Giana Paluzzi (I Spy)

Giana Paluzzi (Barbara Steele) is a villainess in the 1966 episode Bridge of Spies (S02E09) of the TV series "I Spy".
The episode begins with Giana riding in a boat on a canal in Venice. She spots a man on a bridge and gets out of the boat to meet him. We find out it is Janos (Alexander Svacinka) who is awaiting a contact. Giana tells him that it is she, but he is perplexed when he was suppose to meet a blonde and she is a brunette. After putting him at ease, the two of them embrace, and Giana proceeds to take out her switch blade and stab him to death in the back.
After the credits roll, Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) receives a call from an old family friend named Dr. Mattison (Walter Williams) who is in Venice with his wife (Nina Matchalova). They agree to meet for dinner at 6pm. After getting off the phone, we see that Giana is with the Mattison's, and is posing as a tour guide. The doctor pulls out a family heirloom (a pocket watch) to show Giana what he plans to give Kelly at dinner. She accidentally drops it on the ground, but agrees to have it fixed in time for their dinner encounter.
Giana takes the watch to her accomplice, Metkovic (Carlo Croccolo) to have it worked on. Here we find out that the two are both enemy agents. Metkovic rigs the watch to have a voice recording device on it, so that the two can keep close contact with Kelly. They want to eliminate all of the agents who make contact with Kelly and then get rid of Kelly and his partner, Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby).
At the hotel, the Mattison's introduce Kelly to Giana and the group heads to a waterfront dinner. Giana makes a backhanded comment about Kelly's attachment to the watch, stating that capitalists love materialistic and sentimental things. Giana sees Kelly home with a ride on a gondola, while Metkovic listens in on their conversation. On the ride, Giana agrees to serve as Kelly's guide for a sightseeing visit in the city.
Giana tells Metkovic that he will keep Kelly intrigued by "combining high level socialism with a low cut dress". 
At the Piazza, Kelly receives a phone call from his contact in a pay phone, and sets up a meeting for later that evening. In the meantime, Kelly has lunch with Giana. where the two of them take a swim and then sunbathe on the dock. Giana asks him if he wants to make love with her.
Agent #1 (Giustino Durano) is the next victim near the watch tower. Giana poses as a nun, and stabs Agent #1 with the cover of a crowd of nuns who walk past him.
Metkovic and Giana listen is as Scott and Kelly argue about how their contact could have been killed. When the signal from the pocket watch suddenly goes out, Giana meets Kelly in his hotel room. She distracts him while Metkovic fixes the watch.
The next day, Scott receives the call to meet Agent #2 (Vittorio Bonos) at the Rialto Bridge carrying flowers. Giana pulls out a pistol with a silencer while riding a speed boat, and kills Agent #2 while he is waiting. Giana speeds off undetected before Kelly and Scott can arrive.
Back at their hotel, Kelly and Scott realize that the watch is carrying a listening device on it. So as not to tip off the listeners, Kelly and Scott give them phony intelligence. 
Still not connecting that it is Giana that is responsible, she meets Kelly on a bridge. He tells her he doesn't have time to talk since he is waiting for someone. Giana refuses to leave him, and while the two kiss, she pulls out the switch blade to stab him. However, Kelly grabs her arm and prevents her from finishing him off. Metkovic pulls out his pistol and attempts to shoot Kelly but misses. Giana uses the chaos to run away, but Metkovic shoots her to prevent her from being captured. Kelly is able to shoot Metkovic as he is running away.
Kelly then meets his contact Anna (Ingeborge Schoeller), who lets him know that she is an assassin and executioner. The two kiss as the episode comes to an end.
==Trivia==
*Barbara Steele appeared as Asa Vajda in the 1960 horror film, "Black Sunday".
*Barbara Steele appeared as Elizabeth Barnard Medina in the 1961 horror film, "The Pit and the Pendulum".
*Barbara Steele appeared as Lavinia Morley in the 1968 British horror film, "The Crimson Cult".
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