Season 4, Episode 17 · Episode 72 of 79

On the Double

First aired Friday, May 22, 1987

Synopsis

Mike impersonates an East German pilot at an air show while the real agent's imprisoned wife awaits word.

Episode recap

An air show, an East German pilot, and a substitution: Mike Rivers impersonates the man while the real agent's imprisoned wife waits on the far side of the wall for word. "On the Double" is Season 4's identity-swap caper, flown in public under hostile eyes, where the disguise must survive both the crowd and the cockpit. Impersonation stories live or die on the small stuff — accents, habits, the thousand tells of a stranger's life — and the episode mines every one. Behind the airshow glamour sits the era's quiet tragedy: families split by a border, waiting on operations they'll never be told about.

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