A Date With Carmen, Part One
Episode Synopsis:
Part 1 of 2. Carmen steals a top secret device from a Russian research lab and finds a way to travel through time back to the American Revolution.
Carmen: Timing is everything.
Computer: You have ten seconds, Carmen.
Russian Officer: Give up when you're ready, Carmen. Time is on our side.
Carmen: {Wrong, gentlemen.} Time is on my side.
Player: I'll find out what you're up to, Carmen, and shut you down for good.
Carmen: Impossible, Player, because now I'm off to steal something that doesn't even exist, and you'll never catch me--in time.
Ivy: The Chief's been online with international security for hours!
Zack: Whatever Carmen ripped off has got every country from China to Canada in a panic!
Ivy: And she told the Player she's off to steal something that doesn't even exist, whatever that means.
Zack: What did she steal, Chief?
Chief: I can't.
Ivy: What's she gonna do with it?
Chief: I can't tell you, it's top secret.
Zack: Well, where'd she go, Chief?
Chief: I can't--I can't--
Zack and Ivy: --tell us, it's top secret?
Chief: Nope. I can't figure that out.
Ivy: Well, what can you tell us?
Chief: Only that if you don't catch Carmen and return the stolen [top secret item]--okay, okay, okay!!
Curator: This is some of the silver crafted by that famous American patriot--Paul Revere--who lived right here in Boston over 200 years ago, and he was a very important part of our American Revolution.
Ivy: Sara Bellum and Four Chin Hunter!
Zack: Why do I get the feeling they're not chaperoning this kindergarten field trip?
Curator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once wrote this famous poem about Paul: "Listen my children and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere/On the eighteenth of April of 75/Hardly a man is now alive/Who remembers that famous day and year."
Zack: Ivy!
Ivy: What's going on?
Curator: What happened? Where did it go? It disappeared!
Ivy: Come on!
Ivy: The bigger they are, the harder they fall, Four Chin!
Zack: Is she okay?
Ivy: She won't be slam dancing for a while, but she's fine.
Ivy: Chief, are you okay?
Chief: I'm fine, I'm fine. I just can't seem to control this balley (?) accent slipping all over the place. Look, I'll do a systems' check. Back after these messages, tally-ho, sorry.
Zack: Hey, my favorite scientist, Albert Einstein!
Ivy: Zack, didn't Einstein believed if something were to go at an extremely high speed, like, say, the speed of light--
Zack: --that it would get real heavy, and time would even slow down. Yeah, that's part of his famous Theory of Relativity, so?
Ivy: So? What if Professor Sara Bellum used this research and found a way to break the speed of light?
Zack: Impossible. I mean, if she did that, Carmen would actually travel through--time. Whoa! Carmen has figured out how to time travel! Ivy, look!
Ivy: Sara Bellum was using this to monitor her crime spree through history!
Chief: I can't seem to understand what's happening, bobbies!
Ivy: I'll tell you what's happening! Carmen's built a time machine!
Zack: And what she's stealing back in the 1700s is somehow changing history!
Ivy: The Queen's flag flying over the Boston state house, your English accent, Chief, how are we ever gonna stop her now and get history back on track?
Chief: Actually coppers, CrimeNet has suspected Carmen might try something like this for quite some time.
Zack: What?
Ivy: Why didn't you tell us?
Chief: I couldn't--
Zack and Ivy: --tell you, it's top secret.
Chief: Right you are. I give you Acme's newest secret weapon against time crime. The Chronoskimmer! Named it myself. You just punch in a date and destination and crikey, that's where you'll end up.
Zack: Hey, look, Chief, if you think I'm going hip-hopping through the ages with this, this oversized garage door opener, you're--
Ivy: Gimme that. Chief, if you need us, we'll be visiting Paul Revere in 1775.
Chief: I'd say that's smashing of you.
Ivy: And we'll see if we can't clear up your accent.
Ivy: The Chronoskimmer works! We've gone back in time, Zack!
Zack: This is really Boston, 1775?
Ivy: Huh?
British Soldier: Colonial rebels! Seize them!
Zack: I don't believe this!
Ivy: Run! Well believe it, little bro, we're about to join the American Revolution!
Ivy: "Listen my children and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere."
Ivy: "Mr. Paul Revere, silversmith"?
Paul Revere: Ex-silversmith, you mean.
Ivy: Zack, Zack, it's Paul Revere! We're face to face with one of the most famous heroes of the American Revolution!
Paul Revere: Who are you? What are you? Witches? Are you witches?!
Zack: Dude, we're definitely not witches! But she can throw some pretty major attitude, full moon or no.
Ivy: Zack!
Zack: Ha!
Woman: Traitor!
Zack: Huh?
Man: We trusted you! It was your responsibility to warn us the British were coming!
Woman: And you fell off your horse!
Paul Revere: I've told it, neighbors. My horse stumbled and I with him. I could not warn the colonists as I promised.
Ivy: Zack, Paul Revere never made his famous midnight ride to warn the colonists the British were coming!
Zack: That explains why America's turning British in the future!
Ivy: Without Paul Revere's ride the American Revolution never happened!
Paul Revere: We colonists were thoroughly trounced by the British, thanks to my blunder.
Zack: Boy, some hero he turns out to be.
Ivy: He is a hero, Zack! But everything's all screwed up because of Carmen! Now, we've got to find her, catch her, and return whatever she stole in order to make things right again! Great. A golf ball and tee. This is our clue?
Zack: There's a note. "Find the missing link or never get off the ground." Missing link?
Colonist: Look, there's a redcoat aboard!
Zack: That's no redcoat!
Ivy: That's Carmen Sandiego!
Carmen: Sorry to break up your little tea party, detectives! Sayonara!
Colonist 1: The redcoats!
Colonist 2: We can't be seen here!
Colonist 3: They'll think we stole the ships!
Ivy: The colonists are doomed!
Zack: It isn't supposed to be happening this way!
Japanese Man: {Oh! Foreigners!}
Zack: Run!
Zack: {We're the Dutch! We're with the trading ships!}
Ben Franklin: Woman! I say! What's the meaning of this?
Zack: Come in, Chief, come in! We've got Carmen red-handed!
Chief: *computer failure*
Ivy: Chief! Go to auxilary power!
Zack: It's no use, Ivy! By stealing Ben Franklin's key, Carmen's stopped his research!
Ben Franklin: Come back this instant! Whoever you are!
Zack: And changed the development of all technology that came afterwards! Come on, if we don't get that key back, there'll be no more computers! And without Acme's mainframe, we'll be stuck here in time forever!
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