Terrahawks (1983–1986): Season 2, Episode 4 - Operation S.A.S. - full transcript

Terrahawks, stay on this channel.

This is an emergency.

[TERRAHAWKS THEME BEGINS]

[CONTROL CENTRE COMMS,
STIRRING MUSIC]

[COUNTDOWN IN BACKGROUND]
The crowd, estimated at over...

...one hundred thousand...

...waits as we enter the last few
seconds of the countdown...

[TWO, ONE]
...for this historic flight.

[ROAR OF COMBUSTION]
We have ignition.

We have lift-off.

The start of a scheduled 34-hour
tour of the planet Earth.



And so John S. Franklin,
the sixth World President...

...becomes the first to
venture into space.

This is election year.

The Administration needs
some good publicity.

That may be so, but while
the President and his PR circus...

...joyride round the Earth,
Terrahawks' hands are tied.

We had to make the orbital path a
restricted area. You must understand that.

All I understand is we have a
million-mile wide gap in our defences.

An open door for Zelda
to walk right though.

[MARTIAN MUSIC]

[BUZZING, STATIC]

Well, Yung-Star?

I have listened to the
Earthling's special waves.

At this very moment their
President circles the Earth.



I hope his ship is
hit by a space bolt.

Mother, it is our chance.

What do you mean?

Even the accursed Terrahawks
cannot go near the President's ship.

We can fly to Earth
in perfect safety.

It is my chance!

Your chance?

To carry out a most
devious scheme I have...

...planned and cherished
for so long.

Humm.

I Will think about it.

Oh, goody!
Oh, ho, ho, hoo!

[MACHINE NOISE,
MARTIAL MUSIC]

[WEAPON FIRE IN GAME]

[BEEPING]

Lost again, Tiger?

Yeah.

Beating this thing is like
trying to make holes in water.

Well, I'm off to meet the
man from Anderburr Records.

- Have a good fright.
- Thanks!

Tell me something, Kate.

Do those guys ever suspect
you're part of Terrahawks?

No even in their
wildest dreams.

[UPBEAT ELECTRO MUSIC]

We can't go on like this.

What shall we do?

I think it's better we
go our separate ways.

All right.

Stay bright!

[MECHANICAL SOUNDS]

[LANDING NOISE]

[WHIRRING]

[DOOR HUMS]

- [BLEEP] The Coffee's on. [BLEEP]
- Great.

Let's get to the song.

[MARTIAN MUSIC]

Smouldering ash heaps, Mother!

I can't take HER with me!

ENOUGH!

I decide who goes to
Earth and who does not.

[CRYING] Why are you
letting Yung-Star go alone?

He is not going alone.

He needs a commander.

Someone steeled
by experience...

...and with extraordinary
powers over metallic objects.

No, Mother, not him!

Anyone but him.

He's so incredibly ugly.

That's as may be.

But he is a proven
heroic leader.

Come forward,
my furry Napoleon.

[COMIC BEAR MUSIC]
Look at him.

Have you ever seen
anything so grotesque!

Arh, ow, wow,
wow-wow-wow.

Keep away from me,
you monstrosity!

Ah, ow, wow-wow, how.

No, leave that alone!

[LOW GROWLING, BUZZING]

[CREAKING]

Mother, stop him!
He's bending my Ferret.

[CY-STAR CACKLES]

Mother!

Look what he's done!

It'll take weeks to repair.

Let that be a lesson to you.

And a demonstration of
the hairy one's prowess.

Rurr, rowr-how.

The ZEAF is prepared.

You leave for Earth immediately!

[BOLD, DRAMATIC MUSIC
AND ENGINE NOISE]

[WHOOSH]

[BLEEP] Lieutenant.
We have a contact.

It's alien. [BLEEP]

Lock onto target.

[BLEEP] Locking on.

Lieutenant, we won't be
able to open fire.

It's using the presidential
shuttle as a shield. [BLEEP]

It's a ZEAF.

[HIRO ON COMMS]
But we had to let it through.

