01x61 - Flesh and Blood

[bunniefuu]

- ♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

[dramatic music]

♪ Out of the sky, his rockets ignite ♪

♪ Jets into battle flying faster than light ♪

Flash Gordon!

♪ Lord of the jungle, the hero who st*lks ♪

♪ The beasts call him brother, The Ghost Who Walks ♪

Phantom!

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

♪ Master of magic, spells, and illusion ♪

♪ Enemies crumble in fear and confusion ♪

Mandrake!

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

♪ His strength is a legend, his skills conquer all ♪

♪ Armed with his power, we never will fall ♪

Lothar!

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

♪ With our new young heroes proving their worth ♪

♪ Four become eight defending the Earth ♪

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

Defenders!

♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪

[tense music]

- Approaching craft, please identify yourselves.

♪ ♪

You cannot enter the loading station's space

without clearance.

♪ ♪

Repeat, identify yourselves.

- Problem?

- Three small vehicles making an unauthorized approach.

- Those look awfully small to be ships.

- What else could they be?

- They're people--

without the aid of spacesuits or rocket packs.

- It's not possible!

♪ ♪

- Destroy all machines!

♪ ♪

- Halt.

You are destroying US Space Agency property.

Cease at once.

- Mindless robot. [grunts]

You machines are finished.

Every last one of you will be wiped out...

[laser blasts]

by the League of Flesh and Blood!

- Raids on robot-mechanized installations

have occurred all over the galaxy.

- This is the first time it's happened in our solar system.

- This League of Flesh and Blood...

they were able to rip the machines apart

with their bare hands.

- I don't understand it. A hate group against robots?

- People become dependent upon robots.

When they find they cannot do without them,

they begin to resent them.

Human supremacy groups have been around for a long time.

- Come in, Flash Gordon.

This is Paul Delaney.

My new power station's under attack by Ming the Merciless.

I need your help.

- Still, there are some kinds of robots I could do without.

Come on!

[energetic music]

♪ ♪

[explosions]

♪ ♪

- This plant is totally mechanized.

I need a better design to improve my robotics.

- Phantom, you ready?

- Ready.

- Then blast those roboships

with everything the swordship's got.

- Thanks for coming so quickly, Flash.

Ming is after my plans

for a self-contained robot-controlled power plant.

- Paul, evacuate all your personnel

to a well-insulated room

and lead me into the main generator.

[engine roars]

[lasers blast]

[explosions]

- The Defenders of the Earth.

How did they know I was here?

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Paul, we'll need rubber insulation suits

if we don't want to get fried.

I may short-circuit some of your robots,

but it's the only way to stop Ming.

- Don't worry, Flash.

My robots are all triple-insulated.

But what are you going to do?

- Drop two hundred ice robots with one blow.

- Hurry, hurry, find the plans!
[ … ]

Capture as many robots as you can!

- These girders interconnect with the whole structure

of the power plant.

- Hang on to your socks!

[electricity crackling]

- Flash, I can't thank you enough.

- Eh, forget it.

Any excuse to visit an old friend.

- Once Ming's ice robots were melted--

[chuckles] he took off like a shot.

[indistinct murmuring]

- Here's my crew, Flash.

- Not very many of you, are there?

- With so much of the plant automated,

it only takes a few of us to run things.

- Ming seemed more interested in stealing robots

than in shutting down the power plant.

[clears throat]

I repeat, Ming seemed more interested in--

- I heard you, I heard you.

I also heard Ming say something

about needing to improve his robotics.

Why don't I stay here? You know, check out the robots?

- [chuckles] Have fun, Flash.

- Mindless robot, watch where you're going.

- You sure picked the wrong place to work

if you don't like robots.

- Robots must be told what to do,

they'll never take the place of humans.

- Flash, these are my friends, Dask and Teek.

We work as a team.

- Hi, how are you guys?

- Come on, Dask, we must go now.

[foreboding music]

- You know, I never thought this could happen to me.

- What do you mean?

- Uh, I just meant...

I didn't think anyone would ever be interested in me.

- Why not? You're very beautiful, Kala.

- [sighs]

- If I have to spend one more minute

around those lousy robots, I'll explode!

- Then we'll make our move now.

- How can we?

Flash Gordon won't let Kala out of his sight.

- Gordon can't stop us, no one can.

We know enough now to shut down

every lousy machine in this place.

I'll get Kala. - Let's do it!

- Destroy the machines!

Long live the League of Flesh and Blood!

- Mindless robot!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- You're the League of Flesh and Blood?

Kala, you're with them?

- Yes, and so should you be if you care about your humanity!

- Humanity is my business!

Hold it, Dask!

♪ ♪

- You dare interfere with our scared mission?

You don't deserve to be called human.

♪ ♪

- [shouts]

[groans]

Mandrake, Phantom!

The League of Flesh and Blood--they're here!

- We're on our way!

♪ ♪

- Mindless robot! Die!

- All right, Kala, this is it.

[energetic rock music]

Kala, no!

Stop it, this is crazy!

- No!

♪ ♪

Machines make us weak,

they rob us of our humanity.

They must be stopped, that's all that matters.

Nothing is more important, not even us!

♪ ♪

- Why, you--

- [groans]

- [grunts]

- Why do these humans try to stop us?

- [groans] Humans?

- Our work here is finished.

We must make sure we're not followed.

- By Jungle Law...

the Ghost Who Walks calls forth the power of ten tigers.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- There's something wrong about all this.

- There's never anything right about bigotry,

even if it's only against machines.

- No, no, there's a missing piece to all this

and I haven't figured out what it is.

- Alert.

An automated chemical manufacturing plant

is under attack.
[ … ]

- You kids stay here. Let's move it!

