Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–1996): Season 1, Episode 24 - Two Futures: Part 1 - full transcript
Hoggish Greedly prepares to enter Dr. Blight's time pool to travel back to the 1950s where he can profit through development as much as he pleases without having to worry about environmental policies. The Planeteers track down their cave in Greenland, and though Captain Planet slows down Greedly and Rigger, Wheeler's pursuit of them near the pool separates him from the others when a sound-wave machine causes an ice-fall. Cap is weakened by radiation and must depart, and the others can't see an easy way to get through the blockade. Bitter about being trapped in a carbon-dioxide-filled chamber with Dr. Blight when he could be celebrating a New Year's Eve party, Wheeler admits that this is one of those times he regrets becoming a Planeteer. Blight offers to let him stop their imprisonment by having him go back in time and undo that. Wheeler gives the date and location, but is reluctant to actually go until Blight pushes him through the pool. Going 360 days back in time to New York, Wheeler catches the Fire ring meant for himself and warns him to refuse it since it's fatal. His past self agrees and flees, but then Wheeler is confronted by Gaia, who tells him that he changed history in more ways than he thought. Greedly was never stopped from going back in time himself, so global warming is now much worse thanks to his decades' worth of polluting. The Planeteers never formed without their fifth member, and Captain Planet could not be summoned without the Ring of Fire. Wheeler doubts this can be true, since others might have been chosen in his place. Gaia takes him forward 35 years through MAL's time-pool system, where he finds New York flooded from global warming...
Our world is in peril.
Gaia, the spirit of the Earth,
can no longer stand
the terrible destruction
plaguing our planet.
She sends five magic rings
to five special young people --
Kwame from Africa,
with the power of Earth.
[ Sirens wailing ]
From North America -- Wheeler,
with the power of fire.
**
From the Soviet Union -- Linka,
with the power of wind.
From Asia -- Gi,
with the power of water.
**
And from South America --
Ma-Ti, with the power of heart.
When the five powers combine,
they summon
Earth's greatest champion --
Captain Planet!
All: Go, Planet!
Captain Planet:
The power is yours!
[ Wind howling ]
Greedly: Behold the future site
of Greedly's Greenland Estates,
the world's most expensive
beach resort.
[ Laughs, snorts ]
Rigger:
Beach resort?
The place is covered with ice,
Mr. Greedly!
I can make a silk purse
out of this sow's ear.
We'll warm up the Earth
till this place
is as hot as the tropics!
Oh, I get it.
After the ice melts,
you can sell your land
for a fortune, boss.
Yep, yep!
But what about
the Planeteer punks?
Yes, nowadays,
they have everyone
squealing
about the environment.
But what if we could
go back in time,
before there were
Planeteers?
You mean
you can time-travel?
Well, I can't hog
all the credit,
but my piggy bank
financed Dr. Blight's
newest invention.
I call it
the Somewhere-In-Time Pool.
[ Beeping ]
MAL:
Oh, don't let us get poetic.
It's just a time machine.
Why, MAL, darling,
you're jealous
just because you didn't invent
a doorway
to the past
and future.
If I did,
it would reach further
than a measly 50 years.
Just send us
back to the 1950s --
no pollution laws,
no Planeteers,
and no Captain Planet!
We'll burn all the coal and oil
we can find!
Permit me to show you
what will happen
if you go and do that.
Your burning will release
tons of carbon dioxide
into the air.
The sunlight that would
normally bounce back into space
as heat will be trapped
by the increased
carbon dioxide.
It's like rolling up
the windows on a car
parked in the sun.
Or like a greenhouse.
We know that, MAL.
That's why it's called
the greenhouse effect.
After a few years,
this global warming
will melt the polar ice,
raising the sea level
all over the world,
changing weather,
making storms worse.
In short,
by changing the past,
you will wreck
the future.
So?
Wrecking the future
is what I do best.
And I'll make a fortune!
MAL, please stop
wasting time.
Warm up our nuclear power source
for the time pool.
Well,
you did say please.
[ Machinery powers up ]
Starting tachyon flow.
[ Machinery whirring ]
[ Beeping ]
[ Pool hums ]
[ Beeping ]
[ Humming continues ]
You will make history, Greedly,
as the first time traveler!
