"White As Snow" begins with a radio station in space broadcasting cheesey music. Ground staff are arranging a re-entry of the satellite when Captain Black enters the control room. A demand of "Who are YOU??" obviously doesn't upset him as he binds and gags the controller rather than killing him. Captain Black sets the satellite on a collision course with Cloudbase.
On Cloudbase a somewhat annoyed Colonel White finds his staff sitting about, listening to the music, and the music is getting louder and louder. The cause is soon determined and an Angel plane is launched to destroy the satellite. We then hear the threat of the week: The Mysterons aim to kill Colonel White.
Unlike in "Seek & Destroy" when the Angels are the Mysteron target Colonel White sees it as best for the base's safety if he leaves Cloudbase rather than bask in its relative security. He asks Captain Scarlet to take command. Scarlet refuses, figuring that the destruction of the satellite was cold blooded murder and so he's in no mood to do the Colonel any favours. Colonel White asks Captain Blue to take command, and even though he was "second best" Captain Blue eagerly agrees, saying it'd be an honour.
Lieutenant Green puts Captain Scarlet in his place, telling him that the satellite was a Mysteron booby trap, the wreckage of the real one having been found some time before the attack on Cloudbase. Scarlet asks Green if he knows where the Colonel has gone to, Green says that maybe he does, but that he's under orders to keep quiet, so "I'm saying nothing."
Whilst Captain Blue shows himself to be an absolute tartar when sat in the Colonel's chair, the Colonel is on a helijet out in the ocean. A submarine surfaces, he tells the astonished pilot that he isn't "a big shot in the navy" but a "deep sea fisherman"....surely "No, I'm a marine biologist." would've been more realistic??
As the sub dives, The Mysterons see to it that a submariner named Soames is killed, the reconstruction is given the job of caring for Colonel White who is passing himself off as "Robert Snow" "Don't worry, I'LL take good care of him." The Mysteron agent starts a shoot out with "Mr Snow"/Colonel White but it turns out that Scarlet sneaked aboard the submarine, slugged the Colonel, knocking him out cold, bound and gagged him, and shoved him in a locker, "for his own good".
Holding an inquest back on Cloudbase, the Colonel found that Captain Scarlet "pulled rank" on Lieutenant Green forcing him to reveal the Colonel's hiding place (besides security guards, Green seemed to be the Spectrum underling, I wonder if the Angels had authority over him?) Scarlet used his Spectrum ID to get past the base security: "The rest you know sir." Colonel White is no doubt pleased his life was saved, he just didn't like the hands-on way Scarlet did it. He sentences Scarlet to death (no court martial....no doubt Captain Blue would've been the counsel for the defence.) and then says it'd be pointless putting Scarlet before a firing squad and says "Dismissed." 7/10.
On Cloudbase a somewhat annoyed Colonel White finds his staff sitting about, listening to the music, and the music is getting louder and louder. The cause is soon determined and an Angel plane is launched to destroy the satellite. We then hear the threat of the week: The Mysterons aim to kill Colonel White.
Unlike in "Seek & Destroy" when the Angels are the Mysteron target Colonel White sees it as best for the base's safety if he leaves Cloudbase rather than bask in its relative security. He asks Captain Scarlet to take command. Scarlet refuses, figuring that the destruction of the satellite was cold blooded murder and so he's in no mood to do the Colonel any favours. Colonel White asks Captain Blue to take command, and even though he was "second best" Captain Blue eagerly agrees, saying it'd be an honour.
Lieutenant Green puts Captain Scarlet in his place, telling him that the satellite was a Mysteron booby trap, the wreckage of the real one having been found some time before the attack on Cloudbase. Scarlet asks Green if he knows where the Colonel has gone to, Green says that maybe he does, but that he's under orders to keep quiet, so "I'm saying nothing."
Whilst Captain Blue shows himself to be an absolute tartar when sat in the Colonel's chair, the Colonel is on a helijet out in the ocean. A submarine surfaces, he tells the astonished pilot that he isn't "a big shot in the navy" but a "deep sea fisherman"....surely "No, I'm a marine biologist." would've been more realistic??
As the sub dives, The Mysterons see to it that a submariner named Soames is killed, the reconstruction is given the job of caring for Colonel White who is passing himself off as "Robert Snow" "Don't worry, I'LL take good care of him." The Mysteron agent starts a shoot out with "Mr Snow"/Colonel White but it turns out that Scarlet sneaked aboard the submarine, slugged the Colonel, knocking him out cold, bound and gagged him, and shoved him in a locker, "for his own good".
Holding an inquest back on Cloudbase, the Colonel found that Captain Scarlet "pulled rank" on Lieutenant Green forcing him to reveal the Colonel's hiding place (besides security guards, Green seemed to be the Spectrum underling, I wonder if the Angels had authority over him?) Scarlet used his Spectrum ID to get past the base security: "The rest you know sir." Colonel White is no doubt pleased his life was saved, he just didn't like the hands-on way Scarlet did it. He sentences Scarlet to death (no court martial....no doubt Captain Blue would've been the counsel for the defence.) and then says it'd be pointless putting Scarlet before a firing squad and says "Dismissed." 7/10.