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They say the third time's the charm, but it took four attempts to break into the Watergate complex for the Hunt/Liddy team to plant listening devices at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. As in the first two episodes, E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux) are portrayed as inept conspirators with an even more inept crew as they bungle their way through effort after effort only to be thwarted by a lack of tools and inoperative bugging devices. Liddy is more gung-ho in this episode, pushing his partner Hunt to take on one final burglary attempt at the expense of a family vacation to Paris. It was an overnight security guard by the name of Frank Wills who blew the whistle on the final escapade when he called in a curious bit of tape preventing a door from latching in a Watergate corridor. This chapter closes with 'The Ballad of Frank Wills', an inventive and humorous song detailing the bungled spy job, naming names while including some folks we haven't even met yet. Even though the flavor of this series approaches parody and satire, it does give a sense of what must have gone on behind the scenes of the conspiracy that brought down the Nixon administration.