Posted by jamesgibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Re-Digest-Number-942-tp1498887p1498888.html

"Bill Cotter" wrote:

> 3) I have always had major problems with this episode. If the aliens wanted
> Collins to kill Straker, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to just have him
> pull a gun and shoot him? It would have been a much shorter episode,
> granted, but it sure seems like they went to a lot of trouble for nothing.

Ah yes - 007 syndrome. Just SHOOT the bugger.

You're quite right, Collins could have killed Straker at any
time.