BCTV #89 THE GUY FROM HARLEM

BCTV #89 THE GUY FROM HARLEM
Al Connors is a private detective operating in Miami, Florida. Upon arrival at his office he's told my his secretary an old CIA contact and friend had been trying to get a hold of him in Al's absence from the office.

The CIA contact, David McLeod, arrives shortly afterwards in order to enlist Al's services to protect the wife of a South African head of state in town for diplomatic business. The CIA has been experiencing a leak in their roles and McLeod feels the wife is under better protection out of CIA hands. Connors accepts the job on the condition he meet with the wife in a place of his choosing and his him and her set-up as a newlywed couple in a local hotel.

Connors meets the wife, Mrs. Ashanti, at the hotel and informs her of the ruse of which she's initially reluctant to participate in until Connors assures her it's for appearances only and doesn't have any intentions towards her. Ashanti complains of a sore back, prompting Connors to call for a masseuse to come to their room.

Later, Connors observes the masseuse speaking with a man on the sidewalk before entering the hotel, raising his suspicions of her and prompting him to watch her perform her work even at the protest of Wanda and the masseuse. (He turns out to be correct in his suspicions, as in a moment when he is out of the room the masseuse prepares a syringe.) The masseuse leaves without incident and Connors orders him and Ashanti some room service and sits down in order to get to know her better.

Room service arrives and without provocation Connors knocks out the room service deliverer, claiming he can "smell a New York Strip from a mile away" and then reveals a gun hidden under the cover of one of the room service trays. Connors holds the gun to the deliverer's (a man dressed as a woman) head and makes him confess who sent him. Soon two more men enter the room, too more thugs working for a local crime kingpin "Big Daddy", who Connor quickly dispatches using his fighting and martial arts skills. Connors deems the hotel to be unsafe and leaves with Ashanti to a safer location.

The safer location turns out to be the apartment of Connor's current girlfriend, who while is initially reluctant to leave does so without objection. Ashanti continues to complain about her sore back and Connors offers to help her with his own massage knowledge eventually leading to him and Ashanti consummating their relationship on the bed of apartment's tenant. Presumably the next day Connors safely delivers Ashanti back into the hands of the CIA and her husband.