01x56 - The Necklace of Oros

[bunniefuu]

- ♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

[dramatic music]

♪ Out of the sky, his rockets ignite ♪

♪ Jets into battle flying faster than light ♪

Flash Gordon!

♪ Lord of the jungle, the hero who st*lks ♪

♪ The beasts call him brother, The Ghost Who Walks ♪

Phantom!

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

♪ Master of magic, spells, and illusion ♪

♪ Enemies crumble in fear and confusion ♪

Mandrake!

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

♪ His strength is a legend, his skills conquer all ♪

♪ Armed with his power, we never will fall ♪

Lothar!

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

♪ With our new young heroes proving their worth ♪

♪ Four become eight defending the Earth ♪

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[engines roaring]

[laser blasts]

[explosions]

- Attention! Computer control is disengaged!

Return control of ship to computer.

[gunsight beeps]

- Not so fast!

[lock-on tone hums]

[lasers blast]

[explosions]

[triumphant music]

♪ ♪

Uh-oh!

[electricity sizzles]

- Damage minimal.

- So, you guys want to play rough, huh?

Now, let's see how good a pilot

that mechanical errand boy really is!

- Warning!

You are entering the Earth's atmosphere too quickly!

This ship will burn up in precisely one minute!

- Gimme a break! [switch clicks]

♪ ♪

Come on, come on!

Now!

- Jedda, Jedda!

Is Jedda in there?

- Kshin, did it ever occur to you that I was in

a very dangerous flight simulation

with Ming's roboships?

- Yes, Flash.

Do you know where Jedda is? I can't find her anywhere.

- Uh, sure, Kshin.

Her father took her to Skull Cave

to give her a special present.

- But we were gonna take Jedda

to that new amusement park for her birthday.

- Yeah, what are we gonna do now?

- Don't worry, guys.

The Phantom should have her back in time.

- Time is running out...

my hold on the bridge between dimensions is weakening...

Soon either the portal will collapse

or the fabric between universes will begin to tear

annihilating all of existence.

You must help me!

- You have squandered your potential

on a foolish desire for power.

We will not help you.

- But you must!

Without the Necklace of Oros I cannot rule!

You promised me!

you promised!

- This mortal can help you.

She is of Phantom blood.

She can obtain the necklace from its sanctuary.

She is the key.

- Will find this Earthling

and have the power that is rightfully mine!

[eerie music]

- You have come of age, my daughter.

It is time for you to enter the family treasure room

and choose from the collected wealth

of generations of Phantoms.

Choose well, Jedda.

- I have never seen such splendor!

Everything is so very beautiful!

- Choose the Necklace of Oros!

Pick up the Necklace of Oros!

- I want this, father. - The Necklace of Oros?

- Yes, Father. The Necklace of Oros.

♪ ♪
[ … ]

Wha--what happened?

I-I had the strangest feeling.

Father? Tell me about this necklace.

- The Necklace of Oros was placed in this cave

more than years ago by the very first Phantom.

Its origin is unknown.

- The necklace has blocked my mind probe.

I must find another way to reach the girl.

[engine roars]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Graviton!

I bear the key you presented to Emperor Ming!

Open in the name of the Emperor!

♪ ♪

- Excellent, excellent!

Garax's laser eyes

are transmitting the scene perfectly.

- Graviton!

- So...

Ming the Merciless is finally prepared to bargain.

- Graviton,

you claim to possess the secret of anti-gravity.

You are ordered by his supreme majesty,

Emperor Ming the Merciless,

to demonstrate this anti-gravity power.

- Observe.

Anti-gravity...

the most powerful weapon ever conceived in your universe.

- I must have it!

With the secret of anti-gravity,

I can wipe the face of the Earth clean!

[laughs]

- Graviton, the secret of anti-gravity must be mine.

Name your price.

- [chuckles] So, Ming...

you wish to bargain?

- Emperor Ming bargains with no one.

Name your price, Graviton!

- The price for the secret of anti-gravity is...

Jedda Walker!

- So be it!

The Phantom's daughter, Jedda, shall be yours!

[upbeat music]

[indistinct shouting]

- Here we go again!

both[screaming]

- This is great!

Whoever built this new amusement park

really knew what they were doing!

- Don't you think it's rather strange

we're the only ones here in this amusement park?

- Come on, get off it, Jedda. I think it's terrific!

We're the first ones here! This place is great!

- Yeah, it--it's awesome!

[brakes screech]

- [snarls]

- Is it over yet?

- Well, I'm gonna go again.

- That's the third time we've been on the roller coaster.

When do we get to ride the Ferris Wheel like I wanted?

- All you do is go in circles-- - And slowly!

- You guys can ride this all day if you want,

but it's my birthday, and, well,

Kisa and I are going on the Ferris Wheel.

Kshin, do you and Zuffy want to join us?

- Thanks, but we're gonna go to the funhouse.

- [jabbers excitedly]

- Jedda! Meet us back here in an hour?

Sometimes girls just have no sense of adventure.

- Don't tell that to Jedda!

- What a brilliant idea this fake amusement park is.

The girl will soon be mine

and then Graviton will provide me

with the secret of anti-gravity!

- Hey, Zuff! Look at me!

I've got split personalities!

- [jabbers with amusement]

[jabbers fearfully]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Uh-oh. Ice robots!

They'll never find us in here!

Oops! Wrong way!

- [jabbers in confusion]

[jabbers in panic]

Zuff, there's got to be a way out of here!

Look!

