- A string of robberies has occurred in Britain and it's up to Inspector Clouseau to catch the criminal.
- Detective Inspector is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Closeeau on the job.—duke1029@aol.com
- An organized crime wave strikes across Europe. Suspecting a mole within Scotland Yard, the Prime Minister brings Clouseau (Alan Arkin) in to solve the case. Commissioner Sir Charles Braithwaite (Patrick Cargill) heads the Scotland Yard & considers this a slap in the face to the organization. Charles believes that the latest 2.5 MM pounds stolen by the gang are being used to plan something much bigger and sinister. He also reveals that the Yard apprehended a few of the top members of the gang. Stevie Frey (Michael Ripper), recently broke prison. Addison Steele (Barry Foster) is still in custody.
Supt Weaver (Frank Finlay) is the special equipment officer & Clouseau destroys his lab. Clouseau invites himself to dinner at Weaver's & meets Lisa Morell (Delia Boccardo), who is posing as a maid at Weaver's residence. Mrs Weaver (Beryl Reid) takes Clouseau to a Scottish festival, where he gets drunk. Clouseau foils two assassination attempts but is subsequently kidnapped when he is seduced by a female gang member Julie (Tracey Crisp). The gang uses him to make plastic masks of his face.
Clouseau attends the funeral of one of gang members his accidentally killed, hoping to learn more. He manages to anger the whole gang, who run after him, & Clouseau has to be rescued by Lisa, who reveals that she is part of Interpol. Clyde Hargreaves (Clive Francis) is the son of the warden of the jail from which Stevie and later Steele had escaped. Turns out he is an active member of the gang & had helped them both escape. Clyde helps the gang use the Clouseau masks to plan a series of daring bank robberies across Switzerland. They plan to rob 13 banks in Switzerland simultaneously wearing Clouseau masks. To make sure Clouseau is implicated the gang decides to kidnap him. It is revealed that weaver is also somehow involved as he helps thwart Clouseau's kidnapping & ensures that he gets on the train to Zurich. Weaver is revealed to be the member of the same gang. Weaver steals Clouseau's credentials & throws him off the train.
He dons a Clouseau mask & is welcomed by the Swiss police in Zurich. Clyde is Weaver's driver & on the way to the police HQ, Clyde dons a Clouseau mask and Weaver removes his. Together they instruct the Swiss police & the 13 bank presidents to transfer the funds into Clouseau's physical custody when he visits them by helicopter the next day. 13 banks are hit by gang members the next day precisely at noon, wearing Clouseau masks, who order the bank's president to transfer the cash into their custody, which they do.
The real Clouseau finally makes his way to Zurich, & his promptly arrested. The gang use a Lidnt chocolate factory to wrap the cash into Chocolate bars, which they load into a barge & agree to converge again in Cologne. Weaver returns to the Zurich police HQ to keep an eye on police activity, but is accosted by the real Clouseau, who beats Weaver & proves that he is wearing a mask. Using the information from Weaver, Clouseau tracks down the barge being used to transfer the money. He is captures, but used his secret laser to blast a hole in the barge & forcing everyone to abandon the ship.
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