01x14 - The Evil of Doctor Dark

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- You expect me to eat this slop?

- Display of aggressive behavior.

All privileges suspended.

- Blast you all.

You'll pay for this.

Soon, very soon.

- Mara. Ra.

I sense that Dark is planning something.

- Yes, Lilith,

why don't we pry it out of his mind?

- Unite and Concentrate.

- No. I won't do it.

I no longer wish to be a psychic warrior.

- You have no choice, my dear little sister.

Join us.

- I can't fight you.

I'll, I'll--help.

- [groaning]

Stop. Get out of my mind now.

- This is the human we seek,

Doctor Damion Dark.

This human must be freed at all costs.

- What? The prison is under attack.

- This is Warden Taylor.

Condition red, sound the alarm.

Lock the asteroid cannons on the enemy ships.

No use, there's too many of them.

Open emergency channels.

- At last, they've come.

- Search this block, find him.

- Freedom at long last.

- Take us. We'll serve you.

- Speak for yourself, sister, I want no part of this.

- Shut up, Mara.

- Having three Psychic Warriors to do my bidding

may come in very handy.

- Very well.

- No!

- Come, sister, we need you.

- Prison Altos Five, calling any ships in the area.

Doctor Damion Dark and three

of our most dangerous prisoners have escaped.

We need help.

Any ships in the area?

- Flash Gordon here, Warden!

I'm on my way to intercept.

- A ship approaching.

It's Flash Gordon.

Deploy the fighters.

Destroy him.

- Enemy Fighters approaching, dead ahead and closing.

- Ah!

- Flash.

A dream.

It was all a dream.

Just a nightmare, nothing more.

- What?

- [laughter]

- Master Vandar.

- It was no dream, Mandrake.

He is free, our betrayer has escaped.

- Then it's true?

Doctor Dark seeks the Orb of Konos again.

- Yes.

You must reach the Amber Keep first and stop him.

Or all could be lost.

- Monitor calling Mandrake, come in.

- Yes, Lothar, go ahead.

- Mandrake, we've got an emergency.

Ming's troops attacked Altos prison.

- Yes, I know.

- Flash is on his way to intercept

Ming's ships now.

- Lothar, listen, you must stop him.

- Stop Flash? But why?

- There's no time to explain.

Call him back. His life is in danger.

- It is Flash Gordon's ship.
[ … ]

Deploy our fighters.

Destroy him.

- Imperial Fighters approaching,

dead ahead and closing.

- Don't say dead. It's bad luck.

- Warning! Main engine failure.

- What the--Oh no!

- There's Gordon.

Ram him.

- Evasive action!

Evasive action!

- Come on, come on.

Kick in.

Yeah, baby, go!

- Mandrake says I'll have to catch you guys another day.

- Reform the fleet.

All ships set course back to Ice Station Earth.

- I am sorry, Master.

I know it was wrong to allow Flash

to be warned of his fate

but I could not let him die.

- You cannot use your powers to alter destiny, Mandrake.

That is your one weakness.

Now come, we must stop Damion Dark,

for if we don't,

the very universe itself may not survive.

- Hail, oh merciless one,

my most humble thanks for rescuing me from that--

- You were to bring Dark alone.

- Sire, I, I--

- Excellency, I ordered Garax to bring them.

I thought they might prove useful to me,

uh, to us.

- I fail to see how, Dark.

- Oh, they are psychic warriors, from Regula, observe.

A demonstration for our lord Ming.

- Yes, most impressive.

But in the future, you will do only as I command.

- Yes, Sire.

- And now, Dark, I have a gift for you.

- My Shadow Key.

I feel my powers returning.

Yes!

- Now show me this miraculous crystal

you've boast about.

- Of course, Sire.

Behold, , years ago,

the island of Atlantis.

In a dark galaxy, this tiny island

was the center of culture and technology.

The Orb of Konos made this possible.

It tapped the Shadow Void,

the web that balances and links the universe.

The Orb posses power over life,

power to grant immortality.

Then, disaster struck.

The Earth itself shifted, the oceans rose.

In the final moments,

the orb was broken into three pieces,

which were separated and hidden.

If I can reassemble the orb--

- Then you will have the power to make me immortal.

- Yes, my Emperor.

- Get me to Rylos.

The key to finding the pieces of the orb is there.

Do we have a bargain?

- Yes, a bargain indeed.

- Flash, Rick,

I need you to get me to Rylos

and the Amber Keep immediately.

- Jedda and I will stay here

and wait for your instructions, Mandrake.

- Good. We must stop Doctor Dark

from discovering the location

of the three crystals of the orb.

- Rylos, I tell you there's nothing here.

- Don't always believe

what your sensors tell you, Garax, that way.

Stand back.

- A force shield.

