Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an American animated environmentalist television program created by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle. The series was produced by Turner Program Services and DiC Animation City and it was broadcast on TBS from September 15, 1990, to December 5, 1992. A sequel series, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, was produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. and distributed by Turner Program Services and was broadcast from September 11, 1993, to May 11, 1996. Both series continue today in syndication. The program is a form of edutainment and advocates environmentalism and is famous for having a number of famous actors providing voices for the villains. The show spawned a franchise consisting of a charity, a Marvel comic book series, video games, and a TV crossover with OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.

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Year:
1990
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[repeated line]

Kwame:
Let our powers combine. Earth!

Wheeler:
Fire!

Linka:
Wind!

Gi:
Water!

Ma-Ti:
Heart!

Kwame, Wheeler, Linka, Gi, Ma-Ti:
Go, Planet!

Captain Planet:
By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet.

[first lines]

Opening Narrator:
Our world is in peril. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. She gives five magic rings to five special young people. From Africa, Kwame with the power of earth. From the North America, Wheeler with the power of fire. From the Soviet Union, Linka with the power of wind. From Asia, Gi with the power of water and from South America, Ma-Ti with the power of heart. With the five powers combined they summon earth's greatest champion - CAPTAIN PLANET!

Kwame, Wheeler, Linka, Gi, Ma-Ti:
Go, Planet!

Captain Planet:
[repeated line, often at departure] The power is *yours!*

MAL:
Speaking of guard dogs, how about feeding yours once in a while?

Dr. Blight:
They could always take a couple of bytes out a smart-mouthed computer.

Wheeler:
I've handled eco-creeps and toxic spills, but I can't keep track of a ten-year-old kid.

Dr. Blight:
[leaping into the humane society truck's rear] Close the door!

Bob:
[shutting it once the dogs bound in after] What? And abandon your pets?

Wheeler:
[a mutated squid appears on Planet Vision] Hey, I think I've seen this movie *before*, Gaia!

Gi:
[in the Ecosub, trapped inside a giant clam] I can't believe I hit that boat!

Ma-Ti:
Biut you also cracked the case! Did anybody else notice who was on that barge? Sludge and Ooze!

Linka:
Bozhe moy! We must stop them!

Wheeler:
Is that before or after we get out of this clam?

Wheeler:
Give me a break. We're gonna try to tickle the clam open? Is that the best you can do?

Gi:
[connecting wires] Yes. It's the best shot we've got. Matter of fact, it's the only shot we've got.

Wheeler:
Shouldn't we think about this a little more?

Linka:
Clam up, Wheeler.

Ooze:
[stammering upon seeing the giant squid] Ah, Boss, ah... ahh...!

Sly Sludge:
Go sneeze on your own time, Ooze.

Sly Sludge:
[overboard] Well, don't just lie there! Do something! [dizzy, Ooze falls off-deck near him] Not exactly the response I had hoped for.

[last lines]

Sly Sludge:
Dumping in the ocean, isn't dangerous, I assure you. [peers into a can he's forced to clean off the beach, a crab sticks its head out and pinches his nose] Ow! Get it off! Ahhh! [falls backward, Ooze grabs the can he sends flying]

Ooze:
Dumping in the ocean ain't dangerous, eh? I think it can be. Get it, Boss? "Can" be? [laughs, Sludge tosses a banana peel in his face]

Dr. Blight:
Would you pull over for a beautiful damsel in distress?

Soldier:
Sure. If we see one. [the soldiers laugh]

Captain Planet:
I think I can repel the storm. Just don't tell anyone about my repulsive personality.

Captain Planet:
Hate and prejudice can be as poison as toxins.

Gaia:
[after seeing the picture of Greedly's oil-drilling and one of oil spilling into a river on Planet Vision, sees factories polluting the air, cars polluting the air, a bird clutching garbage flying over a trashed ocean, a deforested land] It's worse than I thought! Earth is dying.

Gaia:
[after the Planeteers' transportation, floats down to them] Welcome, to Hope Island!

Wheeler:
Yo, say, lady - you wanna explain what's going on here?

Gaia:
[chuckles] Hm. So much for drama.

Wheeler:
[winking] Hey, babe, love your accent. You Russian?

Linka:
Soviet.

[shoves him lightly]

Linka:
Please, go away.

Wheeler:
Love it!

Wheeler:
[seeing Wind and Earth are two powers] Hey, what's my element? Water? Fire?

[his ring shoots a blast of fire, setting alight the wood floor]

Wheeler:
Yow! Sorry. You got an extinguisher?

Gaia:
Better than that. Gi, your power is Water.

Gi:
All right. Here it goes - Water!

[causes a column of it to arise from the river which sweeps over the hut and the Planeteers, who yell out]

Wheeler:
Nice job, toots. I'm all wet.

Linka:
You certainly are. At least the fire is out.

Wheeler:
Oh, yeah.

Kwame:
What do you think *your* power is, Ma-Ti?

Ma-Ti:
I already know.

[his ring glows as he looks up; without moving his lips]

Ma-Ti:
Mine - is Heart. I can sense you all, hear your thoughts, feel your feelings!

Linka:
Bosha moy. I can hear him - in my head!

Gaia:
[touching his shoulder, his arm] That's right. Ma-Ti, yours is the greatest power of all. Because without a Heart to guide them, the other powers are useless. Through you the others will always be linked, no matter where they are.

Wheeler:
Hey, how come *you* get to fly this thing?

Gi:
Do *you* have a driver's license?

Wheeler:
Well, no.

Gi:
[amused] That's why.

Gaia:
[appearing] Don't worry, Planeteers. Though I need to stay at Hope Island, I will be with you in spirit.

[disappears]

Wheeler:
Fat lot of good that'll do us in a fire-fight!

[his ring causes a blaze on the aisle floor]

Ma-Ti:
Wheeler, don't say "fire" until you mean it!

Kwame:
And if we encounter a situation which we cannot handle?

Gaia:
Well, just put your powers together. Then you'll *really* be surprised.

[disappears]

Wheeler:
[stands] Wait a minute! What's *that* supposed to mean?

Gi:
Sit down, Yankee.

Linka:
And fasten the seat-belt for your safety.

Wheeler:
[amused] Didn't know you cared.

Wheeler:
[the Geocruiser is struck with oil] Man, these guys are really rude and crude.

Rigger:
[of Captain Planet] Holy smoke! What the heck is that? Huh? Huh?

Hoggish Greedly:
Trouble.

Captain Planet:
[laughing as Rigger rams the drill into his chest] Come on, guys, that tickles.

Captain Planet:
[his energy is restored] Ah, I feel like a brand-new hero.

Wheeler:
You are!

Captain Planet:
And so are you, Planeteers. Thanks for *your* help.

Linka:
[choking] There is something I am wanting you to know.

Wheeler:
[choking] Yes?

Linka:
Sometimes I act like I don't care for you, but... [breaks out coughing]

Captain Planet:
[flying toward the struggling craft] I'd better hurry - I've got a plane to catch!

Jeff:
You showed me that the power really *is* ours to make a difference.

Captain Planet:
That's right - Planeteer. [touches his chest so the insignia appears on his shirt]

[first lines]

Gi:
Finally, a vacation! First thing I want to do is go shopping.

Wheeler:
I hear stuff is dirt-cheap here.

Linka:
[sighs] Trust Wheeler to go straight to the bottom line.

Gi:
[afer he bursts back onto the Ecocopter] Did you get anything?

Wheeler:
Yeah, I got the creeps! I never saw so many poor people in my life! Why don't they get real jobs and get off the street?

Kwame:
There is not enough work in the city for everyone.

Ma-Ti:
Do not be so quick to judge them, Wheeler. You have never been poor.

Gaia:
[appears] Ma-Ti is right, Wheeler. Except for a twist of fate, you might be in the shoes of that man you stumbled over.

Wheeler:
Aw, c'mon. I'd never let myself sink *that* low, Gaia. [everyone yells as the ground rumbles, he falls back with Ma-Ti and Kwame] OK, OK. You don't have to get mad.

Gaia:
When I *do* get mad, you'll know it. But that wasn't me.

Gaia:
The quake hit hardest in Santa Teresa, a small farming-village just north of here. At least... it *used* to be a village.

Wheeler:
[eluding the doctors] No, thanks, guys. I don't wear white jackets. A bit too straight for me.

Wheeler:
Good, I lost 'em. Only trouble is, I'm lost too.

Teresa:
[from behind] Lost again, Wheeler? I told you you'd be lost without me.

Wheeler:
Who're you?

Teresa:
Of course. Why should a rich tourista like you remember a poor little nobody like me?

[turns to leave]

Wheeler:
[grabs her shoulder] Please, wait. I'm sorry. I don't remember *anything* since I hit my head. What was it you called me?

Wheeler:
These fire-traps outght to be condemned!

Teresa:
Then where would I live?

Wheeler:
It was wrong to steal this, you know.

Teresa:
Of course I know! If you're so *moral*, don't eat it.

Wheeler:
[sighing] I'm sorry, Teresa... I never knew life could be this rough.

Teresa:
[pointing] Well... now you know.

Teresa:
You were right before. I did dream of becoming a doctor once.

Wheeler:
You still *can*, Teresa.

Teresa:
How can you think about things like that when you're hungry? Oh, Wheeler...

[leans against him]

Teresa:
It's just a twist of fate.

Paco:
[to Wheeler, who doesn't know him after his second blow to the head] Amigo, if I were you, I would start wearing a helmet.

Luisa:
No shores, amigo? Well, at least I found something *you* can use. They took away they man who slept in the park. They said that *he* would not need these shoes anymore. But I think they would fit our unlucky young friend.

Linka:
Oh, Wheeler, where *are* you?

Wheeler:
[running up] Right behind ya, beautiful.

Linka:
Wheeler! Where have you been?

Wheeler:
A walked a lot of miles in someone else's shoes.

Linka:
But...

Wheeler:
I'll tell you all about it later. But first we gotta put out that fire and save the girl who saved *my* life.

Captain Planet:
[causing water to shoot up underground and stop the fire] The shower's yours.

Thug:
There's that girl and the firebug! Let's get 'em!

Captain Planet:
Oh, you wanna see a firebug, huh? Hey, he can't hold a *candle* to me... [engulfs himself in flame; the thugs scream and run] Boy, you try to give people what they want...

Kwame:
[gesturing to the fountain] And you did, Captain Planet!

[last lines]

Wheeler:
Don't ask *me* what's goin' on. I had amnesia, remember?

Gi:
[after awakening from a dream] You - you are not a sea creature!

Pontus:
[laughs] Well, in a way I am, since I live under the sea.

Gi:
[of Oceanus] I used to dream about a place like this. It is paradise.

Pontus:
Yes, it is, but soon it may be nothing *more* than a dream.

Linka:
[finding Gi's oxygen tank] Without her tank, she would have only minutes!

Ma-Ti:
It is not true! I have this feeling she is still alive. Heart!

[his ring activates]

Linka:
Are you picking up anything?

Ma-Ti:
Pollution everywhere... I cannot get through. I wish...

Kwame:
[gently touches his shoulder] We all love Gi, Ma-Ti, but if something happened, we cannot wish her back.

Kwame:
[Sludge imprisons him, Wheeler, Ma-Ti, and Linka in a net] Now I know how fish feel!

Wheeler:
[bitterly] Great. Now what do we do - fly?

Linka:
If you would spend more time being wise than being a wise *guy*, maybe we would find a solution.

Wheeler:
What's that supposed to mean?

Linka:
That you are full of hot air.

Ma-Ti:
If you would stop arguing, you'd realize that you *both* found the solution. We can fly *with* hot air, and a balloon made of blankets!

Pontus:
What's so bad about staying in this paradise, Gi? I'm not bad company.

Gi:
[sighs] It's not *you*, Pontus. I have my duties as a Planeteer. Besides, this paradise may not last.

Pontus:
Don't worry. My people have always solved their problems by themselves.

Kwame:
[Gi topples from the bars trying to hold back a leak to a pipe, Wheeler broke out for her to grip, then flips down many pipes to land on her feet] Give that girl a 10!

Captain Planet:
[to the dolphins] People of the river, help me.

Captain Planet:
[sees the piranha chomping on Greedly's rear] Looks like the fish are really biting today!

Sly Sludge:
[the EDA representative hands over photos of his water samples' bacteria] Aw! Pictures of the family?

Linka:
[Sludge's drain shoots out a massive amount of sewage into the river where the Planeteers stand on a rock] We need a plumber, and fast.

Kwame:
I know one who is always on call. Let our powers combine!

MAL:
[as Captain Planet dodges the rays she shoots] I wish you'd let *me* try, Doctor.

Dr. Blight:
Your arm is too short, MAL.

Captain Planet:
[of Sludge] Planeteers, why don't you turn this trash into something good like the authorities? The power is yours!

[leaves]

Wheeler:
Yeah! We got him on reckless polluting, and grand-theft sub.

Gi:
Cheer up, Sludge. You'll have plenty of time to read up on waste-water treatment, in jail.

Sly Sludge:
That's so funny I forgot to laugh.

MAL:
[after Blight runs from the room] Hmph! She'd never desert me? Never took about one minute!

Dr. Blight:
I hope you didn't think I ran out on you, MAL, baby.

MAL:
The thought never *entered* my database!

MAL:
[Blight places the shrunken Ecosub, with Sludge imprisoned by the Planeteers in it, in a vat of water which she shrinks down to glass-size as well] Oh, how delicious. I always thought Sludge needed to rejuice.

Linka:
If my calculations are correct, we are now in Kwame's intestines!

Ma-Ti:
Let us try the forward spotlight. [flicks a switch, a beam shows bacteria ahead]

Gi:
Oh, no! Water-borne parasites! They came from the polluted water!

Wheeler:
[they approach] Maybe you should've left the lights *off*, Ma-Ti.

Linka:
Bosha moy! They are attacking the Ecosub!

Sly Sludge:
[moans] They're gonna open us like a can of sardines! Get me out of here, you stupid eco-geeks!

Linka:
[strides over to him] Do not call us stupid! *You* are the one who polluted the water!

Dr. Blight:
MAL - bail me out of this prison. [he cannot reach her] Your arm is still too short, MAL!

MAL:
And whose fault is *that*, Doctor? *You* installed it!

Linka:
[Wheeler and Ma-Ti are about to battle parasites] Be careful, Ma-Ti. [beat] And, you too, Wheeler.

Wheeler:
Hey, does this mean you care? [she shuts the door on them]

Linka:
You were supposed to make a right turn at the bioduct. Do you have any idea where you are going?

Wheeler:
No. But at the next gas station, you can ask directions.

Dr. Blight:
[MAL struggles to release Dr. Blight as Kwame writhes on the floor] Take your time, MAL. It looks like those parasites are attacking that Planet brat's brain! [the Planeteers experience it at a booming volume within Kwame's right ear]

Gi:
Oh, no! Did you hear that?

Wheeler:
[clutching his ears] Ahh! I don't think I'll hear anything else for a week!

Linka:
I told you to stay in the main artery, but, nyet, you had to take shortcut.

Ma-Ti:
[in the brain] What are those lights?

Linka:
Kwame's thoughts. Let us hope he does not have a brainstorm while we are in here.

Wheeler:
Hey, Sludge! Come back here, you ponytailed parasite!

Linka:
We will never catch him!

Ma-Ti:
Stealing our sub? He's got a nerve!

Gi:
Not only that, but he's *in* one! The Vagus nerve, which leads right to the lungs!

Captain Planet:
Outta my sight, parasite!

[last lines]

Sly Sludge:
I feel about this tall.

[makes a thumb-and-finger size measure]

Dr. Blight:
I could arrange that.

[he kicks her over the bridge into fertilizer, the Planeteers laugh]

Wheeler:
[watching a tiger leave a log in a clearing, jumps back at the woods' edge] What was that?

Kwame:
[Kwame and Ma-Ti run into him from behind] Watch out! What is the matter, Wheeler? Did the little pussycat scare you?

Wheeler:
Not scared, Kwame, old pal. Just curious.

[the others grin]

Wheeler:
Back in New York they used to say I had nerves of steel.

[an owl flies above, he ducks]

Wheeler:
Yow!

Kwame:
It appears that in Thailand, your steel nerves have gotten a bit rusty.

Wheeler:
Let me show you what we do to evil spirits where I come from!

Linka:
Wheeler, no!

Wheeler:
[his ring sets the "Phi Pok" ablaze but it does not react and a moment later continues to go after him when the flames die down] Oops. It's fireproof. [runs ahead of it to drive it away from Linka] That's right - follow me! Come on, you stupid superstition!

Wheeler:
Boy, you got awful sharp teeth for a superstition!

Gi:
Nice job, Gi. Those slobs could use a bath. [both gasp as the flood sweeps them off, Greedly is shown gripping the chamber door's edge when Rigger grips his arm as he is being swept by]

Rigger:
Save me, Mr. Greedly! Save me!

Hoggish Greedly:
Go soak your head. I'm saving myself.

Linka:
[embracing him] Thank goodness you're safe!

Wheeler:
[released] Hey, if I'd known you'd react like this, I'd get myself captured all the time.

[last lines]

Wheeler:
I'm gonna miss this place.

Linka:
I thought you did not want to come here.

Wheeler:
That was before you hugged me.

Linka:
I had no choice, Wheeler. It was either you or the dragon-beast.

Wheeler:
[she flips to follow the robot-bird] Nice move, Gi! Wow, I gotta remember *that* one.

