List of Remington Steele episodes
The following is a list of episodes for the television show Remington Steele; included are the many film references made throughout the series.
Series overview
Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired | |
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1 | 22 | October 1, 1982 | April 12, 1983 | |
2 | 22 | September 20, 1983 | May 22, 1984 | |
3 | 22 | September 25, 1984 | May 14, 1985 | |
4 | 22 | September 25, 1985 | May 10, 1986 | |
5 | 6 | January 5, 1987 | April 17, 1987 |
Episodes
Season 1 (1982–83)
No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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1 | 1 | "License to Steele" | Robert Butler | Michael Gleason | October 1, 1982 | 2704 |
Series premiere: A client who hired Remington Steele Investigations to protect a shipment of rare jewels insisted that Steele himself oversee the operation. Pierce's shady character, who was hanging around looking for profitable opportunities, well-knowingly steps into the role of Remington Steele against Laura Holt's wishes. The gems involved, the royal lavulite, had recently been discovered. This episode was shot after the original pilot, to offer details on the backstory. | ||||||
2 | 2 | "Tempered Steele" | Robert Butler | Michael Gleason | October 8, 1982 | 0903 |
Laura tackles a case of industrial espionage in a family-owned business while Steele enlists an old pal to help him install a burglar alarm, but when the house is burglarized and Steele's friend murdered it becomes personal. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "Steele Waters Run Deep" | Jeff Bleckner | Lee David Zlotoff | October 22, 1982 | 2703 |
A video game genius disappears just before a merger, with five million dollars and the plans for his company's latest video game. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "Signed, Steeled, & Delivered" | Robert Butler | Glenn Gordon Caron | October 29, 1982 | 2702 |
Laura and Steele spend the weekend trying to keep a CIA researcher alive and on time for his wedding. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Thou Shalt Not Steele" | Leo Penn | Lee David Zlotoff | November 5, 1982 | 2706 |
A woman from Steele's past asks him to help her steal a valuable painting that Laura has already agreed to protect (and that he had stolen once already), while Laura also has to deal with her visiting mother. Film references: The Maltese Falcon (obliquely) | ||||||
6 | 6 | "Steele Belted" | Robert Butler | Michael Gleason | November 12, 1982 | 2701 |
A loser asks the agency to help him, but his alibi witness is found dead in Steele's apartment and his lawyer seems more interested in Laura than in the case, which for once forces Steele and Murphy to work together. | ||||||
7 | 7 | "Etched in Steele" | Stan Lathan | Glenn Gordon Caron | November 19, 1982 | 2707 |
A popular author's steamy books mirror her own life, including the murder of her husband. | ||||||
8 | 8 | "Your Steele the One for Me" | Thomas Carter | Lee David Zlotoff | November 26, 1982 | 2709 |
While trying to solve a murder case, Laura and Steele clash with the Yakuza. | ||||||
9 | 9 | "In the Steele of the Night" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Joel Steiger | December 3, 1982 | 2708 |
Laura's former boss is murdered during a reunion of her former colleagues. | ||||||
10 | 10 | "Steele Trap" | Sidney Hayers | Michael Gleason | December 10, 1982 | 2710 |
To find out why a client committed suicide, Laura and Steele go undercover to an island party, where people are being murdered one by one. | ||||||
11 | 11 | "Steeling the Show" | Seymour Robbie | Peter Lefcourt | January 7, 1983 | 2713 |
An aging B-movie actress believes that someone is trying to kill her, and only Steele believes her. | ||||||
12 | 12 | "Steele Flying High" | Nick Havinga | Richard Collins | January 14, 1983 | 2711 |
Steele gets involved with the murder of a naturalist when he serves on a committee to save the bald eagle. | ||||||
