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+ | The frightened humans can do nothing as Goliath stands before them. Elisa, gun drawn, tells the gargoyle that he was warned and pulls the trigger several times. Nothing happens. The gun is empty. Elisa, looking at the useless weapon, quips that this isn't her night. Goliath steps towards her and she kicks him in the stomach. "Like kicking a brick wall," she laments. Goliath growls and extends a wing. He uses it to scoop Elisa toward him. Elisa struggles and yells for the "monster" to let her go. The other humans decide that they must save Elisa. As Goliath carries Elisa towards the balcony, they rush up from behind him and leap onto his back and wings. This gives the powerful gargoyle pause, but he is undeterred. With a growl he throws the three humans off of himself. They go flying across the room. Dr. Arnada is thrown to the floor, Morwood-Smyth lands on a chair (which topples over and he too falls to the floor), and Duane bounces off one of the beds and lands aside her colleague! Goliath implores Elisa to stop struggling. "It is me, Goliath! We are friends!" Elisa will hear none of it and tells him to get his claws off of her. As he leaps from the balcony and begins gliding away carrying Elisa, he tells her that she might want to reconsider her request. Elisa, terrified, screams "We are going to die!" But Goliath assures her that he will not allow any harm to come to her. As they continue to glide over the island, Elisa relents. She agrees to behave as long as they are so high up. "I suppose that's a start," Goliath tells her in frustration. | ||
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+ | The pair continue to glide across the island. Looking at her gun, Elisa says "A lot of good this did me." She puts the gun back in its holster and Goliath tells her that he can't believe that she pulled the trigger on him. She replies back that she can't believe she was carrying an empty revolver. "What kind of cop am I?" Goliath tells her that she is a very good one and smiles. He explains that it isn't her fault: she has been out of bullets since they left [[Avalon]]. He begs her to try to remember. She tells him to "Just shut up and land." Goliath sets down on the beach and tries to reach her. "We have been friends for over a year. Good friends. We have been..." he changes the subject and explains how they have been traveling together with his daughter Angela and Bronx. Elisa is alarmed. "Whoah, Tiny," she mocks him, "You mean there'ss more than one of you?!" Goliath is irritated and tells her that his name is Goliath, not Tiny. "Think," he again begs her, "The [[Castle Wyvern|Castle]], [[Xanatos]], gargoyles!" Elisa, very upset yells at him to stop it. She doesn't remember and is not even sure she wants to remember. Goliath, angry, tells her that someone has done this to her and vows that they will pay. | ||
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+ | All of this is being watched on a surveillance screen from within a large and strange looking room. Angela and Bronx are floating in the room suspended in odd energy cages. Angela wonders how many ways she can explain: They mean their captor no harm. She tells Bronx that it is no use. "He doesn't understand a word I say." Bronx growls in agreement and frustration, but a strange figure tells her that he does understand her words, he just doesn't believe them. He pushes some buttons on the console before him and a strange robotic device descends from the ceiling. He explains that they have been long expected and he knows that they have come to take this world. "Take this world?" Angela asks, "Take it where?!" She wonders who does he think they are and their captor says that they both know the answer to that and calls her "[[Space-Spawn]]". The robotic device approaches Angela's energy cage and the stranger tells her that she is going to help him catch their leader. Angela defiantly tells him that she won't help even if it costs her her life. "One thing at a time, please." the stranger says, pushing a button. The robotic device fires a beam of light at Angela and she reacts to it with discomfort. | ||
