The Inquisition (Captain Scarlet episode)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Inquisition
Series = Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Season = 1
Episode = 32
Airdate = May 14, 1968
Production = 31
Writer = Tony Barwick
Director = Ken Turner
Episode list = List of "Captain Scarlet" episodes
Prev = Attack on Cloudbase
Next =

"The Inquisition" is the 32nd and final episode of the Supermarionation television series "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons". It was the 31st episode to be produced. Its original UK air date was May 14, 1968 on ATV Midlands. It was written by Tony Barwick and directed by Ken Turner. It is a clip show episode.

ynopsis

Captain Blue is drugged and apparently goes missing for three months. Regaining consciousness on Cloudbase, he is ordered by a Spectrum Intelligence agent to prove his identity by revealing top-secret cipher codes.

Plot

Dining at a restaurant with Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue drinks drugged coffee and disappears. Meanwhile, the Mysterons warn Spectrum that a member of their organisation will betray them all.

Blue regains consciousness in what appears to be the Cloudbase control room facing a man who introduces himself as Colgan, a Spectrum Intelligence agent. Colgan tells Blue that he has been missing for three months and must now prove his identity by giving details of the Spectrum cipher codes. Blue refuses to hand over this top-secret information and instead tries to prove who he is by describing a number of Spectrum's operations against the Mysterons. However, none of these recollections is enough to persuade Colgan: Blue's account of the Mysteron attempt to destroy London ("Big Ben Strikes Again") is dismissed as useless; the story of the mission to destroy the Mysteron complex on the Moon ("Crater 101") is rejected due to its heavy publicity in the media. Meanwhile, the Mysteron plot to assassinate Earth’s top military commanders ("The Trap"), despite never being reported in the press, is also rebuffed.

Increasingly suspicious of Colgan's demands that he reveal the codes, Blue tries to leave the control room, but is blocked by a man armed with a gun and a syringe containing a truth-telling drug. Realising that he is being held by Mysteron agents, Blue escapes by smashing through an observation window and finds that the Cloudbase control room is actually a fake constructed inside a warehouse. Captain Scarlet arrives in an SPV and destroys the building with the vehicle's cannon, informing Blue that he has only been missing for a few hours.

Cast

Regular voice cast

*Captain Scarlet — Francis Matthews
*Captain Blue — Ed Bishop
*Lieutenant Green — Cy Grant (featured in "Crater 101")
*Symphony Angel — Janna Hill (featured in "The Trap")
*Voice of the Mysterons — Donald Gray

Guest voice cast

In speaking order; for this episode:

*Waiter — Gary Files
*Colgan — David Healy

"Big Ben Strikes Again":

*1st Policeman — Paul Maxwell
*Macey — Charles Tingwell
*2nd Policeman — Martin King
*3rd Policeman — Jeremy Wilkin
*4th Policeman — Charles Tingwell

"Crater 101":

*Linda Nolan — Sylvia Anderson
*Frazer — David Healy
*Shroeder — Jeremy Wilkin

"The Trap":

*Commodore Goddard — David Healy
*Holt — Gary Files

Goofs

*When played in slow-motion, a gloved hand can be seen hurling the Captain Blue puppet out of the fake Cloudbase’s observation window as he escapes from the Mysteron agents.cite book
author = Bentley, Chris
title = The Complete Book of Captain Scarlet
year = 2001
pages = p.90
publisher = Carlton Books
id = ISBN 1-84222-405-0]

Notes

*This is the only episode of "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" to feature neither Colonel White nor the real Cloudbase.
*Due to "The Inquisition" consisting mainly of flashbacks, just 11 minutes of new material was filmed for this episode.

References

External links

* [http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/scarleteg.html#Episode%20Thirty%20One Fanderson.org.uk: "Captain Scarlet" Episode Guide: "The Inquisition"]
* [http://www.tv.com/captain-scarlet-and-the-mysterons/the-inquisition/episode/165473/summary.html TV.com: "Captain Scarlet" Episode Guide: "The Inquisition"]
* [http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Capt%20Scarlet%20Timeline.htm# Clivebanks.co.uk: "Captain Scarlet" Episode Guide]