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(footsteps clicking)

- [Narrator] The Mysterons, sworn enemies of Earth.

Possessing the ability to recreate an exact likeness

or object or person.

But first, they must destroy.

(bottles clattering)

(cat screeching)

(lights popping)

(guns firing)

(one shoot) (man moans)

(dramatic music)

Leading the fight one man, fate has made indestructible.

his name, Captain Scarlet.

(dramatic music)

- First picture transmission starts in 35 seconds.

30 seconds.

- They must have spotted it.

Whats the flight profile look like?

- Right on target, 21,000 miles from Mars.

- 20 seconds.

10 seconds, nine.

(dramatic music)

(booming)

One, zero.

- Start transmission countdown.

- Have we done it?

- We wont know for nearly four minutes.

Mars is about 43 million miles away.

It'll take that long for the signals to reach us.

- That is if the Mysterons

hadn't already destroyed the satellite.

- I'll report to Cloud Base.

Right.

- What's the latest situation, Captain Blue?

We're at K14 observatory.

The satellite should have started transmitting.

We're waiting forthe first pictures.

Thank you Captain Blue.

Keep me informed. - SIG colonel.

How do you rate our chances, Captain Scarlet?

- Well, it s hard to deceive the Mysterons.

But there's always a chance.

- Signal to noise ratio 0124DB.

Definition, positive.

- Good, check video. Video check, positive.

- Beam width and fIux density, A-okay.

- Check all primary circuits.

Computer feed out, primary circuits positive.

Well, well soon know now.

Check video. - I just did.

- [Man] Well do it again.

It's getting pretty tense.

- Yes, a lot of time and effort has gone into this project.

No one's had much sleep these last three days.

- Video check positive.

Signal still strong.

It's not being jammed.

(beeping)

Closeups of Mars, 43 million miles

across space to that screen.

- 20 seconds.

Standby, start video recording.

- 15 seconds. - Now.

- Here they come.

- Five, four, three, two,

we ve lost the signal.

Check it, no possible doubt.

It's been destroyed two seconds

before the first picture transmission.

- The Mysterons have destroyed the satellite.

Phase one complete according to plan.

- [Narrator] This is the voice of the Mysterons.

We know that you can hear us, Earth men.

The eye that dares to look upon

our planet has been destroyed.

You will never succeed

You will never discover the secret of the Mysterons.

We will be avenged.

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Open all internal circuits, lieutenant

Yes sir.

- Membes of Spectrum, as you have heard

the first satellite launched to orbit Mars

and relay pictures to Earth

has been destroyed by the Mysterons.

This was of course anticipated,

and the operation will continue as planned.

As K14 observatory is at present

beyond the range of the angel aircraft,

Cloud Base will travel immediately

to a position 50 miles west

of the observatory in the Himalayas.

From there, we will maintain aerial surveillance.

For the next 24 hours, all Spectrum personnel

are on red alert.

This exercise is part of a larger plan, Operation Sword.

And wemust succeed, that is all.

Lieutenant Green?

- Yes sir? - Start horizontal jets.

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Well, looks like we're underway.

Maximum safe cruise, colonel.

- Right, lieutenant set a course 142 magnetic.

Maintain present speed.

Phase two has begun.

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- I have the mini satellite on our infrared track.

Touchdown in two minutes.

- Let's hope the Mysterons don't detect this one.

- Well we're tracking it by infrared reflection

of the sun's rays from the satellites shell.

At least there's no transmission for them to pick up.

It's working perfectly, right on target.

Minisat five is keeping the Martian moon

between itself and the Mysterons.

- I've got a feeling it's gonna make it.

(booming)

The retros have fired.

It s altered course as scheduled.

(eerie music)

It's landed, we ve done it, wonderful.

Well we've succeeded.

We've soft landed a small satellite

on the Martian moon Phobos.

- And without the Mysterons detecting it.

- Right, Phobos orbits Mars every seven hours and 40 minutes

and our mini sat will get a free ride right round the planet

every seven seconds, it will take a photograph.

These will be relayed back to us at 0300 hours tonight

after it's completed one orbit.

- Gentlemen, we're about to obtain

the best close up shots of Mars ever taken by man.

We have a lot of work ahead,

and I suggest we all get some rest.

- Get some sleep as well, Captain Blue.

I'll take the first watch.

