Lana Benson (Lisa Gaye) is the secondary antagonist in the 1966 episode "The Night of the Falcon" for the TV series "The Wild Wild West".
Lana Benson first appears in the episode on horseback as a town called Tonka Flats is destroyed. After watching this destruction, she reaches out and gathers in a falcon.
Jim West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) learn that the next target is that of the city of Denver. The one demanding a ransom is Dr. Horace Humphries who goes by the name "The Falcon". He plans to fire a single shell from a falcon-shaped cannon toward the city.
Artemus decides to infiltrate the Falcon's lair by using a disguise, Felice Munez, a South American crime lord. He hops a stagecoach on its way to Sinful City where he meets Lana. After the coach arrives, he is captured by Lana and her thugs. Arriving at the office of Dr. Horace Humphries who ties him down and injects him with a drug.
After waking up, Artemus finds himself at a long table along with several other underground characters from all over the world. This includes a German munitions merchant, an Eastern opium pusher and a British gentleman thug with a switch blade in his walking stick. The four of them are bidding on the falcon shaped cannon and the gunpowder that it uses.
Just before the cannon can be fired upon, Jim West and Artemus are able to sabotage the place. As a result, the cannon misfires and the place is blown up along with all three bidders and the Falcon.
Back at the train car, Lana begs for her life. She claims that she had very little to do with the Falcon's plans. If they would allow her to escape the law enforcement, she would change her name and disappear. However, she grabbed West's pistol and planned to use it to escape. West informed her that he would never leave a loaded gun where she could get it. As Lana attempted to run out the door, she was captured by the authorities and taken away.
Trivia[]
- Lisa Gaye appears as the main villainess Rita Magovern from the 1961 episode "The Case of the Traveling Treasure" for the TV series "Perry Mason".
- Lisa Gaye appeared as Lisa Smith as a spy in the 1967 episode, "The Mummy" for the TV series "Get Smart".
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