...(played by a young Tony Bill, later one of the producers of "The Sting" [1973]) has volunteered for a Department mission. The bad guys think he has a big solid-fuel Top Secret as well as a drinking problem, so the Department plans to dangle Gary as yummy bait: the bad guys will capture him, torture him, and he'll spill his big (fake) secret. Once the bad guys have transmitted that secret back to their headquarters (unwittingly screwing up their entire solid-fuel research program), Kelly and Scotty will swoop in and rescue Gary--alive and well, they hope, but there are no guarantees.
However, Gary's father, the demanding General Colt...
...interferes and almost ruins the plan (which he's not in on). He is disgusted with Gary and his careless security-risk ways, and Gary reveals to Kelly and Scotty that he volunteered in the first place because he wanted to make his father proud of him. Kelly and Scotty, as you might expect, are not happy about any of it. They think about scrubbing the mission, but before any final decision, the bad guys get the jump on them and spirit Gary away in a hamper.
In the end, when the bad guys do finally torture Gary, he hangs in there long enough (more than long enough) to be convincing, and finally gives up the fake secret--and the general (who has continued to show up and interfere) is doubly disgusted with him and calls him a traitor. It takes Kelly and Scotty spilling the beans about Gary's true role to show the general his error, and at the end it seems he's truly proud of his son.
Also relevant is the fact that during the end scenes of swooping in to get the bad guys and rescue Gary, Scotty gets shot in the left shoulder. Ow. (Although, he then plays possum and kills the guy who shot him, using a throwing knife. Hot, hot, hot.)
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