Episode Two
MCOG OPENING THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 42s
ESTABAN’S THEME (TRACK 4) 2m 34s
In episode one, Estaban, the child of the son meets Mendoza who claims to have saved him when he was a small child. He invites Estaban on his journey into the new World to seek out the ancient cities of gold.
Aboard their ship, the Esperanza, Estaban meets Inca girl Zia who he discovers has an identical medallion to his own, the centre of which Mendoza removed when he saved him.
Mendoza is not happy at the state he finds the ship in and knows that they will struggle to survive the dangerous Straits of Magellan. After encounters with whales and butterflies, the ship approaches the treacherous storm-swept straits.
THE STORM TRACK 13 1m 27s
Mendoza, as navigator, spends four days and nights steering the ship through the straits, with the aid of Sancho and Pedro's dubious steering. Much to the delight of the crew, they clear the Straits successfully. Estaban is reminded that his father was last seen near the ship's position.
When Zia is made ill by drinking water, Estaban tries to steal some from the officers' private supply. Panicked by rats, he is caught by Gaspard and the two children are locked away in the hold, despite Mendoza's protests. The navigator's usefulness seems at an end until flying fish herald the appearance of a typhoon.
As the Esperanza is pulled toward the typhoon, the crew tie themselves down. The ship is drawn into the eye of the storm and pulled into the air by the fierce winds. It lands heavily back into the water. Under the stress the ship's rotting timbers finally give in and the ship begins to sink.
Mendoza leaves Captain Perez at the (broken) rudder and sneaks off to rescue the children, unaware that Gaspard has been sent to free the invaluable Zia. The two clash en route, Mendoza escapes unscathed and frees the children. After a swim through the flooded ship's hold, they discover that everyone else has already abandoned ship, the waiting Sancho & Pedro excepted.
They run to the ship's bow as she breaks in two. For a while the surviving part of the ships floats them away.
While the three sailors sleep that night, Estaban and Zia talk. She tells him she comes from a land called Shimon, where her father is the High Priest.
SAINT ELMO’S FIRE (TRACK 23 1m 45s)
Following an ominous appearance of St Elmo's Fire and a thick sea mist, the remains of the ship are caught in a fast current and begin to break up. The group build a raft and abandon the sinking remnants of the good ship Esperanza, drifting free in the middle of the sea…
ESPERANZA AND THE DRIFT (TRACK 28) 1m 46s
Lost in open sea, they lose their remaining provisions to a shark attack. Seeing a seagull - indicating nearby land - Mendoza leaps into the water, fights off another shark, and tows the raft towards land.
MCOG END THEME (TRACK 36 1m 58s)
In our next episode, our friends find land on a nearby island, but danger awaits in the form of giant lizards. Zia is kidnapped and the friends meet Tao. Join them in the next part of our story of the search for 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 Shuki Levy and performed by Le Group Apollo
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