Episode Studies by Clayton Barr
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Sapphire & Steel
"Zero" Part 3
Audio drama
Big Finish Productions
Written by Steve Lyons
Directed by Lisa Bowerman
June 2008
Gold betrays Steel and Silver, then sets his sights on Sapphire.
Didja Know?
The opening titles theme of this episode has some distorted
background music playing underneath it. This is likely meant to
represent the disruption of the revelation that Gold has defected to
the Transients and is willing to let Steel die to achieve his aims.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Steel
Sapphire
Gold
Silver
Copper (mentioned only)
Andrea Straker
Mission Control
Mark (mentioned only)
Jeff (mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
Gold tells Steel that he (Steel) forced him to ask some hard
questions during the "perfect day" on the boat and it was
after that assignment that Gold decided to work for the
Transients. He is referring to the events of
"Perfect Day", parts 1-4.
Gold says he had the choice to make of whether to join the
Transients or stay where he was, as Steel once did. Steel
and Sapphire admitted to each other that they had been
offered a place with the Transients in the past in
"The Trap" Part 4.
Gold mentions "dour old Copper". Copper has never appeared
in a
Sapphire & Steel story, but is
mentioned in
"Escape Through a Crack in Time" Part 4,
where Lead says that Silver is having relationship problems
with Copper again and "Zero" Part 1,
where Silver remarks that the more he works with Gold, the
more he appreciates how Copper must have felt, implying that
Silver is a mentor to Gold and that possibly Copper had been
one to Silver.
