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"Dangerous Rendezvous" is the 19th episode of ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'', a British 1960s Supermarionation television series co-created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Written by Tony Barwick and directed by Brian Burgess, it was first on 9 February 1968 on ATV Midlands. In this sequel episode to "Crater 101", Spectrum uses the crystal pulsator removed from the Mysterons' lunar outpost to contact the enemy and propose a cessation of hostilities between Earth and Mars. ==Plot== Following the success of Spectrum's mission to destroy the Mysterons' lunar outpost, the Nash Institute of Technology's Dr Kurnitz has discovered that the extracted crystal power source can be used to communicate with the Mysterons on Mars. Captain Scarlet (voiced by Francis Matthews) escorts Kurnitz to Cloudbase, where an interplanetary transmitter has been built. After the pulsator is integrated with the machine's circuitry, Colonel White (Donald Gray) hails the Mysterons; recalling the ''Zero-X'' mission to Mars, he insists that Captain Black's destruction of their city was motivated not by aggression, but fear. White concludes his broadcast with an offer of peace; the Mysterons, however, have vowed to destroy Cloudbase itself at midnight. Hourly sweeps with Mysteron Detectors have so far failed to uncover any suspicious devices. Two hours after the transmission, Cloudbase receives a response from Mars: the Mysterons agree to negotiate on the condition that a Spectrum officer, unarmed and carrying no communications equipment, depart Cloudbase on a pre-determined flightpath. Volunteering to represent the organisation, Scarlet leaves in a Spectrum Jet. Ordered to bail out over Greenland by the disembodied Mysteron voice, Scarlet observes from the air as his aircraft loses altitude and crashes. On landing, the captain is picked up by a car driven by the Mysteron force; he is then driven to what appears to be a derelict shack but which in fact contains modern interiors and a viewing monitor. Believing that he is in the presence of the Mysterons themselves, Scarlet is unaware that Captain Black is sitting behind the monitor. Ordering Scarlet to relay a "message" to Spectrum, the Mysteron agent starts a tape recording – in which the Mysterons re-state their desire to destroy all life on Earth – and departs. Suspecting that the meeting is a trap, Scarlet smashes the monitor to discover a second Mysteron crystal – which grows brighter and hotter as it starts to pulsate. Scarlet escapes the shack just before it is destroyed in the resulting explosion. Scarlet realises that the first pulsator poses a danger to Cloudbase. He commandeers the empty saloon and speeds to an unmanned radar station, from which he signals to Cloudbase in Morse code. With midnight fast approaching, White deciphers Scarlet's message. On the colonel's orders, Captain Ochre shoots out an observation window and jettisons the white-hot pulsator, which detonates harmlessly in the atmosphere. Later, White concedes that Spectrum still has much to do if it is to gain the Mysterons' trust; he affirms, however, that the organisation will not abandon all hope of a diplomatic solution to the war between Earth and Mars. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dangerous Rendezvous」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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