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| - [Scene cuts back to the jungle. More trees are uprooted. A gigantic walking vehicle gradually comes into view. Title card appears: PIT OF PERIL.] [Scene cuts to the vehicle's cockpit.] Colonel Sweeney: "Point nine it is, sir. Sidewinder out." [To the other crewmen:] "Well, guess that's it, boys. Trials are over." [The helicopter leaves. The Sidewinder starts to move forward again.] [Scene cuts to outside the sidewinder. The earth seems to crack where it puts down its 'feet'. Next, it is seen tilting to one side and sliding down a hole in the ground, followed by an explosion. Scene briefly cuts to the bottom of the pit. The Sidewinder is on its side, surrounded by several small fires. Cuts to the heicopter.] [The helicopter arrives at the pit.] General Peters: "Watchdog to Sidewinder. Do you read me? Come in, Sidewinder." [Scene cuts to Sidewinder cockpit. The crew has been knocked unconscious.] "This is Copter Watchdog. Can you hear me? Come in, Sidewinder. No reply.... They must be out cold." General Peters: "I don't know... I'll try and reach Sidewinder again. This is Watchdog. Come in, Sidewinder." [Scene cuts to Sidewinder.] "Acknowledge. Come in, Sidewinder." [Sweeney slowly regains consciousness.] [Sweeney checks the altimeter.] [The helicopter sets down. The helijet arrives on the scene.] [Scene cuts to the Sidewinder.] [Scene cuts to Mead who has been attached to a cable and is wearing his oxygen mask.] [The helijet lifts off slowly. Cuts briefly to Peters and Ralph who are watching.] [Mead is lifted up and the helijet moves directly above the pit.] [Mead disappears into the pit. Scene cuts to John Tracy on board Thunderbird 5. He is listening in on Mead and Charlie.] [John presses a button and the scene cuts to Jeff Tracy's office. John's portrait on the wall is beeping.] [Mead is going deeper and deeper into the pit.] General Peters" (to himself): "Hold on, Lieutenant. You can make it." [Mead is winched back up.] [Scene cuts to the crew of Copter Watchdog. Mead is lying on a stretcher, his face bandaged.] Lieutenant Ralph: "Yes, sir." [to Charlie:] "See to it, Captain." [to General Peters: ] "I'm going down to fix that line on Sidewinder." [Scene opens to Lieutenant Ralph descending into the pit at the end of a cable. He is holding a second, much bigger cable in his hands.] [Reynolds slips the big cable over one of Sidewinder's legs.] [Reynolds comes up out of the pit. His clothes are smoking and he is covering his face with his hands.] [The cable is dropped off.] General Peters: "Right. Use all speed. Those boys need attention." [To Ralph:] "OK, Captain, get moving. We've got to get the Sidewinder off its side." [Cuts to the helicopter lifting off and tugging at the cable. The cable snaps.] [Scene cuts to Thunderbird 5.] [Cuts to Jeff's office. John's portrait is beeping again.] [Cuts to Thunderbird 1 taking off.] [Scene opens to Peters and Ralph standing next to their chopper.] [Cuts to Thunderbird 1.] [Cuts to Jeff's office.] [Virgil and Brains make their way to the cockpit of Thunderbird 2.] [Thunderbird 2 takes off. Cuts to the pit.] [Cuts to the Sidewinder.] [Cuts to Thunderbird 1 landing next to the pit.] [Cuts back to the Sidewinder. The cockpit is filled with smoke.] [Cuts to Thunderbird 2.] [The Remote controlled camera flies up out of Thunderbird 1 and goes down into the pit.] [Scott watches what the remote camera is filming on a screen.] [Thunderbird 2 lands nearby.] [Cuts to the Sidewinder.] [Cuts to Thunderbird 1. Brains, Virgil and Scott are now watch the camera images together.] [Scene opens to Virgil being lowered into the pit. He's wearing a heat resistant suit.] [Cuts to the Mole exiting Pod Five.] [Cuts to the Sidewinder. Frank is lying on the floor.] [The Mole starts burrowing.] [Scott enters the Mole.] [The charges explode. Cuts to Sidewinder.] [Cuts to Copter Watchdog.] [The two Recovery Vehicles exit Pod Five and take up position at the edge of the pit.] [The magnetic lines are fired and hit the Sidewinder, startling the crew.] [The Recovery Vehicles start tugging at the lines.] [The Sidewinder is hauled up out of the pit. It gets stuck at the last moment.] [A few more tugs and the Sidewinder is safely back on the surface.] [Sweeney passes out. He comes to lying in a bed. Scott is sitting beside him.] [Scene cuts to Thunderbird 2.] [Thunderbird 2 lifts off.] [Scott walks away.] THE END
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