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Sapphire & Steel
"Second Sight" Part 3
Audio drama
Big Finish Productions
Written and directed by Nigel Fairs
April 2008 |
Ruby takes charge and begins to piece together a deception
taking place.
Didja Know?
In the "Second Sight" storyline, Sapphire and Steel have seemingly
been replaced by new individuals using the same names. The new
individuals speak with what seem to be Australian accents instead of
British and the pair seem to have transposed personalities, with
Sapphire being impatient, stern, and often rude and Steel being more
kind-hearted; but they each seem to have the same individual
abilities. The mystery of this new pair is resolved in
"Second Sight" Part 4, connected to the state we last
saw the original pair at the end of
"The Mystery of
the Missing Hour" Part 3, trapped on an audio CD that had just
run out its play-time.
This four-part storyline features a new version of the classic
Sapphire & Steel theme and opening
monologue, represented the altered Sapphire and Steel depicted here,
perhaps also an altered organization which sends them on their
missions. Listen:
altered opening theme
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Mary Cleg
Mary's daughter (unnamed, mentioned only)
Richard (mentioned only, deceased)
Steel
Davey
Ruby
Sapphire
Polly
Annie
(mentioned only, dies in this episode)
Silver (mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
Ruby remarks on how green Steel is "...just like you were
when i first met you." She goes on to say, "there was
something rather charming about the cynical, older version."
She is referring to the "original" (as far as we know) Steel
played by David McCallum on TV and by David Warner in the
previous audio productions. This almost makes it sound like
this new, younger Steel is a new manufacture of the Steel
"template". Are the agents of the higher power more like
robots or artificial beings who can be "cloned" anew when
the previous version is killed or destroyed? It's also a bit
reminiscent of the regeneration of Time Lords in Doctor
Who. (Sapphire and Steel even made a cameo appearance
in the Doctor Who comic book story "Party Animals"
in Doctor Who Magazine #63, 1991, as seen below).
Steel finds an October 1, 1955 edition of the Daily
Mirror in Davey and Polly's home. The
Daily
Mirror is a British daily tabloid newspaper. Steel
reads the headline as "Baby Kidnapped from Crib." There was
no such headline on that
edition of the paper.
Ruby finds a copy of the Hellingly
Chronicle. As far as I can tell, this is a fictitious
newspaper.
Davey and Polly's home is in a village called "little
Hellingly". This may refer to the village of
Hellingly in East Sussex.
Mary Cleg seems to say that her married name was Mary
Rinthoy, but later Polly says it was Mary (Jean) Reynolds.
Polly mentions the death of Princess Diana, which was
reported on the radio in
"Second Sight" Part 2.
Davey remarks he can't go to his room to listen to his CDs
because "she boarded it up." Sapphire boarded up Davey's
room in an attempt to keep the Transient vortex away in
"Second Sight" Part 2.
Davey mentions listening to The Tomorrow People
from his CD audio play collection on his Walkman. The Tomorrow People
was a British children's science-fiction television series
and an audio production series by Big Finish. It was previously
mentioned in
"Second Sight" Part 1.
"Walkman"
is Sony's brand name for its personal audio/video devices.
Ruby tells Sapphire and Steel how
the two of them had previously been trapped on a CD due to a
fissure created by a crack between fiction and reality (in
"The
Mystery of the Missing Hour"), adding, "God rest your
poor, departed souls." Does this suggest that the agents, or
Ruby at least, believe in God? Is God the higher power who
sends them on their missions?
Memorable Dialog
Steel, you're so green.mp3
God rest your poor, departed souls.mp3
they've become our reality.mp3
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