"Crosscut" (sometimes styled as "Cross Cut") is the fourth episode of Thunderbirds Are Go!, and ninth produced overall. It premièred at the MIPJunior event, on 11th October 2014, at 6pm.
Plot[]
An old Uranium mine in South Africa has been opened and is leaking out radiation so Scott and Virgil are sent to investigate and close the mine. When Scott arrives first on the scene, he discovers that they have a ‘sightseer’ deep within and decides to find them before they close the shaft for good.
The ‘sightseer’ - Marion Van Arkel - is busy trying to take a large quantity of Uranium from the mine to sell to a potential client in order to save her family name after the closure of the mine had put her family out of business. Scott tries to convince her that what she is doing is wrong and when the main exit is destroyed, they both need to leave the mine via an old back entrance. A storm that was on the way towards the mine and the nearby city of Pretoria becomes an ever increasing danger and Scott tells John that if he doesn’t make it out of the mine to seal it off to save the lives of the city’s inhabitants.
Just when things take a turn for the worst, Virgil digs through into the mine with the mole pod and brings Scott and Van Arkel out to safety.
Cast[]
Regular Cast[]
- Scott Tracy: Rasmus Hardiker
- Virgil Tracy: David Menkin
- John Tracy: Thomas Brodie-Sangster
- Brains: Kayvan Novak
- Grandma Tracy: Sandra Dickinson
- The Hood: Andres Williams
- Colonel Casey: Adjoa Andoh
Guest Cast[]
Crew[]
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- Voice director: Dave Peacock
- Original dialogue record: Simon Capes, Soho Squares Studios
- Miniatures: WETA Workshop
- Design & miniature FX supervisor: Richard Taylor
- Lead model maker: Steven Saunders
- Workshop supervisor: Rob Gillies
- Production co-ordinator: Holly Beals
- Model makers: Sofia Pedersen, Mona Peters, David Duke, Joaquin Loyzaga, Laura Marie King, Abigail Smith, Masayuki Ohashi, Pietro Marson, Sourisak Chanpaseuth, Kim McAuslan
- Director of photography: Simon Godsiff
- 1st assistant director: Robin Wilson
- Production manager: Sadie Wilson
- Gaffer: Simon Oliver
- 1st assistant camera: Graham Smout
- Key grip: Byron Sparrow
- On set model technicians: Rob Chesney, Ben Fairless
- Lighting equipment: Portsmouth Lighting, NZFX SFX Equipment
- Catering: Deborah Logan
- Art director: Theo Baynton
- Designer, Thunderbird Shadow: Shoji Kawamori
- Lead concept artist: Christian Pearce
- Concept artists: Aaron Beck, Gus Hunter, Rebekah Tisch
- Head of design: Richard Athorne
- Design studio co-ordinators: Tasha Guillot, Catherine Mitchell
- Asset supervisor: Sven Trotter
- CG modellers: Ben Hutchinson, Tom Robinson, Ben Picking, Che Thorpe
- 3D story supervisor: Tim Gaul
- Lead 3D story artists: Karl Essex, Martin Haughey, Andrew McCully
- Matchmove: James Donald, Luke Swasbrook
- 3D story: Shinji Dawson, Nicholas Dodwell, Eduardo Gutierrez, Rhys Hanan, Jim Hatibarua, Nagaraju Kasama, Kai Ma, Yohann Misst, Ben van de Laar, Robin Wilson-Davey
CGCG
- Production executives: Ivan C, Andy Tsao
- Head of production: Sareana Sun
- Line producer: Diana Chen
- Production team: Sean Li, Lara Lin, Tsung-Hsein Tsai, Bernie Huang, Pang Sy, Joseph Cheung, Yao-Cheng Wang, Heyifang, Tan Tao, Xu Ding, Shiwei Yang, Aimee Zhang
End CGCG
- Editor: Anthony Cox
- Assistant editors: Louise Pattinson, Adam Reynolds
- 3D artist: Rhys Clapcott
- Software engineer: Mike King
- Animation supervisor: Chad Moffitt
- CG supervisor: Andrew Harris, Park Road Post Production
- Data wranglers: Joyce Kamille Cristal, Wattana Moeung, Clare Brody
- Casting: Peacock Sound
- VFX line producer: Malcolm Angell
- Production co-ordinator: Sophie Gregory
- Production assistants: Brittany Connell, Jordan Harding
- Production secretary: Christine Healy
- Production runner: Nate Hinde
- Script co-ordinator: Patrick Rieger
- Legal and business affairs: Sally Perry, Sarah Cull
- Production accountants: Emily Stafford, Karen Kong
- Special advisor, International Rescue: David Tremont
- Branding and title design: ITV Creative
- Compositing: Milk VFX
- Online editor: Simon Brook
- Colourist: Paul Staples
- Picture post production: Encore London
- Music composed by: Ben Foster, Nick Foster
- Original theme: Barry Gray
- Sound designer & re-recording mixer: Nigel Heath
- Audio post-production: Hackenbacker
- Producers: Sharon Lark, Stuart McAra
- Line & consulting animation producer: Teresa Reed
- Supervising producer: John Sanders
- CITV commissioning editor: Jamila Metran
- Executive producers: Estelle Hughes, Giles Ridge, Andrew Smith, Richard Taylor
- Based on the original series by: Gerry & Sylvia Anderson
Equipment Used[]
- Thunderbird 1
- Thunderbird 2 (Module 2)
- Thunderbird 5
- The Mole
- Bulldozer (cameo)
- Uranium Mine Exo-Suit
- Grappling Equipment
Quotes[]
- Virgil: "Got a full load here, figured we don't know what we're dealing with, so I'm carrying everything but the kitchen sink. Scratch that, you want a kitchen sink? I reckon I could whip one up."
