Robotech (1985–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Boobytrap - full transcript

[Narrator]: In the year 1999

[Narrator]: high above Macross Island in the South Pacific

[Narrator]: A phenomenal event occured in the skies

[Narrator]: which altered the course of human history

[Narrator]: A gigantic alien spaceship

[Narrator]: broke through the very fabric of hyperspace

[Narrator]: on a collision course with the Earth

[Narrator]: During its uncontrolled fall from the sky

[Narrator]: the plumeting space fortress
produced shockwaves of incredible force

[Narrator]: The craft measured nearly
three quarters of a mile in length

[Narrator]: There was no sign of the alien crew



[Narrator]: The armored hull had taken the brunt of the damage

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[Narrator]: leaving much of the sophisticated techno systems intact

[Narrator]: What remained of the giant battle fortress

[Narrator]: gave evidence of a civilization

[Narrator]: that was lightyears ahead of Earth's most advanced thinking

[Narrator]: Global war ravaged the Earth at that time

[Narrator]: but even this devastation paled by comparison

[Narrator]: to the threat of invasion from outerspace

[Narrator]: A ceasefire was ordered and World Leaders
banded together to form a United Earth Government

[Narrator]: Under the new government
the world's most brilliant minds formed a research team
to study and restore the alien space fortress

[Narrator]: deciphering parts of documents found onboard
they laboured to unravell the secrets of an incredibly complex
technology called Robotech

[Narrator]: Convinced that the scientists had solved this complex riddle

[Narrator]: world leaders ordered a celebration

[Narrator]: For 10 years the total resources of an entire planet
had been focused on the restoration of the space fortress



[Narrator]: A great city had grown up around the Robotech project

[Narrator]: and today, on the eve of the ships maiden flight
every citizen, man, woman and child

[Narrator]: was gathering to celebrate their achievement
and to witness the launching of their planet's new defender

[Mayor]: Hmm, some big shot is making his grand entrance
[Citizen]: Captain Gloval doesn't seem too happy about it

[Senator]: Don't look so sour Captain Gloval
Its our big day. Surely you realize all those loyal
citizens out there consider you their hero

[Senator]: I think you could atleast wave to them

[Captain Gloval]: Alright I'll wave

[Narrator]: The countdown has begun

[Narrator]: onboard the giant spaceship

[Narrator]: the crew of raw recruits freshly graduated
from the Robotech Academy

[Narrator]: is busy with the prelaunch checklist

[Sammie]: All manual systems are green light

[Lisa]: The ceremony starts in 15 minutes
I hope the captain gets here in time

[Lisa]: I hear he didn't get much sleep last night

[Claudia]: Yeah, the other officers threw
a farewell party for him

[Claudia]: they probably sat up all night
telling each other war stories

[Claudia]: You know how they are

[Lisa]: And where were you Claudia?

[Claudia]: What are you talking about Lisa?

[Lisa]: You didn't come in until 4 this morning

[Lisa]: You must have been partying too

[Claudia]: You jealous?
I had a late dinner with Commander Fokker

[Lisa]: Claudia! You stayed out all night
knowing you both had flight duty today!

[Claudia]: So what's the big fuss about Lisa?

[Claudia]: We won't let it affect the performance of our duty

[Claudia]: After all we're not children and you're not our mother

[Lisa]: Your responsibilities to the ship come first Claudia!

[Claudia]: But my private life is my business
Nobody elses. Now then, lets get to work, alright?

[Claudia]: Get out of here!

[Vanessa]: Lisa doesn't understand about men Claudia
She's in love with this spaceship

[Kim]: Yeah, you got that right

[Sammie]: Oh, don't argue!

[Claudia]: I'm not the one who keeps butting into everybody's business
[Lisa]: um, oh,

[Lisa]: I'm warning you!

[Claudia]: I hate to interupt but hadn't you
better check your monitor, commander?

[Vanessa]: It's an unidentified incoming aircraft Lisa.

[Lisa]: Attention aircraft approaching on course 107

[Lisa]: Please identify yourself. Please identify yourself

[Rick]: This is Rick Hunter invitation number 201

[Lisa]: That's confirmed there's an invitation from Lt. Commander Fokker
Follow course 57 for landing

[Rick]: Roger

[Commentator]: And now we present a display of aerial acrobatics
demonstrating the amazing advances we have made through Robotechnology

[Commentator]: Lt. Commander Roy Fokker Leader of the Veratech fighter
squadron will describe the action for us

[Roy]: Today you'll see how we've applied human know how
to a complex alien technology

[Roy]: Keep your eyes on planes 2 and 4
Flying at speeds of 800 Miles per hour

[Roy]: only 50 feet above the ground.
They will pass within just a few yards of one another

[Roy]: Robotechnology makes such precision possible

[Roy]: Huh?

