The plot for this episode involves Barney Collier and Wlly Armitage posing as employees of the San Francisco Gas Company in which they rig up a device that creates the effects of an earthquake and the fact that San Francisco suffered the great earthquake of 1906. Two scientists are being held prisoner while the bad guys try to track down the third scientist who is needed to solve a problem for a super weapon and we are led to believe the two men alone do not have the complete answer, so Cinnamon Carter and Rollin Hand allow themselves to be seen at a funeral of a deceased enemy of the state and they are taken prisoner thinking she is the wife of the missing scientist and they learn she is the wife, but Rollin is not her husband as she is legally separated and she talks her missing husband to come out of hiding and Jim Phelps shows up and is questioned in front of the other two scientists, one of them almost exposes his fraud. The wives of the captured men include their wives. Cinnamon calls in a fake alert to the police department who in turn clear out the civilians as they were told there was a serious gas leak. The building shakes as though they went through an earthquake and of course the bad guys force their prisoners to dig a way out and then they double-cross them and end up being captured one-by-one and the leader has a look on his face that tells the whole story of being fooled. It becomes apparent there was no earthquake, too late for the bad guys and the IMF team departs in a truck. Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California
Review of The Survivors
