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Commando Cody – who last week plunged to his death when a bomb exploded and the bridge he was driving over collapsed – cleverly spots the smoking bomb this week and jumps from his car seconds before the fiendish device can kill him.
He dusts himself off and returns to his top secret laboratory.
Cody explains Retick’s plan to the smooth guy we met in chapter one while some people do science in the background.
The two men agree that the best course of action is to round up Retick’s human saboteurs and thereby stave off the invasion until they are better prepared to deal with an atomic attack from the moon.
Meanwhile, Krog is building a new ray gun for his smartly dressed saboteurs.
The saboteur explains that he needs money to buy a truck in which to mount the ray gun (their words not mine). He asks Krog for some more of the jewels he brought from the moon. Krog says no – the saboteurs will have to rob a bank instead. After a little light blackmail the saboteur agrees.
Here we see them standing on a street looking nervous. A strange bell like noise starts to ring. What on earth can this be?
Ah right. The raid goes wrong and the police start shooting people.
Another exciting car chase ensues. This time it is the police (with one brave man on the footplate) chasing the saboteurs.
I’m not quite sure what is happening here. The saboteur in the passenger seat starts brawling with the saboteur who is driving. It might be that he’s been shot by the police and has lolled on his comrade in his dying frustration, it could be a sudden realisation that he’s gay and fancies boys from the wrong side of the tracks or it may be a dispute over the best way to escape from the police and get on with the business of selling humanity out to the aliens.
The driver escapes and leaves his colleague (dead, queer or in dispute) to plough into a tree. The police are bound to find the car and, providing they can only count to one, they will be fooled into thinking that the bank robbers got their just deserts.
Meanwhile, on the moon…
Krog seeks the advice of Retick. Here we see why this man is ruler of the moon and you’re not. Nor am I.
So, with their plan to kidnap Commando Cody and ransom him for $100,000 (Krog didn’t put his little finger up to his mouth – I was so disappointed), the heavy mob have been dispatched.
"Where is Cody?" they say to a man in Cody’s laboratory who I thought actually was Commando Cody. It’s only the fourth chapter – you can’t expect me to know which plank is which. Anyway, the man who isn’t Cody’ says he’s "Over there". When the bad guys turn to look he puts part two of his plan into operation and brawls with them.
Here we see him launching himself at one of the baddies.
But in the end, a two-on-one disadvantage is too much for the one I assume must be Ted. He is knocked out and the saboteurs pump the woman for information. She won’t tell them what she knows (which, seeing as she’s a woman, probably isn’t very much). They decide to use her as bait in a trap for Cody.
The baddies drive off and Cody arrives immediately after them. Oh! If they had only waited a moment… It’s always the way.
Cody gets an update from the woozy Ted. He realises that the two men and a woman he saw driving away must’ve been the same two men and a woman who recently left his laboratory. So he does what any hero with a flying suit would do – he phones the police.
They police mobilise five, ten, maybe fifteen thousand officers and they report that Joan – she has a name apparently – was put aboard a plane and flown away. But flying is no problem for Commando Cody – he has a leather jacket, a bucket and technology in his side. Or on his back at any rate.
He is in hot pursuit of the aircraft but the saboteur isn’t worried. When he takes his hat off – that’s when you can tell he’s really worried.
Oh no! The plane has the latest armaments built in. It’s like Airwolf but with two white stripes instead of one.
But fear not – Cody is also armed. His plan seems to be to fire his pistol at the plane in the hope that he will either kill the pilot (and this make it crash and kill his lady friend) or damage the plane (so it will crash and kill his lady friend).
The pilot tosses the steering wheel out of the window and prepares to jump. Remember what I said earlier? Well, he’s officially worried.
Cody, rather than scooping his chick out of the plane and flying her to safety with his rocket suit, decides to get in and try and land the wretched thing.
But the ground is getting nearer and nearer...
…until finally
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