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- And do what?

- I've got a plan.

- What is it?

- I'm going to talk to them.

- Talk?

[alarms sounding]

[indistinct speech]

- Authorities are helpless as the siege

of the so-called League of Flesh and Blood continues.

♪ ♪

- Hear me, true-blooded men and women of Earth!

Destroy all machines!

♪ ♪

[screaming]

[expl*si*n]

- They weaken your bodies!

They're k*lling your spirits!

♪ ♪

- Do you want to surrender to the machines,

or will you stand and fight this metal onslaught as humans?

- Stop, wait!

- Gordon, do you know what will happen if you try to stop us?

- But I'm not here to stop you.

I want to know more about your organization.

- Ladies and gentlemen,

could it be that Flash Gordon has joined these...

these outlaws?

- Flash Gordon is no traitor!

He's working on a plan.

He knows exactly what he's doing...

I hope.

- It could be a trick.

- Of course I want to stand up for all humans,

but I wonder if we're all the same here, Dask.

I've found that whatever a person hates most,

whatever a person tries to suppress hardest,

is usually what a person is under the surface!

[fabric tears]

[overlapping chatter]

Now the whole world knows your secret, Dask.

The League of Flesh and Blood is made up of robots!

- No!

Make them go away, make them go away!

- It's too late, Dask.

We all know you're robots. You're finished.

- No, no, no!

- [chuckles]

Well, well, well...

I may have found a way to improve my robotics after all.

[foreboding music]

♪ ♪

- Dad sure is upset over all this.

- Give him time, Rick. He'll get over it.

- Hey, we were all taken in by them.

- Boy, when I make a mistake, I do it in a big way.

- Don't be so hard on yourself, old man.

There was no way you could've known.

- What if they attack again?

- They're so humiliated, they'd never dare show themselves

on this planet again.

- I don't get it.

Why were they trying to destroy all the robots

if they were robots themselves?

- Dad said they were programmed to be as human as possible.

They really did believe they were humans.

- They tried to convince themselves they were human

by leading a crusade against robots.

- Kshin, do me a favor.

Get me that new book on robotics from my room, please.

♪ ♪

- To the League of Flesh and Blood,

machines rob us of the very things that make us human--

who we are and what we're about.

[rumbling]

[ominous music]

- Intruder alert, intruder alert.

♪ ♪

- They've taken the kids.

- Who would've taken Rick, Jedda, and LJ?

- Attention. Incoming transmission.

- Defenders of the Earth,

Ming the Merciless has attacked Moonbase Delta.

- Moonbase Delta?

But it's still under construction.

- It became fully operational today.

The first crew was heading up there

when Ming attacked their ship.

If Ming takes over Moonbase Delta,

he'll have the entire Earth at his mercy.

- This is beginning to make sense.

- It is?

- Moonbase Delta was to be Earth's first line of defense

against alien attack, including robot attack.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

- Excellent, excellent.

The operation can begin at once.
[ … ]

- At last, at last!

- We will be truly human.

- Yes, and in return,

you will operate this battle station for me

and I will receive your robotic bodies.

Not only will the Earth be mine,

I will be able to redesign my ice robots

to make them invincible.

Now, expose your brain-circuits,

so I can begin the neuro-transference procedure.

You will only be deactivated for a few moments, my friends.

- Farewell, Rick Gordon.

[laser blasts]

- I hope your malpractice insurance is paid up, Ming!

[energetic rock music]

♪ ♪

- Stop them!

Stop!

What are you doing?

You must destroy the Defenders.

- Don't give me orders!

We can do the operation ourselves.

We don't need you, Ming!

♪ ♪

- Ming is escaping!

- You guys go after him. I'll try to get back inside.

- Find the Defenders and destroy them.

Kala and I will begin the operation.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Ming! - There he goes!

- He's eluded us.

- But you can't elude me.

So much for you, mighty Defenders!

- What was that?

- I'd say it was the main generator overheating.

- And how do you know that?

- Because these used to be the controls

for the main generator.

- Look at it, Kala.

In a few moments, that will be your body.

You will be human.

- Flash, don't fight us.

Be one of us. Join with us, please!

- Never! [groans]

- Don't make me do this to you!

- In a few minutes those plates will give,

and this whole place will blow sky high!

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

I can only hold it for a few minutes.

- And I don't think I can fix it.

- Kala, listen to me.

This won't make you human!

- You lie!

I will be Flesh and Blood at last!

- No, Kala.

You can't be human that way.

If you don't feel caring and understanding,

you'll just be a machine in a body of Flesh and Blood.

[sighs]

The heart, Kala, not the flesh,

that's what makes you a human being,

and not a machine.

- No!

[energetic music]

♪ ♪

- You traitor!

♪ ♪

- Flash, we've less than two minutes to get out of here

before this whole base explodes.

- Help me with the kids.

♪ ♪

- Hurry!

- I don't think we'll make it to the ship

before that thing blows!

- Then you all go.

I can hold it together long enough for you to get out.

- But what about you?

- Don't worry about me. You must go!

- But--

- Go.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[metal screeches]

Go!

♪ ♪

[engine roars]

- Goodbye, Flash Gordon!

I...love...you!

[expl*si*n]

[explosions]

[peaceful music]

- Kala's gone...

- But we got away safely.

That's what she wanted, Flash.

- I'm not sad for her, really. I'm happy.

In the end, she did get what she really wanted--

she got to be human.
[ … ]

- [moans]

Father...

- Jedda, you're all right.

- [groans] Dad...

- LJ, my son.

- Dad, you okay?

- I'm fine, Son. Everything's fine.

We're headin' home!