Mech Cadets (2023-…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Dark Matter - full transcript
The team has Stanford's back as he attempts a daring repair in space outside of his Robo. A sinister threat targets the Sky Corps campus.
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[ominous music playing]
[electronic trilling]
[intense music playing]
[Maya grunting]
I'm going after that egg!
No, wait. Look!
[Sharg growling]
More incoming!
We don't know how many are coming
or how long we can hold them off.
We need to get the GDR back up.
The control unit
on the surface is still working.
There it is. Alignment motor's busted.
[Frank] Can you fix it?
[sighing] Yeah, but I'm gonna have
to do it from outside of Buddy.
[Buddy warbling]
You'll be totally defenseless.
It's the only way I can do it.
And I won't be defenseless,
I've got you guys.
[Olivia sighing]
- Okay.
- We'll cover you.
[Stanford grunting]
[inspiring music playing]
[sighing]
All right, Buddy, open the hatch.
[Buddy warbling]
It's okay. I know you got me, too.
[Buddy warbling]
[emotional music playing]
[Stanford breathing deeply, sighing]
[tense music playing]
[Stanford yelling, grunting]
[opening theme music playing]
[ominous music playing]
[Olivia] Stanford's working on the GDR.
We'll deal with Shargs here.
Got contact! It went substratum!
[Dolly gasping]
[tense music playing]
[Max] What happened to your wings?
I'm done.
You weren't going to say goodbye to Tombo?
[Tanaka gasping]
[Tombo warbling]
Tombo.
That Sharg knocked out a satellite,
and your cadets are out there in space
doing everything they can to fix it
while holding off another attack.
[dramatic music playing]
[General Park] Tanaka,
HF1 is on fumes.
Olivia's gonna need this to make it back.
[General Park grunting, exhaling]
[computer beeping]
[Tanaka] Robo hearts.
How ironic.
These are the last three pieces
taken from Veritas' power core.
I put Olivia in this situation.
I can't lose her, too.
Please, Skip.
You don't have
to carry the weight by yourself,
but I'm doing this for Charlie.
[computer beeping]
You and I, Aiden, we're done.
[Stanford grunting]
[Stanford straining]
[Stanford grunting]
[Frank] Two incoming!
[Maya] I've got this one.
[Sharg roaring]
[Maya] On your left! Behind you!
[Frank yelling]
[Maya yelling]
[tense music playing]
- [Stanford straining]
- [Maya] How's it going, Stanford?
Almost got it.
[Stanford panting]
[sighing]
[Stanford grunting]
[Olivia] Maya, ten o' clock!
[intense music playing]
[computer beeping]
- [alarm blaring]
- [Olivia gasping]
- Gotcha!
- Thanks.
[tense music playing]
[Stanford grunting]
[keypad beeping]
[computer trilling]
[gasping]
Guys, I think I got it!
Should be coming back online...
- [alarm blaring]
- Whoa!
[Stanford grunting, yelling]
[Stanford] Whoa!
[suspenseful music playing]
[gasping]
[Shargs warbling]
[Maya grunting]
Those Shargs just keep coming!
We need to buy Stanford more time.
[Stanford grunting]
Sorry, guys. I couldn't get...
[Olivia] Get back down there
and try again.
You got it, and we got you.
Okay.
I have an idea.
Let's use the working part of the GDR.
Steer them that way.
A coordinated pincer attack.
Right, like Tanaka showed us.
It's a long shot.
I know, but HF1 is way low on power.
I'm not gonna last much longer.
Okay, Liv, let's do this.
Win or lose, we're in this together.
Yeah, we are. I sure hope it's a win.
There are too many!
You need to fall back.
- Tanaka's on his way.
- [Olivia] This will work.
General Park,
we've got eyes on that Sharg that crashed.
[Sharg roaring]
[Stanchie] It's only eight klicks out.
[computer beeping]
Yes, sir. I won't let you down.
All right, people,
just like we gamed out.
Operation Jazz!
Get those trucks loaded. Double time!
[Max gasping]
Clark, what's going on?
You're taking all the ordnance...
[Clark] Operation Jazz, contingency plan.
Jazz, as in "improvising."
I've never heard of Operation Jazz.
There's a lot that goes on here
you haven't heard of.
Load it up, people!
You don't even have a Robo to fire it!
That's your problem,
Maxton, always thinking small.
Don't you worry about it.
Leave the creativity to me.
[man] We are ready, sir!
Let's roll out!
You're leaving the base
with nothing to protect itself!
