01x65 - Ming's Thunder Lizards

[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 ♪

[peaceful music]

♪ ♪

- It sure is a great day to be fishing, isn't it, Dave?

- Sure is.

- I can see that salmon steaming on my plate

right now, can't you?

- Sure can.

- What a day!

Can you think of anything else

you'd rather be doing than fishing?

- Sure can't.

- Look at that ripple over there.

I bet it's gonna be a monster of a catch!

[roars]

[growling]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

[wood splintering]

both: [screaming]

[growls]

- That was a dinosaur, wasn't it?

- Sure was. Tyrannosaurus Rex.

♪ ♪

[growls]

[wood splinters]

[roars]

[wood splintering]

[growling]

[roars]

- Emily? This is Mike!

Maybe you better let me talk to the sheriff, and quick!

[panic and screaming]

[roars]

[glass shattering and wood splintering]

[panic and screaming]

[roars]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- A dinosaur alert?

This is the craziest call we've ever received!

- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years!

- Those long Alaskan nights

might make it easy for a person to imagine almost anything...

even a dinosaur.

- Let's assume we really do come face-to-face

with a big lizard--

how are we going to handle it?

- [chuckles]

I still think you guys are spinning your wheels.

We've got an estimated time of arrival on Flaherty Bay

of seconds, and then you're all going to feel like--

♪ ♪

like...like...

- You were saying, old man?

- Excellency!

The work is proceeding according to your plan.

- Octon's sensors have reported

a drop in the heat level, Garax.

- That problem is being attended to

at this moment, Emperor Ming.

[suspenseful music]

The drill has cleared below the earth's crust

and is returning.

♪ ♪

- Satisfactory.

♪ ♪

- We have a problem, Emperor.

- What is it, Garax?

- One of the dinosaurs seems to have escaped.

- What? How could that be?

- I do not know, Emperor.

- Find it!

Recapture it, Garax,

or I will see that you pay... personally!
[ … ]

[wind howls]

[rotors whirring]

- Man, look at the size of those footprints!

- Dynak, we've got no problems

backtracking that dinosaur so far.

Give me a map of Alaska--

with a projection of the Tyrannosaurus' route.

- The creature's tracks lead toward...an extinct volcano

where satellites have picked up heat waves

from this same uninhabited area.

- Could the volcano be reactivating?

- Highly improbable.

- Whatever it is, we'll soon find out!

- We'll just follow these tracks back to the volcano

and solve both problems!

[wind howling]

- Mayday, mayday! We're going down!

[wind howling]

- Come, Rick! Pull her up, pull her up!

- I'm trying, I'm trying!

Cancel that mayday.

- Whoa, that wind came out of nowhere!

- That wind is called a williwaw.

- Thanks for putting a name to it.

Whatever you call it, it sure gave me the willies!

- Attention, Rick.

Further aerial investigation will be impossible.

A major weather front moving in!

- I could have used that info about seconds ago!

Returning to Flaherty Bay... I hope.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- When we return home,

remind me to change our travel agent.

- [groans] I hear you, old buddy!

Now...all we have to do is ski down this hill,

across that valley,

climb that monster ridge over there,

and we've got it made!

- [chuckles] You make it sound so easy!

- [chuckles]

What's a few broken legs between friends?

- If that cornice comes down,

we'll be right in the path of one giant avalanche!

- You're right, Lothar, but it's too late to turn back!

The slightest sound could trigger an avalanche--

so no noise, guys.

Let's move out!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[snow rumbles]

♪ ♪

- Avalanche!

[avalanche rumbling]

- Nice hotdogging, buddy!

Airborne!

[avalanche rumbling]

- One thing about being a Defender--it's never dull!

- Why would anyone dome over an extinct volcano?

- Good question, Father.

- Looks like a super stadium.

[distant roar]

- What was that? - I don't want to know!

[laser blasts]

[dramatic music]

- Using the heat from the Earth's molten core

to thaw out those long-frozen reptiles

was genius--total genius!

- One of your most brilliant plans, sire!

- [chuckles]

Within a few hours I shall launch my invasion--

of prehistoric dinosaurs!

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[frogs croaking]

- Whoever built this setup's pretty serious

about his hothouses.

[wings flapping]

[screeches]

[screeches]

[screeches]

- [struggles]

[screeches]

[grunts]

I prefer seeing pteranodons in science books.

- LJ, watch it! Here it comes again!

[screeches]

- Nice work, Mandrake!

- Shall we?

[mechanical whirring]

- Ming and Garax!

- Who else would be raising dinosaurs?

