- [first lines]
- Looten Plunder: Ah, what a beautiful island. Just the place for a flarme-thrower factory. 'Cept, where are the workers you promised me?
- Dr. Blight: You worry about *your* end of the business. When I'm through with my experiment, you'll have more workers than you can handle.
- [laughing, presses a button that sends an energy ray toward a device on the ceiling, whose beam shoots down near them, causing them to retreat]
- Looten Plunder: You'd better get a handle on that *beam*. It's not supposed to be a death-ray.
- Kwame: So they reproduce 'til they starve to death?
- Wheeler: No wonder they call 'em simple organisms. How could they be so dumb?
- Gaia: [appears] At least they're not heating up the Earth or wrecking the ozone-layer.
- Linka: Dah. It takes *people* to do that.
- Gaia: And speaking of planet-wreckers, there's something fishy on the Island of Moghal.
- Kwame: [by the Planet Vision showing it] Everything on Moghal is fishy. It is a fishing village.
- Dr. Blight: This ray will clone any living thing. It creates instant micellular mitosis.
- Looten Plunder: Mitosis, my foot. Just show me.
- Dr. Blight: On who? You think a volunteer is going to jump in the window?
- Looten Plunder: [sees a locust on the sill] Matter of fact, yeah. Hit it!
- [she does and nothing happens]
- Looten Plunder: I'm no mathematician, Blight, but I count only *one* bug.
- Dr. Blight: [traps the clone insect while the original hops off] Plunder! Grab that other locust!
- Looten Plunder: [chuckles] Why bother? He didn't look like much of a worker to me.
- Leela: [falls into mud attempting to capture the goat, sobs] Oh, look at me!
- Kwame: [extends his arm to help her up] All right. I will.
- Leela: Who are you?
- Kwame: My name is Kwame. And even muddy, I think you look just fine.
- Leela: [washing herself off in the creek] I'm Leela. I really wasn't crying about the mud. It's my parents. They don't want me to become an ecologist.
- Gi: But that's a super-important job.
- Linka: They should be proud of such a daughter.
- Leela: In Moghal, daughters get married off. Only sons get to finish their education.
- Kwame: But a woman can do the same job as a man.
- Vico: Please don't hurt me!
- Looten Plunder: Ha! You think you're scared now, in a minute you'll be beside yourself!
- [laughs]
- Dr. Blight: Stand back, Looten. We don't need *two* of you making bad jokes.
- Linka: [from the doorway] Even one of him is too many.
- Dr. Blight: [Vico and the Planeteers are escaping] Well, don't just stand there! Use the claw!
- Looten Plunder: Yes! Just what the doctor ordered.
- Leela: Vico's major in school is getting into trouble.
- Vico: It wasn't my fault. They were chasing a locust but they caught me instead.
- Leela: A locust?
- Gi: I'm worried about that ray's effects. What was it supposed to do?
- Vico: [as his stomach growls loudly] I think it made me hungry.
- Wheeler: [grinning] If his appetite is any indication, the kid's fine.
- Vico: [encountering his clone] Wow! I always wanted a brother.
- Vico: Wait a minute - *you're* the brother.
- Father: [standing] What has happened to my son? Which one is the real Vico?
- Gi: I think they both are!
- Kwame: [out of breath] Locust-swarm! Millions! Headed this way!
- Baker: Locusts? Ha! I wish them luck if they can find *anything* after those greedy Vicos came through here.
- Looten Plunder: Half the island is covered with Vicos. Before they split again, *we* better split.
- Dr. Blight: I'll get the clone-ray, you keep an eye on the door.
- [the Planeteers leap through the window]
- Wheeler: We thought we'd drop by and see what you were up to.
- Gi: Looks like you're up to your eyeballs in clones.
- Dr. Blight: [enraged] Looten...!
- Looten Plunder: [retreating, gesturing at but not facing the entrance] Well, you said to watch the *door*...
- [Kwame and Leela burst in through it]
- Dr. Blight: [of Captain Planet] I wonder what would happen if he aimed that de-cloning ray at *us*.
- Looten Plunder: I don't want to share my life with *you*!
- Father: Leela, we were wrong about you. And, I promise you this: you *will* go to the university.
- Father: You've shown us that the quality of our children is more important than the quantity. And now, everyone come back to the house; you must be starving.
- Vico: Oh - not me. I think I'll pass.
- [everyone laughs]
- Dr. Blight: [the clones continue to double after being fed for pay in the factory] This is getting out of hand. We have to do something.
- Looten Plunder: Relax. I've got it covered.
- [into a megaphone]
- Looten Plunder: Listen up, people. I've got more workers than I need so... um... half of you are fired, scram!
- Dr. Blight: Oh, brother!
- Captain Planet: Hey, all you Vicos, surfs up!
- [lifts the dock from its foundation, placing it on the beach]
- Captain Planet: Looks like you dudes are hanging a *thousand* and ten.
- Looten Plunder: [lunges for the locust lodging on Vico's chest, it hops off at the last second] Oh, rats!
- [examines Vico]
- Looten Plunder: Hmm. Wait a minute...
- [grabs Vico's wrist]
- Vico: Uh-oh. A truant officer!
- Dr. Blight: [comes over] Oh, way to go, butterfingers! The locust got away!
- Looten Plunder: Forget the bug, Blight. We've got another volunteer right here.
- Vico: [trying to break free] I'm on my way to school, honest!
- Looten Plunder: [laughs] We're not from school, kid. But stick with us. You'll learn a thing or two.
- Kwame: [during the first Planeteer Alert, as they play with children in a playground] Children are important to everyone.
- Captain Planet: And whether families have sons or daughters, they should be equally proud.
- Wheeler: But remember that the Earth's resources are limited.
- Linka: You do not need to have a big family.
- Ma-Ti: Because all the world's people are your brothers and sisters.
- Captain Planet: The power is yours!