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Episode 7 Winged Warriors of Atlantis Harvard archaeology Professor Newton Bainbridge requests Chuck’s help with a most unusual project. Bainbridge has discovered the location of the lost city of Atlantis, and he needs someone to transport him there. Thinking it’s a good idea to get out of America for a while Chuck and VIRGA agree to take Professor Bainbridge to the Mediterranean. Also, Professor Bainbridge’s daughter Natalie is hot, and well known to be of a liberal sexual persuasion.
But intrigue is swirling around the expedition. Looters have stolen several important artefacts and broken the seal of a cursed crypt. Knowing the crooks couldn’t be far, Chuck takes to the skies. He soon spots their boat, swoops in and recovers the artefacts.
When he returns the artefacts, they discover they have a curse on them. Professor Bainbridge translates the recovered crypt seal, and finds that if broken, the Winged Warriors of Atlantis will rise again. No sooner has he read this than twelve fearsome winged beasts rise from the depths of Atlantis. Chuck battles them, and is being soundly beaten, until Professor Bainbridge translates some more of the curse.
He finds that they will only seek revenge on those responsible for defiling their crypt, or anyone who comes into their range of vision, until those responsible are dead. So Chuck leads them to the boat of the thieves who opened their crypt. The thieves are massacred, and the Warriors return to Atlantis and tell Professor Bainbridge many tales of yore. Chuck is too busy making love to Natalie in the crypt to care.
Episode 8
Floating Into Fort Knox Everyone knows that no one can break into Fort Knox. Unfortunately so do the security guards who have grown fat and lazy. So lazy that no one even bothers checking the security references of a new employee, who turns out to be master thief Cyril Thorn. Within a week he’s found Fort Knox’s weakness, that a team of a parachutists can enter through the roof undetected at night.
Over the course of a month he slowly builds up his secret army within Fort Knox, awaiting the right time to bust out with the gold. But they haven’t counted on the power of the aerial detection software at Archer Vale’s disposal. Chuck and VIRGA head out to Fort Knox and await a night time parachute jump. They swoop in and grab one of the parachutists. Chuck steals his chute and jumps into the fort in his place. Meanwhile, VIRGA flies the prisoner back to Archer Vale for interrogation.
Chuck lands in Fort Knox and joins the parachutists as they sneak through the complex. They arrive in an underground storeroom where there are rows upon rows of identical men standing stock still.
Chuck has no way to warn VIRGA that his hostage is a robot. The robot initiates its self-destruct and sends VIRGA up in flames. VIRGA has to make an emergency landing in a lake, but has been too badly damaged to take off again.
In Fort Knox, Chuck has to pretend to be a robot, but soon grows hungry
and has to go to the bathroom. After being nearly captured Chuck decides he should just approach security and tell them what’s happening. He doesn’t convince the authorities and is about to be arrested, when the robot’s attack begins. In the confusion and carnage he manages to escape.
Meanwhile, Albert has recovered VIRGA and is desperately trying to repair him, but some serious damage has been done to his personality chip. Chuck makes it back to headquarters to find it in turmoil.
Episode 9
Into Each Life… Arhcer, Chuck and Albert are up in arms. VIRGA’s accident has made him a bit crazy, his personality chip is busted, his voice has changed (provided by guest star Jerry Lewis), and he won’t stop cracking worn-out vaudeville jokes. He won’t even let Albert near him unless he does a soft shoe routine. But things get even worse, Albert is kidnapped by Ninjas and taken to their lair high in the mountains where they force him to make a shuriken with a digital clock in it.
No one else has the faintest idea about how to fix VIRGA. Chuck tries to talk VIRGA into helping him save Albert, but VIRGA just cuts his tie off. Chuck dons his mountaineering gear and heads off, despite Archer’s protest. Archer knows Chuck is doomed without VIRGA’s help. He tries to fix VIRGA himself, but just gets an endless performance of "Hello Dolly".
Archer realises he needs to hire someone new who can fix VIRGA, but is worried about all the paper work. He enquires at Harvard about their top computer science student and they send over Godfrey Wang (Ke Huy Quan who had previously appeared in The Goonies). Godfrey not only restores VIRGA’s personality, but he makes several improvements, including getting rid of the need for a pilot. The new VIRGA is sent to the mountains, defeats the Ninjas and saves Albert just as Chuck reaches the top.
Episode 10
Leisure and Pleasure Godfrey has made things so efficient at the lab that there’s nothing for Albert and Chuck to do. At first they drink during the day and ride dune buggies around Archer’s compound. Their idyll is interrupted by the return of Hubert Claxton III. And he’s bought good news from his new spiritual ally, John Smith. Albert and Chuck spend ten minutes trying to get away from him in the dune buggies before Hubert latches onto Godfrey instead. Godfrey listens for ten seconds then tells him he’s an idiot.
They experience makes Chuck and Albert decide to embrace life, rather than spending it hiding from Mormons. Albert leaves to write the romance novel that’s been percolating in his brain for years. Chuck takes up painting.
But then Godfrey abruptly quits to take a job at Atari. Chuck goes and talks to VIRGA, who tells him that he no longer needs a human pilot, he is a perfect machine now. Chuck says that’s fine, but that there’s something he wants to show him first. He brings out a painting he did of the two of them up in the sky. Birds are around then, Chuck is smiling, the sun is shining. VIRGA is confused, he doesn’t understand the feeling coming over him. Chuck puts it in perspective, without him VIRGA will lose all his humanity.
They agree never to be apart again.
