Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series)

Mission to Save Earth: Part 2 (1991)

Louis Gossett Jr.: Cmdr. Clash

Quotes 

• Ma-Ti : Wow, are we glad to see you!

  Gi : But what are you doing here? Did that crazy soldier capture you, too?

  Commander Clash : [from behind]  No. He did not. The "crazy soldier" is letting you all go.

• Kwame : [on his computer, Linka shows Clash photos of the Berlin Wall's falling]  The world has changed, Commander. Borders have opened. A new peace has begun. The enemy you were guarding against no longer exists.

  Commander Clash : This is a lie!

  [slams his fist on the control desk, the picture fades] 

  Kwame : You saw the truth with your own eyes, Commander. Accept it. This radar station is no longer needed.

  Commander Clash : [picks up a telephone]  Home Base, this is Watchdog. Report, Homebase. Is Watchdog necessary? Report.

  [pauses as his gets a reply] 

  Commander Clash : Watchdog... no longer necessary?

  [listens to another response] 

  Commander Clash : Obsolete?

  [hangs up and walks across the room] 

  Commander Clash : If this station is obsolete, then... so am I.

  Linka : But that is not true. You are brave, and intelligent.

  Wheeler : The world will always need people like you.

  Ma-Ti : When we leave this island, we want you to come with us, Commander Clash.

  Commander Clash : No. I am like this equipment, no longer needed. OBSOLETE.

• Wheeler : [grinning]  If anybody can beat those creeps, it's Commander Clash.

  Commander Clash : Once, maybe, but not now. I am a... a relic. I am of no use to you. This is not my kind of mission.

  [exits the plane] 

• Ma-Ti : [approaching him on the beach]  You are wrong about yourself, Commander.

  Commander Clash : Why do you say that?

  Ma-Ti : [gestures to his bulldozer with natural, clean weapons built in]  A relic would not build that, or solar generators, or water-wheels like at your camp.

  Kwame : [showing up with the others]  And who better to lead the mission to save Earth than yourself?

  Ma-Ti : Please, Commander. If you do not help us stop Captain Pollution and his friends, the entire world could look like that.

  [points to the trees Captain Pollution burned, Clash's expression hardens and he lowers his gaze] 

  Commander Clash : [looking at them again]  Very well. I *will* lead you.

• Ma-Ti : [Clash hands out a sonic jackhammer, a portable wind-generator, a wrist-mounted flame-thrower, and a water-pump backpack to replace four of the stolen rings]  But what about... Heartpower? You cannot replace *that* with technology.

  Commander Clash : I don't have to. No one can take away your heart-power, Ma-Ti. And your sharing it has given me the strength to do what I must do: help the mission to save Earth.