01x07 - Rules Of The Game

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?" Aired: February 5, 1994 - January 2, 1999.*
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While Carmen is originally presented as the show's antagonist, she becomes more like an anti-hero as the series progresses; she even helps Zack and Ivy against mutual enemies.
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01x07 - Rules Of The Game

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♪ [Eerie music]

[Typing on keys]

-Where on earth is carmen sandiego?

♪ [Dramatic music]

♪ Where is carmen sandiego?

♪ Carmen sandiego

♪ Where on earth can she be?

♪ Tell me where is carmen sandiego? ♪

♪ Carmen sandiego

♪ Where on earth can she be?

♪ Where on earth can she be?

♪ Oooh

♪ Sphinx, mona lisa...

♪ Leaning tower of pisa...

♪ London zoo, timbuktu

♪ Can't you help us find a clue ♪

♪ Where is carmen sandiego?

♪ Carmen sandiego

♪ Where on earth can she be?

♪ Where on earth can she be?

[Winds blow]

[Snoring]

[Evil chuckle]

[Device beeps]

[Grunts]

[Beep]

[Gasp]

[Scream of terror]

[Sirens wail]

-From one great lady to another, catherine...

Let's go play in a warmer climate for a while,

Shall we?

[Sirens approach]

[Gasp]

[Gasp]

[Laughter]

-So... Yeah...

I'm kinda' chilun' here in tahiti...

You know, doin' the old vacation thing.

-Gah!

[Giggles]

-Hey!

-Real smooth, romeo.

[Ringtone]

-Go ahead, chief.

-Hot tip! Hot ti--

Oww... Hot sand!

Hot sand! Hot sand! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!whoo!

-Why so glum, beachblanket?

-I just geeked out with the best looking girls

In tahiti, chief.

-Hey, don't sweat the small stuff, zack.

You'll meet plenty of other girls!

-Maybe not on this planet, but--

-Hey, I've seen-

-Alright, alright. Back to business, you two

-Carmen sandiego is at it again!

Late last night, she stole the coach

Catherine the great used when she was crowned

Empress of russia.

-But she only used it to ride to her next heist.

-This statue of catherine the great!

-Do I detect a catherine the great theme developing, chief?

-Well, that's what you and the dateless wonder here

Are going to find out.

-Oh. Yeah. Real nice.

-And I've arranged for a russian...

-Detective to help you on this one.

-We're on it, chief! Oh, and, uh...

This is for the last wisecrack.

-Ahh! Hellllppp! I'm shrinking!

-Player, c-five us outta here!

-Fasten those borscht belts, scam jammers,

You're boogie boarding ...

From the warm winter climate of tahiti...

To the frigid winter temps of st. Petersburg, russia!

-Ah, russia, the largest country in the world...

...is home of the kremlin... Cossack dancers...

And lake baikal, the deepest lake on the planet earth,

At over one mile from surface to sediment,

As the bottom is known.

-Yes, girls and boys it's...

Catherine the great, empress of russia...

-Be the first on your block to own

This fully poseable action figure, commemorating one

Of the most influential women in history.

Your little empress. Kids feel the thrill...

[Laughter]

-Catherine the great felt expanding russia's borders

By two hundred thousand square miles.

-Know the joy she knew starting

The famous hermitage museum...

And establishing russia's very first school for girls

Over two hundred years ago.

-Whoahhh! Mmph!

-I hate this!!!

[Speaking russian]

-Yeah, the ice broke my fall

-I'm tatyanna, from the acme detective agency

In moscow.

-I'm uh... Uh-uh.

Ivy: oh, zack...

-Yeah! Zack.

[Chuckling] come.

I brought some warmer coats for you both.

-Yes! Thank you, chief.

-But why would carmen steal a statue

And leave a snow sculpture?

[Chuckles] that's such an exotic name,

"Tatyanna"!

[Clears throat] mind on the case, little bro.

-This number one might mean it's carmen's first clue...

Or a "number one" tiger she's going after next.

-Look, another part of the clue. Mahjong tiles?

-That's an ancient chinese game.

-Maybe carmen's telling us to look for her in china?

-But what's the tiger got to do with anything?

-Wait a minute. Tiger...

China-tiger of- the tiger of qin!

-Exactly! Zack, you are so smart to know that!

-You really think so?

-Uh... Excuse me, would somebody please

Tell me what's going on?

-The number one could stand for

The first emperor of china.

Player! Some help, please!

-He's the guy who built the great wall

Along four thousand miles of china's border

To keep enemies out.

His name was ch'in shih huang-ti,

But he was also known as the tiger of qin.

Number one tiger!

[Roars & crowd screams]

And if carmen's going after something that belonged to him,

I think I just figured out where... Watch this --

Player, bring up a world map again!

-Check it out, ivy.

Imaginary lines of latitude run around the earth,

Parallel to the equator, right'?

And lines of longitude run from the north pole

To the south pole.

