"[2] Three months after the events of The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Francois Perrin, the Tall Blond Man (who has been living happily with his lover Christine in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), is once again pressed into service.

Eventually, Toulouse has Christine kidnapped and forces Perrin to return to Paris to act out the part of the supposed "super-spy" for the Minister.

Believing Cambrai finished (and after yet another attempt to kill Perrin comically fails), Toulouse orders Christine to be released but when she, Toulouse and Perrache arrive at Perrin's apartment they find him in a compromising situation, in bed with his former lover Paulette (actually a set-up by Cambrai and Maurice).

Toulouse, backed into a corner, attempts to take Christine hostage but then Perrin rises up-Christine's gun was also loaded with blanks.

Toulouse, exposed in public, accepts his defeat with good grace and is allowed by Cambrai to commit suicide to avoid prison and disgrace.