Plot
It is planned that the Mysteron complex in Crater 101, on the far side of the Moon, will be destroyed with an atomic device. However, so that the Mysterons will not be able to reconstruct their complex, its power source will first have to be located and removed. Captains Scarlet and Blue and Lieutenant Green volunteer for the mission and, returning to the Moon, launch their operation from Lunarville 6. Travelling to Crater 101 in a Moonmobile, and transferring to a smaller Lunar Tractor to enter the crater, the officers are attacked by computerised sentinels, which are immobilised when Green destroys the control vehicle with the Tractor's cannon. Donning space suits and entering the complex, Scarlet, Blue and Green take camera and instrumentation recordings and ultimately find that the power source is a pulsating crystal.
However, the Mysterons have killed and reconstructed Frazer, a Lunarville 6 colonist who is transporting the atomic device to Crater 101. Frazer arrives in a Lunar Tank and lowers the device, but he has set it to explode two hours ahead of the proposed deadline to ensure Spectrum's failure. Lunarville 6 cannot radio the officers since they are out of range, so when the controller, Nolan, and her colleague, Schroeder, learn of Frazer's sabotage, a warning is attempted with the launch of an unarmed CB29 rocket, which lands nose-first in Crater 101.
The CB29's arrival prompts Scarlet to recall the description on a lucky charm handed to him by Nolan: in 2058, she coordinated the first Neptune-bound CB29 probe to be launched from the Moon, which arrived "ahead of schedule". Remembering this phrase, Scarlet realises that the atomic device will detonate "ahead of schedule". With minutes remaining until the explosion, Blue and Green return to the Moonmobile with the cameras and instruments and clear the scene. After considerable effort, Scarlet removes the Mysteron crystal from its machine, and departs in the Lunar Tractor just before the nuclear explosion. The complex is permanently destroyed, Scarlet, Blue and Green return to Earth so that the crystal can be studied.
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