13 | 13 | "A Good Night's Steele" | Seymour Robbie | R.J. Stewart, Lee David Zlotoff | January 21, 1983 | 2712 |
Steele poses as an insomniac in order to find a murderer in a sleep disorder clinic. Paul Reiser guest stars. | ||||||
14 | 14 | "Hearts of Steele" | Robert Butler | Glenn Gordon Caron | January 28, 1983 | 2705 |
The detectives pose as a bickering couple while investigating attempts on a divorce attorney's life. | ||||||
15 | 15 | "To Stop a Steele" | Sidney Hayers | Glenn Gordon Caron | February 11, 1983 | 2721 |
Laura and Steele wind up working for opposite sides of a jewelry theft when the frightened thief looks for help when someone else beats him to the jewel. | ||||||
16 | 16 | "Steele Crazy After All These Years" | Don Weis | Andrew Laskos, R.J. Stewart | February 18, 1983 | 2715 |
Murphy's college homecoming is marred by a murder that awakens memories of a bombing on campus ten years before. | ||||||
17 | 17 | "Steele Among the Living" | Nick Havinga | Andrew Laskos | February 25, 1983 | 2718 |
Laura searches for a vanished artist whose works have suddenly appreciated in value, for both her husband and the owner of an art gallery. | ||||||
18 | 18 | "Steele in the News" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Michael Gleason, Fred Lyle, Duncan Smith | March 4, 1983 | 2717 |
The detectives try to solve a case of sabotage and murder on the set of a television news program. | ||||||
19 | 19 | "Vintage Steele" | Larry Elikann | Susan Baskin | March 15, 1983 | 2716 |
Laura's former flame asks her help when he discovers a corpse in the trunk of his car, a corpse that keeps returning as they check out a winery he's involved with. | ||||||
20 | 20 | "Steele's Gold" | Burt Brinckerhoff | R.J. Stewart | March 22, 1983 | 2723 |
A prospector's journal stolen during a party leads Laura and Steele on a wild gold hunt through the desert. | ||||||
21 | 21 | "Sting of Steele" | Seymour Robbie | Michael Gleason, Gary Kott | April 5, 1983 | 2722 |
Daniel Chalmers, Steele's mentor back in the days when Steele was a rogue, comes to California to ask for Steele's help in dealing with a vindictive crook and winds up romancing Laura's mother. | ||||||
22 | 22 | "Steele in Circulation" | Don Weis | Lee David Zlotoff | April 12, 1983 | 2724 |
After preventing a man from committing suicide, Steele tries to find out who had tricked the man into stealing over two million dollars. |
Season 2 (1983–84)
No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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23–24 | 1–2 | "Steele Away with Me" | Seymour Robbie | Michael Gleason | September 20, 1983 | 3709 |
In this two-part episode, Steele and Laura go after diamond smugglers in Acapulco. Associate detective Murphy Michaels and secretary Bernice Fox have left the agency, while Mildred Krebs (Doris Roberts), previously an IRS agent hot on Steele's tail, ends up teaming with Laura and Steele. | ||||||
25 | 3 | "Red Holt Steele" | Kevin Conner | Lee David Zlotoff | September 27, 1983 | 3710 |
Holt and Steele are hired by a woman who thinks someone is trying to destroy her late husband's aircraft company. | ||||||
26 | 4 | "Altared Steele" | Alexander Singer | Jeff Melvoin | October 11, 1983 | 3702 |
The detectives try to find out which one of an amnesiac's five wives is trying to kill him. | ||||||
27 | 5 | "Steele Framed" | Sheldon Larry | Brian Alan Lane | October 18, 1983 | 3708 |
Someone is trying to frame Steele for murder. | ||||||
28 | 6 | "A Steele at Any Price" | Don Weis | Richard DeRoy, Mitch Paradise | November 1, 1983 | 3706 |
Steele re-introduces Laura to the thrill of thievery during a case involving stolen paintings. | ||||||
29 | 7 | "Love Among the Steele" | Seymour Robbie | Lee David Zlotoff | November 8, 1983 | 3716 |
The detectives find themselves in the middle of a mystery involving all the previous owners of a vintage car. | ||||||
30 | 8 | "Scene Steelers" | Peter Medak | Judy Neer, Joyce Armor, Richard DeRoy | November 15, 1983 | 3703 |
