Evil""s new "diabolical scheme," designed o thwart Austin Powers"" "mojo, the libido, the life force, he essence, the right stuff" - was to develop a time-traveling device to go back to the 60s (with Mini-Me) and steal his "mojo....Europe about o blow up and all I can get out of my foreign staff is a daily guessing game.I want some facts, Mr.Bradley!...Any kind of facts.There must be something going on in Europe beside a nervous breakdown." When Bradley offered to be sent to Europe, Powers rejected him because Bradley was an intellectual economist and not a hard-nosed reporter:I don""t want any more economists, sages, or oracles bombinating over our cables.They bring him in for "plain drunkenness."The scene in the police station cleverly introduces he three principal characters as they are each separately hauled in for varying reasons on this late Easter night, and their paths cross.Bertha confesses to their "dirty family linen" and Tom""s affair with Lucy: "I suppose that woman told you about their relationship.