01x10 - The Hall of Wisdom

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- ♪ 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 ♪

[upbeat music]

- There it is-- the Hall of Wisdom!

- It's the biggest storehouse of knowledge in the universe.

- And it'll only be here for one day!

Then we'll have to wait

two thousand years for the next visit.

- All we have to do

for the next hours is keep Ming from breaking in

and stealing the quasar weapon.

- We've got our work cut out for us--heads up!

- Unfortunately, I don't have an illusion

to defeat Ming's battle fleet.

- Let them come!

I can't wait to blast Ming's robots

out of the sky!

[engines roaring]

- Brute strength may not be the answer, Lothar.

It may take animal cunning

to beat back Ming's force this time.

- Zuff and I can beat 'em!

Right, Zuff?

- [squeaks]

- Okay, troops. It's show time!

allGo, Defenders!

[lasers blasting]

[exciting music]

♪ ♪

- That's one for us, Kisa!

- Looked like a lucky shot to me!

But if you really want to see some fancy sh**ting,

watch this!

Two with one shot!

[laser blasts]

- Yeah! Way to go, Rick!

- Don't get too c*ck, hot shots!

Ming's just pulled more fighters out of his hat.

- [chuckles]

Mandrake, maybe you don't have a magic trick for us,

but obviously Ming does.

- Very funny, Lothar, very funny.

- All right...

This is it!

[engines roaring]

- They got Rick!

- Look out, LJ! Two Ming ships right below you!

[engine roars]

[lasers blasting]

- LJ, I'm going in!

- I'm with you all the way, old friend!

Lead on! [lasers blast]

- I'm going after the cargo ship!

- Jedda, I'll clear your path.

- Thanks, Father!

I've got a clear shot at it now!

- Hold on, Jedda, I'll lead you in.

- Zuff and I are gonna help, too!

- [squeaking]

- All right, just follow me.

If we can blow their main fuel rods we're home free!

allYay! Go, Defenders!

[mechanisms whirring]

[electrical field hums]

[expl*si*n]

- Flash, Kshin's been hit!

[electrical field hums]

- Now it's just you and me, Ming!

Oh, no, my lasers are dead!

There's only one way to stop Ming's robots

from reaching the Hall of Wisdom now!

- Yeah!

- Wow! - All right!

[tense music]

- Don't celebrate yet!

We lost all of our remote-controlled puppet ships
[ … ]

stopping Ming's first attack.

The next battle, no puppet ships.

It's us out there.

- The Defenders believe they have beaten our entire fleet.

With your new Molecular Disrupter Beam

we will surprise and destroy them, sire.

- Soon the Defenders of the Earth will be history

and I alone will have the secret of the quasar weapon

and all the knowledge from the Hall of Wisdom.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[engine roars]

- [grunting] I can't get these doors open.

Any suggestions?

- Why don't we just...knock?

- Check with Dynak.

See if she's broken the entry code.

- Good idea, Rick.

Lothar, do you copy? - Loud and clear!

- Any luck with the entry code?

- Sorry, Flash. Dynak's still trying.

- At least there's no sign of Ming yet.

- Keep us posted! Flash Gordon out!

- Lothar, why are those asteroids moving

in the opposite direction from everything else?

- What? Are you sure?

- I'm sure!

Zuff and I have been tracking 'em for the last hour.

- There's only one reason, Kshin.

It's a Ming trap!

[engine roars]

- Our presence has been detected, Garax!

Launch the attack, now!

- Yes, Excellency!

Destroy, destroy!

- It's a surprise attack!

[lasers blasting] - Quick, everybody take cover!

- My jets are not responding!

- Jedda! [engine roars]

- Rick, no!

[laser blasts]

Rick!

Rick!

I can't believe it! Rick is...

he's gone!

- I-I can't believe it! I'll never see Rick again!

[lasers blasting]

[explosions]

- These hand lasers are useless against Ming's ships!

- It's gonna take a miracle to get us out of this one!

Hey, what'd I say?

- It's a force field of some kind!

- What's happening?

- The Hall of Wisdom has opened to my enemies.

I must have the secrets of the Hall!

