A
cricket match ends in a player (Colonel Hawke-Englishe) being assassinated with a bomb disguised as a cricket ball.
Number Six is on an operational assignment, but it is unclear whether this is "real time", pre-
The Village, or possibly another induced hallucination. Secret messages are passed to him at a shoeshine box. In a record shop, he receives an assignment to find a Professor Schnipps who has been working on a rocket that will destroy all of
London. It turns out that Colonel Hawke-Englishe was investigating the matter, which is why he was assassinated. He picks up where Colonel Hawke-Englishe left off in another match, but manages to avoid the same fate. He finds a note to meet a mysterious person at the local
pub; while there, he drinks from a glass that says
You have just been poisoned. He then drinks numerous spirits to vomit out the poison. When he goes to the restroom, he gets another message to meet at the
Turkish bath. While he is relaxing, a mysterious figure locks his stall and places a plastic dome over his head. Avoiding death, he now gets another message to go to the carnival, to the local fight. At the fight, he is picked for the next match and told by his opponent (whom he beats) to go to the
tunnel of love. He then hears the voice of a woman, which is a recording in his boat that is rigged with explosives. He tracks down, and is tracked by, a seductive woman called Sonia, who identifies herself as "Death". She drives away from the amusement park, with Number Six in pursuit. They come to an abandoned village, where Sonia has set traps. He evades all of them, goes into a shed to avoid being shot, and drives a
bulldozer to try to reach Sonia. Sonia destroys it with a rocket launcher and departs, assuming she has killed Number Six. Number Six tracks Sonia to a
lighthouse where Schnipps (dressed as
Napoleon) and his associates are based. His lieutenants are dressed in
Grande Armée uniforms and represent an apparently anti-London alliance composed of
Scottish,
Welsh,
Irish, and
Northern (particularly
Yorkshire) marshals. Number Six sabotages their firearms and
German-style grenades, rigging them to backfire or malfunction. Captured, Number Six is tied up and left inside the lighthouse, which is revealed to be the rocket. As it is about to launch, he frees himself and desperately manipulates the rocket's controls, causing it to blow up without launching, killing his enemies, while he escapes in their boat. In the end, it turns out that the adventure was nothing but a bedtime story, which Number Six was telling to some children in the Village nursery. Number Two (who looks like Schnipps) and his assistant (who looks like Sonia) were hoping that he would drop his guard and reveal some clue as to why he resigned. Number Six, after sending the children to bed, turns to the hidden camera and cheekily wishes, "Good night, children... everywhere." ==Additional guest cast==