Assignment: Mexico

[first lines]

T. Graham:
Now listen, you two. I've planned this very carefully. I want no slip-ups. Tomorrow, I'm going to kill my wife.

Grace O'Conner:
[narrating] Here comes a girl in love with a city. Oh - that's me, Grace O'Conner, on my way to a day's work... or maybe a day's adventure. You're never quite sure what it's going to be. You walk down the Paseo de la Reforma in the most exciting city in the world - Mexico.

Grace O'Conner:
Hello, Juan? Grace... Isn't a little early in the morning?

Juan Diez:
I wish this were a social call, but it isn't. Frankly, Grace, I need your help. Could you meet me in Chapultepec Park by the lake?

Grace O'Conner:
Top secret stuff again? I'll bring the cloak if you bring the dagger.

Grace O'Conner:
[narrating] I had a two-fold relationship with the good-looking Mexican I was about to meet. The first was a romantic one with a man named Juan Diez who very much wanted to be my husband. The other - a simple working arrangement with Commissioner Diez in which I was occasionally helpful as agent-without-portfolio - translation: undercover.

[discussing Mrs. Graham's description of her estranged gangster husband]

Grace O'Conner:
What's he like?

Juan Diez:
Oh, it sounds weird. He lives on nuts and raisins and vegetables. She says he suffers from asthma.

Grace O'Conner:
What does this villainous vegetarian look like?

Thorwald:
How about a drink between friends?

Grace O'Conner:
That's a nice custom between friends, however, I'd prefer to think of you as a stranger.

Donovan:
About that guide...

Grace O'Conner:
I'll have one for you in an hour.

Jane:
Grace, it's for you.

Donovan:
Now if we were back in the States, I'd be happy to be your guide... but, perhaps I'm being too subtle.

Grace O'Conner:
I get your message, but it's not included in the service.

Grace O'Conner:
[narrating] At each place I tried to point out the special sights to Donovan, but he was interested only in the special sights of me.

Grace O'Conner:
[narrating] I think the sweetest dound I ever heard was the sound of Juan's fist meeting Graham's jaw.

[last lines]

Juan Diez:
You were wonderful, but why didn't you call me rather than meeting Mrs. Graham on your own?

Grace O'Conner:
How did you know where I was?

Juan Diez:
How did you ever think Mrs. Graham could escape the federal police?

Grace O'Conner:
I don't mind you using her, but did you have to use me, too?

Juan Diez:
Nothing attracts bees like honey and speaking of honey, can we now have dinner? I found a nice new little place... What's the matter?

Grace O'Conner:
You remember me telling you I might run into complications?

Juan Diez:
Yes, but...

Grace O'Conner:
And you remember telling me that you would take care of anything that happened? Well, you would you mind getting a table for three?

[Grace smiles at Donovan who is waiting patiently across the room]

Juan Diez:
For three?

[part of the epilogue, where Peggie Castle speaks directly to potential sponsors]

: 'Assignment: Mexico' will have a flavor unlike anything in television, featuring action stories with a flair, a unique background and a girl named Grace who agrees with Webster's definition of adventures as "the encountering of danger, an unusual stirring experience often of a romantic nature."