Octon, prepare the Imperial Star Cruiser!

I will enter the Hall of Wisdom myself.

[lasers blasting and explosions]

- The fuel cell's been hit! We're losing power!

- Let me concentrate my telepathic energy

to repair the damage.

[metal crunching]

There.

Try it now.

[engine roars]

- [chuckles] The power's back!

Mandrake, you're amazing.

- But of course!

- Now I'll show Ming's robots a thing or two!

[lasers blasting]

- Way to go, Lothar! - [squeaks]

- Yes, old friend, but what about Flash and the others?

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

- Flash, I don't understand. Where's it taking us?

- I don't know.

But the Hall can't keep us in this bubble forever.

- Oh, my goodness, goodness gracious me!

This will never do! Oh, my, no, no, no!

Never do at all!

- Who are you?

- I am Jarbon, caretaker of the Hall of Wisdom.

You are my guests. Oh, my, yes, that you are!

What have we here?

- Can you help him?

- Help him, help him? [groans]

Perhaps, yes, perhaps no! But we must hurry!

Come, come, come, come!

This way, this way.

- Can you bring my boy back to life?

- Can I? Oh, my, no.

I can't do anything of the kind.

Oh, no, no, no.

[panel beeping]

But in some cases,

the Life Extender here can repair damage

and start the system working again.

Oh, quite remarkable, actually.

Oh, ah, yes, yes indeed! [giggles]

Oh, I just hope we're in time! Yes, indeed!
[ … ]

Yes, yes, indeed!

- What can we do to help?

- Back, back, back, back! Everyone back!

It's time. Oh, yes it is!

This is it.

Oh, not to worry!

It always does this.

[electricity arcs]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- He's alive! Rick's alive!

- What...happened?

- Son, are you all right?

- Welcome back, buddy!

- Yes, indeed! Welcome back!

Oh, yes, welcome back!

- Jarbon, you saved my son's life!

How can I ever repay you?

- Repay? Oh, my, no.

I am not the one who must be repaid, not me!

Oh, no, no, no, no.

- Oh, but I must do something!

- Oh, but of course! Oh, my, yes!

The boy and the girl will remain here with me.

[energy sizzling]

Permanently...

as a living exhibit of Earth creatures.

That will be payment enough.

Oh, my, yes, yes, yes, yes!

- This had better work, my friend.

- I'm putting all our power reserves into the ship's laser.

Extend the laser booster!

- Laser booster extended.

- Switching all power to laser booster now!

- How much longer can we keep this up?

- Until all our power is drained...

or we melt the relay circuits!

[electricity crackling]

That's it. I'm afraid our power is gone.

- It looks like we have to face a greater problem--

Ming's forces are on their way!

- And we're completely dead in space.

- Excellency, the Defender ship appears to be helpless!

What are your orders?

- Prepare to activate

my new Molecular Disrupter Beam, Garax!

After it atomizes the Defenders' ship

I will use it to open the doors to the Hall of Wisdom!

- As you command, Excellency.

- Look, Jarbon,

I'm very grateful that you saved my son's life.

- You can't expect us to give up Jedda and Rick!

- But why not?

As you can see, we take very special care of our exhibits!

Oh, my, yes, yes, yes, we do!

- This is crazy!

We're not leaving Rick and Jedda here!

- Oh, dear, I'd hoped you'd be more civilized about this...

but it appears I shall have to use...

other methods.

[energy crackles]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- I give that a ten, if I do say so myself!

- By Jungle Law,

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

- Yay! - Go, Defenders!

- Oh, no, no, no. This will never do.

Oh, my, no, no, no, no. Never do at all!

Oh, I'm afraid the Keepers will be called.

I'm sure they will. Oh, my, yes!

- [growls]

♪ ♪

- Once the keepers are released

I'm afraid there is no stopping them.

No hope at all!

- [growling]

[dramatic music]

- [roaring]

♪ ♪

- [snarling]

♪ ♪

- Stop, please! We are friends!

You must not harm us. Go back, go back!

- It's a good thing your powers work on alien animals, too!

- How about it, Jarbon? Release Jedda and my son!

