A Higher Calling
Episode Sypnosis:
Carmen steals items in an attempt to contact extraterrestials.
Screencaps:
Bobby: Did you see that?
Sir Nigel Fenwick: Blasted!
Sir Nigel Fenwick: Give up, Carmen Sandiego! You can't steal Stonehenge with all of Scotland Yard looking up! What do you say to that?
Carmen: I say, cheerio!
Sir Nigel Fenwick: Is there no one on earth who can catch Carmen Sandiego?
Carmen: I've just pulled off one of my most daring thefts ever.
Player: You won't get away with it, Carmen.
Carmen: Try if you like, Player, you won't catch me.
Ivy: Oh no! Look at this, Zack! My horoscope is awful today!
Zack: Oh come on, Ivy, you know you can't believe everything you read in the newspaper.
Ivy: But Zack, listen to this. "Watch your step today. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."
Zack: Sounds like the Chief. Wonder what's up. Go ahead, Chief.
Chief: Hello, hello! Scotland Yard just called, seems Carmen Sandiego has stolen--get this--Stonehenge! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Zack: And you're in a good mood because of this?
Chief: No, I'm in a good mood because I've always wanted muscles like this! Pretty buff, huh? And because the Player wants you two on the job immediately!
Zack: Player, C-5 us to the scene of the crime!
Chief: I'll be back.
Zack: Huh?
Ivy: Oh, yuck! You still say horoscopes are just a lot of hocus-pocus?
Zack: If you want good things to happen, Ivy, you've got to look on the bright side. I mean, hey, it could be raining.
Ivy: See? I told you.
Zack: No, don't start! Your horoscope did not do this! England's a very wet country, Ivy, it rains almost 200 days a year.
Ivy: And where's the bright side in that, Mr. Have-A-Nice-Day?
Zack: Um...well...okay, fine, but it's not known for earthquakes like back in San Francisco, right? Whoa!
Ivy: If it can go wrong it will!
Zack: Whoa! Looks like Carmen's replacing Stonehenge with her own monolith. Ivy, don't! It could be a trap!
Ivy: Catch.
Zack: Or a bomb!
Ivy: Nah. A bomb's not Carmen's style, little bro. But a clue in a box is.
Zack: Whoa! Chief, you know I don't do heights!
Amati: Zack, Ivy, good to see you. The Chief said you need some help with a Carmen clue.
Ivy: We do. She left this statue at Stonehenge.
Zack: Amati...if I fell, would I survive?
Amati: Sure, until you hit the bottom! Ah ha ha!
Zack: Oh...great.
Zack: Like a Stone Age computer.
Amati: Or a 500 ton calendar, heh.
Zack: Heh, cool.
Amati: But Stonehenge is a lot of different things for different people. Some myths even say it's an ancient landing site for UFOs.
Ivy: Ha ha, UFOs? But that's ridiculous.
Zack: Hey, it's a lot less ridiculous than you believing in that astrology junk. I, for one, think there could be intelligent life on other planets.
Ivy: The Temple of Inscriptions! That's where Pacal is buried!
Zack: Is any of this case going to happen at ground level?
Zack: Ivy! This way!
Ivy: It's them!
Four Chin Hunter: Get them!
Ivy: Let's go! Come on!
Ivy: A trap! There's no way out! Zack, what are you doing?
Zack: Some crypts have speaking tubes built into the walls. Ancient tribes believed that way, their dead could speak to the spirit world. Ha! Voila!
Ivy: Looks like an ordinary crack to me.
Zack: Trust me, it'll do the trick. Don't worry, Ivy! There's no way they'll ever look for us down here!
Four Chin Hunter: Where is he?
Zack: This tomb's the safest place to be!
Four Chin Hunter: Come on! They're downstairs!
Ivy: You said she came down here to look at Pacal's sarcophagus. Why?
Four Chin Hunter: I'm not telling you a thing.
Ivy: Player, we need a connection between Stonehenge, the Arecibo telescope, and Mayan leader Pacal.
Chief: Pacal was a great ruler of the Mayan people over 1300 years ago.
Zack: Boy, was he having a bad hair day or what, eh Chief?
Chief: Trust me, Holmes, that dude was way fly back in 615.
Teacher: What did you do this weekend?
Student 1: I plowed and planted corn.
Student 2: I studied for my geometry quiz.
Student 3: Huh huh, like, I just hung out in the town square.
Pacal: I passed 23 laws, gave away 50 scholarships, arbitrated a peasant uprising, and searched for intelligent life on other planets.
Zack: Whoa! Look what Pacal had carved on his tomb!
Ivy: It almost looks like--
Zack: --he's flying an ancient rocketship!
Ivy: Sure, but it could be almost anything.
Zack: And didn't Amati say some people believed ancient Stonehenge was a UFO landing site?
Ivy: So?
Zack: So? Carmen's henchmen just stole NASA's Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, Ivy.
Ivy: A telescope which has a function--
Zack: --to send out signals searching for intelligent life somewhere else in the universe!
Ivy: You think Carmen's trying to make contact with extraterrestials?
Zack: If she succeeded wouldn't that be the coolest thing ever?
Ivy: Well, yeah, if she weren't stealing to do it.
Zack: See? Your horoscope's wrong. You could've landed in the water, and you didn't, this time.
Zack: Carmen Sandiego saving us? Nobody's horoscope could've called that one.
Ivy: These maoi stoneheads are so beautiful.
Zack: You think there's any way they could've been carved in honor of ancient space travelers, Ivy?
Ivy: I don't believe it, but Carmen's obviously not taking any chances that it's just a myth. And the real question is, where could she be taking everything?
Zack: Player, bring up CrimeNet's videotape on any witnesses to the Arecibo telescope robbery.
Ivy: Think maybe we'll find a straight clue hanging around Puerto Rico?
Security Guard: *rambles on in Spanish*
Zack: Uh, he says he was tied up and locked in a security hut. "All I remember was one of the henchman whistling..." Huh, catchy tune.
Ivy: That's a dead end.
Zack: Wouldn't it be incredible if Carmen could actually contact intelligent life in outer space?
Ivy: Yes, it would be incredible, Zack. But wouldn't it be even more incredible if we were able to catch her tonight?
Zack: Ah!
Ivy: Zack! Hang on!
Carmen: You!
Ivy: We're here to arrest you, Carmen!
Zack: Whoa! Oh no! Ivy, don't let go!
Carmen: It looks as though you've already got your hands full, Ivy. And I saved you once today. Goodbye!
Ivy: Give yourself up, Carmen! The only way out is back up the wires to the ladder! It's over!
Carmen: Wrong, Ivy. It's just beginning.
Zack: A flying saucer! Whoa! She did it, Ivy!
Ivy: Huh? No she didn't! That's no alien! That's one of her own hovercrafts!
Zack: Well, I'd say your horoscope was way wrong today, Ivy.
Ivy: I guess so, little bro. We stopped Carmen's plans and saved these world treasures. Next time we'll stop her too.
Player: You didn't contact aliens.
Carmen: Maybe not this time. But if I ever do, the stars of the sky won't be safe from me, Player.
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