This week’s exciting escape isn’t – as certain cynics might’ve supposed – Cody using his flying suit to carry Joan to safety. For that would be a dreadful cop out and we would never forgive them. Instead, they cleverly use a piece of astonishing sexism by having Cody strap a parachute that was already in the plane onto the female who would obviously never have thought of doing that.

She gets down safe and watches with barely disguised admiration as her plank-like hero flies off to try and find the man who left her to die in the previous episode.

But the evil fiend has found a cunning escape route. He’s flagged down a passing motorist and asked for a lift.

Cody is flying overhead, looking for his prey. Here we get our first decent look at the complicated controls with which he operates the flying suit.

They make no sense. How can 4 be "Up" and 6 "Down". What happens if he chooses 8? Does he end up underground? And how can 4 be "On" and 6 "Off" while we’re about it? Is 10 dead? Is 5 some strange state of being half on and half off – like trying to do a crossword before you’ve had your morning coffee?

The driver gets a surprise when his apparently respectable passenger pulls out a gun. Here we see him carefully avoiding hitting the projectionist.

Cody heroically fires back because it isn’t as if the driver of the car is an innocent bystander. Apart from the "innocent" and "bystander" parts that is.

The rudo gets a lucky shot in and snaps Cody’s bra strap. Although Cody plays it as if his strings have been cut.

Meanwhile, on the moon…

Krog reports that their attempt to fill time pad out the story capture Commando Cody for ransom has been a failure. Retick fumes in a monotone and tells Krog that if his existing henchmen cannot obtain money then he should get some new ones.

So the henchmen decide to rob someone and steal money from their safe. This requires exactly no seconds of planning as we cut straight to them escaping from an alarmed building.

Hooray. Another car chase.

They cleverly throw the bag of money out of the window. That way the only thing the police will be able to pin on them is shooting at them while escaping from the scene of a crime. No jury in America could convict on such flimsy evidence.

But wait! A bullet has found its mark and the heels’ tire blows like a hooker. Their smart black car crashes through a fence and tumbles down a hill.

Meanwhile, at Cody’s top secret lab, he brings his fellows good news. He’s just been to the police station to identify a prisoner – it is one of the hoodlums that has been causing all the trouble. Justice will prevail after all.

Cody explains that the prisoner is going to be moved to a secure location and pumped for information about the invasion from the moon. Krog is appalled.

Actually he isn’t as he doesn’t know any of this yet but it looked as if he was. He gets an update from another man in a hat and they formulate a plan to spring their brutha from the pound.

Stage One – listen for the oncoming vehicle.

Stage Two – hold an ice cream man at gun point.

Stage Three – put your hat on before commencing your escape.

Stage Four – escape in the most conspicuous vehicle you can find.

Stage Five – stand around listening to the radio once you meet up with your getaway driver. Under no circumstances listen to the radio while actually making your getaway because that might be dangerous.

There follows a clever twist on the old car chase routine. Here we have the ambulance and Cody’s car on a collision car. As they get closer, the driver of the ambulance bails out and leaves his truck of death to play a lethal game of chicken. Cody and Ted realise what is about to happen.

Yes – it is a driverless ambulance on one side of quite a wide road. How the hell can they get out of this one?

They don’t.