Wheeler:
[trapped with Gi, Kwame, and Juan after she got herself and Ma-Ti free] Linka, we came to rescue *you*.

Linka:
Ah, this must be a new rescue method.

Hoggish Greedly:
Stop parrotting me, bird-brain!

Looten Plunder:
Bleak, did you hit something?

Argos Bleak:
[not noticing he bumped the Geocruiser while swatting the windshield with a newspaper] Yeah, a fly, Mr. Plunder.

Looten Plunder:
I mean with the jet, you pinhead. Watch where you're flying; I just had this thing hand-waxed.

Wheeler:
No need to panic, guys. I'll just blast these suckers. Fire! [shoots a jet of flame with his ring, but the beetles emerge again after a minute and attack] OK, *now* panic!

Verminous Skumm:
A little pesticide drip for a big eco-drip.

Captain Planet:
Well - imagine that. A pest bigger than you, Skumm.

Verminous Skumm:
Please, help me, Captain Planet. I'll do anything! [sobs in terror as his giant beetles cling to him to escape the attacking wasps]

Captain Planet:
I don't know, Skumm. Your little friends are starting to grow on me. Or should I say you?

Hoggish Greedly:
Shoot me, Rigger. [Rigger raises the gun] The camera, you mush-head.

Ma-Ti:
[grabbing his monkey who scrabbles to keep a hold of the seat as the Geocruiser nosedives] I told you to wear your seatbelt, Suchi.

Wheeler:
[after Gi moves the water whose ice he melted into a spiral ice staircase to climb] *Cool* move, Gi.

Linka:
Eath could be contaminated for millions of years, and you are making jokes.

MAL:
[the Planeteers attempt to pick through the glacier lab-entrance] Is this Gaia genius, or what?

MAL:
Mind your manners, MAL.

MAL:
Attention, Attention, malevolent master. And you too, Duke Raddish-Head.

MAL:
Now wouldn't you know it: I do all the work and the mutant does the gloating.

Wheeler:
Let's make like an atom and split!

Gi:
One more bad storm could push her over the edge.

Wheeler:
Forget one more. *This* storm's gonna do it.

Wheeler:
I just wish I didn't have to wear this monkey-suit. [Ma-Ti's pet chatters] Hey, no offense, Suchi.

Wheeler:
[Kwame is shocked and nearly falls off the train-roof, he and Linka manage to pull him back up] Hey, no leaving the train 'til we get to the station!

Ella Salvator:
The project goes ahead whether I do or not.

Dr. Blight:
[stuck on the freeway while trying to escape] Out of my way! Oh, I hate all this traffic.

Captain Planet:
Well, then, let me take you away from it. [lifts her car]

Wheeler:
Man, the air here is so fresh. You know what I'd be doing right now if I was in New York?

Ma-Ti:
Visiting the tall buildings? Seeing the bright lights?

Wheeler:
Sweating, choking on smog.

Ma-Ti:
And think how much worse the planet would be without the forest to cool and clean the air.

[Suchi runs over and cackles excitedly, waving his arms frantically]

Ma-Ti:
What is it, Suchi?

Wheeler:
[they turn in the direction he gestures in] Uh-oh - smoke! This place is starting to *look* like New York!

Ma-Ti:
The forest gives life to the Indians. You will only be able to farm it for a few years before the soil gives out.

Developer:
So? Who cares? Then we just move on.

[they lower their torches toward the trees]

Wheeler:
Fire!

[his ring causes the sticks to burn to ash in the men's hands]

Developer:
Uh... on second thought, maybe we should move on now!

Linka:
The smog in the city could not be any worse.

Gi:
The scary thing is, it could.

Ma-Ti:
Baron Giftus! I must warn you about that man Argos Bleak. I know him, and he is evil.

Looten Plunder:
[disguised] Don't worry, Ma-Ti. I won't let him cause any harm.

[walks off, Ma-Ti starts to go in the opposite direction but stops and gasps]

Ma-Ti:
How could Baron Giftus know my name? We have never met. Or have we?

Looten Plunder:
[Ma-Ti climbs a rope above a catwalk out of reach of Bleak's henchmen, who grab air and fall over] Idiots! That pint-sized King Kong is making monkeys out of *you*!

Gi:
[laughs seeing Plunder disguised as Giftus on Planet Vision after Ma-Ti's fight with him] It looks like his beard is on crooked.

Kwame:
For now, Wheeler is probably OK.

Gi:
[buries her face in her hands] If you call being stuck under a giant salad-bowl OK!

Argos Bleak:
People are swelterin' in your worst heat-wave ever. But Plunder Air has the answer to your problems.

Athens Mayor:
You and Plunder Air made our problem twice as bad!

Argos Bleak:
Let's not talk about the past...

Looten Plunder:
Your City Council can breathe easy. You're hooked up to Plunder Air.

Los Angeles Mayor:
[choking] We'll be happy to breathe at all!

Looten Plunder:
Stand back.

[pushes a lever, the hose attached takes in air and wigs, handkerchiefs, and papers as those watching cough]

Looten Plunder:
This sucks up all the smoggy air. And little things.

[laughs and reverses the lever to turn it off, removes his mask and leads them to a second tube, pushes its lever and the observers are pushed back yelling]

Looten Plunder:
This hose sucks in clean air.

Los Angeles Mayor:
[stands, notes a third tube] Swell, but... what's that one for?

Looten Plunder:
[as someone carries it to a bank door] That's to suck up all the money you owe me. And today is payday.

Los Angeles Mayor:
You plunderer! The day will come when someone closes down this market!

Looten Plunder:
Yeah? Well, don't hold your breath!

[laughs]

Looten Plunder:
[spraying him with smog] What's the matter, Cap? You look exhausted. [laughs]

Ma-Ti:
No! Stop!

Looten Plunder:
[Suchi jabs a wrench into the machinery, stopping the smoke-release] Uh-ohhhh...

Captain Planet:
[stands and starts to run at Plunder] Now that's what I call throwing a monkey-wrench into his plans. Hey, thanks, Suchi.

Captain Planet:
[grabbing the domes] Just imagine the deposit I could get for these at the recycling center.

Wheeler:
Well, looks like Plunder's plan was *domed* to failure. [everyone else groans]

Dr. Blight:
Hey, Plunder, what are you trying to pull?

Looten Plunder:
The plug, Dr. Blight. On the world's water supply.

Wheeler:
[gardening] Here you go, tree-baby.

Linka:
Ha. So now you flirt with trees, eh, Wheeler?

Ma-Ti:
If you need us, drop me a thought!

Rigger:
My boss thinks of everything!

Argos Bleak:
[turns to glare at him] *Your* boss? It was *my* boss' idea!

Wheeler:
Wouldn't you know it. Plunder's penthouse came complete with a prison.

Gi:
[pouring her sample in the lock] Maybe for once a little toxic waste will come in handy.

Looten Plunder:
What about the other Planet pest?

Argos Bleak:
She got away.

Rigger:
It wasn't our fault, Mr. Plunder. Nope, nope.

Looten Plunder:
"Got away"? You fools! I told you to watch them!

Wheeler:
[grinning] They did. They watched her escape.

Wheeler:
[lunges nearly from Rigger's and Bleak's hold when he hears that Captain Planet and the other Planeteers but Gi are dead] OOOH... I'll *get* you for this, Plunder!

Looten Plunder:
[taps him on the head with his small elephant-skull staff] The only thing *you're* going to get - is trouble. Take him away.

Verminous Skumm:
[follows with Blight as Rigger and Bleak drag Wheeler off] What about the girl?

Looten Plunder:
[laughs] Hey, I'm the guy who knocked Captain Planet out of his orbit. You think one girl is going to stop me?

Looten Plunder:
Cool your jets, Captain Planet...

[Bleak leaves and returns a second later gripping Wheeler, who he drags to the edge of the bridge]

Looten Plunder:
...if you value the safety of your little errand-boy.

Captain Planet:
I wouldn't hurt him if I were you.

Verminous Skumm:
He's in good hands, Captain Planet, just so long as you go away, and let us pollute in peace.

Dr. Blight:
Yeah. While we've got him, you've got trouble.

Captain Planet:
[watches as the Geocruiser comes in behind them]... Sorry, Wheeler, there's - nothing I can do.

Argos Bleak:
[releases Wheeler than jumps around] We won! We won! [is startled when he accidentally elbows Wheeler off the bridge]

Wheeler:
AHHHHHHHH - OOF!

Ma-Ti:
[Kwame grabs him on a rope dangling from the Geocruiser; he calls from it] Hi, Wheeler.

Kwame:
Just thought we'd drop by!

Kwame:
[after Gi blasts him off his raft with Water] It is a good thing my camera is waterproof.

Gi:
It's a good thing you weren't hurt, getting as close to the whales as you did!

Kwame:
They are huge.

Gaia:
[appears] Doing some underwater photography, Kwame?

Kwame:
Not intentionally, Gaia.

Gaia:
Unfortunately, the International Whaling Treaty has some loopholes. Some people still kill whales, in the name of scientific research.

Gi:
Research? But that's killing! That's - that's...

Gaia:
[grips her shoulders] Cruel, dishonest, inhumane, and in this case illegal. That's why I want you to put a stop to it.

Gi:
You don't have to ask twice! Let's go! [the five run off]

Gaia:
If the rest of the world were like them, I could take a permanent vacation.

Dr. Blight:
And, in case we meet a certain Captain out on the high seas, we've got an explosive lasso, with a toxic head, filled with radioactive waste!

Looten Plunder:
Well, I never thought I'd find myself wishing Captain Planet would show up!

Captain Planet:
Gi - deploy the grappling arm!

Gi:
Aye, aye, Captain!

Ma-Ti:
They got Captain Planet!

Looten Plunder, Dr. Blight:
[high-fiveing] We got Captain Planet!

Looten Plunder:
Nice move, Blight! You let the big one get away!

Dr. Blight:
Don't carp at me, Plunder! Ohh, men! [storms off]

Looten Plunder:
Hm! Women!

MAL:
So, what are you waiting for? Put me in the water. [to himself as the camera passes] Good luck.

Captain Planet:
[appearing] By your powers combined...

Looten Plunder:
Uh-oh!

Captain Planet:
I am Captain Planet!

Dr. Blight:
[nervously looking at the harpoon he holds] Um, just what - were you planning to do with that, Captain Planet... sir?

Captain Planet:
Oh, just trying to make a point.

[jabs it into the raft she and Plunder are on, deflating it]

Ma-Ti:
[laughs with and slaps his pet a high-five after Wheeler is hit with a pie] I always wanted to do that, too, Suchi!

Madame Mao:
Welcome to Madame Mao's Circus Extraordinaire!

Kwame:
More like Circus Unfair.

Captain Planet:
[to Tusker] Nothing like a shower after a close shave. Hey, thanks, Jumboteer.

Captain Planet:
[sees the set fire] Uh-oh. This must be the Hottest Show on Earth!

Looten Plunder:
But that explosion will blow up *my* power-plant, too.

Dr. Blight:
Stop wining, Looten; you'll get a fat insurance-check.

Looten Plunder:
[grinning] Yeah.

Captain Planet:
[to his future self] Nice to meet me.

Captain Planet:
[returning to his own time with its Planeteers] We all have a part to do to ensure a brighter future. Remember, the power is yours!

Captain Planet:
[grinning] Hey, that's *my* line!

[last lines]

Linka:
Do you have a problem?

Wheeler:
It's weird. Two of the future Planeteers - they looked kind of like us. Do you suppose that we...?

Linka:
That is one future that is *not* possible, Yankee.

Wheeler:
Wow, you're makin' a movie?

Robin Plunder:
Yeah. But there's no green-haired superhero in it!

Wheeler:
How about a good-looking redhead?

Billy Jean:
I mean, you have a better chance of getting food-poisoning at a church picnic than getting rabies from a bat!

Wheeler:
[after Suchi runs away from his own reflection as he is wearing the bat-costume] Now you know how it feels, pal.

Captain Planet:
[places his hand on the Jeep's bar as he revs up] Hold your horseower. [Robin starts forward and is slightly thrown against the windshield, he rubs his head in pain] And next time, wear your seatbelt.

Captain Planet:
[while rescuing Billy Jean from the bat cave] Come on BJ, let's blow this Stalagmite stand.

Looten Plunder:
These prophets of doom want to doom your profits.

Goki:
You really gonna drag that furball along with you the whole way? [the baby gorilla on Kwame's shoulder glares at him] What're you looking at?

Argos Bleak:
Ready, aim...

Wheeler:
Fire! [his ring knocks the gun from Bleak's hand]

Dr. Blight:
[on the screen of a laptop just opened] It's about time, Doctor. It was getting stuffy in there.

MAL:
Just put a cork in it, MAL. [he corks a bottle]

MAL:
This is your captain speaking. Not the one we're hoping for, of course.

President:
[to MAL] I'm no rocket-scientist, but I can see to turn this ship around, I'll have to disconnect you.

Captain Planet:
[after his crash-landing on Hope Island] Well, at least my Earthpower still works.

Gaia:
So does your Heartpower. And you're going to need it for what lies ahead.

Captain Planet:
If we make things worse with greenhouse gases, the polar ice could melt, and flood every coastal city. In New York, rising seas will take a bite out of the Big Apple. As for Hong Kong, it'll be Long Gone. While the only tourists left in Venice will be scuba-divers. For humans it would mean farmland turned to deserts, the collapse of entire economies, hunger on an unimaginable scale.

President:
But it probably won't *be* that bad...

Captain Planet:
Maybe. Or maybe it'll be worse.

MAL:
[shorting out the radio to Mission Control] Who said you could make a call on my line?

Captain Planet:
MAL broke the connection before the president could give the order!

Gaia:
Then you must get to the power-plant and stop Blight yourself.

Captain Planet:
But, Gaia, what good is a superhero without superpowers?

Gaia:
[touches his shouler] You still have the power that counts most - your courage.

Gaia:
Thanks, Gaia.

President:
I can feel the gravity of Venus.

Kwame:
Not to mention the gravity of the situation.

Gi:
[barely awake due to carbon dioxide] Look! It's Captain Planet! He's got... a crowbar?

Captain Planet:
[chuckling] Let's just say I need to conserve strength.

Captain Planet:
[stretching after lifting Wheeler, Gi, and Linka away from the carbon-filled cell, with 2/5 of his usual strength and appearing pale] Wow. I never knew what a hard job I have. Oh, my back.

Dr. Blight:
Well, well, look at the mighty Captain Planet. Looks like he's been demoted to Private Planet.

Gaia:
Those rats aren't normal. I suspect foul play.

Kwame:
Or a *rodent* at play.

Verminous Skumm:
[seeing the tape] Oh, rats! Eco-idiots!

Rat Guard:
Trouble, Mr. Skumm?

Verminous Skumm:
You might say that, but it's trouble for them!

Kwame:
I read that the Doge's Palace has not changed in a thousand years.

Gi:
Well, the way it's going, it won't last another ten.

Kwame:
[a piece of stone falls from the roof] Look out!

[shoves Ma-Ti and Gi ahead but trips on an uneven piece of pavement himself]

Gi:
Kwame! Water!

[draws a column of it from the canal to blast the rock away from him]

Kwame:
[stands] Thanks, Gi. When you said Venice was falling apart, I did not think you meant so soon.

Verminous Skumm:
[to his fellow rats] Quit bugging me, you cheddar-heads! I don't HAVE any cheese on me!

Wheeler:
Now we can go take care of some unfinished business. Namely, Verminous Scumm and his rats.

Nurse:
Doctor! The hospital basement! It's overrun with rats!

Wheeler:
At least we don't have to go too far.

Verminous Skumm:
I'll turn you into shredded mozzarella!

Wheeler:
[a group of large mutant rats leap through the wall of flame he created] What the-? Hey, you're crazy!

Kwame:
Looks like we have a reception committee.

Wheeler:
Yeah. And I don't think they wanna shake hands.

Gi:
Water! [the filthy canal-water on it prevents her ring from activating a hose] Huh? Darn! What do we...

Ma-Ti:
[runs over and turns on the nozzle] Ha ha ha! Water!

Gi:
[grinning, embarrassed and relieved] Oh. Yeah.

Captain Planet:
Uh-oh. Processed cheese. Not my favorite food.

[bends the bridge's legs so the toxic-cheese-filled torpedoes slide up them in an arc then shoot back in the opposite direction]

Captain Planet:
Sorry, Skumm, but I'm on a cheese-free diet.

Verminous Skumm:
Not that supercilious superhero! This is the worst thing that could happen!

[glances behind to see the torpedoes shooting toward his hideout]

Verminous Skumm:
I was wrong - it's not the worst! This is!

[last lines]

Wheeler:
You hungry, Pietre? You wanna do lunch?

Pietre:
Yes. Just so long as it's not grilled cheese. [everyone laughs]

Wheeler:
I can't believe it got hot so fast!

Gi:
A quick dip will cool us off.

[they dive into the sea before surfacing]

Wheeler:
No, it won't. This ocean is as warm as bathwater.

Gi:
Wheeler, something is really wrong.

Gaia:
[appearing] That's an understatement, Gi.

MAL:
I'm about to crash with curiosity.

Gi:
[Linka turns a nozzle to drop oil on the deck so Dr. Blight slips and goes overboard] That must be the first oil-spill that ever *helped* the environment.

Dr. Blight:
[shaking him as a massive wave from the broken forcefield approaches] Quick, MAL, tell me everything I need to know about surfing.

