The Avengers (1998 film)

The Avengers is a 1998 American action film that is based on the 1961 - 1969 British television seriesof the same name, about two secret agents (Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman) who team up to stop a mad scientist (Sean Connery) from taking over the world with his weather-controlling machine.

Plot Summary
Secret agent John Steed (Fiennes) and scientist Dr. Emma Peel (Thurman) are called together by The Ministry, a secret agency within Britain's government, to investigate the sabotage of a weather-controlling research project. The two investigate and discover that Sir August de Wynter (Connery), a weather expert himself, is creating a weather machine that he plans to use to blackmail the world's leaders (forcing them to effectively "buy" good weather from him). With the help of Invisible Jones (Patrick Macnee), Steed and Peel locate de Wynter's secret island base and defeat him, destroying his base and the weather machine.

Scene Summary
While investigating de Wynter at his mansion, Peel is captured and held prisoner. She is drugged and hypnotized by one of de Wynter's machines, but the brainwashing fails to take hold, and de Wynter is forced to give up the mind control and go with simply drugging Peel to keep her captive. She eventually escapes with the help of Steed.