Sloane goes to Santa Maria, Brazil, in response to a message from U.N.I.T. agent Jacobsen. He finds the man's corpse in a deserted laboratory. A sole locust provides the only clue. Suddenly, gun men appear. Sloane flees. As he drives off, more gun men block the road and prepare to open fire. Swerving, the car goes straight into the river. The would-be killers think Sloane has flipped and laugh. But a moment later, the car emerges from the water and drives to safety up the other side of the riverbank. Sloane gets the last laugh.
A farmer toiling in the fields is attacked by a horde of hungry locusts. They are hybrids, produced as a result of mating ordinary bugs with a somewhat more malign strain known as The Devil's Locust. Anyone unlucky enough to be bitten by one dies within ten seconds. They are controlled by KARTEL agent Penelope Chandler, using an electronic device that can simulate the bug's mating call.
Sloane goes to Whitley University to meet Dr.Chris Bishop ( Barbara Rucker ), the country's number one entomologist and wouldn't you know it, a very attractive woman. Her mentor, Dr.Rand, was recently killed in a plane crash. Or so the world believes. In fact, he is alive and well and in the employ of Chandler, who intends to use the locusts to create famine by destroying America's wheat and grain supplies...
One of the more outrageous episodes in the series, 'Lady Bug' is also tremendous fun. In a nod to Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest', Sloane is attacked by a crop dusting plane, though the resolution is somewhat different. He survives by breathing air from one of the tyres of a tractor.
Edie Adams is cast as 'Chandler', a lady with a fondness for chocolates as well as surrounding herself with brawny young men in swimming trunks. I have to say I found her more cute than menacing. Jessica Walter would have better suited the role.
The business with the Director and Kelly's umbrella gun looks as though the producer realised they were under running and needed to pad the episode out a bit.
Sloane's gadgets - where to begin? Chased by KARTEL men, our hero lobs a dollar in their direction, exclaiming: "Keep the change!". The coin then emits an incapacitatory gas. Sloane's amphibious car was obviously inspired by Roger Moore's in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. Whether it also fires rockets we can only guess at. Kelly gives Sloane a tape recorder concealed in a watch. He also has a device for electrifying a door handle ( giving him time to search a room ) and a fake bunch of keys that, when touched, gives a nasty shock. At the end, he is seen chatting to the Director on a video screen inside a cigarette case. No wonder I like this episode!
When the locusts attack Chandler's plane at the end, some appear to have grown to giant-size. Either the hybrid's D.N.A. was unstable or else there was dodgy process photography here. I suspect the latter was the case. Pity. A possible follow-up in which gargantuan locusts attacked major cities would have been great!
A farmer toiling in the fields is attacked by a horde of hungry locusts. They are hybrids, produced as a result of mating ordinary bugs with a somewhat more malign strain known as The Devil's Locust. Anyone unlucky enough to be bitten by one dies within ten seconds. They are controlled by KARTEL agent Penelope Chandler, using an electronic device that can simulate the bug's mating call.
Sloane goes to Whitley University to meet Dr.Chris Bishop ( Barbara Rucker ), the country's number one entomologist and wouldn't you know it, a very attractive woman. Her mentor, Dr.Rand, was recently killed in a plane crash. Or so the world believes. In fact, he is alive and well and in the employ of Chandler, who intends to use the locusts to create famine by destroying America's wheat and grain supplies...
One of the more outrageous episodes in the series, 'Lady Bug' is also tremendous fun. In a nod to Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest', Sloane is attacked by a crop dusting plane, though the resolution is somewhat different. He survives by breathing air from one of the tyres of a tractor.
Edie Adams is cast as 'Chandler', a lady with a fondness for chocolates as well as surrounding herself with brawny young men in swimming trunks. I have to say I found her more cute than menacing. Jessica Walter would have better suited the role.
The business with the Director and Kelly's umbrella gun looks as though the producer realised they were under running and needed to pad the episode out a bit.
Sloane's gadgets - where to begin? Chased by KARTEL men, our hero lobs a dollar in their direction, exclaiming: "Keep the change!". The coin then emits an incapacitatory gas. Sloane's amphibious car was obviously inspired by Roger Moore's in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. Whether it also fires rockets we can only guess at. Kelly gives Sloane a tape recorder concealed in a watch. He also has a device for electrifying a door handle ( giving him time to search a room ) and a fake bunch of keys that, when touched, gives a nasty shock. At the end, he is seen chatting to the Director on a video screen inside a cigarette case. No wonder I like this episode!
When the locusts attack Chandler's plane at the end, some appear to have grown to giant-size. Either the hybrid's D.N.A. was unstable or else there was dodgy process photography here. I suspect the latter was the case. Pity. A possible follow-up in which gargantuan locusts attacked major cities would have been great!