Ten ten, Hiro.

Like I always say...

...expect the...

...expected.

[ENGINE WHINE]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[DOOR CREAKING]

Perfect.

Per-rrrr-fect.

Place guards and unload
the ZEAF.

The ideal place to bring
my plan to fruition.

[PEACEFUL MUSIC]

HUDSON:
It's turning rather chilly.

I hope they won't keep
me standing here too long.

Hey, yah! This is amaa-zing!
Huh, huh, huh!

Hey, this is really a great house
you have here, Miss Kestrel.

- You've been here before.
- Have I?

Oh, Yah! I mean, I have, yah!

Okay, right - yah,
well, amazing. Errn...

...uh, but I just don't seem able
to remember, you know?

Did you remember
the backing track?

The backing track? Oh, yah, sure!
Yah, er, I got it right here.

A-huh. Okay?

Why don't we give
the lyrics a try?

Why, erm. Yah, sure, ma'am. Okay er,
well, here we go, Miss Kestrel.

Here we go!
[MUSIC BEGINS]

"Now that you're gone"...

can remember."

"Bright city lights,
And days on our own."

"Once we stood in the end"
[ENGINE NOISE]

"We would flee for time again."

"When I asked you for more,
You just turned and closed the door."

"I need you tonight.
Can I keep trying, wrong or right?"

"Just to reach you tonight"...
[AIRCRAFT WHOOSH, WEAPON FIRE]

Hey, er, was that like a, erm, y'know,
a backfire - or something...?

- I mean, er---
- HUDSON, get off the road.

Yes, madam.
[AIRCRAFT NOISE, WEAPON FIRE]

[EXPLOSION]
Hey, erm, Miss Kestrel, look, now---

That actually WAS an explosion
back there. Erm---

[CLUNK]

HUDSON, head cross-country,
for those woods.

Er, hey, look, I...

...I don't wanna be uncool about this
or anything, man, you know?

Erm, but we don't
seem to have a driver.

You know what I mean,
Miss Kestrel, yah?

[RAPID FIRING, ROAR OF IMPACT]

[FIRING CONTINUES]

[TYRES SQUEAL]

[ACTION MUSIC]

[CRUNCHING UNDERGROWTH]

[GROWLING AND BUZZING]

[TYRES SQUEAL]

What's wrong, HUDSON?

I'm so--- terribly
sorry, madam.

Whoever said that, uh-huh, he sounds,
like, in pain, y'know? I mean, er---

Now look, what is happening?

[AIRCRAFT NOISE]

[LANDING SOUNDS]

Okay, yah, er, fine, right.
Okay, well, maybe, I should...

...go and try and, you know,
get some help.

Stay where you are.

Tuh--- Huh?!
[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Don't move a muscle.

Ho, ho, ho, hah, hah, ho!
Ho, ha, ha, ha, hoo!

Whooo-hoo-hoo,
ho, ho, ho!

[SPOOKY MUSIC]

Blurrrh!

This Earth food - ugh!
It's disgusting.

How can you eat it?

Bread, filled with
dead animal flesh?

What do you want from us?

A location.

Huh! Oh, yeah, right, okay.
Don't tell me. Erm...

...you're in the
film industry, yah?

Huh, I know: er---
a producer, yeah?

...the location of the
Terrahawks' stinking lair.

[BIRDS CALLING]

It's been ten hours, Tiger!

All right, Kate's in
serious trouble.

But we're doing all we can.

[CREAKING]

This chamber is capable of
inducing unbelievable pain.

Tell me what I wish to know, or
one of you will experience this pain.

We don't know what
you're talking about.

You! Where is the base of
the accursed Terrahawks?

The base? Erm---

Oh, right, yeah - they've
got a bass player, have they?

Oh, yah, right, okay. Let's see, now, um,
Terrahawks, Terrahawks, Terrahawks.

Erm--- I know, are they one of those
really, y'know, amazing new heavy...

...Asian groups, man, yah?

