Episode Fifteen
MCoG OPENING THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 42s
THE OLMEQUES (TRACK 29) 1m 44s
In the last episode of Mysterious Cities of Gold, our friends head north. The doctor and his associates escape, but in the wrong direction. Meanwhile our friends find a river and Mendoza builds them a raft to enable them to travel quicker.
After more travelling, the party find the Burning Shield - a mountain. From its summit shines a strange light which causes Tao’s jar to glow. On exploring the mountain and finding a cave, they come to a dead end, but strange looking people - The Olmecs are operating machinery beneath a crystal spire - some kind of reactor supplying power. The crystal glows.
When the generator room is searched, the children run to a room with a huge carved face on the wall. A voice welcomes them, claiming to be the god and soul of the Olmecs. When the children try to leave, a strange beam of light from the face's eyes knocks them out. They awake to find themselves undergoing medical examination by the Olmecs, who plan to transplant cells from the children's bodies to their own, to slow down their ageing process. The Olmec chief, Menator, introduces himself. Zia notices dozens of dead bodies behind glass panels, but is told that they are merely Olmecs in a deep sleep. The children are taken elsewhere, but rescued by Mendoza en route.
They run, emerging near the top of the mountain with no way down. Mendoza realises from the lay of the land that the three ruined cities are all nearby, within a day's walk, and concludes that the Cities of Gold must also be nearby. However, the Cities of Gold will have to wait - the party are cornered and forced to surrender to the Olmecs.
THE PRINCIPAL THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 27s
Kalmec shows the captive party their giant crystal, explaining that it was created by an ancestor of the Olmecs to transform light and geothermal energy into use-able energy. The party are taken to Menator. He calls in Myena, an enslaved Maya girl, who brings him Tao's jar. Menator asks the party about the Cities of Gold. Mendoza claims to know little of them. Esteban tries to get Tao's jar back but is hit by a stun ray.
The three sailors are put to work cleaning out a reservoir tank, while the children are taken to the Olmec doctors. Menator orders that the children be placed in suspended animation to avoid them being injured trying to escape, and discusses with Kalmec the importance of finding the Cities of Gold. The sailors plan to escape through reservoir waste pipe. Mendoza overcomes their guard and they run for it.
Myena gives them Tao's stuff and tells them that the children are to be frozen. Kukapetl helps Mendoza distract guards, and he messes with the controls of the power system. The children are placed in the refrigeration room. The power fails due to Mendoza's tampering. In the confusion Mendoza rescues the children.
The party run, finding a dead end. A fight with the Olmecs ensues, but an Olmec spear breaks open a thin rock wall, making an exit. From there they return to the reservoir and escape - along with Myena - via the drainage channel they found earlier.
ESTEBAN’S THEME (TRACK 6) 2m 34s
The party make their way along a narrow mountain ledge, with the Olmecs in pursuit. Once onto flat ground, they're surrounded by the Olmecs, but the Olmecs are ambushed by a group of Maya people.
Esteban saves Myena from an attacking Olmec, and the Olmecs retreat. The attacking Maya are led by Wynacocha, Myena's husband-to-be. He takes them back to the village of the Maya of the New Sun, a tribe dedicated to fighting the Olmecs. Wynacocha goes to see the village Chief, a traveller who arrived there five years ago, who is also Myena's adopted father.
Now that they have Myena back, they have no reason not to attack the Olmec base in the mountain. But the Chief is ill and begs Wynacocha to wait for his recovery so that he might lead the attack.
The Olmecs, meanwhile, capture the Doctor, Marinche and Teteola. They prove their "good intentions" to the Olmec Chief, Menator, by offering him a gold condor statue they know the whereabouts of. Esteban,
Zia and Myena gather herbs to make medicine for the sick Maya Chief. Zia laments the loss of her own father.
ZIA’S THEME (TRACK 2) 2m 32s
THE OLMECS (TRACK 29) 1m 44s
The Doctor leads a group of Olmecs to the hole where the golden condor landed. In the Maya village, Sancho & Pedro escape from their locked room, and go exploring. They find the Chief's house and try listening down the chimney, but fall through the roof and are caught. Wynacocha is angry and has them locked up again. The imprisoned party overhear a Maya scout reporting that the Olmecs have found a gold condor statue. When Myena tells the old Chief about the children, he recognises Zia's name - for he is Zia's father, the Papa Camaillo of Puna. Myena rushes to fetch Zia, but the children have already escaped to get the condor back.
END THEME TRACK 36 1M 50
In our next episode of Mysterious Cities of Gold, the race is on to get to the condor first. Will the children succeed in their battle with the Olmec people. Find out in our next episode of The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Adapted and produced for radio from episode summaries written by Tyrone Cartwright,
Original music composed by Haim Saban and Shulki Levy and performed by Le Group Apollo
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