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Starring:
Colonel White, Captain Scarlet, Captain
Blue, Captain Black,
Lieutenant Green
&
Destiny,
Harmony &
Symphony Angels.
With appearances from:
Melody
& Rhapsody
Angels.
McGill returns to his office at TransGlobal and cancels
all existing contracts so that his company can use all it's resources on a new deal.
Meanwhile, Captain Black takes a TransGlobal truck to a military research lab. He enters a secure area and removes a
canister. As Black drives away, the installation blows up.
On Skybase, Colonel White briefs Captain Blue on events at the lab. A security review there was
Black's last assignment before being sent to Mars, which allowed him to access all areas of the
installation with ease. Blue is assigned to assist the FBI with their investigation into the
explosion, and White sends Captain Scarlet with Blue in order to make use of the telepathic link that
Scarlet and Black share. Meanwhile, White will be attending an emergency meeting with the United
Nations regarding the Mysterons.
Scarlet and Blue meet with the FBI, who are searching the whole of the USA for Black using CCTV.
Black is at the UN building, where he enters an office leading to the conference room where White
will be meeting with the representatives. He opens the canister that he stole from the lab, and a
small spider-like robot emerges. Black slips the robot through an air vent into the conference room
where it scuttles around, before targeting the Russian General Zamatev with a Mysteron beam.
Colonel White addresses the UN, but General Zamatev raises concerns about the aerial
defenses that
Skybase possesses, and puts forward an offer to assist Spectrum with Vampire fighter jets. Colonel
White agrees, but Destiny Angel objects and storms out of the conference.
The FBI finally pick up Black on CCTV at the United Nations building, and it doesn't take Scarlet
long to figure out that Black is planning an attack on Colonel White. They set off for the UN
immediately.
Black lines up his shot through the air vent, but Scarlet crashes through the glass window behind
White and takes the bullet himself, saving White's life.
Outside the office, Destiny sees Black making his escape and pursues him to a stairwell where she
holds him at gunpoint. Black tries to convince her that the Mysterons have lost control of him,
just as they did with Scarlet. She doesn't believe him, but he catches her off guard and knocks her
out.
Black emerges on the roof level, where Blue is, and wastes no time in firing upon his former
colleague. A TransGlobal helicopter picks Black up from the roof and they manage to get away.
Scarlet is loaded onto a Spectrum helicopter for transportation to Skybase.
Back on Skybase, Destiny confesses to White that she let Black escape, and resigns her
commission.
The Mysterons attack a truck transporting troops as it crosses a suspension bridge.
On Skybase, Colonel White welcomes Captain Scarlet back to his duties, and Blue hands him his
sidearm and apologises for doubting his friend. Lieutenant Green briefs the officers on
TransGlobal, and her discovery that all of their trucks have been diverted to nuclear power stations
across the globe. From her research, she estimates that the next shipment they make will be from
the Pyrenees.
In the mountains, a
TransGlobal truck leaves a nuclear plant, and is quickly spotted by Scarlet and
Blue in a Rhino. Blue insists that Scarlet's plan is crazy, but as Scarlet points out, he can't be
killed. Scarlet fires a grappling hook that catches hold of the ladder on the top of the tanker and
he shimmies along the line. He uses a small laser to cut into the hold of the truck, and finds it
filled with nuclear material.
Blue continues to tail the truck and watches it being loaded onto an air transporter. He requests
that an Albatross, a plane capable of carrying a Rhino, picks him up to continue the chase.
Meanwhile, the Vampire squadron that General Zamatev promised appears on Skybase's radar. When White
cannot contact the Vampires he orders the Angels to intercept them. Destiny abandons her packing
after only a moment's hesitation and joins the rest of the girls on the flight deck.
 The Angels quickly fall under the attack of the Vampires. After a brief dogfight, the Vampires are
defeated, with all but one destroyed, and the last fled. Destiny heads after the renegade, suspecting
the pilot to be dead, but she sees the Mysteron pilot come back to life and she quickly
destroys the plane. As she comes around to return to Skybase, her Falcon suffers a system
malfunction courtesy of the Mysterons, and the plane locks itself onto Skybase. White orders
Harmony to shoot Destiny down, but Destiny activates the self-destruct mechanism rather than crash
into Skybase. As White muses over her actions, her escape pod emerges from the inferno. Destiny
is alive and well, and manages to safely crash-land on the runway.
Blue continues to track the TransGlobal plane into Siberian airspace, where it lands. Black stops
the unloading of the truck when he senses that Scarlet is aboard, and throws a gas canister through
the hole that Scarlet cut in the roof and renders the stowaway captain unconscious.
When Scarlet comes to, he is restrained in a pit filled with canisters of nuclear fuel rods. Captain
Black arms the bomb contained within the pit- a bomb that, when combined with the fuel rods, is
capable of blowing the whole world apart - and walks away, leaving Scarlet to watch the ten minute
countdown. Scarlet manages to free himself from the electronic handcuffs using the laser from his
belt pouch, but time is ticking away, and the only means of disarming the bomb is with Captain
Black!
Blue picks up Scarlet in the Rhino and together they pursue Black, who makes his escape into a
gargantuan Russian Dreznik tank, driven by General Zamatev. The Dreznik fires on the Rhino and misses, but the Rhino's missiles
are useless against the enemy tank.
When the Dreznik succeeds in flipping the Rhino, Scarlet orders Blue to retreat. Blue refuses and
challenges Scarlet
to shoot him. Scarlet does, with his gun on the 'stun' setting, knocking Blue
out. Scarlet takes control of the Rhino and leads the Dreznik across an ice field. The ice breaks
under the weight of the Dreznik, and the tank sinks into the water, short-circuiting the timer and
halting the countdown of the bomb.
Quotable Scarlet
Agent Avery: Hey, where's your weapon?
Scarlet: Er, cutbacks. Blue gets the gun on Fridays.
Blue: You know, this is crazy.
Scarlet: Next you'll tell me I'm going to get myself killed...
Did you spot...?
During the UN summit,
the Belgian delegate has two video screens, both to Colonel White's right. (spotted by
Marion)
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Reviewer's Rating: 1/5
Perhaps I am a little overly critical of
these two episodes, but having grown up as a huge fan of the original
series, I couldn't help but compare this episode to 'The
Mysterons' and feel a little cheated. They had twice the time to play
with, yet Scarlet's plotline was over and done with far, far too quickly
before they rushed on with Black. There was so much to work with, and so
little done with it. But, hey, everyone else likes it.
Written by Phil Ford
Directed by David Lane
Transmission date: 19 February 2005
Appears on DVD 1
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