Instead of a recap of the plot – of which there is lots – we get recaps of the principle characters, most of whom we’ve already met.

Don't snigger - the villain is known as "The Lame One".

This man is evil. He hides it well.

Gordon Tracy - pilot of Thunderbird 4

No, wait, wrong one. Gordon Tracy - newly evil member of the Lame One's gang.

The token female - assistant and secretary. Nothing that might make her get ideas above her station.

Awwww - Dick Tracy has pals.

Steve Lockwood and Clive Anderson. Clive Anderson?

And finally, the hero himself. He's a "G-Man" apparently. It rhymes with He-Man and semen. He hasn't noticed that a midget is about to shoot him with a very small cannon.

The scene is firmly set for what we’re in for – last week we saw girders falling onto the prone head of Dick Tracy. This week we see girders falling onto the prone head of Dick Tracy, Dick Tracy get up and Dick Tracy dust himself down. Because nothing gets dirt on your suit quite like metal girders falling on your prone head. One silliness point to Dick Tracy.

Dick’s plan to get lots and lots of people to drive onto a bridge that is collapsing so it won’t collapse is a surprising success. The plastic plane flies off "into the stratosphere" to lick its wounds.

A man is arrested and, before he feels the full force of the law, gets a hard state from Dick Tracy.

Dick rushes over to the police aerodrome and is taken up in hot pursuit of the Lame One’s plane. Is it me or does the police department logo look like a cartoon pig?

It comes to nothing but dullness. The Lame Plane flies into the stratosphere and escapes. Back at HQ…

…we see Dick Tracy explaining to his awestruck colleagues that this new weapon represents a threat to the nation. He sends them off to do things while he sits and thinks.

A troublesome old lady demands to see Dick. Well, at her age she probably doesn’t get many opportunities. The comedy sidekick tries to stop her but she hits him with her umbrella. We laughed.

She babbles on about how her chickens have stopped laying.

She says it’s been like that ever since that new power station opened near her home. It makes a strange humming sound. This obvious piece of plot development makes Dick wonder.

Meanwhile, at the Lame One’s secret base…

The evil brother reports to the Lame One that Dick fouled up their plans. The Lame One is angry but his weird evil doctor sidekick is delighted at the prospect of brother vs brother, one good and one bad.

Dick looks at something under a microscope. His female assistant reads out a list of substances found on the arrested man. Dick is interested at the mention of asbestos.

It all ties in with what the old lady said – Dick decides to follow his hunch and visit the power station which is annoying the hens.

Dick rings the bell. Inside the power plant, his evil brother hears the doorbell and assumes it must be Dick.

Dick has a look around, picks up a piece of asbestos and goes back to his car. He deduces that this must be the headquarters of the gang as he believes he is being watched.

They drive off but Dick jumps from the car and doubles back.

He finds the gate locked and the barbed wire electrified. What can he do? Well, he picks up a pole but sure he can’t be…

…planning on...

…vaulting it? Apparently so. Another silliness point to this serial. After a slow start it is beginning to score.

He finds his way into the building but is chased by some men. He escapes and tries to blend in with his surroundings.

He slides down some power cables like Sylvester McCoy or Crash Corrigan.

Then he swings like Tarzan when he spots the Lame Plane.

Having sabotaged the sound weapon, Dick steals the plane his evil brother was going to use to escape in.

But lo! The baddies fire at the departing plane and score some palpable hits. The plane crashes into a bridge and Dick is killed instantly.

That doesn’t even mean anything.