Episode 11
The Heart of the Machine Albert has finished his romance novel and reads it to the crew. VIRGA loves it, but the rest are less than enchanted. It inspires VIRGA to do more good deeds. He wants to save more people, not just battle Nazis and Ninjas. Since there’s nothing else going on, Chuck says he’ll go with him to flood-ravaged Bangladesh and help pick people off rooftops.
In Bangladesh they land at an airstrip and VIRGA sees the most gorgeous, exotic glider he’s ever scanned: The Bhujaraj 180. VIRGA tries to talk to her, but she says nothing. Undaunted, he throws himself into rescue work, hoping to impress her. But she still says nothing.
So VIRGA decides that being a nice guy isn’t enough, they have to go and destroy the cause of the flooding, an ancient River Spirit. The angry Spirit puts up a huge fight, it can teleport and smear VIRGA with blasts of ectoplasm. But the Spirit isn’t used to have plutonium tipped missiles rammed down its throat. With the Spirit dead the flood subsides and a business park is opened.
VIRGA is sure that this will have impressed The Bhujaraj 180, but he was wrong. She says that he just destroyed the deity she prayed to. VIRGA can’t understand why she’d pray to the deity that flooded the river, but to her it’s tradition. VIRGA says that’s the reason Bangladesh sucks, no one cares about that rubbish in America, and America rules. But she just turns to him and says "I hate America". And at that moment VIRGA’s heart turns to stone.
Episode 12
Ayatollah I’d Kick Your Ass VIRGA is desperate to forcibly improve the world’s crappest countries, but Archer knows it’s not within his abilities. Chuck tries to tell him that there are plenty of problems in America to fix, and it’s not really up to them to say what needs to be fixed in other countries. But VIRGA has grown moody and won’t do anything until he has a big American flag painted on his back.
Archer, Albert and Chuck have a meeting. They have to do something about VIRGA’s erratic emotions. Archer suggests taking out his personality chip, but Chuck says then VIRGA won’t want him to fly with him. Archer sees the only solution. He takes Reginald out, gives the box to Chuck and fires them both. With nowhere to go they hop railcars and head for California.
But what none of them know is that a radical cleric in the small Middle Eastern nation of Far’q’khak’qahar has been fermenting hatred for America, and using footage of VIRGA destroying the River Spirit to raise fear of America destroying all of the deities of the Middle East and Asia.
A secret cell of terrorists from Far’q’khak’qahar is in America, and they attack Archer Vale’s compound, destroying most of it. But VIRGA manages to escape. They take Archer hostage and threaten him with death for wanting to destroy countries he doesn’t agree with. He tells them that they’ve got him all wrong. But they don’t believe him, no matter what he says.
When Chuck and Reginald hear this they head back immediately. They return to a destroyed compound, and find VIRGA hiding in a garage. They look at its log records and find that its logic programming told it the best course of action was to hide. Chuck rips the old computer out in anger and reinstalls Reginald. They trace the terrorists escape route, and kill them all except their leader.
Archer ties the leader to a chair and teaches him a lesson in geopolitics. Archer tells him that since no matter how good America is people think their rotten, they may as well just be rotten and take what they want. He makes the terrorist watch on a monitor as VIRGA destroys the country of Far’q’khak’qahar, his penalty for not trusting people.
They have all learnt a valuable lesson. Sometimes when people become angry and intolerant it is not that they’ve gone crazy, it’s that they’ve become a man. The whole Knight Glider team dedicates themselves to cleaning up the world.
Episode 13
The Hawk Returns Pao Lin arrives at Archer Vale’s compound to ask for help. The Hawk has finally resurfaced in Texas. He’s working as an oilman representing Middle Eastern interests, what those interests are is unclear, though Pao Lin thinks it involves destroying America’s oil production to give his employers a monopoly.
But the lengths to which The Hawk will go are beyond their imagining. In a laboratory in San Antonio he is floating in a large tank of green glowing liquid. A team of scientists look on as a switch is pulled and electricity flows through the tank. It pulses, then The Hawk starts mutating. His body grows in fits and starts, wings start thrusting through his back, he swells to twenty times his original size.
Meanwhile Pao Lin and Chuck are in Houston keeping an eye on the fleets of oil tankers. There seems to be nothing going on. Then an ear splitting screech is heard and the Mega Hawk swoops in breathing fire and blowing up oil refineries. Chuck leaps into VIRGA. Pao Lin meanwhile sees the strange helmet the Mega Hawk is wearing and starts looking for his controllers.
The battle between VIRGA and The Mega Hawk is intense. Entire city blocks go up in flame, drilling stations are blown sky high, schools are closed for the afternoon. But slowly VIRGA’s arsenal weakens The Mega Hawk. VIRGA swoops in for the kill when The Mega Hawk shoots fire at an empty field, scrawling the words "Chuck, I am Your Father" in the burnt grass. Chuck doesn’t care, telling VIRGA to kill him. But VIRGA says his computers indicate an important use for The Mega Hawk.
At this point Pao Lin finds the scientists and beats the crap out of them. He gets The Mega Hawk’s controller and makes him fly head first into the ground, knocking himself out and reverting to human form.
They take The Hawk back to Archer’s compound. Despite being a government employee Pao Lin realises that The Mega Hawk is a great weapon, and with him in their control they may finally be able to see all the world’s problems solved, something the wussy federal government wouldn’t do. So in a final farewell montage to the series we see VIRGA and The Mega Hawk destroy all the problem countries of the world as "God Bless America" is sung by a choir of pre-schoolers.
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