- 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?
- Captain Planet: Now, folks, any vacuum can clean up dirt, but can your machine do this?
- [sucks oil with a pipe]
- Zarm: [Baz fires a flare into the oil-well] Well done, General Baz, just the way I like my sea-scapes - very well-done.
- [laughs]
- Baz: I demand to know, who is the ringleader of this protest?
- Gi: *We* demand to know how you can commit this crime against the Earth!
- Wheeler: You tell 'im, Gi!
- Baz: Commander Morgar was right! He warned me outsiders were undermining the...
- Beta: The environmental movement is totally homegrown, Baz. And *I* am its leader.
- Baz: Beta! Be quiet and leave Pasiva now. Morgar will not stop until someone turns you in.
- Beta: I will not abandon my work.
- Baz: A rebellious fool, just like your father!
- [leaves]
- Ma-Ti: I am surprised he did not arrest you.
- Beta: I am his sister.
- Beta: Pasiva Forest - the last area of cedar in this part of the world. My job as forestry-expert is to watch over it like my father before me.
- Gi: I can't understand how anyone who grew up in such natural beauty could do what your brother did.
- Beta: In a way, this part *is* the reason. It happened thirty years ago. The forest was much bigger then. One day, the government ordered that half of it be flooded to build an unneeded dam. When reasoning did not work, Father did the only thing he could: he was ready to go to prison for his beliefs! But Baz was too young to understand.
- Baz: [in a flashback] You risk your life for a bunch of cedar trees, but what about us? We need you, too!
- Beta: [voiceover] Baz did not understand that our father was doing this for us, and our country.
- Baz: [after being shoved away from their chained father by soldiers and watching him taken off in a van, to Beta] I hate Pasiva Forest! And I hate you!
- Beta: That was the last time I saw my father, or Baz. They built the dam anyway! Years later, I heard my brother had joined the army. Now Morgar has made him a general.
- Gi: And turned him against nature - against everything his father stood for. How sad.
- 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.
- Zarm: [his followern chain the Planeteers in a flooding cell, except Gi who is in a cell above them] Look how they do my bidding, eh? They follow me because, deep down, humans *love* destruction.
- Gi: You're wrong!
- Ma-Ti: Well, if I am, you tell me where that ring is. Otherwise, you can watch the demise of your friends.
- Ma-Ti: Do not tell him, Gi!
- Zarm: How ironic that the first to slip under the water will be little Ma-Ti.
- 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?
- Baz: [stares baffled] What has happened to these trees?
- Beta: [approaches him coughing] Black rain, Baz. And it will kill *all* of us, if the oil-fires are not put out.
- Baz: Beta! I had no idea!
- [notices the rain starting to fall as something else]
- Baz: Snow? But we are in the tropics!
- Beta: The smoke-clooud is changing our weather, Baz.
- Baz: No! I've been a fool. No traitor could harm our country more than our leader has!
- [sags against a tree]
- Beta: Oh, Baz!
- [puts her arm around him, they look up and gasp hearing soldiers approach]
- Soldier: Commander Morgar wants to see you, General. NOW!
- [points to Beta]
- Soldier: And you, too.
- Baz: Forgive me, Beta, for coming to my senses too late.
- 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]
- Captain Planet: [sees the snowfall the smoke-cloud caused] I'm no fan of global warming, but this big chill is ridiculous!
- First soldier: [seeing Captain Planet hefting the roof] First the weather goes crazy, and now this?
- Second soldier: Let me out of here!
- Morgar: The army! They've deserted us! What do we do?
- Zarm: You can go to jail for your crimes, or you can seal yourself in your fully-stocked bomb-shelter and live out the rest of your miserable life.
- Morgar: [triggers a hidden button in the wall, boards the elevator] Aren't you coming?
- Zarm: Sorry, Captain Morgar. I'm done with your damage.
- [last lines]
- Zarm: Resign? Over a few toxic spills? Let me guide you. Together, we'll run this nation with an iron fist.
- Dictator: But what if there is opposition? I am not popular in the countryside.
- [gasps as Zarm enters his body]
- Zarm: Then I have a little strategy. I call it Scorched Earth.
- [laughs, then gasps as a light appears]
- Zarm: Gaia!
- Gaia: Don't get too comfortable, Zarm. Wherever your destructive ideas emerge, the Planeteers will be there to stop them.
- Gaia: [Planeteer Alert] Today, our world's economy depends on increasingly scarce resources such as oil and other fossil fuel. Wars may even be fought over who controls them.
- Linka: It is important that we develop alternatives like clean solar power and other new technologies.
- Wheeler: But until these alternatives are available, we need to conserve the resources we have.
- Ma-Ti: And whenever possible, ride your bike.
- Gi: Or walk. It's healthy.
- Captain Planet: The power is yours!