"Place Of Angels" features one of those rarities, a female Mysteron reconstruction. The Mysteron threat in this episode is an attack on "the place of the angels", a baffled Spectrum consider that the threat might mean targetting the home town of one of the Spectrum Angels.
Meanwhile at a bacterialogical centre, a deadly virus with no antidote is stolen. The method of killing the poor security guard is unwitting comedy. The Mysteron agent supposedly crashes her car in a chase. Captain Blue shows his bravery here, as he and Captain Scarlet fully expect to find the stolen glass vial of poison and probably in a shattered condition, and although Captain Scarlet is most likely immune from its deadly effects, Captain Blue will no doubt die. Colonel White orders that "everything possible" must be done for Captain Blue. Dr Fawn discovers that neither Captain had been poisoned, the virus wasn't present, so Spectrum are back to square one.
False reports of the Mysteron agent's presence flood in, from Manchester ("Didn't Rhapsody once live there?" asks Captain Blue. "Yes, but you could hardly call it 'the place of the angels'!" replies Scarlet. No, but her presence raised the place's class a few notches!) to a report of her in Los Angeles. Cue a light switching on in Scarlet's head, and Colonel White agrees....the "City Of The Angels" is the target. Colonel White also realises that by tipping the poison into the city's drinking water, the maximum number of people will be killed.
We get the most unusual death of a Mysteron reconstruction as her shoe heel gets caught in a grating and she plummets hundreds of feet over the side of a dam. Scarlet manages to get his hand on the vial of death and so the city is safe. The episode reminded adult viewers of the pure folly of germ warfare and those involved in finding new poisons.
A solid 8/10.
Meanwhile at a bacterialogical centre, a deadly virus with no antidote is stolen. The method of killing the poor security guard is unwitting comedy. The Mysteron agent supposedly crashes her car in a chase. Captain Blue shows his bravery here, as he and Captain Scarlet fully expect to find the stolen glass vial of poison and probably in a shattered condition, and although Captain Scarlet is most likely immune from its deadly effects, Captain Blue will no doubt die. Colonel White orders that "everything possible" must be done for Captain Blue. Dr Fawn discovers that neither Captain had been poisoned, the virus wasn't present, so Spectrum are back to square one.
False reports of the Mysteron agent's presence flood in, from Manchester ("Didn't Rhapsody once live there?" asks Captain Blue. "Yes, but you could hardly call it 'the place of the angels'!" replies Scarlet. No, but her presence raised the place's class a few notches!) to a report of her in Los Angeles. Cue a light switching on in Scarlet's head, and Colonel White agrees....the "City Of The Angels" is the target. Colonel White also realises that by tipping the poison into the city's drinking water, the maximum number of people will be killed.
We get the most unusual death of a Mysteron reconstruction as her shoe heel gets caught in a grating and she plummets hundreds of feet over the side of a dam. Scarlet manages to get his hand on the vial of death and so the city is safe. The episode reminded adult viewers of the pure folly of germ warfare and those involved in finding new poisons.
A solid 8/10.