Chief, Greg and others in “Unfinished Business”

Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's failance of felonious flimflammers has struck again. This time, They've pinched a plane in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City, still widely known by its former name Saigon, is home to Vietnam's Military Museum. The museum is a tribute to victory after a long history of occupation. This Southeast Asian country outlasted four major military powers: China, Japan, France, and the U.S.A., finally unifying in 1976 when the last Americans left. One of the Military Museum's proudest showpieces is a captured F-5 Freedom Fighter Jet, complete with a loaded 20-millimeter nose gun. Well, the gun is gone, guys, and so is the plane. It's attached to Robocrook. Carmen's mechanical marauder crept into the cockpit, revved the engines, and took off. Your mission, gumshoes: deplane Robocrook, return the jet to Ho Chi Minh City, and then capture Carmen Sandiego.

Chief, what's with the fruit here?

Greg, is this one of your practical jokes?

No, Chief! No way! You made me promise, no more practical jokes after that disaster with the hair dryer and the 9 ferrets.

Ooh! Then it must be Carmen Sandiego who's behind this! (laughs like a maniac) Well! If this is the way she wants it, I'm going to fight fire with fire!

Or melons with melons!

Robo, those ACME agents are closing in. Head for an African capital located on a large river called the Zaire.

Affirmative. It's in a country that's also called Zaire. Was the river named after the country?

No, it's the other way around. Zaire is the Portuguese version of a Kikongo word that means large river.

So, the country called Large River is on a large river that's called Large River? That is very logical. What is the meaning of Kikongo?

It's one of the national languages spoken in Zaire, but the official language is French because it was once a Belgian colony.

Orders received. I'm on my way.

(each time the Freedom Fighter Jet is revealed in the 2nd round)

WHOA!!! WHOA!!! Oh, my goodness!

(singing) Robocrook! YOU'VE WON!! (sings their fanfare)

(races to Ricky, pushing him back to his podium) Wait! Wait! (laughs) Go back and... some of this! (Ricky finishes getting confetti) There you go. Now come over here. (he and Ricky walk up to the chain)

This is Lynne Thigpen speaking for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and remember: We're on the case like fleas on Lassie, with better ratings than Degrassi.