The Rogues Season 1, Episode 26: Our Men in Marawat

1

The Personal Touch

After selling a ""race"" horse to get some working capital, Alec poses as an eccentric millionaire to try to relieve a shipping tycoon of a million dollars.

60 min

2

The Day They Gave the Diamonds Away

Marcel poses as a scientist who's invented a diamond making machine, which they try to sell to the world's biggest diamond merchant. As a side effect they buy the stock of his company when it drops in price, fully expecting it to return to full value once he destroys the machine.

60 min

3

The Stefanini Dowry

In New York, Tony tries to take back a diamond necklace that once ""belonged"" to the family, but were lost by an ancestor 106 years ago. The necklace is in the hotel room of a visiting dictator, who is planning to sell his country's crown jewels for his personal profit.

60 min

4

Viva Diaz!

Alec poses as an inveterate gambler and Marcel as a Swiss banker with a penchant for baccarat in a scheme to fleece a Latin American leader who absconded with his nation's treasury.

60 min

5

House of Cards

Tony is brought in, when Uncle Bertie loses a small fortune at Courtleigh House, one of London's premiere gaming houses. Tony is supposed to crack the safe, but is setup for theft and caught red-handed. Briscoe gives the family 24 hours to prove his innocence.

60 min

6

Death of a Fleming

Marcel meets a girl who was sold into a harem. The family gets together a scheme to get a million dollars out of the sheik who is the buyer. As a part of the plan Tony must fake his death, only he sneezes.

60 min

7

The Project Man

Tony and Timmy stumble onto some information about a proposed rocket site. They take advantage of this information to lighten the fortunes of the men who bought all the land the site may be built on.

60 min

8

Two of a Kind

Marcel runs into another member of the old French resistance and she wants his help in supplying guidance for her son whom she thinks may be involved in the theft of a stamp. After Marcel meets him, he thinks he may be his son, but this boy needs an education on being a ""Rouge.""

60 min

9

Take Me to Paris

No synopsis available at this time.

60 min

10

Fringe Benefits

Alec is forced to participate in a diamond smuggling operation by Briscoe who has a case built against the family. While in Rio, he and Timmy try to make a little money on the side by exploiting the rich exiles.

60 min

11

Plavonia, Hail and Farewell

Tony poses as an international financier, and Margaret as the last member of the royal family of Plavonia. The scheme is to get a wealthy Plavonian man to invest some of his reclusive millions, so they can help other Plavonian refugees. The scheme goes amiss when Tony is kidnapped.

60 min

12

The Boston Money Party

Tony and the family help out a friend of his whose business has just been raided. They position this corporate raider for a fall, by trying to sell him a textile company that has developed a new process for making fabric or so he thinks.

60 min

13

The Computer Goes West

Marcel and Timmy are just given the task of smuggling a computer back to the west, when their friend is murdered. They are accused and arrested, but a government official offers them a deal, which Marcel plans to use in completing their original task.

60 min

14

Hugger-Mugger, by the Sea

Tony sets up a shipping magnate into thinking he is working for his rival and that they are on the trail of some treasure. The treasure is contained within a ship that is part of a fleet of ""worthless"" U.S. Navy ships.

60 min

15

The Real Russian Caviar

No synopsis available at this time.

60 min

16

Money Is for Burning

Tony and the family are plotting to sell a castle with a few well-placed trinkets in it. The scheme gets compounded when a train has been robbed of three million pounds and the thieves are hiding it in the castle while they are placing their trinkets. Tony gets mixed up with a charming woman while trying to get away from the thieves and the police.

60 min

17

Gambit by the Golden Gate

Marcel brings a fake Rembrandt to San Francisco where they will try switching it with the original which is owned by ""The Concrete King."" Their plan is changed when the original is donated to a museum, but later stolen, so they use the fake to bait the thief.

60 min

18

Bless You, G. Carter Huntington

A wealthy man buys the land that also contains a cemetery with the remains of Alexis St. Clair. It's a family affair as Marcel, Alec and Timmy meet Tony in New York City to put one over on him. They find help with their plan from Huntington's unhappily married wife.

60 min

19

The Golden Ocean

Tony comes to the aid of an old friend who's being forced to pay back a loan totaling $250,000 in five days. With help from the family he plans to get the money from the loaner, but this man may be too sharp for them.

60 min

20

The Diamond-Studded Pie

Tony poses as a ""Great White Hunter,"" where the plan is to take an American businessman on the hunt of his life. Only wild animals aren't the intended game, it's some well-placed diamonds.

60 min

21

Bow to a Master

""The Cat"" takes a pearl necklace that Tony has just taken, so he sets out to skin ""The Cat."" The plot is to help him steal a large diamond, by switching in a fake when it's delivered.

60 min

22

Run For the Money

Tony and Timmy enter East Berlin to retrieve a million in gold coins that will be used to help finance a refugee escape route from the East to the West. While there, Tony must also try to rescue the daughter of an old friend before she is shot for treason.

60 min

23

The Laughing Lady of Luxor

Marcel and Timmy meet an old friend who tells them he will make them rich, but he winds up dead before he can tell them which object in his shipment is worth ""millions."" So they setup shop, with their ploy to see who is the most interested in this unknown object.

60 min

24

The Bartered MacBride

Tony poses as the lost cousin of a family that is waiting to collect the inheritance they are expecting after their uncle's ""unexpected"" death. Tony and the family are going to sell them the part of the inheritance he kept, but only after they convince them there is oil on it.

60 min

25

The Pigeons of Paris

Timmy's old school friend, who is a painter and an undercover agent, is murdered. Marcel and Timmy move into his Paris studio to try to uncover what he was working on that caused him to be killed.

60 min

26

Our Men in Marawat

Marcel and Timmy are sent by Briscoe to return an original art object back to its rightful place and help avoid the political situation that may result if the fake is discovered.

60 min

27

Wherefore Art Thou, Harold?

Margaret enlists the family to help a friend who is being evicted by a publisher who wants to get his hands on copies of first editions that belong with the house she owns. Tony & Marcel set out to sell him a Timmy first edition, a forgery he did in Shakespeare's handwriting years ago.

60 min

28

Grave Doubts

Tony gets involved with a girl whose father was just murdered or was he really killed twenty years ago. The original body's coffin is to be exhumed by two ""cousins"" planning to take it back to Germany (what secrets does it hold?) but Tony puts his and Marcel's talents to use.

60 min

29

Mr. White's Christmas

Marcel and another American cousin, work on a scheme to make Horatio T. White, a Scrooge-like millionaire, become the ""world's greatest philanthropist.""

60 min

30

A Daring Step Backward

Marcel and the family help a fashion designer whose latest creations were pirated and her studio ruined. Their con creates ""new"" fashions with Margaret's old dresses from 1932 as they begin to setup the fashion magazine editor who is responsible.

60 min