[gasps and shouts]

- Happy landings, you little pests!

[chuckles]

And now for the others!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Whoa!

together[shouting]

- LJ, look!

Looks like the end of the line!

- If I may borrow this for a second...

Apply a little friction!
[ … ]

[metal screeches]

Do you think

we're pushing this "sense of adventure" thing too far?

- [sighs] Ferris Wheel, here we come.

- Isn't this peaceful, Kisa?

[mechanisms accelerate]

Kisa, help!

- That fool Ming!

He'll lose my necklace

if that mechanism self-destructs!

Perhaps that cat's mind can be controlled.

- If I can just get Kisa to pull the lever!

Kisa, Kisa!

- [growls] - Kisa!

[mechanical whirring accelerates]

[dramatic music]

- [growls]

- Get the necklace!

♪ ♪

- Kisa!

♪ ♪

[whirring slows]

- Thanks, Rick!

That's the best birthday gift ever.

- Where's Kshin?

- I--I don't know.

And something is wrong with Kisa.

- Didn't Kshin say something about going to the Funhouse?

- Right, let's go!

- Kisa! Kisa?

- Kisa, protect the necklace with your life!

- [growls]

- Oh, Zuff! How do we get out of this one?

- [jabbers in resignation]

- Hold on, Zuff!

both: [shouting]

[rock music]

- They must have come in here, but which way?

♪ ♪

- That way!

- There has to be a way out of here.

- As Mandrake says, "It's all done with mirrors."

♪ ♪

LJ, in here!

- There's no way out! We're trapped!

- Correct, young Defenders!

Now there is no escape!

[evil laughter]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- Got any bright ideas, Rick? - Just one.

This ought to brighten up their day a little.

[expl*si*n]

[electricity sizzles]

We have to find Kshin!

- [jabbering in fear]

- This isn't fun anymore!

- I found them, Rick! - We're coming, hang in there!

- Hurry up, Rick! Hurry!

- Grab my jacket, Kshin! - I-I can't reach!

- A little lower!

- Any farther and I'll need someone to hold my ankles!

- You're gonna have to jump for it, Kshin!

- I'm scared! - You can do it, I know it!

One!

Two!

Three!

- [jabbers in panic]

- Up we go!

- Aw, you ruined my jacket.

- Come on, fun time's over.

[psychic energy oscillating]

- Kisa... Kisa, what's wrong, girl?

- Attack the girl!

- No, Kisa. It's me, Jedda.

No, no!

Kisa, it's me, girl!

- No! Attack, attack!

- Please Kisa! Listen to me!

[dramatic music]

- [growls]

- Kisa, good girl!

Good girl, Kisa.

- No!

The necklace has blocked my mind probe!

The strain was to great.

I was almost sucked back into my own universe.

How could that girl put up such resistance?

- Jedda, are you all right?

- Some evil force had control of Kisa's mind.

It wanted my necklace.

Rick, I'm frightened.

- How could they have escaped my trap?

Why does Graviton want the Necklace of Oros?

What is so special about it?

I must know.

- And you say Kisa was mentally controlled by...what, Jedda?

- I don't know, Mandrake, but this I do know:

It was something horrible.

It's--it's all so confusing. I-I can't remember.
[ … ]

- Mandrake, perhaps you could help her remember?

- Perhaps I can.

Jedda, I'm going to put you in a trance.

Are you ready?

- Yes. Ready.

- Look deeply into my eyes.

You feel sleepy... - Sleepy.

Sleepy...

- You're recalling what happened

when you first saw the necklace.

- Yes. I can see myself.

The necklace seemed to call to me...

and when I looked into it I was drawn.

- Drawn where, Jedda? - Into another dimension.

An...an alternate universe.

- Can you describe it, Jedda? - Yes.

Things were different in this dimension.

The people and buildings were all so strange.

No, no!

- What is it? What do you see?

- It is cruel in this dimension.

There is some creature who holds all power.

[foreboding music]

♪ ♪

Yes, yes!

He is called Graviton,

and the source of Graviton's supremacy...

is the Necklace of Oros.

But even in the heart of Graviton's stronghold...

there is rebellion.

- I have the necklace!

- We must send it somewhere Graviton can never find it--

another dimension!

Blataok, will you take the necklace into the unknown

for the good of the rebellion?

- To see Graviton fall, I would do anything--anything!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[lasers blasting]

- Stop him, stop him!

- That took place Earth years ago,

during the time of the first Phantom.

The Necklace of Oros was given to my ancestor

for safekeeping and it has lain dormant

for all these generations waiting for me.

- Somehow the Necklace compressed all that information

into a microsecond and fed it into Jedda's brain.

If only we knew what its other powers were...

the good it could do.

- Attention, attention!

An unknown energy transmission

is being directed towards Monitor!

♪ ♪

- I have come for the Necklace of Oros.

- Buddy, you've got lousy manners.

You didn't even say "please."

[energy amplifies]

- Kids, stay back!

Ahh!

♪ ♪

- Fools!

- Father!

- The necklace!

- Which necklace?

[grunts]

- You're gonna have to get through us.

♪ ♪

- And me!

- I will have the necklace!

♪ ♪

- No! Don't hurt them!

[triumphant music]

- Wha--what happened?

- So, you have learned

to compress time with the necklace.

I shall be prepared next time!

Next time...

- Jedda, are you all right?

- Yes, Father!

- The alien has departed.

- I'm sure glad that's over with.

- For now...

but he will be back.