[CHILDREN CHATTERING]
[SIGHS]
- What a day. - Really.
You're getting fat. It's all that junk food you've been eating.
- Fat where? - Where? There.
Whoo.
[LAUGHS]
[SIGRID SHOUTS]
- We get our instructions yet? - Your training shows.
You not only look American but you have the same impatience as well.
We're just anxious to do the jobs we were trained for.
Good. Don't let your enthusiasm temper your judgment.
We have no time for error.
Then there is a plan.
We have an inside contact. His name is Mikhail.
You will work out your plan with him.
This Mikhail, is he a trained operative?
No, he is a member of the household staff. You will work through him.
I hate working with amateurs.
BABAK: You were also trained to do as instructed.
Your American impudence is a believable affectation.
Don't carry it too far.
Remember why you are here and where you came from.
Yes, sir.
[SIGRID SIGHS]
You're a fool. Do you know how important Babak is?
I know how important this mission is.
Our contact is a member of the household staff?
What, a gardener? A chauffeur?
Hmm, he was right about your impudence.
And I was right about your stomach. You've been eating too much junk food.
Yes, you have.
[ANTO V CHUCKLES]
DOTTY: This is it, Amanda. Turn here. AMANDA: This can't be it, Mother.
DOTTY: Turn here. This is it. I know what I'm talking about.
Just park in front of that... See that car? Just park in front of that car.
AMANDA: Mother, this isn't right. There's a mistake.
DOTTY: No, no. The ad says that we enter in the rear.
This is it.
AMANDA: I think this must be a misprint. - No, it is not a misprint. This is it.
Mother, this is a mansion.
People who live in mansions don't have garage sales.
This is an estate sale.
People who have estates have estate sales.
I mean, sometimes you can find wonderful bargains.
- Then why are we the only ones here? - Because the newspaper just came out...
...and the professional shoppers aren't here yet.
In a half hour, this place is gonna be swarming with people. Come on, come on.
AMANDA: Oh. - Come on, come on.
DOTTY: Good morning. - Good morning.
- I hope we're not too early. - Oh, not at all, not at all.
Oh, look at that exquisite vase. And that darling little chair.
AMANDA: Um, Mother? DOTTY: Yes?
- We came about the table. - Oh, oh, the entry table.
The one you have mentioned in the ad?
Oh, yes, uh, that is on the patio with the larger pieces.
Would you please follow me?
- With the larger pieces. - Come on.
Well, this is the table mentioned in the advertisement.
DOTTY: Oh. Ah.
I was told to ask 35, but I would accept less.
Thirty-five?
Well, everything has to be sold within the next few days.
- Are you redecorating? - No, I need the money.
Oh.
Well, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...
Please, it was a logical assumption.
Uh, excuse me, I know it's none of my business...
...but 35 seems awfully low for this table.
- Do you think? - Yes, I really do. I'm not an expert...
...but I would say 35 is definitely on the low side.
Would you like to offer more than 35?
No. You see, I really don't need it.
- It wouldn't go in my house. - Oh, I see.
- You do not wish the table? - No, I'm sorry. L...
Uh, but, you know, there's so many beautiful things here...
...I'm sure there's something else that, uh...
It's not necessary for you to buy anything.
Well, I know it's not necessary to buy anything...
...I just, you know, it's...
- Oh. - Oh.
Oh, that's a cameo.
You may have it for $ 10.
Ten dollars? Oh, it must have cost a lot more than that.
Well, there is not much demand for cameos.
- Perhaps I could take less. AMANDA: Oh, no, please.
You really mustn't quote a price and then reduce it...
...because if you do...
...well, people will take advantage of you. Ha, ha.
I would like you to have it.
Thank you, I would like to have it.
But I won't pay you a cent less than $ 10...
...and you could reconsider about this table.
I think it's worth a lot more than 35.
Well, a dealer offered 3000. 3500 seemed about right.
[SIGHS]
Sure.
