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Next would follow what White refers to as the " Dossier Scene ".

Briggs or Phelps would be shown in a fancy apartment, retrieving an oversized, leather-bound dossier folder from a locked drawer.

Inside this folder were plastic-wrapped dossiers ( usually featuring standard 8 × 10 " glossies " of the respective actors ) of the available IMF agents.

Briggs / Phelps would toss the selected agents ' dossiers onto a table.

According to White, most of the never-chosen dossiers were photographs of actors of other TV series, such as George Takei, various series staffers and their wives, including Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Geller