Masquerade

Season

1983

6.7

An intelligence organization recruits civilian specialists for individual missions requiring their skills.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

When a Russian agent code named Wolfen is killing all of the American's intelligence agents, Lavender, an intelligence operative has to try and stop him. But to do that he needs agents who are not known to their enemies. So, he comes up with the plan to recruit ordinary Americans who's profession or special skills will be needed for the mission. So, he begins his plan to discredit Wolfen before his superiors.

S1 • E2

Diamonds

Lavender sends a courier to deliver some sensitive material. But a man named Marlos kills the courier and makes off with the material. Lavender knows Marlos is behind it so they have to get it back. Part of his plan is stop the sale which is about to take place.

S1 • E3

Girls for Sale

The daughter of a Senator is taken by a white slavery ring. But a man who does business with the ring decides he wants to use her to get her father. Lavender assembles a team that includes Steve Garvey. The Senator goes to the meeting place under the guise of paying the ransom demand when in fact, they want him, so another agent is sent to make sure they don't get him.

S1 • E4

The Defector

Lavender and his amateur adventurers apply their specialized skills to helping a Soviet defector escape the clutches of communism and find freedom in the west and in the arms of his beautiful bodyguard.

S1 • E5

Caribbean Holiday

Lavender and his team of talented amateurs board a cruise ship to capture a rogue NIA agent working with a mercenary army plotting the overthrow of a Caribbean island republic.

S1 • E6

Five Days

Casey goes undercover in a women's prison to help free an agent carrying a microchip necessary for the rescue of 120 seamen aboard a sunken submarine. Lavender plays the power-mad prison commissioner as a pawn in the mission.

S1 • E7

Oil

When Muslim terrorists capture an American-Kuwaiti oil field and threaten to kill the hostages if their demands aren't met, Lavender assembles a con man, coal miner, college professor, and special effects team to take on the bad guys.

S1 • E8

The French Correction

The French syndicate hijacks a vital vaccine shipment en route to cholera-afflicted Africa. Lavender recruits civilian spies to divide and conquer the Marseilles mob and to retrieve the medicine.

S1 • E9

Winnings

To keep corrupt casino owner Bonarc from buying a stolen secret weapon, Lavender and his ace team of high rollers come to Monte Carlo with an elaborate and ambitious plan to break the bank at Bonarc's casino.

S1 • E10

Sleeper

A high-ranking Soviet mole has been discovered operating as an American brigadier general in Munich. Lavender assembles a team including a psychic and a torch singer to blow the traitor's cover and crack open the communist spy ring.

S1 • E11

Spanish Gambit

Barcelonan bad guy Castillo is auctioning a stolen Soviet Satrack computer. The American CSA dispatched superspy Tucker to blow it up, but Lavender has a better idea: Sabotage it with disinformation then let the Russians win it back.

S1 • E12

Spying Down to Rio

There's a Soviet mole embedded in America's embassy in Rio de Janeiro. At risk is a strategic cipher codenamed Touchstone. To rout the Russian spy, Lavender assembles a team including a dentist, a detective, and New York's fastest cabbie.

S1 • E13

Flashpoint

A rogue KGB general with a nuclear bomb intends to spark a superpowers war. Lavender teams up with his beautiful Soviet counterpart Colonel Lubov. The reluctant allies and ragtag recruits have only two days to find Sirin or face doomsday.