“A smart trick!”
I won’t linger on the plot for this episode which, as the serial has just passed its mid point, consists of Fisher being dead and the Scorpion having both the lenses he was after last episode. Otherwise it’s just a case of captures.escapes and peril, although I like how Betty is far too resourceful to be a mere peril monkey. She’s bordering on co-star material. She even shoots the Scorpion.
Captain Marvel is pretty ruthless here, again doing a spot of harsh interrogation, and disdaining to save a hood from a likely fatal fall when he could probably have done so. He also lifts a bloke up by the crotch to throw him. Well then. I’m also beginning to notice that the Scorpion has scorpion logos where his nipples should be. Not sure what to make of that.
It’s also interesting that the whodunit plot needs some variation of its to last until the end. Will Billy come under suspicion? But we get a splendid cliffhanger, with Betty and a gagged Billy about to be bombed by a plain. Even the filler episodes in the middle of this serial are very well done, with the water being trodden with aplomb.
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