-But, zack, they can't help us

If we don't know exactly what degree of latitude and longitude

Carmen has gone to.

-Ha! You're forgetting how she likes to play games

With us, ivy.

Look at ibese mahjong tiles.

They're giving us perfect coordinates.

-Right! These chinese symbols are

North, east, south and west.

-The directions of the four players

At the game table.

-Or the four points of a compass!

-And these other tiles have symbols

That stand for numbers,

Like on playing cards or dominos!

-So, carmen is at thirty-four degrees north

By one-oh-eight degrees east.

-Zack, I am very impressed.

-You'llchange your tune...

Once you see him open a bottle of soda.

It's not a pretty sight.

-Uh, yeah. I love you, too, ivy.

-Player, c-five us to xi'an, china!

-If I didn't know better,

With all this fog I'd say we're in london. Not china.

-You hear that?

-Don't be afraid...

Yyuughhhh!

-What in the world was that?

-I don't know. But here it comes again.

[Scream] -let's get outta here!

-My foot's stuck!

[Breathless] come on!

[Screams] -zak!

-Help me, ivy!

[Struggling, exertion]

Zack!

-You two okay?

-Yes. Thanks.

-C'mon. Let's follow those rails.

-Yeah. Carmen can't be far now.

-Your brother zack is so...

How do you say it in english...

-Hmm. Desperate to impress you?

[Laughing] well, I was thinking, "brave" but...

-Trust me. The word is desperate!

-Whoa!

-What is it?

-It's the mount li burial site. The

-First emperor of china had his artists

Make an army of six thousand to be buried with him.

Each one is different.

Probably designed 'em to look like his real army.

-And get this! They've been buried here

With ch'in shih huang-ti for over two thousand years?

-Shh! Someone's coming!

[Grunt]

-What was that?

-Let's check it out.

[Grunt] uh=oh!

-It's one of those acme detectives.

-Wrong, muscle mouth.

It's three of those acme detectives.

So... You're first!

Catch!

-Huh?!

-And you're next.

-After them!

They'll lead us to carmen!

-Ooofff.... Unghhh!

-Come on! We can follow the tracks.

-Or better yet, we can follow these "clues."

[Speaking mandarin]

-Ivy, do you think zack is cute?

Ha!

Yeah, and formica's edible.

Come on, he's my brother.

-I can't figure the connection between

A statue of caiberine the great from russia

And ibe sixteen clay soldiers she stole here.

-What is carmen up to?

And what do these playing cards mean?

Hmm. Wait a minute, ivy.

These cards are almost all jacks, kings, queens.

And there's only forty-eight inibedeck.

Sounds like pinochle,

A card game with only cards.

But there are only twelve in my deck.

Whoa! Guys, guys!

Carmen's showing us her hand again.

Forty-eight and twelve could be

Latitude and longitude.

-Player, bring up the world map a sec.

-Remember when the henchman gave us the cards

He said "you're first"

Well, latitude always goes first!

-My deck had forty-eight cards,

So try latitude forty-eight degrees.

-And mine had twelve. Longitude twelve degrees.

-But without knowing if the forty-eight degrees

Latitude is north or south of the equator ...

-Or if twelve degrees longitude here

Is east or west of the prime meridian ...

-Which is zero degrees through greenwich, england.

Ohh... Carmen could be at any of these four spots.

-Ah! But then we do a simple

Process of elimination, little bro'.

Only one of these sits on dry land.

-I say we make our first stop in bavaria, germany.

But where exactly is the question?

-Hot tip, gumshoes! This just in from crime net.

Carmen's pulling off another robbery.

-In bavaria, chief?

-Well, aren't we just the teacher's pet, hmm?

She and her henchmen were spotted in

The most photographed castle in europe

-That's the famous castle neuschwanstein!

-Player, c-five us to bavaria, germany

And hold the sauerkraut!

-This is your captain speaking.

We'll be c-five-ing from china to bavaria,

The largest state in germany.

-Bavaria, germany is where you can visit

The bavarian alps... [Yodels] ...

-The capital city of munich...

And the beautiful danube,

Second longest river in europe.

-Okay, listen up, you're headed to one

Of the castles built by this guy, king ludwig ii

Of bavaria.

-Hey, he was the king who lost his front teeth,

From eating too many german cakes and candies.

-Yup. Even kings should brush

Their royal choppers after snacks, zack.

[Yells]

-Hey, the c-five's working great.

That's two out of two direct hits.

-Uh... Ivy, if this is a direct hit,

And this neuschwanstein, then what's that?

-That's neuschwanstein!

And ibere's a turret missing!

Because you're in it!

[Gasps] -oh, boy!

The only way out is up!!

-But how are we...

Look! That's how.

So glad you could make it.

-What's your game this time, carmen'?

-One we can play out completely...

...now that you're here, detectives.

-We can make it if we jump!

