The Inquisition (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)

"The Inquisition" is the 32nd and final episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 Productions. Written by Tony Barwick and directed by Ken Turner, it was first broadcast on 12 May 1968 on ATV London.

Set in 2068, the series depicts a "war of nerves" between Earth and the Mysterons: a race of Martians with the power to create functioning copies of destroyed people or objects and use them to carry out acts of aggression against humanity. Earth is defended by a military organisation called Spectrum, whose top agent, Captain Scarlet, was killed by the Mysterons and replaced by a reconstruction that subsequently broke free of their control. Scarlet's double has a self-healing power that enables him to recover from injuries that would be fatal to anyone else, making him Spectrum's best asset in its fight against the Mysterons.

In this clip show episode, Captain Blue disappears during a night out after unwittingly drinking drugged coffee. Having fallen unconscious, he awakes in what appears to be the Cloudbase control room in the presence of a Spectrum Intelligence agent, who tells him that he has been missing for months and must prove his identity by giving information about Spectrum's cipher codes. Unwilling to divulge classified material, Blue instead tries to satisfy his interrogator by describing some of Spectrum's operations against the Mysterons, which are recounted in the form of flashbacks.

"The Inquisition" has been negatively received by commentators, who argue that the clip show device makes for an unsatisfying series finale and criticise the story for leaving the war between Earth and Mars unresolved.