MAL:
Just two words, Doctor: wipe ouuuuut...

Dr. Blight:
Now it's time for Blight to get out of sight.

Dusty:
Let the young'uns go, and I'll do whatever you say.

Plunder's Henchman:
You'll do what I say anyway.

Wheeler:
Hang on, Dusty.

Dusty:
[trapped on a tree-branch on the cliff-side] I'm not goin' anywhere.

Wheeler:
We need Cap, pronto!

Dusty:
How's a hat gonna help?

Ma-Ti:
Why didn't you leave us to die in the crypt, Greedly?

Hoggish Greedly:
What challenge is burying someone in a cemetery?

Captain Planet:
[laughing as the guards' spears bounce off him] Hey, cut it out. That tickles.

Verminous Skumm:
Take a control-rod, Nukem.

Gi:
Did you know that whales may be as smart as humans?

Wheeler:
[grinning] Then why haven't they invented anything?

Gaia:
You mean like weapons that could end all life on Earth?

Ma-Ti:
People would not kill each other over simple quarrels.

Gaia:
These aren't simple quarrels. Each one is a blood-fued that has gone on for generations. Hate has become stronger than logic.

Gaia:
If an atomic bomb goes off, even Captain Planet couldn't save you.

Kwame:
[running to stand before her with the others] Gaia, we must go!

Gi:
Yeah; right!

Wheeler:
Right, you gotta let us try!

Linka:
Dah!

Gaia:
[grinning] And Skumm said there's no hope for humanity.

Ma-Ti:
[calling after Wheeler as he leaps out of the Geocruiser] Are you sure you do not want help?

Wheeler:
You kiddin'? Belfast is my kinda town. I feel like a native already. Only, is this a Catholic neighborhood, or a Protestant?

Moisha Lowkowitz:
[lying when he sees Najah has another trigger to the bomb he has one for] I-I made a mistake. That's not the one who threw the rock.

Guard:
[leaving with the others] All right. Let it be on your head.

Moisha Lowkowitz:
[muttering as he exposes his cut] Believe me, it is.

Linka:
You are too young to be so full of hate.

Peter:
[gripping her] My comrades are not gentle with traitors to our race, Linka. I am sorry.

Kwame:
And I will make you sorrier. Earth!

Linka:
[physically mediating with Kwame, sarcastically] This is going well so far.

Ma-Ti:
Gaia, how do we overcome such hate?

Gaia:
With the truth.

Najah:
Oh, Moisha, forgive me.

Moisha Lowkowitz:
If you can forgive *me*. We were both just trying to regain a homeland we had never known.

Linka:
You do not have to love each other, but you must learn to forgive.

Kwame:
And cooperate.

Captain Planet:
[grabbing Nukem and Skumm] I don't usually give rides, but you two, I'm gonna pick up.

Captain Planet:
[laughing as he flies gripping his enemies] Combining trips saves energy.

Captain Planet:
[flings the bombs out toward the sun] Wow. Maybe I should try out for the Olympics.

[last lines]

Linka:
Gaia, six people have learned to forgive. But millions more have not.

Gi:
We have not ended anything.

Gaia:
No. But you've made a beautiful beginning.

[the others agree]

[first lines]

Linka:
Bosha moy. The problem with the world is that no one gives a hoot. No matter how hard we try we cannot make a difference.

Gi:
How can you say that, Linka? Most people care.

Linka:
Look at my homeland. Poverty. Fighting. Pollution.

Gi:
But no one is born greedy and uncaring.

Linka:
Then how come there are wars, starvation, and environmental disasters; you tell me that.

Gi:
All I'm saying is the world would be different if it were in the hands of children, before hatred and prejudice mess up their minds.

Ron:
You kids deserve a better world...

Chi:
...Then we were giving you.

Wheeler:
You lose, Zarm.

Zarm:
But not gracefully.

Professor Apollo:
I'm Professor Apollo. And you are?

Kwame:
[seeing Karen behind him] Beautiful...

Wheeler:
Man, this guy is mushed. [Linka ends up standing near him, he laughs as Kwame follows Karen] I'm mushed, too. [tries putting his arm around Linka's shoulders]

Linka:
If this "mushed" means immature, then you certainly are. [gives him a shove and walks off]

Wheeler:
Women!

Duke Nukem:
Tie her up, Lead-Brain!

Lead Suit:
Sir!... My name is Lead *Suit*.

Duke Nukem:
[sees the Geocruiser flying outside the window] Those Planet brats are back! Your name is Mud if you don't get me that nuke-box fast!

Wheeler:
I'd like to show Duke Nukem how we fight fire with Fire! [his ring responds and shoots out a jet of flame, Linka ducks and yells] Sorry. Hey - my ring works again!

Linka:
[emerging from the woods] I have found a caveful of bats!

Wheeler:
[lays his hand on her shoulder amused] Linka, we gotta find you a hobby.

Linka:
Oh, so funny. Just follow me, Mr. Smart-Alecksy Pants.

Wheeler:
[goes] Hey, I'd follow you anywhere.

Linka:
[Ma-Ti follows the bats to the grate in the cave she discovered] See? We found the correct cave - how do you say - Right off the bat?

Wheeler:
All wet? I'll dry you off. Fire! [ignites the wet lead paint on Nukem, causing it to stick to his body when it dries]

Kwame:
[laughs] That sure gives him a rad new look.

Kwame:
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Hoggish Greedly:
[the car he's in is steered beneath trees, causing the top to be hit with branches and oranges to fall in the cab] Free food! [grabs them and starts stuffing his face]

Judge:
[grabs the pen from Rigger] I'll take that. Don't you know stealing is against the law? [the Planeteers laugh]

Gaia:
The hardest thing to change is people's minds.

Kwame:
The problem is too big. And people will never change.

[starts to cry]

Kwame:
I have failed.

Gaia:
[appears] Hello, Kwame.

Kwame:
Hello, Gaia.

[sniffs]

Kwame:
How did you find me?

Gaia:
I knew you would go to a forest when you needed to think.

Kwame:
I think very soon *this* forest will be buried in garbage.

Gaia:
I know things look bad, but you see the scar on this old tree? It almost died in a fire years ago. It did not give up. It kept on growing. Look around. The forest is full of reasons for hope.

Kwame:
I was wrong. And Sludge was right; people just do not care.

Ma-Ti:
You must not say that. Captain Planet will deal with Sludge.

Kwame:
[sighs; morosely] Very well, Ma-Ti. Let out powers combine. Earth...

[his ring glows and hums weakly then dies down and emits smoke, he cries as the others stare in shock]

Gi:
Kwame, what's wrong?

Kwame:
I will *tell* you what is wrong! This problem is too big for even Captain Planet! It is hopeless.

Gaia:
[appearing] Kwame, you must not give up hope. That is the source of your root of powr.

Kwame:
Then it is too late, Gaia. How I can believe in people when they turn their own world into a trash-dump?

[removes his ring]

Kwame:
You must give this to someone else. It does not work for me anymore.

[tosses it in the air, it vanishes with a flash that briefly blocks Gaia's image before she is seen again, looking pained]

Sly Sludge:
[on monitor, singing out of tune] If the trash is overflowing from your can, I will dump it for a fee, 'cause I'm the man... who flies the big sky scull! Gonna find a dump somehow! I'm Sly Sludge! I'm Sly Sludge! I'm Sly Sludge!

Wheeler:
Hey, if you were trying to impress a babe, Ma-Ti, what would you get her for her birthday?

Ma-Ti:
[grinning] You speak of Linka, my friend?

Wheeler:
No. Yeah. Well, maybe you could tune into her mind and see what that brusky babe would like

Gaia:
[Gaia appears from behind, they turn to face her] To the Crystal Chamber, Planeteers. We have an eco-emergency.

[disappears, Ma-Ti turns back to face the way they sail]

Wheeler:
[concentrating on moving the board to increase speed] C'mon, Ma-Ti. When the Spirit of Earth calls, we gotta boogie.

[finally turns around... ]

Ma-Ti:
Wheeler - be careful with the sail!

[he then Wheeler fall off and underwater, then grab the surf and glance to shore]

Linka:
[laughs] Come, my wet-head comrades. We must hurry.

Ma-Ti:
[regains his hat] However you decide to impress Linka, that was not the way to do it.

Wheeler:
Yo, Ma-Ti - this going to Africa gives me an awesome idea for Linka's present.

Ma-Ti:
Worry about a job we must do, not about impressing babes.

Wheeler:
Who's worried? She'll be impressed. What chick wouldn't flip for an ivory necklace?

Kwame:
[overhearing] Are you *crazy*, Wheeler?

Wheeler:
Yeah, like a fox. Everyone knows Africa's the best place to get ivory real cheap.

Kwame:
Cheap? Are you kidding? [everyone yells as the Geocruiser suddenly plunges]

Gi:
Hang on. I'm taking us down. I've just spotted two of Looten Plunder's henchmen attacking a herd of elephants.

Kwame:
Wheeler, you are about to find out how much ivory *really* costs.

Argos Bleak:
[his air-rover is engulfed with Belo's in the twister that is Captain Planet] Hey - where'd that tornado come from? What's going on?

Captain Planet:
Just simple ecology.

Captain Planet:
I'd love to stay and shoot the breeze, gang, but I've got to take these elephants to safety and then return to the earth. [engulfs the elephants in his wind form]

Wheeler:
But what if we need you again?

Captain Planet:
[of their rings] Just give me a ring; I'll be ready.

Wheeler:
[Kwame creates a divide in the land to sink the Snatcher vehicle] That'd sure be handy in New York traffic.

Ma-Ti:
It's a trap!

Looten Plunder:
Of *course* it's a trap!

Wheeler:
Let us out, or I'll fry you like the scrawny chicken you are!

Belo:
I will take the little elephant with me.

Kwame:
Why, my brother? Why must you kill the elephants? Why can't you leave them be?

Belo:
My people are poor. I need Looten Plunder's money, or my family will perish.

[sticks Sneezer with a cattle-prod]

Linka:
But soon there will be no elephants left! What then?

Belo:
[flustered]... I do not know!

Kwame:
We can teach you, my brother. Show you other ways to survive!

Belo:
I have already wasted too much time in foolish talk! Move, elephant!

Kwame:
No! I will not let you! You cannot take Sneezer!

[runs forth]

Gi:
Kwame, no! We've given our powers to Captain Planet!

Belo:
[jabs him in the chest with the prod, sending him sprawling back] Save your pretty words! I have no choice.

[heads off]

Kwame:
Belo, my brother, there *is* a choice! Listen to your heart!

Belo:
[Sneezer holds him back from stepping into a trap] You - you've saved my life! It is not a life I have been proud of, little friend. Perhaps it is time I change it.

[last lines]

Wheeler:
Gosh, Linka, we've been so busy I didn't get a chance to buy you something for your birthday. Sorry, babe.

Linka:
Seeing Sneezer and her mother back together is the best present I could get.

Wheeler:
In America, when you get a present, you have to give back kisses.

Linka:
In Soviet Union, when boys give you fast moves, you give back fast "nyet".

Kwame:
[laughs] Well, Wheeler, as you Americans say, you can kiss that idea goodbye!

[everyone else laughs, after a moment so does he]

MAL:
Steal someone else's idea, and take the credit.

Dr. Blight:
Great idea. Glad I thought of it.

Wheeler:
[startled by her appearance] Gaia! I wish you'd knock.

Wheeler:
[whispering to him as he sits] Now I get it, you sly dog. On a scale of 1 to 10, she's a 20.

Kwame:
[dreamily] 25.

Wheeler:
Now why can't you look up to me like Jason does?

Linka:
Some of us have more important things on our minds.

[he shrugs]

Wheeler:
Wow. This sure doesn't look like how I pictured this part of Africa. It looks more like Mars.

Kwame:
Since the cattle-projects began, there have been many changes here. And not for the better. Believe it or not, this area used to be grassland.

Ma-Ti:
Kwame, what was it like to grow up here?

Kwame:
Hm... ah. I will tell you of my first hunt. Game was plentiful then, and the land rich and fertile. One day, three young men from our tribe went out to find food. Mabutu was the leader. He was like, a big brother to me. I wanted to see what the hunt was like, so I followed them. As I watched, Mabutu shot a gazelle. Our tribe needed the food, but I felt sorry for it. The gazelle had seemed happy and free. That night, I told Mabutu I was sad that we must kill to eat. But he said to me:

Mabutu:
It is the way of nature, Kwame. We are part of the food chain, too. Like the lion, we must hunt, we kill only to survive. That is our way.

Kwame:
And so I lived in harmony with nature, thanks to Mabutu.

Linka:
Mabutu. Is this the same Mabutu?

Wheeler:
Ohh, yeah. The guy with the game ranch where all the strange stuff is happening?

Linka:
Thank you, Wheeler.

Wheeler:
It sure is quiet.

Kwame:
They say that if you very listen carefully, you can hear the spirits of the animals that once lived here, calling to each other. [something growls]

Wheeler:
[gasps] What about the ones that are still here? And hungry?

Kwame:
Jambo. We have come...

Kofy:
[prodding him] Why have you taken our cattle? We saw your flying machines drive them away.

Kwame:
But, brother...

Kofy:
We have so little compared to you. Why do you take what is ours?

Wheeler:
Steers don't grow *that* big. Not even in Texas.

Gi:
[flying over] I'm gonna scare 'em off.

Wheeler:
Uhh, Gi - I think you just made 'em mad. But if it's any consolation, I-*I'm* scared.

Ma-Ti:
Look! Zebras ahead!

Linka:
Elephants. How beautiful!

Mabutu:
Welcome to my game ranch, Planeteers.

Gi:
Oh, look at the giraffe!

Mabutu:
We also have gazelles, wildebeest, and elands. They're game animals we harvest for food. We are not the only ones who feed on these animals, but when nature is in balance, there is enough for lions and humans alike.

Wheeler:
Feed? You mean you eat these animals?

Mabutu:
Yes. It is a game ranch, Wheeler.

Wheeler:
But - they're wild.

Mabutu:
They have helped feed my people for thousands of years. There are not as many predators as there once were. So if we did not harvest these animals, there would be too many for the land to support.

Ma-Ti:
Wheeler, you saw what happened to the land where cattle are being raised.

Wheeler:
Yeah, but gazelle-burgers? Yuck.

Mabutu:
[of the gazelle meat] What did you think?

Gi:
Very good.

Linka:
Mm, just like venison.

Wheeler:
*Pass.* Give me a good old hamburger any day.

Mabutu:
If you knew how many chemicals went into most beef, you might change your mind.

Kwame:
[reading a sign on a pen] "Cattle Project 19". That is nineteen too many.

Kwame:
[rescued from the washing stage of the cow-enlarging experiment] Thank you, my friends! I have never been scrubbed so hard in my life.

Wheeler:
[seeing enlarged and some mutated cows' rampages] It's a zoo out there!

Gi:
A very bizarre zoo.

[last lines]

Kofy:
From now on, my people will use the land for game-ranching.

Mabutu:
I will help you get started.

Wheeler:
[chomping on a gazelle-burger] And *I* will help you finish.

[everyone laughs]

Computer:
Alarm system off, but danger not fixed.

Dr. Borzon:
[pounding the computer whose alarm system he closed] Stop nagging; I'll fix it as soon as I can!

Computer:
Warning! Radioation leak in coolying system. You still haven't fixed it.

Dr. Borzon:
I'll get to it; I'm only human!

Lead Suit:
[about to be locked in a closet] But, I - I'm scared of the dark!

Wheeler:
If you were smart, you'd be more scared of your boss.

Captain Planet:
[Nukem's gamma-ray blasts the top of a water tower off its base] Ah, just what I needed: a Duke-catcher!

Captain Planet:
This cooling-rod is full of radiation. We have to put it in a storage-vault where it won't harm anyone. Any volunteers?

Lead Suit:
[retreating] Uh, count me out!

Wheeler:
Eight, nine, ten, you're out! Now pick up that rod and get going!

Dr. Borzon:
Wh-who are you?... Wh-*what* are you?

Duke Nukem:
Duke Nukem, radioation king, at your service. As for *what* I am... [begins to glow] The ignorants call me a mutant. *I* prefer to think of myself as the future of mankind! And I could use a guy like you on my team. You could be a leader of the nuclear age: unlimited power, all the electrons you can eat! Are you with me, or against me?

Dr. Borzon:
Scientists don't take sides.

Duke Nukem:
Scientists aren't supposed to *lie*, either. But you do. You're my kind of guy, Doc.

Dr. Borzon:
Well, maybe I was, but not now. Not after meeting you!

Duke Nukem:
[singing to the tune of "On Top of Old Smoky"] My name is Duke Nukem./I'm a radiar shark./I'm hotter than Elvis,/and I glow in the dark.

Wheeler:
[brandishing his ring] Back off, Nukem! I'm warning you!

Duke Nukem:
Oh, boy, dueling death-rays!

Captain Planet:
[seeing the power plant in the process of Nukem's meltdown] Uh-oh! Disaster time!

Duke Nukem:
[jumping from the building to the ground] You said it, Planet!

Captain Planet:
Can't we settle this peacefully, Nukem?

Duke Nukem:
Sure, Captain Planet, I'll blast YOU to pieces.

Duke Nukem:
How dare you trash my Nukemobile! I just had it painted!

Ma-Ti:
[at the Lincoln Memorial] Wheeler, who was this man? He looks sad.

Wheeler:
That was President Lincoln. Long ago he freed the slaves and paid with his life.

