A strange ball of blue light appears in the space sky, coming towards Moonbase
Alpha. Technician Anton Zoref shivers with cold although his pretty young wife Eva complains of feeling hot. And
when Zoref approaches Main Mission, Commander John Koenig, Doctor Helena Russell and other personnel are suddenly frozen still
like statues.
Zoref enters the generating area and a blue light zooms towards him. He clutches his head, screams
and collapses. The others come to life again; Zoref is still unconscious, and when Helena takes him to medical the monitoring
system fails because of a massive discharge of energy.
Whatever has happened, Zoref appears to have recovered, but from now onwards he is a man possessed
with a terrifying need for heat. Whatever alien force it is that has gripped him, it is consuming heat and he will withdraw
heat from any source, human or otherwise. Everything he touches freezes instantly. A lamp turns to solid
ice. Two of his colleagues are frozen to death. He is like a rampaging animal and no-one dare get near him.
Commander Koenig orders power supplies to be cut from the reactors - even though this will endanger
patients in the medical section dependent on machines. Only by taking away any source of light and warmth can the man
who has become a human instrument of destruction be himself destroyed.
His wife's love for him is so great that she rushes towards him, and it's only because of the appearance
and quick action on the part of Alan Carter that she is saved. He forces her back and Zoref staggers after them in his
urgent need for heat.
He is weakening through the lack of power. Despairingly, he tries to reach the generating room
but finds he has got to force his way past Koenig. Summoning his last reserves of energy, he hurls himself at the Commander,
who is also saved by Carter when he fires his laser gun and sees Zoref topple forward, charred to the bone.
Zoref's blackened, burnt-out body begins to pulse with light. The laser has re-generated him.
With colossal strength he forces apart the doors to the generating area and as Koenig orders power to be restored, the
wreck of a man moves into the white light. As he does so, it intensifies. A massive fission explosion occurs and
from the top of the explosion emerges a twirling comet of blue light which heads out into the space sky ...
Episode synopsis from Guide Book provided with the Digitally
Restored Network/Granada Ventures Series One Box Set
Copyright Granada Ventures
