It's Time to Post Your Great Episode Challenge Tales!

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The Great Episode Challenge for August, 2015: Opportunity Knocking?

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Challenge #1:

In Season One’s “The King of Knaves Affair,” Illya and Napoleon travel to UNCLE’s Rome office to continue their mission. That evening, Napoleon is surprised to see Venetia the receptionist belly dancing at the Casa Trufare. Moments later, Illya shows up with Mr. Venerdi’s assistant, Gemma Lusso, posing as his wife. When Napoleon mentions to Gemma how surprised he is to see Venetia earning extra money, he is told she is gathering extra information.

The questions are: Do you think any of the New York support staff were ever placed in the field? If not, why not?

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"A Tactical Maneuver" ~ for the Great Episode Challenge 8/20

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Challenge: The Great Episode Challenge 8/20

Challenge # 2

In Season Two’s “The Indian Affairs Affair,” Napoleon mentions that three years earlier in Morocco, he used a similar tactic to LC Carson’s: giving the couriers fake packages while he carried the real package out himself.

The questions are: What was his mission?  Was he still a solo (pun intended) operative or had he been partnered with the Russian?

Author: mrua7

Title: A Tactical Maneuver

Word count: Approximately 1,000


The heat of the Moroccan sun was wearing thin on Napoleon Solo’s patience.  He kept looking at his watch, waiting for his decoy couriers to arrive to his hotel room one by one to give them their instructions. Each of them thought they’d be carrying vital information that THRUSH desperately wanted, so it was a dangerous assignment.  Some of these agents might not make it.

Napoleon pushed aside the guilt he felt for possibly sending one or all of these men to their death, but it was something that had to be done.  He couldn’t risk THRUSH getting their hands this compound that Dr. Haziz had developed….it was that dangerous. Yet in the right hands it could do good. It was a conundrum that he faced, as UNCLE did not want it destroyed.

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