Steele and Laura investigate attempted murder on the set of a frozen-food commercial. | ||||||
31 | 9 | "Steele Knuckles and Glass Jaws" | Don Weis | Jeff Melvoin | November 29, 1983 | 3717 |
A mysterious baby plays a central part in a case involving gangsters and professional boxing that draws upon Steele's past as "The Kilkenny Kid". | ||||||
32 | 10 | "My Fair Steele" | Seymour Robbie | Brian Alan Lane | December 6, 1983 | 3714 |
The detectives try to find a kidnapped heiress with the help of her twin sister. | ||||||
33 | 11 | "Steele Threads" | Karen Arthur | George Lee Marshall | December 13, 1983 | 3711 |
A simple case of industrial espionage during a fashion show leads to foreign espionage and murder. | ||||||
34 | 12 | "Steele Eligible" | Sheldon Larry | Larry Konner, Michael Gleason | January 10, 1984 | 3719 |
Someone is killing a magazine campaign's "five most eligible bachelors" ... and one of them is Steele. | ||||||
35 | 13 | "High Flying Steele" | Karen Arthur | George Lee Marshall | January 17, 1984 | 3718 |
Mildred's guilty pleasure in a sleazy circus séance draws Laura and Steele into an investigation of an old circus "accident." | ||||||
36 | 14 | "Blood Is Thicker Than Steele" | Barbara Peters | Richard DeRoy | January 31, 1984 | 3712 |
Laura and Steele must protect the rather obnoxious children of a Federal witness. | ||||||
37 | 15 | "Steele Sweet on You" | Don Weis | Susan Baskin | February 7, 1984 | 3707 |
Laura gets involved with her sister's marital problems at a dental convention where a murderer seeks to eliminate the only evidence left against him. | ||||||
38 | 16 | "Elegy in Steele" | Kevin Connor | Brian Alan Lane | February 21, 1984 | 3720 |
The villain (Guy Boyd) from the episode "Steele Framed" (No. 27) reappears and promises that Laura and Steele will die within an hour. | ||||||
39 | 17 | "Small Town Steele" | Seymour Robbie | Jeff Melvoin | February 28, 1984 | 3721 |
Laura and Steele go to a small town to investigate the disappearance of an author who was doing research on the area and apparently found something he shouldn't have. | ||||||
40 | 18 | "Molten Steele" | Christopher Hibler | Richard Collins | March 6, 1984 | 3715 |
Laura and Steele try to learn how and why a woman's name and phone number came to be printed in a steamy sex-magazine. | ||||||
41 | 19 | "Dreams of Steele" | Don Weis | Brian Alan Lane | March 20, 1984 | 3726 |
The reputation of the agency is at stake again when the gems that first brought them together are switched with fakes as Laura and Steele are transporting them. | ||||||
42 | 20 | "Woman of Steele" | Christopher Hibler | Michael Gleason, Richard DeRoy, Susan Baskin | March 27, 1984 | 3724 |
A woman from Steele's past arranges for the agency to handle the security on an exhibition at an art museum, and contacts Steele with a desperate plea for help. | ||||||
43 | 21 | "Hounded Steele" | Don Weis | Jeff Melvoin | May 15, 1984 | 3727 |
A former Interpol agent turned murderer (Tom Baker) murders a current Interpol agent and takes Mildred as his hostage. Later, the former Interpol agent threatens to kill Mildred and arrest a world famous thief, but Steele stops the former agent by kicking his gun away and the police take the former Interpol Agent to jail. | ||||||
44 | 22 | "Elementary Steele" | Seymour Robbie | Michael Gleason | May 22, 1984 | 3705 |
Someone is using mystery buffs portraying Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Miss Marple, and Mr. Moto to solve a make-believe case to find a murderous embezzler. |
Season 3 (1984–85)
No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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45 | 1 | "Steele at It" | Don Weis | Jeff Melvoin | September 25, 1984 | 4707 |
Laura is ready for romance as she goes on a vacation on the French Riviera accompanied by Remington Steele, but old friends needing his help in stealing a dagger distract Steele. | ||||||
46 | 2 | "Lofty Steele" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Brad Kern | October 2, 1984 | 4703 |
