Retribution, Part Three: Maelstrom's Revenge
Episode Synopsis:
Part 3 of 3. Carmen teams up with Zack and Ivy to bring Maelstrom in when he starts committing crimes to frame Carmen.
Chief: I'll buy a dozen tickets to the policemen's ball! I'll empty parking meters for you for a month! But work with me on this! Zack and Ivy helped Carmen because she's our only chance of stopping Maelstrom!
Officer: Okay, okay, Chief. I'll let your detectives go, as long as Acme absolves my department of all responsibilities.
Chief: Oh! Done! Deal! It's a done deal! Sign, spit, rub your hands together and noogie till they cry, "Uncle!" Yeah! Just let them out!
Zack: A little paperwork?! Augh!
Chief: Ain't there any trees left in Virginia? Sheesh!
Carmen: Ha ha ha! Catching up on your homework, detectives?
Zack: Yeah. I'm writing a hundred times, "I will never let Carmen get away again."
Carmen: Come on, Zack. We've got to trust each other. Is that any way to thank me for finding Maelstrom's clue?
Zack and Ivy: What?
Ivy: What happened to you?
Carmen: Slight failure to fly during my escape. But a little sprain won't stop me from putting Maelstrom's reign of terror to an end.
Carmen: Wait! The music! That's the "Toreador Song" from the opera--
Zack and Ivy: Carmen!
Chief: Oh, I love this opera!
Ivy: Maelstrom wants to ruin your reputation!
Zack: So maybe he'll steal the opera Carmen by George Bizet.
Carmen: And blame it on me.
Ivy: Hold it. Maelstrom may be in Paris, but we can't walk out the door till we finish these.
Carmen: You'll really have to get over this obsession for law and order if you're gonna work with me, detectives.
Zack: Wrong. You're working with us, Carmen. And actually, if we use the C-5, we're not technically going out the door, Ivy.
Chief: Now C-5ing from Williamsburg, Virginia, in the USA, to the City of Lights, Paris.
Officer: {It's Carmen Sandiego! Call for backup! She's gone mad!}
Carmen: I'm not going to let Maelstrom get away with ruining my reputation like this!
Carmen: He took the Carmen score, but he left this clue behind.
Officer: {You are under arrest, Carmen!}
Zack: Now this makes you look bad. They think you're stealing the score!
Ivy: Sorry about this, boys!
Ivy: Well, the clue Maelstrom left in the musuem seems to point to the San Diego mission in California. But it's a 200-year-old church made of adobe mud bricks. If Maelstrom tries to steal that it'll just fall apart.
Carmen: Another perfect choice. He'll make it look like I've stolen it and become as vicious a criminal as Maelstrom.
Carmen: Whatever plans Maelstrom had in his hideout, he didn't want me to find them, did he, Bildge?
Bildge: You'll pay for this, Carmen!
Ivy: The ship's band is giving a concert! We're in luck!
Zack: Yeah, if you like brass band.
Ivy: No, Zack, we're in luck because the crew is ashore and we can search the ship for Maelstrom. Come on!
Carmen: Wait! What does that music remind you of?
Zack: Half time? Hey, that's not a band tune! It's the Habanera! Why are they doing a song from the opera Carmen?
Carmen: Maelstrom's lame idea of a joke, no doubt.
Maelstrom: Now, to set my prize free from its icy prison. Huh? Where's my--?
Carmen: Gloating to yourself is one of six warning signs that you're a psychopath, Maelstrom!
Maelstrom: You!
Carmen: Looking for this?
Maelstrom: How did you get that?
Carmen: Ah!
Maelstrom: I told you a long time ago you'd become a thief, Carmen, but you didn't believe me. Now, witness a crime greater than any you ever dreamed of!
Carmen: Don't fire that, Maelstrom!
Maelstrom: Ah! There's the difference between us, Carmen. You spend so much time with your precious little plans, trying to make tidy entrances and exits, that you forget why we are really thieves in the first place--to take what others have! Period! End of carrier description!
Carmen: Wrong! I do for the mental gymnastics, the challenge of--
Maelstrom: Oh, spare me the twisted philosophies, Carmen. You've got a serious problem, you know that? And the sooner you realize you're no better than anyone else who steals for fun or profit, the better off we'll all be.
*Carmen fights with Maelstrom*
Maelstorm: Three! Two! One! Blast off, Carmen!
Carmen: No!
Maelstrom: Yes!
Zack: I owed you one for the Eiffel Tower!
Maelstrom: Come on, Carmen. I'm not such a bad sort. Just ask the police when they catch you and have me to thank!
Carmen: Just like old times, eh Chief?
Chief: Yeah, and the old body's just what it used to be--useless! Whoa!
Ivy: I don't think the Chief can swim!
Ivy: It was really kind of strange working with Carmen for a change, huh little bro?
Zack: Yeah. You think maybe we had any kind of positive influence on her? I mean, you think she'd ever change her thieving ways?
Chief: Who, Carmen? Forget it! She's a thief! She'll never come back to the side of truth and justice! Never! Mark my words, never! She'll never have anything to do with Acme as long as she lives!
Zack: Ah, never say never, Chief. Look.
Carmen: In the words of an American famous writer, William Faulkner, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."
Player: Right. That means me tracking you wherever you go, Carmen.
Carmen: The future holds nothing but surprises, Player. Get ready for them...if you can.
Chief: And you both did an excellent job, finally putting Doctor Maelstrom behind bars!
Zack: So now you're gonna take us both on a nice, relaxing vacation.
Ivy: To see all the places we had to race through while we were on this case.
Chief: Who said anything about you going on a vacation?
Zack: But those travel photos, your passport!
Chief: Right. I'm going on vacation. You two still have paperwork to finish, explaining your criminal behavior in four corners of the world!
Zack: Oh man!
Ivy: Aw, Chief!
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