S01E38 · EPISODE 38 OF 65

Eye of Infinity

Mon*Star gets his hands on the notorious Eye of Infinity, the most destructive force in the universe, and Hotwing plans to retrieve the crystal before Hardware can figure out how to use its powers.

SILVERHAWKS · S01E38

● TITLE CARD · 1986-10-29

Hardware aims his gun over the side of the Mob car.

A package arrives at Hawk Haven for Commander Stargazer, cigars from the boys back home, though he points out that Earth command ought to know by now that SilverHawks don't smoke. He shows Hotwing a report on a cargo ship crossing Limbo with the Eye of Infinity, a crystal that can create a force field as powerful as a black hole, and assures him that only the two of them know about it. Once they leave, the cigars turn out to be Mo-Lec-U-Lar, who radios the news to Mon*Star.

Stargazer keeps Emergency Channel 13 open for Cargo Freighter 2647, but Windhammer and Hardware close in on it in the Zoomer, blast their way aboard and take the Eye, and the freighter sends an urgent call to Hawk Haven. On Brim*Star, Hardware admits he cannot make the Eye work yet. Mon*Star gives him twenty-four hours, threatens to turn him into software, and decides to leave Mo-Lec-U-Lar where he is, safe as long as nobody tries to smoke him.

Stargazer sends Hotwing to get the Eye back, and Hotwing reckons the first stop is Brim*Star, where Mon*Star is already planning a welcome party for him. A reception committee is waiting. At Hawk Haven, Stargazer thanks Earth Headquarters for the cigars and learns that nobody sent any, and Mo-Lec-U-Lar reveals himself. Realising that the Mob knows everything and Hotwing is in trouble, Stargazer calls for the SilverHawks.

On Brim*Star, Hotwing falls back on escapeology, calls out "Open Sesame!" at a lock, and works his way out of the Mob's hands with one trick after another. Back at Hawk Haven, Stargazer thanks him for a fine job, and says it is a pity he cannot make Mon*Star disappear as well.

Mon*star steals a dangerous crystal that can create extremely powerful forcefields but can't figure out how to activate it.

Commander Stargazer: "He won't. You and I are the only people in Limbo who know about it."

Mon*Star: "If you fail Hardware, I will personally turn you into software."

Commander Stargazer: "I don't smoke, but I appreciate the thought."

What does a dangerous thing look like? Kenneth Vose's script asks the question in its first scene, when Commander Stargazer shows Hotwing a report on the Eye of Infinity, a crystal that can raise a force field as powerful as a black hole. "It doesn't look that dangerous" is the first reaction in the room, and the reply, "looks can be deceiving", is advice that applies just as well to the box of cigars on the desk. The box has been there the whole time, cigars from the boys back home, which Stargazer has already set aside, because SilverHawks don't smoke.[1]

The most dangerous things in the episode are the ones that look harmless, and the Mob wins its first round by hiding inside a present nobody thinks to question. The cigars are Mo-Lec-U-Lar, who radios Mon*Star as soon as the room is empty, so Stargazer's promise to Hotwing, "You and I are the only people in Limbo who know about it.", is wrong while he is still making it. Mon*Star enjoys the joke more than anyone. He leaves his spy in place, safe "as long as nobody tries to smoke him", and then has to explain the pun to Yes-Man!

The best scene in the episode is a radio call. Stargazer, reporting to Earth Headquarters, signs off by thanking them for the cigars: "I don't smoke, but I appreciate the thought." The voice at the other end asks what cigars, insists that nobody sent any, and gives up. Then the spy thanks Stargazer for having him. It is a neat piece of construction. The setup was hidden inside a throwaway gag about Earth command not knowing its own people, and we laugh at the gag without once suspecting the box.

The villains get the broader comedy. Hardware, told to make the Eye work, admits that he cannot just now, then backpedals and asks for time, and Mon*Star answers with a deadline and a threat, "If you fail Hardware, I will personally turn you into software." Yes-Man agrees with everything, twice. The hijack of Cargo Freighter 2647 has the same brisk energy, with Windhammer throwing green lightning from his tuning fork while Hardware rides beside him in the Zoomer.[2]

The weakness is the Eye itself. The narration sells it as the most destructive force in the universe, but we never see it used. Hardware cannot make it work, and once Hotwing is loose on Brim*Star the crystal is just something to carry home. The likely reason is the slot. Twenty-two minutes have to hold a spy, a hijack, a trap and a magician's escape, and a force field as powerful as a black hole would need a story of its own. Hotwing gets his escape, at least, and the animation stages it as a conjuring act, with a red silk drawn through his fist and a bunch of pink flowers a moment later, while he keeps up a stage magician's patter.[3]

It closes back at Hawk Haven, where Stargazer, chin in hand, thanks his magician for a fine job and adds that it is a pity he cannot make Mon*Star disappear as well. Hotwing's trade is misdirection, which makes him the right man to send against a spy disguised as a box of cigars. A clever little episode!