- Ah, it is my old home, the Amber Keep.

Quickly! Before the portal closes.

- Rylos, right on the money, Son.

- Thanks to you, Dad.

- Ahead slow on this course,

I see nothing, Mandrake.

- Allow me.

Now to announce our arrival to my brother Shadow Lords.

We have entered the heart of the Shadow Void.

Here the forces of good and evil meet face to face.

- They have arrived, brothers.

Mandrake is coming for the Vial of Knowledge.

He will not fail us.

Wait.

I feel a tremor.

Something's wrong.

Damion Dark.

- Yes, old Shadow Master.

It is I.

Be gone.
[ … ]

The Vial of Knowledge is mine.

And you, Vandar, you are my prisoner.

- Invocum magicarum.

- Him.

I want him.

- Ra, Mara, Join me.

- What the?

- The game is over for you, Defender.

- Rick.

- Call off your attack.

- Stop firing. Stop!

- A wise decision, Mandrake.

The next move is yours.

Choose well.

- Release them and give me the Vial,

and I'll promise you safe passage out of here, Dark.

I don't need your promises.

Take the hostages.

We're leaving.

Quickly, load the prisoners.

- Let go of me, slush face.

- Forget the boy.

- No, wait.

- I want no part of this. - Mara!

- Leave her, I know how to deal with traitors.

- Rick, where's Rick?

- Dad, we're over here.

- For you, traitor.

- Rick! Rick!

No!

- Rick! Rick!

- Gimme room.

[both screaming]

- Rick! You're safe!

- [sobbing]

- You're among friends now.

- The Vial of Knowledge can only be opened

in one place, Vandar.

As Shadow Master you know where that place is,

and you will tell me.

Tell me what I need to know.

- The Well of Essence.

- Very impressive, Doctor Dark.

When you obtain the information,

return to Ice Station Earth.

- As you wish, Excellency.

- I calculate that Dark will betray you.

- No, Octon,

Dark only thinks he will betray me.

- Ten thousand years of building, gone!

- Why is this Vial so important?

- It contains the locations of the three crystals

of the Orb of Konos.

The Vial can only be opened in one place,

known only to Vandar,

and Dark has both the vial and Vandar.

- If we only knew where Dark was.

- Through my sister.

I see what she sees, no matter where she may be.

- Do it, Mara. Quickly.

Seconds count.

- I, I see them, she's in a ship.

Over an ice covered planet.

- Here, at the Well of Essence.

- Dark's talking about a well?

A Well of Essence!

- I know of this place, it's in Antarctica.

- This, this is the place.

Put us down over there.

- Give this up Damion and return to us,

I sense good in you still.

- No, Shadow Master, it's too late for me.

I've chosen my destiny, let me live it.

We're here, Garax,

the Well of Essence!

Open it.

- Antarctica, right on target.

Hang on,

we'll be there in less than two minutes.

Let's just hope we're not too late.

- I bring you the Vial of Knowledge.

Give me that which I desire.

- No, Damion, I beg you.

[echoing demonic laughter]

- What do you seek, Shadow Lord?

- I seek the crystals of the Orb of Konos.

- Behold and remember.

- Mandrake, what is it?

- What I feared most, Rick.

Mara, concentrate on the vial.

Bring it to me.

- The crystals are hidden within.

- Where? Where? Where?

- Sorry, old chap.

It all ends here.

- Mandrake, I should have known

you'd find a way to follow me.

- Garax, destroy him.

The Vial of Knowledge is mine.

- Don't let them get away.
[ … ]

- We'll never find them.

- Looking for us, my friend?

- His laser p*stol. Concentrate.

[screams]

- Mara.

- Where are the Three Crystals of Konos?

- The Crystals of the Orb are hidden

within three temples.

- Blast you, Garax.

I failed to learn the secret locations.

- Now you shall have no chance to betray Emperor Ming.

For only I know the locations.

- Mandrake!

- No, Damion.

- You have interfered with my plans

for the last time.

Vandar's time has passed, Mandrake,

just as yours has.

- You're mine, now, Dark.

[screams]

- Master Vandar.

- My time has passed, Mandrake,

save yourself,

let me go to the Shadows in peace.

- Looks like we've overstayed our welcome.

Let's get out of here.

- Where's Mara? - This way, Rick.

- Mara is gone. - No, Rick.

I sense this is not the last we will see of Mara.

- Goodbye, Vandar, my friend.

- Is there anything we can do?

- No. It's enough that all my friends

are here with me tonight.

[wind howling]

- Allow me to say good-bye alone.

- You must now become the Shadow Master.

You will not be alone for long, my friend.

One very close to you shall soon join our ranks.

Now, I must leave you for a while.

- Farewell, teacher. I will miss you.

[hideous laughing]

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