The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)
Sep 17, 1965
Alexander a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchma
The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)
Sep 24, 1965
Alexander a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchma
The Ultimate Computer Affair
Oct 1, 1965
Illya Kuryakin infiltrates a South American prison camp where Thrush are storing the 'Ultimate Computer'.
The Foxes and Hounds Affair
Oct 8, 1965
U.N.C.L.E. and Thrush agents compete to gain possession of a mind-reading device created by a magician who has been murdered by Thrush.
The Discotheque Affair
Oct 15, 1965
Napoleon Solo is given the job of searching for Thrush security records.
The Re-Collector's Affair
Oct 22, 1965
The 'Re-collectors' claim to be trying to locate works of art stolen by the Nazi's but all is not as it appears.
The Arabian Affair
Oct 29, 1965
Illya goes to find Thrush's vaporizing machine, but is captured by Sophie, the headstrong daughter of the local tribal chief, Sulador. in New York Solo convinces retiring THRUSH ag
The Tigers are Coming Affair
Nov 5, 1965
Solo and Illya go to India to help Suzanne de Serre, a French botanist trying to find out why the jungle is dying and local natives are disappearing. Prince Panat and Drusilla Davi
The Deadly Toys Affair
Nov 12, 1965
THRUSH is so eager to get their hands on a boy genius that they murder the boy's father. But then they have to deal with the boy's madcap aunt.
The Cherry Blossom Affair
Nov 19, 1965
THRUSH eastern in Japan acquires a volcano-activating device, and Solo and Illya, along with Cricket Okasada, a film student, infiltrate a toy store and a karate school to find it.
The Virtue Affair
Dec 3, 1965
French fanatic Robespierre seeks to destroy France's vineyards in his quest for virtue, and Solo enlists the aid of scientist Raoul Dubois and his daughter Albert in combating the
The Children's Day Affair
Dec 10, 1965
A top-level U.N.C.L.E. conference is to be held in Switzerland, but a nearby boys' school is actually a THRUSH front run by Mother Fear and Dennis Jenks that is training its studen
The Adriatic Express Affair
Dec 17, 1965
Solo and Illya board the Adriatic Express train on New Year's Eve to intercept Madame Nemirovitch, a THRUSH agent who is carrying a chemical that is capable of stopping the reprodu
The Yukon Affair
Dec 24, 1965
Squire G. Emory Partridge returns, having acquired in Alaska a large quantity of Quadrillenium X, a very heavy metal with high magnetic powers which THRUSH wants to use to disrupt
The Very Important Zombie Affair
Dec 31, 1965
Solo and Illya travel to the Caribbean to help Dr. Delgado, who is under a voodoo curse and in a zombielike trance thanks to the local dictator, El Supremo, and his chief of police
The Dippy Blonde Affair
Jan 7, 1966
THRUSH agent Harry Pendleton is captured and commits ""suicide"" with a reversible chemical, but his superior, Simon Baldinado, refuses to revive him because he is attracted to Pen
The Deadly Goddess Affair
Jan 14, 1966
Solo and Illya travel to Circe to intercept a drone plane carrying a load of THRUSH cash. There, they encounter THRUSH agent Colonel Hubris, as well as two local girls who are look
The Birds and the Bees Affair
Jan 21, 1966
THRUSH has developed with the aid of Dr. Elias Swan, a strain of minute, deadly bees. THRUSH agent Mr. Mozart captures Illya and Tavia Sandor and uses a high-frequency sound machin
The Waverly Ring Affair
Jan 28, 1966
When secret ""File 40"" documents turn up outside headquarters, Waverly assigns Solo and Illya to find out if George Donnell is a double agent. Carla Drosten is too anxious to accu
The Bridge of Lions Affair (1)
Feb 4, 1966
Illya investigates the mysterious disappearance of cats in Soho, and he and Solo discover that a salon run by Madame De Sala is a front for her plan to develop a rejuvenation proce
The Bridge of Lions Affair (2)
Feb 11, 1966
Illya investigates the mysterious disappearance of cats in Soho, and he and Solo discover that a salon run by Madame De Sala is a front for her plan to develop a rejuvenation proce
The Foreign Legion Affair
Feb 18, 1966
Illya parachutes out of a plane carrying THRUSH code documents, but lands in the desert at an abandoned Foreign Legion post run by Captain Basil Calhoun (Howard Da Silva). Illya is
The Moonglow Affair
Feb 25, 1966
While investigating a THRUSH plot to sabotage space shots, Solo and Illya are incapacitated by a quartzite radiation projector. Waverly assigns new trainee April Dancer along with
The Nowhere Affair
Mar 4, 1966
Solo, while searching for a secret map in Nevada, swallows an amnesia capsule just before being captured. THRUSH agents Arum Tertunian and Longolius try to revive his memory with a
The King of Diamonds Affair
Mar 11, 1966
Solo and Illya discover that the world diamond market is being affected by a gang of English criminals headed by Blodgett, who smuggle diamonds inside pudding sold unwittingly by V
The Project Deephole Affair
Mar 18, 1966
THRUSH agent Elom tries to kidnap a geologist who has developed an earthquake activating machine, but mistakes debt-ridden salesman Buzz Conway for the scientist. Solo and Illya le
The Round Table Affair
Mar 25, 1966
Lucho Nostra and a group of criminals take over a tiny European country, Ingolstein, because it has no extradition treaty. Prince Frederick is afraid to kick them out, so Solo conv
The Batcave Affair
Apr 1, 1966
Solo uses hillbilly clairvoyant Clemency McGill to counter the efforts of Count Zark, a vampirish THRUSH agent who plans to use radioactive bats to jam the world's radar systems fr
The Minus-X Affair
Apr 8, 1966
Solo and Illya try to protect Professor Lillian Stemmler from THRUSH after she invents a drug called Plus X, which heightens all the human senses. Unbeknownst to them, she is a THR
The Indian Affairs Affair
Apr 15, 1966
THRUSH agent L.C. Carson uses an Indian reservation as a front for his plan to assemble a hydrogen bomb, and kidnaps the tribe's chief, High Cloud, to ensure cooperation. Solo arra