Ma-Ti:
Then maybe he *is* sad, seeing his people now enslaved by drugs.

Wheeler:
[of the addicts] How come whenever a city is overrun by zombies, you can never find a cop?

Captain Planet:
You've gone too far this time, Skumm. Polluting people's minds is a new low, even for you.

Verminous Skumm:
Hey, it wasn't my fault. I just hand out hte stuff.

Captain Planet:
I'll give you a taste of your own medicine.

Verminous Skumm:
No! Please, don't make me an addict!

Captain Planet:
Lucky for you, I don't play your games, Skumm. But according to my house-rules, dealer always loses.

Wheeler:
It's OK to cry. They say withdrawal is the worst kind of pain.

Linka:
Nyet, it is not as bad as losing Boris.

Captain Planet:
[heats sand to place glass over a flaming barge in a section he dug from the river] First you take some sand... time to turn up the heat! Presto! Barge in a bottle! Hm. I always *did* want a hobby.

Gi:
Just another typical Planeteer day. First a burning barge and now a distress call...

Duke Nukem:
Super-radiation! [his ring shoots out a beam which strikes something]

Looten Plunder:
Oh, no, my million-dollar ammio-graft gun!

MAL:
The Planeteers combine *their* rings to create Captain Planet...

Dr. Blight:
If we combined the polluting powers of *our* rings, what would *we* create?

Sly Sludge:
Hopefully havoc, but let's find out.

MAL:
The Planeteers are very resourceful, Plunder. They might figure out a way to destroy your army and short-circuit all your plans.

Looten Plunder:
Oh, no, 400-million dollars down the drain?

Commander Clash:
[approaching Linka, who dangles from a tree begging for help] I have caught you, spy, though this brings me no pleasure. AHHH!

[his foot is caught in a rope lasso on the ground, he is trapped in a tree]

Wheeler:
[goes to Linka] You were the perfect bait for the perfect trap.

Kwame:
[grimly] Yes. Though, as our opponent just said, this brings me no pleasure.

Wheeler:
[to the one who angrily grits his teeth] OK, General Tough-Guy, why are you after us? And what did you do to our friends?

Commander Clash:
AMO Clash, Commander 32897855!

Wheeler:
What kinda answer is that?

Linka:
Name, rank and serial number. The only answer a good soldier gives, when he is captured... by the enemy!

Kwame:
Commander Clash! We helped you... now we need *your* help.

Commander Clash:
Follow me. I will take you to the others.

[walks off]

Wheeler:
Talk about your basic man of few words!

Kwame:
Few words... but many feelings.

Ma-Ti:
Wow, are we glad to see you!

Gi:
But what are you doing here? Did that crazy soldier capture you, too?

Commander Clash:
[from behind] No. He did not. The "crazy soldier" is letting you all go.

Kwame:
[on his computer, Linka shows Clash photos of the Berlin Wall's falling] The world has changed, Commander. Borders have opened. A new peace has begun. The enemy you were guarding against no longer exists.

Commander Clash:
This is a lie!

[slams his fist on the control desk, the picture fades]

Kwame:
You saw the truth with your own eyes, Commander. Accept it. This radar station is no longer needed.

Commander Clash:
[picks up a telephone] Home Base, this is Watchdog. Report, Homebase. Is Watchdog necessary? Report.

[pauses as his gets a reply]

Commander Clash:
Watchdog... no longer necessary?

[listens to another response]

Commander Clash:
Obsolete?

[hangs up and walks across the room]

Commander Clash:
If this station is obsolete, then... so am I.

Linka:
But that is not true. You are brave, and intelligent.

Wheeler:
The world will always need people like you.

Ma-Ti:
When we leave this island, we want you to come with us, Commander Clash.

Commander Clash:
No. I am like this equipment, no longer needed. OBSOLETE.

Gi:
At least Clash gave us tools to repair the Geocruiser.

Ma-Ti:
Yes. But it is too bad he lacks the courage to come with us.

Wheeler:
What're you talking about? Clash is just about the bravest guy I ever met!

Ma-Ti:
To fight an enemy, yes. But to face a new world - no.

Kwame:
Ma-Ti is right. The greatest courage is the courage to change. And I fear the Commander may not find that courage.

Linka:
If only we could summon Captain Planet. But without our rings, we do not have our powers.

Kwame:
We still have our wits.

Wheeler:
[Captain Pollution approaches] Heads up if you wanna keep them! Laughing Boy is making his move.

Sly Sludge:
Captain Pollution is headed this way!

Looten Plunder:
I bet he took care of those Planet brats.

MAL:
I wouldn't make that bet, Plunder. According to *my* calculations, Captain Pollution is in *big* trouble.

Wheeler:
[grinning] If anybody can beat those creeps, it's Commander Clash.

Commander Clash:
Once, maybe, but not now. I am a... a relic. I am of no use to you. This is not my kind of mission. [exits the plane]

Ma-Ti:
[approaching him on the beach] You are wrong about yourself, Commander.

Commander Clash:
Why do you say that?

Ma-Ti:
[gestures to his bulldozer with natural, clean weapons built in] A relic would not build that, or solar generators, or water-wheels like at your camp.

Kwame:
[showing up with the others] And who better to lead the mission to save Earth than yourself?

Ma-Ti:
Please, Commander. If you do not help us stop Captain Pollution and his friends, the entire world could look like that. [points to the trees Captain Pollution burned, Clash's expression hardens and he lowers his gaze]

Commander Clash:
[looking at them again] Very well. I *will* lead you.

Ma-Ti:
[Clash hands out a sonic jackhammer, a portable wind-generator, a wrist-mounted flame-thrower, and a water-pump backpack to replace four of the stolen rings] But what about... Heartpower? You cannot replace *that* with technology.

Commander Clash:
I don't have to. No one can take away your heart-power, Ma-Ti. And your sharing it has given me the strength to do what I must do: help the mission to save Earth.

Captain Pollution:
[lunging] I'll show you who's boss around here!

Captain Planet:
There *is* no boss around here, Pollution! We're a team. Which is why we'll always beat you!

Captain Pollution:
[groaning after Captain Planet has dragged him through clean earth, fire, wind, and water] Oh, have a heart, Captain Planet.

Captain Planet:
[grinning] Oh, don't worry, Pollution.

Kwame:
Maybe this was not such a great idea.

Wheeler:
[shakily] At least it's not boring.

Wheeler:
I'm holding out for a fresh catch.

Ma-Ti:
[sees the pouring pipe behind him] How do you feel about "chemically-preserved"?

Wheeler:
This is one feisty coos.

Ma-Ti:
[laughs as the can he finally lugs on board bounces against his face] I think your catch would say the same about you, eh, Wheeler?

Wheeler:
Uh-oh! And now it's gonna rain on our charade.

Captain Planet:
Why do they always put these landfills by the river? It always floods, the water gets polluted, the soil gets contaminated...

Captain Planet:
Be back before you can say "Samuel Clemens". Ten - times, that is.

Captain Planet:
It always amazes me how much good stuff I find in a dump.

MAL:
Look, Doctor. They're surrendering.

Dr. Blight:
Good. That'll make 'em easier to hit.

Wheeler:
[sees a dog devouring the frankfurter he dropped when being forced on a chase] Aw, man, talk about a dog-eat-dog world.

Bart:
[Wheeler is disarmed] You ain't goin' nowhere, boy.

Gaia:
[appears] But you are. [Bart screams and flees]

Ma-Ti:
Is the desert tortoise an endangered animal?

Josh:
Yep. 'Course, with them off-roaders tearin' up the desert, every animal's in danger. Look. Normally that kangaroo-rat could hear that side-winder, but now, after all that noise...

Kwame:
[Greedly and Rigger drive around Ma-Ti and Josh, creating a cloud] Looka like a dust-devil down there.

Gi:
[seeing the road-hogs] Yes - a devil named Greedly.

Hoggish Greedly:
Huh? Where'd he go?

Captain Planet:
[springs out the ground on a rise of water] Ta-da! Here I am!

Hoggish Greedly:
Planet - you can't do this! You know how much those babies set me back?

Captain Planet:
No, but I know how much you set this *desert* back - about a thousand years!

[Greedly and Rigger yell and flee]

Pete:
Need a lift, Mr. Greedly?

Hoggish Greedly:
No. But you do! [shoves him off the dirt-bike and boards as he lands with a yell]

Pete:
Hey! My bike! [Rigger hops on Greedly's shoulders, they take off] Wait! Wait for me!

Rigger:
Take a hike, kid!

Captain Planet:
I'll be back in a sec!

[flies off, Wheeler grabs a watch that ticks about four seconds, he flies back]

Wheeler:
What took ya, Cap?

Captain Planet:
Long line at the recycling-center.

Ma-Ti:
Follow that fox! There's a cave! This way!

Pete:
Who says?

Ma-Ti:
[they arrive at the cave mouth to find foxes, tortoises, and rabbits inside] My friends, that's who!

Pete:
Man, I never saw so much sand blowing in my life!

Gi:
Well, your dirt-bike tore up quite a bit of it. What did Gaia say - for each mile, three-quarters of a ton?

Wheeler:
I got that much in my shoe!

Hoggish Greedly:
One thing I *hate* eating is other people's dust!

Ma-Ti:
Let us put a Cap on this flood!

Pete:
[awed at seeing Captain Planet appear] Wowwww...

Captain Planet:
[chuckling] Nice to meet you too, Pete. But I can't chat. I got a little drainage problem to clean up.

[flies off]

Pete:
Whoaaa...

Captain Planet:
[dragging the vehicles through the air behind him on a chain] With all these jobbed-up road-hogs, I may have to open my *own* recycling center.

[last lines]

Josh:
Looks like Greedly's road-hog business was all washed up.

Pete:
Yeah. I like climbing rocks better, anyway.

Ma-Ti:
[gestures to a mesa] Let us try this one!

[everyone laughs]

Litta:
No one's too little to help.

Ma-Ti:
We need to Cap this leak.

Captain Planet:
What kind of Captain would I be, if I let my crew go down with the ship?

Kwame:
[laughs after the Frisbee he warned about hits his head where he sits in the lounge-chair] Nice stop, Wheeler.

Captain Planet:
I'd say I'm hanging ten. About ten-thousand RPMs, that is.

Stalker Slaughter:
It's those bleeding-heart environmentalists.

Mame Slaughter:
[aiming] *I'll* give thema a bleeding heart.

Wheeler:
Flying is safe; it's crashing that's dangerous.

Mame Slaughter:
[shooting at the police-car] Easy prey.

Mame Slaughter:
[as he releases the orangutans] What are you doing? Are you mad? They're dangerous animals!

Captain Planet:
Hm, probably what they'd say about you.

Gi:
Avelanche! Linka - get us out of here!

Linka:
That thought occurs to me.

Duke Nuken:
I'm losing that special glow, Lead Suit!

Lead Suit:
[runs over to him and clasps his hand] Thank you for calling me Lead *Suit*, sir. You've no idea what that means to me.

Duke Nuken:
[Linka, Kwame, and Gi run through the door] Oh, no. You let those bio-brats get into my refrigerator factory! I was right the first time - you *are* a Leadhead!

Duke Nuken:
[shoots a radiation beam at their feet, causing the snow to melt to water - and instantly refreeze to ice, trapping them] You kids think you're so good! Let's see if you can walk on water!

Lead Suit:
[puts a stick with something on it over a flame Nukem caused] Mm-mm, roasted marshmallow! [attempts to eat through his lead mask but creates a mess] Yech. This suit has a lot of drawbacks.

Linka:
[bitterly, as Nukem revels in radioactivity] Well, at least *someone* is in a good mood.

Gi:
I would not like to see him in a *bad* mood.

Wheeler:
What's Duke Nukem making?

Ma-Ti:
Air-conditioners, just like ours. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Wheeler:
Yeah. We could've gotten ours a lot cheaper here.

Duke Nuken:
[of the penguins releasing the Planeteers] Lead Suit - what are those mangy birds doing over there?

Lead Suit:
Actually, sir, they're not mangy at all. They look very well-dressed.

Duke Nuken:
Spare me the fashion-review!

Dr. Derek:
Continue to monitor changes, and collect data.

Ma-Ti:
Why bother?

Dr. Derek:
If we don't make it, at least the rest of the world can learn from the experiment.

Wheeler:
Lucky for them. Too bad you can't save us with the data.

Gi:
[with her arms around the simulated hybrid animal which mutated because of the contaminated water, as it "dies"] Oh, is this what is to become of Earth's beautiful creatures?

Wheeler:
[of the creature] This guy looks hungry and we look like dinner!

Captain Planet:
This gives a whole new meaning to "getting into your work".

Captain Planet:
The power is... [leaves with a moan]

Ma-Ti:
[of the wasteland simulation] Is this really what is going to happen to our Earth?

Dr. Derek:
I hope not. But it's time for us to stop polluting and start protecting our planet.

Captain Planet:
And it's time for each of us to do our part.

[last lines]

Ma-Ti:
[of Dr. Blight and MAL trapped in the "pollution-eater" maze] Are we going to let them out?

Captain Planet:
[everyone looks at him and Dr. Derek and they look at each other] Mmm...

Captain Planet, Dr. Derek:
Later. Maybe.

[everyone laughs]

Looten Plunder:
[Bleak lowers a stone dam in the river while the boating locals scream and flee] Looks like we're causing a little havoc down there.

Argos Bleak:
I just wish they'd scream louder so's I can hear 'em!

Kwame:
The people need the river more than they need most of these things.

Wheeler:
Maybe. But I *could* go for a good deal on that CD-player.

Wheeler:
[jumping out of a tree by rope with Ma-Ti and Morla] Tarzan, eat your heart out!

Looten Plunder:
Bleak, get that Planet out of my orbit!

Looten Plunder:
I've had enough of your bumbling!

Argos Bleak:
But it's not MY fault! It's those Planet brats!

Looten Plunder:
[entering his Jeep] No excuses! From now on, *I* give the orders!

[starts forward and plows into a banana tree, reverses slightly and backs into another before finally driving off]

Argos Bleak:
You're the boss, Mr. *Blunder*.

Wheeler:
This is *not* the time to panic.

[a monster rises from the river, everyone cries out]

Wheeler:
Yikes!

[it roars and advances, everyone runs off screaming]

Wheeler:
NOW is the time to panic!

Linka:
Ah, ah, ah, hands off, Wheeler. Once again you have moved without thinking.

Wheeler:
Oh, I thought about it. [everyone groans]

Sly Sludge:
That's one ugly - ahh, I mean, smart machine you got.

MAL:
I am not a machine; I am an artificial intelligence, and *you* are a dimwit.

Wheeler:
We hit the rush-hour pigeon traffic!

Wheeler:
[after flying through a path of oncoming birds] Hey, I had the right-away. Didn't I?

Wheeler:
You really *are* into computers! You're a hacker!

Linka:
Of course. Which is why I keep beating you at all those foolish games.

Wheeler:
[Linka uses Wind to bind Templeman in paper] Now that's what I call getting wrapped up in your work.

Linka:
[is forced to stop the whirlwind supporting them a few floors below the top by the elevator] Sorry.

Wheeler:
Hey, any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Kwame:
[approaches the EA building] It is hopeless. We do not even know where to *begin* looking for them.

Gi:
[hit on the head by a nut] Ouch!

[looks up to see Linka and Wheeler in a tree]

Kwame:
[moves Earth over the puddle Gi created to cause the truck to swerve] As they say in this country, here's mud in your eye.

Captain Planet:
Gaping gorge plus swerving semi equals trouble.

Captain Planet:
[placing the semi that fell off the cliff back] Off-road vehicles are *not* allowed in national parks.

Piebald:
Wheeler, I cannot let you become a slave like I am. I must free you. You must escape from this place.

Wheeler:
Then how 'bout I help you escape, too? You could see your family again.

Piebald:
That would be good. I wish my child had more to look forward to, but I am afraid her life will be one of hunger and fear.

Piebald:
[his last lines] My people and I are doomed. But yours can still be saved. Don't let this happen to you. Don't let there be more people than your world can hold.

Duke Nukem:
But, hey, I'm a generous guy. I'm gonna give you time to think it over. [takes out a watch, watches it tick a second] Time's up!

Captain Planet:
[choking] Toxics! Ah, I don't like what *this* smoke signals!

Captain Planet:
Well, the fire's burnt out, Planeteers, but [cough] so am I.

Ma-Ti:
Are you all right, Captain Planet?

Captain Planet:
It only hurts when [cough] I cough.

Duke Nukem:
[startled by the jaguar that the shaman actually sees through] Dumb animal.

Duke Nukem:
[cuts his bindings, he falls out of his hammock] Hey, Sludge, you just gonna stay in bed all day?

Kwame:
[running] I thought you said it was not far.

Shaman:
Any journey where you do not spend the night is very close.

Kwame:
I hope Wheeler does not push Nukem too far.

Gi:
Ha. Count on it.

Wheeler:
[from where he leapt behind the sofa] Oh, you got me!

Duke Nukem:
[Gi and Kwame shut the van door, Nukem turns to go and finds it locked] Huh?

Wheeler:
No. Wait a second - *we* got *you*.

Sly Sludge:
I've gotta help Nukem. [runs forth then sees the Shaman guarding the van] On second thought, maybe thid'd be a good time to consider my other options.

Sly Sludge:
Nothing like a little toxic waste to bring a superhero back down to Earth.

Duke Nukem:
Your days are numbered, and it's a very low number.

