James Bond Jr - Episode Guide
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Earth Cracker
Episode Number: 02
Original Air Date: 17th September 1991
Written By: Mel Gilden
Allies: Horace
Boothroyd, Tracy Milbanks, Mr
Mitchell, Lotta Dinaro
Villains:
Goldfinger, Oddjob
Gadgets: Wristwatch with a homing receiver that also fires
pitons and a climbing rope, homing
device,
gold-detecting
video
camera,
explosive batteries. |
Synopsis
James Bond Jr and friends are out exploring the woods
around Warfield when suddenly they are attacked by a battle tank.
The
driver
turns
out to be
Oddjob. The steel-rimmed bowler
hat wielding assassin kidnaps a student called Lotta Dinaro and
takes her to the nearby airfield where S.C.U.M. load her onto
a plane bound for the village of Puerto in Peru.
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Above: Oddjob ignores
Jr's pleas to stop the tank.
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Young Bond and his friends decide to follow the plane
in a bid to rescue the girl, but before they leave IQ packs
a wristwatch that can fire a climbing rope, a video camera that
can detect
gold within a range of twenty miles, a couple of mini-explosives
disguised as AA batteries and a homing device linked up to the
watch.
Shortly after they arrive, Bond's camcorder detects gold buried
in the hills and so he goes to investigate while Tracy and IQ
go look for a hotel. In Puerto, Tracy and IQ encounter 'mountain
men', and the villagers are very
quiet about
whether or not they've seen a young woman from the city. Whilst
climbing the mountains, Bond spots Oddjob in a helicopter. Keeping
out of sight, Jr shoots the homing device at the chopper with
a sling-shot. Suddenly an ear-splitting noise
vibrates through the land; creating a massive earthquake that
not only leaves the town of Puerto in ruins, but also buries
Young Bond in a mountain cave.
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Above: Lotta is tortured
with the ultrasound 'laser' by Oddjob.
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Tracy and IQ survive the quake, and so have the goons
they encountered earlier. Suspecting they work
for Goldfinger, Tracy and IQ follow them. Meanwhile, using one
of the explosives IQ gave him, Bond blows open the blockage
in the cave but looses the other bomb in the rubble
whilst climbing out. He follows the helicopter's signal all the
way a valley where he discovers that Goldfinger is holding Lotta
for ransom. Lotta's father is a rich eccentric who has spent
his life searching for the lost city of El Dorado - the city
of gold. Unless Lotta's father reveals Goldfinger the location
of
El Dorado he will test the power of his industrial laser on Lotta.
The devoted father tells Goldfinger what he wants to know, but
the villain has his own agenda. It is revealed that ever since
Goldfinger's plan to raid Fort Knox was thwarted, he was secretly
building a new weapon modification for his laser, code named
'Earth Cracker' - an ultrasonic generator powerful enough to
bring cities
to ruins, which he has already demonstrated on Puerto. The villain
uses the devices to excavate the ancient city hidden within a
mountain. Bond watches everything
hanging from
a
rope
but is discovered and captured by Oddjob.
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Above: Goldfinger meets
Bond Jr for the first time, hoping it will be the last.
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Tracy and IQ pick up James' trail while following the guards,
finding the battery grenade he lost earlier. They arrive in time
to find Bond, Lotta and her father all placed in the giant
bowl held in the hands of one of the twenty foot tall statues
guarding the city. Using the giant laser, Goldfinger starts
melting the gold of which El Dorado is composed. As the gold
melts it is put through a generator that turns the liquid back
into solid bars of bullion, which Goldfinger plans to smuggle
out of the country. At one thousand degrees centigrade he expects
Young Bond to be burned to death.
By setting off the remaining explosive up in the hills, IQ is
able to distract the goons long enough for Bond to make an escape.
He uses the piton and climbing rope from his watch to slide
down to the bottom of the statue.
With the goons
investigating the explosion, Young Bond manages to gain control
of the laser.
Oddjob tries to intervene, but Bond
lasers his flying
hat out of its path and then uses Earth Cracker to cause another
massive earthquake once again burying El Dorado, along with
Goldfinger and Oddjob.
Mr. Dinaro is pleased that his daughter is safe, but sad that
after all his years of trying to find El Dorado it is again 'lost'
forever. All those years of trying to prove the cities existence
down the drain, or so it seems. Young Bond has picked
up a golden figurine from the crumbling city as a souvenir, which
he gives to Lotta's father as a souvenir.
Notes
James Bond Jr names his mule 'Moneypenny'.
Goldfinger and Oddjob both appear despite meeting their demise in the 1964
film.
Oddjob's attire has changed from a butler to an MC Hammer inspired purple jumpsuit.
Mistakes
Lasers use amplified light, not ultrasound.
Oddjob manages to grab Lotta with one arm despite being 12 off the ground atop
his
tank.
Bond has to climb the mountain with ropes to reach the cave, but IQ and Tracy
get there on foot.
After the cave entrance is blocked by the earth
quake, Bond clears it with an explosive battery, but then it appears blocked
again
when
IQ and
Tracy
find
it, only for it to appear cleared
again
a few seconds
later.
Goldfinger's accent shifts between Russian, German, English and Spanish.
Bond spends time filming Goldfinger and his operation despite being told by
IQ that the augmented camera contains no tape for recording.
Goldfinger's goons throw the gold bricks between each other as if they weigh
nothing.
S.C.U.M. ship the mini tank to Puerto by sticking a large label marked 'Puerto,
Peru' on it (handy for Young Bond to follow their plan) but the tank never
appears
again.
The city of Puerto is fictional - the name translates to 'port', despite there
being no water or port anywhere near it.
Quotes
James Bond Jr: The detector is indicating gold up in those
mountains. I'll go see if it 'pans' out.
James Bond Jr: Goldfinger - wait!
Goldfinger: Not this time.
