Simon and Eugene discuss how efficient it is to rob a bank using a power station, how not to dress a set to look like a real building site, and isotope implosions and the difference between fusion and fission.

Episode Synopsis

Ros is getting a tour of the NRGen Split Isotope Fusion Power plant, arranged by her friend, Alex.  She is, unfortunately, there when terrorists from the Pro Earth People’s Front take the station for ransom. She avoids detection as the other occupants are either killed or taken hostage, including her friend Alex.

The forces of NRGen make a big entrance at the headquarters of Team Bugs (because I refuse to call them “Gizmos”) demanding that they help resolve the crisis.  NRGen have conveniently brought in a command and control center specifically connected to the power plant to make this easier for Beckett and Ed without Ros being there to hack in.

Pascal, leader of the Pro Earth People’s Front, makes their demands:  No fusion, go solar, save the Earth, blah, blah, blah.  It doesn’t really matter what they’re asking for, Beckett knows it’s a ruse.  No one has ever heard of the Pro Earth People’s Front, and Pascal doesn’t show up in a search of the database of faces of people who’ve ever attended a rally to save the Earth.  This is the 90’s – they must be after money.

A review of the power plant plans reveals an escape tunnel under the facility, which Ed decides to try to use to enter the plant.  The NRGen representative tells him that the tunnel is still under construction and he’ll never get in that way.  Ed tries anyway and discovers the tunnel isn’t so much under construction, but rather it is completed and being used as a storage room.  He easily gains access to the facility.

Meanwhile, Ros has reactivated security cameras and has been feeding info to Beckett.  They’ve uncovered two things.  First, that Pascal has a confederate outside in the Financial District, where the real crime is going to take place, and second, that an arms dealer, Kolvek, has been monitoring what the terrorists have been doing and offers them a bonus of ten million if they’ll steal the Isotope triggers while they’re there.

Pascal goes along with the deal, to the misgivings of Travis, the inside-man confederate that helped them gain access to the power plant and its workings.  Removing the triggers will result in a 5-mile radius fireball, which would be an impressively big boom, even by Bugs’ standards.

Ed and Ros meet up, but their presence is detected and they are on the run.  They manage to overcome one of the terrorists and take his headset, keeping them one step ahead of their pursuers.

Beckett learns that the target is the Currency Exchange, but he is assured that the security system is absolutely invulnerable.  Beckett knows that invulnerable security systems are just another Saturday when Team Bugs is around.  One of the executives at the Security Exchange is Lacombe, Pascal’s confederate on the outside.  Beckett plants a bug.

The plan goes into execution, which is this: They shut down all the power to the city and build up enough surplus that they can channel it all at the Security Exchange, rendering their security system brain dead, then they send micro pulses of power to the Security Exchange tricking something into believing something is still doing something by way of, I don’t know… Power Over Ethernet or something?

Anyway, Beckett sorts that out, getting Lacombe killed in the process.

Ros whips up a hacking program that will help them eventually, but they’re just doing it on a laptop, and battery technology being what is it, Ed has to go looking for a fill-up.  He gets captured.

Pascal takes the triggers, starting the 10-minute countdown to boom town.  As she escapes, Kolvek meets her at her escape route:  A Jeep placed at the end of that impassable tunnel.  Ros chases them down on Ed’s motorcycle and gets them both killed, recovers the triggers, and gets them back in place just in time – with a cold helping hand from Ed.