Not my problem!
[tense music playing]
[truck approaching]
[truck beeping]
[truck hissing]
[Ava] Hello?
- Ava?
- Ava!
- [sighing] You're safe.
- I'm okay.
[truck whirring]
[light music playing]
Cadet Williams,
Cadet Lee, are you all right?
[scoffing] It's not my first time
getting ejecting from a Robo, dawg.
Uh, I... I mean, ma'am.
[Adam grunting, wincing]
[Max sighing]
You two, have Dolly
look over your injuries.
- What's all this?
- HF3 and HF4. Thought we could use them.
Grab your tools.
[Shargs roaring]
[Maya grunting]
[intense music playing]
[Shargs screeching]
[Frank grunting]
[suspenseful music playing]
[explosions in distance]
[Stanford] Go help them.
[Buddy warbling]
I'll be fine. Go help our friends.
[Buddy warbling]
[Frank grunting, gasping]
- [alarm beeping]
- [Stanford gasping]
[Stanford panicking, grunting]
[Stanford screaming]
- [Stanford laughing]
- [Paul] See, buddy, I knew you'd get it!
Only took, like, a hundred billion tries.
- [Paul] Or four.
- [dramatic music playing]
Just remember,
you've always gotta keep trying,
especially for the things you really want.
[chuckling] Okay, okay,
whatever, Dad. Can we take it out?
Great job! [chuckling]
[chuckling] Look, Ma! Vroom, vroom!
Oh, this will be great practice
for becoming a Robo pilot!
[Paul chuckling] Yes, it will.
But it's okay if you don't become one...
Oh, I'm gonna
be a pilot someday, I promise.
And I'm gonna shoot down so many Shargs...
[Paul] And I promise I'll be there
to watch you every time you take off.
Being a Robo pilot
is about more than shooting down Shargs.
It's about doing what's right,
even when you're scared.
I'm never gonna be scared, Ma!
[Paul roaring]
Oh! Whoa! [laughing]
[imitating laser sounds]
[Paul roaring, laughing]
Ugh! You two are hopeless.
Just be safe.
[Stanford chuckling] I love you too, Ma.
[Dolly] Get ready. One, two...
[Stanford grunting]
[Stanford gasping]
Thanks, Buddy.
[Buddy warbling]
Always gotta keep trying.
[music fades]
What's going on here?
We're getting Injured coming in
from around the world.
The infirmary is filling up.
Thought a first-aid triage
in the garage would be helpful.
Thank you.
[dramatic music playing]
Chief Clark's team is 60 seconds out
from the control unit.
- What's so urgent?
- This.
You got HF2 working?
Full disclosure, it's a patch job.
Using several units.
[cell phone ringing]
[Clark] Sir, we're here.
Good work. Hopefully we won't need it.
Do you see it yet?
There's, uh, no sign of it, sir.
I don't think it's coming
for the control unit.
- Then where's it...
- [alarm blaring]
[Stanchie] Code Red! Incoming Sharg!
The Sharg is headed for the campus!
It doubled back after it went substrata!
[Park] It was faking us out.
The control unit's not the target,
the campus is the target.
Clark, get back here now!
- [Clark] On our way, sir.
- They'll never make it in time.
[intense music playing]
Sir, HF2 is ready,
but we have no ordnance.
[General Park] We'll have to send HF2 out
without weapons.
General Park, unarmed against a Sharg,
HF2 will get slaughtered.
What?
Add some fuel.
[Max gasping]
Sir, we have an idea.
[General Park] Good.
Do it, but just hurry.
[Adam] You need a pilot.
Cadet Williams. Reporting for duty.
[intense music playing]
[Olivia yelling]
- [Olivia] No, no, no!
- [Frank] What happened to strafing fire?!
I lost power! Switching to auxiliary!
- [Sharg screeching]
- [Maya grunting]
There's too many!
[Frank] Can't get 'em off me!
[Shargs screeching]
- [Stanford panting]
- [Sharg screeching]
[gasping]
[Sharg warbling]
[Frank grunting]
[Maya grunting]
[Olivia gasping]
[computer beeping]
[grunting, roaring]
[Shargs screeching]
That was my last missile.
[alarm blaring]
[Hero Force winding down]
- [Shargs warbling]
- [hull clanking]
[Olivia grunting]
[Shargs continue warbling, growling]
[Olivia breath shuddering]
- [Sharg screeching]
- [squelching]
[Olivia gasping]
[dramatic music playing]
You okay?
