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The Launching
"The Launching" is the 26th episode of the Supermarionation television series ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons''. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 2 April 1968 on ATV Midlands, was written by Peter Curran and David Williams and directed by Brian Burgess.
In this episode, the Mysterons appear to threaten the assassination of United States President Roberts within twelve hours. However, as the hours pass, Captain Scarlet begins to suspect that the threat has been misinterpreted.
==Plot==
The Mysterons warn Spectrum that they will destroy United States President Roberts within twelve hours. Mervin Brand, a journalist for the ''Tribune'' newspaper, is travelling to Washington, D.C. to attend a presidential news conference when his aircraft is struck by storm lightning and crashes. Approaching the Capitol, Mysteron reconstructions of Brand and his plane are intercepted by the Angels, who are patrolling the airspace on the orders of Colonel White. Forced to land at an airfield, Brand completes his journey to Washington by car. Meanwhile, Roberts has agreed to protective measures proposed by Captain Scarlet, but insists on still holding the news conference. With one hour remaining before the Mysteron deadline, Brand arrives in his car outside the Presidential Residence. However, rather than attempt to crash a Spectrum checkpoint set up by Captains Blue and Ochre, Brand speeds past the Residence, almost hitting the Spectrum officers. With the Mysteron threat almost expired, Roberts is eager to attend the launching of an atomic liner, the biggest and fastest ever constructed, at the Trans-Pacific Shipping Corporation shipyard.
When the President reveals that the vessel is to be named after him, Scarlet realises that the ''ship'' to be named ''President Roberts'' may in fact be the Mysteron target. At the shipyard, the Mysteron agent exploits the human Brand's friendship with the Trans-Pacific Vice President to infiltrate the private box from which ''President Roberts'' will be launched. The Mysteron influence transforms the bottle of champagne to be used for the christening into an explosive device. Just as the Vice President's wife prepares to activate the bottle release mechanism, Scarlet arrives in a Spectrum Saloon, warning of sabotage and shooting Brand when the Mysteron agent turns to fire a gun at him. The shipyard is evacuated, but Brand has survived his wound and presses the bottle release. However, the bottle stops short of the keel of ''President Roberts'' and falls back into the private box, exploding on contact and obliterating both Brand and Scarlet. One week later, Scarlet has been completely healed by his retro-metabolic powers and amazes the human President Roberts when he appears next to Blue in his office.
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