The G2 is racing trhough the desert. It stops, Joe gets out and surveys the scene, a destroyed and deserted village. Joe takes a dive off the top of a cliff into a crater filled with water. He swims down to the bottom until he reaches a hidden entrance.



Onboard the spaceship they're monitoring something and a goon alerts Gel Sadra to their discovery. On the view screen we see a couple of missiles preparing for launch.



The missiles are about to launch. Inside a control room we hear sirens, it's not clear if the rockets are supposed to launch. Judging from their expressions I guess not. The missiles seem to be coming from different countries.



For some reason we see a shot of young family and their baby as the narrator mentions Sosai X.



Dr Raphael is monitoring a viewscreen. Joe is standing behind him. Dr. Raphael mutters something about Galactor. The bird on his shoulder looks on impassively.



Joe speaks, almost mechanically, without much emotion.



Cut to G-Town, Ken raises Nambu on the intercom. Pima is consulted about something, and Ken mutters something about Joe.



Back at Dr. Raphael's, a missile is being readied for launch. It's a manned misiile, Joe is on-board, his eye glints as the rocket takes off. Raphael watches the launch, cloack flapping in the wind. It looks lonely there.



Pima bleats something (it's an annoying voice) as the God Phoenix approaches the Galactor ship that's descended into the atmosphere. Gel Sadra orders the launch of those weird ships and they move towards the God Phoenix.



The two missiles are approaching, it looks like they may all meet in the same spot. Ken shoots some missiles at the weird ships and blows them out of the sky.



As they approach the Galactor mother ship, they're caught in a massive blast that drives them back. A goon alerts Gel Sadra to the two missiles, and then to the third Joemissile aiming straight for them. Gel Sadra sounds worried.



The Joe rocket separates into two stages and detonates as it hits the Galactor mother ship. It explodes. Boom! Gel Sadra escapes : )



The two other missiles hit each other but don't seem to do what was intended (not sure what that was, surely they also would have hit the Galactor mother ship..)

The team awakens on the God Phoenix. They don't know what's happened. They are relieved though. The narrator mentions Dr. Raphael, and we see Joe standing next to his ruined missile, unhurt. Just to change things up, the God Phoenix flies parallel to the sun.



Next episode preview:
A tunnel, a girl, Joe, shadowy shape, collapsing tunnel, Joe knocked down, the girl again and some rockets

Any missile that Joe touches is a 'Joemissile.'

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I'm sure you're right, LB! After Star Wars, everyone wanted to see space stuff. lthough I like in Gatchaman II how the majority of stories still center around Earth, and when they go into space, it isn't too far (i.e. they never reach Mars).

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