Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series)

Losing Game (1992)

LeVar Burton: Kwame, Opening Narrator

Quotes 

• Wheeler : Wow. This sure doesn't look like how I pictured this part of Africa. It looks more like Mars.

  Kwame : Since the cattle-projects began, there have been many changes here. And not for the better. Believe it or not, this area used to be grassland.

• Ma-Ti : Kwame, what was it like to grow up here?

  Kwame : Hm... ah. I will tell you of my first hunt. Game was plentiful then, and the land rich and fertile. One day, three young men from our tribe went out to find food. Mabutu was the leader. He was like, a big brother to me. I wanted to see what the hunt was like, so I followed them. As I watched, Mabutu shot a gazelle. Our tribe needed the food, but I felt sorry for it. The gazelle had seemed happy and free. That night, I told Mabutu I was sad that we must kill to eat. But he said to me:

  Mabutu : It is the way of nature, Kwame. We are part of the food chain, too. Like the lion, we must hunt, we kill only to survive. That is our way.

  Kwame : And so I lived in harmony with nature, thanks to Mabutu.

  Linka : Mabutu. Is this the same Mabutu?

  Wheeler : Ohh, yeah. The guy with the game ranch where all the strange stuff is happening?

  Linka : Thank you, Wheeler.

• Wheeler : It sure is quiet.

  Kwame : They say that if you very listen carefully, you can hear the spirits of the animals that once lived here, calling to each other.

  [something growls] 

  Wheeler : [gasps]  What about the ones that are still here? And hungry?

• Kwame : Jambo. We have come...

  Kofy : [prodding him]  Why have you taken our cattle? We saw your flying machines drive them away.

  Kwame : But, brother...

  Kofy : We have so little compared to you. Why do you take what is ours?

• Kwame : [reading a sign on a pen]  "Cattle Project 19". That is nineteen too many.

• Kwame : [rescued from the washing stage of the cow-enlarging experiment]  Thank you, my friends! I have never been scrubbed so hard in my life.

• Ma-Ti : [Planeteer Alert]  People are destroying our forests to make land for grazing cattle.

  Kwame : When cattle are introduced to areas where they are not needed, they can destroy fragile eco-systems with their voracious appetites.

  Wheeler : The cattle eat everything and move on. Then the earth erodes, turning to desert.

  Linka : What can you do to help?

  Gi : Eat less red meat, and less land will be needed for cattle. You'll be healthier.

  Captain Planet : The power is yours!