A shady building manager tries to convince Laura to move out of her apartment just as she's on the verge of uncovering a corporate embezzlement plot. | ||||||
47 | 3 | "Maltese Steele" | Seymour Robbie | John Wirth | October 16, 1984 | 4713 |
Laura and Steele search for a missing body on the island of Malta, but find an insignificant piece of brass that could get them killed. | ||||||
48 | 4 | "Second Base Steele" | Don Weis | Rick Mittleman | October 23, 1984 | 4705 |
A reunion of high-school athletes at an adult baseball camp is marred by a series of "accidents" that Laura and Steele are hired to investigate; Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford guest-star. | ||||||
49 | 5 | "Blue Blooded Steele" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Brady Westwater, John Pashdag, John Wirth | October 30, 1984 | 4701 |
Daniel Chalmers enters Steele's life again when it appears that he is about to inherit an English title, its fortune and some enemies. | ||||||
50 | 6 | "Steele Your Heart Away" | Seymour Robbie | Brian Clemens | November 13, 1984 | 4711 |
Laura flies off to help an amnesiac Steele recall why he came to Ireland and why someone is trying to kill him. | ||||||
51 | 7 | "A Pocketful of Steele" | Harry Harris | Brad Kern | November 20, 1984 | 4721 |
Steele tries to help a street-wise kid who picks his pocket and grabs evidence that a loan shark will do anything to retrieve. | ||||||
52 | 8 | "Puzzled Steele" | Don Weis | Brian Clemens, Jeff Melvoin, Dennis Spooner | November 27, 1984 | 4712 |
Laura and Steele accept the invitation of an eccentric millionaire to compete in finding a missing journalist but the game soon turns deadly. | ||||||
53 | 9 | "Cast in Steele" | Harry Harris | Jeff Melvoin | December 4, 1984 | 4720 |
Three aging film stars — Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Lamour, and Lloyd Nolan as themselves — hire Steele and Laura to find out who is behind their curious fan mail and the attempts on their lives. | ||||||
54 | 10 | "Breath of Steele" | Don Weis | John Wirth | December 11, 1984 | 4702 |
Laura and Steele try to protect two singing-telegram girls who witnessed a murder while they also hunt for the killers. | ||||||
55 | 11 | "Let's Steele a Plot" | Christopher Hibler | Joe Gores, Richard DeRoy | December 18, 1984 | 4704 |
Laura and Steele get lots of advice and help when they investigate the embezzlement of a mystery-writers guild's treasury. | ||||||
56 | 12 | "Gourmet Steele" | Burt Brinckerhoff | Bob Shayne | January 8, 1985 | 4716 |
Steele inadvertently goes undercover as the restaurant critic they've been hired to find, and who has incensed several restaurant owners with his blistering reviews. | ||||||
57 | 13 | "Stronger Than Steele" | Stan Lathan | John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart | January 15, 1985 | 4718 |
Laura has a personal stake in the investigation of the death of a movie producer who was planning on making a movie of an old TV series without the original star. | ||||||
58 | 14 | "Have I Got a Steele For You" | Christopher Hibler | Jeff Melvoin | January 22, 1985 | 4725 |
Mulch returns with a new business venture that his partner is using to swindle an investor. | ||||||
59 | 15 | "Springtime for Steele" | Christopher Hibler | John Wirth | January 29, 1985 | 4722 |
The unexpected success of singer Rocky Sullivan (from episode No. 44, "Elementary Steele") threatens a little scheme cooked up by her managers and might get her killed. | ||||||
60 | 16 | "Steele in the Family" | Larry Elikann | Brad Kern | February 5, 1985 | 4723 |
Mildred's nephew comes to her for some help in hiding the body a hit man needs to confirm his contract with his employers. | ||||||
61 | 17 | "Diced Steele" | Don Weis | Jeff Melvoin | February 12, 1985 | 4727 |
An investigator from an insurance company digs into Steele's past after the agency loses their money in an effort to buy back stolen jewels. | ||||||
62 | 18 | "Now You Steele It, Now You Don't" | John Tracy | John Wirth | March 5, 1985 | 4724 |
