Production
A five-minute flashback sequence to the pilot episode, "The Mysterons", serves as a plot device to add credibility to Machin's suspicion of Captain Scarlet, and also aids viewers by reminding them of the origins of Scarlet's indestructibility. However, from a production point of view, the sequence provides filler material to pad out the episode, which was at first running under the standard length of 25 minutes.
Writer Tony Barwick, who had included a flashback to the same episode in the earlier produced "Dangerous Rendezvous", noted in his script that for the final episode of the series, the clip show "The Inquisition", segments from other episodes would be used. The episodes chosen to be featured in this last instalment were "Big Ben Strikes Again", "Crater 101" and "The Trap".
Barwick's script also included more detailed explanation of the mysteries that pervade the plot of this episode: it is made clear that the Mysterons' sole involvement in events has been create unrest within Spectrum by hinting at the existence of a traitor who is completely fictional, that the valve recovered by Scarlet malfunctioned due to the extreme conditions in the Australian Outback, and that the fire in Scarlet and Blue's room at Koala base was not the result of arson but an accident.
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