| Discards | |
| Season 05, Episode 10 | |
| Air Date | November 13, 1997 |
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Discards is the tenth episode of Diagnosis Murder's fifth season which was broadcast on November 13, 1997.
Plot[]
Jesse finally reunites with his father. After they narrowly elude an assassin, Jesse begins to realize his father isn't the accountant he's always claimed to be, but rather a spy. The Travis's attempt to discover who's sending the killers.
Summary[]
Jesse's dad Dane Travis fights off an assaulter with amazing ease, then turns up in Jesse's flat unannounced, and thanks to Mark's good word is granted quality time, fishing together in Baja. Steve examines a certain Kim, found at LAX with a broken neck. Dane bails out on the fishing, Jesse has to content himself with dinner in Del Florio at 8. Jesse gets another surprise visit from his tall step-brother Bruce Travis from Toronto, whose mother may divorce Dane, Jesse invites him along to the restaurant; when Dane hears, he gets jumpy and strangles Bruce in the lavatory before Jesse's eyes, explaining it's an assassin, not his son: Dane is a CIA analyst without a family and forcibly takes unwilling Jesse for his own safety to a company facility, where he confers with colleague Cinnamon Carter on spy matters and tells both he fears to be targeted by Jim Kesler, the son of a former colleague whom Dane had to kill before he switched to a desk job after the Cold War. Jesse decides to stick with his dad; they contact another master at the game, John Garrison. Steve and Mark's only clues on the Kim and Bruce murders lead to Alexander Drake's 'bug business', where Jim is the number two. Drake is shot while with the Travis men, who persevere.
Trivia[]
- Many of the guest stars were in several 1960s spy television series.
Cast[]
- Dick Van Dyke as Mark Sloan
- Victoria Rowell as Amanda Bentley
- Charlie Schlatter as Jesse Travis
- Barry Van Dyke as Steve Sloan
- Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter
- Robert Culp as Dane Travis
- Patrick Macnee as Bernard Garrison
- Phil Morris as Jim Kesler
- Robert Vaughan as Alexander Drake
- Ted Mattison as Bruce Travis