- Thirty-five hundred. - 3500 is fair.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Ah, two suburban types just left.
The excitement's killing me.
ANTO V: It won't be long. You'll get excitement.
I don't know why we can't move now. What could be better?
It's open to the public. That's us.
We move when Mikhail tells us to move.
I love it. We've got a butler calling the shots on this mission.
It doesn't make sense. We're the ones with the training.
We're the ones that were smuggled into this country to do the job.
Why do we need him?
Because he's inside.
AMANDA: You know something, Mother?
I don't think she planned on selling that brooch.
Oh, she probably didn't plan on selling anything. I mean, it was a matter of need.
- I wonder what happened. - Well, I have a pretty good guess.
I mean, did you see that portrait on the wall?
Those eyes and that arrogant expression.
A man like that would not stick around if there was any kind of difficulty.
I don't know why you think her husband left.
He's probably dead or something.
Well, if that's the case, he should have spent less on portraits of himself...
...and more money on life-insurance premiums.
I mean, there is no reason for a lovely lady like that to be left destitute.
Mother, you think she gets enough to eat?
I wouldn't count on it.
Stopwatch?
Stick patch?
I'm sorry, Mrs. Marston. I really wasn't due in today...
...so I didn't concentrate on the password.
Mr. Melrose called me, specifically, at home and requested that I come in.
She might have forgotten the password, you know? It has happened.
Ugh, why didn't I think of that?
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
- Hello? - Hello, Mrs. Marston. Is Mrs. King there?
Yes, Mr. Stetson, she's here right now.
Thank you.
Hello?
Strap lash.
I'm sorry, Lee, I just couldn't remember.
I think it's Mrs. Marston.
She's a very nice lady but I think she must intimidate me.
She intimidates everybody. It's her job.
- Billy. - Good morning, sir.
- Morning, Amanda. - Is anything wrong?
I was just leaving when you called.
I wondered if there was something wrong with my work.
Oh, you're doing a good job. A great job.
Oh, ha, ha, thank you, sir.
Amanda, remember the tapes you transcribed here the other day...
...the telephone intercepts? - Yes.
The information in your transcripts won't program.
It won't program?
No. We feed the information into a computer...
...and some of your descriptions can't be... Uh, well, they can't be...
For example, you say here:
"He makes slurping sounds when he listens."
- Yes, sir. - Yeah, what's "slurping," exactly?
[PHONE RINGS]
Well, it's sort of like, uh...
[SLURPS]
Well, you can't really make it unless you have bridgework.
He has ill-fitting bridgework.
Fielding just reported in from the Capcovich stakeout.
He said there's no unusual activity.
- Good, but he'd better stay on it. FRANCINE: Right.
I don't know how we can cover every risk target in Washington.
If we knew who they planned to assassinate, it'd make it easier for us.
LEE: Hmm.
Assassinate, sir?
- Pretend you didn't hear that, okay? - I didn't.
And here's another. "He kicks into the chair."
Well, uh, that's like flops, only it's more deliberate.
Maybe I should have just transcribed the telephone conversation as it was...
...but, you see, sometimes what people don't say...
...is a lot more revealing than what they do say...
...and so I thought that maybe these things would be helpful clues.
Well, they just might be clues.
- Thank you, and we appreciate that. - Yes, sir.
Scarecrow, you run through the whole transcript with Amanda.
- Get a corrected copy up to the computer. - Now?
Oh, well, yes, of course, you want them now. Ha, ha.
- You have trouble with now? - Oh, no, sir, no problem.
I was just thinking about my meat loaf.
It's in the car. The car's in the sun.
But that's all right. I was gonna make a delivery to a friend of mine.
- Amanda, those tapes are very important. - Yes, I know. I can make another meat loaf.
That won't be necessary. You go with her, let her make her delivery...
...and then get right back here and finish the transcript.
Oh, well, thank you, sir.
You're welcome.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
- You're welcome too. LEE: Thanks.
Can't you keep your mind on business?
