Simon and Eugene discuss explaining quantum mechanics badly, Simon explains quantum mechanics badly and we talk about a plot so convoluted it involves buying your way out of prison by buying the prison.
Episode Synopsis
Doctor Neumann and his daughter Cassandra visit, at gunpoint, an archaeological site in the country of Naobi(?) They are brought before strongman General Maliq, who hopes to take control of the country.
He’s got lots of Bactrian Gold artifacts, and they’ve got weapons, including the mythical super-explosive, Red Mercury – only it’s not mythical. Looks like a deal can be done.
Back in London, Ros visits Doctor Neumann and his daughter, pretending to be royalty hoping to trade gold for arms. She is, in fact, working on behalf of the Bureau of Weapons Technology.
Her cover is blown, Cassandra escapes, and Neumann manages to secure the vault and engage all the security protocols.
In short, as long as everyone remains outside the building, it won’t blow up, if it does blow up, it will destroy any evidence in the vault. Without the evidence, there’s no case to charge Neumann.
It’s a catch-22 situation, look it up, not really a Schrödinger’s Cat situation.
Meanwhile, the prison warden in charge of Jean Daniel is very nervous. There’s been a hostile takeover of his prison and he’s afraid his job is on the line. He asks Jean Daniel to be a model prisoner to show how well he runs the prison.
The pieces start to come together. Maliq is in the country just prior to a conference back home that will carve up the country, leaving him out. He may want these weapons to kill off the competition
Ed and Beckett find Cassandra’s car and determine that it’s been carrying an unknown form of Mercury and Californium 252. That could be the mythical Red Mercury, and if so, those are just the things you’d need to build a neutron bomb. Maliq’s plan becomes clearer.
The new owner of the prison has arrived and it’s Jean Daniel, along with Cassandra and Neumann. They use the opportunity to escape.
Ros is captured by Maliq and Jean Daniel. They head to the building where we discover that the code to disable the bomb was under Neumann’s hair in the form of a bar code.
The vault is opened, the Red Mercury secured, and a trap is set to kill Ed and Beckett. They escape and track the still-captive Ros to a ship carrying Dioxin. Maliq will slip the Red mercury out surrounded by tons of lethal poison.
Jean Daniel has kept his part of the deal. He’s delivered the Red Mercury and Ros, who will be forced to build the Neutron bomb. Maliq pays up in the form of the Bactrian gold artifacts that the Neumann’s wanted.
It’s just that Jean Daniel didn’t want the gold, he wanted the dull stuff that was stored with the antiquities – Naobium 5, a rare, newly created radioactive material that was apparently somehow stored for thousands of years in a sealed royal tomb along with the gold.
He feels double-crossed, much like the audience at this moment. Maliq and Jean Daniel independently decide to kill each other.
Threatening to blow up the Red Mercury and spread Dioxin all over London if they don’t let him leave, Ros and Ed manage to get the Red Mercury out before it explodes. The Red Mercury explodes in a very lackluster, by Bugs standards, explosion. Jean Daniel kills Maliq and escapes.
Later, we see Jean Daniel in the royal tomb coveting the Naobium 5.
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