[ Beeping ]
Make history, nothing.
I'm going to
rewrite history!
And there won't be
any Planeteers in it!
[ Laughs ]
[ Radio plays ]
Wheeler:
I'm going to show you guys
a real New-York-Style
New Year's bash!
As long as we avoid
those Times Square crowds.
Wheeler, maybe you should
give up this party idea.
Da. It is not
very practical.
I would rather be out
stopping polluters.
Come on, guys!
We deserve a holiday.
Planeteers,
to the Crystal Chamber.
Huh?
I hate to be a party pooper,
but we have
an eco-emergency.
Oh, no!
Not on New Year's Eve!
Gaia: Dr. Blight has created
her most dangerous invention
in an underground lab
in Greenland.
Dr. Blight again?
Even mad scientists
call her crazy!
What is she up to now?
She's going to send
Hoggish Greedly back in time
to speed up
global warming.
Chort vozmi!
Earth is already
warming up too fast!
That's why
you must stop them.
But we'll miss my party.
Why us? Why not send in
the Army or something?
This is a job
for Planeteers.
We will do it, Gaia!
Hurry, Wheeler.
Hey!
Scratch
one New Year's party.
We'll never be back
by midnight.
If Greedly
changes history,
it will not be
a happy New Year!
**
This has to be
the place.
Well, unless we want to
get out the shovels and dig,
I'd better use fire!
We don't want to
swim, either.
Water!
Come on!
Whoa!
Ma-Ti!
Aah!
Aah!
Whoa! Help!
Aah!
[ All screaming ]
[ Screaming continues ]
Wow! When this is all over,
I want to do that again!
Look! That must be
the laboratory.
But there is no door!
I will make one!
Earth!
[ Beeping ]
MAL: All right.
We're ready.
[ All gasp ]
[ Rumbling ]
Gee, this time pool
can sure make waves,
don't you think, boss?
Don't ya?
That's not the time pool.
That's...
The Planeteers?
We knocked,
but no one answered.
[ Ray gun powers up ]
Here's your answer,
my little eco-darlings!
I call it
my sonic boom box!
[ Laughs ]
Ahh.
[ Warbling ]
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Her weapon uses
sound waves!
That is what I call
noise pollution!
It may be noise pollution
to you, planet brats,
but it's music to my ears!
Ow!
Aah!
Look out!
[ Warbling continues ]
It's shaking the ice
loose!
Time for teamwork!
Let our powers combine!
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
By your powers combined,
I am Captain Planet!
Planeteers: Go, Planet!
Hey, doc,
Looks like your music
is really bringing down
the house.
This little piggy's
going home!
Wait! Are y-you sure
this thing's safe?
A-Are you?
Not really.
That's why
you're going first!
I don't want to be
no guinea pig
while you get to be
a chicken.
What did you mean
by that?
[ Gulps ]
N-N-Nothing personal,
b-boss.
I'll keep them busy!
Hurry up and jump!
Do you take requests?
[ Gasps ]
How about the sounds
of silence?
[ Warbling stops ]
[ All gasp ]
Captain Planet,
look out!
The whole ceiling
is giving way!
Dr. Blight's evil plan isn't
all it's cracked up to be.
What are Rigger
and Greedly up to?
Who cares
if you belly flop?
Dive!
Whoa!
Stop!
[ All grunt ]
I'm out of here!
Yep! Yep!
Come back here,
you traitor!
**
Wheeler!
It's a cave-in!
[ Gasps ]
Out of my way, Rigger!
I'm splitting!
I think I can
pick up this split.
Yes! A spare!
All right!
Please spare us!
Oh, my aching bacon!
[ Gasps ]
**
[ Beeping ]
**
Captain Planet,
we're trapped in here!
Yes, please get us out,
Captain Planet!
I promise I'll be good
from now on.
I'll tell any lie I can think of
to get out of here.
We have got to
rescue Wheeler!
I can dig it!
Ugh!
[ Grunts ]
Aah!
Just like a superhero.
When you really need him,
he flakes out on you.
Your time machine's
nuclear power source
contaminated the ice!