Laura feels used by a client when she finds out an importer commits suicide after she unknowingly delivers a blackmail message to him. | ||||||
63 | 19 | "Illustrated Steele" | Gabrielle Beaumont | Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar | March 12, 1985 | 4726 |
A young cartoonist finds his life threatened as the events of his strip start happening to him. | ||||||
64 | 20 | "Steele in the Chips" | Sheldon Larry | Howard Baldwin, Stephanie Zimbalist, Robin Bernheim | March 19, 1985 | 4710 |
Laura and Steele get involved in the search for the inventor of a no-cal cookie and his only batch of prototypes. Guest stars: Geena Davis as a tennis pro, Jean Smart as the inventor's fiancée, G. W. Bailey as a cookie manufacturer. | ||||||
65 | 21 | "Steele Trying" | Rocky Lang | Michael Gleason | May 7, 1985 | 4717 |
Mr. Steele's plans for a romantic weekend in San Francisco are upset when his imaginary case turns into a real one. | ||||||
66 | 22 | "Steele of Approval" | Seymour Robbie | Brad Kern | May 14, 1985 | 4728 |
Laura investigates the background of a senatorial candidate while Steele dodges an investigator from the state licensing board. |
Season 4 (1985–86)
No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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67 | 1 | "Steele Searching: Part 1" | Seymour Robbie | Michael Gleason | September 25, 1985 | 5701 |
Laura races with Scotland Yard to locate Steele, who has become involved in murder while searching for a man with a clue to his past. Steele masquerades as an assassin hired by Daniel Chalmers to kill the Earl of Claridge. However, evidence indicates that the Earl is Steele's own father. | ||||||
68 | 2 | "Steele Searching: Part 2" | Christopher Hibler | Michael Gleason | October 1, 1985 | 5702 |
See Part 1, above. | ||||||
69 | 3 | "Steele Blushing" | Alexander Singer | John Wirth | October 22, 1985 | 5704 |
Laura protects a photographer and his files from angry clients and the FBI even after her doctored photo appears in a porno magazine. Guest star: Nana Visitor (near the end of the episode) | ||||||
70 | 4 | "Grappling Steele" | Don Weis | Rick Mittleman | October 29, 1985 | 5709 |
Laura and Steele are hired to protect a professional wrestler who has been receiving death threats and having mysterious "accidents." | ||||||
71 | 5 | "Forged Steele" | Harry Harris | Rick Mittleman | November 12, 1985 | 5710 |
Steele awakens from a 36-hour blackout to find that he has apparently gambled away the agency. | ||||||
72 | 6 | "Corn Fed Steele" | Don Weis | Pamela Norris | November 19, 1985 | 5712 |
Laura and Steele look into the disappearance of some prized breeding pigs from an experimental farm in Iowa. | ||||||
73 | 7 | "Premium Steele" | Gabrielle Beaumont | Gerald Sanoff | December 3, 1985 | 5711 |
Laura and Steele try to discover why phony obituaries are being printed about people like poor garlic farmer Lester Shane. | ||||||
74 | 8 | "Coffee, Tea, or Steele" | Christopher Hibler | Robin Bernheim | December 10, 1985 | 5714 |
Laura and Steele fly the unfriendly skies to learn why the body of a hired killer turned up on the baggage carousel of a luxury airline. | ||||||
75 | 9 | "Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele" | Christopher Hibler | Michael Gleason, Elliott Lewis | December 17, 1985 | 5708 |
The agency Christmas party is interrupted by three gun-wielding Santas who take everyone hostage and threaten to blow up the building. | ||||||
76 | 10 | "Steele on the Air" | Christopher Hibler | John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart | January 7, 1986 | 5717 |
A traffic reporter dies while aloft in a helicopter and the two prime suspects are the disc jockeys, who were on the air at the time. | ||||||
77 | 11 | "Steele, Inc." | Don Weis | Brad Kern | January 14, 1986 | 5703 |
Mulch's latest brainstorm to franchise the agency gets an unfortunate investigator killed by an angry client. | ||||||
