Simon and Eugene discuss what kind of government department builds a ridiculous deadly weapons store under London, whether secret agents ever genuinely expect that “when they’re out, they’re out,” and when fictional spies become legends in their own fictional universe.
Episode Synopsis
Kitty McHaig, a techno-destruction artist, gets a birthday call – a day early – from her twin brother Christopher. After the usual pleasantries, they complain about their father. Dad has forced his son into the family construction business, and he hates it, and he’s shut out his daughter, and he disapproves of her idiotic (albeit lucrative) art. When the call ends, Christopher jumps from a construction crane to his death.
Things are in flux for Team Bugs. Ros has invented a video doohickey and is now filthy rich; Ed is test-racing high-tech bikes and gets in an accident, injuring himself; and Beckett is broke and has had all his assets frozen. It is this team that is urgently called to McHaig Construction, where a dynamite truck nearly exploded in the tunnel they are constructing. Ros has determined that a brilliantly-designed gizmo was the culprit. This was a case of sabotage.
Ed, asking questions about who might want to sabotage McHaig construction, meets Kitty at one of her art shows. There’s a little mutual attraction in the air, but little useful information to be gleaned. Ed does learn of Christopher’s recent suicide.
At Ros’ new mansion, Ros and Beckett analyze the device, but Ros has to dash because she’s got a date.
Ed arrives and starts to get a glimmer that Beckett’s got some troubles, but Beckett won’t talk about it. He also learns that the gizmo was brilliantly designed from tech stuff, and he gets the idea to ask Kitty if she knows anyone who might build something like this.
At the construction site, they find a wall where no wall should be, and behind it, they discover a single missile and a warning sign from the Bureau of Weapons Technology from 1953.
Ed, Beckett, and Kitty meet, but the only person she knows who could build something diabolical like that is a woman named Ros Henderson. Ed and Beckett rule her out of suspicion, for now. Beckett is also served papers and has to confess to Ed that he’s done something stupid with his ex-fiancee, and now he’s on the hook for her massive debts.
In the studio, Kitty learns of the missile from one of her agents at her dad’s company. They go to the tunnel to look and find a much bigger storehouse of deadly chemical weapons.
The next day, McHaig, who keeps this hush hush because he’s got deadlines, informs Team Bugs of the missile he knows about. They arrange to do containment and remediation on it. Meanwhile, Beckett goes to the Central Office of Records and Archives, hoping to find documentation from the now-defunct Bureau of Weapons Technology.
He meets with the Director of Intelligence Coordination. She shows him what’s left of the BWT, which is a sad little room with some file boxes and a low-level file clerk. She also knows about his current financial situation and tries very, very hard to convince him to come to work for her and revive the Bureau. She’s so well-informed, and the timing of a job offer is so fortuitous, that one could be forgiven for suspecting she arranged Beckett’s woes just to entrap him. Beckett refuses the offer.
In the end, she won’t allow him access to the files unless he takes the job. He refuses again and makes up his mind to steal the information.
In the tunnel, Ros and Ed have secured the missile and are taking to an overpack container. Unbeknownst to them, Kitty has installed another one of her gizmos in the loader that Ed will use to carry the missile.
Beckett mostly fails at breaking into the BWT, when he is caught, first by the file clerk, and second by the Director of Intelligence Coordination. Beckett has a long jail term in front of him, but he did at least get the information he needed. The warehouse doesn’t just have one missile, it has a huge stockpile.
The loader goes wrong, stopping, then beginning to crush the missile. McHaig arrives, without chemical hazard suit to save the day with some bolt cutters, but not before he’s splashed with the nerve agent, killing him instantly.
No, no, he’s not dead, and Ros rushes him to the convenient onsite hospital. Ed, who has been further injured in the accident, remains behind and realizes the missile is not ticking. That can’t be a good thing.
In hospital, after Ros leaves, Kitty shows up and gives her villain speech to her father. This apparently causes so much distress, he dies right on the spot.
Now taking an active role in the company, Kitty takes command of the salvage operation away from Ros. She sends in a robotic truck of her own design to rescue Ed and carry out the missile. There’s just one problem, it doesn’t rescue Ed, it drives itself into the stockpile of weapons and waits for the explosion. An explosion which will render the tunnel site completely unusable and ruin her father’s company. Coincidentally, killing millions of Londoners in the process, but you’ve got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette.
Ros figures out what’s happening and handcuffs herself to Kitty to force her to release the robotic truck or die along with everyone else. Beckett arrives along with the apparently-not-dead-but-just-resting McHaig. Kitty relents and Ed is able to pilot the vehicle out, get the missile in the overpack container just in time for an explosion that is both a disappointment for Ed and the legions of Bugs fans who keep track of such things.
Kitty still really wants to escape the tunnel and Beckett realizes she couldn’t have known about the exploding missile. It is the truck that is packed with explosives. Ed hops in and tries to drive the truck away while attempting to disarm it. He fails but jumps from the truck at the last moment, and in the confusion, Kitty escapes. He is seriously injured, but taken to hospital for surgery.
And that’s then Team Bugs learn that Beckett has enslaved them as the new Bureau of Weapons Technology.
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