[Olivia gasping, sighing]
[Tanaka] We're not done yet.
[computer trilling]
[intense music playing]
You got more fight left?
[Olivia grunting]
[Maya yelling]
[Maya gasping]
[Tanaka grunting]
[Tanaka roaring]
[chuckling]
[Tanaka yelling, grunting]
[choir vocalizing intensely]
- [cell phone ringing]
- [all gasping]
- Not a good time, Mom.
- [Patty] Are you okay?
- We were worried about you.
- What's wrong? Are you sick?
[Patty] No! We're watching the news
about the Sharg attacks.
Oh, yeah. That, uh... I'm... I'm okay.
[Patty] So Sky Corps isn't affected
by this?
It's all over the world, everywhere.
It's so scary, and we just wanted
to make sure you knew we loved you,
and we're proud of you.
Listen, Mom, it's... it's not a good time.
I'll call you back. 'Kay? I love you too.
[Ava sighing]
[ominous music playing]
[inspiring music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
You feelin' lucky?
[ominous music swelling]
[Sharg roaring]
[Adam grunting]
[gasping, panicking]
[panicking, grunting]
See you around...
dawg!
[laughing]
[intense music playing]
We're through!
[keypad beeping]
[computer trilling]
[music fades]
[sighing]
[Olivia] Nice work, mop boy.
[triumphant music playing]
Thanks.
[Tanaka] Good work, team.
[Ava] We did it! [squealing]
- We did it!
- [all cheering]
Captain Tanaka, is...
[Tanaka] All present and accounted for.
Olivia's safe.
[General Park sighing]
[Tanaka] And Sky Corps?
Threat eliminated.
[Tanaka] Not bad
for a couple of old timers, eh?
We'll leave the door open for you.
Safe travels.
Roger that.
You heard the general.
Time to go home.
[Buddy warbling]
[Buddy warbling]
What are you saying?
Wait.
Buddy said that thing is a queen.
She's producing more eggs.
If the queen only stopped attacking
to produce more eggs, more Shargs,
right now is our best chance
to take it out.
You four have done more
than any of us could've asked for.
You don't have to do this.
[Olivia] For all humanity.
Let's kill that thing and go home.
Question is, how?
I have an idea.
[triumphant music playing]
[Maya grunting, roaring]
- Now!
- [Frank grunting]
Come on. Come on!
[ending theme music playing]
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[ominous music playing]
[electronic trilling]
[intense music playing]
[Maya grunting]
I'm going after that egg!
No, wait. Look!
[Sharg growling]
More incoming!
We don't know how many are coming
or how long we can hold them off.
We need to get the GDR back up.
The control unit
on the surface is still working.
There it is. Alignment motor's busted.
[Frank] Can you fix it?
[sighing] Yeah, but I'm gonna have
to do it from outside of Buddy.
[Buddy warbling]
You'll be totally defenseless.
It's the only way I can do it.
And I won't be defenseless,
I've got you guys.
[Olivia sighing]
- Okay.
- We'll cover you.
[Stanford grunting]
[inspiring music playing]
[sighing]
All right, Buddy, open the hatch.
[Buddy warbling]
It's okay. I know you got me, too.
[Buddy warbling]
[emotional music playing]
[Stanford breathing deeply, sighing]
[tense music playing]
[Stanford yelling, grunting]
[opening theme music playing]
[ominous music playing]
[Olivia] Stanford's working on the GDR.
We'll deal with Shargs here.
Got contact! It went substratum!
[Dolly gasping]
[tense music playing]
[Max] What happened to your wings?
I'm done.
You weren't going to say goodbye to Tombo?
[Tanaka gasping]
[Tombo warbling]
Tombo.
That Sharg knocked out a satellite,
and your cadets are out there in space
doing everything they can to fix it
while holding off another attack.
[dramatic music playing]
[General Park] Tanaka,
HF1 is on fumes.
Olivia's gonna need this to make it back.
[General Park grunting, exhaling]
[computer beeping]
[Tanaka] Robo hearts.
How ironic.
These are the last three pieces
taken from Veritas' power core.
I put Olivia in this situation.
I can't lose her, too.
Please, Skip.
You don't have
to carry the weight by yourself,
but I'm doing this for Charlie.
[computer beeping]
You and I, Aiden, we're done.
[Stanford grunting]
[Stanford straining]
[Stanford grunting]
[Frank] Two incoming!
[Maya] I've got this one.
[Sharg roaring]
[Maya] On your left! Behind you!
