Dangerous Assignment

[first lines]

[prologue to many episodes]

Steve Mitchell:
Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, though - trouble.

Steve Mitchell:
You say, "If Hartley killed Burego..." Do you think it was a frame?

Commissioner:
I'm sending you down there to do my thinking for me.

Steve Mitchell:
And Senor Valdez tells me that the early returns on the election show that the minority... is still the minority.

[Steve sneaks up behind Manca and lights the enemy agent's cigarette]

Manca:
Thank you.

Steve Mitchell:
You're welcome. How are you, Manca?

Manca:
That voice... let me see, it was Leipzig wasn't it?

Steve Mitchell:
Sharp as ever aren't you, Manca?

Manca:
An American connotation... Steve Mitchell! Still chasing the Holy Grail, Mitchell?

Steve Mitchell:
No, I'm spending most of my time stepping on slimy things that crawl out from under rocks.

Commissioner:
So Lieutenant Aboora and his men arrived in the nick of time?

Steve Mitchell:
Couldn't have been any nickier.

[Gelba, an elderly European diplomat, listens intently to a jazz pianist riffing while Steve makes his report on the phone]

Steve Mitchell:
What's going on? Well, maybe you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but maybe you can make a cat out of him.