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+ | Back on the beach among the moai stone heads, Goliath has been attempting to jog Elisa's memory. She scoffs at his story: gargoyle [[clan]]s, [[Mutate|mutated]] [[Talon|brothers]], [[magic]] spells. She jokes that he threw in everything except [[King Arthur]] and the [[Holy Grail]]. Goliath tells her in all seriousness "Yes, well, we haven't encountered the Holy Grail yet..." Elisa tells him that it is all too much for her to take in, even with him standing in front of her as proof. She can't even remember what parents look like and she's supposed to trust him? Goliath tells her to trust her own instincts as he always has. She tells him that she mostly just has doubts, mostly about him. As Goliath turns away in disappointment, Elisa asks how she is supposed to know if they are even on the same side. Perhaps he caused her memory loss she tells him as she begins to back away. Suddenly Angela appears gliding oddly above them and Goliath is concerned. Seeing her chance, Elisa runs away from the gargoyle. Goliath runs towards where Angela has appeared to land. Elisa stops herself and turns around, running back to help despite her doubts. Goliath has found Angela who is curled up on the ground and is looking and acting quite strange. He approaches her, but when he tries to touch her he finds that her image is only some sort of holographic image. "What is this?" he asks angrily as the image of Angela forms into a glowing ball. "A trap!" Elisa appears on the hill above Goliath and watches as the glowing ball grows and assaults Goliath, attempting to pull him into itself. "Tiny!" Elisa cries. Goliath turns to her and tells her to stay back. Elisa tries to warn him as the ball turns into an energy ring blast and hits Goliath hard. He falls to the ground as Elisa watches on aghast. Suddenly, the strange figure from before appears before Elisa in a strange beam of light. The figure looks down on the unconscious Goliath. "You are mine ALIEN!" | ||
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Revision as of 12:21, 20 January 2025
"Sentinel" is the fifty-second televised episode of the series Gargoyles, and the thirty-ninth episode of Season 2. It originally aired on February 19, 1996.
- Supervising Producers: Frank Paur, Greg Weisman
- Written by: Cary Bates
- Story Edited by: Cary Bates
- Produced & Directed by: Bob Kline
- Animation by: Koko Enterprise Co., LTD
- Backgrounds by: Koko Enterprise Co., LTD
- Additional Production Facilities: Dong Yang Animation Co., LTD
Contents
[hide]Summary
Main Plot
Elisa is asleep when the travellers reach Easter Island. The alien sentinel, Nokkar, mistakes the gargoyles as hostile beings sent by his Space-Spawn enemies. He gives Elisa temporary amnesia in order to clean out the false memories that he believes the gargoyles have given her. Walking aimlessly around the island, Elisa encounters the archaeologists Lydia Duane and Arthur Morwood-Smyth, and goes with them to their hotel room to be checked out by a doctor. Goliath retrieves her, but she is afraid and confused, and is hostile towards him. He tries to remind her of their friendship, but is captured by Nokkar along with Angela and Bronx. Nokkar is about to kill the gargoyles, but Elisa releases them and protects them from Nokkar, acting upon her instincts of loyalty to her friends.
Subplots
Earth has been a strategic outpost for the N'Kai against the Space Spawn many centuries ago. Nokkar has been at his post for eons, and refuses to abandon it.
Nokkar misses the company of the natives that he had befriended long ago, and who had erected the famous stone statues based on his appearance. Elisa suggests that Nokkar befriend the two archaeologists and Dr. Arnada so that he wouldn't be lonely while he continues standing vigil at his post.
The Story
Previously on Gargoyles
- Recaps: ("Awakening Part Three", "A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time")
Act One
Goliath, Angela, Bronx, and Elisa find themselves in the open ocean aboard their skiff. Goliath looks ahead and remarks on the unusual sight ahead. He asks Elisa if she has any idea where they are. There is no response. Angela notes that Elisa has fallen asleep. Goliath is happy to see it. Elisa guards them while they sleep and forgets to rest herself. The gargoyles look ahead to their next destination: an island with giant stone faces. As they reach the shore, Angela remarks that the stone forms are unlike anything she has ever seen. Goliath reminds her that Avalon has sent them to this place and they should try to find out why.
Elsewhere, from a control room, the arrival of the travelers is being watched on a video screen.
Goliath carries the sleeping Elisa ashore and places her on the ground near a large rock. He orders Bronx to remain with Elisa and guard her and the beast happily agrees. Goliath and Angela move on to explore the island. They continue to be watched by a remote camera which descends into the ground and is quickly hidden by a sliding clump of grass.
