Meanwhile, at Peabody Labs, Sherman and the duplicate of Mr. Peabody are working feverishly to repair the Dublinator.
"A few more connections and it should be ready, Mr. Peabody.," says Sherman, who is wearing an eye visor and applying a welding torch to the Dublinator's circuits.
The phone rings. The Peabody clone, who is looking through a microscope at some tissue samples, goes to the wall and picks it up. "Peabody Labs, Mr. Peabody's clone speaking."
He hears Bullwinkle's voice on the other end of the line. "Big trouble, Mr. Peabody! My evil duplicate has joined up with Boris and Natasha!"
The clone's eyes widen with concern. "How do I know you're the real Bullwinkle?" he asks warily. "Is Rocky with you?"
The Badmobile, driven by Boris, is speeding down the highway toward Santa Clausa. In the back seat of the fancy vehicle, the Bullwinkle clone is talking on a cell phone. "Uh, Rocky? Yeah, he's here." He hands the cell phone to Natasha, who is in the passenger seat. She speaks into it and imitates Rocky's voice.
"Mr. Peabody, I think Boris and Natasha are plotting with the evil Bullwinkle clone to break into your lab and steal the Dublinator," she warns.
"We can't allow that to happen," says the Peabody clone. "If they get their hands on the Dublinator, they'll be able to create an evil duplicate of anybody!"
"Then you figured out what went wrong when you cloned Bullwinkle?" asked Natasha, still imitating Rocky.
"Yes, Sherman traced it to an intermittent problem in the flux discharge filters. He turned it into a feature."
As the Peabody duplicate speaks into the phone, Sherman snaps the cover onto the Dublinator's control panel. It now has an additional switch with two settings, GOOD and EVIL.
"You'd better hide the machine right away," suggests Natasha in her Rocky voice.
"I know of a secret storage facility in the sub-basement of an office building," says the Peabody clone. "They'll never look for it there."
"Give me directions, and we'll meet you there," Natasha requests.
"All right. If you go north on Interstate 5..." The Peabody clone pauses. "Wait, there's a call on the other line."
He pushes a button on the receiver to take the incoming call. To his surprise, Rocky's voice comes through. "Big trouble, Mr. Peabody! The evil Bullwinkle duplicate has joined up with Boris and Natasha!"
Dumbfounded, the Peabody duplicate slowly hangs up the phone. At the side of the highway to Corpus Crusty, two paramedics have placed the real Bullwinkle on a stretcher and are loading him into the back of an ambulance. Nearby, Rocky is holding a cell phone to his ear as Honeysuckle stands next to him. "He hung up!" he states.
"Call him again," Honeysuckle instructs him. "If my guess is correct, he and Sherman are in grave danger!"
Meanwhile, in the Badmobile, Natasha lowers the cell phone from her ear. "He hung up on me!" she complains.
"Do you think he suspects you?" asks the Bullwinkle clone.
"Impossible," says Boris. "Natasha's impersonation of Rocky was perfect."
"What do you expect, darlink?" boasts Natasha. "June Foray voices both of us."
"The other call must have been Rocky trying to warn him about us," observes the evil clone.
"Then it is time for Plan B," says Boris.
"What is Plan B, darlink?" Natasha asks.
In Peabody's lab, the phone on the wall is ringing, but the Peabody clone only stares thoughtfully at it. "Two Bullwinkles...two Rockys...I don't know who I can trust anymore. Sherman, we'll have to hide the Dublinator by ourselves, without telling anyone where it is."
"I'll call for a truck, Mr. Peabody," Sherman offers.
Minutes later, the injured Bullwinkle is rushed into the Elmer Fudd Memorial Hospital for Cartoon Characters.
Rocky and Honeysuckle follow the paramedics as they roll the stretcher carrying Bullwinkle through a hospital corridor. They pass various grotesquely wounded cartoon characters. Wile E. Coyote is shaped like an accordion after falling off a cliff, Scratchy the Cat holds his severed head in his hands, and the dazed Roger Rabbit has a mouth full of piano keys. A doctor escorts Daffy Duck, whose beak has just been reattached to his face, into the reception area.
"Remember, Daffy," says the doctor, "only soft foods for the next 24 hours. And don't get into any more arguments with Bugs Bunny about whether it's rabbit season or duck season. You can't win."
A clerk hands Daffy a sheet of paper. "Here's your bill, Mr. Duck."
When Daffy looks at his medical bill, his eyes bulge and his beak drops from his face onto the floor.
As Bullwinkle is wheeled into the X-ray room, he reaches up and takes Honeysuckle by the hand. "Promise you'll stop my evil clone," he pleads weakly.
"I promise," Honeysuckle vowed.
Bullwinkle and Honeysuckle gaze wistfully at each other, and soft romantic music begins to play in the background.
Then Honeysuckle grimaces with frustration. "Please let go of my hand, Bullwinkle."
Meanwhile, a truck has arrived at Peabody Labs to move the top-secret Dublinator device to an undisclosed location.
In front of the lab's loading dock, Sherman and the Peabody clone watch as a truck backs up, making a beeping noise. When it has come to a stop, a short man and a tall woman step out. Both are wearing drab uniforms.
"Allow me to introduce myself," says the short man. "I am Boris Truckenov." He gestures toward the tall woman. "And this is my lovely assistant, Petrushka."
"A pleasure," says the tall woman.
"Truck drivers have lovely assistants?" marvels Sherman.
"Ever since we unionized," replies the short man.
"Haven't I...seen you two somewhere before?" asks the Peabody clone.
"No," answers Truckenov.
Minutes later, the Dublinator has been loaded inside the truck's cargo bay. The short man and tall woman are going over the details of the move with the Peabody clone and Sherman. "You may want to go inside and make sure the ropes are tight enough," Truckenov recommends.
Sherman and the clone walk up the ramp into the truck's cargo hold and inspect the ropes that were tied around the Dublinator to keep it in place. "They look tight enough to me," says the clone.
Suddenly a pair of large hands grab the pair from behind. Within moments, they have been bound, gagged, and laid out on the floor of the cargo hold. Boris, Natasha, and the evil Bullwinkle clone are gloating over them.
"How about now?" asks Boris. "Are they tight enough?"
The Bullwinkle clone laughs maniacally.
Will Sherman and Peabody meet their end at the hands of the wicked spies? Don't miss our next heart-pounding episode, "Stuck in the Truck", or, "The Ties that Bind"!
