Griffin unknowingly filmed 11 S.I.A. agents making the most important drop in Sector 3, behind the Iron Curtain. One agent was killed already because of the film. Al has to go to the LaPalma Film Festival, where the film is being shown, and with only 48 hours to go before the film's official screening, steal the only existing print of The Red Turnips before any more S.I.A. agents are killed, and before any enemies of the U.S. can get their hands on it. Noah tells Al not to worry about the job, because he's sending along the best man the S.I.A. has. Al asks, ""Who?"" and Noah answers, ""Me!"" - The Galloping Skin Game
E10The Galloping Skin GameAl must steal a document hidden in a scientific paper at a conference in Rome. The SIA doesn't know which of the 100 papers contains the document. Al deduces that the paper will be handled by a high-value fence, Grobo, and schemes to get on his good side by stealing the Kimberly Diamond and having Grobo fence it for him. Al comes up with a unique solution to obtain the key paper before it's delivered to Grobo, while also keeping the diamond (that the SIA returns). - Glass Riddle
E11Glass RiddleA cartel is putting together the finances that will enable it to buy the International Munitions Corp. With it, they will be able to decide the fate of any large or small disputes that call for weapons. To prevent this, Al must break into the United Community Bank and steal the stock proxies from their safety deposit box. The problem is that the vault door is exposed to the public via large glass windows, and Al has to do the job in broad daylight! - To Catch a Roaring Lion
E12To Catch a Roaring LionA Chinese backed general that is trying to seize power in a small African country steals the Endaka scrolls. Al has less than 24 hours to break into a museum, and the heavily guarded compound of the general, and steal back the scrolls. Al must replace the scrolls before their President discovers that they are missing, because the shock would kill him and that would allow the general to take over. - A Matter of Grey Matter (1)
E16A Matter of Grey Matter (1)Al flies to London to find Muenster Von Wolfgang, the richest man in the world, who is involved in some ""technical missile breakthrough"" and is in negotiations with countries not friendly with the U.S.. Noah sends Al in undercover as a film distributor to the movie studio Von Wolfgang owns, to meet his actress girlfriend Dodie, in order to get to him, through her, and find out what the breakthrough is. However, her younger brother Herbie is a genius, and is giving the formula for a new solid state missile fuel to Von Wolfgang, so he will make his sister, who can't act, a movie star. - A Matter of Grey Matter (2)
E17A Matter of Grey Matter (2)Al flies to London to find Muenster Von Wolfgang, the richest man in the world, who is involved in some ""technical missile breakthrough"" and is in negotiations with countries not friendly with the U.S.. Noah sends Al in undercover as a film distributor to the movie studio Von Wolfgang owns, to meet his actress girlfriend Dodie, in order to get to him, through her, and find out what the breakthrough is. However, her younger brother Herbie is a genius, and is giving the formula for a new solid-state missile fuel to Von Wolfgang, so he will make his sister, who can't act, a movie star. - Catspaw
E18CatspawAn injured Al must get Pepe Rouchet, the ""second best"" thief in the world, to substitute for him on an assignment. The job is to retrieve the ""Crown Jewels of La Monica"", whose economy depends on them, from Fortress Hill, a heavily guarded estate, and whose main safe is in the middle of a tiger cage. Al's plan is to ""feed"" Pepe the information he'll need to pull off the heist, but Pepe figures out that he is being set up by Al and Noah, and decides to pull the job before Al feeds him all the information. Knowing that Pepe did not find out about the tiger cage, Al has to break into Fortress Hill himself, and get to Pepe before the tiger does! - Boom at the Top
E19Boom at the TopAl is brought in fast to recover an important microdot that was inadvertently stolen by a small time thief. A party is thrown to try to flush this thief out. Meanwhile, a government courier with an armed briefcase full of Polaris missile plans, stops by the party to get Al to pop it open and defeat the fail-safe mechanism. - The Funeral is on Mundy
E20The Funeral is on MundyIn London, Noah has Al break into the U.S. Embassy and MI5, using the M.O. of ""The Electrician"", a thief who has been stealing secrets for 6 years for an unknown organization. Noah wants to discredit him with his superiors, to flush them out into the open. However, the organization figures this out, and when Al breaks into MI5, he finds ""The Electrician"" in the safe, dead. Noah tells Al that an assassin, Goldman, was sent by the organization and was given a two-part contract: get rid of ""The Electrician"", and get rid of the S.I.A. man who set him up, Alexander Mundy! - The Baranoff Timetable
E21The Baranoff TimetableAl flies to Costa de Oro, to pose as the fiancé of an international jet setter who has has information on the Baranoff Timetable, a detailed plan of the communist takeover of all of South America. Al steals the timetable and discovers it is a forgery, so Ortega, who planned to use it to overthrow the current president, locks up Al and the president's daughter, to force the president to make a speech turning power over to him. - Rock-Bye, Bye, Baby
E22Rock-Bye, Bye, BabyAl is having difficulty breaking into an old fashioned safe that contains a little black book that contains information that can help to break the syndicate. Al knows of an old safe cracker who can get the job done so he goes to San Francisco to bring him back. - 38-23-36
E2438-23-36Before competing in the Miss United Nations Beauty Pageant, in N.Y., a group of international beauties are touring the U.S. as guests of the State Department. After they had been on a private guided tour of the Pentagon, a routine check of top-secret information revealed that a microdot pertaining to H.A.W.K., the anti-I.C.B.M. missile systems, was missing. Noah sent an agent to N.Y. to check out the girls, but the agent was stabbed outside the contestant's hotel, and the last thing he said before he died was ""38-23-36"". Noah suspect's one of the contestants of being a free-lance agent, who took advantage of the opportunity, stole the microdot, and is negotiating to sell it to the highest bidder. Noah sends Al to the pageant undercover, replacing Eric Zerko, Target Magazine's top reporter and fashion photographer. When the pageant ends in 48 hours, all the girls will be free to leave the country, so Noah tells Al that's all the time he has to figure out what ""38-23-36"" means, and to re - Mad in Japan
E26Mad in JapanAfter receiving the message ""Dangerous Weapon Inside: Code 409"" from two S.I.A. agents in the Far East, who may be have been killed, Noah sends Al and Dr. Hopkins to Japan to retrieve the prototype for a portable, hand-held laser gun, which the S.I.A. must have, at any cost!
