Episode Seven
MCOG OPENING THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 42s
ZIA’S THEME TRACK 2 2M 32S
In our last episode of Mysterious Cities of Gold, the children headed to Zia’s village, but it turned out to be deserted, except for Pachu. Zia’s pet condor….and Gaspard’s soldiers. Reluctantly, Zia had to reveal the secret message she had translated. It said "Go to the High Peak, north of the village of Puna."
Eventually the children found themselves at the top of a mountain at the Fort of the Black Eagle.
After foiling a plan by their European enemies to attack the fort, the children are led the next morning along a mountain trail, over a bridge and beyond a waterfall, to the City of the High Peak. There they meet the city's Chief, Kraka, who recognises Esteban's and Zia's medallions as the keys to the Cities of Gold.
THE HIGH PEAK TRACK 20 50S
MCOG INSTRUMENTAL 1M 23S
Kraka announces the children as messengers of the gods. While looking around the city, the children find a sundial, a celestial chart, and a mysterious design on the floor of a shallow well. Chief Kraka is unable to explain its meaning, adding that the only man who might know is the local old & wise man, Mayuka. The children are shown to their rooms. The boys bathe in a nearby pool.
The locals hide from them, awed by the presence of supposed messengers of the gods, until Esteban plays the fool to reassure them.
The next day the children set off to find Mayuka. After some searching, they find Mayuka at the top of Machu Picchu, a nearby mountain. He tells them of a mysterious foreigner who had once shown much interest in the mysterious design.
ESTEBAN’S THEME TRACK 4 2M 34S
Esteban believes that this man may have been his father. Twelve or thirteen years earlier, this man arrived from across the western sea, and fell in love with an Inca priestess. They had a child, angering the sun god who plunged the land into darkness. The frightened priests sacrificed the woman and set the man and child adrift at sea on a boat. The foreigner had once said that the design represented the point in the sky where the paths of the sun and a particular star cross, which indicates the direction of the first City of Gold.
Before they can journey onward, Esteban needs the other half of his medallion. He plans to go back and get it from Mendoza, but Chief Kraka will not allow this and instead sends Weyna & Kecha to get it.
The Europeans, meanwhile, are marching toward the Fort of the Black Eagle with a cannon. Chief Kraka decides that his people will retreat if necessary. Concerned that 41 & Kecha will kill Mendoza, Esteban sneaks off to find Mendoza himself. Zia and Tao follow, catching up when Esteban's vertigo overcomes him on a bridge.
The children soon find themselves hopelessly lost, but Zia's pet condor appears on the scene and shows them the way to the Fort. Mendoza and his companions run across Gomez and Gaspard again, steal their cannon and run off. They find themselves at the bottom of a cliff. They offer the cannon to Weyna & Kecha, who haul them up just in time. But when they arrive at the Fort, Chief Yupani is not convinced, and orders the sailors killed.
However Esteban arrives just in time to stop the execution, and Mendoza is forced to hand over the other half of Esteban's medallion.
END THEME TRACK 36 1M 50
In our next episode, Mendoza tries to warn the people of the Fort about Gomez' coming attack. They ignore him until Esteban persuades them that Mendoza can be trusted.
The children escape after the fort is breached towards the High Peak. The children are caught in a strong current, and finally find themselves at the foot of the waterfall near the High Peak.
Join us as we continue our journey onwards to 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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