Run Buddy Run

After Mr. D. had been chasing Buddy all season, he finds himself being chased: by tax auditors. Devere Enterprises may have to shut down their illegal operations and go legit. Wendell and Harry get regular jobs. Since McGregor had turned state's witness against Norton and Joseph, the secret of ""Chicken Little"" is out; so Mr. D. is no longer hunting for Buddy. So now, when he reads a missing persons ad: ""Buddy Overstreet, Please Come Home"" he can finally go home to his family.

Everytime Wendell goofs up and lets Buddy Overstreet slip through his fingers, Mr. D. says, ""Good-bye, Wendell"" -- and Wendell has to jump out of a speeding car, or jump off the 12th floor balcony of the Devere Enterprises building. But when Wendell seems to disappear for good, the search is on to find Wendell. In an ironic twist of events, it is now Buddy Overstreet who must try to find Wendell, instead of the other way around.

Buddy is in a factory, working as a welder. He makes the mistake of telling coworker Stan that Devere Enterprises has put a price on his head. Stan double-crosses Buddy, and phones Mr. D.'s office long-distance. Meanwhile, in New York, healthy Mr. D. and his sickly son Junior are getting their annual physical. But ambitious Mr. W. is double-crossing his boss Mr. D. -- in private, Mr. W. tells the doctor to tell Mr. D. he only has 3 months to live. When Mr. D. and Junior wonder why the doc is taking so long in his private office, Mr. D. quips to Junior, ""He's probably having a little trouble finding your blood in the test tube."" The doctor comes out and asks Junior to leave; and then he tells Mr. D. the bad news: he only has 3 months before he dies. Mr. D. thinks he's talking about sickly Junior. When the doc says it's him, Mr. D. does a double-take: ""before *I* die?!"" Later, Woodrow and Harry are paying Stan $2,500 for his tip. Stan tells Buddy he is has a phone call, from the

At Devere Enterprises they are having a meeting; order of business: Buddy Overstreet. Mr. D. grouses, ""At this rate, Overstreet's gonna die of old age!"" Junior announces that, based on his research, Buddy must be in the San Francisco area. Just then Mr. D. gets a call: there was an ""Overstreet sighting"" in Ridgedale, Connecticut. Mr. D. sends Wendell and Harry, and tells them: don't return without killing Overstreet. In Ridgedale, Buddy is having coffee at a diner. Wendell and Harry are outside in their limo. But another car with crooks pulls up; the inept driver Harold, the getaway man, bumps into other cars as he tries to park. When he goes into the diner to get sandwiches, the 2 thugs in the back-seat, Max and Lou, say they need a better driver. When Buddy comes out of the diner, Wendell and Harry chase him; Buddy gets into Harold's car and speeds away. There is a zany, high-speed car chase with Buddy driving like crazy with Wendell and Harry in pursuit; Buddy gets away. B

Buddy has finally made it to Mexico. He stops at the ""Hotel de Puerto Grande""-- Puerto Grande is a small, poor town: nobody stays there, people only drive through on their way to Mexico City. Buddy is broke, but for $3 he gets a hotel room; the kindly proprietor Jose tells Buddy that for $3 he can stay until another guest needs his room-- in other words, as long as he likes. Jose's wife is just called Mama; they have a son Pepe around 12, and a very beautiful daughter Rosita in her early 20s. Buddy suggests that they can attract tourists by putting out fliers saying they have fiestas there. Buddy writes brochures and gets them printed; Pepe distributes them all over town. By sheer coincidence, Mr. D., Junior and Wendell are driving to a business meeting in Mexico City. Like others, they are driving through Puerto Grande. But since the meeting isn't for a couple of days, Junior suggests they check into the local hotel: he just saw a flier advertising their ""famous"" fiestas. Buddy

Buddy is disguised as a Boy Scout, and even though he sticks out like a sore thumb as the tallest scout in the troop, Wendell and his henchman walk right by Buddy without recognizing him. In the parking lot, there is a pickup truck pulling a horse trailer; Buddy jumps in back with the race horse, and then the pickup truck drives away. Wendell worries, ""How are we going to explain losing him this time?"" Henchman says, ""Oh no, not 'we'. It wasn't me who called Mr. D. and guaranteed we'd nail him."" And so Wendell has to go back to the Syndicate headquarters and face Mr. Devere. Mr. D. makes Wendell apologize to everyone in the Syndicate via closed-circuit television. Wendell has to read a cue card (which has a hyphenated word): ""I just want to say that I am truly sorry for my inexcusable stup-idity."" Wendell reads, ""I am truly sorry for my inexcusable stup. Idity."" (laugh track) Buddy winds up in California, on a ranch that trains race horses. During the trip, Buddy has become goods frien

Syndicate boss Mr. Devere, along with Wendell, Norton and Joseph, pull up in a long, black car and go to a Turkish-bath steam room (the same kind Frank Nitti went to in the ""Untouchables"" episode # 102, ""The Speculator"" Jan. 1963). Mr. Devere says, ""This was an excellent choice, Norton, now we can relax and we can conduct our business in complete privacy."" Unbeknownst to them, Buddy Overstreet is also in the steam room; when he hears them discuss murder, Buddy hides behind some towels, it's very foggy in the steam room. Mr. Devere tells Joseph he will have to rub out McGregor. When Joseph says, ""But he's like a brother to me,"" Devere reminds him, ""He IS your brother."" (laugh track) Devere insists McGregor is the only one alive who can link the 4 of them together-- that would be the end of the Syndicate; and McGregor had mentioned ""Chicken Little."" Devere impresses on them that ""What has been said here today must remain a secret between the 4 of us: you, you, you, me..."" (points to