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♪ Where in the world Is Carmen Sandiego? ♪
♪ Sandiego ♪
♪ Where in the world Is Carmen Sandiego? ♪
[Maelstrom] So, do tell us, Dr. Bellum,
who in the world is this Chase Devineaux?
[Bellum] Formerly an inspector of Interpol.
Any current assignment is completely unknown.
Devineaux was quietly transferred from his department in Poitiers, France,
nearly six months ago.
Poitiers?
[Cleo] Where I keep a residence?
[Maelstrom] The very residence looted by Carmen Sandiego nearly six months ago.
Coincidence?
Devineaux was there that night.
[Brunt] Black Sheep delivered Crackle to him on the train to Paris,
wrapped up all pretty with a bow.
[Cleo] This Devineaux also barged into my Swiss chateau during a dinner party,
distracting me long enough to allow Carmen Sandiego to make her escape
with my precious stolen Vermeer paintings in tow.
And to think I had suspected the charming duke of being her inside man.
Then it seems that we have discerned a pattern,
one which explains how Carmen Sandiego has repeatedly foiled our plans
with such a high rate of success.
She isn't working alone.
Sounds to me like we have ourselves a plan B, as in "bait."
Catch Chase Devineaux,
and we finally catch the elusive Carmen Sandiego.
We'll put Paper Star on the case.
She led us to ACME, after all.
This is not child's play.
We do not know if Black Sheep has partnered with a rogue policeman
or a high-level law enforcement agency.
Then whom would you suggest we send, Shadowsan?
I will go.
[Chief] Agent Devineaux, you are a walking disaster zone!
First, you somehow managed to waterlog not one but two ACME-issue vehicles.
Do you have any idea what fully loaded, custom Blanton-Websters cost?
Uh...
And when you're not turning our automobiles into submarines,
you're losing keycards
loaded with classified intel and proprietary technology.
Please tell me you still have your communicator pen in your possession.
Uh, yes, Chief.
You joining a K-pop band?
I was cold. It was on sale.
Stand still.
[whirrs]
- [gasps] - [Chief] ACME's virtual tailor.
You've both been fitted for regulation suits.
By the way, fine work securing the Magna Carta, Agent Argent.
Saving the symbol of democracy.
Now there's a career maker!
I did not do it alone.
You did not do it alone, eh?
Of course not. You are my partner.
Do not be coy, Ms. Argent!
I know you were referring to La Femme Rouge, your silent partner.
And?
What if I was?
Carmen Sandiego left the Magna Cartas on my train seat,
presumably for me to find.
She returned stolen Vermeers to museums
and ten-million-dollar postage stamps to children's charities.
Stealing things only to return them makes absolutely no sense.
I agree, which is why I do not believe she's stealing these things to begin with.
So, would she be returning stolen things
to show that she can do my job better than me?
Simply to make me look like some sort of law enforcement imbecile?
Why must it always be about you?
Maybe you should be the one to tell me since you are clearly Chief's favorite.
Ugh! You are impossible!
Have you forgotten to factor VILE into any of your thinking?
You mean the non-existent entity
that our chief has been trying to prove exists for 20 years?
At least I have seen Carmen Sandiego with my own two eyes.
And she's out there somewhere,
no doubt planning something nefarious at this very moment.
Player, what have you got for me?
[Player] Itching for a caper already, Red?
After one-upping your ex-instructor,
I figured you'd finally be ready to take that well-deserved vacay.
Chilling makes me fidgety.
And, trust me, Shadowsan's already plotting his next move.
[Ivy] Hey, Carm, check it out!
VILE Central.
Wicked wicked, right?
[Zack whooping]
[both grunt]
Besides, I was raised on a tropical paradise.
Not my idea of R & R.
You sure there's nothing else you can turn up on the hard drive?
[Player] It's been a while since you snatched it from VILE.
We've pretty much combed through every last bit on data on here, Red.
You may need to sneak back to the Isle of VILE
and bring the rain all over again.
No, Player. I am never going back to VILE Island.
[helicopter powering up]
[helicopter blades whirring]
Are you absolutely certain the field trip is necessary, Shadowsan?
We have an army of operatives to choose from.
Our Carmen Sandiego problem must be tied off decisively,
once and for all.
