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The last time we saw the Tomorrow People, the episode dribbled to a non-existent climax when Kenny mumbled a quick recap of the plot and the credits ran. Will Kenny and the proper TPs survive? Will Ginge and Lefty come good? Will the Cyclops be defeated? Will Jedikiah work out that his plan is nonsensical and come up with a better one? Find out below.
The Jedikiah robot reports to the Cyclops. They’ve still got Francis De Wolfe doing the voice so one wonders why they bothered building a crappy robot suit and hiring a second performer to waddle round in it. Everything is apparently running to Jedikiah’s plan. Which we know it isn’t. LIAR~!
Back at the lab, John asks Carol to "check his pack" but he doesn’t mean what I thought he meant as she looks behind him.
TIM doesn’t think they should go. Carol is appalled. TIM doesn’t think Kenny would want them to risk their lives for him. I don’t think Kenny gives a toss either way, to be honest.
Back in wherever, Ginge wants to bop the robot on the nose. Kenny mumbles something about it not making any difference.
The debate is still going on at the lab. TIM says they shouldn’t risk their lives because thousands more Tomorrow People will be breaking out soon and they will need help. The best solution seems to be to either let Kenny die or – at a pinch – send Stephen on a fruitless mission as he’s the least valuable member of the team that isn’t Kenny. Let John (manly) and Carol (mumsy) remain to nurture the next generation of TPs. They don’t need no hangers on.
TIM insists one of them stays. Carol says Stephen should stay. Stephen says he should be the only one who goes.
TIM says Carol should stay. I hope he’s not planning on using her to mate with Kenny. He’s only twelve.
Back in his control centre, the Cyclops touches something. I don’t know what. It doesn’t seem to do anything except use up five more seconds of air time.
The TPs have come to a decision – they’re all going. And no one can stop them.
Oh wait – TIM can. He can just not jaunt Carol. The house always wins.
The boys arrive on a convenient landing pad in the Cyclops’ space ship. They notice Carol isn’t there.
But a vague pink special effect distracts them from Carol – they’ve blundered into a thundering nuisance of a trap. If only they’d jaunted to another bit of the floor. How unlucky is that?
The Cyclops is pissed off that there are only two of them. Carol is also pissed off – she wanted to walk into a trap too. That’s what Mrs Pankhurst fought for – the right for women to fall into any trap a man can fall into.
TIM has a sudden change of heart – he’ll let Carol go up to the ship but only on two conditions – (1) she takes her stun gun and (2) she is sent to a different part of the ship. This is shrewd if suspiciously prescient thinking on TIMothy’s part.
She doesn’t fall into a trap. Yay Carol.
But Jedikiah happened to be waddling down that exact corridor at that exact moment and raises the alarm (i.e. shouts to no one in particular). Sucks to be Carol.
But Carol shoots first and stuns Jedikiah….
…which seems to be enough to make the entire space ship shake. The Cyclops is rocked from side to side and all his pretty furniture is swaying.
Jedikiah has fallen into stuff and stuff has then fallen on top of him. He waves a desperate arm but this butters no Carol parsnips. She scampers off to find the others. And Kenny.
The slight rocking of the ship is affecting the boys too. Trapped though they may be, they’re still being mildly disrupted by the ongoing wobble.
Oh. The force field has gone. The boys can wander off now. Hooray for satisfactory plot resolutions.
Jedikiah has recovered and a chase breaks out.
She evades him. You really wouldn’t know it was a woman in that costume would you? In no way does she conform to any dainty stereotypes.
Hoorah – they’ve found each other. All three Tomorrow People are now safe. Oh, apart from the 4th one. Maybe they won’t remember him.
Meanwhile, Jedikiah is not in the best of health – he’s gone made and his head’s on fire. That doesn’t bode well.
Somehow, even with the telepathy blocker on his head, Kenny can sense the closeness of his TP buddies. So he shouts and they hear him. I suppose this is a good thing. He’s quite useful to leave behind in the lab as a deterrent to burglars.
The happy reunion is somewhat spoilt by the lumbering, gibbering arrival of Jedikiah. He’s taken to randomly firing his gun and shouting at passers by.
They recap the plot – the robot is Jedikiah, Ginge and Lefty are goodies now, Carol shot the robot with a stun gun and – with everyone up to speed – John sends Stephen outside to check for danger.
He finds nothing so they find another room to lock themselves in and chillax.
Luckily, the random room they picked contains the airlock through which the Cyclops lives and breathes weird air. Ok, so maybe that’s a lot of assumptions based on a door with a wheel on it but John made them, no me.
They’re right – the airlock leads straight into the Cyclops’ throne room. Despite recent problems with shaking and rolling, the Cyclops is still sat in his favourite chair. He’s been expecting them.
He means them no harm. To prove this he makes the band on Kenny’s head…
…fall off.
But John’s other claim – that Jedikiah couldn’t get through the door – is proved FALSE~!
The robot waddles into the Cyclops’ room, shoots his gun a bit, doesn’t hit anything and waddles out. Kerazy.
The poor Cyclops is running out of argon and needs telepaths to power his ship (having lost his supply of both in a recent accident).
Stephen accuses the Cyclops of using telepaths as galley slaves. Cyclops says they were valued and well rewarded members of his crew. He was desperate and that’s why he tried to kidnap the TPs. Carol makes a wise point – why not just ask?
Cyclops says Earth has a violent reputation throughout the galaxy. Humans are always fighting each other. John says the Cyclopses are no better – look at Greek mythology. Instead of saying "What?" the Cyclops actually gives his side of the story. Apparently that was him but he was misunderstood.
But that’s all in the past – it’s too late to do anything for the Cyclops now. He would need two days to get the ship powered up using the TPs and he’s only got two hours’ worth of argon left. Probably less now John has noticed a hole in the wall.
Stephen seals the hole with some stuff from the lab but the Cyclops is in a bad way. And I don’t just mean his bizarre pony tail.
A lot of plot happens at once. There is a space ship going in the right direction to give the Cyclops a lift back to his home world. John goes back to the lab to get jaunting belts for "the saps" (a racist term for homo sapiens) and Kenny tells the others about the matter transmitter in the white room. Jedikiah is also wandering round but I don’t know what he’s up to so I haven’t mentioned it.
Jedikiah is in the power room and may well blow up the ship. Carol goes to stop him. A fight breaks out. Well, as close as you’ll get when one of the fighters is a man in a robot costume and the other is a woman in diving gear.
John puts lots of jaunting belts on the Cyclops and shouts incoherently through his space helmet. Stephen does as he’s told. There’s a chance – just a chance – that this will vaporise the ship. Urg.
It’s all lights, rocking and changes of focus at the moment. Things are reaching a climax.
The Cyclops is jaunted away – hopefully somewhere nice.
The space ship explodes. Hopefully Jedikiah was the only one left on board or this show will, henceforth, be known as "The Tomorrow Person".
Jedikiah survives without a scratch. Do I smell sequel? He’s such a well rounded character after all. Fans would’ve been clamouring for his return.
The TPs made it back to the lab. Kenny isn’t there but he’s somewhere so that’s ok. TIM assures them the Cyclops got home ok.
Stephen is told to go back to hospital and pretend he had another brain storm. The TPs will be in touch later.
Oh dear – Kenny, Ginge and Lefty were teleported into the river.
A dreadful laughter sequence breaks out.
And spreads.
THE END.
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