Transcript for The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest episode The Secret of the Moai.
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: [theme music]
: [music continues]
: [intense music]
: [grunting]
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: [grunting]
: [electronic buzzing]
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: Whoosh [zapping]
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: [hooting]
: [machine whirring]
: [grunting]
: [dramatic music]
: [grunting continues]
: [whirring stops]
: [rumbling]
: [ominous music]
: [screaming]
: [music continues]
: [upbeat music]
: [drumbeats]
: Say cheese.
: [camera clicking]
: Thanks, big fella.
Hadji: Jonny, Jonny!
: Come and help your father with the Vibroseis Cannon.
: [intense music]
: Hang on, pop. I'll give you a hand.
: Now, we'll see just what's inside this strange lava form.
: [lever clicking]
: Ready, Hadji?
: Ready, Dr. Quest.
: [beeping]
: [explosion]
: Dr. Quest, look.
: The sonar from the Vibroseis Cannon is definitely outlining some form of cave, down there.
: And those appear very much to be... bones.
: [plane droning]
Race: Easy now. Hold her steady. Real good, darling.
: Now, you can put her down on the water or the tarmac at Mataveri.
: Water sounds like more fun.
: (male on radio) 'Easter Island base to Quest Catalina.
: Come in, Race. Do you read me?
: Loud and clear, hefe.
: I need you to stop in Hanga Roa and pick up a two foot auger bit and extra drilling pipe.
: We found something very intriguing.
: But it may require a little digging.
Race: You got it, Benton.
: Chill, dad. It's under control.
: Alright. Just ease up on the throttle a little.
: [propellers whirring]
: Phew!
: Heck of a landing, kiddo.
: Thanks, dad.
: [whirring]
Hadji: Dr. Quest, I've been studying the sonar readings of the cave.
: It is a perfect sphere.
: Are you sure?
: Very. The volume is four times pi times the radius cubed.
: That's a sphere, alright.
Hadji: There is one more thing, Dr. Quest.
: This sphere is so perfect that my calculations measured pi'
: accurately past the two millionth digit.
: Unfortunately, my computer could go no further.
Dr. Quest: That's impossible. A sphere like that...
Hadji: Could only have been created in zero gravity.
Race: Hey, we're all set to roll here.
: Only, who's small enough to slip down that hole?
: Ready, willing and able.
: [mysterious music]
: You gettin' this, dad.
Dr. Quest: Pan more slowly, son.
: Jonny, what on earth! Wait, Jonny!
: Get a close up of those tablets.
: [dramatic music]
: That looks like a Rango Rango.
: A what?
: An ancient tablet peculiar to this island.
: To this day, no scientist has been able
: to decipher the hieroglyphics.
: Normally, Rango Rango tablets are made of wood.
: I've never seen a metal one before.
: Jonny, as soon as we can mark and log every inch of that cave
: let's get those bones up here, for further study.
: [mysterious music]
: The sample is quite perplexing.
: It's like this species' genetic make-up was somehow... altered.
: These bones are even more enigmatic than the first set.
: Whatever it is, I doubt we'll find it in any textbooks.
: Alas, poor Moai! I-knew-meratio.
: Get with it, Jonny. This is serious business.
Jonny: I know.
: And I'm saying that maybe there's more to the Moai, than meets the eye.
: Uh, yeah.
: I bet if we scan these bones into Questworld...
: We could reconstruct these beings in virtual reality.
: Hi-five, Jess! Man, we're smart!
: Well, let's just hope we're not too smart.
Jonny: Assembling the scans... now.
: Now, let's onboard a simulated D.N.A. chain.
: Hmm. Interesting.
: [intense music]
: Hmm. Interesting.
: Oh!
: Wow!
: Either King Kong's making a comeback..
: Or we found the missing link.
: Let us continue the test with the second set of bones.
: [music continues]
: I've never seen a triple helix D.N.A. strand before.
: Fascinating.
: [dramatic music]
: Out of this world!
: Well, I'll be...
