Episode 3: The Business of Murder

Merchants of Menace

Facing the possibility of going to prison for fraud, Frank Nugan offers big dollars to anyone who can compromise the Attorney General. Coincidentally or not, Mike Hand's army buddy and the bank's can-do man in Hong Kong, Doug Sapper, is approached to do a hit job in Sydney.

Meanwhile, Hand is pushing deeper into the clandestine world, moving big money for the Shah of Iran and negotiating weapons sales. Fearful that the authorities are still watching the bank Nugan warns Hand and his military executives to cease such risky deals, despite his own staff still laundering money for drug dealers including the murderous Mr Asia syndicate.

When a middleman between the Nugan Hand Bank and the Mr Asia syndicate is arrested, Narcotics Bureau investigators turn up at Nugan's office. That afternoon, Nugan calls his legal staff together and orders them to rid the bank of its illegal activities.

This puts him at odds with Micheal Hand and his international executives, which now includes five former CIA officers and former CIA Director, William Colby, the bank's legal advisor.

Frank soon finds himself dead. Is it murder or suicide?

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