Dangerous Waters

Another great script from the forgotten season of The Hardy Boys. The first ten minutes or so follows a girl called Ria who is being followed by a mysterious man with a tattoo on his hand. To escape him she hides in a boat yard and stumbles into something she shouldn't see: a group of modern day pirates who hijack yachts and sell them to South American buyers. Ria, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, is kidnapped and held for sale to a white slavery ring.

Enter Federal Agents Frank and Joe Hardy, on the trail of the missing girl. Some pretty good detective work leads the boys to the girl's last known contacts and they are soon on the trail of the pirates. However, all is not exactly as it seems. Even when the pirates are located and defeated, it turns out that some other players in the game have been lying and the case is far from over.

All the twists in the story make for enjoyable viewing and, once again, Joe comes off better than Frank. He's a pretty clever detective, remembering a random but crucial piece of dialogue from earlier in the story, and he's very much the all-action hero again: chasing one of the bad guys up a cliff face and giving him a taste of justice, Joe Hardy style.

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