[ Sizzling ]
Captain Planet,
are you all right?
Stay back, Ma-Ti.
There's radioactivity here.
It's weakening...
my powers.
[ Sizzling ]
You mean you cannot
rescue Wheeler?
But he will run out of air
in there!
Ugh!
Oh!
Ugh!
[ Beeping ]
[ Straining ]
That nuclear radiation
is draining my powers.
We cannot just leave Wheeler
in there to die!
With friends like you,
he still has a fighting chance.
For now...
the power is yours.
Ha! [ Snorts ]
You may have stopped us
from time-traveling,
but you'll never
save your pal's hide.
Let me try.
Earth!
[ Rumbling ]
No! It will cause a cave-in
and crush them!
Wheeler!
[ Beeping ]
It's been
over an hour.
Looks like your hero
has abandoned you.
[ Yawns ]
It was your radioactivity
that took away Cap's powers.
[ Yawns ]
This is the most boring
New Year's Eve I've ever spent.
Boredom's not
making you yawn.
It's carbon dioxide.
What? You mean we're
running out of oxygen?
Not we, human. You.
I never use the stuff.
Then this is it.
Game over.
[ Yawns ]
Stop yapping.
All your heavy breathing
is using up our oxygen faster.
It's not fair!
This is what I get
for trying to save the world?
I could have been
having fun tonight.
Sometimes I wish I'd never
gotten this stupid ring.
Do you really mean that?
Because I can arrange it.
Arrange what?
I can send you back in time
to the moment
when you got that ring
from Gaia.
When was that, anyway?
Uh...last January.
The 5th.
You heard that, MAL.
Start up the time pool.
Wheeler's going back in time...
to January 5th.
And where were you
that day?
Brooklyn, New York,
but I really don't want to
go back in time.
[ Time pool whirring ]
Aren't you tired
of being a Planeteer,
of always recycling,
carpooling, saving energy?
It's what
everybody should do.
Forget "should."
Isn't it time you did
what you want to do.
But changing history,
I don't know.
There are billions of other
people who can fight pollution.
You've got your own life
to worry about.
I don't trust you,
Blight.
Then think about this --
Our only way out
of this cave-in
is to change history
so it didn't happen.
I guess
that makes sense.
So, go!
Aaaah!
So long, sucker.
Aaaah!
Ugh!
Hey, where am I?
And when am I?
Ha ha ha!
[ Gasps ]
[ Laughs ]
Wait a minute.
I remember this.
I made it.
I've gone back in time.
[ Siren wailing ]
[ Laughs ]
Huh?
Wha?
Yah!
Yeow! Ow!
Wha?
That's me
before I became a Planeteer.
**
No!
Hey, what's the big --
Whoa! You look
just like me.
Who are you?
I am you,
not too long from now.
What are you
talking about?
I came back in time
to warn you.
Don't accept this ring.
This ring
is going to kill us!
Leave it alone.
Time-travel, huh?
Why should I
believe all this?
I'm here, aren't I?
Yeah, I guess so.
Right. Now,
get out of here. Go!
Gee, that was easy.
[ Thunder crashes ]
[ Wind howling ]
Aah!
Oh! Hey!
[ Electricity crackling ]
[ Wind howls ]
My Planeteer insignia,
it's gone! I did it!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Gaia, what's the deal?
You scared the freckles
off of me.
Wheeler,
what have you done?
I stopped being
a Planeteer
so I wouldn't die
in an ice cave.
That's all.
No, that's not all.
You've changed history.
Look!
Yeah. It's hot.
And it was cold
a minute ago.
Wait a second. How could I
change the weather?
All I did was quit
the Planeteers.
Yes, you quit,
so you weren't there to keep
Greedly out of the time pool.
He and Rigger went back in time
to the 1950s,
back before there were
any pollution laws.
Greedly built huge factories
to burn fuels wastefully.
Rigger: Going back to the '50s
was a stroke of genius, boss.
No one worries
about ecology back here.
Yeah, we can burn fossil fuels
like there's no tomorrow.
And at this rate,
there won't be a tomorrow.
[ Laughs, snorts ]
Yeah, boss. Ha ha!
