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Episode Studies by Clayton Barr

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Sapphire & Steel: Zero Sapphire & Steel
"Zero" Part 2
Audio drama
Big Finish Productions
Written by Steve Lyons
Directed by Lisa Bowerman
June 2008

 

Steel takes a risk and depends on Gold for survival.

 

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

 

Steel

Gold

Silver

Sapphire

Andrea Straker

Jeff

Mark

Lead (mentioned only)

 

Didja Notice?

 

Interfacing with Andrea Straker's memories, Sapphire tells her she's never used a gun before. But that's not exactly true. She did wield a pistol in "Dr. McDee Must Die" Part 4, though she did not fire it.

 

Sapphire tells Andrea that aliens don't exist in "the real world", at least "none that we've encountered yet." In "Dr. McDee Must Die" Part 5, Steel responds to a query as to whether he and Sapphire are aliens with, "In an extra-terrestrial sense, yes." This may mean Sapphire and Steel and their fellow agents are not aliens from another planet, but are not from Earth; possibly they are from another dimension. Also, in "Water Like a Stone" Part 2, Ruby says they are not aliens.

 

Silver starts to blame himself for Gold's sudden affliction of rash and boils, that he should have seen it coming, like his failure to see the robot coming. A robot of a sort attacked Silver in "Zero" Part 1.

 

In "Zero" Part 1, Silver implies that he and his fellow agents can not "dream". Here, Sapphire seems to imply that if she were killed while inhabiting inside a human's dream, she would die.

 

Silver tells of the human myth of Pandora's Box, in which all the evils of the world were once held. This is from ancient Greek mythology. Sapphire goes on to compare this to not eating the forbidden fruit. The forbidden fruit is that which grew on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden in the Bible. In the Bible, Adama and Eve ate of the fruit and were expelled from the Garden by God.

 

As Steel plans to lower his temperature to drive their foes from the space shuttle airlock, he and Sapphire remark on how Lead is able to pour heat into him to revive him at the necessary moment, but Gold will have to perform that function here. Lead assisted Steel with just such an operation in "Escape Through a Crack in Time" Part 4. Where is Lead now? Is he unavailable?

  

Memorable Dialog

 

you're my gravity.mp3

if I'd known, I might have thrown away the key.mp3

this is your dream.mp3

humans have always distrusted science.mp3

fear of the future.mp3

bring him back.mp3 

 

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