Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–1996): Season 3, Episode 12 - If It's Doomsday, This Must Be Belfast - full transcript

The Planeteers go on separate missions across the world to prevent the detonation of three separate nuclear bombs. Verminous Skumm is behind the plot of inciting hatred to get people into nuking each other.

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.

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From Eastern Europe -- Linka,
with the power of wind.

From Asia -- Gi,
with the power of water.



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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!

Gi: And now...

What's keeping Skumm?

50,000 nuclear bombs
in the world,

and all I asked for
is one.

I'm back
from shopping.

It's about time!

Aha! Huh? Cheese?



Take a control rod,
Nukem.

I got you
three bombs.

Three?

Aw, Verminous, you old teaser.
Where are they?

That's the best part.

I hid them on three
different continents.

Hid them?
You moronic mouse!

How am I supposed to get
my dose of radiation?

Why, I oughta --

But this is better.
If my plan works,

soon people will be
nuking each other
right and left.

How?

I'll explain while I set up
the camera.

It's show time!

Beautiful!

Did you know whales may be
as smart as humans?

Then why haven't they
invented anything?

You mean like weapons that
could end all life on Earth?

We interrupt your normally
scheduled PlanetVision

for the following
pirate broadcast.

Skumm and Nukem?

We're trying
an experiment, Gaia.

Yeah. I say humans are
full of petty hatreds.

Give them power,
and they'll annihilate
each other.

I've worried about that
a long time,

but I still have hope.

Yeah, well, I'm ready
to prove my point.

See, I've got
three nukes!

What?

And I hid each one
in a different hot spot
around the world.

I put one in
Northern Ireland...

Where some Protestants
and Catholics

would rather kill
than love their neighbor.

[ Explosion ]

Another bomb's
in the West Bank.

Palestinians and Israelis
both call it home,

but it's more like a house
divided against itself.

And the third nuke is
in South Africa.

Here
you can tell who to hate

just by the color
of their skin!

[ Gunfire, people screaming ]

[ Laughs evilly ]

You won't get away
with nuclear terrorism.

I'm not gonna do anything.

You see this
remote trigger?

He gave one
to a black South African

and one to a white,

one to an Arab, a Jew,

one to a Catholic,
and one to a Protestant.

And if these guys aren't
blowing each other up

inside of a day,
then I don't know humans.

[ Both laugh evilly ]

People would not kill each other
over simple quarrels.

These aren't simple quarrels.

Each one is a blood feud

that has gone on
for generations.

Hate has become stronger
than logic.

Then we must go to these places
and stop this madness!

If an atomic bomb goes off,

even Captain Planet
couldn't save you.

Gaia, we must go!

You got to let us try!
Da!

And Skumm said there's
no hope for humanity.

Skumm made big mistake
showing us one of his triggers.

How so?

We picked up
its frequency.

With these scanners...

We can home in
on each trigger!

Are you sure
you do not want help?

You kidding?
Belfast is my kind of town.

I feel like a native already.

Only...is this
a Catholic neighborhood

or a Protestant?

What the -- Fire!

What did you do that for?

You could have
hurt somebody.

So what? It's
a Protestant place.

Hey, that's no reason
to torch it.

If you're Catholic,
it is.

What's your name, anyway?

Wheeler. What's yours?

Name's Sean O'Reilly.

So, you've got the trigger
to the bomb!

I don't know
what you're on about.

I'm here to stop
the violence.

Oh. Well, then, 'tis a pity
you didn't show up last year,

before the Prods
burned down our bakery

and put me out of work.

You don't even know
where that bomb is!

It could blow up
your own people!

Well, maybe that would wake up
the rest of us Catholics

and we'd kick
the flamin' Prods out of here.

Sean, wait!

Be careful when you get
to South Africa.

You've got a tough assignment.

No harder than trying to make
peace in the West Bank.

Do svedania.

We're getting
interference.

Both triggers
must be nearby.

Then let us split up
and look.

Oh, where is that key?

Thank you.

I know what that is.

Well, we shouldn't talk
about this on the street.

Come inside.

I'm Moishe Lefkowitz.
Please come upstairs.

Go back
where you came from!

Ow!

[ Gasps ]

Let go of me!

Promise not to throw
any more rocks.

Did she break
that window?

That's the one!
Hold her!

Moishe, please!
Don't let them arrest her!

I should congratulate her
on her aim, maybe?

Look on her wrist.
A trigger!

I know you.
You are Najat.

Your brother is
a troublemaker, too.

We're taking you in.

Still want her
arrested?

Let me go!

I made a mistake.

She's not the one
who threw the rock.

Oh, all right!
Let it be on your head!

Believe me, it is.

All right, what does
all this mean?

Yes. Why should you care
what happens to me?

It is not just you.

It is thousands of people --
Arabs and Jews.

You are all in danger
from those triggers.

Then it is true what this
Verminous Skumm told me.

He was here last night.

My brother
is a freedom fighter.

Moishe:
Ha! You mean a terrorist!

Najat:
So they punished my whole family
by bulldozing our house.

[ Gasps ]

Don't cry.
Get even.

I can help.
Don't be afraid.

