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Renegade Rocket
"Renegade Rocket" is the 16th episode of ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'', a British 1960s Supermarionation television series co-created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Written by Ralph Hart and directed by Brian Burgess, it was first broadcast on 19 January 1968 on ATV Midlands. In this episode, Spectrum fights to stop a hi-jacked incendiary rocket from destroying an unknown target.
==Plot==
Space Major Reeves, rocket expert and friend of Colonel White (voiced by Donald Gray), finishes a tour of Cloudbase. As the Major returns to the island military facility Base Concord by yacht, Captain Black uses the Mysterons' power to induce nausea from the shore; while on deck for fresh air, Reeves falls into the sea when part of the side railing collapses, and is drowned by the yacht's slipstream. A Mysteron reconstruction of Reeves arrives at Base Concord and hi-jacks the control room, shooting the officer on duty; it then arms an incendiary Variable Geometry Rocket and launches it under the security codeword "ZERO". The duplicate escapes in a J17 fighter carrying the Flight Program Unit, the result being that Base Concord's personnel have no way of knowing where the VGR will strike, or which of the 10,000 registered codewords will remote-activate the rocket's self-destruct system. Additionally, for reasons unknown, the VGR is not registering on radar. The base commander contacts Cloudbase and White dispatches Captains Scarlet (Francis Matthews) and Blue (Ed Bishop) to the island, while also launching the Angel squadron to find the J17. Reeves is quickly intercepted but refuses to surrender the unit, damaging Melody Angel's (Sylvia Anderson) aircraft with the J17's machine gun and forcing her to eject before she crashes into the sea.
Scarlet, Blue and the Base Concord personnel realise that the VGR's invisibility to radar must be the effect of travelling on vertical ascent and descent flightpaths – therefore, the rocket's target can only be Base Concord itself. When a substitute unit arrives, the personnel start to run through all possible self-destruct codewords in alphabetical order despite the hopelessness of the situation. In the air, Rhapsody Angel (Liz Morgan) commands Reeves to surrender, but the Mysteron agent commits suicide by deliberately crashing the J17, sending the original unit to the ocean floor. Three minutes before impact, by which time everyone except Scarlet and Blue has been evacuated, White radios Base Concord to instruct his officers to leave. However, in a last-ditch attempt to save the base, they ignore the order and continue to input codewords. "AMEN", though fitting, is rejected; at the same moment, an ocean current knocks over the original unit, and the shock triggers the self-destruct seconds before impact.〔 On returning to Cloudbase, Scarlet and Blue initially believe that they miraculously succeeded in finding Reeves' codeword; when the true cause of the VGR's destruction is uncovered, White reprimands the officers for their insubordination. However, the Colonel elects not to appoint a court-martial, being all too aware of the value of Scarlet and Blue's bravery in the fight against the Mysterons.
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