Opens with a rescue of a syndicate man on his way to prison to serve a thirty year sentence. It is a meticulously planned operation, involving a car that "breaks down", shooting sleeping gas into a car from a manhole, and blowing off a door handle with explosives. This is the sort of thing the IMF is known for.

But they don't have the best of intentions for the prisoner. The leader of the operation is a portly balding man with heavy beard that ends in a point and his number one sidekick has a long pointed nose and a mouth that forms naturally into a sneer. They are clearly no-gooders. They torture the freed prisoner by strapping him to an elevate chair and rapidly rotating him every which way while psychedelic images flash on the wall. They also pump him full of drugs. He's got millions hidden away somewhere, and they aim to find it.

The IMF has a (relatively) solid plan for recovering the prisoner (and his money (and his partners in crime (and his tormenters))), but it goes awry almost from the git-go. Jim has a chip inside of his ear that can be used for tracking (and can be used by Barney to transmit instructions and to help overcome mind control drugs and whatnot) and they smoothly set him up as a victim. The bad guys put him in a lead lined coffin, though, and just like it blocks Superman's X-ray vision, lead can block Barney's tracking devices.

So Jim gets sent into the house of horrors and he is completely on his own...

Entertaining from beginning to end.

Notes:

Casey is back from her deep cover, but she doesn't do much.

Barney's mustache is back.

When they learn where the money is, the IMF could have told conventional law enforcement that the money (and all the bad guys) are in this warehouse and disappeared into the background. But instead they took point in the raid. They are good with fists and guns and had their wits about them, so it all worked out. Maybe I should stop beating this dead horse and just accept that they will, henceforth, be playing a more active role in taking down the criminals.