02x03 - Day of the Machines

[bunniefuu]

♪ He-Man

[Adam] And the Masters of the Universe.

I am Adam, prince of Eternia and

defender of Castle Grayskull.

This is Cringer, my fearless friend.

Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me

the day I held aloft my magic sword

and said, by the power of Greyskull.

♪ He-Man

I have the power.

[growling]

Cringer became a mighty battle cat.

And I became He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe.

Only three others share this secret.

Our friends, the Sorceress, Man-At-Arms, and Orko.

Together, we defend Castle Grayskull

from the evil forces of Skeletor.

[laughing]

♪ He-Man

[suspenseful music]

[upbeat music]

Wow, that remote control is great.

Can I try it?

Sure Orko, but be careful.

Wee ha!

Looks like a complete success.

I'd use the same idea to build a remote control computer.

It can guide real ships on hazardous

missions with no risk to human life.

Hey.

Orko, watch what you're doing.

It's not me.

Something's wrong with the controls.

Good grief, it hit the royal chamber.

If this had happened an hour later

the king and queen would have been in there.

I'm sorry Man-At-Arms.

It wasn't your fault, Orko, it was mine.

I've failed dozens of times on the remote control project.

Just when I thought I had the real

computer working this happens.

I've done my best but it's, it's not good enough.

It's time for me to quit.

No father, every new invention has its failures.

You mustn't let it get to you.

Teela, this was just a toy rocket.

Imagine what would have happened

if this had been a full sized ship.

I won't have a disaster like that on my conscience.

Oh no.

And you won't be able to live

with yourself if you quit now.

Don't give up, Duncan.

I know you can do it.

Thanks Adam, I'll give it one more try.

But if it doesn't work perfectly this time,

so help me I will resign from my job.

Poor Man-At-Arms, his remote control computer

has been giving him so many problems.

I think we should help him out, Trap Jaw.

Help him?

Why would you do that?

Why am I surrounded by fools?

Just watch me you pile of scrap iron.

Maybe you'll learn something.

[suspenseful music]

First, I need the most vicious and evil

beast in all my menagerie.

[growling]

The metabeast will do nicely.

[growling]

I still don't see how that creature is going to help us.

Just watch and keep your trap jaw shut.

[growling]

There, an exact duplicate of the metabeast

made out of pure electrical energy.

Fire your miniturization ray.

[buzzing]

This creature will go into Man-At-Arms's

remote control computer and take it over.

Every machine in the palace will do my bidding.

No one will know about it.

They'll blame it on the computer.

Man-At-Arms will be finished.

You'll bite your way right into that machine, won't you?

That's what I'll call you, Bite.

Everything seems to be in order.

There's no room for error.

This computer can control anything,

from this drill to the palace defense system.

Let's get a scout ship ready for a test flight.

I keep this spy beam permanently aimed

Since Bite is made of energy, he can ride

the beam straight into the lab.

Fly away little Bite.

I can't wait to see Man-At-Arms expression

when everyone of his precious machines goes wild.

[laughing]

[suspenseful music]

Keep going, Bite. You must move deeper into the computer

to its main control center.

There Bite, the main circuit.

The brain of the whole computer.

[growling]

Now connect yourself to those inputs

and you will be in control of the whole computer.

[beeping]

[growling]

Now that you control the computer

you can command any machine in the palace.

Prepare your defenses.

It's ready to go without a pilot.

Now let's see how well the remote

control computer can fly this ship.

What?

Look out!

I think it's alive.

Adam, what's wrong with that ship in there?

That is what we're going to find out.

By the power of Grayskull.

♪ He-Man

I have the power!

[growling]

[upbeat music]

[Teela] He-Man.

It looks like the remote control

computer has some problems, Man-At-Arms.

I'm afraid you're right.

We'd better get up there.

I didn't leave that door closed.

Looks like somebody doesn't want us to get in.

[expl*si*n]

I can't understand it.

That remote control suddenly has a mind of its own.

But that's impossible.

I knew I should have quit.

There must be some flaw in the computer that I overlooked.

This is all my fault.

Couldn't we just turn off the current?

Good grief, the central power supply.

I hope that computer hasn't gotten to it yet.

Man-At-Arms, wait.

He-Man, that computer couldn't do all this by itself.

This whole thing smells of Skeletor.

You could be right, but I can't leave here now.

-I can. -It's too dangerous.

If there's a chance that it's Skeletor's sabotage,

I owe it to my father to find out.

Otherwise, he'll blame himself for

this for the rest of his life.

How can you get there?