Captain Planet:
And speaking of numbers, yours is up, Nukem.

[last lines]

Ma-Ti:
My people are moving deeper into the forest, to protect our way of life. [crying] But I wonder - how much longer will there *be* a rainforest for my people?

Linnka:
[touches his shoulder] I, too, wonder, my friend.

Wheeler:
[at the obstacle course] Come on, dudes. Last one to finish has to jump in an oil spill.

Gi:
[running toward a climbing wall] We have to make it over the mud hole first.

Kwame:
But there is no...

Gi:
Water! [her ring causes the dirt pit ahead to moisten]

Kwame:
Mud! WHOA! [as she jumps over it, he ends up stepping into it and flounders to get out as she climbs]

Gi:
[laughs] I'm going to win!

Kwame:
I - don't think so, Gi. Earth! [his ring causes the ground beneath to wall to shake, Gi has reached the top but now falls off, he catches her]

Gi:
Nice catch, Kwame. [stands, laughing] Tag - you're it! Bet you can't catch me again! [runs at the wall again]

Gi:
[the others laugh at his falling into the mudhole] Hey, Ma-Ti, with a cherry and some whipped cream, you'd look just like a hot-fudge sundae!

Wheeler:
What's the trouble, Gaia? And who's the rat responsible?

Gaia:
Rat indeed, Wheeler. This time the culprit is the most sinister rodent that ever lived - Verminous Skumm.

Wheeler:
[seeing his picture] He's an exterminator's worst nightmare.

Kwame:
[running from Skumm's toxin-shooting followers] Well, we succeeded in getting their attention.

Gi:
Now, we must keep them busy so Linka can stop their coal-burning operation.

Wheeler:
That brusky babe gets all the easy jobs!

Henchman:
[his companion shoots at a rat on an overturned barrel which cracks and spews smoke, they laugh] Sorry, cousin.

Ma-Ti:
[they leave, he sneaks off in the neighboring barrel] I made it. I guess being small does have *some* advantages.

Ma-Ti:
[she appears while he is on the wall] I cannot make it.

Gaia:
Yes, you can, Ma-Ti. The only thing holding you back is your fear. Look into your heart, and you'll find all the strength you need.

[his rings glows]

Gaia:
With courage, you can accomplish anything. The power is yours.

Linka:
He may be little, but he is big in courage.

Gaia:
The feeling that one person can't make a difference is the greatest obstacle of all.

Wheeler:
Am I crazy, or is that a mermaid?

Linka:
I would not rule out the first possibility, but she does *look* like a mermaid.

Ma-Ti:
[the dugant takes off after something underwater activates] What was that?

Gi:
[sighs] Someone started up an oil-rig. Let's make like dugants and find a quieter place.

Wheeler:
[they surface to the raft and see the machine activating above] Looks like there *is* no quieter place.

Kwame:
Unfortunately, soon there will be even *more* drilling-rigs here.

Wheeler:
Huh? [turns at a noise, it is a crowd on the beach chanting 'NO MORE DRILLING, NO MORE SPILLING"] You sure about that?

Zarm:
How dare they value a beach over the wishes of their leader!

Zarm:
Baz, outsiders are subverting the city of Pasiva. See that they surrender their leader to me in two hours. Or I'll reduce that region to a wasteland.

Baz:
But, Commander Morgar, we don't have the weapons.

Zarm:
General, even the smallest country can wage a war on the environment.

Zarm:
Better to foul a beach than to allow a city to foul our entire nation with treason.

Captain Planet:
Now, folks, any vacuum can clean up dirt, but can your machine do this? [sucks oil with a pipe]

Zarm:
[Baz fires a flare into the oil-well] Well done, General Baz, just the way I like my sea-scapes - very well-done. [laughs]

Baz:
I demand to know, who is the ringleader of this protest?

Gi:
*We* demand to know how you can commit this crime against the Earth!

Wheeler:
You tell 'im, Gi!

Baz:
Commander Morgar was right! He warned me outsiders were undermining the...

Beta:
The environmental movement is totally homegrown, Baz. And *I* am its leader.

Baz:
Beta! Be quiet and leave Pasiva now. Morgar will not stop until someone turns you in.

Beta:
I will not abandon my work.

Baz:
A rebellious fool, just like your father!

[leaves]

Ma-Ti:
I am surprised he did not arrest you.

Beta:
I am his sister.

Beta:
Pasiva Forest - the last area of cedar in this part of the world. My job as forestry-expert is to watch over it like my father before me.

Gi:
I can't understand how anyone who grew up in such natural beauty could do what your brother did.

Beta:
In a way, this part *is* the reason. It happened thirty years ago. The forest was much bigger then. One day, the government ordered that half of it be flooded to build an unneeded dam. When reasoning did not work, Father did the only thing he could: he was ready to go to prison for his beliefs! But Baz was too young to understand.

Baz:
[in a flashback] You risk your life for a bunch of cedar trees, but what about us? We need you, too!

Beta:
[voiceover] Baz did not understand that our father was doing this for us, and our country.

Baz:
[after being shoved away from their chained father by soldiers and watching him taken off in a van, to Beta] I hate Pasiva Forest! And I hate you!

Beta:
That was the last time I saw my father, or Baz. They built the dam anyway! Years later, I heard my brother had joined the army. Now Morgar has made him a general.

Gi:
And turned him against nature - against everything his father stood for. How sad.

Zarm:
General - lower Pasiva Dam.

Baz:
Sir, that will destroy the forest! Lives could be lost!

Zarm:
Yours will *surely* be lost if you disobey my orders!

Zarm:
Well, well, Planeteers. What intriguing rings you wear.

Kwame:
They will be useless to you, Morgar. You do not understand their power.

Zarm:
That's where you're wrong, Kwame.

[leave Morgar's body]

Zarm:
I know exactly how to use them.

Linka:
Zarm!

Wheeler:
ZARM? What're you doing here?

Zarm:
You might say I'm the brains of this operation.

Linka:
What about Morgar?

Zarm:
Ha! The Supreme Commander? Just a body. Or, more precisely, a *no*body. He wanted to be a dictator. I helped him take over the country, and, who knows, maybe even the world.

Zarm:
[his followern chain the Planeteers in a flooding cell, except Gi who is in a cell above them] Look how they do my bidding, eh? They follow me because, deep down, humans *love* destruction.

Gi:
You're wrong!

Ma-Ti:
Well, if I am, you tell me where that ring is. Otherwise, you can watch the demise of your friends.

Ma-Ti:
Do not tell him, Gi!

Zarm:
How ironic that the first to slip under the water will be little Ma-Ti.

Baz:
You would do better to do Morgar's bidding. Give in. You cannot fight his power.

Gi:
*You* give him power. What you see is Morgar, but he's just a shell inhabited by Zarm the Spirit of Destruction. He needs *people* to do his dirty work. And you're not like him, or you wouldn't be upset about my friends. I'm going to trust you. I'll tell *you* where the ring is.

Kwame:
No, Gi! Do not trust him!

Linka:
I hope you are right about him, Gi...!

Gi:
You can give it to Zarm and let him *destroy* Earth, or let me use it to help me save my friends.

Baz:
It would mean my death if I were caught. [walks off]

Gi:
You've risked death for your country. Is the *world* less important?

Baz:
[stares baffled] What has happened to these trees?

Beta:
[approaches him coughing] Black rain, Baz. And it will kill *all* of us, if the oil-fires are not put out.

Baz:
Beta! I had no idea!

[notices the rain starting to fall as something else]

Baz:
Snow? But we are in the tropics!

Beta:
The smoke-clooud is changing our weather, Baz.

Baz:
No! I've been a fool. No traitor could harm our country more than our leader has!

[sags against a tree]

Beta:
Oh, Baz!

[puts her arm around him, they look up and gasp hearing soldiers approach]

Soldier:
Commander Morgar wants to see you, General. NOW!

[points to Beta]

Soldier:
And you, too.

Baz:
Forgive me, Beta, for coming to my senses too late.

Beta:
[he returns Gi's ring so she releases the Planeteers] Our father would be proud.

Kwame:
But we still need our other rings.

Baz:
I'll distract Morgar while you get them.

Wheeler:
You're taking a big risk, General.

Baz:
[smiling] That is my job.

Zarm:
The fifth ring, General?

Baz:
First, I want to know the truth. Does this magnificent Zarm really exist?

Zarm:
I exist. [stepping away from Morgar's body] And you would make a better host for me than that sniveling Morgar. You could rule the world. [as Kwame steals the rings from Morgar's hand] What do you say?

Kwame:
We say - Let our powers combine! [tosses the others their rings]

Captain Planet:
[sees the snowfall the smoke-cloud caused] I'm no fan of global warming, but this big chill is ridiculous!

First soldier:
[seeing Captain Planet hefting the roof] First the weather goes crazy, and now this?

Second soldier:
Let me out of here!

Morgar:
The army! They've deserted us! What do we do?

Zarm:
You can go to jail for your crimes, or you can seal yourself in your fully-stocked bomb-shelter and live out the rest of your miserable life.

Morgar:
[triggers a hidden button in the wall, boards the elevator] Aren't you coming?

Zarm:
Sorry, Captain Morgar. I'm done with your damage.

[last lines]

Zarm:
Resign? Over a few toxic spills? Let me guide you. Together, we'll run this nation with an iron fist.

Dictator:
But what if there is opposition? I am not popular in the countryside.

[gasps as Zarm enters his body]

Zarm:
Then I have a little strategy. I call it Scorched Earth.

[laughs, then gasps as a light appears]

Zarm:
Gaia!

Gaia:
Don't get too comfortable, Zarm. Wherever your destructive ideas emerge, the Planeteers will be there to stop them.

[first lines]

Looten Plunder:
Ah, what a beautiful island. Just the place for a flarme-thrower factory. 'Cept, where are the workers you promised me?

Dr. Blight:
You worry about *your* end of the business. When I'm through with my experiment, you'll have more workers than you can handle. [laughing, presses a button that sends an energy ray toward a device on the ceiling, whose beam shoots down near them, causing them to retreat]

Looten Plunder:
You'd better get a handle on that *beam*. It's not supposed to be a death-ray.

Kwame:
So they reproduce 'til they starve to death?

Wheeler:
No wonder they call 'em simple organisms. How could they be so dumb?

Gaia:
[appears] At least they're not heating up the Earth or wrecking the ozone-layer.

Linka:
Dah. It takes *people* to do that.

Gaia:
And speaking of planet-wreckers, there's something fishy on the Island of Moghal.

Kwame:
[by the Planet Vision showing it] Everything on Moghal is fishy. It is a fishing village.

Dr. Blight:
This ray will clone any living thing. It creates instant micellular mitosis.

Looten Plunder:
Mitosis, my foot. Just show me.

Dr. Blight:
On who? You think a volunteer is going to jump in the window?

Looten Plunder:
[sees a locust on the sill] Matter of fact, yeah. Hit it! [she does and nothing happens] I'm no mathematician, Blight, but I count only *one* bug.

Dr. Blight:
[traps the clone insect while the original hops off] Plunder! Grab that other locust!

Looten Plunder:
[chuckles] Why bother? He didn't look like much of a worker to me.

Leela:
[falls into mud attempting to capture the goat, sobs] Oh, look at me!

Kwame:
[extends his arm to help her up] All right. I will.

Leela:
Who are you?

Kwame:
My name is Kwame. And even muddy, I think you look just fine.

Leela:
[washing herself off in the creek] I'm Leela. I really wasn't crying about the mud. It's my parents. They don't want me to become an ecologist.

Gi:
But that's a super-important job.

Linka:
They should be proud of such a daughter.

Leela:
In Moghal, daughters get married off. Only sons get to finish their education.

Kwame:
But a woman can do the same job as a man.

Vico:
Please don't hurt me!

Looten Plunder:
Ha! You think you're scared now, in a minute you'll be beside yourself!

[laughs]

Dr. Blight:
Stand back, Looten. We don't need *two* of you making bad jokes.

Linka:
[from the doorway] Even one of him is too many.

Dr. Blight:
[Vico and the Planeteers are escaping] Well, don't just stand there! Use the claw!

Looten Plunder:
Yes! Just what the doctor ordered.

Leela:
Vico's major in school is getting into trouble.

Vico:
It wasn't my fault. They were chasing a locust but they caught me instead.

Leela:
A locust?

Gi:
I'm worried about that ray's effects. What was it supposed to do?

Vico:
[as his stomach growls loudly] I think it made me hungry.

Wheeler:
[grinning] If his appetite is any indication, the kid's fine.

Vico:
[encountering his clone] Wow! I always wanted a brother.

Vico:
Wait a minute - *you're* the brother.

Father:
[standing] What has happened to my son? Which one is the real Vico?

Gi:
I think they both are!

Kwame:
[out of breath] Locust-swarm! Millions! Headed this way!

Baker:
Locusts? Ha! I wish them luck if they can find *anything* after those greedy Vicos came through here.

Looten Plunder:
Half the island is covered with Vicos. Before they split again, *we* better split.

Dr. Blight:
I'll get the clone-ray, you keep an eye on the door.

[the Planeteers leap through the window]

Wheeler:
We thought we'd drop by and see what you were up to.

Gi:
Looks like you're up to your eyeballs in clones.

Dr. Blight:
[enraged] Looten...!

Looten Plunder:
[retreating, gesturing at but not facing the entrance] Well, you said to watch the *door*...

[Kwame and Leela burst in through it]

Captain Planet:
[taking the cloning-ray to reverse it] Ooh, I always wanted one of these.

Dr. Blight:
[of Captain Planet] I wonder what would happen if he aimed that de-cloning ray at *us*.

Looten Plunder:
I don't want to share my life with *you*!

Father:
Leela, we were wrong about you. And, I promise you this: you *will* go to the university.

Father:
You've shown us that the quality of our children is more important than the quantity. And now, everyone come back to the house; you must be starving.

Vico:
Oh - not me. I think I'll pass. [everyone laughs]

Dr. Blight:
[the clones continue to double after being fed for pay in the factory] This is getting out of hand. We have to do something.

Looten Plunder:
Relax. I've got it covered.

[into a megaphone]

Looten Plunder:
Listen up, people. I've got more workers than I need so... um... half of you are fired, scram!

Dr. Blight:
Oh, brother!

Captain Planet:
Hey, all you Vicos, surfs up!

[lifts the dock from its foundation, placing it on the beach]

Captain Planet:
Looks like you dudes are hanging a *thousand* and ten.

Looten Plunder:
[lunges for the locust lodging on Vico's chest, it hops off at the last second] Oh, rats!

[examines Vico]

Looten Plunder:
Hmm. Wait a minute...

[grabs Vico's wrist]

Vico:
Uh-oh. A truant officer!

Dr. Blight:
[comes over] Oh, way to go, butterfingers! The locust got away!

Looten Plunder:
Forget the bug, Blight. We've got another volunteer right here.

Vico:
[trying to break free] I'm on my way to school, honest!

Looten Plunder:
[laughs] We're not from school, kid. But stick with us. You'll learn a thing or two.

Wheeler:
What fun is a silly old shaman and a bunch of stupid plants?

[sees a vine]

Wheeler:
But *this* plant - this plant is bodacious!

[jumps on it and swings, yodeling, but loses his grip and crashes into a tree branch - and into the coils of a snake]

Wheeler:
AAH! SNAKE!

[pushes himself far enough way that he falls to the ground]

Wheeler:
Whoa. That was close.

[sees his hand rests on an infested plant]

Wheeler:
OUCH! ANTS! Ow! Ahh, ow, ow! Ow, ah... I'm burning!

Ma-Ti:
[runs over to examine his hands] Fire ants! I can help you.

[runs to grab a set of flowers, takes a stone and grinds them in a strip of tree bark, then runs back]

Ma-Ti:
Wheeler, here. Try this.

Wheeler:
Wh-What's that? What're you doing?

Ma-Ti:
[moving his hand near the bark] Relax. It will help the pain.

[rubs the powder on then bandages his hand]

Wheeler:
Thanks. That does feel better. Where'd you learn that?

Ma-Ti:
[grinning] Oh, just something the silly old shaman taught me.

Wheeler:
[blushing] Oh, yeah, him.

Captain Planet:
Ah, Verminous Skumm. I knew something smelled bad. Better air this place out. [turns into a whirlwind, causing Skumm's poisoned followers to fall back from the factory] Sorry I can't let you do Skumm's evil work.

Verminous Skumm:
My evil work's just starting, Windbag!

Wheeler:
C'mon, guys, let's put that wretched rodent out of business!

Gi:
Don't you think we should... make a plan? [Wheeler runs off]

Linka:
[groaning] Wheeler...

Kwame:
[Ma-Ti is piloting the Geocruisesr low between cliffs at high speed] Have you ever done this before?

Ma-Ti:
Of course. Well, not really - once, on Hope Island, on the flight-simulator.

Verminous Skumm:
I gotta pull myself together. What am I - a rat or a mouse?

Kwame:
[the Geocruiser heads for a narrow stone-blockaded gap in between cliffs] We are going through that?

Ma-Ti:
[causing him to turn aside] I hope so! On the simulator... I never did make it.

Verminous Skumm:
Planet! Hey - Planet! What're you gonna do with me?

Captain Planet:
Hm, good question. It's either the police station, or the zoo.

Verminous Skumm:
The zoo, the zoo sounds good! They never have rat-exhibits at the zoo. I could start a new trend.

[last lines]

Captain Planet:
Say "cheese", you rat!