It is time that she contend with one of our own in the field.
I agree with Shadowsan 100 percent.
That's right, for once. I'll go.
Absolutely not.
The coach is too soft towards her dear Black Sheep.
At one time, that statement might have been accurate.
But after she went and betrayed the only family she knew,
Black Sheep is dead to me.
And Carmen Sandiego must pay!
Well, all in favor of both Shadowsan and Coach Brunt attending to this matter?
[Shadowsan groans]
[Devineaux] I cannot stand the sight of you!
You are only good for wrecking cars and bullying your partner.
Ms. Argent is only trying to do her job.
She cannot help it if she is misguided.
Although, she may wind up running ACME someday.
I should be nice and bring her Napoleons from the patisserie tomorrow.
Wow. Foamy.
[groans]
[thuds]
[Player] Red?
Yes, it is.
- I may finally be unwinding, Player. - Uh, don't get too comfy.
I was poking around on the deep dark web to see what I could scrape up,
and I stumbled on a message for you.
What does it say?
"If Carmen Sandiego wants to see her partner Chase Devineaux again,
she needs to surrender."
Partner?
The keycard.
- They'll never let Devineaux walk away. - It smells like a trap.
Of course it's a trap, which is why I'll need to be cautious.
Now, where are they keeping him?
[groaning]
Huh? Huh?
[Brunt] Bonjour.
Hard way or easy way?
Uh, is this where you appear to issue my replacement keycard?
[laughs] Very funny!
Spill it, sugar. ACME.
Uh, ask you what?
Huh? Not ask me, ACME!
I've seen your keycard.
What can you tell us about Carmen Sandiego?
Why ask me?
You two thugs work for her, do you not?
Wait. Must we do this the hard way?
Oh, no, handsome.
The easy way with a little something we like to call "the truth extractor."
[whirring]
No, no. No, no, no!
[grunts]
[Ivy] Got a visual, Carmen.
- [Devineaux singing in French] - And audio.
[singing in French]
- What is he crooning about? - It is the French national anthem.
He is attempting to cloud his mind to keep from telling the truth.
I'd spill the beans, sweet pea.
Prolonged use of this device is not recommended.
The longer it clings to your brainpan,
the more you risk it permanently scrambling your eggs.
[singing continues]
[muffled singing]
Give it a minute. He'll be singing our tune.
[Carmen] Faculty field trip.
We'll need to even the odds.
ACME is a covert surveillance organization,
dedicated to learning everything.
About what?
Ha! Something that probably does not exist. [laughs]
Try us.
Sounds like "bile."
And what exactly do they know about this "bile"?
[thudding]
I will attend to this.
Find out everything he knows.
Who went and made him the boss of me?
Sit tight, sweetie.
Now where did old stoneface disappear to so fa...?
You'll do.
Oh, red is so not my color.
[gasps]
Uh-oh.
[thuds]
[sighs]
Oh, no.
[Zack grunts]
[groans]
Bait and switch.
Player, I'm in.
[groaning, speaking French]
[grunting]
So, you show your face! [chuckles]
I knew you were behind this. [laughs]
Shh. Easy, Devineaux. Save your strength.
We need to get you out of here.
[pen beeps]
[groans]
[beeping, whirring]
What is it now, Agent Devin...?
Carmen Sandiego, I presume.
[beeping]
[Julia sighs]
Agent Argent, we have a man down. Your partner.
What?
I was able to triangulate Devineaux's exact location
moments before I lost contact.
I've called in the local gendarme.
[grunts] Come on, Devineaux.
- We need to get you out before it's... - [Brunt] Too late.
[Carmen] Coach Brunt.
Long way from campus, aren't you?
You didn't expect to move away from home without a visit from mama bear, did you?
[bones crack]
And I'm not sure I approve of the tall, handsome, law-abiding company
you're keeping these days.
Rebound relationship.
Needed a change after all the criminals and psychopaths.
Now, you know I can't let you leave again, Lambkins.
That's what I figured.
[gasps]
[both grunting]
[Carmen grunts]
Red, you okay in there?
[both grunting]
[groans]
Did you learn nothing in school?
Always protect the face,
and never enter a room without an exit plan.