- Right, I'll relieve you at midnight.

- Who's there?

- It s only me, sorry if I startled you.

- Dr. Breck, I thought you were in bed.

- I, I couldn't sleep.

What time is it?

- Nearly midnight.

- Three hours to go.

The nights so clear, may I?

Go ahead, I was stargazing myself before you came in.

- Mars, the red planet.

Will it divulge its secrets?

- It was a brilliant idea

to soft land the mini sat on Phobos.

- Yes, its course was carefully plotted

so Phobos always shielded the satellite from Mars.

- That's why the Mysterons didn't locate it.

- Yes, well you might say we worked in the shadow of fear.

- Fear? - Yes.

Phobos, the Greek word for fear.

- The shadow of fear.

- Everything alright? - Yes Captain Blue.

- Well it's midnight.

Ill take over the watch, Captain Scarlet.

- Right, I ll get some sleep.

- I suggest you get some rest as well, Dr Breck.

- All right captain, I think I will

try and get an hour or so.

I'm gonna check outside, goodnight.

- Goodnight captain.

(eerie music)

Strange.

The light, its so intense.

I, I can't.

Pulsating light.

(eerie music)

- Dr Breck, are you alright?

Fine captain, I'm fine.

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What's our position, Lieutenant Green?

- Were over fIying the Himalayas about eight miles

west of the observatory.

- Time? - 01:58

- Just over an hour to go, right lieutenant.

Launch all angels.

Angel one, immediate launch.

Angels two and three, immediate launch.

Maintain aerial surveillance as instructed.

Observe radio silence except in an emergency.

All angels skyborne, sir.

- All we can do now is wait.

The rest is up to the astronomers.

- Gone?

He can t have gone, I looked everywhere.

He's not in the observatory, he must be found.

There's less than an hour before transmission.

- His bed hasn't been slept in.

Dr. Breck is definitely not in the building.

- I don't like it.

We're so close to success, nothing must go wrong.

That's the position, colonel

and theres less than 40 minutes to go.

- Breck is almost certainly in the hands of the Mysterons,

but we must go ahead with the project.

I've ordered a Spectrum helicopter

to fly as low as possible over the area

in the hope that it may spot him.

Meantime, carry on with the

preparations for the transmission.

- SIG, he can't have gone far, Captain Blue.

Well go outside and try to find him.

Come on Angelini, let's get to the computer.

- I m glad there's a moon.

- That's for sure.

Let's get a Mysteron detectorfrom the SPV.

- Test transmission in 10 seconds.

Five, four, three...

Zero.

- Bang on the nose, we're in business.

Did you get a fix on the beam width and flex density?

Yes, we ll have to move the aerial 12 degrees.

- Right, we wait 'til the last minute

just in case the Mysterons

are trying to pinpoint our position.

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- He could be anywhere.

- Right, but we better keep looking.

Time's running out.

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- Start transmission countdown.

(suspenseful music)

- That could be him.

- Captain Scarlet, I think Captain Gray has located Breck.

We're going round for another look.

Yes, we found him.

Hes in the rocks above the observatory.

SIG, Melody.

Well Captain Blue, he's in the rocks above us.

- Lets go.

- Check video - Video positive.

We'll traverse the area

with transmission minus 40 seconds.

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- Breck, we know youre up there, Breck!

All right, we're coming to take you.

(intense music)

(gunfire)

- Don't be stupid, Breck.

Give up before its too late.

It's already too late for you, Earth men.

What does that mean?

I've planted a bomb

in the radio telescope's rotation gear

When it's turned, the observatory

will be blown to pieces.

You will never beat us.

(gunfire)

(yells)

- We've got to warn them. - Theres no time.

We must try.

(intense music)

- Standby to rotate aerial.

Five seconds.

Rotate aerial.

- Picture transmission in 30 seconds.

We're gonna do it.

This time were gonna do it!

(intense music)

(booming)

(beeping)

- K14 observatory has been completely destroyed.

There is no chance of there being any survivors.

- The shadow of fear.

- What's is that colonel?

- In Greek mythology, Phobos was the attendant of Mars.

It means fear.

The name is appropriate.

Because of the Mysterons, the whole world

lives in the shadow of fear.

- What about Operation Sword, sir?

- Operation Sword, in spite of everything lieutenant,

that goes ahead as scheduled.

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