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Episode Summary
Written
by J. Cole Weston
In
St. Louis, Overlord plots to destroy the U.N.'s communications
network.
Episode
Notes
Written
by J. Cole Weston
In
depth: The Zone Riders are on another mission to destroy a
generator in St. Louis. From the Arch, Overlord commands the
battle. When Rimfire is disabled, they fall back to the Eagle.
Kat has a close call with Bull Whip and is knocked into the
water. The others are forced to retreat leaving her behind.
Bandit is sent out to find her with a heat source tracker.
Following a robots lead, she proceeds to the top of Gateway
Tower, which is under construction.
Overlord is apparently installing a nanowave transmitter on
Gateway Tower that will disrupt U.N. communications. The Eagle
is then attacked by Black Widows and lifts off. Kat finds
construction workers who have been trapped for months above
the Zone and have no idea about Overlord or the Zone Riders.
They take her suit since the robot is damaged and she is forced
into combat with their leader Sullivan for a place to survive.
Kat almost beats Sullivan, but saves him from falling. Intruder
arrives to harass the workers with laser fire. The Black Widows
arrive to capture the men.
In
Eagle, Dr. Laurence joins the Riders to plot the destruction
of the nanowave transmitter. On the tower, Overlord informs
Razorback that within 1,000 meters, all life will be destroyed
around the transmitter. Descending into the Zone, Kat and
Sullivan program the robot shortly before being Zoned. Once
Overlord leaves, the robot hits the button to raise them out
of the Zone. Kat then alters the transmitter with Sullivan's
help.
The
Zone Riders set the charges on the West side of the building
and get them ready to blow. Intruder chases the Zone Riders
on foot who retreat in Eagle. Kat then radios the Zone Riders
who rescues her and Sullivan from the building as it falls.
The building crushes the Zone Generator, and Courage receives
and official reprimand for changing the charge pattern, but
is officially congratulated by McFarland.
Items
Noticed: Hiro's orange personal propulsion device is very
similar to items available to divers today. Another successful
future prediction by SPIRAL ZONE. Notes:
As visible from a side by side shot, it appears Eagle is a
specially modified version of a UN transport (the gold planes
seen often). What
do we learn? Gateway Tower, which is over one mile high, was
under construction in St. Louis when the SPIRAL
ZONE hit in June of 2007. It's located at Map Grid
4 Delta 6. Apparently
the Zone is anywhere from 1/2 mile to 3/4 of a mile tall,
judging by the size of Gateway Tower. Taking the easy way
out, that's 2,640 feet tall, or 805 meters tall. The
Zone has only been in place for months - as the construction
crew has been living off what the robot can bring from the
food lockers. This means at this point in the story, it is
at least August, and more probably the winter months of 2007
considering the snowy locales they have visited previously
(including Dirk Courage's Action Cassette, "Snow Zone").
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