[Frank yelling]
[Maya yelling]
[tense music playing]
- [Stanford straining]
- [Maya] How's it going, Stanford?
Almost got it.
[Stanford panting]
[sighing]
[Stanford grunting]
[Olivia] Maya, ten o' clock!
[intense music playing]
[computer beeping]
- [alarm blaring]
- [Olivia gasping]
- Gotcha!
- Thanks.
[tense music playing]
[Stanford grunting]
[keypad beeping]
[computer trilling]
[gasping]
Guys, I think I got it!
Should be coming back online...
- [alarm blaring]
- Whoa!
[Stanford grunting, yelling]
[Stanford] Whoa!
[suspenseful music playing]
[gasping]
[Shargs warbling]
[Maya grunting]
Those Shargs just keep coming!
We need to buy Stanford more time.
[Stanford grunting]
Sorry, guys. I couldn't get...
[Olivia] Get back down there
and try again.
You got it, and we got you.
Okay.
I have an idea.
Let's use the working part of the GDR.
Steer them that way.
A coordinated pincer attack.
Right, like Tanaka showed us.
It's a long shot.
I know, but HF1 is way low on power.
I'm not gonna last much longer.
Okay, Liv, let's do this.
Win or lose, we're in this together.
Yeah, we are. I sure hope it's a win.
There are too many!
You need to fall back.
- Tanaka's on his way.
- [Olivia] This will work.
General Park,
we've got eyes on that Sharg that crashed.
[Sharg roaring]
[Stanchie] It's only eight klicks out.
[computer beeping]
Yes, sir. I won't let you down.
All right, people,
just like we gamed out.
Operation Jazz!
Get those trucks loaded. Double time!
[Max gasping]
Clark, what's going on?
You're taking all the ordnance...
[Clark] Operation Jazz, contingency plan.
Jazz, as in "improvising."
I've never heard of Operation Jazz.
There's a lot that goes on here
you haven't heard of.
Load it up, people!
You don't even have a Robo to fire it!
That's your problem,
Maxton, always thinking small.
Don't you worry about it.
Leave the creativity to me.
[man] We are ready, sir!
Let's roll out!
You're leaving the base
with nothing to protect itself!
Not my problem!
[tense music playing]
[truck approaching]
[truck beeping]
[truck hissing]
[Ava] Hello?
- Ava?
- Ava!
- [sighing] You're safe.
- I'm okay.
[truck whirring]
[light music playing]
Cadet Williams,
Cadet Lee, are you all right?
[scoffing] It's not my first time
getting ejecting from a Robo, dawg.
Uh, I... I mean, ma'am.
[Adam grunting, wincing]
[Max sighing]
You two, have Dolly
look over your injuries.
- What's all this?
- HF3 and HF4. Thought we could use them.
Grab your tools.
[Shargs roaring]
[Maya grunting]
[intense music playing]
[Shargs screeching]
[Frank grunting]
[suspenseful music playing]
[explosions in distance]
[Stanford] Go help them.
[Buddy warbling]
I'll be fine. Go help our friends.
[Buddy warbling]
[Frank grunting, gasping]
- [alarm beeping]
- [Stanford gasping]
[Stanford panicking, grunting]
[Stanford screaming]
- [Stanford laughing]
- [Paul] See, buddy, I knew you'd get it!
Only took, like, a hundred billion tries.
- [Paul] Or four.
- [dramatic music playing]
Just remember,
you've always gotta keep trying,
especially for the things you really want.
[chuckling] Okay, okay,
whatever, Dad. Can we take it out?
Great job! [chuckling]
[chuckling] Look, Ma! Vroom, vroom!
Oh, this will be great practice
for becoming a Robo pilot!
[Paul chuckling] Yes, it will.
But it's okay if you don't become one...
Oh, I'm gonna
be a pilot someday, I promise.
And I'm gonna shoot down so many Shargs...
[Paul] And I promise I'll be there
to watch you every time you take off.
Being a Robo pilot
is about more than shooting down Shargs.
It's about doing what's right,
even when you're scared.
I'm never gonna be scared, Ma!
[Paul roaring]
Oh! Whoa! [laughing]
[imitating laser sounds]
[Paul roaring, laughing]
Ugh! You two are hopeless.
Just be safe.
[Stanford chuckling] I love you too, Ma.
[Dolly] Get ready. One, two...
[Stanford grunting]
[Stanford gasping]
Thanks, Buddy.
[Buddy warbling]
Always gotta keep trying.
[music fades]
What's going on here?
