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A
visit to a German health farm proves to be far from
healthy for Jason King. But why has he been tricked
into going there?
Munich,
Germany. An exciting, lovely city. And made all the
more exciting for Jason King (PETER WYNGARDE)
when he arrives there to find a lovely girl named Myra
Borgen (JENNIFER HILARY) waiting for him in his
hotel suite. She claims to be there on behalf of his
publisher, but she seems to be more interested in his
health than in the article she has been sent for him
to dictate. A visit to a health farm, she suggests,
is what he needs. She knows of a very, very nice one
not far away.
The
seed has been planted. Jason is not so much interested
in any need there might be for him to go there but Myra's
motive for the suggestion.
He
has no reason to regret acting on the suggestion, for
most of the other patients there seem to be extremely
glamorous girls who whoop with joy at the appeareance
of an attractive man, especially when one of them recognises
him from the dust cover of a Mark Caine book she is
reading. Greeting him most enthusiastically of all are
two particularly stunning representatives of their sex,
Nylene (NATASHA PYNE) and Suzanne (ANNA BRETT).
Their enthusiasm is somewhat damped, however, by the
hard-visaged Camp Commandant Sister Dryker (YOOTHA
JOYCE) whose sense of dicipline has a prison camp
touch about it.
Jason
would have found the simile more than apt had he followed
Sister Dryker down the corridor to the surgery in which
a Dr. Litz (JOHN LE MESURIER) is carrying out
a strange treatment on a patent named Morgan (JON
CROFT) and commenting: "Whoever trained him knew
what they were doing ..... but he will break eventually."
Meanwhile,
Jason's chief worry is the frugal diet, which is not
at all to the taste of a gourmet. With thoughts more
on his stomach than anything else, he doesn't take Nylene
very seriously when she says she has overheard Sister
Dryker and Dr. Litz discussing plans to kill him - though,
in fact, the man she had heard them talking about was
Morgan. She decides to 'phone the police, but her call
is intercepted by Litz, who plunges a hypodermic syringe
into her back just as she gets through to the police
station.
The
call brings the police on the scene, in the shape of
Inspector Gruman (GUY DEGHY) very soon after
Jason has caught a glimpse of Morgan and has seen him
shot. But their search reveals nothing and Dr. Litz
is able to convince the Inspector that Jason is suffering
from nervous stress.
Jason
is therefore now in jeopardy. He also has a mystery
to solve. Who was the dead man? Why has he been killed?
How is it that Nylene can remember nothing of her previous
night's actions?
The
appearance on the scene of Myra Borgen adds to the mystery,
but later helps to solve it when she tells him that
Morgan was a C.I.A. agent. And what is Myra?
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