[Roy]: Oh no! Rick! Is that you Rick Hunter?

[Rick]: Roy! It's good to hear your voice old buddy.
I understand you're a Lieutenant Commander now.

[Roy]: Are you crazy! Get that junk heap out of here!
[Crowd Laughs]

[Roy]: Hunter! When I get my hands on you I'm gonna...

[Roy]: Oh! Hey! Switch this to radio only will ya.

[Roy]: What're you trying to do buddy?
Make a perfect fool of me!

[Rick]: Oh nobody's perfect, commander

[Roy]: You haven't changed a bit have you.
Well this isn't your dad's amatuer flying circus

[Roy]: My men are real pilots

[Rick]: I'm going to have to make you eat
those words, commander. Coming in.

[Rick]: oh, get out of there!

[Crowd Applauses]

[Roy]: Excuse me folks

[Rick]: Phew! Hi Roy

[Roy]: Just who do you think you are?
What were you trying to do? Get yourself killed!
[Rick]:Hey, calm down

[Roy]: And while we're at it, where did you
learn to do that anyway?

[Rick]: It was just a simple booster climb.
You taught me that yourself when I was just a kid

[Roy]: Arrr
[Rick]: Hey!

[Rick]: I have to admit, those guys are pretty good.
Not as good as me, ofcourse

[Roy]: You don't have to brag to me Rick
I know all about you winning the amatuer flying
competition last year

[Rick]: Actually I've won it eight years in a row.
What've you been doing?

[Roy]: I was busy fighting a war!

[Rick]: I guess you didn't read about my
having shot down a 108 enemy planes.
[Rick]: You're proud of being a killer?

[Roy]: What?

[Roy]: There was a war on and I was a soldier.
I just did my duty

[Rick]: You promised my dad that as soon as
the war was over you'd come back to the air circus

[Rick]: Why did you go back on that promise Roy?

[Roy]: Hmm

[Roy]: I really felt guilty about letting your
father down, only this Robotech thing is so exciting
I just couldn't give it up

[Roy]: It just gets in your blood or something
I don't know

[Rick]: What is Robotech anyway?

[Rick]: Just more modern war machinary

[Jason Shouting]
[Rick]: And the aliens... huh?

[Jason continues to shout]
[Minmei]: Jason, Jason, behave yourself! You've
already had a cola and you can't have anymore!
[Jason]: Why?
[Minmei]: No Jason, Cancel the order please

[Minmei]: Oh! You'll get sick!

[Jason]: I don't care! Mmmmmm
[Minmei]: That's it! We're going home!
[Jason]: I want to go home!

[Minmei]: Oh Jason! I don't understand you

[Rick]: Huh?

[Rick]: Well Roy, I see you're still a big
ladies man

[Narrator]: Blasting through a warp fold in deep space.
A gigantic alien spaceship enters Earth's solar system
in pursuit of the damaged Robotech vessel which has eluded
capture by slipping through the time-space continuum

[Narrator]: The command ship leads a vast armada of
battle vessels manned by the Zentradi, a race of warriors
bred for thousands of generations for the sole purpose of
military conquest.

[Breetai]: The finder beam has locked on this planet.
Are you sure this is where the transmission was coming from?

[Exedore]: Yes sir, I'm positive

[Breetai]: They could've executed a refold

[Exedore]: It's doubtful sir, there was no evidence of
a second jump into hyperspace

[Breetai]: Hmm, they couldn't have gone far in
their condition

[Breetai]:They would have to have landed in order
to repair the ship

[Breetai]: That's a logical speculation I think
[Exedore]: I agree. It would seem very likely, Sir.

[Breetai]: Send the scout team!

[Rick]: Wow! This fighter's a real beauty alright

[Rick]: It looks great but how does it handle?

[Roy]: Hmm

[Roy]: Well why don't you climb aboard and see for yourself?
[Rick]: You mean that?

