V.I.P. Season 2, Episode 9: Mao Better Blues

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Return of The Owl

Tasha goes to meet a man but he shows up dead. She checks his pockets and finds a microchip in a little plastic bag. Kay cracks it open to discover that it's in Russian. According to Tasha it's a list of Tregoran sleeper spies. Tregoran was a scientist who would brainwash ordinary people and turn them into unwilling assassins who could be activated by a codeword or phrase. Tasha then goes to a museum to meet up with her ex-husband, a man known only as The Owl, to see if he can help her. As they leave two men attack them but are soon defeated. Val, Nikki and Quick show up and Tasha informs them that she's on the list of Tregoran sleeper spies. They decide to take Tasha off active duty because the wrong word or phrase can set her off. They have to monitor her every move. A man calls to meet with Tasha but they decide to send Val undercover posing as Tasha to meet with them. The men tell Val the codeword thinking it will set her off but since she isn't Tasha it doesn't. Her cover being bl

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2

Big Top Val

V.I.P. are hired to baby-sit a millionaire's daughter. They take her to the circus where they run into trouble when they run into two guys from Nikki's past. Tommy Wipp and Tino Scarlatti had faked their deaths after ratting out Don Franco to the feds now they're back and selling guns.

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3

Ransom of Red Val

Val is kidnapped when she is mistaken for a temperamental diva V.I.P. is protecting. When the kidnappers discover their mistake they try to kill her.

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4

Dr. StrangeVal

Maxine's new invention is mistakenly believed to be a nuclear weapon by Ukrainian spies.

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5

Quick and the Dead

Someone has stolen Quick's identity and is ruining his reputation. Quick, tired of spending time in jail for crimes he didn't commit goes out to find the man ruining his good name.

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6

Valma and Louise

Jay Leno hires Val and Tasha to drive a car his dead aunt left him in her will to an auction in Sacramento. Along the way they pick up a hitchhiker who ends up being a wanted felon, the car gets stolen but they retrieve it, Tasha is suspected of kidnapping Val and the car is totaled but Jay doesn't seem to mind.

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7

Stop or Val's Mom Will Shoot

Val's mom comes to L.A. on business and is threatened and chased by two men after the computer program she is scheduled to deliver to the L.A. branch of her firm.

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8

Val Goes To Town

V.I.P.'s arch nemesis The Prophet is back and this time he's working with a terrorist organization and a crooked politician trying to extort millions from the city. In hopes of accomplishing this he gets V.I.P. shut down and Tasha thrown in jail. But in the end The Prophet is defeated and V.I.P. is reinstated.

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9

Mao Better Blues

V.I.P. must protect a Chinese artifact from the Cho Dynasty while at the same time try and save a Chinese freedom fighter.

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10

Why Too Kay?

The Millennium Militia is planning to destroy the city on the millennium with the help of a teenage computer genius they get V.I.P. to kidnap posing as the boy's parents.

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11

Dangerous Beauty

Art thieves are using a young artist to smuggle paintings. What they did was take pieces of art, put something on the canvas to make it look blank and have Bobby Xero, the artist, paint it. Then they'd put them up for sale at an art show, buy them, rid it of Bobby's work and resell it for much more money. Val however ruined their plans when she spilled some turpentine on one of the canvases exposing the art underneath. Now V.I.P. must regain the painting and rescue Val and Bobby Xero from the smugglers who threatened to kill them for discovering their scheme.

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12

Analyse Val

V.I.P. must protect the vice-president's analyst the Squires Of Liberty, a militia group that is trying to kidnap him, while at the same time trying to keep the peace within the group.

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13

All You Need is Val

V.I.P. split up into two teams when Tasha is tired of doing charity events. She gets V.I.P. a job body guarding Cora DeFarge of DeFarge Industries but Val and Kay have already signed on to protect Paul McCartney from a bomb threat at a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) benefit concert. Val and Kay refuse to drop the PETA gig especially when they find out that DeFarge Industries is on PETA's list of companies to boycott. V.I.P. discover a warehouse owned by Cora DeFarge, which contains military issued weapons with the serial numbers, filed off, gold bars and monkey paws. When they return an hour later with Grispy the warehouse has been cleared of the aforementioned items and refilled with medical supplies. Tasha discovers that Cora is behind the bomb threat at the PETA benefit concert and V.I.P. become one again to eliminate Cora DeFarge.

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14

New Val'd Order

V.I.P. go undercover as models in a Hawaiian Tropic contest to discover why some models go missing. What they discover is that the best models are being trained to being fighters like seen in the movie ""Fight Club"". Johnny becomes a member of V.I.P.

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15

Vallery's Secret

Cleo Robbins, owner of Cleo's Passions, hires Val to model her new Vallery Irons Undercover line of lingerie but soon needs V.I.P. on a more professional basis when she receives a death threat. The death threat comes from an investor in her company who's been caught making a illegal transaction on tape. Val feels more powerful and assertive while wearing Cleo's clothes.

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16

Hard Val's Night

The rock band Lit hires V.I.P. to protect them from a gang of thieves after a lucky belt buckle, which contains a secret code encrypted in it.

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17

Third Eye Blond

V.I.P. must protect a psychic to the stars when he finds a dead body and the killer puts a hit on him.

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18

Val's On First

V.I.P. must protect an oversexed baseball player from a gangster who lost a bet he made in the past on him.

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19

Val Point Blank

Val's high school reunion is taken over by terrorists and the only who can help is Johnny since Val took him as her date because Quick, Tasha and Nikki are off on Navy Seals training. Luckily Kay sees a special report on television about the whole thing and gets a hold of V.I.P. in time and they rush off to help Val and the rest of the hostages.

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20

Franco In Love

Don Franco is shot so he puts Nikki in charge of the family while he recuperates. Nikki thinks that Mrs. Scarnavaco is out to kill the Don when she poses as a doctor to gain access to his room in the hospital but it turns out that ever since her husband, Tony, Sr., died she's been having an affair with the Don.

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21

Lights, Camera, Val

V.I.P. must protect a director from investors when they send an assassin to kill him for not paying them the 3 million dollars he owes them.

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22

Ride of the Valkyries

Val's father returns and he's being targeted by a group of high tech terrorists. Val discovers that he's her father and she brings him to her penthouse where they discover that the terrorists are outside so they leave posing as decoys. Two of the terrorists enter the penthouse thinking that Val and her dad are still in there but are treated to a bomb; the bomb blows up destroying the penthouse. Tasha discovers that Val's dad is and ex-CIA operative who was involved in a top-secret project called OMEGA. Val's father is then busted and kept in an extremely well secured building. Tasha has to go through a set of lasers, like Catherine Zeta-Jones in the movie Entrapment, but before she can Val accidentally shoots her with a goo that has a similar effect as Novocain so Val has to take her place. She makes it through all right but gets excited and her breasts accidentally touch the last laser and set off the alarm. They escape with Val's dad and the CIA kills the remaining terrorist.

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