How's HUDSON?

He'll be fine, but he wasn't
able to tell us much.

Kate could be anywhere.

We've been monitoring and
recording all news reports.

We may have had a break.

Play it back, Zero.

[BLEEP] Sah. [BLEEP]
[WHOOSH]

Here's one for the scrapbook.

A guy with a bear on a lead
walked into a sandwich bar.

The owner described him as:
"Real old, real ugly and real weird."

The guy asked for a sand-wish.
And get this...

...he wanted real sand.

Where's that station?

Just outside North Town.

Let's go.

[ACTION MUSIC, FLIGHT NOISE]

[BLEEP]
Flying at maximum speed.

Ten twenty.
Seventeen minutes. [BLEEP]

Ten ten, Zero.

[TENSE MUSIC]

[NINESTEIN ON COMMS]
Check out the area, Hiro.

Search over a fifty-mile radius.

Ten ten, Doctor.

[WHOOSH]
Start scan, One Oh One.

Maximum magnification.

[BEEP-BOOP]

[TENSE MUSIC]

[CREAK]

This powder from the
walls is quite palatable.

Ah, I see we are ready to begin.

You'll get nothing from me.

Start the chamber.

[CREAKING,
MENACING MUSIC]

[CREAKING]

[FLIGHT NOISE, TERRAHAWKS RIFF]

[ZEROIDS BLEEPING]

- [SQUEAK]
- Oh, really?

- [SQUEAK]
- You don't say! [BLEEP]

What is it, One Oh One?

[BLEEP] One of my men
can see it. It's a ZEAF.

[TENSE MUSIC]

The pain will soon begin,
and you will talk.

Don't lay odds on it.

Hey, Miss-Miss Kestrel, you know, I
really think, heh, y'know, maybe...

...you should talk.
[CREAKING]

We've located the ZEAF.

Have relayed grid reference to
[COMMS] Battlehawk computer.

Good work, Hiro.
Take her down, Mary.

We go in low and
hit them hard.

[MARTIAL MUSIC]

[YUNG-STAR LAUGHING]
The spikes are inching closer! Whoo!

[GURGLING LAUGHTER]

[WHINE OF BATTLEHAWK
APPROACHING]

We're under attack!

Bring the woman to
the window.

Let the despicable Terrahawks
see we have a hostage.

Showing me won't
stop the attack.

Surrender while you're
still in one piece.

Hey, now look, Miss
Kestrel, you know...

...I really think you, you should
show yourself, you know?

Please!?

Drop the Battletank.

[BLEEP] Sah. [BLEEP]

[BATTLETANK ENGINE
STARTS UP]

[LANDING NOISE]

Come on, Zero.
Let's get out there.

[TANK RATTLES]

[BLEEPS AND SQUEAKS]

[SWISHING, BLEEP]

[STRIDENT MUSIC]

[RUSTLING UNDERGROWTH]

[BLEEP]
ALL RIGHT, LADS!

OPEN FIRE!

[RUMBLE OF EXPLOSION]

[WEAPON FIRE, ROAR OF IMPACT]

Hold your fire, Ninestein.

[BLEEP] It's Miss Kestrel, sir.
[BLEEP]

- You all right, Kate?
- Yeah.

Give 'em space fire, Tiger!

[BLEEP] Brave girl. [BLEEP]

Give up now, android.

Or we flatten the house.

[SOUND OF FALLING MASONRY]
Then you will kill the woman hostage.

Keep firing, but keep
clear of Kate.

[WEAPON FIRE, ROAR OF IMPACT]

Great molten boulders!

We will all be destroyed!
[LOUD CLATTERING]

[WEAPON FIRE, ROAR OF IMPACT]

[TANK RATTLE]

[BUZZING]

[GROWLING, METAL GRINDING]

[BLEEPING]

[BLEEP] The Battletank's
seized up, sir.

Look at that.

[BUZZING, BLEEPING]

It's telekinesis.
We're in trouble.