[Roy]: Sure, I'll go along and ride piggy back behind you

[Roy]: The controls may look pretty complicated but
I'll check you out on them

[Rick]: I'm not worried

[Rick]: If you can learn to fly one of these things I can
[Roy]: Don't be so modest

[Government Official]: This is a day that we've all been looking
forward to for 10 years

[Government Official]: The Robotech project has been a tremendous asset
to the economy of Macross City...

[Soldier]: Excuse me sir, urgent message from the Space
Monitoring Station

[Soldier]: A strange flash of light and an explosion
followed by irregularities in the gravitational field

[Captain Gloval]: The same sort of thing happened 10 years ago

[Captain Gloval]: You know what happened then don't you?

[Soldier]: That's when the alien ship arrived!

[Captain Gloval]: Better check it out

[Alarms Blaring]
[Claudia]: Every system aboard this ship is starting up

[Claudia]: The defense system is activiating the main guns to fire!

[Claudia]: Shut down all systems! It doesn't work!

[Captain Gloval]: Uhh! oh!
[Lisa]: Captain! The main guns are preparing to fire!

[Bridge Crew]: I can't control them! What do we do?

[Breetai]: Look at that! Now we know for sure
that the ship is on that planet

[Breetai]: All ships continue advancing but
exercise extreme caution

[Lisa]: We have control now. What happened sir?

[Rick]: Wow! What were all those fireworks about?

[Roy]: I don't know I better go check

[Roy]: Wait here I'll see what's going on. Ahh...

[Sammie]: The space monitor report is coming in

[Sammie]: It shows what our guns were firing at

[Lisa]: I have it here Sammie

[Lisa]: Two large objects, probably spaceships,
in Lunar orbit 200,000 miles out

[Lisa]: Both objects were struck dead centre by the beam
and were disintegrated

[Lisa]: Huh?
[Captain Gloval Laughing]

[Captain Gloval Laughing]
[Lisa]: Huh?
[Claudia]:Huh?

[Lisa]: Captain! What is it? What are you laughing about?
[Captain Gloval]: It was so obvious!

[Captain Gloval]: We should have known!

[Captain Gloval]: A booby trap ofcourse!

[Lisa & Claudia]: Booby trap, sir?

[Captain Gloval]: It's one of the oldest tricks in military history

[Captain Gloval]: A retreating enemy leaves behind hidden
explosives and such

[Captain Gloval]: The aliens who abandoned this ship armed it with an
automatic defense system designed to detect and destroy their enemies

[Captain Gloval]: The activation of the guns means that unfriendly
forces have approached close enough to be a threat to us

[Captain Gloval]: Hmm

[Sammie]: Captain Gloval!
[Captain Gloval]: Yes, what is it Sammie?

[Sammie]: No smoking on the bridge!
[Claudia]: uhhhh!

[Captain Gloval]: Huh? Hmmm
[Sammie]: It's against regulations, sir
[Captain Gloval]: I was just holding it I wasn't going to light it

[Captain Gloval]: Scramble all the fighters and prepare for combat!

[Shipwide Announcement]: Enemy forces approaching in sector 412

[Armor 1]: Base Cruiser Armor 1 deploying all aircraft at 412. This is not a...

[Squadron]: Enemy approaching on bearing niner zero. Commence firing

[Armor 1]: Launch all missles!

[Exedore]: Very heavy resistance, Sir
[Breetai]: Yes

[Breetai]: But why are they using such primitive weapons?

[Breetai]: Our scout ships have broken through!

[Breetai]: It's unbelievable! Some sort of trick no doubt.
[Exedore]: Yes, it is puzzling

[Breetai]: It makes no sense!

[Exedore]: There has to be a reason but it's beyond me

[Exedore]: Surely the Robotech Masters...
[Crew]: Commander Breetai

[Breetai]: One Moment
[Crew]: The two enemy space cruisers are approaching

[Crew]: They could be the ones who launched the missle bombardment

[Breetai]: Blast them to bits

[Breetai]: Those idiots behave as though they don't even
know how to use their own weapons! Ha ha

[Breetai]: Full barage. All cannons!

[Armor 10]: This is Armor 10 space cruiser calling SDF-1.
Come in SDF-1

[Lisa]: Armor 2 is destroyed and Armor 10 is heavily damaged, Sir

[Captain Gloval]: I had hoped this moment wouldn't come in my lifetime

[Captain Gloval]: After we finally achieved peace on our planet now we face
annihilation by alien forces whose power is beyond our immagination

[Captain Gloval]: I had hoped that war was a thing of the past

[Captain Gloval]: But here we go again

[Captain Gloval]: Alright! Move out!

