EPISODE GUIDE TO SEASON TWO


Broadcast BBC TV 1996



Episode 1: What Goes Up…

The team have been called in to find a saboteur trying to prevent the launch of a satellite fitted with special geological surveying equipment. Ed goes undercover as a trainee astronaut. A bomb kills the trainees except for Ed and Susan Vornholt. A coolant leak threatens to blow up the shuttle on take off. The saboteur uses the star sheild satellite defence system to disable the shuttle.

Episode 2: …Must Come Down

The saboteurs accomplice attempts to kill President Haikudu in an attempted coup. Ros attempts to locate the controls of star sheild, Beckett has to get the access codes for the satellite from President Haikuda, and Ed has to release the satellite by hand. The satellite locates platinum deposits and a coup is averted.

Episode 3: Bugged Wheat

A viroid is used to destroy and experimental disease resistant crop. One of the saboteurs is identified as a meteorologist. Beckett checks out a rival pesticide company and discovers an antidote to the viroid. They intend using a swarm of beetles carried on the prevailing winds to spread the viroid across Europe, then sell the antidote for a huge profit. When the antidote is destroyed it is a race to stop the release of the beetles.

Episode 4: Whirling Dervish

A small airline is the target of a cartel of larger companies. A DCE (Direct Cerebral Encoding) device is stolen by the cartels man and tries to teach his pilot the Khazbek language, but he is killed chasing after Ed. Looking for a new pilot he hires Ed after he poses as the pilots friend. He is to fly a Khazbek fighter to shoot down a passenger plane from the airline. Ros must reprogram a signal beacon to redirect the target plane. Ed rigs the fighter to explode then ejects.

Episode 5: Blackout

While Ros is on a tour of a fusion reactor it is taken over by ecco terrorists. Ros slips away and discovers the terrorists are a front for a break in at the currency exchange. An arms dealer contacts the terrorists and makes a deal for the isotope triggers used at the plant. A power surge overloads the security systems at the currency exchange but Beckett is on hand to stop the thieves, while Ros and Ed must return the triggers before the plant blows up.

Episode 6: Gold Rush

A woman cons her way into currency market regulation system and releases a gold eating microbe which attacks the gold circuit board tracks crashing the system. Ed investigates a company Bio-Grow and discovers the microbe. He is caught but escapes with Ros and Becketts help, but microbes have been planted on him and are triggered when he enters the gold vault. Ed is trapped in the vault when it is sealed, Ros goes to Bio-Grow to try to make an antidote and Beckett attempts to override the vault defences to save Ed.

Episode 7: Schrodinger's Bomb

Arms dealers trade weapons including Red Mercury with General Maliq for ancient artifacts. Ros goes undercover to expose them but when revealed they seal the vault and escape. Jean Daniel buys the prison and his associates help him escape. They open the vault and take the Red Mercury and proceed to their meeting with the General. Jean Daniel is interested in Niobium 5, a superconductor the artifacts are inlayed with. During a final shoot out and the rescue of Ros, Jean Daniel escapes and recovers Niobium 5 from the original tomb.

Episode 8: Newton's Run

A company has developed the technology to control all motor control functions and have a prototype system implanted in the dog Newton. When an attempt to steal him fails they call in the Bugs team who discover the thieves safe house. When Newton escapes after another attempt they track her down using the builtin GPS system. The thieves are terrorists who aim to destroy a secret arsenal of weapons using Newton to plant the bomb. Ros goes after the terrorists while Ed & Beckett try to catch Newton.

Episode 9: The Bureau of Weapons

Cyberax a computer AI program is stolen from the military by Jean Daniel using his Niobium processors. Cyberax has a builtin virus which will kill the user if the true nature of Cyberax is revealed or existance of the virus is discovered. Roland from the bureau of weapons is infected then his body is spirited away by Cassandra. Beckett pretends to be infected and he is taken and discovers the bodies are being sent to Technopolis, a new high tech city where Jean Daniel is installing his new Niobium processors. Jean Daniel takes over a particle accelerator to create more Niobium. He is caught but Ros has to use Cyberax to stop the accelerator from blowing up, infecting herself.

Episode 10: A Cage For Satan

Ed & Beckett do everything they can to stop Ros from learning of the virus. When she thinks she can't trust them any more she decides to go see Jean Daniel, but they deduce where she is going and follow her. Cassandra infects Jean Daniel with the Cyberax virus killing him. He is rushed to hospital where he is revived virus free. When Cyberax moves into Technopolis it is trapped and threatened with cutting off the power. The infected bodies are an experiment for the next generation of organic processors. Beckett plants an explosive on the computer power supply which explodes destroying Cyberax. When Ros sucumbs to the virus Ed electrocutes her and rushes her to the hospital where she is revived virus free.


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