[BLEEP] Erp--- tele who, sah?
[BLEEP]

The ability to bend metal
objects with the mind.

Whoever's doing it must be
taken out.

My congratulations!

The attack seems
to have ceased.

[EERIE MUSIC]
Hey, now, listen to yourself, Stuart.

Listen, Stuart Dapples...

...all this is not happening,
right, man? Okay?

ZERO:
[BLEEP] But it's a sewer!

Huh, ja--- ha--- Sah! I mean,
it's so--- so undignified, sir.

Hah, I just cannot do
it, sir. [BLEEP]

Ever heard of the SAS, Zero?

[BLEEP] The SAS?

Ooh, the finest body of
men in the world, sah.

They are magnificent sir.
[BLEEP]

Well, let's call this assignment
"Operation SAS".

[BLEEP] Oooh!
Operation SAS.

I'm with you all the
way, sah! [BLEEP]

It'll need two of you.

[BLEEP] I?ll take---
Dicks Huet. [BLEEP]

[BRISK MILITARY MUSIC]

[ROLLING]

[TWIDDLY BLEEP ECHOING]

[BLEEP] Sacre bleu.
Where is all ziss leading?

Just follow your nose.

Zuf! Zat is not 'ard
to do. Huh!

Keep rolling, lad.

[BLEEP, TUWIT, TUWIT]

[ROLLING NOISE ECHOES]

They have given up.

They're beaten.

We've won!
[FOOTSTEPS]

[BLEEP] This is it. [BLEEP]

[BLEEP] Increase mass.
And STROLL ON!!

[TWIDDLY BLEEPS, SWOOSH]

[BUBBLING]

[BUZZING]

[BUBBLING,
BUZZING RISING IN PITCH]

[EXPLOSION]

Goof! Ooah.

[CLUNK, THUMP]

Um Uh-uh---
[SWOOSH]

[SWOOSH, CLUNK]

[ZOUP, POW, EXPLOSION]

OH!
[WEAPONS FIRE]

[EXPLOSION]
Whoof.

An unorthodox entrance
but - great work, Zero!

[BLEEP] Ho, well, hum.
Thank you, ma'am. [BLEEP]

Your furry friend's out cold.

It's all over, android.

She's right.

Terms, Ninestein. I plead
for terms of surrender.

No terms.

Mother, HELP US!

[EERIE WHINE, WOOSH]

Zelda reclaims her own.

[EERIE WHINE, WOOSH]

There goes your furry friend.

Maybe she doesn't want
you, sonny boy.

MOTHER!

Don't leave me behind.

MOTHER...!!
[WOOSH]

[ENGINE NOISE]

Oh, no, it was just amaazing, right?
I mean, really incredible, fantastic?!

I mean, a whole secret base,
right - okay?

But who's gonna believe me,
you know?

Huh, don't worry bout it, Stu.

Stu?

Stu Dapples.

Stewed Apples?

Wipe his memory for the
last twenty-four hours.

Ten ten!

And the ugly old weirdo with the
bear, man? You know, I mean...

...craazy, you know?!

Just relax.

And the car! Uh, that Roller man,
with, y'know, like - no driver!

I mean, FAR OUT!

Y'know, nobody at the wheel!

Erm, amazing, going along,
and it was really cool...

...and then suddenly this weird thing
at the window and, man, I dunno...

...it was all so weird and
m-multi-coloured...

[SPEECH SLOWING]
...and far out.

[ELECTRONIC MUSIC]

[PRODUCER'S VOICE]
What's happening, Stu?

Well, what's happening, right, okay.
Well, er, it's Monday morning...

...and we're fully booked,
man - you know?

What kind of a weekend
did you have?

Weekend? Oh, yeah, right.
Erm...

...well, I don't remember too much
about it actually, y'know, I mean---

Er, I think it was probably one of those
amazing, mind-blowing non-events.

Yeah. Mine, too.

[COMIC MUSIC]

[END THEME]

Ripped & Corrected By mstoll
April 2017