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!
Stay tuned, Planeteers. I'll be right back.
Gi: And now back to "Captain Planet".
[ Singing in native language ]
[ Wolf howling ]
[ Insects chirping ]
[ Rattle shakes ]
[ Singing continues ]
The birds will fly no more.
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The water will leave the land.
The Earth itself will swallow our lands.
[ Rattle shakes ]
Sky Runner, I must speak to the council about this new project.
Then we have to hurry.
The council's meeting at sunup.
[ Steam hisses ]
[ Dog barking ]
Plunder: Considering your reservation's economy,
this is one deal you can't afford to pass up, my brothers.
Right now, you're sitting idle in the world's biggest sandbox,
but I can irrigate this land
and grow cash crops like rice and cotton.
And you'll get plenty wampum.
So, what do you say, chief?
I'm not chief. I'm chairman of the tribal council.
We don't care if you're the blinkin' medicine man.
[ Door opens ] As long as you sign the contract.
Gray Eagle: If you do, the birds will fly no more.
Gray Eagle! I thought you were on your vision quest.
He had a vision, Sun Horse. Listen.
Huh! Who's this old geezer?
Show some respect, Plunder.
Gray Eagle is the oldest member of our tribe.
The water will leave our land.
Our land has no water, old man.
Now, keep quiet, and don't wreck this deal.
I agree with Gray Eagle.
There are better ways to use our land,
like farming guayule to make rubber.
Hey, if you don't want this deal,
I know a tribe that does.
Remember, I pick up all irrigation costs,
pay you rent, and provide jobs.
I saw the Earth itself swallow us.
I've heard enough.
Sky Runner, take him back...
Five generations of our people
have listened to Gray Eagle's wisdom.
And look where it got us.
Half our people are out of work.
Times have changed.
Heed my vision, Sun Horse.
We will reap only the wind.
Gramps, why don't you make like the wind and blow?
The people elected me to make this decision.
Sign here, chairman.
Thanks. You can call me Bill.
And you can call me Mr. Plunder.
Come on, Bleak.
Out of the way, Methuselah.
We got pipes to lay.
[ Dog barking ]
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[ Engine starts, tires squeal ]
[ All coughing ]
The situation here just gets worse.
Prices are sky-high. There's little to buy, anyway.
I just wish there was something I could do to help.
I know, Linka,
but we must get to the park so the others can pick us up.
What do you mean you're out of bread?
[ Indistinct shouting ]
[ Gasps ]
[ Shouting continues ]
[ Gasps ]
We must stop them.
[ Sirens wail ]
Come on, Linka, we can do nothing here.
[ Glass shattering ]
You know, you haven't said two words
since your visit home.
Oh, Wheeler, my people are hungry,
jobless, in despair.
If only we had a fast way to revive our economy.
Yeah, I know.
I'm just glad it's not like that in the good old USA.
Speaking of the USA,
we're over Pueblo country now.
Hey, we should visit Sky Runner.
He wrote me a few months ago
about some new irrigation project on his reservation.
Wheeler, he wrote months ago, and you reply only now?
Of all the rude, thoughtless...
Hey, you must be feeling better.
Kwame, look out! There's a jet coming down on top of us!
Fasten your seat belts!
Bleak, did you hit something?
Yeah, a fly, Mr. Plunder.
I mean with the jet, you pinhead.
Watch where you're flying. I just had this thing waxed.
Gi: The cabin's decompressing!
All: [ Screaming ]
Help!
Aah!
Linka: I've got you, Ma-Ti!
Kwame, take us down!
Going down's no problem!
Emergency chute!
Cabin pressure equalized.
[ Breathing heavily ]
Thanks, Linka.
That emergency chute was a good idea
for the Geo-Cruiser, Wheeler.
Wheeler: With all the crackups we've had,
it ought to be standard equipment.
Well, that explains a lot.
We were hit by Looten Plunder's jet.
Plunder has a lot more than explaining to do.
And the sooner, the better.
Wheeler: How about that?
We wound up right on Sky Runner's reservation.
Kwame: This is not how the village used to look.
Look! Plunder's jet!
What does he want with Sky Runner's tribe?
Wheeler: You don't suppose he has anything to do
with this irrigation project?
It is wasteful enough to be a Plunder project.
Rice and cotton crops are much too thirsty
to be planted in a desert.
But look at this place.
It is green, productive.
People have jobs and money to spend.
No, Kwame is right.
These crops are all wrong for this climate.
Who asked you?
Thank you, Mr. Plunder.
This is a beautiful car. [ Car doors close ]
Nothing but the best for my partners, Bill.
Oh, and here's your rent for this month.
Plunder! Your jet almost killed us back there.
Actually, we had the right of way,
but I felt sorry when I saw your chute, kid.