We're getting Injured coming in
from around the world.
The infirmary is filling up.
Thought a first-aid triage
in the garage would be helpful.
Thank you.
[dramatic music playing]
Chief Clark's team is 60 seconds out
from the control unit.
- What's so urgent?
- This.
You got HF2 working?
Full disclosure, it's a patch job.
Using several units.
[cell phone ringing]
[Clark] Sir, we're here.
Good work. Hopefully we won't need it.
Do you see it yet?
There's, uh, no sign of it, sir.
I don't think it's coming
for the control unit.
- Then where's it...
- [alarm blaring]
[Stanchie] Code Red! Incoming Sharg!
The Sharg is headed for the campus!
It doubled back after it went substrata!
[Park] It was faking us out.
The control unit's not the target,
the campus is the target.
Clark, get back here now!
- [Clark] On our way, sir.
- They'll never make it in time.
[intense music playing]
Sir, HF2 is ready,
but we have no ordnance.
[General Park] We'll have to send HF2 out
without weapons.
General Park, unarmed against a Sharg,
HF2 will get slaughtered.
What?
Add some fuel.
[Max gasping]
Sir, we have an idea.
[General Park] Good.
Do it, but just hurry.
[Adam] You need a pilot.
Cadet Williams. Reporting for duty.
[intense music playing]
[Olivia yelling]
- [Olivia] No, no, no!
- [Frank] What happened to strafing fire?!
I lost power! Switching to auxiliary!
- [Sharg screeching]
- [Maya grunting]
There's too many!
[Frank] Can't get 'em off me!
[Shargs screeching]
- [Stanford panting]
- [Sharg screeching]
[gasping]
[Sharg warbling]
[Frank grunting]
[Maya grunting]
[Olivia gasping]
[computer beeping]
[grunting, roaring]
[Shargs screeching]
That was my last missile.
[alarm blaring]
[Hero Force winding down]
- [Shargs warbling]
- [hull clanking]
[Olivia grunting]
[Shargs continue warbling, growling]
[Olivia breath shuddering]
- [Sharg screeching]
- [squelching]
[Olivia gasping]
[dramatic music playing]
You okay?
[Olivia gasping, sighing]
[Tanaka] We're not done yet.
[computer trilling]
[intense music playing]
You got more fight left?
[Olivia grunting]
[Maya yelling]
[Maya gasping]
[Tanaka grunting]
[Tanaka roaring]
[chuckling]
[Tanaka yelling, grunting]
[choir vocalizing intensely]
- [cell phone ringing]
- [all gasping]
- Not a good time, Mom.
- [Patty] Are you okay?
- We were worried about you.
- What's wrong? Are you sick?
[Patty] No! We're watching the news
about the Sharg attacks.
Oh, yeah. That, uh... I'm... I'm okay.
[Patty] So Sky Corps isn't affected
by this?
It's all over the world, everywhere.
It's so scary, and we just wanted
to make sure you knew we loved you,
and we're proud of you.
Listen, Mom, it's... it's not a good time.
I'll call you back. 'Kay? I love you too.
[Ava sighing]
[ominous music playing]
[inspiring music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
You feelin' lucky?
[ominous music swelling]
[Sharg roaring]
[Adam grunting]
[gasping, panicking]
[panicking, grunting]
See you around...
dawg!
[laughing]
[intense music playing]
We're through!
[keypad beeping]
[computer trilling]
[music fades]
[sighing]
[Olivia] Nice work, mop boy.
[triumphant music playing]
Thanks.
[Tanaka] Good work, team.
[Ava] We did it! [squealing]
- We did it!
- [all cheering]
Captain Tanaka, is...
[Tanaka] All present and accounted for.
Olivia's safe.
[General Park sighing]
[Tanaka] And Sky Corps?
Threat eliminated.
[Tanaka] Not bad
for a couple of old timers, eh?
We'll leave the door open for you.
Safe travels.
Roger that.
You heard the general.
Time to go home.
[Buddy warbling]
[Buddy warbling]
What are you saying?
Wait.
Buddy said that thing is a queen.
She's producing more eggs.
If the queen only stopped attacking
to produce more eggs, more Shargs,
right now is our best chance
to take it out.
You four have done more
than any of us could've asked for.
You don't have to do this.
[Olivia] For all humanity.
Let's kill that thing and go home.
Question is, how?
I have an idea.
[triumphant music playing]
[Maya grunting, roaring]
- Now!
- [Frank grunting]
Come on. Come on!
[ending theme music playing]