- When the wife of a SHADO officer, Lieutenant Grey, gives birth, Straker's put in mind of events from a decade earlier, when he was still with his wife Mary. Having recently established SHADO, the responsibility and degree of commitment put a heavy strain on the marriage. Mary saw him visiting another woman but it was professional, not sexual, and due to the secret nature of SHADO, he was unable to tell her the truth without jeopardising the organisation.—don @ minifie-1
- Ed Straker flashes back to the beginnings of S.H.A.D.O. and recalls the many sacrifices he had to make to get the organisation started and to be the commander of the new ultra-secret agency- including the pressures it put on his marriage to his new bride, Mary. S.H.A.D.O. was so secret that Ed couldn't even share with Mary what he did and why he was often at work until the wee hours of the morning. Ultimately, Ed is faced with the hardest decision of his life: give up his role as chief of the world's most vital defense against extraterrestrial invaders or sacrifice his marriage on the altar of duty.
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