Just wear this.

[ Gasps ]

Watch.

[ Gasps ]
[ Laughs evilly ]

I put a much bigger bomb
on Israeli soil.

Push your button,
and all your enemies
will be history.

This was our home.

My brother said it would
take violence to get
our land back.

Your land?

My people lived here 2,000 years
before you Muslims invaded.

You weren't even born here!

You were born in Russia,
weren't you?

If the Arabs hadn't --

Stop!
Forget the past for a minute!

What did Skumm tell you
about the bomb?

That it would
take thousands
of Arab lives.

So what are you
thinking?

That Skumm is conning
one of us.

I think he's conning
both of you!

Linka said
if we had both triggers,

we could pinpoint
where the bomb is.

Ugh. I am supposed to trust
an Arab?

Me, trust a Jew?

You'd both rather trust
a mutant rat?

Oy!

Skumm told only
part of the truth.

The bomb threatens
thousands of Arabs,

and it is on Israeli soil.

But where?

The old city
of Jerusalem.

What?
Not Jerusalem!

The holy city
of both your faiths.

And it could all be dust
unless we find that bomb!

Moishe, you must
drive us.

Blast those
Planet freaks!

No!

Aah!

This is just what I want.

We lure them into
the blast zones,
then kaboom!

Well, what are we
waiting for?

Give me a lift
in your Skumm-O-Copter!

I don't want to miss
any fallout!

[ Beeping ]

She has one of those triggers,
Kwame!

What are you doing in
Soweto, white girl?

You are not welcome here.

We came to help you.

Then get her out of here!
Whites bring trouble!

Look what those masked cowards
did to our church!

We cannot even gather
for a funeral

without whites
terrorizing us.

Well, I hope to see the day
when we'll do the terrorizing!

But most whites here
want a democracy

that is fair to blacks.

They support reform.

[ Tires screech ]

Hands up, all of you!

[ Guns cocking ]

You don't scare me.

I warned you about
your rabble-rousing, Marsi.

You lack the courage
to face us without a mask.

Shut up! And you --

White girls should not
be mixing with Kaffirs.

You're coming with us!

Nyet!
Linka!

Don't be a fool!
No white is worth dying for!

Oh!

Let me go!

Ohh!

You are young
to be so full of hate.

What is your name?

Pieter, and you just did
a very stupid thing.

[ Beeping ]
[ Breathing heavily ]

Saints alive!

In enemy territory, and me
beeping like an alarm clock!

[ Beeping continues ]

The bomb must be nearby!

[ Beeping ]

This is it --

Skumm's nuclear bomb!

And right in the Prods'
back yard!

[ Chuckles ]

Man! I must be miles
into Protestant territory.

Hey, Sean!

Sean, we got to talk, man!

Sean! Sean!

Sean, is it?

Lads, I think we've got
a Catholic in the neighborhood!

Linka: And now...

[ Skumm laughs evilly ]
Hey, guys! I'm an American!

Looking for
your Catholic pal
Sean, are you?

Well, now.
And this must be Sean.

I'm Stewart Cooper.

A Protestant name
if I ever heard one.

On this side of the line, Sean,

you should use a loyal-sounding
name, like "John."

It'll be safer.

You got to be kidding.

You beat each other up
'cause of your names?

It's as good a reason as any.

All right.
Don't make me use this.

I'm warning you.

Fire!

Oh! Oh!

You Catholic punks are through
torching our homes!

Your homes?

You Protestants came over here
and took our land.

I was born here,
same as you.

Except you Prods
got all the jobs,

and we Catholics
got nothing.

Hey!

Tell me how this works,

or you'll be lacking
more than a job.

Burn one of our homes

and I'll wipe out
the Protestant side of Belfast!

I heard 'twas the Catholic side
would be destroyed.

Go ahead! Push it!

What have I got left
to live for anyway?

This is nuts!

No matter where the bomb
goes off, both sides lose!

I'll take that chance.

Me, too.

My comrades are not gentle

with traitors
to our race, Linka.

I am sorry.

And I will make you
sorrier.

Earth!

No!

[ Gun cocks ]

Now we can give these whites
a taste of their own medicine.

No!
Ah!

If you do that, you will be
as racist as they are.

You've spent
too much time
with whites.

Who needs a gun?

With one finger,
I can destroy
Johannesburg.

Marsi,
that would be murder.

How many blacks
have they murdered?

We must destroy
the white power structure

if we are to take over.

[ Crying ]

But thousands of blacks
are there, too.

See how the blacks
kill each other?

That's why we can't trust them
to run the country.

Can we trust you
to help us find that bomb

before it is too late?

No!
Bozhe moi.

So, you, too, would sacrifice
thousands of your own people?

And it'd be worth it.

Traitors to the white race

are handing over power
to the blacks.

We deserve power!

We're the majority!

We are Africans, too!
You can't drive us out!

Ugh! Ugh!

This is going well
so far.

All right.
you're in Jerusalem.

Now out, before an Army patrol
sees us.

But we still need
both of you.

What are you, meshugga?

Here I am with
a Palestinian terrorist.

I could be arrested.