You said to act naturally, this is how I act.
Sit down and shut up and look at your paper like I do.
I'll do the talking. The money is in the newspaper.
It is the amount we agreed upon.
If you take it, understand the conditions.
She speaks before the Senate committee within two days.
The results of that meeting will affect the standing of one Leonid Godorsky.
Yes, I know of him.
Don't count that here.
She is not to speak at the meeting.
She must be dead within 48 hours.
[SLURPS]
I will get the assassination team inside with time to spare.
They will do the killing but the responsibility is shared.
- What is the plan? - We have no plan yet, Comrade Babak.
I didn't know it was to be so soon.
There is much at stake here.
If you fail or expose us...
I will not fail. I am a man of honor.
You are a greedy coward.
It disgusts me to have to work with you.
LEE: Okay, now, you say the man was tall.
Mm-hm.
How can you tell from a phone conversation?
After two steps I could barely hear him, I figured they had to be pretty long steps.
- Yeah, tall people make long steps. - Right.
And then when he sat down, he had to kind of twist his legs...
...and shift around in his chair to get comfortable and tall people do that too.
- Makes sense. - Well, I have a pretty logical mind.
- Yeah, you do. One time or another. - Yeah.
Now what makes you think he was a health freak?
Uh, by the way he was breathing.
See, he was breathing that way they teach you in exercise class.
- So I think he was working out. - Aha.
So we have a health freak who's tall and he wears a bridge.
No, no, he doesn't wear a bridge. That's the other man.
- Uh, the tall breather doesn't wear a bridge. - Aha.
Did I tell you about the clicking sound?
- No. - Well, see, there's also this clicking sound.
It's like a grinding and a sliding and a snap and then a click.
So he's got a gun?
Or someone else who's near... Near the phone has a gun.
Sometimes it doesn't always come from the phone.
Oh, okay. Now we've got two people and one gun, so far.
- Mm-hm. - All right.
- Lee? - What?
If you have the phone tapped...
...it means you suspect they're doing something wrong, right?
Mm-hm.
And now you know that they have a gun, or guns, right?
- Yeah. - So why don't you just arrest them?
Look, we didn't bug their phone.
We picked up the conversation on a wave scanner.
That means we can't pinpoint the location.
- A wave scanner? - Yeah.
You see, there's this man named Andrei Babak...
...and he's kind of a spymaster, all right? For one of the East Bloc embassies.
And we got a tip that he's imported an assassination team from back home.
Am I supposed to know this?
You might as well know. You won't repeat it?
- Not a word. - Okay.
Anyway, we used this wave scanner to zero in on Babak's home...
...right? AMANDA: Mm-hm.
We picked up this conversation.
So you think that the assassination team might be at Andrei Babak's home?
No.
- No. - But somewhere in the vicinity.
The trouble is, Amanda, we don't know who their target is.
We've got agents nursing possibilities all over town.
Well, I hope my clues can be some help. I know they're not really much.
No, no, no. They're pretty good.
- Thank you. - They are.
And they're all we've got.
[CLICKS]
Your friend lives here?
Well, I know it looks impressive but looks can be deceiving.
Well, Amanda, you're really dropping off a meat loaf at this address?
It's for the lady who lives here. She's having a hard time.
- We'll just drop it off and run, okay? - Sure, fine.
I'm afraid I can't introduce you. I don't know her name.
LEE: Oh.
Hello. Uh, we're looking for the lady of the house.
We're friends.
- One moment, please. AMANDA: Thank you.
- Isn't that nice? She has a boarder. - Yeah.
I was afraid she lived all alone.
How nice to see you again, my dear.
- Hello. - And you've brought a friend.
Mm-hm.
Your Highness.
Your Highness?
VALOSKY: You will join me for tea? - Oh, no, we couldn't possibly.
We didn't mean to disturb you, Your Highness.
Disturb me? On the contrary, I am delighted.
- Mikhail, tea for my guests. - Yes, Your Highness.
- Make yourself comfortable. - Thank you.
