The gals continue to crawl in the air vents, and happen upon Saldo's Transmission Room.
"This looks interesting!" says Sam, as she is about to pop the vent cover off.
"Wait, Sammy!" exclaims Alex as she grabs her hand. "Look!"
Alex points at Saldo and some technicians entering the room.
"Thanks, Alex! I almost gave our hiding place away!" Sam says in relief.
"Let's see what that jerk is up to!" exclaims Clover.
Within minutes, a technician punches a button on a console, pirating all radio and television satellites. Saldo knows only those buildings with power generators will hear him, but he also assumes that the White House would be one of those buildings.
Saldo starts. "Once again the United States government takes me for a fool! They allowed three spies to stow away on the barge bearing the gold. Soon I will finish them off, but you can thank your elected officials for your indefinite loss of power!"
Satisfied that he will cause chaos in the USA, Saldo concludes his transmission.
"Now, where are my guards with the incapacitated spies? They should be here by now!"
An excited guard soon enters the room.
"Saldo! The spies have not been captured! They turned the tables on our guards, and the guards were the ones who were knocked out!"
A furious Saldo exclaims, "And where are those three pests?"
"We….we don't know. We cannot locate them on the security cameras!"
Saldo dismisses the guard in anger, and paces the Transmission Room. He then comments to a technician.
"As long as those girls are free, it isn't safe here! Who knows what other contraptions they have at their disposal? They could even signal the USA where we are! We can't hold off the Armed Forces of the United States! We must reload the gold back onto the submarine, and go to our safe haven!"
"But Saldo, we don't have the equipment there to melt the bullion! How will we sell it?"
"We'll have to sell the bricks, and our customers will have to do the melting. We'll only get half market value, but it's better than nothing!" Saldo then remarks to another technician, "Clark! Start reloading the bullion!"
"Yes, sir!" and he scurries off.
"We've got to find out how to restore the electricity!" whispers Clover.
"And we have to stop Saldo from escaping!" responds Sam quietly.
"I have an idea! I'll follow the vents until I find one that goes to the surface. I'll plant one of our hair barrettes at the surface, and another down here!" suggests Alex, in a whisper.
"Great idea, Alex! Here is my barrette! Clover and I will see what we can do here!" responds Sam.
Alex puts the second barrette in her hair, for safekeeping and goes off.
"Now let's follow Saldo in these vents! Maybe he'll lead us to the device he's using to control the electricity!" says Clover.
"Right!" exclaims Sam, as the two start moving in the opposite direction from Alex.
Back in the USA, the Presidential staff has determined that WOOHP placed the spies on the bullion barge. Jerry has been ordered to Washington, DC ASAP. He figures he's in for a severe reprimand, if not an outright firing. Jerry is required to act independently, as long as his actions pan out. But a scapegoat is needed for the turning off of the electricity, and it looks like it will be him.
Jerry resigns himself to being fired, and therefore decides to collect his personal belongings before he goes. One of the first things he runs across is the signed picture of the three spies with him. He sheds a tear, because he thinks that they are dead, and he holds himself responsible!
"I shouldn't have let them talk me into letting them go on this mission!" he thinks to himself. "Now they're gone, and it's all my fault!"
He thinks back to all the successful missions the gals have done for WOOHP. But more importantly, he thinks about his young charges as normal teens. They didn't even get a chance to finish high school! They didn't even really get a chance to live! They didn't experience the Senior Prom, or college, or finding that special someone, or married life or motherhood! His sadness deepens dramatically.
How can he face their parents? How can he explain everything to them? He at least owes the gals that much! He ponders this question, as he continues to slowly and sadly clean out his desk.
Clover and Sam parallel Saldo's movement in the vents.
Saldo enters his Control Room. "You technicians! Help load the submarine! I will set this control panel to lock! No one will be able to turn the electricity on!"
As the last technician leaves the Control Room, Saldo walks over to a switch encased in glass. But as he raises the hammer to break the glass, and set the Panel, Sam kicks open the air vent cover, and Clover activates the jet part of her go-go boots!
