Edge of Darkness (UK)

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First Aired: Dec. 09, 1985 on BBC TWO

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Season 1 » Episode #06 - Fusion

Summary: -

Craven decides he must locate Jedburgh and the plutonium.

Meanwhile, Jedburgh has decided to confront Grogan with what he has learned.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Grogan	played by Kenneth Nelson
Minister	played by Jeremy Child
Clementine	played by Zoë Wanamaker
Colonel Lawson	played by David Jackson (II)
Nallers	played by Sean McCarthy
Mrs Girvan	played by Irene Sunters
Jemima	played by Ann Scott-Jones
Golfer	played by Michael MacKenzie

Episode Quotes

Mrs Girvan: You forgot your sandwich again today, Mr "Jedborough".
Darius Jedburgh: Mrs Girvan, mince between two slices of white bread is not my idea of lunch. Hell, I'd rather eat the damned Bible.
Mrs Girvan: [indignant] Mr "Jedborough"!
Darius Jedburgh: [walking up stairs] "JedBURG"!

Darius Jedburgh: [to NATO conference] This future nuclear state will be an absolute state, whose authority will derive not from the people but from the possession of plutonium. And just to make sure we all know what we're talking about her, I brought some of the stuff along with me today. [mixed reaction from audience as he pulls out briefcase]

Guy Pendleton: They found the hot cell. It had been sealed off. Apparently there'd been some sort of explosion resulting in massive radioactivity. Anyway Jedbugh went and located the plutonium, and carried it out in a Harrods shopping bag.
Henry Harcourt: Has Craven got any idea where Jedburgh went?
Guy Pendleton: He said his last words were something about meeting "Moriarty at the falls".
Henry Harcourt: If there's an Irish component to this I shall retire.

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (factual errors): "Edge of Darkness" misrepresents the Daisyworld model, showing black daisies growing at the end. Daisyworld is a scientific *model* in the Gaia Hypothesis, in a scientific paper by James Lovelock and Andrew Watson in 1983, which postulates a planet covered entirely with daisies (and nothing else), which change colour according to the amount of sunlight they receive. In "Edge of Darkness", the daisies turn black because of radioactivity.

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