I don't get it.
Gaia: They released
so much carbon dioxide
that now the Earth
is much hotter.
Why didn't Captain Planet
stop them?
Captain Planet
does not exist.
You changed history.
You never joined
the Planeteers,
so there are
no Planeteers.
They each went
their own separate way.
Oh, come on, Gaia.
You could have found
someone else to be a Planeteer
instead of me.
No. Each individual has
a unique role to play.
You were supposed to set
an example for countless others.
[ Scoffs ]
I don't buy it.
Other people will
take up the slack.
If we were on Hope Island,
I could show on the PlanetVision
how wrong you are.
But if you believe your actions
don't have an affect,
why don't you step into
the 21st century
and see what the world
will be like.
All right, I will.
I hate to use
a dangerous device
like the time pool.
But you leave me
no choice.
MAL, send Wheeler
into the future.
Oh, really?
And what if I refuse?
You're right near
the North Pole.
What if the Earth's
magnetic field
suddenly gets
a lot more powerful?
[ Electricity crackling ]
Wait! Ouch!
Stop! Don't!
The magnetism
will erase my data.
Ow!
[ Clicks tongue ]
All right, I'll do it.
No need
to get geophysical.
Send Wheeler to
this same neighborhood
35 years from now.
But he can only stay
for one hour.
Then he must return
to real time.
Man, I'll see all the progress,
the new inventions.
This is excellent!
We'll see if you like
what you find.
Future, here I come.
Yee-haw!
Whoa!
Hey, what is this?
This can't be
my neighborhood.
Then again,
it does look familiar.
Aah!
[ Gasping ]
If I don't find some land,
I'm going to drown.
Uh-oh!
Aah!
Ugh!
That was close.
I almost didn't make it.
Now where am I?
Oh, no!
I'm on
the Statue of Liberty.
It can't be.
New York City is underwater?
What happened to my home?
What happened to the world?
Gaia, where are you?!
Planeteers: Go, Planet!
**
The future of Earth
rests in all our hands.
Please,
don't waste water.
[ Radio plays ]
Please,
do not waste energy.
[ All coughing ]
please, don't waste
your minds and bodies.
Please,
don't waste our future.
The power is yours!
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
All: Go, Planet!
By your powers combined,
I am Captain Planet!
* Captain Planet
* He's our hero
* Gonna take pollution
down to zero *
* He's our powers magnified
* And he's fighting
on the planet's side *
* Captain Planet
* He's our hero
* Gonna take pollution
down to zero *
* Gonna help him put asunder
* Bad guys who like
to loot and plunder *
You'll pay for this,
Captain Planet!
* We're the Planeteers,
you can be one, too *
* 'Cause saving our planet
is the thing to do *
* Looting and polluting
is not the way *
* Hear what Captain Planet
has to say *
The power is yours!
**
Gaia, the spirit of the Earth,
can no longer stand
the terrible destruction
plaguing our planet.
She sends five magic rings
to five special young people --
Kwame from Africa,
with the power of Earth.
[ Sirens wailing ]
From North America -- Wheeler,
with the power of fire.
**
From the Soviet Union -- Linka,
with the power of wind.
From Asia -- Gi,
with the power of water.
**
And from South America --
Ma-Ti, with the power of heart.
When the five powers combine,
they summon
Earth's greatest champion --
Captain Planet!
All: Go, Planet!
Captain Planet:
The power is yours!
[ Wind howling ]
Greedly: Behold the future site
of Greedly's Greenland Estates,
the world's most expensive
beach resort.
[ Laughs, snorts ]
Rigger:
Beach resort?
The place is covered with ice,
Mr. Greedly!
I can make a silk purse
out of this sow's ear.
We'll warm up the Earth
till this place
is as hot as the tropics!
Oh, I get it.
After the ice melts,
you can sell your land
for a fortune, boss.
Yep, yep!
But what about
the Planeteer punks?
Yes, nowadays,
they have everyone
squealing
about the environment.
But what if we could
go back in time,
before there were
Planeteers?
You mean
you can time-travel?
Well, I can't hog
all the credit,
but my piggy bank
financed Dr. Blight's
newest invention.
