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Star Crossed is the 34th episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. It first aired on November 9, 2000.
Summary
Zurg hires the bounty hunter Romac to retrieve 57 before the Brain Pod reaches Star Command. However, it turns out that Romac is Mira's ex-boyfriend.
Plot
The episode starts on Planet Z with a grub fretting about how to tell Zurg about Brain Pod 57 defecting to Star Command. When Zurg finds out he panics and asks for Shiv Katall. The grub tentatively reminds Zurg that Shiv Katall was Buzz Lightyear in disguise, and after almost being squeezed to death by a furious Zurg reminding it to never mention Shiv Katall to him again, the grub suggests a promising new bounty hunter rumoured to be better than Shiv Katall. Tossing the grub aside, Zurg demands that the bounty hunter be brought to him.
Zurg meets with the bounty hunter at his launch bay, who arrives in a small personal shuttle. A grub reveals his name to be Romac, and Zurg comments that the name sounds Volturan before discovering that he is a Tangean Grounder
Upon hearing this, Zurg protests that he doesn't speak the language, and the grub with him offers to use its portable translator to attempt communication. Romac emerges at that point, dressed in blue leathers and a helmet obscuring his face. Zurg is hardly impressed, commenting on his tacky outfit, his primitive origins, and even wondering if he bathes. The grub greets him, but Romac remains silent. Dismayed that he doesn't appear to even understand his own language, Zurg instructs the grub to tell him that he has a job for him. The grub attempts communication once more, but Romac replies in flawless Basic to "skip the boom-booms" as he fires a mental pulse at the grub before asking about the job. Unperturbed, Zurg tells him he'll pay him three million unibucks for his services. Grabbing Zurg's fingers in a tight grip, Romac responds that he'll do it for ten in advance. Zurg concedes without protest because of time constraints and summons the grub forward with a briefcase filled with crisp money rolls. He instructs Romac to "go fetch" 57 and Romac promises to do so, saying, "I never quit a job 'til it's finished. Never."
Under cover on Tradeworld in a seedy love-themed hotel, Buzz reviews his team's tasks in protecting the defected 57. Mira has already checked the hotel's perimeters, Booster has set up computer surveillance on all exits and entrances, but XR protests at there being no mints on the pillows, a broken ice machine, and the cable being out. 57 finds the opportunity to protest at sitting around in a hotel room and suggests they leave immediately, but Buzz stops him and reminds him that by now Zurg has hired someone to locate him. He has Mira and XR take the first watch, with him and Booster to relieve them at midnight before they set off at six in the morning to deliver 57 to a Star Command debriefing unit. Before leaving, he reminds him that no phone calls or loud noises are allowed and they are not to leave the room. 57 wonders sarcastically at this being freedom.
Mira's first encounter with trouble is a delivery boy from Pizza Planet. It turns out that 57 had ordered pizza because they never had the chance to eat pizza on Planet Z and takes delight at the anchovies as he samples a bite and even licks his "lips" afterwards.
Mira is about to scold him but is interrupted by the pizza boy who asks for eight unibucks for the pizza. Though put off at first, Mira pays by swiping her card through the boy's card reader and sends him off before turning on 57 and reminding them that this is a covert operation and that they shouldn't be attracting attention. But XR too has vanished, and it turns out that he's been telling high tales to a cleaning maid in the corridor who bids him farewell with a wave and a, "Goodbye, Commander," as Mira tows XR away. Back in the room, Mira reminds them that they have to stay low and that anyone could be a Zurg agent. XR comments that even she could be an agent, eyeing her suspiciously. Sighing, Mira tells them she'll check things outside and that they better stay in the room.
However, when Mira returns, no one is there. She sets out to find them, ghosting from room to room, much to the embarrassment of the occupants and herself.
She finally finds them in a lone room on the top floor with two alien girls, dancing away without a care in the world. Mira switches off the radio, greatly displeased at this turn of events, and both 57 and XR try to convince her that it's not how it looks. The green-skinned female agrees, commenting on how they're not Zurg operatives and saying that they boys wouldn't dance with them if they said they were. Rolling her eyes, Mira just tells XR to check the hallway. 57 quips at how she ought to loosen up a bit, but she replies that if things were any looser he'd be halfway back to Planet Z by now. The roar of an engine interrupts her, however, and she tells him to sit tight while she investigates. Ghosting the upper half of her body through the wall, she looks around, but sees nothing amiss.
However, Romac is hovering above the hotel on a bike, so when Mira attempts to ghost back inside she gets stuck, just as Romac sends a mind pulse that sputters and dies out before it is even formed. He resorts to using a plasma gun instead, and causes a part of the ceiling to collapse upon 57 and the girls, who run away screaming. 57 is frozen in terror as Romac touches down and uses a mechanism on his bike to latch on to the hapless Brain Pod. He lifts off and only once he is far away enough does Mira manage to free herself. XR returns, commenting on the chaos left behind: a destroyed room, and no 57 in sight.
Later on joined by Buzz and Booster, they examine the scene of the crime where Mira apologizes yet again for her folly.
