"Codename Europa" features the smartest, most dangerous Mysteron reconstruction that Spectrum ever faced. Professor Carney is an electronics genius who gets assassinated by Captain Black....it's pretty chilling how long Black has Carney in his telescopic scope before squeezing the trigger, as if he were savouring the moment.
The Mysteron threat is to kill "The Triumverate of Europe", messers Olafson, Henderson and Mancini, the three joint leaders of Europe. Instead of housing all three in the same "safe house" Colonel White has them split up. Carney's first target is Olafson, the method, a bomb dropped in an air vent. Luckily, the air vent is a fake and thus the attempt fails but Carney believes he has succeeded.
The worrying part is how the Mysteron agent got that close to his target. He uses a tape recording of machine gun fire and rumbling tanks as a decoy to draw Spectrum security into a trap....simple but very effective and thus Colonel White announces that this agent is the cleverest and most dangerous they've ever faced.
The real Professor Carney is found dead at his bungalow. Whilst investigating, Captains Scarlet & Blue discover a note book and slides, "123 OHM" meaning the order in which Carney's reconstruction intends to assassinate the trio of men. On their way to Henderson's hideout, the view screen of the Captains' SPV is rendered useless and communications are jammed. In a moment of script sillyness, Scarlet tells Blue that he thinks he knows where the Mysteron agent is heading for....the Henderson hideaway that they were already heading for!!
Carney manages to fuse all the lights at the security centre and uses night-vision goggles to get past the security guards who can't see a thing and obviously don't carry torches!
He manages to get to Henderson's room where he is tripped up by a "carefully placed" trip wire and shot dead by Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue.
It's a solid episode and made all the more so by Colonel White's opinion that their Mysteron foe is the most dangerous they've ever faced. Given that The Mysterons were allowed the odd victory, here and there, it was feasible that Carney might've assassinated at least one of his targets.
8/10.
The Mysteron threat is to kill "The Triumverate of Europe", messers Olafson, Henderson and Mancini, the three joint leaders of Europe. Instead of housing all three in the same "safe house" Colonel White has them split up. Carney's first target is Olafson, the method, a bomb dropped in an air vent. Luckily, the air vent is a fake and thus the attempt fails but Carney believes he has succeeded.
The worrying part is how the Mysteron agent got that close to his target. He uses a tape recording of machine gun fire and rumbling tanks as a decoy to draw Spectrum security into a trap....simple but very effective and thus Colonel White announces that this agent is the cleverest and most dangerous they've ever faced.
The real Professor Carney is found dead at his bungalow. Whilst investigating, Captains Scarlet & Blue discover a note book and slides, "123 OHM" meaning the order in which Carney's reconstruction intends to assassinate the trio of men. On their way to Henderson's hideout, the view screen of the Captains' SPV is rendered useless and communications are jammed. In a moment of script sillyness, Scarlet tells Blue that he thinks he knows where the Mysteron agent is heading for....the Henderson hideaway that they were already heading for!!
Carney manages to fuse all the lights at the security centre and uses night-vision goggles to get past the security guards who can't see a thing and obviously don't carry torches!
He manages to get to Henderson's room where he is tripped up by a "carefully placed" trip wire and shot dead by Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue.
It's a solid episode and made all the more so by Colonel White's opinion that their Mysteron foe is the most dangerous they've ever faced. Given that The Mysterons were allowed the odd victory, here and there, it was feasible that Carney might've assassinated at least one of his targets.
8/10.