- The question is, why?

- Let's check it out!

[birds calling and insects buzzing]

- This place gives me the creeps.

- [growls]

- What in the world are those?

- Antrodemi, sometimes known as Allosauri.

Interesting creatures.

Paleontologists theorize they hunted in packs.
[ … ]

- Well, I don't intend to end my days

as an hors d'oeuvre for a lizard!

[thundering footsteps]

- Wait, Flash!

Let me try a mind link.

[roaring]

Creatures, hear me!

We come as friends. We mean you no harm!

- It worked this time, Jedda,

but I don't think it'll work again.

[footsteps echoing]

- Flash was right-- run for it!

- [roars]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[roars]

[thundering footsteps]

[roaring]

- In the cave!

[thundering footsteps]

[roars]

- Jedda, you want to give your mind link another try?

- I've been trying but the creature's not responding!

- What are we gonna do?

- Wait--maybe he'll get tired.

Well, so much for that theory.

[snarls]

[thundering footsteps]

[snarls]

[raspy growl]

- Why are they fighting? - For their dinner.

- What dinner? - Us.

[roaring]

[roars]

- Keep your eyes open.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[deep growl]

[munching]

♪ ♪

Rick--you, Jedda, and LJ check out that building

on the other side of the lake.

- Right, Dad!

♪ ♪

[thundering footsteps]

- Well, well, what have we here?

It appears to be a dinosaur factory.

- And look who's running it.

- Let's see if I can pick up their voices.

- Octon, you displease me! - That's our boy.

- Emperor, there is but one more dinosaur to be thawed out!

- Excellent.

- Bring on the last creature.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Hmm, what a treasure trove!

, beasts, cased in ice,

waiting for me all these millions of years!

I am ordering the attack to begin immediately!

- Send my dinosaurs out to destroy the cities of Earth!

- There is no way of stopping Ming now!

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Red alert, red alert!

- This time I shall brook no interference with my plans!

Eliminate them!

- Come down, Defenders!

- Your wish is my command!

♪ ♪

- Unleash the dinosaurs!

Track them down, they must be found!

[thundering footsteps]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- So that's how Ming

turned this place into a giant hothouse.

- I don't get it.

- Ming drilled down through the Earth's crust,

miles or so, and tapped molten lava.

He's changed the climate from subarctic to tropical.

- Neat trick.

- You will not move. You will stand perfectly still.

You will turn around and face me.

- Don't look at him.

He'll turn us into frost people.

How about that one, sports fans?

- I give it an .. Your recovery was uneven.

- Come on, I've got an idea! Let's find that drill.

- I don't mind getting wrinkled,

but this is ridiculous.

- They will never escape me now!

- I think we're trapped! - Not as long as we can swim.

[snarls]

- Swimming would appear to be out of the question.

- How are we going to get across?

[lasers blasting]

- One log, coming up!

- I don't think this log is a log!

- What is it, then?

- The great grandfather of all crocodiles!
[ … ]

[crocodile growls]

- Nice crocodile!

[peaceful music]

- After them! - [hisses]

- Into the lake!

[crocodile growls]

- I think it's waking up!

- That's the end of the line.

- Let's find out how the kids are.

Rick, come in!

- Dad, you're loud and clear.

- Listen--

you guys are going to have to destroy that drilling station.

- You got it, Dad.

[ominous humming]

But we're gonna need a little time.

- We don't have much time!

Ming's breathing down our necks!

[takes deep breath] We'll do our best, Son.

- How're we doing? - We're getting there.

LJ's figured out how to run that drill.

Now he has to position it over the shaft.

- Then we'll drill straight down at full speed

and have ourselves the world's first custom volcano!

[energetic rock music]

♪ ♪

[lasers blasting]

- By Jungle Law...

The Ghost Who Walks calls forth the power of ten tigers!

♪ ♪

[deep growling]

[grunts]

- Okay, here goes!

- Move it! Let's move it!

[roaring]

♪ ♪

[snarling]

[roars]

- The Earth is cracking!

The volcano is going to explode!

[serpent hisses]

Retreat, retreat!

[serpent hisses]

- I think our compatriots blew the drilling station.

[volcano rumbling]

♪ ♪

- [panting]

Just a little bit farther!

♪ ♪

- How much time do we have?

- Zero!

[energetic rock music]

♪ ♪

[earth rumbling]

[pteranodon screeches]

[roars]

[expl*si*n]

- Poor Ming.

- Well, what is this note of sympathy for Ming?

- Now he'll never be able to learn

which lizard he has descended from.