Mission: Impossible (TV Series)

The Counterfeiter (1968)

Peter Graves: James Phelps

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  Raymond Halder : You went to a lot of trouble to make a misdemeanor stick. What is it? Five hundred dollars fine and six months in jail?

  Rollin Hand : That's just for making the drugs.

  James Phelps : You confessed to selling them. But your tax returns didn't show any income from those sales.

  Cinnamon Carter : Which means, Mr. Halder, you're gonna spend the next 20 years in a federal prison for tax fraud.

• Raymond Halder : Just out of curiosity, how high do you figure on living?

  James Phelps : I make $142.50 a week working for the FDC. If I could... Let's say, double that, that would be living enough.

  Raymond Halder : How do I know I can trust you?

  James Phelps : Well, it's not going to cost you much to find out.

  Raymond Halder : All right. You're on the payroll.

• Dr. McConnell : By the way, I was wondering, since the government knows all about Halder's counterfeiting the drugs, why don't they just arrest him?

  James Phelps : Under the present laws, the most they can get him on is a misdemeanor. They've investigated him thoroughly, been over his tax returns. Halder clinics reports every dime of income.

• Cinnamon Carter : Wow. The room suddenly started spinning around.

  Barney Collier : The Ultrasonic Waves penetrate to the inner ear. This causes temporary vertigo.

  Rollin Hand : One of the symptoms of primary vascular disease, right, doctor?

  Dr. McConnell : That"s right, vertigo, headaches, high blood pressure. Usually the headaches come first.

  James Phelps : These frames are identical to the ones Halder wears. Only the lenses have been altered slightly.

  Dr. McConnell : That will take care of his headaches. What about his blood pressure reading?

  James Phelps : Well, even though he's lost his license, he was a trained physician. Still keeps a medical bag In the trunk of his car. All we have to do is get to that bag and make some slight, uh, adjustments.

• Raymond Halder : All right. He wants in. Who says I need him?

  James Phelps : He does. If I were you, I'd take his opinion pretty seriously.

  Raymond Halder : What do you mean by that?

  James Phelps : He's a hard cop, Mr. Halder. He's tough. You can't tell what he might do. You people in the drug business are vulnerable. He might just take it into his head one day to pick you up for carrying the wrong kind of drugs -- the illegal kind. He can do it, believe me.

  Raymond Halder : Ohh. Get him up here.

• James Phelps : Mr. Halder, as I see it, there are two ways to go.I can keep on hounding you,I can keep on hitting you with misdemeanors, I can $500-fine you to death, maybe I can even put you away in the county farm for 60 or 90 days. Or... I can let you operate. Sort of, live and let live, you know?

  Raymond Halder : Just out of curiosity, how high do you figure on living?

  James Phelps : I make $142.50 a week working for the FDC. If I could... Let's say, double that, that would be living enough.

  Raymond Halder : How do I know I can trust you?

  James Phelps : Well, it's not going to cost you much to find out.

  Raymond Halder : All right. You're on the payroll.

  James Phelps : One more thing that has to be settled before we close this negotiation -- you know that cop that was with me this morning? He has to be Taken care of, too.

  Raymond Halder : You're going to shake me down for an extra buck, huh? How do I know he's in this?

  James Phelps : Take a look out your window.

• James Phelps : Doctor... What about the laser?

  Dr. McConnell : When I direct the laser beam into the two balloons, it will pass harmlessly through the clear balloon and break the red, inner balloon.In a human being, it will pass through the skin iand rupture the subdermal blood vessel.

  Cinnamon Carter : Will there be any permanent damage?

  Dr. McConnell : No more than a simple bruise or nosebleed.

• Rollin Hand : I figured you were trying to square a pinch for this lady,but this is something else.

  Raymond Halder : If you're trying to up the ante,why don't you just say so?

  Rollin Hand : Now, take it easy, Halder. Look, if he gets what he wants from this miss borden, he stands to make a fortune, Right?

  James Phelps : That's right.

  Rollin Hand : So, let him pay what it's worth.

  Raymond Halder : [sighs]  Tell me one thing, can you do it?

  Rollin Hand : Yeah. I can do it, and it'll work. People -- well, they get kind of tight and clammy when you put the cuffs on them and it starts pinching their wrists.

  Raymond Halder : And how much?

  Rollin Hand : Ten big ones.

  Raymond Halder : All right, you've got a deal.

  Rollin Hand : Thanks a lot. Just see to it that she's in your apartment by midnight, hmm? I'll take it from there.