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1	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Dragon_Screamed_909.jpg]]
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3	West and Gordon are out to take down the Order of the Crimson Dragon, a tong smuggling opium and illegal immigrants into UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco. Their investigation leads them to a scheming Englishman named Clive Allenby-Smythe (Creator/BenWright) who has designs on the throne of the Chinese empire; the agents have their hands full protecting Princess Ching Ling, heir to that throne, dealing with inter-gang rivalries and trying to stay alive.
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5	Disguises used by Artie: [[http://photobucket.com/gallery/http://s385.photobucket.com/user/l8dreamr/media/Artemus%20Gordon%20Disguises/coolieDragonScreamed.jpg.html?sort=6&o=22&ref=1 Coolie/Chinese Laborer]][[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x56db1m (00:40)]]; [[http://photobucket.com/gallery/http://s385.photobucket.com/user/l8dreamr/media/Artemus%20Gordon%20Disguises/GenSumatraDragonScreamed.jpg.html?sort=6&o=50&ref=1 Captain Sumatra, Armaments Expert]][[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x56db1m (12:50)]]
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8	!!Tropes present in this episode:
9	* DivingSave: How Jim saves Artie from being machine gunned into oblivion.
10	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Mo Ti is hired to kill Jim, but once Jim saves his life, swears eternal gratitude. That doesn't stop Mo Ti from alternately rescuing and betraying Jim throughout the rest of the episode, depending on what's expedient at the time. PS: [[KarmaHoudini He never gets what's coming to him]].
11	* TheInfiltration: Artie disguises himself as "Captain Sumatra", a Chinese arms dealer, in hopes of infiltrating the Dragons’ rival tong, the Sons of the Stalking Tigers. It doesn't quite work out as he'd planned since he's captured before he even starts. However, he ends up infiltrating the Dragons themselves, which turns out to be just as good.
12	* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Part of the plan to smuggle the princess out of the country involves hiding her and Jim inside a fake dragon during a Chinese New Year parade through Chinatown.
13	* MuggedForDisguise: When making their escape, Jim and Artie come across two guards whom they promptly knock out and disrobe.
14	* ObviousStuntDouble: A particularly egregious case in which during the climax Ben Wright, as Allenby-Smythe, suddenly turns into someone who ''isn't'' 15 years older than Creator/RobertConrad and then turns into a dummy when Conrad flings him onto [[SpikesOfDoom a bed of spikes]].
15	* TortureTechnician: Artie, in his Sumatra disguise, presents himself as one of these to Allenby-Smythe when trying to convince the latter that Jim can be... ''persuaded'' to join his cause.
16	-->'''"Sumatra"''': Colonel, given the opportunity, the time and the implements, I could convince the devil to serve tea.

Context Recap / TheWildWildWestS1E17TheNightTheDragonScreamed