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| - [Scene: a large rocket standing on a launch platform. The voice of the launch supervisor is heard.] [Cuts to the crew sitting inside the solar module.] [Cuts to the Solar Control room.] [Cuts to the solar module.] [The rocket lifts off.] [Scene cuts to Tracy Island. Jeff, Scott, Tin-Tin and Alan are watching the rocket launch on TV.] [A TV presenter appears on screen.] [Scene cuts to Brains' laboratory. He's talking to a robot.] [Cuts back to Jeff's office.] [Scene cuts to the three solarnauts inside the cabin.] [Camp flicks a switch and the sun appears on a screen in front of them.] [After a long panning shot of the rocket exterior, the scene cuts back to Jeff's office.] [Scene cuts to Brains' laboratory. He's playing chess with his robot.] [Braman makes a move.] [Jeff appears at the door.] [Scene cuts to the Sun Probe Rocket.] [Cuts to an exterior shot of the rocket to show the front part separating from the main. It then cuts to the TV reporter on Jeff's screen.] [Scene cuts back to Brains' laboratory. He's still playing chess with his robot, who makes a move.] [Scene cuts to the Rocket.] [They watch the probe pass through a flare on a screen.] [Cuts to the TV reporter on Jeff's screen.] [The picture shows the probe reconnecting with the main body of the rocket.] [Scene cuts to Jeff talking to Colonel Benson by videophone.] [Cuts to Alan, Virgil and Scott. They're watching Brains playing chess with Braman.] [Scene cuts back to the rocket.] [Cuts to Tracy Island. It's evening.] [Cuts to Jeff's office the next morning.] [The couch with Alan, Tin-Tin and Scott on it descends through the floor and makes its way to Thunderbird 3.] [Thunderbird 3 lifts off.] [Scott enters the cockpit.] [Scene cuts back to Tracy Island. Virgil and Brains are loading Thunderbird 2.] [He points to a large blue trunk marked KW 147-5.] [Scene cuts to the door to Thunderbird 2's hangar opening. Thunderbird 2 exits the hangar.] [Thunderbird 2 launches. Scene cuts to the balcony outside Jeff's office.] [Aboard the Sun Probe, things are warming up.] [Alan and Scott watch the safety beam travel towards Sun Probe on a screen. It fails to reach its target.] [Scene cuts to Jeff in his office; he is talking to Gordon.] [Cuts to show Thunderbird 2 flying through a blizzard and preparing to land on a mountainside.] [Thunderbird 2 lands.] [Thunderbird 2 lifts itself up and the transmitter truck exits the pod. It drives on through the snow for some time. Virgil and Brains are inside it.] [Cuts to Thunderbird 3.] [Alan and Scott watch the safety beam travel towards Sun Probe again. It still fails to reach its target.] [Cuts to the transmitter truck.] [Scene cuts to the Sun Probe. Camp and Asher are barely conscious.] [Cuts to Thunderbird 3.] [Alan and Scott watch the safety beam as it fails to reach its target again.] [This time, the screen shows the beam reaching the Sun Probe. Scene cuts to Sun Probe. Its engines roar into action.] [Cuts back to Thunderbird 3.] [Scene cuts to Jeff's office. The reporter is back on television.] [Scene cuts to the transmitter truck.] [Cuts to Thunderbird 3. Everyone is exhausted from the heat.] [Cuts to Jeff's office.] [Cuts to Mount Arkan. Virgil and Brains are back inside Thunderbird 2, looking for a trunk.] [They open the trunk. Inside it is Brains' robot.] [Cut to Thunderbird 3. Alan makes his way to the lounge where Tin-Tin is.] [Alan falls down. Cuts back to Thunderbird 2.] [Cuts to Jeff in his office.] [Brains pulls a lever. After a while, the beam reaches Thunderbird 3, and its retros fire up.] [Cuts to Tracy Island. Brains and Braman are playing another game of chess.] THE END
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