After a close call involving one of his operatives, Stockwell finally determines the identity of notorious terrorist-for-hire The Jaguar - a well known Monte Carlo casino owner named Charles Jourdan. The only "person" to get close enough to Jourdan to make him reveal himself was Logan Ross, a fake identity used by several undercover operatives, who infuriated Jourdan enough for the terrorist to show his hand, by attempting to blow up the fake Mr. Ross's hotel room. The A-Team is called in, and Murdock is sent undercover as Logan Ross, to bring the wanted criminal to justice before he can meet with his newest client.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Cue the Rain: Murdock and Face go into Ross's hotel room, they're surprised by Jourdan's girlfriend Dominique. Face has to quickly hide on the balcony, and then gets locked out when Dominique convinces Murdock to sleep with her... and Face gets trapped outside in the rain all night.
- Didn't See That Coming: Jourdan's henchman, Fröbe, escapes the yacht when Jourdan is taken down, and at the same time Jourdan is revealed to actually be really crippled when he has to be helped to a life raft. Face mentions that he never suspected the quiet henchman was the real terrorist. They warn Dominique to be careful of Fröbe coming after her for revenge in helping them, but then she helps Fröbe escape from them. Face says that he suspected that even less.
- Dragon Their Feet: Fröbe, Jourdan's Oddjob Expy henchman, escapes the yacht when Jourdan is taken down. But it turns out he's the real Jaguar, not Jourdan.
- Evil Cripple: Subverted. Jourdan spends all his time in a wheelchair, but Stockwell's assistant says that there's no actual evidence of paralysis in Jourdan's medical file. Double Subverted, actually. Jourdan actually is paralyzed, and is actually just a patsy and frontman for the real Jaguar, Fröbe.
- Expy:
- Murdock is undercover as Ross... Logan Ross. He likes his juice shaken, not stirred. He is absolutely this trope, to Sean Connery's James Bond.
- Jourdan's henchman Fröbe is this to Bond villain Oddjob.
- Fixing the Game: Jourdan's own private games against guests at the casino are rigged. He uses marked cards which he can read using special sunglasses and infrared lamps in the ceiling lights, in order to give himself the edge.
- High-Heel–Face Turn: Jourdan's "companion for six years", Dominique, falls for Logan Ross (that is to say, Murdock) and says she's become terrified by how cold and obsessed her boyfriend has become since Ross arrived in Monte Carlo. At the end she saves Murdock from death by shooting Jourdan in the back with a shotgun. Subverted, as she turns out to be in cahoots with the real Jaguar, Fröbe.
- Homage: An episode long Shout-Out to James Bond.
- Invented Individual: It took an entire team of Stockwell's operatives pulling undercover missions to provoke Jourdan into revealing himself. Logan Ross was a phony person, whose name they all used to make Jourdan think that all of these separate attacks were actually one incredibly talented super-spy.
- Masquerading As the Unseen:
- Since Ross never actually existed, obviously no one has ever seen him before. This made it quite easy for Murdock to take up the mantle.
- It ends up The Jaguar was doing the same thing. Charles Jourdan was only a front for the real terrorist, Fröbe.
- Mistaken for Insane: At the end of the episode, Face gets annoyed at how Murdock got all the perks, so he starts acting like Murdock...and then gets carted away to the mental hospital.
- Nobody Can Die: Averted as one of the few onscreen deaths in the show. Jourdan gets shot in the back with a shotgun, by Dominique.
- Playing Cyrano: Face would have been the obvious one to play Logan Ross, but a major player like The Jaguar would obviously recognize a member of the A-Team, so Murdock has to stand in. In order to more effectively play a suave super-spy, he has Face coaching him via a radio earpiece.
- Pocket Protector: Murdock as Logan Ross refuses to put his casino winnings into the casino's vault because he "likes to keep them close to the breast." Later on, the giant stack of Franc notes apparently manages to stop a point-blank bullet from an assassin's gun.
- Psycho for Hire: Charles Jourdan is a terrorist-for-hire, selling out his criminal abilities to the highest bidder.
- Shout-Out: Murdock's portrayal of super-spy Logan Ross is an episode-long shout out to James Bond. There are a few more specific examples too:
- The title is, of course, a play on The Spy Who Loved Me.
- One of Jourdan's targets is a United States ambassador, named Moore. This episode aired at the end of Roger Moore's stint as Bond, one year before Timothy Dalton would pick up the role in The Living Daylights.
- Jourdan's second target is a Prince James, of course named for Mr. Bond himself.
- Jourdan has a big burly henchman of apparently Asiatic origin, who looks a lot like Bond villain Oddjob. That henchman's name is Fröbe, named after the actor who played the titular villain in Goldfinger.
- Murdock, as Ross, enters his hotel room to find a woman wearing nothing but one of his shirts, just like Bond did in Dr. No.
- Murdock, about to be executed, tells Jourdan that he knows everything about Operation Undertow, convincing the villain to spare his life long enough to find out just what he knows. James Bond used the same ploy to convince Goldfinger to spare him, by mentioning Operation Grand Slam.
- Prince James' yacht has a female crewmember serving aboard it, Ensign Maxwell, named for the original Miss Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell. She also falls for Murdock at the end, in true Bond Girl style.
- Throwing the Fight: Apparently, this is how Jourdan's clients pay him for the jobs they want done. They go to his casino and intentionally lose the exact amount for his payment, thereby avoiding it looking like a payoff.
- Tuxedo and Martini: Logan Ross, being an Expy of James Bond, is naturally this. He wears a white tuxedo and orders juice from the bar shaken, not stirred.
- Worthy Opponent: After Murdock saves Ambassador Moore from Jourdan's sniping attempt, Jourdan invites him to his Yacht, calls him this, and asks him to Join or Die.
