The Prisoner (Spyforce Episode)

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Spyforce episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 4

Written by

Ron McLean

Directed by

David Baker

Production no.

Paramount Pictures

Original airdate

23 August 1971 (Nine)

Episode chronology
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"The Prisoner" is the third episode of the Australian wartime espionage drama Spyforce created by Roger Mirams and Ron McLean. The Prisoner was directed by David Baker, and the script was written by Ron McLean.

[edit] Plot

Warning! This is a summary of the plot of this episode, and may spoil the outcome.

In The Prisoner Colonel Cato creates false evidence linking Gunther Haber and Erskine to a massacre on a small Pacific island in order to demonstrate the lengths he will go to in order to force them to work alongside each other, and to force them to carry out the orders he commands.

Having manipulated them into continuing service with his department, he sends the pair to Singapore in order to break into Changi Prison and rescue a renowned British bacteriologist who is being kept prisoner there. Colonel Cato fears that the Japanese will force him to create bacteriological weapons if he is not rescued.

The filming of The Prisoner required the Japanese flag to be hoisted in Singapore for the first time since the end of World War II.