Sometimes, James Bond–style plots are undone by Mr. Bean–style pratfalls. In one deal, the smugglers set up an elaborate plan to import cocaine packed into special tubes that are attached to the hull of a ship, to be recovered by frogmen. The drugs are successfully concealed, and the ship arrives in the Dutch harbor. But the whole scheme is foiled when the divers come down with a nasty bug, leaving them unable to get into the water. The cocaine is abandoned—and may still be traveling the world, strapped to the bottom of some tanker or other.