-Huh? What are you--

-Tatyannaaaaaaaa!

-Stop her!

-Oooofff... Ughhh...

-I'm past the water.

[A quick scream]

[Coughing]

[Softly] ivy!

-I got an idea. Come on!

-Give me your hand.

-Never!

-Don't be so childish, ivy. I'm trying to help you.

-I'll take care of mysellll... [Scream, gasp]

-This is an albatros d -three,

The same kind of plane the red baron flew in world w*r one.

-Oh, yes! You know how to fly it, right?

-Right!... Uh, left...

-Whoaaa!

-Help! I'm... Slipping.

-Ivy! Give me your hand.

-I'm coming, sis! I'm coming!

[Scream]

I... Can't... Hold...

Aaaahhhh!

-Ivyyy!

-Ahhh!

[Impact grunts]

-Hey, ivy, pull up a wing,

We're about to run the in-flight movie.

-Zack! Look out! [Gasps, yells]

-Whoa!

[Screams... Grunts on impact]

Uh, ivy? [Chuckles]

Got a little item to add to our expense account.

-But what on earth is carmen up to?

So far she's stolen a castle tower...

A statue of the empress of russia.

And sixteen chinese foot soldiers.

[Ringtone]

What's up, chief?

-Hot tip, gumshoes.

In the last twelve hours, there has been

A rash of other robberies linked to carmen's henchmen.

-What do you take for a robbery rash? Anyway...

Three more castle turrets have vanished...

Suits of armour from the victoria and albert museum

In london...

Bishop statues from the vatican in rome

And check this out....

The entire courtyard from the citadel m*llitary school

In charlston, south carolina.

-Whoa! Chief, montage-scan the stolen items all at once!

-It looks like a chess set...

-Check and mate,sis!

That's why carmen's been giving us clues

In the disguise of games.

She wants to play the world's biggest chess game!

-Ooh, I am impressed.

Now, if you can just bust this clue she messengered

To the agency, maybe you can nab her once and for all

-C-five express...

When you absolutely, positively have to

Bust a clue overnight.

-A sandwich?

-And a crossword puzzle?

-Only two spots are empty on this crossword puzzle...

Twenty across, "molten rock" and one fifty-five down,

"Hollow cylinder."

-Twenty and one fifty-five!

Sounds like a latitude and longitude again!

Player, do your stuff.

-Look! One of the locations is hawaii.

-The puzzle came inside a sandwich!

And british captain, james cooke,

Landed in the hawaiian islands

In seventeen ninety-five.

-Originally naming them the sandwich islands,

In honor of the earl of sandwich.

That's got to be it. Nice going, tatyanna!

-Whoa! Hey! Not so fast my three musketeers.

Hawaii is an archipelago.

Over fifteen hundred miles long,

With a hundred and thirty -two islands.

Carmen can only be on one!

-Well, thlnk. What does she still need?

-She doesn't have a king!

-One of hawaii's best-known kings

Is kamehameha the first, who unified the islands!

-Ah, there's a famous statue of him

On the big island.

-Where they also have an active volcano

That produces "hollow cylinders of molten rock"

Called lava tubes!

-Yes!! Tatyanna, I could kiss you!

-Huh?!

-Oh, I never kiss on the first case.

-Oh, puleeese!

Player! C-five us to hawaii!

-Whoa! We were right.

Carmen set up a giant chess board.

-And there's king kamehameha.

Oh, noooooo!

-Welcome, detectives.

You've been my most worthy adversaries.

I know you'll give me a good game.

-Somehow carmen's managed to magnetize the board

And make us part of the game!

-Hey, I only play if it's "winner-take-all," carmen.

-I wouldn't have it any other way.

Now let the game begin.

-Pawn g-two to g-four.

-Zack, make a move that gets

One of your knights down here near us.

-Pawn b-seven to b-five.

Ivy, I can b*at her. I know I can.

-Bishop f-one to g-two.

-This is no time to show off, zack.

-Knight b-eight to c-six.

Pawn d-two to d-three.

-Pawn d-seven to d-five.

-Whoaaa!

Hiyyaaaa!

-Whoa!

-Come on. Let's go checkmate carmen!

-I could'a b*at her.

-She's escaping down those lava tubes!

[Yells]

-Wouldn't you know, we got last year's model.

-What dowe do now? Paddle.

-I could've b*at her, I could've.

-So, zack, now that tatyanna's going home,

Is there something you wanted to ask her?

-Uh... Yeah...

[Clears throat] hey, tatyanna,

If I ever come to russia, think maybe you and me...

[Yelps]

[Laughter]

-Hey! You shook it, ivy! You shook it!

[Laughter continues]

♪ Where is carmen sandiego?

♪ Carmen sandiego?

♪ Where on earth can she be?

♪ Where is carmen sandiego?

♪ Carmen sandiego?

♪ Where on earth can she be?

♪ Where on earth can she be?
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