Death of a Batman: When a former orderly of Steed's leaves his widow a sizable fortune, Steed suspects forgery. He and Cathy soon discover a pair of insidious investors determined to use insider information and blackmail to bolser the British electronics industry. November Five: A political assassinatin is the first step in a plot to re-enact the infamous "Gunpowder Plot" of 1604 -- this time by blowing up Parliament with a five-megaton nuclear warhead. The Gilded cage: Cathy's discovery that a secret gold vault is not nearly as secure as it appears gives Steed the Bait he needs to draw out a criminal matermind. Cathy is soon accused of murder and marked for death and Steed is shot, in the classically convoluted caper.