: Don't say it, dad.
Race: A Moai's uncle.
: [intense music]
: I hate jumping to conclusions, but we may have found...
: The remains of an extraterrestrial.
: [music continues]
: Look, no ears!
: Let's enlarge the head.
: Hadji, gimme a cross-section of the skull.
: Notice the large brainpan.
Jessie: That nasal cavity is huge!
: It may not be a nasal cavity, but rather, a sound chamber.
: Similar to those found in chiroptera and cetaceans!
: That's bats and whales to you, Jess.
: Oh, really? Duh!
: But this chamber appears to be far too evolved for simple echo location.
: Jonny, put that down.
: Man, these bones are hollow, just like a bird's.
: Perhaps..
: [resonating sound]
: [bones rattling]
: Of course. The chamber evolved for harmonic amplification.
: This requires further testing.
: [rattling]
: Ready for good ol' country-fried rock?
: I believe the phrase is, Ready to rock and roll.
: Hey, cut me some slack, Hadji.
: Alright, Hadji. Let's start with the same note the bones play.
: [clicking]
: [resonating sound]
: Now, run that note through the computer model of the skull sound chamber.
: [keys clicking]
: [rumbling]
: [sonic humming]
: Wow! Take a look at that!
: [humming continues]
: [rumbling]
: [intense music]
: [bones rattling]
: Man!
: [rumbling stops]
: What's up, Jess?
: This grass.
: Notice anything strange?
Jonny: Oh, man, either these statues are made out of fertilizer...
: Or this vegetation was somehow affected during our sound tests.
: You've really got to take a look at this.
: I've never seen anything like this before.
: Hadji, run full D.N.A. tests through the computer on this grass.
: And see what we get.
: I already have, Dr. Quest.
: There is certainly evidence to indicate that the sound patterns have altered the D.N.A. in the grass sample.
Surd: Ha.
: The Quests have stumbled upon
: a sound based D.N.A. altering technology.
: If the genetic make up of that grass was modified then it may work on animals, and possibly humans.
: That could mean..
: Physical reformation. I could be whole again!
: Julia, get Lorenzo. We must obtain that technology.
Race: If that thing's capable of human mutation
: man, there's moral implications till Tuesday.
: You're right, Race.
: We've got to figure out the controlling factors of the sound chamber, before we dare release any information.
: You got it, Benton.
: Never open a can of worms until you're ready to go fishing.
Lorenzo: Here's the plan.
: We take control of the Quest camp then wait for the boss.
: [plane droning]
: [intense music]
: [gun clicking]
: [music intensifies]
: [dramatic music]
: Ow!
: You ignorant or just plain stupid.
: Don't be messing with Dr. Surd's plan.
: You do like you're told! Got that?
: Oh, my! This is not good!
: It appears that Jeremiah Surd is hacking our files!
: On the alien sound technology?
: If there's one person in the world who shouldn't have the power to alter D.N.A...
: It's Dr. Jeremiah Surd.
Dr. Quest: Hadji, you must block his access.
: [keys clicking]
: I'm downloading the sound technology parameters... now!
: [buzzing]
Surd: Excellent.
: Everything must be an exact replica.
: With the power of advancing human genetics at my fingertips I will have limitless power!
: Muahahaha.
: It is no use. Dr. Surd is already deep in our system.
: Then we gotta go hot and stop him in Questworld.
: Let's do it!
: Hold it right there, you two.
: This is not a job for a couple of kids.
: But...
: No buts, Jonny. Race is right.
: We'll put a stop to Surd.
: [dramatic music]
: Questworld log on.
: Subjects, Dr. Benton Quest and Race Bannon.
: Countdown. Five, four, three, two, one.
: Goin' hot!
: [zapping]
: [buzzing]
Surd: I'm so glad you two could join me
: for my celebration of evolution.
: Forwards and backwards.
: You see, I've decided to reverse your genetics
: to that of an ape.
: And it would be fascinating to watch
: an exceptional mind like yours, Dr. Quest becoming that of a... a primate.
