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"Spectrum Strikes Back" is the ninth 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 Ken Turner, it was first broadcast on 24 November 1967 on ATV Midlands. Following the events of "Operation Time", in this episode Spectrum unveils two defences that it has developed against the Mysterons. However, the actions of a Mysteron agent leave the conference delegates in mortal danger. ==Plot== Colonel White (voiced by Donald Gray), Captain Scarlet (Francis Matthews) and Captain Blue (Ed Bishop) attend a secret conference hosted by Spectrum Intelligence beneath a hunting lodge in an African game reserve. Also present are the World President, Space General Peterson and, finally, SI's Dr Giadello, who has developed two anti-Mysteron devices based on the discoveries that Spectrum made during the attempted assassination of General Tiempo. To exploit the Mysterons' vulnerability to electricity, the "Mysteron Gun" can fire concentrated electron beams capable of permanently destroying their reconstructions; the "Mysteron Detector", meanwhile, is a radiographic device that can distinguish Mysteron agents from humans by the former's imperviousness to X-rays. Unknown to the delegates, Captain Indigo, a Spectrum officer working undercover as the hunting lodge's waiter, has been murdered by Captain Black and reconstructed in the service of the Mysterons. When his existence is revealed by the Mysteron Detector, the Indigo duplicate sabotages the conference by activating the lodge's descent mode; seizing the key for the ascent-descent controls, he subsequently escapes in a car, leaving the delegates to be crushed by the building slowly bearing down on them. Arming himself with the Mysteron Gun, Scarlet returns to ground level alone in the lodge's lift. The lift is rendered inoperative when the lodge starts its descent, removing the other delegates' sole escape route and necessitating that Scarlet pursue Indigo and recover the key. In the subterranean conference room, Blue slows the lodge's descent by firing his gun into the ceiling at the point where the controls are located. Chasing the Indigo reconstruction in a second car, Scarlet and a game warden intercept the Mysteron agent; he is only wounded by a shot from the warden's rifle, forcing Scarlet to use the Mysteron Gun to kill him. Rushing back to the lodge with the retrieved key, Scarlet reverses the building's descent seconds before White, Blue, Giadello, Peterson and the President are killed. Later, the delegates agree that the Mysteron Gun and Detector have truly proven their worth in the field. 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「Spectrum Strikes Back」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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