This is what I like to call a gimmick script. It relies almost completely with the listener buying into the hook-concept and be carried along. I think the episode would have been stronger if the writer had provided supporting evidence to the boy’s letter. I think if the lead character had found an article in the newspaper citing a disturbance (or destruction of) on an orbital satellite. This would have been more concrete evidence than the letter and led credence to the concept of the “disintegration beam.â€ Maybe also include a series of mysterious and unexplainable robberies to support the teleportation concept. I think the inclusion of these sorts of items would have only taken a minute to include and increased the credibility of the boy’s concepts in his letter because the boy could just be a nutcase.

My other problem with this one is that it takes awhile to get going. I would have like to have seen the story get into the action a little quicker.

The last niggling problem I had with the episode is the portrayal of the woman conspirator. I could it somewhat anachronistic and too much of a characterization rather than trying to make her real.

On the whole, the episode had more potential than it delivered. I liked the ending but felt that a sound effect (disintegration or teleportation) would have been a nice way to end the episode after the character is cut-off. I would give it two stars (out of four).