[VALOSKY SIGHS]
Ah, poppy-seed cake. What a lovely aroma.
- Thank you very much. - Uh, you're welcome.
[SIGHS]
- Is something wrong? - Well, I should have recognized you.
I feel a little foolish bringing poppy-seed cake and meat loaf to your house.
An act of kindness is never foolish, Amanda.
- I may call you Amanda, right? - Oh, yes, please do.
And why should you recognize me?
Uh...
Well, Your Highness, you do have a rather high profile in Washington.
You mean I talk too much?
[CHUCKLES]
You are wrong, young man. No, one cannot talk too much...
...when the subject is tyranny.
The tyrants have taken my family, they have taken my home.
They have not taken my voice. Never.
They will never take my voice until I die.
But who...? Who will fight after I'm gone?
- You have no other family? - No.
You know, I was never political until they were killed.
Until I was the last Valosky.
Leonid Godorsky has a voice.
Yes, I understand he's under house arrest.
VALOSKY: He is too brave to silence...
...and too well-liked by the people to imprison.
Could you imagine what he could do here?
Here in this country with freedom? Ha.
With the... The help of my friends, he would be a force to reckon with.
Yes, but what chance would he have of getting to the United States?
He was the Nobel laureate for literature.
His own government wouldn't grant him a visa to accept the award.
Money speaks all languages. It unlocks doors, it opens borders.
So that's the reason for the garage sale. To raise money for Mr. Godorsky.
VALOSKY: Yes. - Yeah.
Oh, by the way, you were right, Amanda.
The entry table was underpriced. It went for 4000.
Good. Ha, ha.
[CHUCKLES]
I'll have a luncheon this afternoon for some of my closest friends...
...to announce something of great importance.
I'll expect you at 1.
Let's go.
Wow, she didn't even wait for an answer.
That was more like a royal command than an invitation.
- What should we do? - Show up for lunch.
I wanna know what that important announcement is all about.
I've got the feeling it's trouble.
Who were they?
Looked like the same lady that was here yesterday.
- What about the guy? - I don't know.
Could be setting up security for the lunch.
Well, Mikhail will fill us in.
Okay, we have a tall health freak with a gun, and a slurper.
Let's say the health freak is a member of a East Bloc hit squad.
- Let's say... - Yeah?
Let's say...
Ah, we're playing guessing games here.
Until I get more data, we don't know who the target is.
Shouldn't be hard to figure out. East Bloc enemy lists includes...
...most of the D.C. Phone book.
From what the princess said this afternoon, I guess she's on that list, isn't she?
BILLY: That's old news, Amanda.
She's been a voice for every émigré and dissident that has hit this country.
She's been taking potshots for years. Why would they go after her now?
Maybe it has something to do with the big announcement she's gonna make at lunch.
- What announcement? - I don't know, she didn't say.
- But she said it was important. - Yeah, she did.
And she also mentioned Leonid Godorsky.
- Godorsky? - Billy, if she could get Godorsky out...
BILLY: No, no. Nobody can get him out.
When the new regime took power that curtain slammed shut with a bang.
Yeah, but what if she is working on it, huh? She has a lot of heavyweight friends.
Yes, she has.
Is Mr. Godorsky that important politically?
He is well-known and respected all over the world.
He's also lived under the new regime.
He can give a firsthand and very articulate account...
...of what's going on behind that curtain, believe me.
You put him and the princess together, you could stir things up pretty good.
Damn. More manpower.
LEE: Uh. - We're understaffed.
Just can't cover everything.
Okay, the princess has a lunch...
...and an announcement.
- What are the chances we crash it? - We don't have to crash it.
We're invited.
Lunch with the princess. As I told you yesterday...
...you never know what's going to happen at an estate sale.
AMANDA: She's very nice, Mother.
Of course, she's nice. They're paid to be nice.
AMANDA: Nobody's paying her, Mother. She's just a nice person.
All right.