The computer's controlling all our vehicles.

But it doesn't control Battle Cat.

All right, for Man-At-Arms sake, but be careful.

Cat, take Teela to Snake Mountain.

What's the plan Man-At-Arms?

I use this chamber for testing new rays.

Its shielded wall should prevent

the computer's beam from interfering with this.

Orko, fire this at me.

Say what?

It's only a shrinking ray, it won't hurt me.

Just make me small enough to get inside that computer.

Now do it.

Okay, I hope it works.

Man-At-Arms, where are you?

Down here.

-Wow. -Now get me to that computer.

[suspenseful music]

Wait here Orko and be careful.

The computer's using machines to defend itself.

You be careful too.

I'm small enough to slip past them

and I'm going to shut that computer off myself.

Wait here, Cat.

[suspenseful music]

Now that I'm small, I've got to do my best

to get inside that computer and shut it off.

Got to hurry.

If anything happens to my friends,

I'll never forgive myself.

♪ He-Man

Got to stop you A-Track.

The sooner the better.

I can't control myself.

Thank you, He-Man.

Sorry old pal, we'll patch those wires up later.

Now to find Man-At-Arms.

If I remember, Skeletor's main

control center ought to be down there.

Incredible.

With that little electronic demon of yours

running Man-At-Arms computer, you'll control

the whole palace and just about every machine in it.

So that's it.

♪ He-Man

What is that?

[growling]

Oh no, the memory grid.

Those cubes hold bits of computer memory.

If I trip, they can hold me.

[growling]

Teela, what did you find out?

Skeletor's created some sort

of electronic demon called Bite.

It's running the computer.

Good work, only how do we get

inside the computer to fight it?

My father once said he was working

on some sort of shrinking ray.

Let's find him and ask him about it.

I've been looking for him and can't find him.

So there's only one hope now.

The Sorceress.

Battle Cat, to Grayskull.

So will you make me small enough

to fight this demon, Sorceress?

I will, but as you know, my powers

do not extend beyond the walls of Grayskull.

I will cast the spell here, then become Zoar the falcon

to carry you back to the palace.

Unseen powers of Grayskull hall,

change He-Man from large to small.

[cawing]

You're on your own now, He-Man.

If only I had a road map.

He-Man.

He-Man.

Man-At-Arms.

How on earth did you get here?

I was going to ask you the same thing.

Come on, we've got work to do.

♪ He-Man

That's the creature I somehow created.

Not you, Man-At-Arms, Skeletor.

What, how do you...

Teela went to Snake Mountain and found out.

Now let's get that creature's attention.

[growling]

He-Man, are you alright?

Let's just say I got a real charge out of that guy.

Let's follow him.

How? He's pure energy traveling at the speed of light.

Wait, look where we are.

This is the computer's energy filter.

All the electricity coming into

the computer goes through here.

That creature is made of energy, positive energy.

[He-Man] So?

Have you ever heard the phrase, "opposites attract each other"?

If we could generate a negative energy charge...

It would be drawn straight toward him.

Like a magnet. How do we do it?

By aiming those electrobes together.

It should reverse the polarity and make a negative charge.

♪ He-Man

♪ He-Man

This should take us straight to him.

Where would he go? Anywhere there's power.

[upbeat music]

♪ He-Man

[growling]

He won't bother us anymore.

Let's get out of here.

We could use my miniaturization ray

to get back to our normal sizes.

Why not send him back to where he came from?

Let him play around in Skeletor's computers.

[buzzing]

[Skeletor] Get out of there!

Stop that! Stop that this instant!

Leave that alone!

Stop, stop, not the computer screen.

No, not that!

[explosions]

I don't think Skeletor will go fooling around

with anymore electronic demons

once he's had a taste of his own medicine.

You weren't to blame for any of this, Duncan.

Skeletor must have known you were upset over

those failures and he took advantage of it.

I should never have let myself get so discouraged.

I'm grateful to you both for the risks you took for me.

I tried to make this computer perfect, but...

Don't worry, father.

You did your best and you never do anything less.

-As He-Man always says, -BOTH:

you're never a failure.

Right?

Right.

In today's story, my father accepted

responsibility for something which wasn't his fault.

And he didn't stand around trying to blame someone else.

Instead, he did something about making things right.

And he succeeded with a little help from He-Man.

Now we all make mistakes.

And when we do we shouldn't be afraid to admit them.

And when they are our fault, well, don't waste

precious time putting the blame elsewhere.

Just do what you can to make things right.

See y'all soon.

[upbeat music]