Episode Three
MCOG END THEME (TRACK 36 1m 58s) for last episode resume only
In our last episode, our group of friends set sail in the good ship Esperanza at the start of their journey into the New World and the Mysterious Cities of Gold. Child of the Sun Estaban was also hoping that one day, they might find his father too.
After a great storm, the ship broke up and the friends found themselves on a makeshift raft in the middle of the sea. But eventually, the appearance of a seagull told them they had come close to land…
MCOG OPENING THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 42s
TAO’S ISLAND (TRACK 26) 1m 25s
Having landed safely on the seemingly deserted island, the group catch a giant turtle to cook and eat, but Sancho & Pedro don't like the look of it so they wander off to find their own food. While trying to extract water from a cactus, they are frightened by a giant lizard, and in their flight come across chicken roasting on a spit. Before they can tuck in they faint with fear from the appearance of a strange creature to which the food apparently belongs.
When the others find them unconscious there is no sign of food nor creature. While our heroes sleep, the creature enters their camp and steals Mendoza's sea chart and pistol. Estaban gives chase but is eluded. The creature kidnaps Zia and takes her off the island by boat. Estaban swims after them and reaches another island where the "creature" lives in a magnificent tree house. Here he finds Zia asleep on a bed, and hearing footsteps he hides only to discover that the "creature" is a boy of his own age, named Tao.
TAO’S THEME (TRACK 3) 2m 39s
Mendoza and the others cross to Tao's island on their raft. While showing Estaban and Zia around, Tao explains that he has lived there alone since his father died. But before dying, his father had told him of a prophecy which predicted the children's arrival. Tao shows them a collection of relics of the lost Hiva empire. Hiva was an immense continent in the Pacific, home to an advanced civilisation which long ago vanished beneath the waves. The King of Hiva had foreseen this catastrophe, and ordered the construction of seven Cities of Gold in distant lands to preserve their technology. Tao is descended from that King. The prophecy also states that one of the Cities of Gold would be destroyed by white men - Tao suspects Mendoza and the others.
When he accidentally discovers the pistol's purpose, he believes his suspicions confirmed. Fearful of Estaban and the sailors, Tao runs off with Zia, taking her into a complex of man-made tunnels, leading to a huge room with a massive picture of Viracocha on the wall. Meanwhile Tao's accidental firing of the pistol has attracted Mendoza, Sancho & Pedro, who join Estaban in pursuit. Tao shows Zia a mysterious jar which legend says can only be opened by the High Priest of the Cities of Gold, and a quipu, a string holding an encoded message in the pattern of its knots, which he needs Zia to decode. She translates the message, which reads: "Solaris the sailing ship, of the Kingdom of Hiva, sleeps inside the mountain.
When thunder rumbles in the depths of the earth, the seals will break and the Solaris of Hiva will be born again in the sea," she reads.
THE MAJESTIC SOLARIS (TRACK 24) 1m 25s)
Estaban and the others catch up, and Tao pulls a lever releasing a giant lizard to ward them off. Mendoza shoots at the lizard, the pistol shot echoes and reverberates round the room. A thunderous roar fills the chamber, and the wall collapses, revealing the Solaris. An entire section of the island sinks into the sea, and the mighty ship emerges onto the water.
MCOG END THEME (TRACK 36 1m 58s)
In our next episode, Tao and Mendoza try to figure out the controls of the Solaris, but danger approaches in the form of a Spanish galleon carrying Gomez and Gaspard formerly in charge of the Esperanza. Will our friends be captured or will they find a way of escaping into the New World and onwards in their journey to 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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