Just promise me that you won't be taken in by any of those unattached men...
...they have floating around at one of those parties.
Mother, I fully intend to meet a prince and marry him.
[DOTTY SIGHS]
Don't joke with me, Amanda.
Washington is a mecca of dispossessed men with titles.
Never be too impressed with a title. You can buy them through the mail.
I mean, look what happened to that Princess... whatever her name is.
- Valoskaya. - Yes, exactly. You see?
[SCOFFS]
Absolutely an unpronounceable name and she's dazzled by it.
- A royal bearing and where is she now? - She's waiting for her lunch guest.
Oh, I want you to remember everything she served. Caviar, pâté, roasted boar...
- Meat loaf. - Meat loaf.
- Goodbye, Mother. - Bye-bye.
Meat loaf.
VALOSKY: I cannot tell you how very pleased I am...
...that you all could be with me today...
...my very dear old friends...
...and my new ones.
And what of the announcement, Your Highness?
How long are we to be kept in suspense?
Ha, ha. Countess Rominskaya has never been known for her patience, huh?
Or for her lack of curiosity.
I'm sure we're all very anxious to hear it, Your Highness.
Or, uh...
I hope it's all right to say that.
Amanda, you must always say what you feel, huh?
AMANDA: Yes, but Your Highness, it's this question of protocol.
I never know what I'm supposed to say and what I'm not.
I know I'm not supposed to ask a question, and then again...
...I think that I'm not supposed to speak unless I'm spoken to.
Yeah.
I have very little, ha, ha, regard for protocol.
I believe one should speak when one has something to say...
...as I have now.
A toast, please.
To a man whose leadership will enable us to help the oppressed people...
...within our beloved country, Leonid Godorsky.
[SLURPS]
Tomorrow I meet with the Senate committee to plea his case.
Well, that's wonderful.
It is a plea I believe will be listened to and acted upon.
[DOORBELL RINGS]
My guests are here. I do not wish to be disturbed, Mikhail.
Your Highness, does that mean that you think...
...Mr. Godorsky will be allowed into this country?
[CLEARS THRO AT]
Oh, well, that was a question, wasn't it?
And one I can answer quite happily. Yes.
My friends at the United States Senate assure me that with their efforts...
...it can be accomplished.
LEE: Get down!
[ALL SCREAMING]
[GUNFIRE]
- Now, what the hell happened? - It's just like I told you on the phone.
Five shotgun blasts before they served the entrée.
Shooter was a young guy. Looked like a freshman, even with a shotgun in his hand.
- Get that on the radio. - I lost him Billy.
Don't ask me how. He shouldn't have got away clean.
Well, at least we know more than we did this morning. We know the target.
[DOOR CLOSES]
The streets are crawling with cops.
- What went wrong? - Everything.
What? Is... Is that supposed to be an answer?
- I don't answer to you, Sigrid. - Well, you'll answer to Babak.
You failed. I told you, I told you to let me do it.
I told you it wouldn't have made a difference. There was an agent there.
Wha... The... Then the agent should have died.
[GRUNTS]
How could you miss with a shotgun?
Nobody can miss with a shotgun, Antov. That's why we chose it.
I know it hurts, countess, but I don't think it's serious.
I think the bullet just grazed your arm.
We are lucky that no one was killed.
At least we are safe now. There seem to be police everywhere.
I've become weary of police. Theirs and ours.
Ah.
If it wouldn't have been for Mr. Stetson...
...we all would be in need of medical attention, huh?
I think you're gonna be all right.
Lee?
- Come with me. VALOSKY: I should have known better.
I apologize to my friends for placing you in danger.
Political émigrés are accustomed to being shot at.
It makes us seem important.
L... I shall dine out on this for weeks.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
- I think I heard him. - Heard who?
The slurper.
When the princess toasted Godorsky...
...I think I heard the sound that I heard on the tape. Wait a minute.
[SLURPS]
That little sound that was on the tape.
- Yeah, are you absolutely sure? - Pretty sure. I'm fairly positive.