I call it
the Somewhere-In-Time Pool.
[ Beeping ]
MAL:
Oh, don't let us get poetic.
It's just a time machine.
Why, MAL, darling,
you're jealous
just because you didn't invent
a doorway
to the past
and future.
If I did,
it would reach further
than a measly 50 years.
Just send us
back to the 1950s --
no pollution laws,
no Planeteers,
and no Captain Planet!
We'll burn all the coal and oil
we can find!
Permit me to show you
what will happen
if you go and do that.
Your burning will release
tons of carbon dioxide
into the air.
The sunlight that would
normally bounce back into space
as heat will be trapped
by the increased
carbon dioxide.
It's like rolling up
the windows on a car
parked in the sun.
Or like a greenhouse.
We know that, MAL.
That's why it's called
the greenhouse effect.
After a few years,
this global warming
will melt the polar ice,
raising the sea level
all over the world,
changing weather,
making storms worse.
In short,
by changing the past,
you will wreck
the future.
So?
Wrecking the future
is what I do best.
And I'll make a fortune!
MAL, please stop
wasting time.
Warm up our nuclear power source
for the time pool.
Well,
you did say please.
[ Machinery powers up ]
Starting tachyon flow.
[ Machinery whirring ]
[ Beeping ]
[ Pool hums ]
[ Beeping ]
[ Humming continues ]
You will make history, Greedly,
as the first time traveler!
[ Beeping ]
Make history, nothing.
I'm going to
rewrite history!
And there won't be
any Planeteers in it!
[ Laughs ]
[ Radio plays ]
Wheeler:
I'm going to show you guys
a real New-York-Style
New Year's bash!
As long as we avoid
those Times Square crowds.
Wheeler, maybe you should
give up this party idea.
Da. It is not
very practical.
I would rather be out
stopping polluters.
Come on, guys!
We deserve a holiday.
Planeteers,
to the Crystal Chamber.
Huh?
I hate to be a party pooper,
but we have
an eco-emergency.
Oh, no!
Not on New Year's Eve!
Gaia: Dr. Blight has created
her most dangerous invention
in an underground lab
in Greenland.
Dr. Blight again?
Even mad scientists
call her crazy!
What is she up to now?
She's going to send
Hoggish Greedly back in time
to speed up
global warming.
Chort vozmi!
Earth is already
warming up too fast!
That's why
you must stop them.
But we'll miss my party.
Why us? Why not send in
the Army or something?
This is a job
for Planeteers.
We will do it, Gaia!
Hurry, Wheeler.
Hey!
Scratch
one New Year's party.
We'll never be back
by midnight.
If Greedly
changes history,
it will not be
a happy New Year!
**
This has to be
the place.
Well, unless we want to
get out the shovels and dig,
I'd better use fire!
We don't want to
swim, either.
Water!
Come on!
Whoa!
Ma-Ti!
Aah!
Aah!
Whoa! Help!
Aah!
[ All screaming ]
[ Screaming continues ]
Wow! When this is all over,
I want to do that again!
Look! That must be
the laboratory.
But there is no door!
I will make one!
Earth!
[ Beeping ]
MAL: All right.
We're ready.
[ All gasp ]
[ Rumbling ]
Gee, this time pool
can sure make waves,
don't you think, boss?
Don't ya?
That's not the time pool.
That's...
The Planeteers?
We knocked,
but no one answered.
[ Ray gun powers up ]
Here's your answer,
my little eco-darlings!
I call it
my sonic boom box!
[ Laughs ]
Ahh.
[ Warbling ]
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Her weapon uses
sound waves!
That is what I call
noise pollution!
It may be noise pollution
to you, planet brats,
but it's music to my ears!
Ow!
Aah!
Look out!
[ Warbling continues ]
It's shaking the ice
loose!
Time for teamwork!
Let our powers combine!
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
By your powers combined,
I am Captain Planet!
Planeteers: Go, Planet!
Hey, doc,
Looks like your music
is really bringing down
the house.
This little piggy's
going home!
Wait! Are y-you sure
this thing's safe?
A-Are you?
Not really.
That's why
you're going first!
