The Square Triangle
Setting: Col. Freeman enters the SHADO Control room just as Straker allows a UFO past their defenses.
Straker: Hello, Alec.
Freeman: So, you let one through?
Straker: That's right.
Freeman: Why don't we do the job properly?
Straker: What do you mean?
Freeman: Ask the aliens round for drinks.
Straker: Let's go into the office.
[They go into Straker's office]
Straker: We're fighting a losing battle here, Alec. Why? Because we don't really know who or what we're fighting. I've waited months for a chance like this, Alec -- a UFO right on our own doorstep. That's why we let this one through. And those mobiles are on their way to bring it in. Intact. Before any deterioration sets in.
Freeman: Meanwhile there's a potential killer or killers at large.
Straker: Yes, I know. It's a risk. But the area has a low population density. It's mainly virgin forest [this is southern England he's talking about!] The danger factor must be very slight.
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Setting: Col. Freeman and the commander in HQ after the UFO is found a wreck.
Freeman: Just one thing puzzles me.
Straker: You should be so lucky!
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Setting: Col. Foster and the commander in Straker's HQ office after finding out that Mrs. Newton and her lover had planned to kill her husband when the alien intervened.
Foster: Well, we can't let them go free.
Straker: I suppose you think we should hand them over to the public prosecutor? There's no concrete evidence against them, and the two accused would have genuine, total amnesia.
Foster: So there's nothing we can do.
Straker: We're not in the moralising business, Colonel.
Foster: What about the husband? They wanted to kill him once; they're bound to try again.
Straker: Hmm. Well, in the line of duty we stumbled onto a triangle. SHADO's involvement made it a square. All we're doing is erasing the past twelve hours. So it's back to the triangle.
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Straker: Hello, Alec.
Freeman: So, you let one through?
Straker: That's right.
Freeman: Why don't we do the job properly?
Straker: What do you mean?
Freeman: Ask the aliens round for drinks.
Straker: Let's go into the office.
[They go into Straker's office]
Straker: We're fighting a losing battle here, Alec. Why? Because we don't really know who or what we're fighting. I've waited months for a chance like this, Alec -- a UFO right on our own doorstep. That's why we let this one through. And those mobiles are on their way to bring it in. Intact. Before any deterioration sets in.
Freeman: Meanwhile there's a potential killer or killers at large.
Straker: Yes, I know. It's a risk. But the area has a low population density. It's mainly virgin forest [this is southern England he's talking about!] The danger factor must be very slight.
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Setting: Col. Freeman and the commander in HQ after the UFO is found a wreck.
Freeman: Just one thing puzzles me.
Straker: You should be so lucky!
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Setting: Col. Foster and the commander in Straker's HQ office after finding out that Mrs. Newton and her lover had planned to kill her husband when the alien intervened.
Foster: Well, we can't let them go free.
Straker: I suppose you think we should hand them over to the public prosecutor? There's no concrete evidence against them, and the two accused would have genuine, total amnesia.
Foster: So there's nothing we can do.
Straker: We're not in the moralising business, Colonel.
Foster: What about the husband? They wanted to kill him once; they're bound to try again.
Straker: Hmm. Well, in the line of duty we stumbled onto a triangle. SHADO's involvement made it a square. All we're doing is erasing the past twelve hours. So it's back to the triangle.
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