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* {{Deconstruction}}: It's the darkest, most cynical episode of a highly optmistic show, where serious questions are raised about the way International Rescue operates.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The monitoring satellite that went offline just happened to be monitoring the region containing International Rescue's headquarters. Fortunate indeed, otherwise they would have been caught when launching to save Elliot.
* {{Deconstruction}}: It's the darkest, most cynical episode of a highly optmistic optimistic show, where serious questions are raised about the way International Rescue operates.

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* BritishStuffiness: Lady Penelope could not be more uncomfortable with the personality and lifestyle of hillbilly Jebediah.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Everyone underestimates Jebediah because of his simple hillbilly lifestyle... everyone except Jeff, who knows what an intelligent and capable agent he really is. Sure enough, it is Jebediah who successfully hunts down and captures the Imposters where Lady Penelope fails.

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* BritishStuffiness: Lady Penelope could not be more uncomfortable with the personality and lifestyle of hillbilly Jebediah.
Jeremiah.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Everyone underestimates Jebediah Jeremiah because of his simple hillbilly lifestyle... everyone except Jeff, who knows what an intelligent and capable agent he really is. Sure enough, it is Jebediah Jeremiah who successfully hunts down and captures the Imposters where Lady Penelope fails.



* MuckingInTheMud: Lady Penelope tries to apprehend the imposters by travelling through a jungle in her Rolls Royce. Unfortunately, her car gets bogged down in the mud, leaving her to walk in her high heels. Hillybilly Jeremiah's apparently run-down car does the job instead.



* SadisticChoice: Although there is no villain to present it, IR faces one nonetheless.

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* SadisticChoice: Although there is no villain to present it, IR faces one nonetheless. nonetheless: leaving the astronaut Elliot to die, or rescuing him, and risking being caught.
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* ClearMyName: Lady Penelope and Parker's mission to capture the imposters before it is too late.

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* ClearMyName: Lady Penelope and Parker's mission to capture ClearTheirName: With the imposters before it is too late.world militaries on red alert hunting for International Rescue, they can't risk leaving Tracy Island. Thus they call on their worldwide network of secret agents to catch the real villains.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: For a long time Jeff considers abandoning Elliot to his fate, knowing that ''Thunderbird 3'' can be tracked when it returns to base. Eventually, however, he can't stand the guilt anymore and sends his sons to save Elliot, knowing it could well be their last ever mission.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Hey!, they're incriminating us.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Lady Penelope clearly has trouble navigating her way through swampland in [[NiceShoes her high heels]].

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* BreakTheCutie: Lady Penelope clearly has trouble navigating her way through swampland in [[NiceShoes her high heels]].heels.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Everyone underestimates Jebediah because of his simple hillbilly lifestyle... everyone except Jeff, who knows what an intelligent man he really is. Sure enough, it is Jebediah who successfully hunts down and captures the Imposters where Lady Penelope fails.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Everyone underestimates Jebediah because of his simple hillbilly lifestyle... everyone except Jeff, who knows what an intelligent man and capable agent he really is. Sure enough, it is Jebediah who successfully hunts down and captures the Imposters where Lady Penelope fails.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Everyone underestimates Jebediah because of his simple hillbilly lifestyle... everyone except Jeff, who knows what an intelligent man he really is. Sure enough, it is Jebediah who successfully hunts down and captures the Imposters where Lady Penelope fails.
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* AlmostOutOfOxygen: Elliot is practically unconscious from lack of oxygen after having been adrift in space for several hours by the time Thunderbird 3 manages to find him.

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* AlmostOutOfOxygen: Elliot is practically unconscious from lack of oxygen after having been adrift in space for several hours by the time Thunderbird 3 ''Thunderbird 3'' manages to find him.



* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: We never get to see Thunderbird Three actually rescue Elliot.

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* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: We never get to see Thunderbird Three ''Thunderbird 3'' actually rescue Elliot.



* SpaceIsNoisy: Thunderbird 3 blasts off in space.

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* SpaceIsNoisy: Thunderbird 3 ''Thunderbird 3'' blasts off in space.
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* BritishStuffiness: Lady Penelope could not be more uncomfortable with the personality and lifestyle of hillbilly Jebediah.
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* AbsenteeActor: In a way. This is the only episode from which Thunderbird 2 is absent.



* TheCameo: Of the Fireflash, showing that it isn't always being sabotaged.
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* BavarianFireDrill: The episode begins with the Imposters completing a "rescue", and nobody doubts they really are International Rescue. It is only once they have left that anyone notices the whole scenario was staged so the fakes could break into an underground vault, and the real International Rescue are given the blame. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard The operation works because of International Rescue's insistence on secrecy]]: nobody has more than a vague idea what their uniforms or vehicles look like.

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* BavarianFireDrill: The episode begins with the Imposters completing a "rescue", and nobody doubts they really are International Rescue. It is only once they have left that anyone notices the whole scenario was staged so the fakes could break into an underground vault, and the real International Rescue are given the blame. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard [[GoneHorriblyRight The operation works because of International Rescue's insistence on secrecy]]: nobody has more than a vague idea what their uniforms or vehicles look like.
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* BavarianFireDrill: The episode begins with the Imposters completing a "rescue", and nobody doubts they really are International Rescue. It is only once they have left that anyone notices the whole scenario was staged so the fakes could break into an underground vault, and the real International Rescue are given the blame. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard The operation works because of International Rescue's insistence on secrecy]]: nobody has more than a vague idea what their uniforms or vehicles look like.
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TheOneWith the hillbilly agent.

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TheOneWith JustForFun/TheOneWith the hillbilly agent.

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