78 | 12 | "Steele Spawning" | Will Mackenzie | John Wirth | January 28, 1986 | 5715 |
Laura and Steele are hired by the spoiled son of a caviar importer to find a missing shipment before daddy returns home. | ||||||
79 | 13 | "Suburban Steele" | Stan Lathan | Robin Bernheim | February 11, 1986 | 5716 |
Laura's sister finds a dead body on her kitchen floor and asks for help from a reluctant Laura and Steele. | ||||||
80 | 14 | "Santa Claus Is Coming to Steele" | Seymour Robbie | Michael Gleason | February 18, 1986 | 5721 |
One of the phony Santas from the ill-fated Christmas party (in episode No. 75, "Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele") returns to persuade a witness not to testify against him. | ||||||
81 | 15 | "Steele Blue Yonder" | Don Weis | Brad Kern | February 22, 1986 | 5718 |
A woman is afraid her father may need help but Laura and Steele learn he knows exactly what he's doing. | ||||||
82 | 16 | "Sensitive Steele" | Don Weis | Rick Mittleman | March 1, 1986 | 5719 |
Laura and Steele go undercover at a self-improvement spa to find out why there have been a series of mysterious accidents. | ||||||
83 | 17 | "Steele in the Spotlight" | Burt Brinckerhoff | John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart | March 8, 1986 | 5705 |
The search for a singer from the 1950s has unexpected, deadly consequences. | ||||||
84 | 18 | "Steele at Your Service" | Rocky Lang | Lee H. Grant | March 15, 1986 | 5723 |
The servants of the wealthy Wellingtons hire Laura and Steele to find out who killed the former butler, who had planned on publishing his memoirs. | ||||||
85 | 19 | "Steele in the Running" | Gabrielle Beaumont | Susan Woollen | March 22, 1986 | 5713 |
Laura is assaulted while running in a triathlon after a desperate woman switches numbers with her. | ||||||
86 | 20 | "Beg, Borrow, or Steele" | Kevin Inch | Brad Kern | March 29, 1986 | 5722 |
Laura and Steele return from the East to find reports of their murder on the news and Mildred arrested for the crime. | ||||||
87 | 21 | "Steele Alive and Kicking" | Stan Lathan | John Wirth | May 3, 1986 | 5720 |
A man who framed himself so his wife could collect the reward learns he isn't terminally ill and wants Laura and Steele to clear him. | ||||||
88 | 22 | "Bonds of Steele" | Seymour Robbie | Jeff Melvoin | May 10, 1986 | 5706 |
Laura has her hands full trying to discover why an accountant at a huge corporation was killed. However, Steele's desire to quickly wed a call girl (Nancy Everhard) so as to avoid being deported distracts Laura from her murder investigation. Steele eventually ends up marrying Laura herself (this episode was supposed to be the series's finale). |
Season 5 (1987)
No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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89–90 | 1–2 | "The Steele That Wouldn't Die" | Kevin Inch | Brad Kern | January 5, 1987 | 6702/6708 |
Steele is arrested for the murder of Norman Keyes while he and Laura try to honeymoon in Mexico. | ||||||
91 | 3 | "Steele Hanging in There: Part 1" | Christopher Hibler | Robin Bernheim | February 3, 1987 | 6706 |
Their phony marriage faces a real test when a woman from Steele's past shows up, pretending to be married to him, and the archaeologist from Mexico returns, this time as an immigration officer. In London, Tony blackmails Steele into delivering a dangerous package, while Laura delves into Shannon's past. | ||||||
92 | 4 | "Steele Hanging in There: Part 2" | Christopher Hibler | Robin Bernheim | February 10, 1987 | 6707 |
See Part 1, above. | ||||||
93–94 | 5–6 | "Steeled with a Kiss" | Seymour Robbie | Robin Bernheim, Brad Kern | February 17, 1987 | 6709/6710 |
Laura and Steele visit the Irish castle he's inherited and decide to hide Tony there until he can prove he isn't a double agent. Daniel Chalmers must turn him over to the KGB as part of a scam he is running to help the daughter of an old friend. Daniel Chalmers does reveal himself as Steele's biological father. Remington and Laura do indeed get to settle their marriage. |