The gargoyles continue investigating the island. They come to one of the massive stone heads. Angela examines it closely and notes that the stone looks so old. Goliath wonders if they were perhaps erected by an ancient people to ward off long forgotten enemies.
Back at the large rock, Elisa continues to sleep. Bronx senses something. Sniffing the air, he approaches a hillside and growls. Something is not right. Suddenly, a concealed doorway opens in the hill and a bright light reveals a silhouetted figure. Bronx growls. Nearby, Elisa wakes up and is alarmed. She doesn't know where she is or where the skiff has gone. Bronx growls and leaps at the mysterious figure, but is stopped by an energy blast which throws him back at Elisa's feet.
Not long after, Goliath and Angela glide back to the spot they had left their companions. They are alarmed to see Bronx unconscious and Elisa gone. Bronx stirs and whines in pain and confusion. He runs over to the hillside and sniffs around it aimlessly. Goliath notes that he seems disoriented and may not be able to pick up Elisa's scent. They will have to search for her the hard way. He orders his companions to search for Elisa, covering as much ground as possible, and returning a half hour before dawn. The three take off in different directions.
Not far away, a jeep moves down a dusty road passing more of the stone heads. The driver, Lydia Duane, tells her companion, Arthur Morwood-Smyth that ahead is an odd sight: a woman walking down the road alone at night. It is Elisa! Morwood-Smyth agrees that it is unusual as they drive past Elisa and guesses that perhaps she became separated from a tour group. They turn the car around and go back to her. Pulling up alongside Elisa, Morwood-Smyth asks her if she often wanders alone at night. Elisa is alarmed and asks who they are. Duane introduces them and explains that they are archaeologists here on holiday. Elisa wants to know where "here" is, and, for that matter, "Who I am..."
Meanwhile, Bronx is running across the island in his search for Elisa. A glowing disk hovers above and follows the beast. The disk forms into a fiery orb and slams into Bronx. The beast is thrown back and lands unconscious again. An unseen figure steps forward.
Back at the car, Morwood-Smyth asks Elisa if she truly cannot remember her own name. Elisa explains that she can't remember anything. Frustrated, she admits she feels lucky she know how to talk. Duane tells her that they can at least inform her of her whereabouts and hopefully that will jog her memory. The natives, the two archaeologists explain, called this island Rapa Nui, though in modern times it is more commonly known as Easter Island. Elisa is shocked. How did she find herself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?! They can't answer that for her, but have no intention of leaving her to wander about in her condition. Elisa accepts and admits that she could use a ride. Gliding high above, Goliath watches Elisa get into the car and is relieved that she appears unharmed but wonders why she would choose to go off with these people. As the jeep drives off, he follows by air.
Elsewhere, Angela glides over Easter Island searching for Elisa. She is suddenly blasted by a massive greenish light and falls from the sky. She lands hard on the ground. Again, the mysterious figure approaches with residual smoke wafting from an arm weapon.
At a large building, The Islander Hotel, Elisa explains to her two new companions and another man that, according to her wallet, her name is Elisa Maza and she is a New York City policewoman. Duane suddenly realizes why Elisa seemed familiar. They have met before! Duane asks Elisa if she remembers the Scrolls of Merlin. Elisa, frustrated, says that she doesn't. The new man, Dr. Arnada, asks if she knows what a scroll even is. Elisa does, of course. The doctor tells her that she should be grateful her memory of general knowledge appears to be intact. Elisa is unenthusiastic as the doctor checks her eyes. She seems healthy to him. He's not a psychiatrist, but would guess that she must've suffered some form of severe emotional trauma and that her mind is temporarily blocking things that are too painful to remember. "You mean like my whole life?!" Elisa exclaims. Outside, Goliath is scaling the walls of the building. As the doctor checks Elisa's heart with a stethoscope, Duane asks him if there is nothing more he can do for Elisa. He admits that he is out of his depth. However, his brother in Honolulu is a neurologist and can check for any brain damage and refer her to other specialists if necessary. Morwood-Smyth finds this a wonderful plan. He grabs the phone and begins making arrangements to get Elisa on the next flight out. Goliath, speaking from the balcony, tells the humans that he cannot allow Elisa to be sent away. He enters the room to the shock of all. Elisa is terrified. Goliath tells her that there is no time to explain and she must come with him. He reaches for her and Elisa pulls back. As the others gather behind Elisa, she draws her gun on Goliath and orders him to stay back or she will shoot him where he stands.
