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What could provide better cover for a meeting between our hero and the girl that has promised her help to filch a decoder than swarms of tourists being guided under a mighty dome? But the girl's pursuer intervenes and grabs the deposited box - only to be floored by another guy who quickly disappears again. Our hero salvages the message that maps the next stage of this adventure.

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What a scenery - but the visitor in his kilt concentrates much more eagerly on the flock of guests than on the great mountain landscape. After they leave, his fake identity is blown, and our hero manages only barely to escape from the villain's aerie. But he'll be back, in force!

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Another fake identity of our hero almost gets blown when the real guy rings the bell to the third floor apartment of the cute redhead whom he has previously tricked into believing that he is the expected one. The elevator suffers a lot but not as much as the real guy, who won't be able to mouth any objections to being used as an air freight container.

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Arrested at gun point at a crime scene, our hero is shipped across nightly waters, allegedly to the police station "on the other side". When he jumps over board, taking his chances on a sinister structure looming out of the water, he is invited down the hatchway, into what turns out to be a field office of his very own company. Its slanted walls are a foreboding of another bizarre scenery in which he must fight his adversary...

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"And the voice of the desert has crossed the centuries." While a glorious past is celebrated with coloured light and pompous prose, a minion of evil continues his work. Our hero is vigilant and leaves his place in the show, but the villain has already left his mark on the victim and escapes during a change of light. Our hero can only incapacitate a couple of goons his beautiful rival sets on him and exits, "Hope you enjoyed the show."

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While pursuing the tracks of mischief left by his villainous adversary, our hero visits a location of outstanding scenic beauty. But he uses the telescope merely to watch the departure of a freight plane. Then an attractive fellow traveller comes into the picture, and it seems that they have a common interest. So they enter the cable car station for the ride down into the city, not knowing that a few breathtaking minutes lie ahead, where our hero has to fight for their lives, more daring than an eagle.

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Our hero climbs a steep cliff to reach the hideout of the arch-scoundrel before he can pass on a piece of electronic equipment to the Committee for State Security. One of the guards is alerted by a white dove fluttering from a nook in the rock and provides a unfriendly reception when our man reaches the top...

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Barely having escaped exotic assassinations by turbaned henchmen wielding weird blades, our hero has to risk another trip carrying fake identification papers, a necessary precaution when sallying forth into the Eastern Bloc. After his boss leaves the (typically capitalistic) limousine, the "travelling salesman" is chauffeured through the point into the walled-in year-round cold.

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The waspishly coloured butterfly with its deadly sting has struck and a figure all in black flees through the back door of the restaurant. Our hero is in hot pursuit, but a tangle of rod and line gains enough time for the evil wasp to unfold a much wider wing and glide away.

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Our hero can't refuse when his lovely companion asks for a lofty ride, and they enjoy a romantic break, not always looking down at the city lights. The following meeting with a colleague does not end well for the other guy: a third man has planted a bomb that finds its target.

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An extra feature of his cell phone helps our hero to overcome a rather unsavory adversary, whose demise is highly deserved. A prudent and circumspect escape from the hotel room is well-advised. and so he leaves, up and over the roof, not wasting a second on the magnificent view...

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Bankers don't like it at all when you withdraw big sums of money and ask inconvenient questions into the bargain. The discussion escalates, corpses begin to accumulate, and our hero hurries to leave the premises, not waiting for the arrival of the fuzz. His descent from the meeting room on the sixth floor uses neither staircase nor elevator; once down, he walks calmly away, past the futuristic museum, carrying the metal case full of money to its fatal destiny.

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Our hero does not appear in this last scene. So it is up to you to use what you have learned to save the day - if not the world - and cashier the cache!

Finding a set of film locations that are suited for a puzzle like this one isn't quite easy. Productions with a multi-million dollar budget think nothing of recreating entire streets on studio grounds, especially when massive damage is inflicted in the scene. Interiors of real locations are unscrupulously relocated to a site near to the studio, and some locations are blunt inventions of the scriptwriter. None of these red herrings appear in LTC.

Locations used for LTC are real, and they don't act as a stand-in for another place. Care has been taken to identify the view of the outdoor action where the shooting of the preceding or following interior scene was done elsewhere or even in the studio.

Locations may change over time. An office building may be converted into a hotel, or the film production may have made use of a new building before it was completed. And there is the inevitable change over time, brought about by so diverse reasons as large-scale dumping or political overthrow.

The internet provides all the information to locate and even pinpoint the locations once you have identified the movie and the scene. Spoilers are readily available, but occasionally some research may be necessary to find the coordinates with a sufficient degree of precision. Naturally, the extent of the location has been taken into account.