1 ^ Stargazer's complaint is that the people of Earth command ought to know by now that SilverHawks don't smoke. It also keeps the disguise safe, since nobody on the base will ever open the box.

2 ^ The Zoomer is the Mob car with the toothed open-mouth front, named in dialogue in The Saviour Stone. The freighter was crossing from Sector 22 to Sector 21 when Stargazer promised to keep Emergency Channel 13 open for it.

3 ^ Hotwing came to Limbo in Hotwing Hits Limbo. He carries this mission from start to finish, and no other SilverHawk appears in the published frames.

Mo-Lec-U-Lar spends the first half of the episode disguised as a box of cigars on Stargazer's desk, and Mon*Star leaves him there on purpose, safe as long as nobody tries to smoke him.
The Eye of Infinity travels aboard Cargo Freighter 2647, and Stargazer keeps Emergency Channel 13 open while it crosses his area.
The hijack uses the toothed-front Mob car named the Zoomer in The Saviour Stone, with Windhammer firing green lightning from his tuning fork.
Mon*Star gives Hardware a day to make the Eye work, on pain of being turned into software.
Hotwing's escape from Brim*Star is played as a magic act: he calls out "Open Sesame!", and the frames show a red silk drawn through his fist followed by a bunch of pink flowers.
Apart from Hotwing and Stargazer, no SilverHawk appears in a published frame; Stargazer's radio call to the team at 11:52 is the only time they are addressed.
Stargazer's office is well furnished for a space station: a desk lamp, a wall map, window blinds and an electric fan, all visible behind Mo-Lec-U-Lar at 9:10.
The closing science segment is about the colours of stars: the coolest stars are red, not blue, and the Kidd finishes on thirteen points for the day.

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3 names enter the series in this episode.

Cargo Freighter crew
Voice from Earth
Cargo Freighter #2647

Cast, in order of appearance11

Commander Stargazer
Quicksilvervoice only
Hotwing
Mo-Lec-U-Lar
Volt-uredisguise
Windhammer
Hardware
Cargo Freighter crew
Mon*Star
Yes-Man
Voice from Earth

Places5

Craft3

The Zoomer
Cargo Freighter #2647
The Sprinthawk

Weapons and equipment8

Eye of Infinity
The Frisbee
The Tuning Fork
The Roll-Up Bag
Hardware Laser Blaster
Ice Gun
The Light-Star
Magic Bouncing Balls

Appearance lists compiled from the episode articles on the ThunderCats wiki, checked against this site's encyclopedia. Names we have no entry for are shown without a link rather than left out.

Commander Stargazer

Commander Stargazer

Hotwing

Hotwing

Mo-Lec-U-Lar

Mo-Lec-U-Lar

Windhammer

Windhammer

Hardware

Hardware

Mon*Star

Mon*Star

Yes-Man

Yes-Man

Stargazer sits at his desk in the Hawk Haven office as a package is about to arrive.

Stargazer eyes the package, which turns out to hold cigars from the boys back home.

Stargazer looks over the box of cigars, remarking that SilverHawks don't smoke.

Hotwing, seen from behind, stands before Stargazer's desk as Stargazer holds up the box of cigars.

Stargazer tells Hotwing about a report on a cargo ship crossing Limbo with the Eye of Infinity.

Seen over Stargazer's shoulder, Hotwing listens as he brings up a report he received.

A green radar-style screen at Hawk Haven, shown as Stargazer describes the cargo ship crossing Limbo.

The Eye of Infinity, a purple crystal ringed by pink beams, appears on Stargazer's monitor.

The monitor shows the Eye of Infinity's power at work, a spiralling force field crossed by red beams.

Red beams cross a swirl of purple on the monitor as Stargazer explains what the Eye can do.