[Skumm growls as a prison door slams shut]

Junior:
Whoa, Dad - this is major cool! Not like that crummy bike you gave me last year.

Linka:
Let's airplane.

Wheeler:
It's "jet", Linka. "Let's jet." Though, "Let's airplane" is kind of cute, just like you.

Gi:
[sweeps up in a major wave on the Goodair vehicle used to hunt the underground drain for Linka's ring] And I thought surfing was exciting!

Kwame:
Your cars are ruining the air. The smog is getting worse.

Hoggish Greedly:
If you don't like what I'm doing to the air, then don't breathe it.

Junior:
I can breathe, dad. We should thank Captain Planet: he saved my life.

Hoggish Greedly:
[reluctantly] Ahem... thank you, Captain Planet.

Captain Planet:
[amused] Say what?

Hoggish Greedly:
[annoyed] I said thank you! You got a hearing problem?

Kwame:
Wheeler, I truly appreciate the beauty of this forest, but is it necessary to fly so close to it?

Wheeler:
[after he almost crashes into a mountain before swerving above] Man, that new auto-pilot program works great, doesn't it?

Kwame:
[wiping sweat off his forehead] Oh, yes. And I want to thank you for letting me know, my friend.

Ma-Ti:
[his monkey keeps a firm grip on his head] I think Suchi would like it better - if you would fly a little higher, Wheeler.

[everyone else laughs]

Wheeler:
[with Gi waiting for the others as a flood approaches] Where are those guys? I already had a shower today.

Ma-Ti:
Maybe we should...

[Sky Runner takes off ready to confront Greedly]

Ma-Ti:
...think this through?

Wheeler:
Man, he really jumps right into it, doesn't he?

Linka:
Hm, who does *that* remind you of?

Wheeler:
[Gaia shows a hologram] All right, my hometown! The Big Apple!

Gaia:
[shows another of it flooded heavily] It could be the Rotton Apple if we don't stop global warming from melting the polar ice caps.

Kwame:
[on a speaker who changed his policy on saving Earth] This does not seem like the same man.

Ma-Ti:
No, it does not. Heart! [gasps in horror at what his ring causes him to feel]

Kwame:
Ma-Ti, what is it?

Ma-Ti:
Nothing. It is like there is nothing there!

Duke Nukem:
You know what porkers like you are good for? Barbecue! [aims a nuclear ray at Greedly]

Commander Clash:
[to the seal he finds after ejecting from his plane into the contaminated ocean] Swim for it, little buddy.

Wheeler:
[their rings are returned to them] All right, we're ready!

[the forcefield imprisoning him is removed]

Wheeler:
Huh?

Zarm:
Well, don't just stand there, Hot Stuff.

Zarm:
*Try* to do something original.

Gi:
We aim to please.

Zarm:
[releases Ma-Ti, whose only reaction is looking more downcast] Well, don't just stand there. Do something.

Ma-Ti:
[crying, his words moving Gaia, to the point of tears, and the others] I cannot stop you, Zarm. My ring is the power of Heart, which allows us to love. Heart to care for our planet and friends. My ring will not touch *you* because you *have* no heart!

Zarm:
[laughs] You fool. It's Heart that makes you weak! So prepare yourself, weakling. [aims to fire]

Captain Planet:
Well, it was touch-and-go, but you all came through it. And speaking of touch-and-go, I'm touched... and it's time for Zarm to go!

Zarm:
[attacked by Gaia's monkeys] Get off, you vermin!

Captain Planet:
*You're* the vermin, Zarm! No - vermin is too good for you. You're trash, and this is one time I'm *not* recycling!

[first lines]

Linka:
Bosha moy. I cannot think of anything that would push a person to burn down their own neighborhood. Think of all the people that will be left homeless.

Kwame:
And animals.

Gi:
Look at those fires. The ash will pollute the oceans.

Ma-Ti:
This is what happens when people lose heart.

Ma-Ti:
[grabbing his shoulder as he lands weakened from fire-fighting] Are you all right?

Captain Planet:
Medium... Actually, medium-rare.

Wheeler:
Nothin' is gonna change in your life until *you* do

Hoggish Greedly:
You're lookin' at the future cite of Hog Heaven Golf Resort - sweetest little pork-barrel project you ever saw.

Wheeler:
In a pig's eye!

Hoggish Greedly:
Outta the way, smart-aleck! We're playin' through! Fore!

[revs up the golf-cart]

Gi:
Sorry. *This* hole has a nasty habit. Water!

[draws water from a pond to spray them, Greedly topples into the rear]

MAL:
This situation calls for a driver.

Gi:
I'll mow 'em down, MAL, baby.

[gets into the driver's seat and takes off, Kwame dives aside from it and finds himself in its path again after it U-turns]

Kwame:
I can see *this* hole. Earth!

[creates an earthquake to cause a divide]

Mohan:
I am the best tiger-tracker this forest will ever see.

Wheeler:
Mohan... you're the *last* tiger-tracker this forest will ever see.

Gaia:
A good zoo tries to recreate the animals' natural home, but if *all* the wilderness is destroyed, these magnificent animals will end up in cramped concrete prisons.

Mohan:
After a tiger has eaten his prey, he comes to the river to drink.

Wheeler:
Good. 'Cause I don't wanna run into a tiger that hasn't eaten yet.

Collector:
What beautiful animals. I wish I didn't have to take you away. But your home is doomed. It's the only way I can make sure you survive.

Gi:
What happened to the Ecocopter?

Wheeler:
It's like it vanished into thin air!

[runs into something invisible]

Kwame:
[touches it] This is more like *thick* air.

Gi:
[part of the "sky" is burned away by Wheeler's ring to reveal a creature on the other side] A saber-... toothed... tiger?

[it leaps through the hole toward them]

Kwame:
It can't be. They died out thousands of years ago!

Wheeler:
D-don't tell me - tell him!

Collector:
Of all the miracles in the universe, the rarest is life. That is why it is so precious to me. And even when it occurs, it is not always secure.

Collector:
[seeing the specimens long since extinct on Earth] Hey, you got any dinosaurs?

Wheeler:
A few million years before my time. Wait a minute - how old do I look? I'm only 70,000, you know!

Gi:
You don't look a day over 40,000.

Collector:
Humans are an endangered species.

Mohan:
How can we be endangered? There are more than five billion of us!

Collector:
That is part of the problem with humans. The more there are of you, the more you burden your environment, until one day - poof. It collapses. And that day is not far off.

Collector:
Why did you open the hatch? Didn't you know what would happen?

Ma-Ti:
We had to risk it. We must get back to Earth.

Collector:
[makes an exclamation of bafflement] But this isn't a punishment. I'm offering you safety - a new home.

Kwame:
Collector, we do not *want* a new home. Just another chance to save the old one.

Collector:
I understand now.

[activating a control]

Collector:
I underestimated your courage. Your unselfishness. If everyone on Earth had your dedication, then perhaps humans would not be an endangered species after all.

Hoggish Greedly:
What the - ? They're giving back my money!

MAL:
This does not compute.

Mohan:
Our village decided to *preserve* the forest. We may not get as many rich tourists, but a wilderness is priceless.

Hoggish Greedly:
Too bad. Guess we'll just have to ruin the forest for free. That's the fair way.

[laughs]

Hoggish Greedly:
[hitting exploding golf-balls at them] Now I'm really teed off!

Kwame:
Time for us to call a heavy hitter of our own! Let our powers combine!

Captain Planet:
[knocks the Master Golf Cart into a pile of scrap metal and creates a crater] Aw, wouldn't you know it? A hole in one and no one there to see it!

[last lines]

Gaia:
Thanks for bringing back my Planeteers, Collector.

Collector:
[with two unidentifiable creatures] It's a rare pleasure, Gaia. Most of my creatures no longer have homes to return to.

Gaia:
Just one other thing - I'd rather you left *those* two behind as well.

[gestures to Greedly and Blight, in one of Collector's matrices ready to be transported, Collector releases them]

Collector:
Now behave yourselves.

Hoggish Greedly:
Oh, y-y-y-y-yes, yes, sir, uh, uh, uh, ma'am, uh, it.

Dr. Blight:
...Whatever you say!

[they hustle off]

Collector:
You know, Gaia, I didn't think anyone would miss those two.

Gaia:
No one would. It's just that I can't bear to have the rest of the galaxy think *they* represent humanity.

Gaia:
It *would* be a shame. Wouldn't it?

Linka, Wheeler, Gi, Kwame, Ma-Ti:
YES!

Collector:
And now, I must return to the Space Ark. Keep up your good work, Planeteers.

[speaks in his native language, Gaia says something back, and with a last word he enters a pipe into space and vanishes]

Wheeler:
Hey, I didn't know you could speak his language. What'd he say?

Gaia:
Collector says that no matter where you're from or what language you speak, we're all in this together.

Gaia:
Spirit of Earth to Ma-Ti...

Ma-Ti:
Tiny here does not think we meet the club's dress code. I told him my friend is wearing a monkey-suit...

Mr. Sung:
[of the fireworks going off] What is going on?

Gi:
A combination of Chinese New Year and the Fourth of July!

Ma-Ti:
[leafing through his book] Ah, what would Dash Raymond do in a fix like this? Ah, yes, I remember - in Chapter One he called on a sergeant he knew from the force.

Wheeler:
Well, we can call on a Captain with plenty of force!

Captain Planet:
I wish I could help you out on this, but I'm just a superhero. I'm no detective.

Wheeler:
Neither is Ma-Ti.

Captain Planet:
[whispering] Give him another chance.

Linka:
We are going a little fast, nyet?

Wheeler:
Nah. So far I've only got my arm around you.

Linka:
I mean the cable car.

Wheeler:
Yeah, you're right. Hey, brakeman, what gives?

Brakeman:
[tries to stop the car, the brake doesn't budge then snaps off in his hand] The brake, that's what!

Wheeler:
Gi and I will turn us onto a side street. Fire!

[heats the cable to melt it and bend it]

Gi:
Water!

[uses the source from a hydrant to cool it so it bends; the car turns and now shoots down a steep zig-zagging road]

Gi:
Oh, no! The side street was *Lombard* Street!

Wheeler:
Hey, listen, you! This is a police matter! Don't monkey around in it. [to Suchi] And that goes double for you, cheetah!

Verminous Skumm:
[as his followers remove metal cones from the ceiling] Now our specials tonight are lobster-nitrate, served with fertilizer runoff, dry-cleaning-style clam-chowder...

Wheeler:
You can't make us eat! [one is stuffed in his mouth, the others get the same treatment]

Verminous Skumm:
...crabcakes fried in dirty wate-foil, and oysters heavy-metal, in a pesticide sauce. And for dessert, cherry ice-cream! Huh? [one of his henchmen shows up with something on a platter] Sorry, make that cherry-stone *clam* ice-cream. With toxic syrup! Eat hearty!

Ma-Ti:
[bangs open the door] No, Skumm - *you* eat! Heart! [summons lobsters to attack]

Gaia:
[appears after Wheeler sets his water-spraying trap off after Linka and Gi have passed and steps in the path just in time to be sprayed by it himself] I don't even want to know.

Wheeler:
What's goin' on?

Argos Bleak:
Your worst nightmare.

Guard:
[catching Suchi leafing through files] What kind of monkey business is this?

Guard:
[after being washed up in a fountain spray by Gi, seeing Suchi and the Planeteers have vanished] I've got to get a desk job.

Argos Bleak:
This switch isn't working, Mr. Plunder.

Looten Plunder:
[sighs] Well, get out there and fix it.

Argos Bleak:
[monotone muttering] Bleak do this, Bleak do that, I'll get him one day.

Wheeler:
[calling as Plunder leaves] Hey, knock yourself out, I hope!

Kwame:
That solves the mystery of the disappearing people. They were only mannequins.

Wheeler:
So, the dummy uses dummies to scare people off the train!

Sam:
Oh, this is gonna make a great story.

Looten Plunder:
[from behind] Yes. Too bad you'll never tell it.

Wheeler:
[he and Kwame are bound in a train for the second time, now with Gi, Linka, and Sam] Do you ever get that feeling of d?j? vu?

[first lines]

Wheeler:
Whoa. Talk about rock-and-roll. Good thing there aren't any people on that island.

Gaia:
But there *are* animals, and the fire and dust that meteor unleashed will kill them, unless you help.

Linka:
At least it does not threaten the entire planet.

Gaia:
I'm not so sure, Linka. I sense great, great danger.

Kwame:
Zarm - what we Planeteers *want* is to save the Earth.

Zarm:
Is not war the worst threat to Earth?

Kwame:
I suppose that is true.

Zarm:
[infecting them with his gaze] Well, I can show you how to eliminate all nuclear missiles.

Linka:
How?

Zarm:
Destroy them yourselves. You can begin with an army base on the mainland. [shows a vision of it]

Gi:
But do we have the right to destroy something like that?

Zarm:
Right? Ha! Might makes right; you must either conquer or be conquered.

Gi:
I do not want to be conquered...

Ma-Ti:
I wonder... If visitors ever arrive from other worlds, will they be like Zarm?

Wheeler:
I doubt it. If they can't learn how to live in peace, they'll blow themselves up *before* they get here.

Gi:
The important thing is, we should learn to live in peace on our *own* planet. That way, if travelers ever *do* come from space, they'll have a nice place to visit.

Rigger:
I can't swim.

Hoggish Greedly:
You can't think, either.

Hoggish Greedly:
Smile, Rigger.

Rigger:
[he grins, Greedly runs the fuse over his front buck-teeth to light it] Hey!

Hoggish Greedly:
Ah, just listen to that coral music.

Rigger:
[laughing] *Coral* music, You just kill me, boss.

Hoggish Greedly:
Don't tempt me, Rigger.

Hoggish Greedly:
How 'bout that. The Eco-brats, right in front of a live coral reef. I can blast two fish with one torpedo.

Hoggish Greedly:
You're gonna sleep with the fishes, Planet!

Captain Planet:
You just love to spout off, Greedly. Well, so do I. [surrounds himself in a whirlpool, raising his torpedos above surface]

Linka:
There is no way out! We are floating ducks!

Gi:
[after shooting out of the torpedo hatch] Not a bad entrance, huh?

Kwame:
I know someone who will *really* make an entrance. Let our powers combine!

Kwame:
Hold on. I know how much you love our sea friends, but at least we should talk to Gaia.

Gi:
Gaia would just send us to stop that pig Greedly. And - and - and if you won't come, I'll go alone!

Captain Planet:
[heard through the rings Greedly collects in a group] The power is yours.

Hoggish Greedly:
Sure is!

Kwame:
[Rigger accidentally caused their prison to fall onto a fish-cutting conveyer-belt] We are going to be fish-meal!

Wheeler:
Yeah - real fun time.

Gi:
Meanwhile, Greedly's gonna fish the oceans dry.

Kwame:
[she pounds the wall angrily, everyone cries out as the structure sways] Hey!

Linka:
Bozhe moy! Gi, you're rocking the whole bathysphere!

Wheeler:
Hey - maybe that's how we get off this ride!

Linka:
Oh, no, not more American cowboy tricks!

Wheeler:
Let's rock - and roll!

[starts hammering part of the ceiling, the others do the same]

Wheeler:
Keep it up! It's working!

Linka:
If only I had my Windpower.

Ma-Ti:
Come on! Work together. Hurry - we do not have much time!

Wheeler:
[they continue to sway, the bathysphere topples off the conveyer-belt near the end to the dock and he sticks his head out the now-open door] Rad! This *is* a fun time!

Hoggish Greedly:
[after a banging sounds, interrupts Rigger as he attempts for the second time to eat his minuscule fish while he himself chomps on many] What's that? Rigger, quit making a pig of yourself and find out!

Gi:
I was worried when we lost our rings.

Captain Planet:
[puts his hand on her shoulder] But look how well you did without your rings. Remember - it's not your *rings* that give you the power. The real power comes from in here, inside you. [touches his chest]

Gi:
Well, I know I've learned *one* thing: saving our planet is a job that needs *everyone* to work together.

Duke Nukem:
I smell atomic cesium. And I'm gonna find it, if I have to reduce this place to scrap-metal. [shoots one of the car-wrecks]

Lead Suit:
Ah, sir?... This *is* scrap-metal.

Wheeler:
[of Carlos and Miguel] Can you imagine guys actin' so stupid over a girl?

Linka:
[laughs] Oh, *nyet*.

Gi:
What is that thing?

Carlos:
[it causes a motorcycle to appear before him] Yes! That's exactly what I wanted!

Kwame:
Apparently, it is Aladdin's lamp.

Linka:
Yes. Except, this one appears to be plugged in.

Gi:
[sees one of its tubes burrow through the ground many times before settling in the water before the contents of what it starts to take drip mearby] Aladdin's Lamp uses a lot of oil.

Linka:
[to the Dream Machine after Wheeler's request for a technologically-enhanced armchair is met] Let's see how smart you really are. Make us a solar-powered Geocruiser... So, where is the genie of this lamp, ha?

Kwame:
Maybe you rubbed him the wrong way.

Zarm:
[to the villagers] Don't worry. You'll all get what you asked for - what you deserve.

Ma-Ti:
What is happening to this place?

Kwame:
What always happens when people are not careful what they wish for.

Gi:
The Dream Machine is using microbots.

Wheeler:
Oh, that explains it. What are microbots?

Ma-Ti:
I *knew* this greed-machine had to be yours!

Zarm:
Yes. Greed makes people want more and more pweor - power over the Earth, power over each other, and greed is what I thrive on.