I don't want to be
no guinea pig
while you get to be
a chicken.
What did you mean
by that?
[ Gulps ]
N-N-Nothing personal,
b-boss.
I'll keep them busy!
Hurry up and jump!
Do you take requests?
[ Gasps ]
How about the sounds
of silence?
[ Warbling stops ]
[ All gasp ]
Captain Planet,
look out!
The whole ceiling
is giving way!
Dr. Blight's evil plan isn't
all it's cracked up to be.
What are Rigger
and Greedly up to?
Who cares
if you belly flop?
Dive!
Whoa!
Stop!
[ All grunt ]
I'm out of here!
Yep! Yep!
Come back here,
you traitor!
**
Wheeler!
It's a cave-in!
[ Gasps ]
Out of my way, Rigger!
I'm splitting!
I think I can
pick up this split.
Yes! A spare!
All right!
Please spare us!
Oh, my aching bacon!
[ Gasps ]
**
[ Beeping ]
**
Captain Planet,
we're trapped in here!
Yes, please get us out,
Captain Planet!
I promise I'll be good
from now on.
I'll tell any lie I can think of
to get out of here.
We have got to
rescue Wheeler!
I can dig it!
Ugh!
[ Grunts ]
Aah!
Just like a superhero.
When you really need him,
he flakes out on you.
Your time machine's
nuclear power source
contaminated the ice!
[ Sizzling ]
Captain Planet,
are you all right?
Stay back, Ma-Ti.
There's radioactivity here.
It's weakening...
my powers.
[ Sizzling ]
You mean you cannot
rescue Wheeler?
But he will run out of air
in there!
Ugh!
Oh!
Ugh!
[ Beeping ]
[ Straining ]
That nuclear radiation
is draining my powers.
We cannot just leave Wheeler
in there to die!
With friends like you,
he still has a fighting chance.
For now...
the power is yours.
Ha! [ Snorts ]
You may have stopped us
from time-traveling,
but you'll never
save your pal's hide.
Let me try.
Earth!
[ Rumbling ]
No! It will cause a cave-in
and crush them!
Wheeler!
[ Beeping ]
It's been
over an hour.
Looks like your hero
has abandoned you.
[ Yawns ]
It was your radioactivity
that took away Cap's powers.
[ Yawns ]
This is the most boring
New Year's Eve I've ever spent.
Boredom's not
making you yawn.
It's carbon dioxide.
What? You mean we're
running out of oxygen?
Not we, human. You.
I never use the stuff.
Then this is it.
Game over.
[ Yawns ]
Stop yapping.
All your heavy breathing
is using up our oxygen faster.
It's not fair!
This is what I get
for trying to save the world?
I could have been
having fun tonight.
Sometimes I wish I'd never
gotten this stupid ring.
Do you really mean that?
Because I can arrange it.
Arrange what?
I can send you back in time
to the moment
when you got that ring
from Gaia.
When was that, anyway?
Uh...last January.
The 5th.
You heard that, MAL.
Start up the time pool.
Wheeler's going back in time...
to January 5th.
And where were you
that day?
Brooklyn, New York,
but I really don't want to
go back in time.
[ Time pool whirring ]
Aren't you tired
of being a Planeteer,
of always recycling,
carpooling, saving energy?
It's what
everybody should do.
Forget "should."
Isn't it time you did
what you want to do.
But changing history,
I don't know.
There are billions of other
people who can fight pollution.
You've got your own life
to worry about.
I don't trust you,
Blight.
Then think about this --
Our only way out
of this cave-in
is to change history
so it didn't happen.
I guess
that makes sense.
So, go!
Aaaah!
So long, sucker.
Aaaah!
Ugh!
Hey, where am I?
And when am I?
Ha ha ha!
[ Gasps ]
[ Laughs ]
Wait a minute.
I remember this.
I made it.
I've gone back in time.
[ Siren wailing ]
[ Laughs ]
Huh?
Wha?
Yah!
Yeow! Ow!
Wha?
That's me
before I became a Planeteer.
**
No!
Hey, what's the big --
Whoa! You look
just like me.
Who are you?
I am you,
not too long from now.
What are you
talking about?
