S3.E11 ∙ Local Hero

In this Cold-War thriller Steve Roark (Gene Raymond) helps nuclear scientists in their desperate attempt to escape the ruthless Russian Communist agents who are chasing after them. Roark is a former OSS man assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from Russia and spirit them away from the Iron Curtain. Steve is shocked to discover that one of the scientists is his former lover Linda Carlsen (Sigrid Gurie). In the meantime, sexy cabaret singer-turned-spy Magda Onescu (Patricia Morison) acts as a double agent for both the Allies and the Communists, hoping to gain double profits by giving vital information to both sides.

In a New England port town, Pop Thorson and Rocky Blake are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it for winning a lucrative contract of military supplies.

Faruk Yazici is the idealist governor of the Aegean city of Denizli and joins forces with his childhood friend Omer Ucar, who heads the team of engineers, in a fight against the beautiful and scheming bureaucrat Ceyda Aydin, who actually works to get mines in Turkey under the control of foreign companies.

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

A group of journalists of the Knight-Ridder news service covering President George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the President's claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."