The Hood disguises himself as a movie producer in order to get his two favourite things into the same place: the Thunderbirds and powerful cameras. Using his mind-control powers to force Kyrano to disable the Automatic Camera Detector on Thunderbird 1, the Hood then arranges for a special effects sequence to go wrong and trap two actors in a cave. As the cave slowly floods, International Rescue race to the scene. While they succeed in rescuing the trapped men, the Hood flees with the film he has acquired.
Since the film is not magnetic, it's immune to Thunderbird 1's film-wiping beam and the Thunderbird is forced to chase down the Hood, eventually firing upon his vehicle. While this does not dissuade him, the Hood is forced to steal a light aircraft from a local airstrip. Rather than choose between preserving their security and killing a man, the Thunderbirds wave off their pursuit when it turns out that the stolen aircraft was severely overdue for an overhaul. Losing control and visibility, the Hood attempts to make a landing at his client's villa... and succeeds only in slamming his plane into the side of the building.
- Alien Episode: The opening scene makes it seem that the episode is going this way. It is rather jarring in a show that focuses on the technological side of science fiction while otherwise keeping life on Earth pretty normal. After a couple of minutes, it is revealed that this is actually the shooting of a movie.
- Alien Invasion: The movie that the two actors who need rescuing were working on is about one. Aliens Are Bastards, after all.
- The Alleged Airplane: The airplane that The Hood steals to escape from International Rescue was apparently grounded for maintainance and in no condition to fly. The Hood discovers this the hard way.
- Can't See a Damn Thing: When the Hood tries to escape from Scott's pursuit in a light aircraft, that turns out to be broken, filling the cockpit with smoke, he mutters "I can't see".
- Chase Scene: between The Hood (first in a car, later in a small airplane) and Thunderbirds 1 and 2.
- Coming in Hot: The Hood is very aware that his defective plane is not long for the air, and tries to put it down in a field. Unfortunately, his vision is so impaired by smoke that he ends up coming to rest in the side of his employer's mansion.
- Cool Spaceship: Okay, it's just a movie prop. But the "Martians"' spaceship is pretty darn cool, with its retro flying-saucer design and BFG.
- Demoted to Dragon: One of the few cases where the Hood is this. He'll be back to being a proper Big Bad later on.
- Drowning Pit: the cave with the two actors inside becomes one after the explosion caused by The Hood.
- Halfway Plot Switch: International Rescue's mission starts with having to save the two trapped actors from a flooding cave. After they've done this, it becomes a mission to get the film footage The Hood shot of the Thunderbird vehicles back.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: We do not see the face of The Hood's client, only the back of his chair.
- Humiliation Conga: Shortly after stealing an airplane The Hood notices its sluggish response to the control inputs and starts flicking switches randomly.
- Karma Houdini: Bletcher, the corrupt film producer, never receives any comeuppance for assisting the Hood.
- Made of Iron: The Hood survives a plane crash that is powerful enough to destroy his film without any noticable injuries.
- The Mole: Kyrano unwillingly serves this role again, being forced under the Hood's hypnotic control to disable Thunderbird 1's automatic camera detector. Talking of which...
- Never Recycle Your Schemes: That plan worked great, and was only foiled because Scott chanced upon the director snapping a few shots of Thunderbird 1. If the Hood ever did try it again, we never get to see it.
- Proscenium Reveal: the first scene of the episode, combined with the episode's title, gives the impression that there actually is an alien invasion going on. It's only after a few minutes that the whole "invasion" is revealed to be part of a movie under production.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Was the matter of the disabled Automatic Camera Detector ever investigated by IR? And if so, how come Kyrano was apparently not discovered as being the (unwilling) saboteur?
