The Green Hornet, Episode 12: Panic in the Zoo

 "I got the Hornet..."

I'll get to the episode in a minute- it is the penultimate one, after all- but, yeah, zoos in 1940. This zoo looks, on the one hand, like a lot of fun- rides, stalls and all that good stuff, but on the other hand... yes, it's obviously stock footage, but those poor animals in those horrible cages. The cruelty is obvious. It's all, quite blatantly, also a health and safety nightmare. The past is, sometimes, a very foreign country. And yet we're meant to approve of Britt trying to protect the zoo by not publicising the "jinx". Wow.

This aside... there's nothing to particularly indicate that this a penultimate episode. It's just another instalment- cliffhanger hets resolved, the racket is dealt and so we move on to a different bit of extortion. Interswsting, though, that the baddies should finally realise that silencing the Sentinel may well be in their interests, but not that the connection with the Hornet is as close as we know it to be.

How on Earth are they going to end all this in twenty minutes...?