: [sonic humming]
Dr. Quest: He's using the alien technology.
: I gotta tell you, Surd...
: I really hate your taste in music.
: [gunfire]
: Zap zap boom [dramatic music]
: Boom [groaning]
Hadji: Dr. Quest is regressing.
Jonny: They're turning into apes.
: This is not good.
: We've got to do something.
Lorenzo: Yeah.
: Put your hands in the air
: and step away from the keyboards.
: [humming continues]
: [grunting]
Jessie: Look what he's doing to my dad!
Lorenzo: We're in position, boss.
: Excellent, Lorenzo.
: Now, pull Quest and Bannon out of Questworld.
: You cannot do such a thing!
: Their Questworld psyches will be transferred permanently into their real world bodies.
: I think that's exactly what the boss had in mind.
Jonny: They'll have the minds of primates.
: That wont' be much of a stretch for Bannon.
: Now, back off!
: Questworld powering down!
: [gunfire]
: [dramatic music]
: [buzzing]
: [grunting]
: [hooting]
: Now, this is sweet!
: [music continues]
: Get off!
: Give me that!
: Excuse me. But, uh!
: Ow!
: Will you, please...
: [grunting]
: Thud [music continues]
: Thwack [grunting]
: A-a-a-h!
: Pop, it's me!
: Dad, wait!
: Dad, you're Dr. Benton Quest. I'm your son, Jonny.
: Don't you even recognize me?
: [music continues]
: It's me, dad, your little girl.
: Your ponchita.
: [grunting]
: Oh, what are we gonna do? Just look at our dads.
: If Surd can alter their minds in Questworld then all we have to do is reverse the process.
: I'm afraid not. Our computers are in quite a predicament.
: I've got just what the doctor ordered.
: But without the harmonic files on the main computer we've no way of accessing the D.N.A. altering technology.
: You're wrong, Hadj.
: It's kind of a long shot, but I got an idea.
: I started thinking, that if the bones were musical
: the skull was musical and the Moai are musical
: then it only figured that maybe these funky markings were notes and not words.
: So, they were indecipherable because people thought of them as language and not music.
: Let's enter these variables into the Rango Rango sequence.
: Dr. Quest initiated. It may crack the code.
: Now, instruct the computer to translate the characters as sound patterns.
: Let's hope that's our answer.
: Often, one need only ask the question correctly to obtain the desired answer.
: [beeping]
: [dramatic music]
: [rumbling]
Hadji: Unbelievable!
: The hieroglyphics are notes.
: [helicopter whirring]
Surd: I'm ever so grateful for all the work you've done.
: Now, if you'll be kind enough to hand over the artifacts and your computer files?
: And no monkey shines.
: Uh, sir, you really should take a look behind you.
: Really, young Mr. Quest.
: You don't expect me to fall for that tired old ploy?
: No, boss! It ain't no ploy!
: [hooting]
: [intense music]
: [zapping]
: A-a-a-h!
: [zapping continues]
: Uh? Um?
: What happened?
: I remember Race and I were going into Questworld and then..
: Hmm.
: What was that for?
: I'm not sure.
: But I'm just really glad to see you, for some reason.
Surd: Julia, what's going on? Where are we?
: Well, these are the Nazca plains. In Peru.
: How did we get here?
: I have no idea.
: I seem to remember something about the Quests and then..
: Nothing until now.
: The computer files for the past three days have been erased.
: I must confess that I remember very little.
: Yeah, it's like there's something in my mind it's just outta reach.
: I remember a lot of anger and then something weird, I..
: ...I remember your voice speaking to me, ponchita.'
: I remember something about the Moai statues and music but it's all very vague.
: Somehow, I believe we've all suffered some form of group amnesia.
: As Jonny would say, This is too strange for school.
Jessie: Well, I'll bet they know what happened.
: Lot of good that'll do us.
: They've kept their secrets this long I doubt they'll start talking now.
: [theme music]
: [music continues]
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