Act Two
The frightened humans can do nothing as Goliath stands before them. Elisa, gun drawn, tells the gargoyle that he was warned and pulls the trigger several times. Nothing happens. The gun is empty. Elisa, looking at the useless weapon, quips that this isn't her night. Goliath steps towards her and she kicks him in the stomach. "Like kicking a brick wall," she laments. Goliath growls and extends a wing. He uses it to scoop Elisa toward him. Elisa struggles and yells for the "monster" to let her go. The other humans decide that they must save Elisa. As Goliath carries Elisa towards the balcony, they rush up from behind him and leap onto his back and wings. This gives the powerful gargoyle pause, but he is undeterred. With a growl he throws the three humans off of himself. They go flying across the room. Dr. Arnada is thrown to the floor, Morwood-Smyth lands on a chair (which topples over and he too falls to the floor), and Duane bounces off one of the beds and lands aside her colleague! Goliath implores Elisa to stop struggling. "It is me, Goliath! We are friends!" Elisa will hear none of it and tells him to get his claws off of her. As he leaps from the balcony and begins gliding away carrying Elisa, he tells her that she might want to reconsider her request. Elisa, terrified, screams "We are going to die!" But Goliath assures her that he will not allow any harm to come to her. As they continue to glide over the island, Elisa relents. She agrees to behave as long as they are so high up. "I suppose that's a start," Goliath tells her in frustration.
The pair continue to glide across the island. Looking at her gun, Elisa says "A lot of good this did me." She puts the gun back in its holster and Goliath tells her that he can't believe that she pulled the trigger on him. She replies back that she can't believe she was carrying an empty revolver. "What kind of cop am I?" Goliath tells her that she is a very good one and smiles. He explains that it isn't her fault: she has been out of bullets since they left Avalon. He begs her to try to remember. She tells him to "Just shut up and land." Goliath sets down on the beach and tries to reach her. "We have been friends for over a year. Good friends. We have been..." he changes the subject and explains how they have been traveling together with his daughter Angela and Bronx. Elisa is alarmed. "Whoah, Tiny," she mocks him, "You mean there'ss more than one of you?!" Goliath is irritated and tells her that his name is Goliath, not Tiny. "Think," he again begs her, "The Castle, Xanatos, gargoyles!" Elisa, very upset yells at him to stop it. She doesn't remember and is not even sure she wants to remember. Goliath, angry, tells her that someone has done this to her and vows that they will pay.
All of this is being watched on a surveillance screen from within a large and strange looking room. Angela and Bronx are floating in the room suspended in odd energy cages. Angela wonders how many ways she can explain: They mean their captor no harm. She tells Bronx that it is no use. "He doesn't understand a word I say." Bronx growls in agreement and frustration, but a strange figure tells her that he does understand her words, he just doesn't believe them. He pushes some buttons on the console before him and a strange robotic device descends from the ceiling. He explains that they have been long expected and he knows that they have come to take this world. "Take this world?" Angela asks, "Take it where?!" She wonders who does he think they are and their captor says that they both know the answer to that and calls her "Space-Spawn". The robotic device approaches Angela's energy cage and the stranger tells her that she is going to help him catch their leader. Angela defiantly tells him that she won't help even if it costs her her life. "One thing at a time, please." the stranger says, pushing a button. The robotic device fires a beam of light at Angela and she reacts to it with discomfort.