I would say, it sounded like the sound and, yes, I'm pretty sure.
You'd make a terrific witness, Amanda, really.
Shouldn't we do something?
We can't. Look, if we search everyone in that room for their bridgework...
...we'll blow our surveillance on Babak and the assassination team will know.
They'll try again, won't they?
Yeah, they'll try again, but this time, we'll be onto them.
- Where's the princess? WOMAN: Upstairs sleeping.
- I'm going to stay with her. - Good. She's had a difficult day.
Yes, sir.
LEE: She is one stubborn woman. AMANDA: She's not stubborn.
She doesn't wanna believe one of her own friends would betray her.
You can understand. She doesn't have any family. They're all she has.
It's an inside job. It has to be. She won't let us put anyone in the house.
Well, you can't force someone to take protection.
She's seen enough of that.
Walls, guards, political prisoners being loaded into boxcars like cattle.
Besides, she wants to be accessible to the people who need her.
That makes her accessible to the people that want her dead.
So we'll cover the house from the outside from every angle.
How about a house-to-house search just for the hell of it, huh?
The guy can't just have disappeared.
We can knock on a few doors but most of these homes are under diplomatic immunity.
- You know that. - Yeah, I know it.
- All right. See you later, Amanda. AMANDA: Sir.
Well, I just want you to know that I know that...
...well, you'll do everything that you can to protect her...
...and that she's under the best possible care that she could be.
[CHUCKLES]
- Come on, I'll take you home. - Yeah.
DOTTY: I wanna hear all about it, bite by bite.
- Ha, ha. What did you have to start? - Um, we started with wine, Mother.
Oh, in crystal glasses. If she didn't have to sell them.
Yep, in crystal glasses. What's this word, sweetheart?
- Concert. - With an S?
- Philip spelled it for me. AMANDA: Ha, ha.
- Did not. - Did too.
Oh, come on, don't argue about it.
Jamie, it was very nice of Philip to help you with your homework...
...but it's always better if you do it yourself, you know?
If you don't know how to spell a word, look in the dictionary.
If I don't know how to spell a word, how do I look it up in the dictionary?
- Good question. - That is a good question.
That is the question you used to ask when you were a child.
I know. We'll look it up in the morning.
Upstairs, get in bed. I'll be up to tuck you in and I'll tell you all about the princess.
- I'm gonna check that spelling, okay? - Thanks.
When are you gonna tell me? I've been asking you all evening...
...and every time I bring it up you change the subject.
AMANDA: Oh.
If I had had lunch with the princess, you wouldn't be able to get me to shut up.
I mean, I would be talking about it forever. Now, what happened?
Mother, it's just that it's, you know, a little difficult to describe, that's all.
Dull. Ha, ha. I knew it.
Ah, those things always are. The waxworks, sitting around...
...talking about nothing of interest to anyone under 80.
Well, it wasn't exactly dull but...
How did your driving lesson go?
There you go. You're changing the subject. If you don't want...
It's not that I don't wanna tell you. I wanna hear about your lesson.
You've been taking them for so long.
And I just wanna know how'd it go?
Not very well.
- No? - No.
It could have been worse. I could have hit someone.
You see, Howard...
Howard says that my problem is, is that I'm nervous...
...which is absolutely strange because I am the least nervous person.
Actually, it is Howard that is nervous. He sits there straight as a board...
...with his fists just clenched through the whole lesson.
Now, the next time he does that...
...I am going to tell him to take deep-breathing exercises.
- Deep breathing might help. - It might.
I'd be happy to give you driving lessons, I told you that.
Amanda, no, no. Let's just leave it to the professionals.
That way I won't learn any bad habits.
I don't have any bad habits to give. I'm a very good driver.
I know you're a very good driver.
Mm.
Have you seen the evening paper?
No.
I have looked for it everywhere. Did you bring it? You didn't bring it in.
Then we'll just have to watch the news on television.
- What for? - What?
