The Catacombs Production Guide
Observations: Brian The Brain

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The Alpha Log Recorder (the trolley with the yellow wheels) disappears from Command Center immediately after Brian's departure. In the initial scenes (while Helena is recording on it), a filing shelf is located where it stands.

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As Brian, Helena, Koenig and the two guards leave the travel tube to go to Command Center, we can see Koenig's hands in one shot (his arm behind Helena), but they are in his pockets in the next shot. Thanks to Thomas.

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When Koenig and Helena are first forced towards the airlock, the emergency button inside the airlock is not present in Helena's airlock. It only appears after she has entered the airlock.

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The backpack of Koenig's silver spacesuit is a plastic kitchen dish-drying rack. Identical models are seen on the interior walls of the Swift, mounted the opposite way up and painted grey. There are also plastic cutlery trays on the walls. The bin into which Koenig inserts the nuclear fuel is identical to the yellow versions seen in Breakaway- it is actually a roadside salt-grit storage bin, common in the UK near roads that become icy in winter.

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When Maya turns into a mouse inside the mothership, she is standing on the floor, but Koenig picks up the mouse from the top of the console. Thanks to Thomas.

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When Koenig and Maya/Captain Michael chase Brian into the airlock, one brief shot shows a computer panel which is evidently unfinished- the bottom wood section is glimpsed.

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Brian's antenna must touch the floor to keep in touch with the Swift computer. The Moonbase floor is not connected to the Swift.

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Brian's antenna is much longer when he's dangling from the Swift exterior.

In the epilogue, Brian is seen still dangling from the Swift exterior, which means that the ship is still in space. Presumably they must have docked in space with the Eagle to transfer Koenig, Helena and Maya. Why didn't Koenig take the Swift back to Alpha? Thanks to Thomas.


Copyright Martin Willey