Purple streamers of force whip through space around a burst of red beams, still on the Eye's demonstration.

Stargazer walks Hotwing to the door, an arm around him, to go check on the ship's position.

With the office empty, the cigars burst into a mass of round shapes on Stargazer's desk as Mo-Lec-U-Lar radios Mon*Star.

Alone in Stargazer's office, Mo-Lec-U-Lar reaches across the desk to radio the news to Mon*Star.

Windhammer and Hardware ride a Mob car through space, closing in on the freighter.

Cargo Freighter 2647 crosses Limbo with the Eye of Infinity aboard.

Two crew members sit at their consoles on the freighter's bridge.

A red blip approaches on a bridge screen as the freighter's crew spot an unidentified object.

Windhammer roars and raises his weapon from the Mob car as it bears down on the freighter.

The freighter's bridge under red light, with two yellow streaks across the radar screen.

Windhammer fires green lightning from his tuning fork at the freighter, with Hardware beside him in the Zoomer.

Windhammer laughs as the Mob attacks the freighter.

A green spiral of energy against a grid pattern as the attack on the freighter begins.

The freighter's crew lie knocked out on the bridge floor while electricity crackles across the consoles.

The Mob car sits on the freighter's red tower as a yellow beam streaks past.

Hardware climbs through the hole blasted in the freighter's hull, gun in hand.

A door plate reading TOP SECRET.

In a dark frame, Hardware's gloved hand grips his gun aboard the freighter.

Hardware grins and reaches for the Eye of Infinity sitting on its stand.

The Eye of Infinity glows on its pedestal between shafts of yellow light.

Seen from above aboard the freighter, Hardware stands in a web of pink laser beams.

Hardware grins, pleased with the haul from the freighter.

A freighter crewman in blue makes an urgent call to Hawk Haven after the theft.

Mon*Star's fortress on Brim*Star, red-lit, where the Mob takes the Eye.

Mon*Star raises a fist and orders Hardware to make the Eye of Infinity work.

Back with the Mob, Mon*Star orders Hardware to make the Eye work while Yes-Man looks on.

Mon*Star turns on Hardware, furious that he cannot make the Eye work.

Yes-Man and Hardware shrink back as Mon*Star gives Hardware twenty-four hours.

Mon*Star seizes Hardware, threatening to turn him into software if he fails.

Hardware trudges off toward a tunnel, bedroll on his back.

Yes-Man wrings his hands before Mon*Star, apologising for interrupting his thinking.

Yes-Man asks whether to call Mo-Lec-U-Lar home to Brim*Star, and Mon*Star tells him to stay put.

Yes-Man, coiled on the floor, laughs along as Mon*Star jokes about smoking Mo-Lec-U-Lar.

The box of cigars on Stargazer's desk, with Mo-Lec-U-Lar still hidden among them.

Hotwing works out that the first stop in the hunt for the Eye is Brim*Star.

Stargazer claps Hotwing on the back as Hotwing heads off after the Eye.

Mo-Lec-U-Lar's gold spheres spill across Stargazer's desk as he re-forms.

Mo-Lec-U-Lar leaps across Stargazer's empty office at Hawk Haven, his red hexagonal gadget on one arm.

Mo-Lec-U-Lar stands on his own in Stargazer's empty office, planning a welcome party for Hotwing.

A small grey and red craft is hit by a yellow blast in space.

Hotwing sits in the cockpit of his craft against a red backdrop, on his way to Brim*Star.

Hotwing, out in space, sets off to recover the Eye of Infinity.

A small gold armoured figure drops head first through orange flames and cannot be identified.

Windhammer, tuning fork in hand, waits with Mon*Star in a star-shaped doorway of the fortress as the Mob's reception committee.

Windhammer, teeth bared, grabs at a tangle of metal rods as the Mob's reception committee meets Hotwing.

A green blast from a tuning fork lights up the red rock as the reception committee opens fire.

Hotwing flies in, wings spread, against a blaze of orange light.

Hotwing is caught upside down in crackling yellow-green energy against a red wall.

A green blast throws Hotwing back while Windhammer stands ready with his weapon.

Hotwing stands before a red sky, facing the Mob's reception committee.

Mon*Star and Windhammer close in on Hotwing at the Mob's reception.

At his console, Stargazer signs off with Earth Headquarters and thanks them for the cigars.

