The writing of "The Crystal Trench" was a bit disappointing....mostly because the visit with the geologist (Patrick Macnee...in his second appearance in a row on this show) was utterly ridiculous.
The story begins in Switzerland, near a famous peak called the Schwarzhorn. It seems that a young and impetuous Brit insisted on climbing it and a guide took him and friend on this ill-advised ascent...and the man died. Oddly, instead of them telling the widow, the asked another Brit staying at the hotel if he could tell her. She was naturally heartbroken and he soon became smitten with her.
Later, the woman took this man with her to see a noted geologist or something along those likes (Macnee) and he tells her that the body lost on the glacier would be accessible on an exact day and time of day forty years in the future based on his calculations...and, amazingly, this turned out to be true and then the twist occurs. The twist is good, the notion a person could make such an accurate prediction is ridiculous.
Okay, so you have a woman and her male friend waste forty years of their lives AND they return to the peak forty years later just as the body would become retrievable....doesn't this all sound rather absurd? And, absurd is what I'd call this episode. A clear miss that easily could have been better. Heck, had Macnee played a psychic or Nostradamus, it would have made more sense than this script.
The story begins in Switzerland, near a famous peak called the Schwarzhorn. It seems that a young and impetuous Brit insisted on climbing it and a guide took him and friend on this ill-advised ascent...and the man died. Oddly, instead of them telling the widow, the asked another Brit staying at the hotel if he could tell her. She was naturally heartbroken and he soon became smitten with her.
Later, the woman took this man with her to see a noted geologist or something along those likes (Macnee) and he tells her that the body lost on the glacier would be accessible on an exact day and time of day forty years in the future based on his calculations...and, amazingly, this turned out to be true and then the twist occurs. The twist is good, the notion a person could make such an accurate prediction is ridiculous.
Okay, so you have a woman and her male friend waste forty years of their lives AND they return to the peak forty years later just as the body would become retrievable....doesn't this all sound rather absurd? And, absurd is what I'd call this episode. A clear miss that easily could have been better. Heck, had Macnee played a psychic or Nostradamus, it would have made more sense than this script.