Gi:
This isn't a dream-machine; it's a nightmare!

Captain Planet:
[shielding himself from Zarm's laser-blasts] Hey, torro! Torro! Torro!

Villagers:
Ol?! Ol?! Ol?!

Zarm:
Now I can make *my* dream come true. Since you are made all of Earth-resources, my microbots can turn you into, say, metal.

Zarm:
This isn't possible!

Captain Planet:
Anything's possible when you put your mind to it.

Captain Planet:
Sorry to blow you off, Zarm...

[exhales so he is knocked backwards into his ship]

Gi:
Any technology has a price. You have to decide if what you give, is worth what you get.

[last lines]

Kwame:
[hefting the chair Wheeler gave the TV and video-camera to the villagers from] And what do we do with this?

Kwame, Wheeler, Ma-Ti:
Recycle it!

Wheeler:
We don't wanna pas up a chance to see some dumb farm.

Kwame:
For your information, Wheeler, it is not a dumb farm. It is a smart farm.

Argos Bleak:
[Joe drops his bag of apples, one bounces and Bleak catches it] Hey - are those things edible?

Looten Plunder:
Who cares? They look perfect. They look great; they'll sell. [laughs]

Looten Plunder:
Those fainting-spells could mean big doctor bills, Joe. But we'll take care of you. Just make your mark here.

Joe:
[Xs the form] OK, Mr. Plunder. Now what should I do about all those people complaining about the spray?

Looten Plunder:
[grabs the sheet laughing] Whatever you like, Joe. Because according to the fine print here, you're the one responsible.

[as Joe protests]

Looten Plunder:
You should learn to *read* what you sign!

[laughs again]

Wheeler:
Plunder! So *you're* behind this!

Looten Plunder:
[on a tractor driving a cart] Yeah. Now get on - and you'll be behind *me*!

Gi:
You'll never get away with this!

Looten Plunder:
How come the good guys *always* say *that*?

Wheeler:
[his Fire cannot breach the dense metal door but ends up popping the corn kernels around it] Well, at least we won't starve.

Ma-Ti:
Here comes trouble!

Captain Planet:
[preparing to throw two metal discs] Plunder's gonna flip over this. Maybe he'll give me an odd job around the farm.

Looten Plunder:
Time for me to play the grim reaper.

Wheeler:
Stand back! I'm gonna thrash me a thresher!

Captain Planet:
Nothing like popcorn to suck up noxious gases. Although I prefer butter and salt myself.

Joe:
[coughing] Captain Planet, I'm sorry. This was all my fault because I can't read.

Captain Planet:
Yes, you can. Read my face. [he looks optimistic]

Joe:
So what's to be happy about? The farm has gone up in flames!

Captain Planet:
Plunder and Bleak are gone for good, and most importantly, you have a dear friend who will teach you to read.

Joe:
I read ya loud and clear, Cap.

Captain Planet:
The power is yours, Joe.

Joe:
Angela is teaching me how to read and write. This is my first effort. I wrote it for her. [takes a peper out his pocket and hands it to her] Will you marry me?

Angela:
Oh, Joe! [hugs him] Of course I will!

Wheeler:
[grinning] I hope you read the fine print on the marriage certificate, Joe.

Joe:
Whatever it says, I'll say "I do".

Wheeler:
And *I* say: kiss the bride-to-be.

Sly Sludge:
This Helix guy sure knows how to waste a beautiful oil spill. I'd've found a way to make money off of it. That's why they call me SLY Sludge.

Sly Sludge:
[rapping] Garbage-eaters, a new drop'll do ya. They eat trash, and make *me* lots o' moolah.

Gaia:
I will be with you, in spirit.

Wheeler:
Hey, Linka, I'll treat you to some of that fine French cuisine. Like French-fries.

Sly Sludge:
[of the garbage-eaters] Don't thank me; thank them. Me, you pay.

Sly Sludge:
Thank you, Madame Mayor, and if you have any problems, lose my number.

Andre:
Stop them, I beg you. I will do anything! I will even make the French-fries!

Wheeler:
You got yourself a deal.

Ma-Ti:
[fatigued after his Heart beams are absorbed in his trying to contact the blob] Ohh. They *have* no heart! Only endless hunger!

Captain Planet:
[pursued by the blobs] I better tackle this problem before it tackles me!

Gi:
[runs through an area free of trash the creature is less likely to go through] Come on - coast is clean.

Linka:
Do you not mean "clear"?

Kwame:
[catching Sludge about to steal a truck] You are in the wrong end of the garbage truck, "Doctor".

Ma-Ti:
We're out of garbage!

Wheeler:
[pointing toward Sludge] No, we're not!

Sly Sludge:
Y-you don't mean ME...?

Wheeler:
You certainly qualify. But let's start with - *this*.

[grabs out his suitcase full of money]

Captain Planet:
[melting glass pieces to contain the blob] This is the kind of meltdown we need.

Captain Planet:
[molds glass to forms a tube] Not bad for an amateur.

Wheeler:
No one makes French-fries like the French.

Andre:
[chuckling] I had to ask an American tourist for the recipe.

Captain Planet:
[Sludge is forced to recycle through a mound of garbage, and pockets the money thrown away with it that he finds] For once, he's *earning* his money! [everyone laughs]

Sly Sludge:
[a blob whose formula he stole from Dr. Helix attempts to eat something out of his pocket, he just manages to pry it off] Uh-ohhh... This is the last time I trust a scientist.

Kwame:
[after he introduced himself to Jenny] Winging it, huh, Wheeler?

Wheeler:
Hey, a guy's gotta have hobbies. And, uh, hanging around Linka's given me a new appreciation for bird-watching.

Linka:
[comes over] Huh. Somehow I don't think it is the *birds* you are interested in.

Linka:
Oh, look at him. He is being drunk... an idiot over this girl.

Kwame:
Hm. Maybe it is not just Wheeler who is acting, a little foolish.

Linka:
Boys! What do you know? Ha!

Linka:
[a craft approaches to remove a tree] Kwame! Watch out for the flying-saucer alien-monster!

Kwame:
[sees the occupant from his own tree] It is no alien, Linka, but it *is* a monster! Hoggish Greedly!

Hoggish Greedly:
Pinch me, Rigger; I think I've died and gone to hog-heaven.

Rigger:
OK, boss.

[pinches him]

Captain Planet:
[heard after being caught in the tree-grinder] AAAUUUUGGGGHHH!

Gi:
Captain Planet!

Ma-Ti:
[clutching his head] AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Gi:
Ma-Ti, what is it?

Ma-Ti:
The pain. So much pain...!

Gi:
[sees it glowing with restored power] Look! My ring!

Linka:
We must bring Captain Planet back!

Kwame:
Let our powers combine! Earth!

Wheeler:
Fire!

Linka:
Wind!

Gi:
Water!

Ma-Ti:
[strained] Heart...!

[their beams form an area of light in the air, which fades after a second with nothing having happened]

Ma-Ti:
Does this mean...?

Gi:
Is he... gone?

Wheeler:
No way. Cap's OK. He's... gotta be.

Linka:
[cries then stops, her expression hardens] This is no time for tears. We must shut down Greedly's operation.

Wheeler:
Yeah. Let's do it for Cap.

Kwame:
He would... want it that way.

Looten Plunder:
Can't this thing go any faster?

Argos Bleak:
Only if you jump off!

Looten Plunder:
You wrecked my robot. Oh, well, it's a new warrantee.

[first lines]

Ma-Ti:
[a shark pursues him snorkeling, he leaps out of the water onto their raft, breathing heavily] Heart!... Gi - you must get out of there!

[jumps as she surfaces]

Ma-Ti:
AAHH! You scared me!

Gi:
What's wrong, Ma-Ti?

Ma-Ti:
[points as it approaches from behind] SHARK!

Gi:
[it swims next to her and she touches it] Oh, Ma-Ti, it's just a basking shark. It only eats plankton.

Ma-Ti:
[it leaves, she finishes the swim toward the raft] But it was following me!

Gi:
[tosses her scuba to him] It was probably just curious.

[climbing onto the raft]

Gi:
It wouldn't attack you unless you were about - *this* big.

[makes a gesture between her thumb and finger]

Ma-Ti:
That is how small I feel.

Gi:
Ma-Ti, why didn't you just use your Heartpower to send the shark away?

Ma-Ti:
I do not know. I guess I was too scared to think straight.

Gi:
[amused] Are you too scared to finish breakfast?

Ma-Ti:
Gi - I thought I *was* breakfast. It is not every day I run into a 40-foot shark.

[a nearby patron gasps and runs to tell another]

Ma-Ti:
...even if it was not a man-eater.

Gi:
Funny thing is, you're about ten times more likely to get killed by a falling airplane-part than by a shark.

Gi:
You can't turn Bleak loose on that basking shark! It's harmless!

Ma-Ti:
And sharks have a place in nature.

Argos Bleak:
[jumps from his boat to the dock laughing] Sharks have a place, all right - over my mantlepiece, stuffed and mounted!

Gi:
[after the crowd kicks her out for opposing Bleak, stands on a dock post] You can't wipe out sharks or any other animal without messing up the balance of nature!

Argos Bleak:
[strides over] I'll mess up *your* balance, shark-lover! [shoves her, she falls into the water]

Wheeler:
All *right*! Life is Good but wind-surfing's great! AHH! [crashes]

Gaia:
[appears] Sorry to take the wind out of your sails, Wheeler, but we need you.

Linka:
[he arrives at the Crystal Chamber] Wheeler, you are all wet - as usual.

Wheeler:
This better be good.

Gaia:
I'm afraid it's very bad. [turns on the Planet Vision] Argos Bleak is harpooning everything in sight that has a dorsal fin. That nurse shark is *not* a man-eater. It's *afraid* of people.

Linka:
[as he raises what he harpooned, sees the carcasses of others he already hung on the boat's side] Apparently with good reason.

Gaia:
Those sharks weren't dangerous. And they don't stand a chance against Bleak's hunting gear.

Wheeler:
[sees another shark chomping on jellyfish] Ugh! That ugly sucker has *got* to be a man-eater!

Gaia:
The goblin shark won't win any beauty contests, but it eats only small animals.

Gaia:
Humans are a much greater threat to sharks than sharks are to humans.

Wheeler:
All right, Gaia. But it feels kinda weird trying to save some bloodthirsty shark.

Gaia:
Bleak is bloodthirsty. A shark is just a predator like a wolf or a tiger. It keeps other animals from overpopulating. If you'd ever been stung by a stingray, you might *wish* there were more sharks.

Argos Bleak:
[seeking the creature first reported] Nothing. Maybe those yokels made it up. Maybe there is no giant killer shark.

Ma-Ti:
[whispering in the covered lifeboat in the back of the boat] Maybe Bleak will give up the hunt.

Gi:
Right. And maybe nuclear waste will be good for your health.

Argos Bleak:
[trapping Ma-Ti and Gi in a net] The catch of the day is Planeteer, an annoying oceanic pest.

Wheeler:
[trapped inside the sunken flooding Geocruiser] Kwame, it's been great knowin' ya. Linka, how 'bout a goodbye kiss?

Linka:
Wheeler, you have a one-track mind. But under the circumstances... [they lean in]

Kwame:
We are forgetting simple physics! When the cockpit fills with water the pressure will equalize!

Linka:
And then we can open the door! Kwame, you have saved us! [she turns around and moves aside; Wheeler leans forward toward nothing and his head drops below water]

Wheeler:
[resurfaces] Yeah. Thanks a lot. You could've waited another five seconds.

Argos Bleak:
Ah, chum. A tasty blend of fish-parts and blood. Perfect for drawing sharks. And you two... you'll be my little chums as well, won't you?

Wheeler:
That shark is about to chow down on Gi and Ma-Ti! And make sushi out of Suchi!

Linka:
[Wheeler breaks the rope on Gi's mouth but she whimpers in pain] You burnt her hair!

Wheeler:
Hey, *you* try burning off a rope on a moving intertube being chased by a shark!

Argos Bleak:
[Wheeler uses Fire to break the harpoon rope to the boat off the basking shark] I'll get you next, Planet punks! [aims the harpoon]

Kwame:
Your chances of that are bleak, Argos.

Captain Planet:
Why don't you pick on someone your own size, Bleak?

Argos Bleak:
[shoots the harpoon] Eat cold steel, Planet!

Captain Planet:
[catches it] Uh - sorry, I'm on a diet.

Argos Bleak:
[knocked overboard near the shark] AHH! Get away! Somebody help me! Don't let it hurt me!

Captain Planet:
[flying down] Well, I'd hate to see that poor blue shark get indigestion...

Argos Bleak:
[rescued from the blue-shark] Aren't you gonna kill that predatory monster?

Captain Planet:
I'm letting *you* live, so why don't *you* live and *let* live?

[first lines]

Kahlil:
I tried to bring food for you, but there is none.

Affirmi:
My village too is out of food.

Kahlil:
Both our villages will starve if this war keeps going.

Affirmi:
[an explosion sounds] Take cover, Kahlil!

[the two duck then brace themselves against a cliff wall as missiles and tanks rage around them]

Affirmi:
It's OK, Kahlil. The shooting will be over soon.

Kahlil:
[desperately] I want it over now...!

Ma-Ti:
[places his hand over the Planet Vision upon seeing the villagers cowering as weapons are being bought] I cannot look at this! It hurts too much to see such suffering!

Gaia:
I know. But only when people realize the consequences of war, Ma-Ti, will they find the wisdom to stop it.

Abu:
You have saved our lives. Thank you.

Linka:
You could best thank us by stopping this war.

Abu:
I cannot. Yosef attacked our people without warning. Come to our village. Then you will understand.

Gi:
Let's hurry while that tank's still topsy-turvey.

Kahlil:
[walking off] Papa... these people are right. You must stop this fighting.

Abu:
You are only a child, Affirmi. You do not understand.

Yosef:
Stupid tank! It cost me a fortune and it doesn't even work right.

[kicks it, then grips his foot and cries out in pain]

Kahlil:
Father! Are you all right?

Yosef:
I will be, just as soon as I buy a better tank.

Affirmi:
Wait! Please, give half my food to my friend Kahlil at the other village!

[runs off]

Kwame:
I wish *he* was the village chief instead of his father.

Looten Plunder:
Someday they'll name a war after me.

Looten Plunder:
[running from the battle they didn't expect to be launched yet] don't those fools know that guns are dangerous?

Argos Bleak:
I think so, Mr. Plunder. That's what you told 'em in your sales pitch.

[sees a tank heading for them]

Argos Bleak:
AHHH! And this is one time you didn't lie!

Argos Bleak:
[laughing] The tanks're tearing up the fields! They'll never harvest *that* crop!

Looten Plunder:
Who cares? I'll get my money.

Argos Bleak:
Mr. Plunder, you sure know how to start a war.

Argos Bleak:
And a booming business it is.

Captain Planet:
This village has been here for hundreds of years. And those weapons will destroy it in five minutes. Unless... [grabs and hauls off a tank] The best thing to do about a war is to get out of it.

Looten Plunder:
It's not like I think of my work as tank-less, but the planet *should* be!

Captain Planet:
[Captain Planet throws down and ruins one of his vehicles] Drat! That tank wasn't even paid for yet! Now I'll never be able to sell it on the used-weapons market!

Yosef:
Thank goodness you are alive, my son.

Abu:
[sinking to his knees clutching his shoulders] Kahlil - I almost lost you.

Yosef:
[to Kwame] How can I ever repay you?

Abu:
Yes, how?

Kwame:
By finally listening to what your sons tell you: stop this foolish war.

Yosef:
[clenching a fist] Never!

Kahlil:
[gripping it with both hands] Do you not understand? Looten Plunder tricked you by making you afraid of each other!

Kwame:
It is true, Yosef. Who told you that Abu was going to attack? Was it the same person who sold you arms?

Yosef:
[gasping] Mr. Plunder!

Abu:
And, Abu, who told you that *Yosef* was planning to attack?

Yosef:
You are right. It *was* Plunder.

Affirmi:
Please, Papa, stop the war. Kahlil and I want us all to be friends again.

Looten Plunder:
One more missile and it's curtains for Captain Planet.

Wheeler:
Wrong, Plunder! The critics are givin' your show two thumbs down!

Wheeler:
Are you sure you're okay?

Captain Planet:
I'll feel better when Looten Plunder gets what he deserves!

Captain Planet:
[laughs after placing Plunder and Bleak on an iceberg] I just hope they don't try to sell any weapons to the penguins.

[last lines]

Ma-Ti:
[of the children playing in the drilled spring's water] If people can be so happy sharing this good planet, why do they have to fight over it?

Kwame:
If everyone in the world was as smart as those two, wars would never happen.

Wheeler:
[grinning] Don't lose your concentration, Linka!

Linka:
Ha! I was broad-jump champion of my district! Your advice, I do not need. YAAA!

[slides down the rockface]

Kwame:
Why are you letting us out?

Dr. Blight:
Because I *want* you to summon Captain Planet.

Ma-Ti:
We will. And he will teach you a lesson you will *never* forget!

Dr. Blight:
Au contraire. This time Dr. Blight is giving a lesson, and the Captain is going to flunk.

Dr. Blight:
That do-good superhero will show up sooner or later.

Captain Planet:
[flies in] I prefer sooner myself.

MAL:
It just doesn't compute. How could you return without the Tree of Life?

Dr. Blight:
Because your Robojacks couldn't cut through it. If you're so smart, how come you didn't compute *that*?

