Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series)

Scorched Earth (1992)

LeVar Burton: Kwame, Opening Narrator

Quotes 

• 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"] 

  Wheeler : You sure about that?

• 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.

• 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?

• 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] 

  Zarm : 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] 

  Zarm : What do you say?

  Kwame : We say - Let our powers combine!

  [tosses the others their rings]