Gotta admire Davis. He's just sitting in his room, minding his own business, watching the security panel, when all of a sudden an armed 9 year old boy wanders in to the room and quickly leaves again. Davis just shouts' Hey!' and then goes straight back to work.
"Say, I reckon thats the intruder I'm supposed to be monitoring oh well."

This ep also features Joe's first murder.

This episode proves the main flaw in the series - with the glasses, Joe can do the job. Without (and they can easily fall off given the kind of things he does), he's useless. Surely having a chain round the back of the glasses would make more sense, so if they do fall off, they could land like a necklace!

The truck from Big Ben Strikes Again is seen in this episode.

Gregson sounds eerily like Sam.

Colletti's trucks can be seen throughout the series e.g in Most Special Astronaut and Viva Cordova. They also appear briefly in the UFO episode Court Martial.

Carter doesn't go with the other two goons to dispose of Joe. So where is he during the Joe/Coletti battle?

Possibly in some medical place, either attending to the guy who crashed the truck when Joe shot at him, or being attended to himself.

The episode opened with Sam frantically asking the unconcious Ed Johnson who had injured him. Once they recorded his brain patterns and transferred them to Joe, I was expecting Sam to ask him to confirm just who injured Johnson, but he didn't. I was wondering if Joe suffered through the memory of the attack.

WIN was awfully casual about that hijacking--it's quite possible that the one or two men in the police escort vehicle were killed, not to mention the driver of the truck. As long as they succeed in smuggling Joe in, who cares?

The one hijacker played Frazer on the Captain Scarlet episode "Crater 101". At one point, after Joe has upset a crate one of the men and "Frazer" asks him if he's all right, the man actually calls him "Frazer" (I played it twice to be sure). However, in the guest cast list in the episode guide, none of the men are called "Frazer". Did someone forget just what series they were shooting?

I thought that Joe's case was supposed to have the special stuff in hidden compartments, but Coletti found them easily, even if he did think that they were toys. If he'd fired off Joe's "toy" gun he would have found how playful they were.

Coletti decided that Joe had seen too much, even if he was just playing at being an agent. So why didn't he just have him killed then and there, instead of sending most of his men off to dispose of him elsewhere?

Joe had the presence of mind to ask for his case, but not his glasses?

This episode foreshadows a future innovation. Nowadays, I believe that it is standard to make car trunks that can be opened from the inside.

Just what did Coletti hit Joe with, at his desk? I saw what looked like a spatter of blood before everything was shoved off the desk.

Joe's voice actor did a fine job. As Joe, he sounds like a kid. As Joe 90, he acquires a hard edge to his voice--stern and cold.

Cold, indeed. Joe blows Coletti to smithereens without a flicker of remorse. Is this a result of the pattern transference? Once "Johnson" has faded from Joe's mind, is he able to distance himself from his actions?

Joe seems smart enough on his own account. Missing his glasses, and being overcome with smoke, he somehow figures out how to open the outer door, although it's left to Sam and Mac to get him out of there. Mac, BTW, moves awfully slowly for a concerned father. The place is going to blow up any moment, and he slowly moves across the room and then just looks at Joe for a long moment.

You would think, wouldn't you, that after this mission, where Joe narrowly escaped death several times over, and ended up killing a man, that Professor Ian McClaine would tell his now ex-friend, "Never again!"

>>However, in the guest cast list in the episode guide, none of the men are called "Frazer".


That could have been a Christian name.

Good point.

"Gregson! It looked like a kid!" The way he says 'Gregson' does sound a lot like Frazer, you're right...

WIN decide that Joe's best chance of completing the mission with the brain pattern of top agent Ed Johnson...the same Ed Johnson who was dying at the start of the episode. Doesn't really seem a good idea...