So here, rent a loaner until yours gets out of the shop.
We do not want your money!
You made it by messing up this desert's environment.
This is fragile land.
If you keep irrigating, you will destroy it.
I'm tired of all this ecology talk.
Where were you when my people were out of work?
Mr. Plunder here gave them jobs.
And gave you something real nice, eh, Bill?
Ma-Ti: Sky Runner! Boy, am I glad to see you!
Gi: It's been so long.
How are you, my friend?
My man!
I'm glad you're here.
Maybe you can help me talk some sense
into certain officials who have gone money-crazy.
Any benefits to me will trickle down
to everyone else in the tribe.
[ Watch beeping ]
Nothing will trickle down.
Our tribe will drink bitter waters
because of this man Plunder.
Stop living in the past, old man.
It's time to face the future.
In my culture, we respect the wisdom of our elders.
Ma-Ti, we have no right to tell these people
they cannot make a descent living.
But, Linka!
Well, it's a pleasure to meet
a sensible member of your generation.
Young lady, this is for you.
It's supposed to guarantee a good harvest.
A feather from a bald eagle?
I hope you did not kill one for it.
Nah. We find lots of eagle feathers
downstream in the canyon.
Bald eagles are rare.
Could you show me this place?
[ Eagle screeches ]
[ Gasp ]
Oh, these poor birds.
[ Eagle screeches ]
And it is not just the birds.
What could have done it?
I don't know. This has never happened before.
You mean before the irrigation project?
Do not jump to conclusions.
I can prove that irrigation
had nothing to do with the eagle's death.
Gray Eagle: The birds will fly no more.
Just like Gray Eagle said.
What else did Gray Eagle predict?
Um, nothing. A-A lot of nonsense.
Wheeler: You can bet when Plunder's got what he wants
he'll be gone like the wind.
Up here, the wind is one thing that's never gone.
Listen to this, Bill Sun Horse.
Sky Runner, we drink from that well.
[ Rock thuds ] Not from a dry well, we don't.
A serious drop in your water table?
Gray Eagle warned you the water would leave our land.
But Plunder brought water to our land.
See, there's the pump station he built
right over the well he sunk.
A well?
Then Plunder didn't bring water to your land.
He's just pumping water out of your aquifer.
I don't get you.
Your laptop, please, Linka.
Here.
You see, this is your aquifer,
the underground water supply that built up
over the centuries of rainfall.
You tap the aquifer with wells.
Gi: But Plunder's overpumping.
He's sucking your land dry.
This is a new low for Plunder...
Wasting water in a desert.
At least it provides jobs.
Without jobs, Ma-Ti, you will see lives being wasted.
This looks like a wasted life.
Da. I know.
Kwame: This desert soil is filled with mineral salts.
Overirrigating leaches the minerals out,
creating an alkaline runoff,
which contaminates streams and the land downstream...
until it reaches a level so toxic
that it kills wildlife.
Linka: With minerals like... selenium?
Is that what killed the eagle?
Da. And if selenium is in that stream water,
then the irrigation is at fault.
Sun Horse: Then we test the stream.
I won't throw my people out of work without proof.
We will be back in 20 minutes.
[ Engine starts ]
[ Dialing ]
Bleak, those planet-twerps are on to us.
Divert all the well water into the runoff channel fast.
We got to flush away all that selenium.
You got it, Mr. P.
And don't call me that.
[ Metal creaking ]
[ Rumbling ]
[ Shouts ]
Ugh!
[ Shouts ]
Gray Eagle!
He's going to drown!
We must catch him!
Water!
Hey!
Wheeler, give me a hand.
Okay, but be careful.
[ Coughs ]
[ Metal creaking ]
Got him!
[ Coughing ]
Gi, look out!
We're in over our heads!
Ma-Ti: Do not lose heart. The Planeteers will return.
Linka: And now, back to "Captain Planet".
[ All screaming ]
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[ All coughing ]
Where's the ladder on this pool? There we go!
Fire!
He cut off the walkway!
Come on! Come on! Fall in!
Ugh!
[ Both coughing ]
Gi, over here!
[ Grunting ]
Hey, guys, I could sure use a hand right now.
Ma-Ti: Got you!
[ Grunting ]
[ Both breathing heavily ]
[ Sighs ] Well, that was fun.
Now, who wants to try the big waterslide?
Gray Eagle, are you all right?
This is why I don't like swimming.
Gi, Wheeler, I don't know how to thank you.
You could lend us your truck. We got to find Linka.
You bet.
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Something is different around here.
Just tell me if the water is contaminated.
[ Beeping ]
The selenium content is normal.
Because Plunder washed away all the evidence 10 minutes ago.
Oh, come off it.
He could be right.
Plunder's so crooked,
he makes a sidewinder look like a yardstick.