Do you have any idea
what my people would do

if they saw me
with the Israeli oppressors?

Who is
an oppressor?

Who are you
calling a terrorist?

That's it!
We're leaving!

Let the Arabs take the blame
for this.

Ha! Everyone
will blame the Jews.

What does it take
to get through to you two?

[ Sighs ]

Maybe...heart.

Gaia, how do we
overcome such hate?

With the truth.

You think blowing up
your enemies
will solve anything?

Huh?
Who's that?

Go ahead.
See what happens.

But, Gaia...
Trust me, Ma-Ti.

Maybe you should see
what a wonderful world

you're about to make.

In a moment,
you'll all be time-warped

10 years into the future.

What?

What happened
to my car?

Where -- Where -- Where is
the dome of the rock?

It was standing here
a second ago.

10 years ago.

Skumm's bomb went off.

Jerusalem is
just a memory.

No!

[ Sobbing ] No!

The sacred rock...

from which Muhammad
rose into heaven.

The rock on which God spared
the son of Abraham.

You know
about Abraham?

He was the father
of the Arab people.

Of the Jewish people, too.

That kind of makes you cousins,
does it not?

Oh!

My mates!
My neighborhood!

Well,
I warned you,
didn't I?

Come on, Stewart.
There's more.

Skumm wasn't lying.

The bomb didn't touch
the Catholic side.

Except...where is everyone?

This works as
a Geiger counter, too.

[ Clicking ]

Gee, uh, you don't think
they'd leave

just 'cause of a little fallout?

Shut up.

Shut up!

Marsi:
So many graves!

And the weather...
What happened?

There was a war
between the races.

But the whites won,
right?

Impossible!
We outnumbered you!

No radio stations
on any frequency.

I do not think
anybody won.

Oh, Moishe...

forgive me.

If you
can forgive me.

We were trying
to regain a homeland
we'd never known.

Oh! Oh!

We are back in time.

Jerusalem is
still standing!

It didn't happen!

Now we can put
our triggers together
and find that bomb.

Skumm:
What a touching reunion.

Guess we all learned our lesson,
huh?

But it doesn't matter,
'cause I have a backup plan.

Forger your cheesy plans!

I'll zap them and
push their triggers
myself!

Head
for South Africa!

Ugh! Ugh!

No, Ian.
Leave him be.

The bomb's over there,
in the basement.

[ Beeping ]

Our squabbles seem
petty now, Sean.

Whatever you did,
I forgive you.

Wait a minute.

You can't be forgiving me
till I forgive you first.

The devil, you say,
'cause I forgive you first!

Guys! Guys, guys!

The important thing is
you forgive, right?

Right. Right.

The weather --
it's normal again!

Da. You have
a second chance.

You do not have to
love each other,

but you must learn
to forgive.

And cooperate.

To find that bomb, we need
both your triggers.

No. Let him
go first.

And leave you
with all the power?

Hold it steady,
you maze-runner!

Look out!
Take cover!

Ooh!

Ugh!

Look out!

Oh!

You risked
your life
to save me.

I did, didn't I?

My trigger!
I dropped it!

No, Marsi.
This one's on me.

There!

I sense it is time
for teamwork.

Aim your rings
at the sun!

Let our powers combine.
Earth!

Fire!

Wind!

Water!

Heart!

By your powers combined,
I am Captain Planet!

Go, Planet!

Skumm's plan is
pretty low,

but I like things
out in the open.

Nukem: Go on, Skumm!
Push the button!

[ Rumbling ]

You sure you want to
do that, guys?

Aah!
Aah!

I don't usually
give rides,

but you two,
I'm gonna pick up.

Hope you don't mind if we make
a couple of stops on the way.

Yaaaaah! Yaaaaah!

Combining trips
saves energy.

Ha ha ha!

Whoa!
Whoa!

Hang out
for a minute, guys.

Wow! Maybe I should try out
for the Olympics.

Sean and Stewart
are partners in a new bakery.

They say a good example
is what's needed.

Pieter and Marsi still
disagree on many things

but promise to keep their
battles in the political arena.

Moishe agreed to sell part of
his house to Najat's family.

And they agreed,
no more stone-throwing.

Gaia, six people
have learned to forgive,

but millions more
have not.

We have not ended
anything.

No, but you've made
a beautiful beginning.

Yeah!
Yeah!

Go, Planet!

Sometimes people hate
or fear others

who are different than they are,
but that's wrong.

People of different races
can get along.

As can people
from different cultures.

Or those who practice
different religions.

Don't judge somebody

just because they look
or act differently.

We must learn to accept
and understand each other

for what we are.

It's up to us
to stamp out hatred.

The power is yours!

Wheeler: We'll be right back
with more Planeteer action.

Planeteers: We're back!
Go, Planet!

Go, Planet!

Captain Planet: Our world
can be a place of peace

or a battlefield.

Ma-Ti: Peace begins at home.

Even your schoolyard can be
a place for friendships.

Linka: Or a place
for making enemies.

Wheeler: Fighting isn't
about being brave.

Kwame: It is about being dumb.

Why fight when it's smarter
to make friends?

Gi: That way,
everybody wins!

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!

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