[grunting]
[grunts]
[grunting]
[groans]
[both grunting]
[grunts]
[bones cracking]
[gasps]
I know how much you wanted to get out and see the world, pumpkin,
but trust me, it's a world of hurt.
[sirens wailing]
Oh, man, oh, man.
[gasping] Huh?
Come on, Red, you just need to buy yourself a little more time.
Backup's on the way.
You rescued me from the side of a road,
only to lure me here so you can pound me into dust?
[laughs] Believe you me, Lambkins, that is one stone you do not want to turn.
But I promise to let bygones be bygones if you be a good little sheep
and come back to the island with the rest of the flock.
[gasps]
Then you better pound harder
because I am never going back to VILE Island.
After every little thing we've ever done for you.
Come here, little cub.
- [bones cracking] - [Carmen groaning]
Let mama bear give you one great, big last hug goodbye.
- [bones crunching] - [groans, gasps]
- [thuds] - [grunts]
[gasps]
Still infighting, huh?
Well, I wasn't going back with Coach
and I'm definitely not going back with you.
I did not come here to take you back.
[grunts]
- [screams] - [sword clangs]
Carmen?
I...
I don't understand.
Follow me now. No questions.
- What? - That is a question.
[sirens wailing]
The police will attend to him,
and they will lock us up if we are still here when they do.
I'll take my chances with them, thank you.
The police are the least of my concerns.
Do you really not realize that being trapped in a cell
would far more easily allow VILE to reach us?
Reach us?
Stubborn as always, Black Sheep.
Can you not see that we are in this together now?
We've always been in this together, haven't we?
[groans]
It was you.
You were the one who found me.
You are in no condition to leave here on your own.
Please.
[police radio chattering]
[dog barking]
[groans]
[sighs] Huh?
Shadowsan?
[metal clangs]
Cleaners, is Shadowsan with you?
I see. I'm gonna need pickup.
[grunts]
[groans]
Does it hurt when you breathe in?
Argentina. Tell me everything, now.
There is nothing more to tell.
As strange as it may seem,
even someone like me is incapable of turning his back on an abandoned baby.
If you were such a sensitive guy, why have you been such a jerk to me?
Unlike the other members of our faculty,
I did not wish for you to succeed in crime school...
because I could not bear the thought of you being faced
with having to choose a path of evil.
You knew I'd never accept,
and you knew what they'd do to me when I said no.
You failed me because you were trying to protect me.
And?
[sighs] Yes, the coat was empty.
I knew it! [groans]
And you were never anything less
than the very finest pickpocket in your class.
I sent Tigress to San Francisco
knowing you would enjoy proving that to her all over again.
So, why now? Why tonight?
I feared VILE might finally succeed in stopping you,
so it once again seemed the right time to intervene.
Again?
I was not trying to harm you on the night of your escape from the island.
I was trying to join you.
I guess I scare easy when I see a drawn sword.
I felt it was a necessary ruse.
Though, did you not wonder
why the Cleaners never pursued you in the helicopter?
No way!
A great burden was lifted from me the night of your escape,
believing that you would begin a new life somewhere.
I never fathomed that you would dedicate your life to destroying VILE,
which complicated things for me, to say the least.
[police radio chattering]
[Julia] Agent Devineaux is extremely disoriented.
They won't know more until they run tests.
The lug didn't deserve whatever Carmen Sandiego did to him.
But... how can you be certain she was behind this?
The keycard. It all adds up.
Devineaux didn't lose it.
Carmen picked his pocket and used it to bait him.
Beyond that, I have to trust what I saw with my own two eyes.
Carmen Sandiego was in that room with Devineaux tonight.
[Player] You went back to Poitiers to rescue a detective
and left with an evil VILE mastermind?
The worst one, too! What makes you think you can trust him?
And what exactly was he doing in Argentina 20 years ago anyway?
That's exactly what I want to know.
There's more to the story. There has to be.
And my only chance of finding out will be to keep Shadowsan...
close.
[Player] Let me guess, ninja disappearing act?
Something like that.
I'm sorry, Red.
Don't be.
- He left something behind. - What?
A present.
Have Zack and Ivy meet me at rendezvous.
I have a feeling we're gonna have new capers to plot.
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