 As Freddie drops Benjamin near his office, the investigator collides on the street with writer Jackie Howard (Jane Seymour).When Benjamin asks her for a date, she tells him to contact her upon her return from Paris, France.Back at his office, Benjamin's secretary, Margaret (Barbara Leigh-Hunt), leaves for lunch, and a stranger named Quimby Charles (Richard Vernon), claiming to be a member of Parliament, proposes to hire Benjamin as a bodyguard for a friend, Mrs. Patricia Elliot (Marguerite Corriveau).