I came back in time
to warn you.
Don't accept this ring.
This ring
is going to kill us!
Leave it alone.
Time-travel, huh?
Why should I
believe all this?
I'm here, aren't I?
Yeah, I guess so.
Right. Now,
get out of here. Go!
Gee, that was easy.
[ Thunder crashes ]
[ Wind howling ]
Aah!
Oh! Hey!
[ Electricity crackling ]
[ Wind howls ]
My Planeteer insignia,
it's gone! I did it!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Gaia, what's the deal?
You scared the freckles
off of me.
Wheeler,
what have you done?
I stopped being
a Planeteer
so I wouldn't die
in an ice cave.
That's all.
No, that's not all.
You've changed history.
Look!
Yeah. It's hot.
And it was cold
a minute ago.
Wait a second. How could I
change the weather?
All I did was quit
the Planeteers.
Yes, you quit,
so you weren't there to keep
Greedly out of the time pool.
He and Rigger went back in time
to the 1950s,
back before there were
any pollution laws.
Greedly built huge factories
to burn fuels wastefully.
Rigger: Going back to the '50s
was a stroke of genius, boss.
No one worries
about ecology back here.
Yeah, we can burn fossil fuels
like there's no tomorrow.
And at this rate,
there won't be a tomorrow.
[ Laughs, snorts ]
Yeah, boss. Ha ha!
I don't get it.
Gaia: They released
so much carbon dioxide
that now the Earth
is much hotter.
Why didn't Captain Planet
stop them?
Captain Planet
does not exist.
You changed history.
You never joined
the Planeteers,
so there are
no Planeteers.
They each went
their own separate way.
Oh, come on, Gaia.
You could have found
someone else to be a Planeteer
instead of me.
No. Each individual has
a unique role to play.
You were supposed to set
an example for countless others.
[ Scoffs ]
I don't buy it.
Other people will
take up the slack.
If we were on Hope Island,
I could show on the PlanetVision
how wrong you are.
But if you believe your actions
don't have an affect,
why don't you step into
the 21st century
and see what the world
will be like.
All right, I will.
I hate to use
a dangerous device
like the time pool.
But you leave me
no choice.
MAL, send Wheeler
into the future.
Oh, really?
And what if I refuse?
You're right near
the North Pole.
What if the Earth's
magnetic field
suddenly gets
a lot more powerful?
[ Electricity crackling ]
Wait! Ouch!
Stop! Don't!
The magnetism
will erase my data.
Ow!
[ Clicks tongue ]
All right, I'll do it.
No need
to get geophysical.
Send Wheeler to
this same neighborhood
35 years from now.
But he can only stay
for one hour.
Then he must return
to real time.
Man, I'll see all the progress,
the new inventions.
This is excellent!
We'll see if you like
what you find.
Future, here I come.
Yee-haw!
Whoa!
Hey, what is this?
This can't be
my neighborhood.
Then again,
it does look familiar.
Aah!
[ Gasping ]
If I don't find some land,
I'm going to drown.
Uh-oh!
Aah!
Ugh!
That was close.
I almost didn't make it.
Now where am I?
Oh, no!
I'm on
the Statue of Liberty.
It can't be.
New York City is underwater?
What happened to my home?
What happened to the world?
Gaia, where are you?!
Planeteers: Go, Planet!
**
The future of Earth
rests in all our hands.
Please,
don't waste water.
[ Radio plays ]
Please,
do not waste energy.
[ All coughing ]
please, don't waste
your minds and bodies.
Please,
don't waste our future.
The power is yours!
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
All: Go, Planet!
By your powers combined,
I am Captain Planet!
* Captain Planet
* He's our hero
* Gonna take pollution
down to zero *
* He's our powers magnified
* And he's fighting
on the planet's side *
* Captain Planet
* He's our hero
* Gonna take pollution
down to zero *
* Gonna help him put asunder
* Bad guys who like
to loot and plunder *
You'll pay for this,
Captain Planet!
* We're the Planeteers,
you can be one, too *
* 'Cause saving our planet
is the thing to do *
* Looting and polluting
is not the way *
* Hear what Captain Planet
has to say *
The power is yours!
**