[Lisa]: Yes, Sir

[Lisa]: All forces move out!

[Lisa]: We are under attack by alien invaders in sector 412.
This is not a drill! Repeat, this is not a drill

[Lisa]: All forces proceed at once in battle formation

[Roy]: Well boys you heard her this is the real thing

[Lisa]: Wolf team has cleared. Skull team prepare for takeoff

[Roy]: Skull team ready

[Roy]: All right men. This is it. Let's go!

[Breetai]: What a disorderly arrangement! These people are completely
ignorant of space war tactics!

[Breetai]: What!?! That's Xor's battle fortress but what's happened to it?

[Exedore]: It appears to have been completely remodeled

[Exedore]: Perhaps by the inhabitants of that planet

[Breetai]: Mere micronians couldn't possibly have captured a Robotech ship
[Exedore]: Maybe it crashed on their planet and they managed to salvage it

[Breetai]: What about the crew? They wouldn't just let them have it!

[Exedore]: Maybe they were killed in the crash

[Breetai]: Even so, the ship would've been seriously damaged then
these primitives wouldn't have the technology to repair it

[Exedore]: Oh I know, Sir, but is there any other explanation
It is a Robotech vessel

[Breetai]: Hmm

[Exedore]: We know they have...
[Breetai]: Reflex weaponry!

[Exedore]: Precisely! And this makes them very dangerous
so we must exercise caution

[Breetai]: Hmmmmmm

[Crew]: Target pinpointed commander. We're launching fighters

[Lisa]: This is SDF-1 Control calling VF-102

[Lisa]: You there! On the exhibition grounds! We're on combat alert!
Why haven't you taken off?

[Rick]: You don't mean me do you?

[Rick]: Hey! Wha? Huh?

[Rick]: Hey!
[Lisa]: Don't waste anymore time!

[Lisa]: Takeoff immediately!
[Rick]: What?
[Lisa]: Join the fighter squadron!

[Rick]: What do you mean takeoff? The runway is demolished!

[Lisa]: Runway 2 is clear. You're fully armed and your jet's
overheating so prepare for immediate takeoff!

[Ground Crew]: All set sir. Good hunting!

[Rick]: Well, ok, if you insist

[Rick]: Wow!

[Rick]: Woah!

[Roy]: This is Skull leader calling Veratech fighter group

[Roy]: Intercept invaders. It's on 428

[Roy]: Traffic's pretty heavy out here so break formation
but try to keep each other covered!

[Rick]: Hey! Fokker!

[Rick]: Would you mind telling me what's going on around here?

[Roy]: Hmm?

[Roy]: Who's that?

[Roy]: Rick!

[Roy]: How's it feel to be a fighter pilot?

[Rick]: Hey! What're you talking about big brother! I'm not
a fighter pilot! Ohh!

[Roy]: Rick! Hang on Rick I'm coming!

[Roy]: You weren't hit. it was just a close one.
You alright?

[Rick]: Phew! Yeah I'm ok.
[Roy]: Don't worry

[Roy]: Combat flying is scary for everybody when you first begin

[Roy]: You'll be alright though. You'll find it's not that
much different from the good old days with the flying circus

[Rick]: Yeah, but I never got shot at at the circus, Roy

[Roy]: You'll get used to it. Just tag along behind me for a while

[Roy]: If you can keep up with me

[Rick]: If I can? I'll do my best not to leave you behind!

[Roy]: Thats the spirit! Let's go get em' young brother

[Rick]: Ahhh!

[Roy]: Climb and bank!

[Roy]: Rick!

[Rick]: Yaaah Ahh!

[Rick]: Ahhh!

[Rick]: I can't get control of it!

[Rick]: I think I've had it Roy! I'm getting no response
from the controls at all! Oh!

[Lisa]: This is SDF-1 Control calling VF-102.
Pull out! You're diving right at us!

[Rick]: Tell me something I don't know! I can't pull out!
All the controls have lost their power!

[Lisa]: Have you tried switching to Configuration B?

[Rick]: Umm, B? What's that mean?

[Lisa]: You don't know?!?

[Lisa]: Impossible!

[Lisa]: Alright Listen! Pull down the control marked "B"
on the left side of your console

[Rick]: Ok, I found it.

[Rick]: What's it doing?

[Rick]: Ahhh! Oomph!

[Rick]: What do ya know! I'm alive!

[Rick]: Uhh!

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