- Oh, dear, I keep trying to explain to you,

I am only the caretaker of the Hall of Wisdom.

I do not have the power to release them.

Oh, my, no!

- Who does? My patience grows thin!

- The Hall of Wisdom makes its own decisions.

Oh, yes, it does.

If you can convince the Hall that you are just and honorable

then perhaps it will release your friends.

Perhaps, perhaps.

- Our lasers are dead!

- It's impossible! The bar isn't even warm!

- The Hall of Wisdom now has the exhibit

it came to your galaxy for,
[ … ]

and what wonderful specimens!

Oh my, yes, yes, indeed!

And now we must prepare to leave!

So much work to do.

Goodbye, goodbye!

- Jarbon, you don't understand!

Ming the Merciless will stop at nothing

to obtain the quasar weapon which is stored in here.

- Listen to him, Jarbon! Flash is right!

- Ming will use the power of the quasar

to rule the whole universe!

- Telling stories about Ming the Merciless won't free you.

Oh, my, no, no, no, no, indeed!

- But it's true!

Ming is probably outside

the doors of the Hall of Wisdom right now!

[engine drones]

- Destroy the Defenders now.

[laser blasts]

The Molecular Disrupter worked perfectly!

[laughs]

The ship and everyone in it is destroyed!

Garax, prepare to remove the doors to the Hall of Wisdom.

- Boy, it's a good thing we got out of that ship when we did!

- Quite right, Kshin, or now we would be history.

So Ming has finally perfected his Molecular Disrupter Beam!

I doubt even the Hall of Wisdom can withstand that!

- Hold on, it looks like we're about to find out.

[lasers blasts]

- This will never do!

Never, never, never, never, never!

- Release us!

Ming must not be allowed to learn your secrets!

- Now if we only had weapons to fight with.

- [snarls]

- Wow!

- Look out!

[lasers blasting]

Fall back! Regroup!

[lasers blasting]

- Find the quasar weapon.

Destroy anything that stands in your way!

[lasers blasting]

[explosions]

- Father, what's going on? - Ming!

- Jarbon, you've got to let us out!

- I can't!

Only the Hall itself can release you now.

- We'll never get to Ming in time!

- I wish Dad and Mandrake were here!

[triumphant music]

- Look, it's Dad!

- Maybe this will slow you down, old "friend."

- You will pay for this...

Now!

[energy shield crackles]

Your tricks can't defeat my mechanical seekers, magician.

- Look out!

Watch it! - Look out!

- Help! - [squeals]

- Now to finish the Defenders once and for all.

Quickly, find the quasar weapon!

- Hey, nothing's working!

- I'm going to miss our little skirmishes, Flash Gordon.

You were a most amusing opponent.

- Don't get too c*ck, Ming.

You haven't beaten us yet.

- Only one thing in the universe

could save you now, Earthman.

The quasar weapon!

Magnificent. Give it to me!

I have waited a lifetime for this moment

and now it is mine!

- I'm afraid not, Ming!

- Seize him!

- Rick, catch!

- I can feel its power! - Give it to me!

- No, Ming!

The power is mine and mine alone!

Stand back!

- So you like the feeling of power,

don't you, young Earthling?

You deserve the power.

- Rick, no! You can't become like Ming.

- I said give it to me. Come, join me!

Together we can rule the universe!

- Ming, I will never be like you!

- Well said, young Earthling!

There is great hope for the future of your people!

Yes, yes, the Hall is pleased!

- No! You will not take this from me!

I am Ming the Merciless!

I will be Emperor of the Universe!

- The Hall of Wisdom cannot allow its information

to be used for evil purposes.

No, no, no!

It must be used only for good.

Hurry, hurry!

The Hall is returning you all to your homes where you belong.

- No one defeats Ming!
[ … ]

No one!

[tranquil music]

- We're home!

- Son, I'm proud of you!

- Thanks, Dad.

But what about the Hall of Wisdom?

There was so much we could have learned.

- First we must rid the universe

of evil forces like Ming,

and only then will mankind be ready

to share the Hall's wisdom,

when it returns again.