The Color of Fear

A Virginia Civil War reenactment becomes a lethal conflict that the narration and media call the Second American Civil War; Smith later describes a largely reenactor-driven crisis magnified by coverage. Remo says he is through with CURE while still pursuing answers about his parents, and he and Chiun investigate the conflict. The unnamed U.S. President and First Lady respond to the revolt; the narrative also recounts how an earlier unnamed martyred President founded CURE. Sam Beasley Corporation chairman Bob Beasley and CEO Mickey Weisinger answer to Uncle Sam Beasley, who returns in a mechanically augmented body and says he is back in control; Mickey initially mistakes him for a radio-animatronic figure, but Uncle Sam denies being a robot.

The corporation’s color-light technology turns its themed attractions and employee forces into weapons. The conflict expands to France after French aircraft bomb Euro Beasley, and Culture Minister Maurice Tourette presses the French government toward escalation. DGSE agent Dominique Parillaud, code-named Arlequin and using the Avril Mai cover, becomes involved in recovering the color-emitting eye device. Remo and Chiun enter DGSE and free engineer Rod Cheatwood; Beasley employees then retake Euro Beasley. Remo stops Uncle Sam’s mechanical heart, but Uncle Sam remains breathing; after a concealed eye emits Supergreen, Chiun later says he removed the head, which is missing from the body. The group escapes before a French-dropped bomb collapses Big Rock Candy Mountain.

A later fire consumes the park; Smith says France had not armed the bomb, and Smith suggests that someone inside started a self-destruct program. Remo destroys Rod’s laser devices and knocks him out for memory alteration; Chiun says he will erase more than Rod requested. Jerry Lewis’s threatened boycott and French presidential intervention are reported as factors in defusing the immediate crisis; a summit, lifted travel restrictions, and a proposed renaming and defanging of the park follow. Smith says Bob has assumed operational control and Mickey has been demoted. In the epilogue, Bob shows Mickey that Uncle Sam’s head was preserved before brain death and says restoration depends on finding a suitable body; it has not happened in the scene.