[he disappears from the screen]

Linka:
[kisses Wheeler for changing the rats back to normal] There may be hope for you yet Wheeler!

Wheeler:
Oh yeah? [puts his arm around her waist]

Linka:
I said hope not fantasy

Captain Planet:
[weakly] The power is yours. [departs]

Duke Nukem:
Actually, it's mine.

Gi:
Even mad scientists call her crazy.

Wheeler:
Scratch one New Year's Eve party. We'll never get back by midnight.

Kwame:
If Greedly changes history, it will not be a happy New Year.

Ma-Ti:
[he and everyone else tumble down an ice-tunnel] Wow...! When this is all over - I wanna do that again!

Rigger:
[Kwame's earthquake is felt] Gee, this Time Pool can sure make waves. Don't ya think?

Dr. Blight:
That's not the Time Pool, that's...

Hoggish Greedly:
[they step into the light from the broken wall] The PLANETEERS?

Kwame:
We knocked, but no one answered.

Kwame:
[of the sonic boom box] Her weapon uses sound-waves.

Gi:
That's what I call noise-pollution!

Rigger:
[of the Time Pool] Wait - ! Are yo-you sure this thing's safe?

Hoggish Greedly:
Not *really*... That's why *you're* goin' *first*!

Rigger:
I don't wanna be no guinea-pig... while you get to be a chicken...

Captain Planet:
[grabbing and breaking the sonic boom box] Do you... take requests? How about "The Sounds of Silence"?

Wheeler:
[hammering the wall that caused the cave-in] Captain Planet, we're trapped in here!

Dr. Blight:
Yes, *please* get us out, Captain Planet! I promise I'll be good from now on!... I'll tell any lie I can *think* of to get out of here.

Dr. Blight:
It's been over an hour. Looks like your *hero* has abandoned you.

[yawns]

Wheeler:
It was YOUR radioactivity that took away Cap's powers!

[yawns]

Wheeler:
This is the most boring New Year's Eve I've ever spent.

MAL:
*Boredom's* not making you yawn. It's carbon-dioxide.

Wheeler:
[springs up] WHAT? You mean we're runnin' out of oxygen?

MAL:
Not "we", human. "You." *I* never use the stuff.

Wheeler:
It's not fair! THIS is what I get for trying to save the world? I could've been havin' *fun* tonight! Sometimes I wish I'd never *gotten* this stupid ring.

Dr. Blight:
Do you really mean that? Because I can arrange it.

Wheeler:
Arrange what?

Dr. Blight:
I can send you back in time to the moment when you got that ring from Gaia. When was it, anyway?

Wheeler:
Uh - last January. The fifth.

Dr. Blight:
You heard that, MAL; start up the Time Pool. Wheeler's going back in time. To January fifth. And where were you that day?

Wheeler:
Brooklyn, New York, but I really don't wanna go back in time...

Dr. Blight:
[steps behind him] Aren't you tired of being a Planeteer, of always recycling, car-pooling, conserving energy?

Wheeler:
[hesitantly] It's what everybody *should* do...

Dr. Blight:
Forget "should". Isn't it time you did what *you* wanna do?

Wheeler:
Changing history... I dunno...

Dr. Blight:
There are billions of other people who can save Earth. You've got your *own* life to worry about.

Wheeler:
[shoves her backward] I don't trust you, Blight.

Dr. Blight:
Then think about *this*: our only way out of this cave-in is to change history so it didn't happen!

Wheeler:
[after crash-landing from the Time Pool] Man - where am I? And *when* am I?

Wheeler:
[Wheeler snatches the Ring of Fire and is confronted by his past self] Hey - what's the big - Whoa! You look just like me! Who ARE you?

Wheeler:
I *am* you. Not too long from now.

Wheeler:
What're you talkin' about?

Wheeler:
I came back in time to warn you: don't accept this ring. This ring is gonna kill us! Leave it alone!

Wheeler:
[circling him] Time-travel, huh? Why should I believe all this?

Wheeler:
I'm here, aren't I?

Gaia:
Wheeler - what have you *done*?

Wheeler:
I stopped being a Planeteer so I wouldn't die in an ice-cave. That's all.

Gaia:
No, that's *not* all. You've changed history; look!

Wheeler:
[glances behind where she points to see a man in a tank-top sit on a curb then take out a newspaper to fan himself, wipes his own forehead] Yeah. It's hot. And it was cold, a minute ago. But wait a second! [whirls back to her] How could I change the weather? All I did was quit the Planeteers!

Wheeler:
[of Greedly and Rigger's time-travel that caused the increased global-warming] Why didn't Captain Planet stop them?

Gaia:
Captain Planet does *not exist*. You changed history. You never joined the Planeteers, so there *are* no Planeteers. They each went their own separate ways.

Wheeler:
[sees the Time Pool's image of the others parting] Aw, c'mon, Gaia, you could've found someone else to be a Planeteer instead of me.

Gaia:
No. Each individual has a unique role to play. You were supposed to set an example for countless others.

Wheeler:
[about to enter the future] Man, I'll see all the progress, the new inventions... This is *excellent*!

Gaia:
We'll see if you like what you find.

Gaia:
MAL, send Wheeler into the future.

MAL:
Oh, really? What if I refuse?

Gaia:
You're right near the North Pole. What if the Earth's magnetic field suddenly gets a lot more... powerful?

MAL:
[looks worried as he begins to shake and sport static] Wait... [something bangs offscreen] Ow! Don't - Stop! The magnetism will erase my data! [a part hits the monitor] Oww! All right, I'll do it. No need to get geophysical.

Wheeler:
[running over to her] Gi! Gi! You're older.

Gi:
I am told I look pretty good for over fifty. Now who are *you*, young man? And how did you get on my island?

Wheeler:
"Young man"? But it's me, Wheeler. Boy, I've missed you!

Gi:
I don't recognize you...

Wheeler:
[thinking] Of *course* she doesn't. I changed history so - we never met!

[aloud]

Wheeler:
I guess you remind me of someone I once knew. Someone who cared a great deal about the planet.

Gi:
Long ago, I was given this ring. I use it to help whenever I can - like saving *this* creature. One of the last dolphins or Earth.

[kneels and starts untying the netted dolphin on the beach]

Wheeler:
"Last dolphins"? But there must be millions of them!

Gi:
Right. Maybe thirty years ago. Now they are one of the few species that are not yet extinct. Water!

[her ring causes a wave to come ashore and the dolphin swims out]

Wheeler:
Extinct? How?

Gi:
Overfishing, pollution. You name it.

Wheeler:
Then why are you living here like a hermit? You could be out using your power to change the world!

Gi:
[as thunder sounds and rain begins to fall] Oh, sure, change the world! When I was young I tried joining a group called the Planeteers, but not enough people came.

Wheeler:
[knowing that he was the only one needed who did not arrive] "Not enough people"?

Gi:
Thas's why I don't miss people. Now you had better find shelter. The eye of the storm is passing.

Wheeler:
Gi, wait! It's not too late! You and I can *still* be Planeteers!

Gi:
Wake up and smell the carbon dioxide. It's too late for this world. It's all I can do to save a few dolphins.

Kwame:
[both gasp as a shell races toward them, he tackles Wheeler] *Down*, you fool!

Wheeler:
[in shock, after a hut is destroyed] Someone's shellin' at us!

Kwame:
[dryly] Ah - you noticed. But they will not be for long. Earth.

[his ring causes the mound of dirt near the shooters to shake in an earthquake, they flee and it crumples]

Wheeler:
Hey - you sure got rid of *them*!

Kwame:
They will return. They always do.

Wheeler:
What do they want?

Kwame:
This land. The only oasis left in the region - look around you, boy!

Wheeler:
[examines his surroundings to find a few dead trees and no grass] Oh, no! All the land here used to be green, and beautiful! Now it's a desert!

Kwame:
Global warming changed the weather. The rainfall moved away from us.

Wheeler:
But we planted trees out there to hold back the water and stop erosion!

Kwame:
No one *ever* planted trees out *there*.

Wheeler:
What're you talking about? The Planeteers helped you!

Kwame:
[touching a tree] The Planeteers? Ha! We had fine ideas, but - others did not do their part and eventually we went our separate ways. I planted a few trees in *our* village, but I am only one man. If others had helped me... maybe we could have saved much more.

[both leap behind the tree as two more shells are fired toward them and hit it]

Wheeler:
[grabbing his shoulder] Kwame - let me help now! We can revive the Planeteers! We can do something to save the planet!

Kwame:
[grabs his collar] Stop talking nonsense, boy! "Save the planet"! I am in a war to save this one oasis! If you want to help - then FIGHT!

Wheeler:
I'm not *crazy*. I *know* you! You love *birds*!.You can play their songs, right?

Linka:
I used to love that... But - that was decades ago, before pesticides wiped out all of the birds... How could you possibly know that?

Wheeler:
I KNOW you! As a Planeteer!

Linka:
*Liar*! Oh, there was *supposed* to be an American boy like you, but he lacked the courage to join us.

Wheeler:
[sinks into the van-seat next to hers] Okay... maybe I - he was wrong... but you're wasting your powers here!

Linka:
"Wasting*? If I did not stop that riot, then there would be no food for the other towns. Be practical.

Wheeler:
"PRACTICAL"? You're worried about a few towns! We need to save the entire Earth!

Linka:
Ha. "Save the Earth"? You poor lunatic.

Wheeler:
[transported to a polluted city full of starving people] This can't be the *rainforest*. There's been some kind of mistake.

Ma-Ti:
[sitting facing away from behind, sighs] You are right. Both times. [Wheeler turns as he stands to face him with an empty bowl] This place cannot be a rainforest anymore. And this *city* is a mistake. Please, young sir, some spare change?

Wheeler:
[horrified at how ragged and thin he is] Ma-Ti...!

Ma-Ti:
Forgive me, but if I ever knew you, I have forgotten. I find life is easier if I can forget the past.

Wheeler:
[after he uses his ring to bring out enough Heart in an indifferent man to give charity] Ma-Ti, you could do *so* much more with your power! You could move people to care about the whole planet!

Ma-Ti:
[sighs] You have much Heart, young one. Why couldn't I have known you when I was a young Planeteer?

Wheeler:
Well... I, uh...

Ma-Ti:
But you cannot rebuild a *rainforest*. It is gone forever.

[points at him in amazement]

Ma-Ti:
And you think that you can save an entire world?

[buries his face in his hands and begins to sob]

Wheeler:
[Wheeler blocks himself from an hour before as he moves to prevent their past self from taking the Fire ring] Hey - what're you doing? Who *are* you?

Wheeler:
I'm you. But about an hour smarter.

Wheeler:
[his past self] Look - he's got the ring! I've *gotta* stop him! I'm *tired* of being a Planeteer! I have to save *myself*! The *others* can save the Earth!

Wheeler:
That's what I thought. But I was wrong! *Everything* is connected. So we need *everybody* to keep this planet going, *including* us. I mean me... uh, you know what I mean.

Wheeler:
Gi! You're young again!

Gi:
Try tunneling for a couple hours and see how young *you* feel!

Wheeler:
Ma-Ti! I was afraid you'd given up - on *everything*! [clasps his shoulder]

Ma-Ti:
I would never give up on *you*, Wheeler. You are my amigo.

Kwame:
Hey, Hero, did you have to take on those villains by yourself?

Kwame:
[about to crash-land] I never thought I would be so happy to see garbage.

Linka:
Who would make such a mess?

Wheeler:
Gangs. But we can't worry about that now. We gotta find Kwame.

Ma-Ti:
[sees a group of gang members] Actually, I think it is time to *start* worrying. Look!

Dr. Blight:
What spirit. What valor. What stupidity.

Robot:
[after binding the Planeteers with liquid rope] Mission accomplished. Have a nice day.

Darren:
People are basically good, given half a chance.

Dr. Blight:
I want to hear MAL's good news.

MAL:
Do I have to tell him, too?

Verminous Skumm:
Out with it, you Floppy Disc-head.

MAL:
Ooh, rough and tough.

Kwame:
There is a chance, if I am right.

Darren:
And if you're wrong?

Kwame:
Do not even think about it.

Kwame:
[approaches the hypnotized others calmly with raised hands] I surrender to you.

Wheeler:
Don't surrender; that's no fun! Fire!

Kwame:
I do not know what has happened to you, but I know that underneath, you are *still* Planeteers, and the power of Gaia will free your minds.

Verminous Skumm:
[sees Captain Planet reprogram the robots to turn them to good use on-screen] I REALLY don't like him...

MAL:
Captain Planet Alert. He's headed this...

[Cap crashes through the ceiling]

MAL:
...way. Why...

[laughs nervously]

MAL:
Captain Planet, how nice of you to drop in.

Captain Planet:
Aren't you two a little far from home?

Dr. Blight:
Uh, maybe a little.

Verminous Skumm:
Uh... we were just leaving.

Captain Planet:
Let me give you a hand.

[grabs and lifts them through the hole in the roof]

Captain Planet:
Time to go back to your own universe.

[flings them through the air]

Verminous Skumm:
[shooting toward a portal he blasts out of air] It's OK. We'll just wait for the subwayyyy...

[last lines]

Reporter:
In the news tonight, gang-violence has reached an all-time high, resulting in a record number of deaths and massive destruction nationwide.

Verminous Skumm:
Hey, Blight, we're missin' a Planeteer!

[glances at Suchi]

Verminous Skumm:
Unless you count this fugative from a Tarzan movie.

Linka:
Ma-Ti! Hands up!

Wheeler:
[sees the bulldozer, running to shove Ma-Ti out of the way] That's "heads up", not "hands up"!

Wheeler:
Yo, Tommy, take it easy on the babe.

Tommy:
That's no babe. That's my sister Lenii.

Wheeler:
That door is toast!

[prepares to use his ring, Linka grabs his arm to stop him]

Wheeler:
Hey!

Linka:
[approaches and opens the door laughing] Next time, try the *doorknob*?

Wheeler:
You need a little old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity. Let's be scientific here. Eenie, meanie, minie, mo.

Captain Planet:
[catches Lenai] Welcome aboard Air Planet, this is your Captain speaking; fasten your seatbelt.

Lenii:
Wh-whatever you say... Captain.

Linka:
[he catches her on his way up] Thanks, Captain Planet.

Wheeler:
Way to go, Cap!

Captain Planet:
[grabs him from the ledge] Hey, Wheeler.

Wheeler:
Hey. Thanks for the lift.

Captain Planet:
No problem; I love to carpool.

Kwame:
Our friends could not have just vanished.

Gi:
Maybe they were shrunk... Forget I said that.

Sly Sludge:
[of the erupting volcano] I've never had a dump-site dump back at me.

Kwame:
Sludge has mistreated the Earth once too often. Now the Earth is fighting back.

Captain Planet:
[moving ahead of the lava toward a building] A hospital. This place could use some intensive care.

[lifts the building from its foundation]

Captain Planet:
You're in good hands with Dr. Planet.

[sets it down away from the lava]

Captain Planet:
Another successful transplant.

[last lines]

Linka:
Wheeler, what are you doing?

Wheeler:
You said to sort the trash for recycling, so I'm sorting. This pile is all stuff that my favorite drinks come in. And this pile is...

Ma-Ti:
[bemused] Wheeler, you've got it all wrong. You sort it by what it is made of.

Lenai:
Paper glass, and aluminum can all be turned back into something useful.

Linka:
But before we can recycle, we have to sort properly.

Wheeler:
[Suchi climbs atop one of his badly-sorted piles amidst the well-sorted ones] Hey, give me a break, Linka. I'm new at this.

Linka:
I forgot - some catch on faster than others.

Wheeler:
[sees him] Nobody likes a show-off, Suchi!

[everyone else grins]

Sly Sludge:
[leaving the island during the volcanic eruption] Aloha, suckers. I'll miss this profit paradise when it blows up, but I do have a few souvenirs to remember it by. [looks at his money and locks the case]

Sly Sludge:
You can keep the hot trash, I'll take the cold cash. Lava them and leave them, I alway say.

Wheeler:
[the Ecocopter hangs by a blade off a mountain cliff] Let's blow.

Linka:
Percisely. Wind! [uses her ring to push him out the door on a whirlwind]

Wheeler:
WHOA! Need to watch what I say around her!

Captain Planet:
[waiting in front of the helicopter] This is your Captain speaking. [blows out to frost it] There seems to be a little ice forming on the wings - uh, blades. [they stop turning and it falls] Fasten your seatbelts; we seem to be experiencing mild turbulence. [flies down to where it's set to fall and gently lowers it before coming to the door, breaking it, and taking the guns] Please remain seated until your vehicle is at a complete stop. Check your weapons at the door.

Dr. Blight:
Hey, those are *mine*.

Captain Planet:
[remolding them into skis] Aw, don't worry, Doc. You can have them back. After all, you'll need them to *shoot* out of town. [she and the poachers look terrified as a howl sounds] Time for me to *ski*daddle. Thank you for flying Air Planet.

Captain Planet:
[of Plunder's group] You better high-tail it, Planeteers, while I take out the trash.

Captain Planet:
[laughs as he hurries out through a wall to undo Plunder's work after he barged in chucklmg by crashing through a wall] Whoops. Missed the door again.

Dr. Blight:
Stand still, eco-ick!

Kwame:
I would rather shake things up. Earth!

Captain Planet:
[freezes him] Chill out, Nukem. The iceman cameth.

Looten Plunder:
Make sure the only evidence they collect is their toe-tags and body-bags.

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