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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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