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West and Gordon intercept a stagecoach whose driver and passenger are involved in the smuggling of boll weevils, hidden inside mannequins. Gordon returns to UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to track down the driver's employer while West takes the driver's place. Their investigations lead to a missing harbor supervisor, a sinister Arab named Abdul Hassan (Creator/TheoMarcuse), and a plan to take complete control of the United States' wheat, corn and barley production.

Disguises used by Artie: [[http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/l8dreamr/media/bWVkaWFJZDoxODY5OTk3Nw==/?ref=1 Old Sea Dog]][[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3kbmic (28:20)]]

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!!Tropes present in this episode:
* BondOneLiner: Artie gets one after his alter ego knocks a thug off the dock with an exploding pipe.
-->'''Artie:''' Thing never did draw too good.
* BondVillainStupidity: Hassan captures West, then divulges his EvilPlan just because West asks him nicely. At least he has his {{mook}}s try to kill the agent immediately afterwards.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Jeffers has already killed harbor supervisor Tom Cass (who was in on the plot), and he also plans to betray his other partners Hassan and Tucker (Creator/JohnMcLiam). Unfortunately for him, he doesn't realize Tucker is listening when he calls him "expendable", leading to a fatal MistreatmentInducedBetrayal.
* ContinuityNod: Artie reviews a collection of dossiers on alter egos he had used in previous episodes. Apparently, they all later met bad ends.
* DamselInDistress: This turns out to be Betsy Jeffers (Dawn Wells)' role in the plot.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Jeffers has his own men clout him on the head while they kidnap Betsy.
* FatherNeptune: Artie disguises himself as a salty old sea dog to look for information around the docks.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: West repeatedly threatens to shoot unarmed prisoners if they don't talk.
* TheMole: James Jeffers (Richard Anderson), the harbor commissioner whom Artie goes to for assistance, is friendly but can't manage to do much that's useful. Then [[IHaveYourWife his daughter Betsy is kidnapped]]. He just can't catch a break -- or so it seems until TheReveal, when it turns out that he's in league with the criminals and kidnapped Betsy himself.
* MomentKiller: The epilogue features a variation. Artie is just starting a date when Jim walks in with his own date--and Hassan's boll weevils, which fascinate both women.
* NotMyDriver: Jim pulls off a heroic variation of this trope when he takes over for the criminals' regular stagecoach driver.
* OneSteveLimit: DefiedTrope, thanks to James West and James Jeffers.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Hassan's two boll weevils are named [[Literature/TheBible Samson and Delilah]].
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