"She's going down!"
...And in the tenth episode, with two to go. everything changes. I'm continually amazed at how plot progression, or at least the illusion of plot progression, is maintained throughout this movie serial. It's not just a never-ending series of action set pieces, unlike some serials I could mention.
Yes, the cliffanger resolution is a typical cheat. But that's ok, because we learn two incredible things from the contents of the safe. The late Dr Lang couldn't spell the word "lens"! And, no less excitingly, the safe contains a map showing the location of the lens, not the lens itself. The lens is still there, in situ, in Thailand or Afghanistan or whatever vaguely eastern country the tomb is in.
So it's the next steamer to Bangkok for the whole expedition- interesting that, in 1941, travelling that distance by plane would not have been a thing. And here we get, after a reminder that the Scorpion must of course also be on board, a complete change of genre to disaster movie, as the scene switches to tje stormy seas of the Indian Ocan and a terrifying typhoon. Catain Marvel saves the ship by using something called a "breeches buoy", but Betty was still in her cabin! Can Billy save her as the ship sinks, possibly by saying "Shazam"?
This serial was pretty exciting anyway, but this change of scene has added to the excitement. Superb stuff.
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