Can You Ever Go Home Again? Part One
Episode Synopsis:
Part 1 of 2. Carmen breaks into Malcolm Avalon's home and finds a portrait of a woman Carmen thinks might be her mother. Meanwhile, Lee Jordan breaks out and takes Avalon hostage.
Carmen: You may be one of the most successful businessmen in the world, Malcolm Avalon, but that won't keep me away from a little acquisition I'm interested in tonight.
Carmen: Forget steak tartar, boys. Tonight, it's a Carmen Sandiego special: steak carcar.
Carmen: That will give me one minute until the system detects my override.
Computer: Timer set. You have sixty seconds.
Carmen: Mother?
Carmen: Could I have just tried to rob...my own...family?
Reporter: Moments ago, world famous thief Carmen Sandiego broke into the home of millionaire industrialist Malcolm Avalon, but mysteriously fled the scene empty-handed.
Lee Jordan: You're losing it, Carmen.
Reporter: Thanks to the quick work of private security guards. And reclusive millionaire Avalon had no comment. So I guess we'll never know what Carmen was after. And now, this.
Lee Jordan: Maybe he'll comment if I actually steal whatever she couldn't.
Cruiser: Well, how are you gonna figure out what she was really after, Lee? I mean, if Carmen Sandiego couldn't steal from this guy, heh, how are you gonna do it?
Lee Jordan: Blow off figuring out what Carmen went there for. I'll just take everything Avalon's got. Then I'll have whatever it was.
Cruiser: But that's impossible.
Lee Jordan: Nuh uh. Nothing's impossible.
Cruiser: No one can--
Lee Jordan: Stuff a sock in it, would ya? Yeah. The time's definitely right for Carmen to retire, and Lee Jordan to step up to the big time. So long, Carmen.
Ivy: I just don't get it, Zack. Why would Carmen steal all this research material from the Library of Congress and then just abandon it?
Zack: Yeah, think of the overdue book fines she'll have to pay.
Malcolm Avalon: Huh? Who's there? Marguerite...what kind of sick joke is this?
Carmen: That's a picture of your wife, isn't it, Mr. Avalon?
Malcolm Avalon: Who's there? Show yourself! Carmen Sandiego!
Carmen: Let me explain! Stop!
Malcolm Avalon: Where did you steal this?
Carmen: If you sit down, I'll tell you. I did some investigating last night and learned some sketchy details about your wife and daughter. It must've hard losing them.
Malcolm Avalon: Almost 30 years ago, Marguerite and my beautiful baby girl went with me on a business trip to San Francisco. They stayed behind at the hotel. I got word that there was a fire. I raced across town and...
Young Malcolm Avalon: "No!"
Malcolm Avalon: I lost everything I cared about in the world that night. This locket was a gift to my daughter. Where did you get it?!
Carmen: I've had it for as long as I could remember. The director of the orphanage where I grew up says I was wearing it when a police man found me wandering the streets in San Francisco. I was two years old at the time, and I have no memory of my mother and father, but is it possible I...somehow escaped the fire that night and...you...are...my father?
Malcolm Avalon: If my daughter had lived, she would've grown up smart and brave! Never a thief and coward who runs from the law like you! I don't know where you got this, but you never got it from me!
Zack: Oh man! If it wasn't for the Wright brothers, we wouldn't be in this mess!
Ivy: All I have to say is, pretty smooth, Zack.
Zack: Just call me Agent Double-Oh-Zack. Danger is my second language. I can say all the words that cause others to tremble. Do not enter. Caution, this vehicle makes wide turns. Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.
Zack: Does Carmen really believe Avalon is her dad?
Ivy: If she does, she must be taking it really hard being disowned by him like this.
Carmen: Zack and Ivy, be prepared. My next theft--a mother doubled.
Zack: We've got to call for backup, sis!
Ivy: Uh huh. I thought danger was your second language?
Zack: Well, yeah, but sometimes Chicken Liver is my middle name.
Ivy: Carmen!
Carmen: Glad to see you, Ivy.
Ivy: Now you see me, and now you don't!
Ivy: Woohoo! We did it, Zack! We captured Carmen Sandiego!
Zack: Yeah! We did it, sis! WE DID IT!
Ivy: YES!
Reporter 1: And so, world famous thief Carmen Sandiego is finally arrested!
Reporter 2: Do you have any comments, Carmen?
Carmen: A comment? I just want my father to know I believe the greatest thing about human beings is their capacity to change. And I hope he agrees.
Malcolm Avalon: She does have your willful determination, Marguerite.
Josha, Zack, Ivy: Here's to Acme!
Josha: A root beer to us, to the greatest Acme detectives in the world!
Chief: And to Carmen Sandiego being behind bars where she belongs! Incoming Acme hot tip! Whoa, nobody deserves this much fun in one lifetime!
Ivy: What is it, Chief?
Chief: Well, it seems you're gonna have to capture Carmen all over again.
Josha, Zack, Ivy: What?
Zack and Josha: What are you talking about?
Ivy: Wait a minute!
Chief: She was being processed through a Russian jail when news broke over the TV that Malcolm Avalon had been kidnapped!
Josha: Is that the guy Carmen thinks is her father?
Chief: She escaped from custody, and was last spotted heading north up the Volga River.
Ivy: She could be anywhere by now, Chief!
Zack: Any info on Avalon's kidnappers?
Ivy: Lee Jordan! What's the connection?
Zack: Wanna bet he and Carmen are headed for a confrontation even bigger than they had the last time?
Ivy: And I've got a hunch we should check out their old stomping grounds.
Zack: Player, C-5 us to these coordinates in Switzerland!
Lee Jordan: Interesting story, daddy. And if Carmen is your daughter, then I've just hit the motherlode!
Carmen: Game's over, Lee. Let Avalon go.
Lee Jordan: Wrong, Carmen. The game has just begun.
Malcolm Avalon: Don't do anything he says, Carmen!
Malcolm Avalon: People can change! Be strong!
Lee Jordan: Some people change. But not you, Carmen. You are going to use your great thieving skills to steal me anything I want in the world, or you'll never see Daddy again.
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