On a rather suspect looking space ship, someone sneaks up on Richard Hillman, kills him & wrecks the controls.
The civilian ship is detected by the Liberator, and Blake & Jenna stare at each other a bit.
Vila says he can always sense danger. "Even when there isn't any," replies Gan. BURNED.
Blake, Avon & Cally teleport to the ship. Taking Cally is the equivalent of a canary in a mine.
Blake & Cally find some of the crew who have succumbed to tranquilizing gas.
Cally has a snooze too.
Even Avon's affected so that gas must be strong.
Cally is menaced by an opening door. She whips it open and Richard Hillman's corpse flops out.
Pretty sure that the killer is either the Robots from #TheRobotsOfDeath, or Gail Platt.
These film sequences are shockingly washed out.
5421? It's a clue!
There's Drax, before he became the pathologist on Midsomer Murders.
Blake quizzes the survivors while Avon tries to repair the sabotage.
Chief suspect seems to be this missing flight engineer... That definitely won't be a red herring.
The ship is from the planet Destiny. Who names a planet Destiny for crying out loud.
Drax shows Blake the spoils of the safe: a "neutrotrope" required to free their planet from a slimy white fungus.
Sounds like the Great Intelligence up to its old tricks.
The ship can be partially repaired but it will still mean that it takes them 5 months to get to Destiny.
The Liberator could do it in 4 days. Show off.
John Leeson! Good old K9. And there's Nimrod too! Looks a bit different.
Blake offers to go to destiny with the neutrotrope; Avon & Cally will stay behind.
Avon doesn't care if Destiny turns into 1 giant mushroom, he just doesn't like an unsolved mystery.
Cally sees Mandrian plant an electronic box in Sara's handbag, then they have a row.
Bulic from #WarriorsOfTheDeep sneaks after Cally, who runs into Stuart Fell, who lives up to his name by falling off some lockers. He's dead, Jim.
The pilot was supposed to be unconscious too but had switched off the air to the flight deck.
Avon thinks one of the crew is the murderer.
Cally starts to suspect Sonheim, whose "I came to apologize cos you're fit" excuse is just plain bizarre.
Mandrian's been killed and Nimrod thinks Bulic did it.
Blake takes the Liberator through an asteroid field. Terrible driver.
Avon's sussed who the killer is now, and hasn't fallen for the red herring.
Sara's suddenly gone terribly posh.
The "mistaking a name for letters" plot seems derived from the "mistaking German for a name" in A Study In Scarlet.
Yeah; It's very much Avon = Holmes, this episode.
The crew play dead to lure Sara out, and Avon just plain thumps her.
Darrow's delivery of (horrible) line about hitting Sara is brilliantly interrogative of its sense. I love actors who pick lines up & just *shake* them for less obvious meanings. Peak Darrow does that.
It's very much "*I* enjoyed that? Me? Really?" isn't it! Top work from the Darrow!
TTFN! K.
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