EPISODE

9. Smoke Wrings

A young man with a strange device is hired onto an advertising company by an esteemed executive--but what the exec doesn't know is that the young man is in cahoots with her enraged ex-partner who is out for revenge.

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Advertising executive Jacqueline ( Ute Lemper ) ends up hiring Barry ( Daniel Craig ), an ex-convict, into her firm despite his lack of knowledge in advertising. Barry shows off a strange device he carries that is able to hypnotize people and plant suggestions into their heads, hoping to increase product sales. What Jacqueline doesn't know is that Barry, in exchange for not being sent back to jail, is in league with her enraged ex-partner Alistair Touchstone ( Paul Freeman ), who seeks revenge against her after she stole his company from him.

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