Home Episode Summaries Season 1 Hearts and Cannons
"Don’t call me ‘man,’ man."
- Dr. Winters (to Footloose after he saves her life)
The three walk into the night but Dr. Winters steps on a mine and activates
the Death Zone, a defensive perimeter around the Cobra base. While Footloose
sits on the ground and meditates for a moment, Cobra forces rush toward the Joes. Footloose then realizes that “everything is everything,”
stands up and sets a rock on the land mine as Dr. Winters slides her foot
off, and she tells Footloose, “Don’t call me ‘man,’ man.”
They head into the mine field single-file and Footloose shoots at the
ground to blow away the mines. However, laser guns rise out of the sand.
Dusty yells for everyone to duck and turns back to destroy the three guns
with three shots.
As one Stinger runs over a mine and blows up, the surviving driver radios
the others to stay back since the Death Zone has been activated. However,
Destro orders the Cobra agents to pursue and will not turn off the defenses
since the chances of the Joes escaping would increase. Destro radios the
Rattlers flying above him that unless the “traitorous dogs” drive out into
the desert, they are ordered to fire at the Cobra agents. At the last second,
the Cobras drive out and nearly every one of the Stingers and Ferrets are
destroyed.
Dusty tells the others that he feels sorry for the Cobras, but Footloose
tells his teammate, “No way. They’re just living out their karma.” One
of the surviving Stinger drivers reports to Destro that they have lost
the Joes. While Destro growls that the Joes and Dr. Winters must not leave
the desert alive, Cobra's targets slowly march across the dusty plains
in the middle of a windstorm. Dr. Winters laments that the Joes are probably
sorry that they ever set their eyes on her, however, as the wind pushes
her into Dusty's arms, he laughs and tells her, "Well, not all that sorry."
After Wild Bill lands, Flint hops out of an AWE Striker and asks what
happened to Footloose and Dusty, and Cover Girl reports that they are in
the desert. Telling Dusty and Footloose that she is becoming tired, Dusty
places a hand on Dr. Winters’ shoulder and offers to carry her. But she
grabs his hand, tosses him to the ground and tells him, “Cool it, buster.”
Footloose tells everyone to keep it mellow since they are hundred miles
from anywhere, however, three Rattlers appear and attack. They dive for
cover and behind a steep hill, Footloose and Dusty shoot down a Rattler.
As the remaining two turn around, a sandstorm appears and Dusty tells
Footloose to continue his march while he will try to distract the Rattlers.
The two men shake and Dusty uses his last clip of ammo to shoot down the
planes.
More Cobra Stingers appear on the horizon and close in on Dusty, but
the storm’s fury increases and swallows Dusty’s appearance. Pulling his
goggles over his eyes, Dusty happily notes that the storm feels good and
that it reminds him of home. Dusty pulls out a Cobra agent from one of
the vehicles while he is talking to Destro, hops into the driver’s seat
and tells Destro that the driver has been given a two hour furlough.
Footloose and Dr. Winters are worn down by the sandstorm and fall to
the ground. Dusty contacts Footloose, who tells Dusty that they really
need his help. Dusty locates them on the Stinger’s signal tracking system,
but the Stinger’s monitor shorts out and all Dusty can do is pound the
machine and call it “Cobra junk.” Dusty radios his friend that he will
find him and that there is nothing to be afraid of, however, Footloose
sees a tall robed figure with a sword and watches the man slice Footloose’s
radio in half.
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