XR comments on how he warned her not to trust anyone, and Mira defends that whoever took 57 must be a Tangean Grounder for her powers to have failed her because Royals and Grounders cancel each other out when in close proximity. Booster's scanner picks up Romac's ion trail and they take the skies to find him. The rangers locate him and start closing in on him. 57 warns that Romac should just give up up seeing as the rangers are gaining, but Romac only quips that there's a big difference between "gaining and catching". He uses a mind pulse to snap off the peak of a building so it can block their way. Mira and Buzz fly over it, but Booster and XR crash through it. Sure that it's a Tangean Grounder now, Mira and Buzz concentrate on closing in on him as Booster and XR rejoin them. Romac flees through a tunnel and fires another mind pulse at the ceiling, before skidding to a stop out of the tunnel and setting off again in another direction. The rangers plough through the rubble, but only Buzz manages to follow Romac through another stream of traffic. He flies through a bus, but Buzz is still hot on his trail, and the others soon join him. They can't get close to Romac when he keeps blowing everything up. Even 57 comments on this and asks him whether he'd like a partner in crime instead of Romac returning him to Zurg. Romac only replies curtly with the same motto again--that never quits a job until it's finished. Buzz and Booster try to go around while Mira and XR keep following Romac. He pulls out a plasma gun from a compartment in his bike and fires behind him, but accidentally fires a shot ahead, as well.
A child who was walking along the side-walk above trips and falls, but Romac swoops in to save him and sets him down safe and sound. But Mira and XR are buried beneath the rubble; safe, but stuck. Not able to break loose, Mira realizes that Romac is close, and indeed he is, with a gun trained upon them. But upon seeing Mira for the first time he falters, recognizing her. XR reminds him about Mira being a princess and that he'll get into a load of trouble with her father, King Nova. Romac replies that it wouldn't be the first time, revealing his face to them. Mira is startled, recognizing him, and hesitantly explains to a surprised XR that Romac is her ex-boyfriend. "Once upon a time" Romac agrees, but as they exchange looks it's obvious something's still there. 57 reminds Romac that Buzz and Booster will be there any second and Mira warns him that he's on the wrong side and should give up, but Romac gets back onto his bike and reminds her that he never quits a job before it's finished.
Booster touches down to help XR and Mira and Buzz pursues Romac.
First Appearances
- Romac
- Brain Pod 57
Quotes
- "I never quit a job 'til it's finished. Never." -- Romac
Trivia
Under construction.
Voice Actors
- Patrick Warburton as Buzz Lightyear
- Stephen Furst as Booster
- Nicole Sullivan as Mira Nova
- Jeremy Piven as Brain Pod #57
- Frank Welker as Grub
- John Kassir as Marl
- Wayne Knight as Zurg
- Grey DeLisle as Alien Beauty and Alien Maid
- Neil Flynn as XR
- David James Elliot as Romac
Production Details
Executive Producers: Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley, Tad Stones
Director: Victor Cook
Story Editor: Kevin Hopps
Written By: Greg Weisman
Voice Casting and Dialogue Director: Jamie Thomason
Storyboard: Denise Koyama, Carin-Anne Greco, David Bullock
Timing Directors: Burt Medall, Dale Case
Sheet Timing: Dale Case, Burt Medall, John Ahern
Supervising Character Design: Greg Guler
Character Design: Dana Landsberg
Additional Character Design: Kenny Thompkins
Key Location Design: Simon Rodgers, Latchezar Gouchev, Teresa Wellins
Prop Design: Chuck Puntuvatana, Tom Foxmarnick
Lead Background Paint: Donna Prince
Key Background Stylist: Tom Cain
Color Key Stylist: Sharon Scott
Storyboard Revisions: Alan Wright
Additional Storyboard By: Lonnie Lloyd, David Prince
Continuity Coordinator: Jungja Kim-Wolf
Associate Producer: Natasha Kopp
Creative Consultant from Pixar: Jeff Pidgeon
Digital Color Correction: Don Devine, Adam Chase, Christopher Staples
Scanner: Adam Chase
CGI Main Title: Pixar Animation Studios
Music By: Adam Berry
Main Title Theme By: Adam Berry
Animation Production By: Hanna Animation Co., Ltd.
Director: Young-Sang Yoon
Backgrounds: Young-Ku Kim, Woo-Sang Yun
Camera: Chul-Kyu Lim
Animators: Jung-Tak Kim, Eun-Young Byun, Kuen-Sik Song, Sung-Chui Lee, Jung-Hee Jung, Ae-Kyoung Choi
Supervising Film Editor: John Royer
First Assistant Film Editor: Jennifer Harrison
Pre-Production Dialogue Editor: Monte Bramer
Track Reading: Skip Craig
Post Production Manager: Steven J. Arenas
Post Production Supervisor: Rachel Pusateri
Audio Supervisor: Victor Garcia
Post Production Coordinator: Mark Allen Bollinger
Sound Design: Paca Thomas
Dialogue Editor: Robbi Smith
Music Editor: Marc S. Perlman, M.P.S.E.
Foley: Phyllis Ginter, Kris Daly
Digital Audio Transfer: J. Lampinen
Re-Recording Mixers: James, C. Hodson, C.A.S, Melissa Ellis, Fil Brown, Ray Leonard, Michael Beiriger
Supervising Music Editor: Dominick Certo
On-Line Editor: Keith Cook
Production Coordinators: Chris Versage, John Paul Catapano
Script Coordinator: Dawn T. Connors
Production Associate: Carin Cobrae
Production Secretaries: Linda DeLizza, Jessica Farley
Talent Coordinator: David H. Wright III
Production Accountant: Ron J. Earhart
Produced By: Walt Disney Television Animation