Amanda Vale (The Wild Wild West)

Amanda Vale aka Amanda Morrison (Judith McConnell) is an antagonist in the 1968 episode "The Night of the Death Masks" for the TV series "The Wild Wild West".
Amanda first appears sitting in a station in Como Creek, Nevada waiting for the stage coach. Suddenly, she is harassed by three men dressed in cavalry officer uniforms. Jim West (Robert Conrad) comes to her rescue and knocks out all three men. 
When he walks her out of the station, she introduces herself as Amanda Morrison, the daughter of the Superintendent of the San Francisco Mint. She recalls how, five years ago, West and Gordon Artemus thwarted an attack on the Mint by Emmet Stark (Milton Selzer) and his gang.
West and the young woman board the stage, but she makes an excuse to go powder her nose. When West notices she forgot her handbag, the stage is suddenly boarded up and gas comes from under the floor boards. West struggles without any luck and eventually succumbs to the poison.
As the coach drives away, Amanda is standing on the steps while one of the cavalry officers tells her what a handful West had been. Amanda answers back, "Well he isn't anymore". Amanda as well as the cavalry officers were part of Emmet Stark's gang. The game consisted of Emmet's daughter, Betsy Cole (Patty McCormack) and Fleur Fogarty (Bobbi Jordan), who both provided more drama for Mr. West when he arrived in a deserted town.
Later, we find out that Emmet Stark had escaped from prison. In the train car of Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin), he and Col. James Richmond (Douglas Henderson) are trying to piece together a distress signal they had received from West the previous night while in a place called Paradox, Nevada. There was no such town on the map, and the two were baffled on where to look for him. Just then, Amanda shows up at the door and introduces herself as Amanda Vale (probably since Artemus may have had a better memory of the heist that occurred five years prior). Amanda tells Artemus that Jim had invited her to lunch the previous day while the two rode a stage coach. When pressed, Amanda explained that he was headed to Paradox, but got off the stage at a relay station named Como Creek. Amanda then acted like she was being slighted. She said if Jim didn't have the courtesy to remember an engagement... With that she left the car. The information she provided was an attempt to get Artemus to ride into a trap.
This is the last we see of Amanda in the episode. However, at the end of the episode, Jim and Artemus say that all of Emmet Stark's gang was arrested.
==Trivia==
*Judith McConnell appeared as evil spy Stewardess Peggy in the 1970 episode "Rebecca of Funny Folk Farm" for the TV series "Get Smart".
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