Why watch the news? It's always so depressing.
Let's go up to Philip and Jamie's room and I'll tell you about the princess...
...and who was there and what they wore and what the room looked like before lunch.
Okay.
Amanda, I have the distinct impression that something is very, very wrong.
- Wrong? - Wrong.
What could be wrong?
All right.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
I did my part exactly as planned.
The boy, Antov, he made the error. The failure was his.
The failure was shared, the punishment will be shared.
I saw to it that Antov escaped. I did that.
Antov was expendable. There's no credit there.
If Sophia Valoskaya meets with her senators today...
You had a mission, to eliminate the last Valosky.
To remove from this earth a single thorn that has plagued our government.
Today. It will be done today.
She is to leave the house at 2:00. She will be intercepted.
Not intercepted. Killed.
Yes, killed. I am not a total fool, comrade.
I know how much importance is attached to the meeting.
More than you suspect.
If she lives, heads will roll.
I believe it.
I will guarantee her death.
I guarantee with my life.
Then you have a final chance, for your own life.
LEE: Amanda. - Hello.
- Well, look who remembered the password. - No, actually, I didn't.
Someone must have spoken to Mrs. Marston.
She just sort of looked disgusted and waved me on through.
Hey, we got the slurper.
- You did? LEE: Well, not physically, not yet.
But look, if the guy with the flowers is the tall man...
...then Mikhail has to be the slurper.
- Mikhail? LEE: Yeah.
The princess's majordomo.
Now, Francine followed him from the house to a park where he met with Andrei Babak.
Only the top spymaster from the top East Bloc embassy.
I couldn't get close enough to hear...
...but they were not talking about the price of tomatoes.
Oh, that's terrible. Have you told the princess?
Well, that's where we're gonna go right now.
- I'll need you to convince her. - Oh.
What? How'd you happen to come by here, anyway?
Oh, well, it's about the newspapers.
You know, the assassination attempt is all over the front page.
I got rid of last night's and hid this morning's paper...
...but Mother is getting very suspicious.
Oh, Amanda, what can I do? I don't control the newspaper.
- Freedom of the press. - I know, I know.
Mother's gonna wonder why I neglected to mention...
...an assassination attempt at the luncheon.
LEE: I know, Amanda.
[UNLO ADS GUN]
I figure we're jinxed.
Years of training for this gig and we blow it.
Not we, Antov, you.
Is anything happening out there?
Same old stuff.
Some agency team's watching the Valosky house...
...two cars with our men watching them.
It's hard to tell them apart. Their men look like ours.
It's not that hard. Their suits fit them.
[PHONE RINGS]
Yeah?
You got it, man.
The old lady's leaving the house.
Babak takes out their cars, we take her.
I take her.
[LO ADS GUN]
LEE: The princess is a stubborn woman. AMANDA: You keep saying that.
- But she likes you. - Well, I like her too.
But you have to convince her to cancel the meeting with the Senate committee.
I'll try, but I don't know if I can do that. You know how important that meeting is.
She's sure that it'll get Mr. Godorsky his freedom.
Yeah, well, nothing's gonna happen for Mr. Godorsky if the princess is dead.
She has nagged and badgered and called in a lot of favors from a lot of old friends...
...but if she's not there to keep up the pressure...
...they're gonna go on to other business. It's called the squeaky wheel syndrome.
- Now that we know who the slurper is... - Yes. Mikhail is only one part of it.
And there's that assassination team.
They're not gonna hit her in the house, not with it staked out.
- But if she leaves... - Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
AGENT 1: Is she crazy or what?
- Should we stop her? - On whose authority?
Just don't lose her.
Don't let our friends there anywhere near her.
ANTO V: Here she comes.
You'll take out the agency car?
We'll get them.
Let's go.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
You don't need that. I have diplomatic immunity.
The only thing that's gonna get you, sir, is a one-way ticket home.
HOWARD: You're riding the brake. DOTTY: I am? Oh, I'm sorry.
