'Secret Weapon' (4 Parts) by Roger Price

Professor Cawston discovers that a gypsy boy named Tyso is about to break-out, and arranges to show him to the military. While attempting to contact Tyso, Stephen sees through his eyes, and recognises Cawston; he jaunts to Cawston’s office, but the professor refuses to help him. Later, at the demonstration, Tyso’s powers are watched by Colonel Masters and Tricia Conway. Professor Cawston subsequently contacts the Tomorrow People, telling them that Tyso had disappeared. John, Stephen and Elizabeth jaunt to Tyso's caravan, where they are told by Tyso’s mother that his father had sold him to Colonel Masters. The trio then arrive at Cawston's office, where the professor tells them that the Colonel wanted him to join his research group. However, Trish, a telepath, has read the Professor's mind and warned Masters about Stephen and Elizabeth. John realises that they must find Tyso within two to three days, otherwise the strain of breaking-out will kill him. Cawston arranges for Stephen to demonstrate his abilities to Colonel Masters and Tricia, but the latter is aware that Stephen is deliberately making mistakes. Stephen goes under-cover at a hostel, in order to allow Colonel Masters to kidnap him. Despite knowing that it is a set-up, Tricia and Masters take Stephen, injecting with a drug to render him unconscious, and also take Cawston. Back at the research centre, the Professor is shown Tyso and Stephen connected to life support machines, drugged by Synaptol. The Professor is charged with the task of reviving Stephen and Tyso, but at the same time preventing them from jaunting. Tricia takes an unconscious Cawston back to his office, planting bugs and a video camera on him before he awakes. Cawston comes to and calls the Tomorrow People, telling them that he has found Stephen and Tyso. Elizabeth gives the Professor a ring with a homing device in it, but he is kidnapped by Cawston before he can use it. When John and Elizabeth investigate, they narrowly escape an explosion caused by the Colonel, who has set the ring to self-destruct. Cawston is hypnotised and interrogated by the Colonel, and reveals information about the Tomorrow People. Colonel Masters wakes Tyso and tells him to contact the Tomorrow People telepathically. John and Elizabeth arrive at Colonel Master's office in the Experimental Weapons Establishment, and stun him and Tricia. Cawston shows them where the antidote for the Synaptrol is, but Tricia comes round and hits them all with the drug. John manages to jaunt to the Lab, but then collapses. Colonel Masters revives Elizabeth, and tells her to help them or Stephen and Tyso will die. Chris arrives at the Lab and uses the antidote to revive John. While Elizabeth is forced to demonstrate her powers to Masters and Tricia, John and Chris kidnap the Prime Minister and take him back to the Lab. Elizabeth is told by Masters to jaunt to Moscow and buy a Russian doll; doing so, she instead jaunts to the Lab, where John opens the doll to find a mind control device. The Prime Minister destroys the device, and Elizabeth returns to Master's office. When he discovers that the device is missing, Masters threatens to turn off Stephen and Tyso's life support machines, but he receives a phone call ordering him to release all the Tomorrow People. Tyso begins to break-out, and is taken to the Lab. John tells Tricia that she is a potential Tomorrow Person, and that it isn’t too late for her to join them…



Nicholas Young (John), Elizabeth Adare (Liz), Peter Vaughan-Clarke (Stephen), Dean Lawrence (Tyso), Philip Gilbert (TIM), Christopher Chittell (Chris Harding), Brian Stanion (Professor Cawston), Ann Curthoys (Patricia Conway), Trevor Bannister (Col. Masters), Hugh Morton (Prime Minister), Denise Cook (Evergreen Boswell), Joanna Tope (Mrs. Boswell), Frank Gatliff (Father O'Connor)

Directed by Stan Woodward

TX:
'Found And Lost' - 26th February 1975
'Not Quite A Sleeping Beauty' - 5th March 1975
'Whose Side Are You on Professor?' - 12th March 1975
'A Present from Russia - 19th March 1975

Notes:
*Featuring John, Elizabeth, Stephen, Tim and Chris, and introducing Tyso

*This story features the first appearance of Patricia Conway and Colonel Masters