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...
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!
Ma-Ti: Do not lose heart. The Planeteers will return.
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!
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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