Episode Five
MCOG OPENING THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 42s
THE MAJESTIC SOLARIS (TRACK 24) 1m 25s
In the last episode of Mysterious Cities of Gold, Estaban, Zia and Tao along with Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho leave Tao’s island in the Solaris, a giant ship powered by the sun.
On board a Spanish galleon, their enemies Gaspard and Gomez start firing at the Solaris, but Estaban and Tao discover that a mysterious cube on the Solaris controls some huge metal sails and they carry the Solaris away from danger. As the new world comes into site, the crew find themselves in danger again as they are fired on once more by the Spaniards.
The crew are captured by Spanish guards led by Pizarro but manage to escape. Whilst they were captured, Zia reads a secret message about the location of the cities of gold but won’t tell their captures what it says.
In order to destroy the Spanish galleon, Tao reluctantly self-destructs the Solaris.
ATMOSPHERIC INCA MUSIC TRACK 13 1M 57S
Mendoza asks Zia what the message was that she read, but she refuses to tell him. The children agree to make their way south to Zia's village, and the sailors join them in the hope that she will tell them sooner or later. However, Pizarro's fortress blocks the narrow route south.
Apo, the Inca elder, knows of no other route, but tells them that the exceedingly old and wise Pasha might know. Sadly Pasha was long ago taken prisoner by Pizarro and no-one knows if he is even still alive.
Pizarro himself, meanwhile, is angered at the apparent death of Zia and sends Gomez and Gaspard to search for the other children. The children decide to return to the tunnels beneath the fortress in the hope of finding a route to the other side, accidentally alerting Gomez and Gaspard to Zia's continued well being in the process.
Pizarro leads Gomez and Gaspard into the tunnels, to an ancient underground temple where he imprisoned the old man Pasha, and wait there in the hope of capturing the children. Sure enough, the party reach the temple and meet Pasha, who shows them a tunnel leading to the south, but Pizarro & co are waiting there for them. With Pasha's knowledge of the temple's booby-traps, the party evade their pursuers, and come to a massive chamber the ceiling of which is supported by a pillar of ice. Pasha instructs the children to use a wall tile puzzle, which activates a mechanism that projects a beam of concentrated sunlight at the pillar of ice. The pillar melts, bringing the temple roof crashing down. Pasha chooses to stay and die with his temple, but the children escape through a secret passage and continue their journey south.
END THEME TRACK 36 1M 50S
In our next episode, the children find themselves being pursued once again and Gomez and Gaspard are ordered to head for Zia’s village ahead of the children. Will the children manage to evade their enemies once again? Find out in the next episode of The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Adapted and produced for radio by Associate Radio Productions 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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