- Brains: "P-pop quiz, Scott. What's invisible, always around you, and deadly in large quantities?"
Scott: "The smell of Grandma burning dinner again?"
Grandma Tracy: "I heard that, young man!"
Scott: "Oops."
Brains: "Nearly." - Scott: "Careful, you never know who's listening. And for the record, I LOVE Grandma's chicken wings."
- Marion: "This better work."
Scott: "Oh, are you coming too?"
Marion: "What?"
Scott: "Joking. Just trying to lighten the mood."
Gallery[]
Book cover
Virgil Provides Backup In The Mole Thunderbirds Are Go Clip
"Got a full load as I don't know what we are dealing with."
"I've got everything but the kitchen sink."
"I'm looking at a whole lot of nothing."
"You're right on top of it, Scott."
"I think I found it."
TB1 comming into land at the Uranium mine
Brains is telling Scott that his suit should cope with the radiation
Scott goes to enter the mine
"Someone's down there."
"I may have to go in."
"Scott, why don't you wait for me to get there?"
"I'm picking up a storm heading your way."
"If you don't Thunderbird 1, you'll end up fried worst than Grandma's chicken wings."
"Careful, you never know who's listening"
"And for the record, I LOVE Grandma's chicken wings."
"Besides, The fall might do me in first."
"I'm beginning to run out of grapple packs."
TB2 arrives
The back entrance
Scott has an idea on how to get out
"You should always have backup" Virgil assembles a pod
Mole pod leaving TB2
By contoling TB1 remotly, Scott lowers a cable down the mine.
Scott attaches cable to the rusty staircase
TB1 is having trouble in the storm winds
"It would be easier if you dropped that refined Uranium"
Mole pod breaks through into mine
"Sorry it's a tight fit back there!"
Scott seals up the mine
(waves Virgil off)
"Don't worry I pick something up on the way out."
Trivia[]
- The episode alludes to the classic episode The Mighty Atom, in which a city is threatened by radiation. Both times the Hood also had an involvement, both triggering the cloud in The Mighty Atom, and attempting to buy the uranium in Crosscut.
- Due to the fact this episode first premiered at a screening 6 months before the series proper, it constitutes the first "official" appearances of: Scott and Virgil Tracy, their respective crafts, the Mole pod and a bulldozer.
- Absent: Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, Parker, Kayo, Alan Tracy and Gordon Tracy.
- The uranium mine is owned by the Van Arkel Corporation.
- First glimpse of The Hood's Lair.
- The Fireball XL Burger container is a reference to "Fireball XL5".
Goofs[]
- John is missing the holographic interface on his sash in his hologram early in the episode.
- After Marion complains that everything was going well until Scott showed up, a voice over the comm asks "who's that?" The voice doesn't correspond to Virgil or John, and sounds most like Gordon, due to the higher pitch. It seems most likely either scenes involving Gordon were cut, but this line remained, or David Menkin, who voices both Virgil and Gordon, was given the wrong direction by the voice director.
Foreign titles[]
- Dutch: De kortste weg (The Shortest Route)
- French: Galeries croisées
- Spanish: Corte Transversal
- Japanese: 危険な鉱山を閉鎖せよ (Close the Dangerous Mine)