Stargazer radios Earth Headquarters and thanks them for the cigars, which it turns out nobody sent.

Gold spheres swell up behind Stargazer as he ends his call.

Stargazer reacts in alarm as Mo-Lec-U-Lar reveals himself in the office.

Mo-Lec-U-Lar sneers at Stargazer, thanking him for having him, or rather for being had.

Mo-Lec-U-Lar grins down at Stargazer, having tricked his way into Hawk Haven.

Stargazer, on the floor with Sly-Bird beside him, calls for the SilverHawks.

A star-shaped opening in the wall of the Mob's fortress on Brim*Star.

Hotwing, locked behind bars in the Mob's fortress, resolves to try escapeology.

The Eye of Infinity sits under a machine at the Mob's base, red beams crossing it.

Goggles down, Hardware works at a Mob console against the twenty-four hours Mon*Star gave him.

Hardware, goggles down, works at the Mob's controls with a red beam behind him.

Hardware works at a console while pink beams play across the Eye of Infinity on its stand.

Hotwing, in a purple harness, sets to work on his escape.

Hotwing smiles as his escape from the Mob gets under way.

Hotwing raises a fist to a metal wall as he tries his Open Sesame trick on a lock.

Hotwing, escape under way, stands in the fortress beneath a red star shape.

Hotwing peers out through a low gap, grinning, as his escape from the Mob gets under way.

Hotwing is caught in a crossing of red laser beams inside the Mob's base.

Hotwing faces on through pink laser beams inside the Mob's base.

Hotwing stands before a rusty wall inside the Mob's base.

Hotwing edges past a blue beam from a wall device beside a ladder.

Hardware smirks during the Mob's hunt for Hotwing in the base.

Hardware grins, red-mouthed and confident, inside the Mob's base.

Hardware walks past a wall of machinery, with a gun leaning against it at the left.

Hardware fires a bulky gun down the corridor of the Mob's base.

Hardware fires his gun, a bright blast leaving the muzzle.

Glowing pink discs dot the surface of a red planet against the stars.

An ornate red staff twists through a haze of red light.

Yes-Man watches from the edge of a green-lit chamber while a small figure sits on the clawed throne.

Mon*Star, transformed, rises in his red armour on a burst of white energy above the throne.

Mon*Star, now in his spiked red armour, stares out after the transformation.

Crouched on a rusty deck, Hotwing shields himself behind a curved clear panel as a white blast hits it.

Hotwing holds the Eye of Infinity in his hand, having got it back from the Mob.

A small figure of Hotwing runs through the star-shaped doorway of Mon*Star's fortress.

Hotwing, holding the Eye of Infinity, faces the giant red legs of the transformed Mon*Star.

Hotwing leaps through the air beside a burst of pink energy, a huge dark arm above him.

Hotwing, helmet on, is set against dark coiled machinery in a red glow.

Mon*Star's spiked face emerges from a blaze of white energy as he transforms.

Hotwing draws a red silk through his fist, setting up his next trick.

Mon*Star, in his spiked, star-faced armour, bares his teeth.

A huge faceted red globe fills the frame while the transformed Mon*Star is small in the corner.

Hotwing smiles as a beam of light shoots from the gem on his headband.

The trick pays off: Hotwing produces a bunch of pink flowers, looking pleased with himself.

Hotwing, standing on a dark twisted mass, shoots a beam of light from his headband.

A red, rocky landscape under a starry sky.

Mon*Star, in spiked armour, stands under a beam of red light.

Mon*Star's spiked, star-faced helmet in extreme close-up.

Hotwing, seen from behind, holds the Eye of Infinity up toward a beam of light.

Hotwing sits back in his cockpit, the Eye of Infinity in his hand, clear of the Mob's base.

Hotwing waves from his cockpit as he escapes with the Eye.

Hotwing's craft cruises through space, with Hotwing visible through its canopy.

Chin in hand, Stargazer waits to thank Hotwing, a purple crystal at the edge of his desk.

Hotwing faces Stargazer across the desk at Hawk Haven, answering his summons.

Stargazer thanks Hotwing for a fine job, the recovered Eye of Infinity on the desk between them.

From above, Stargazer talks with Hotwing across his desk, saying it is a pity he cannot make Mon*Star disappear.

Two gold control arms frame a screen full of stars on the cockpit console.

A red star hangs on the cockpit screen as the quiz moves on to star colours and sizes.

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