Not so hard on the accelerator.
You're... You're going too fast.
[CHUCKLES]
I wish you'd make up your mind. I'm doing much better than yesterday.
You told me I was getting too close to those cars on the right...
...and I've corrected that.
But now you're driving down the middle of the road.
There's no lane in the middle of the road, Mrs. West.
There's a lane on the right and a lane on the left.
L... I think that's enough for today.
Oh, no, no, we just started.
This is a lovely neighborhood, isn't it?
- Watch the road, Mrs. West. - Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Just deep breaths, Howard, remember.
[SIGHS]
I just wanna show you where Princess Valosky lives.
Uh, she's a friend of my daughter's. Ha, ha.
Well, I mean, she and I met, but Amanda and she have become very close.
In fact, Amanda spends a lot of time with Her Highness.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
- What are you doing, Mrs. West? - I think that was the princess.
[CAR HORN HONKING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
Why are they driving like that?
Oh, my gosh.
[CAR HORN HONKING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
- Oh, I am so sorry. HOWARD: Are you all right?
DOTTY: I never saw you. Where did you come from?
MAN 1: You ought to be in driving school. DOTTY: I don't think I have insurance.
I was doing so much better yesterday.
HOWARD: Are you all right, Mrs. West?
What the hell happened here?
DOTTY: Just keep breathing. I'm sorry.
- Mother. - What?
AMANDA: Oh.
- Amanda, what are you doing? AMANDA: That's my mother.
HOWARD: Are you all right?
There's the shooter.
[LEE & ANTO V GRUNT]
DOTTY: Do you think it's gonna be all right? I mean, I don't have any insurance.
HOWARD: Oh, no, we have insurance, Mrs. West.
MAN: Ma'am, are you all right? - Yes, I'm fine. I'm just really nervous.
- All right. SIGRID: Ow.
Hey, come on, let's be a lady now.
Whew.
Amanda?
- Hey, Amanda? - Yes?
- Are you all right? - Yes. Do you think she saw me?
HOWARD: Mrs. West is just learning. No, we have insurance.
I think your mother has a lot of other things on her mind.
She's learning how to drive.
No, she isn't.
You were doing a lot better. It was the... Hitting the other cars.
No, she isn't.
FRANCINE: I love it. We get to do all the stakeouts and you get to do all the parties.
- Ha, ha. LEE: Shh.
The princess doesn't know that saving her life was my job.
- I'd like to keep it that way. - The important thing is she's safe now.
Godorsky here, a lot of news coverage...
...and our deal. - What deal, sir?
We traded Sigrid, Antov and Mikhail for agents of our own...
...and a guarantee of safety for the princess.
- I'm pulling our men out. Have fun. - Yes, sir.
Oh, uh, by the way, what happened to, uh, Demolition Dotty?
Oh, she's at the hospital, visiting Howard.
- Howard? - Her driving instructor. It's nothing serious.
It's just a slight case of nerves.
Oh, ha, ha, I'll bet.
So Sigrid and Antov were real agents, huh?
- Oh, very real, yes. - Only, they just looked so normal. Ha, ha.
They were trained to be normal, Amanda.
Eastern Bloc agents are the best-trained.
No, they're the second best. You are the best. You caught them.
[CHUCKLES]
- Well, thank you. - You're welcome.
You know, uh, you didn't do too bad yourself.
- Thank you. - That wasn't a bad move you made...
...with that car door either. - Oh, well, thank you. Ha, ha.
Mm-hm. Although Sigrid did make quite a dent...
Our hero.
I know young people hate ceremony...
...but we all have looked forward to this event.
Leonid?
GODORSKY: Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?
The royal house of Valosky...
...acknowledges the service of its revered friends...
...by order of Her Highness, Princess Sophia Valosky.
Thank you.
[SIGHS]
What are you thinking about?
I think I'm gonna share this with my mother...
...because I don't think she's ever gonna get her driver's license.
[GRUNTS]
[ENGLISH SDH]