Posted by James Gibbon-2 on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Later-Episodes-tp1489728p1489732.html

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> [hidden email] writes:
> I agree with you here. "The Long Sleep" is my least favorite ep and not one
> I watch very often. I said earlier that I don't anlayze the eps. Well, this

> one is the exception. There is just TOO much wrong. Aside from the aging
> thing and the whole dumb bomb thing, my biggest gripe was with the major
> breech of security. This was a public, non-military hospital. Yet Straker
> shows up, being called "Commander" by Dr. Jackson and Col. Lake. And what
> was Dr. Jackson doing there to begin with? Is he on staff at that hospital?

I think that she had already, naturally been taken to a
non-military hospital, and it might have created a more difficult
security situation to move her from there. When Straker turns up
at the hospital the first thing he asks Jackson is whether the
security is acceptable. So although I agree with you about the
logic of the episode as a whole I don't really have a problem with
the hospital. I'm sure that the necessary strings could have been
pulled to allow SHADO to take over a small part of the hospital.
I'm sure that hospitals do, in real life, have to hand over
security to a particular room to the police or the military from
time to time.

James