To Bardo and Back
| The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest | |
| "To Bardo and Back" | |
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| Episode no. | H00616-94039 |
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| Airdate | January 2, 1996 |
| Chief locations | Cheyenne, Wyoming 105.32W, 49.13N (1,746 miles) |
| Vehicle(s) | PBY Catalina |
| Writer(s) | Peter Lawrence Dean Caccamo Michael Ryan |
| Guest roles | J.D. Roth (Additional Voices) Robert Patrick (Crew #1) Michael Benyaer (Guard #3 / Scout / Voice / Additional Voices) Frank Welker (Alligator) Ed Gilbert (Badur / Guard #2) Nick Jameson (Leif / Sentry) Jan Rabson (Avary / Donaldson) Chick Vennera (Walker / Additional Voices) |
| Episode sequence | Alligators and Okeechobee Vikings <--> The Mummies of Malenque |
| Other episodes | |
Contents
Plot Summary
Jonny Quest goes hot in Questworld with Jessie Bannon and Hadji Singh watching to ride a bull in practice for an upcoming rodeo. Jeremiah Surd watches the event inside a rail car facility, and logs into Questworld, where he shatters the bull and taunts Jonny. He then reassembles the pieces into his body with the bull's head and charges Jonny, throwing him against a rock wall. Hadji cannot log him out of Questworld, as Surd has hacked the entire operating system. He tries to help by outfitting Jonny in a giant mecha battle robot, and the two duel until Surd gets the upper hand and prepares to stomp the young Quest.
Act One
Jonny rolls out of the way and performs a punch kick combo on Surd to throw him against a wall and remove his head casing. Julia pull him out just as Jonny tries to deliver the final blow. He orders Julia to double surveillance on the Quests, and cryptically notes that the rodeo has just begun. Later, the team fly to Cheyenne, Wyoming for their Frontier Days rodeo in the PBY Catalina. Jessie starts the amateur bronco riders off, and is thrown off her horse in a few seconds; Jonny meets a similar end in the competition. Next up is Hadji, whose name cannot be pronounced and is assumed to be a pseudonym. Warned that he is not holding on tight enough before his round, he channels his tranquility to the bronco and settles it to a standstill. He then placidly exits the round to Dr. Quest and Race Bannon's astonishment. It is then Race's turn to vie for the national championship by riding the "Skull Stomper" bull for seven seconds. He's off to a good start when Lorenzo fires a maddening dart into the bull's side, making it berserk. Race rides for the required time as the crowd and announcer are amazed by the bull's sudden ferocity; he dismounts, but the bull intends to charge him. A rodeo clown distracts him but is sent flying; Race throws a metal barrel at the bull to redirect his attention. The bull charges and Race trips up his feet, leading to a savage horning on his back. The bull closes in to massacre Race as Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji try to distract it; the terror ends when the bull is shot with a tranquilizer. Race is hospitalized and comatose, as a vital neural pathway between his neocortex and hypothalamus has been damaged. He proposes linking Race to Questworld and stimulating his senses to revive the pathway. Surd laughs in his base at the irony of Race's apparent paralysis, and Julia is impressed by Dr. Quest's mapping his entire brain for the reactivation procedure. Surd suspects that such a technique, if successful, might also fix his paralysis and logs on to Questworld.
Quotes
- Hadji - "I will never understand the Western need to impose oneself on large and dangerous animals."
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- Surd - "Care to tango, little man?"
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- Jonny - "Oh yeah, Trigger. You're kinda late on your cue."
- Hadji - "What can I say, my friend? It is only mind over horse matter."
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- Race - "Over here, prime cut! Pick on someone your own size!"
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- Jessie - "You know my dad. He'd rather go trying than not try at all."
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- Julia - "Yes! He's in!"
- Lorenzo - "Well, ring my bell."
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