Ep 7. The Mercenaries

John Drake joins a Mercenary army as a private to investigate the army's activities in Africa after the murder of a M.I.9 agent who had been assigned to this task. In doing so he uncovers an ingenious plan to dispose of the premier of a newly independent nation. "The Mercenaries" provides Patrick McGoohan with some of the most dramatic and arduous sequences yet filmed for the "Danger Man" series, and suspense-packed adventure is combined with the romantic attentions of a beautiful but neglected woman, played by Patricia Donahue, with John Slater as the Prime Minister and other major roles portrayed by Percy Herbert, Peter Arne, Frederick Paisley, Jack Gwillim, John Gabriel, Derrick de Marney and Zia Moyheddin. The Mercenaries are known as "Crazy Coote's Commandos" - a dare-devil volunteer army organised by the swaggering Colonel Coote (DERRICK DE MARNEY) and whose activities in Africa are the cause of considerable uneasiness In British War Department circles. This is why M.I.9 has planted an agent in the Army. The death of the agent, ostensibly in an ambush, increases this disquiet, and the suspicion that he has been discovered and murdered is well founded.