Agent 44 of Control always got the same kind of assignments as Agent 13. While he would rather have been doing field work, he usually found himself cooped up inside some common household object. 44 had a tendency to feel sorry for himself and whine about his predicaments. He claimed that secret messages were one of his specialities. # 44 often felt he had to prove himself to the other agents and that they would look down on him. The fact that he could never wear his tuxedo on a case really bothered him. On more than one occasion, 44 would break down and cry, which he knew the Chief disliked.
After a period in which he was stationed in Europe, 44 found himself hiding in a medicine chest in Maxwell Smart's compartment aboard the Orient Express. As 86's first contact, 44 complained about not having been paid in six months. This was due to the payments being sabotaged by KAOS operatives. 44 managed to get some money out of 86's pocket by having him pay for his messages. Fortunately for 44, 86 was interupted by other passengers several times and had to destroy the messages each time before he could read them.
In the 'Back to the Old Drawing Board' case, 44 was hidden inside a grandfather clock. 44 was distraught to learn he was used the wrong counter-countersign because he had not received the updated book yet. When 44 got very emotional, 86 gave him his own copy, which he had already memorized. 44 was then informed by the Chief that # 91 had been replaced by an enemy agent (Hymie the robot). He tried to knock out the imposter from his position in the clock, only to receive a blow to the head from the powerful robot in return.
44 was at his most active in the 'Stakeout on Blue Mist Mountain' case. At Washington Airport, he turned up hiding in a duffel bag carried in by a sailor (who may or may not have been an agent of Control). 44 not only managed to correctly identify KAOS agent Nealis, but saved agent 86's life by shooting Nealis's gun out of his hand. By the end of the case 44 appeared on his own two feet for the first time, capturing the head KAOS Agent in the woods near Blue Mist Mountain.
During the case of 'Hubert's Unfinished Symphony', # 44 was stationed upside down inside a cello case to keep an eye on fellow agent Rudolph Hubert. This position caused the blood to rush to his head, his loose change to fall from his pockets and presented 44 with great dificulty digesting his diner. In this condition, everything looked suspicious to 44, yet he completely failed to be of any help in this case, being more interested in complaining about his situation. Because of his upside down state, 44 referred to # 99 as 66.
44's most difficult case was aboard the freighter Evening Starso, also called the 'Ship of Spies'. On his fifth trip aboard this ship, 44 found himself disguised as a monkey inside one half of the cargo hold containing a total of 3000 monkeys. He did not mind eating with the monkeys, who generally got cabbage for diner. He and some of the other monkeys got together to try and break through to the other compartment holding 900 tons of bananas. He first contacted # 86 when the ship was about 20 miles out to sea, hanging outside the port hole of 86's cabbin. 44 was clever enough to replace his monkey disguise with a raincoat and hat. As 86 was looking for the person who smuggled the plans for the nuclear amphibean battleship on board, 44 handed over a list of possible suspects (the entire passenger list).
The next day, 44 tried to get a bit of a sun tan in the ship's smoke stack when he overheard two suspect passengers discussing the stolen plans. He then left an elaborate secret message on the porthole windows to # 86 and 99s cabbins to get them to meet him on deck. This time he hid in a funnel. When expressing his feelings about his stationary assignments, 44 broke down and cried, then asked 86 & 99 not to tell the Chief. Just when he was to reveal some vital deductions to 86, 44 was shot in the shoulder by a KAOS agent (Captain Groman). Luckily it was only a superficial wound. The Chief decided to give 44 some assignments on dry land after that.
A person who looked identical to # 44 but claimed to be Maxwell Smart's mutual insurance agent appeared in the 'Too Many Chiefs' case. Taking no chances, Smart knocked the man out with a single karate chop to the neck. He then found out the man was telling the truth and send him on his way. The insurance agent claimed 'a lot of people feel that way about insurance'.