Cobra attacks the world's oil reserves.
Plot[]
Cobra Commander addresses the world.
The episode opens with Cobra Commander addressing the nations of the world. He informs them that in the last 12 hours, Cobra has been attacking the world's energy resources, then goes on to list the targets Cobra has hit. He threatens a "new dark age" if all the world's nations do not surrender to Cobra. Meanwhile, in the Joes' headquarters, Sparks is trying to trace Cobra's transmission, but fails because Cobra "bounced the transmission off a satellite".
Cobra Commander is confident that the Joes will never find their cloaked base.
Duke (flying overhead in a Skystriker) and Scarlet (weaving through traffic on a motorcycle), reply to Sparks over their radio channel, asking where a group of oil tankers has gone. Sparks tells them that the tankers vanished, Scarlet disagrees and tells the others that Cobra has a cloaking device. Duke tells the others that he's found a Cobra safehouse on the west coast.
In Cobra's base, Destro and Cobra Commander talk about G.I. Joe searching for them. Cobra Commander laughs, unworried that the Joes will be able to find the base when it's cloaked.
Torpedo and Deep Six fly in a S.H.A.R.C. to attack a Cobra base on an oil rig. With one shot, Torpedo blows it up and sinks it.
Duke and Ace encounter a group of Rattlers and they end up in a dogfight. They win, leaving a trail of Rattler parts behind them... only to too late discover that one Rattler had been missed. It shoots Duke and Ace's Skystriker down, and the two eject, their parachutes opening a moment later. The Rattler pilot shoots their parachutes, and the two crash into the river below. They swim to shore to recover.
While Duke and Ace are resting, Major Bludd and a group of natives capture them.
Scarlet in disguise.
Scarlet, still in disguise, throws a man much larger than herself.
Meanwhile, at Cobra's safehouse, a "little old lady" rings the doorbell. When a very large man answers, she claims to be lost and to not have any money. She asks to use the phone. The man says no and tries to close the door, but the "little old lady" attacks him and throws him over her shoulder.
The "little old lady", Scarlet in disguise, pulls off her costume and attacks the five uniformed Cobra troopers inside. She beats them all, but the Cobra officer pulls a book on a shelf, which triggers a trap door right under her feet.
The last Cobra standing is beaten.
Scarlett uses an arrow with a rope and a pully to escape the pit trap, and kicks the officer into a wall. She then questions him and threatens him, but he doesn't know where the tankers are hidden so he cannot tell her.
Cobra Commander takes to the airwaves again, destroying one of the tankers and the oil it contains.
In Joe headquarters, Sparks figures out a way to locate where Cobra's base is.
Back in the jungle, Major Bludd and the natives are taking the prisoners, Duke and Ace, somewhere. Ace pretends to be injured. Bludd leads the group to a giant pit of snakes, and orders the natives to throw the Joes in. Ace and Duke use the fake injury to escape. A off-target shot by Duke hits a branch, which hits Bludd, which knocks him into the snake pit. Bludd pulls himself out and sends the natives after the Joes.
Duke and Ace just happen to find the natives' village, which Cobra has turned into an airbase and a diamond mine. Bludd arrives behind them, sounds the alarm, and while the two Joes are being shot at, Ace steals a Rattler to use to contact Joe HQ.
Duke steals a second plane and uses it to crash into the entrance of the diamond mine, destroying it and all the remaining grounded Rattlers. Ace lands the Rattler he stole to fly the two away.
Meanwhile, another hour has passed and Cobra Commander blows up another tanker. This allows Sparks to locate exactly where Cobra's hidden base is. All of the Joes's forces converge on it to attack. As Cobra Commander starts to blow up all of the remaining oil tankers, the Joes' first missiles land, stopping him.
The battle over, a group of Cobra troops stops short, about to surrender to the Joes in front of them.
A battle rages between the two forces, and the Joes win, saving the world.
With the battle ended and the world saved, as the Joes return to their headquarters, Scarlet suggests that Duke take her to dinner and a movie. He agrees, replying "Now you're cooking with gas!", and jokes about being able to find a parking space (since they're in a Skystriker).
Featured Characters[]
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| G.I. Joe | Cobra | Others |
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Featured Vehicles and Equipment[]
| G.I. Joe | Cobra |
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Notes[]
Animation and Technical Errors[]
- A coloring error renders Duke's American flag (on his right sleeve) uncolored throughout the episode.
- During Ace and Duke's air combat with two Rattler jets, the Rattler pilots both eject after taking damage. The first pilot is a pilot in Wild Weasel uniform, but a pilot in the standard blue Cobra trooper uniform bales out. The second pilot is shown in standard blue uniform, but a pilot in Wild Weasel red is shown baling out.
Continuity Errors[]
Quotes[]
"Quit Patagonia...ing yourself on the back!"
-- Duke
Miscellaneous Trivia[]
- The biggest episode for several characters: Ace, Major Bludd, Deep Six, Torpedo, Colonel Sharp, and Sparks have more lines here than anywhere else.
- Insults used this episode:
- "Snake face" (Duke to Cobra trooper)
- "Chrome dome" (Duke about Destro)
- This episode features the only decent look at a H.I.S.S. driver.
Real World References[]
- Cobra's hidden base is in Patagonia, a region located at the southern end of South America.