Back on the beach among the moai stone heads, Goliath has been attempting to jog Elisa's memory. She scoffs at his story: gargoyle clans, mutated brothers, magic spells. She jokes that he threw in everything except King Arthur and the Holy Grail. Goliath tells her in all seriousness "Yes, well, we haven't encountered the Holy Grail yet..." Elisa tells him that it is all too much for her to take in, even with him standing in front of her as proof. She can't even remember what parents look like and she's supposed to trust him? Goliath tells her to trust her own instincts as he always has. She tells him that she mostly just has doubts, mostly about him. As Goliath turns away in disappointment, Elisa asks how she is supposed to know if they are even on the same side. Perhaps he caused her memory loss she tells him as she begins to back away. Suddenly Angela appears gliding oddly above them and Goliath is concerned. Seeing her chance, Elisa runs away from the gargoyle. Goliath runs towards where Angela has appeared to land. Elisa stops herself and turns around, running back to help despite her doubts. Goliath has found Angela who is curled up on the ground and is looking and acting quite strange. He approaches her, but when he tries to touch her he finds that her image is only some sort of holographic image. "What is this?" he asks angrily as the image of Angela forms into a glowing ball. "A trap!" Elisa appears on the hill above Goliath and watches as the glowing ball grows and assaults Goliath, attempting to pull him into itself. "Tiny!" Elisa cries. Goliath turns to her and tells her to stay back. Elisa tries to warn him as the ball turns into an energy ring blast and hits Goliath hard. He falls to the ground as Elisa watches on aghast. Suddenly, the strange figure from before appears before Elisa in a strange beam of light. The figure looks down on the unconscious Goliath. "You are mine ALIEN!"
Act Three
Featured Characters and First Appearances
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Quotes
- "Yeah, I'm jumping for joy here, doc." - Elisa
- "I suppose that's a start." - Goliath
- "Just shut up and land." - Elisa
- "Whoa, Tiny, you mean there's more than one of you?"
- "My name is not 'Tiny'. I am Goliath." - Elisa and Goliath
- "Take this world? Take it where?" - Angela
- "Yes, well, we haven't encountered the Holy Grail yet." - Goliath
- "The megaliths were a lasting tribute. Erected by the natives I befriended long ago, and swore to protect." - Nokkar
- "Stow the melodrama, I'm immune." - Elisa
- "Maybe I'm missing some memories, but I still have my instincts. And they tell me these creatures are my friends." - Elisa
Continuity
Lydia Duane and Arthur Morwood-Smyth appear for the first time since their introduction in "A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time".
The Holy Grail, which Elisa and Goliath casually mention in this episode, will appear briefly on-stage in "Rock of Ages".
Tidbits
Although Elisa muses, at the end of this episode, over the possibility that the Space-Spawn War could be long since over, that (naturally) is not the case. Greg Weisman had planned a "sequel series" to Gargoyles entitled Gargoyles 2198, in which the Space-Spawn would finally reach Earth in the year 2198 and conquer it. Nokkar, chagrined over having failed to spot their approach (the Space-Spawn's technology had become so advanced by this time that their ships couldn't be picked up by his monitoring systems) throws himself into the struggle to free Earth from the Space-Spawn, joining with a handful of other characters (including Demona, Owen, a time-travelling Brooklyn, and descendants of Goliath, Delilah, Natsilane, and Zafiro) to form a resistance movement.
In a noteworthy animation nit, Elisa's black t-shirt is shown to be long-sleeved while she's taking the tour of Nokkar's spaceship. However, in the immediately preceding episode, "The Green", she was wearing a short-sleeved shirt instead.
For reasons unspecified, this episode wasn't been included on the Disney YouTube Channel, disneysshows when the others were available.
Disney Plus has the episode placed between "Mark of the Panther" and "Pendragon".
Toon Disney/Disney XD Edits
The scene where Elisa pulls a gun on Goliath goes to commercial prematurely leaving out her saying "Not another step or I'll shoot you right where you stand."
DVD Release
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