Just like my contract says...
No harm to the environment,
so forget about backing out of the deal.
In fact, Bill, I think it's time we talked about expansion.
Expansion?
You've already dried up their main well.
Just a random fluctuation.
You check that well again. I'll bet it's full.
I intend to check it.
[ Engines start, car doors close ]
[ Dialing ]
Bleak, we've got to fill that well again.
What?! Reverse the pumps.
Drain the other aquifers.
Suck it out of the rice paddies if you have to.
But fill up that main well.
I wish he'd make up his blinkin' mind.
[ Gear cranks ]
[ Machine powers down ]
[ Machinery whirs ]
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Oh, Argos, me lad, you always wanted to be a mercenary,
but now you end up a ruddy plumber.
Sorry, Ma-Ti. The well is full.
Well, of course it is.
Too full.
You are clever, Plunder.
You can pump water anywhere you want,
but we will expose you.
That idea doesn't hold water, kid.
[ Laughs ]
No one drink the water.
I'm no doctor, but I think Red Wolf's been poisoned.
Uh-oh. Looks like selenium in the wells.
Gray Eagle: Our tribe will drink bitter waters.
Everything in Gray Eagle's vision is coming true.
Next, he said the Earth itself would swallow our lands.
But that is not possible, is it?
[ Laughs ] That'll be the day,
when some little eco-brats can trip me up.
Whoa! Ugh!
Hey, what gives?
That hole wasn't there 10 minutes ago.
Bleak, we're safe. They can't pin a thing on us.
Hey! Hey! Hey! What are you doing?
I had to shut down.
There's too much water in the other wells
and no water under us now.
So what?
[ Rumbling ]
Hey, what's going on?
Uh-oh! It's some kind of sinkhole!
And it just ate my limo!
I think the car was just an appetizer!
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Where did that sinkhole come from?
Forcing water into the Earth
must have eroded the limestone substratum.
Hey, what can I tell ya? Every now and then I read a book.
Look! Over there!
Oh! [ Gasps ]
Huh?
This way! Hurry!
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Ugh! Locked!
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My profits just took a big dip.
Let's get to the jet!
[ All grunt ]
Stand back, guys.
Hyah!
Come on!
[ All screaming ]
Did your book say how to stop these things?
There is only one way.
Let our powers combine.
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
By your powers combined,
I am Captain Planet!
All: Go, Planet!
Uh-oh!
I've got a sinking feeling about this.
Real funny, Cap!
Aah!
Well, Wheeler, so much for hanging around.
Whew!
This is a tough room.
All: Thanks for the lift, Cap!
Every now and then, I feel the need to get back to the soil.
Got to stabilize that limestone down below.
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And get that water table back to the right level.
Secret of my success in business
is knowing when to get out.
Can't we go any faster?
Our ground speed is already... zero?
Plunder, you never get anywhere
when you mess with the ecosystem.
Sun Horse: You lied about protecting our environment.
Your irrigation project caused us major suffering
and financial loss.
Save your breath, Bill.
I've got the best lawyers, and I know most of the judges.
We'll get off with a slap on the wrist.
Maybe, except you committed your crimes on Indian land.
Now we get to pass judgment.
Wait a sec. Y-You need me.
What's your tribe gonna do for money?
I think the answer is blowing in the wind.
Sun Horse: You were right about many things,
Gray Eagle, and you, too, Sky Runner.
He is very wise for a young man.
I never would have believed
windmills could generate electricity
as cheaply as any gas or coal power plant.
Ma-Ti: And a lot cleaner.
Linka: Looks like your people's money worries
are gone with the wind.
Thanks to you, Sky Runner.
It was really Gray Eagle's idea.
After all, it was he who said we would reap the wind.
Wheeler: See, fellas? The tribe will make good money
selling rubber from these guayule plants.
Yeah, yeah. I'm impressed.
Oh, my aching back.
Bleak, let me use the long hoe.
Forget it.
You said we'd just get a slap on the wrist.
Ow!
There! Happy?
[ Laughter ]
Planeteers: Go, Planet!
We often think of water
as something that comes out of a tap whenever we want,
but clean, drinkable water is a precious resource.
To conserve water,
don't let the hose run while washing your car.
If you live in a dry climate,
grow plants that don't need a lot of watering.
That way, when you turn on the tap,
you'll know there's always water there for you.
The power is yours!
Wheeler: We'll be right back with more Planeteer action.
Planeteers: We're back! Go, Planet!
Water is one of Earth's most precious resources.
Don't let wasteful habits steal your water supply.
Don't leave faucets running needlessly.
Shut them tight and repair leaks fast.
Use low-flow showerheads.
Recycling saves water, too.
Every ton of recycled paper saves 7,000 gallons.
Help us make sure there's enough water for everybody.
All: 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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