Lala (The Avengers)

Lala (Ester Anderson) is a minor antagonist in the 1966 episode "Small Game for Big Hunters" for the TV series "The Avengers".
A bunch of bitter ex-Empire colonialists, repatriated to England after their adopted home declared its independence plan to return to Kalaya and take over, reclaiming what they consider to be their birthright.
Professor Swain (Liam Redmond), a zoologist who specialises in the tsetse fly has developed a new, more virulent strain of the insect. He plans to release it onto an uninoculated populace, bringing the country to a standstill while they march in and take over. Impervious to the flies by virtue of having had shots against it, they alone will be able to act.
They test it in secret in the English countryside, using the Kalayan Ex-servicemen's club as a cover. However, one of their guinea pigs escapes, and they have to shroud the operation in some pseudo-Voodoo mumbo jumbo. The Avengers don't buy an inch of it, convinced that the victims are suffering from sleeping sickness. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) and John Steed (Patrick Macnee) soon figure out the arrangement.
Lala plays the part of a servent girl who is loyal to Professor Swain and Simon Trent (James Villiers). Lala is dressed like a native Kalayan. She overhears when Lieutenant Razafi (Paul Danquah) attempts to rendezvous with Steed later in the night. Lala then follows them into the jungle and before Razafi can give him information, she stabs and kills him. She runs through the jungle and Ema Peel follows her. 
Steed is taken captive by Villiers and Swain, and when it appears that Lala comes back in, it is actually Peel in disguise. The rest of the gang is taken out by Steed and Peel, and all of them are taken into custody by the authorities off screen. It is not learned what happened to the beautiful Lala, but the fact that Peel was wearing Lala outfit, she was undoubtedly either knocked out, tied up, or both.
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Category:1960s
Category:Barefoot
Category:Brunette
Category:Clothes Stripped, Removed, or Stolen
Category:Conspirator
Category:Knife
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Stabbing
Category:Terrorist
Category:Fate: Inconclusive