"What the….?" exclaims Saldo, as Clover slams into him!
"Not this time, creep!"
Saldo goes sailing through the air and lands by the door. He quickly gets up and scurries through it, just as Sam joins Clover.
"I'm going to nail that jerk….," vows Clover.
"Wait! If we can destroy this Control Panel, it should reactivate the electricity!" says Sam.
"But how? Saldo took our backpacks, remember?"
"Uh-huh! Look!" Sam points into the corner, and there are their three backpacks! Clover smiles at Sam, as they recover their backpacks, including Alex's. They place Alex's backpack, in plain view, in the Transmission Room, reasoning that she will probably return there first.
Alex has finally found the vertical shaft to the surface, as she can feel a cool breeze coming down. She activates the jet part of the go-go boots and rises to the surface. She places the barrette on the vent grill, and then slowly descends. As she reaches the cross vent, she places the second barrette and starts to crawl back to the Transmission Room vent.
Back at WOOHP, Jerry's desk cleaning is interrupted by a tracker beacon echo. The spies are ALIVE! Or at least one of them is! His summons to Washington will have to wait, not that it really will have any bearing on the expected outcome anyhow. He will mobilize WOOHP Security and follow that beacon! He owes it to the one spy who is still alive!
Clover and Sam take their laser lipsticks out of their backpacks.
"What say we get electric!" says Clover, as she activates her laser and starts carving up the Control Panel.
"You're a real live wire, Clover!" responds Sam as she also starts in on the Control Panel.
Within minutes, the spies have totally destroyed the Control Panel. With the mechanism needed to maintain the blackout in the USA destroyed, all electricity begins to flow again! Many people see this as an early Christmas Gift, in answer to their prayers.
After finishing the Control Panel, Sam says, "Now, let's get Saldo!"
"Shouldn't we wait for Alex?" asks Clover.
"She'll have to catch up! We can't afford to lose him! He still has the gold!"
Sam is correct. Saldo's minions are frantically loading the gold in the submarine, but it will only take another ten minutes!
Sam and Clover head toward the door. Cautiously, Clover unlocks the metal door and opens the door a crack, and the door is immediately inundated with gunfire from the awaiting guards! The gals quickly huddle away from the door, after relocking it.
"Can't get out that way!" says Sam.
"Well, let's take the same route we used to get in!" remarks Clover, as she points to the vent. Sam smiles and nods in approval.
The gals start crawling toward the pier, and see that Saldo has almost completed his operation! Only two more loads of bullion bricks, and he can escape! Quickly Clover kicks open the vent cover, and she and Sam activate the jet part of their go-go boots! They make a beeline toward the overhead crane operator! He doesn't see them coming until it is too late! Clover pounds the door open and Sam barrels into the unsuspecting operator, throwing him into the other door, knocking him out!
"What's going on? Why has the crane stopped?" screams Saldo. Then he notices Sam and Clover as they fly out of the crane control area!
"It's those pesky spies! Guards! Shoot them dead!" Saldo orders.
But Clover and Sam have other ideas. Again they split up. With some of the guards waiting for them to exit the Control Panel room, the number of attacking guards is less.
Clover and Sam do a crossing pattern in the air, amid the gunfire. The guards continue to follow them with their gunfire, until they get down to the level of two firing groups. The gals are at floor level, right behind the guards. Not wanting to shoot fellow guards, the firing momentarily stops. That is the pause the gals were looking for. Immediately they each aim right toward the guards in front of them, knocking most down, and jarring the rifles from their hands.
Clover turns off her boots and starts lashing out in kicks and punches. She nails one guard with a frontal kick, another with a side kick, and a third with a karate chop. Sam also turns her boots off, and is using handstand kicks, and side kicks on the guards, who are dropping like flies.
Saldo takes advantage of the commotion to make his way to the overhead crane control area. He starts the crane up and plans to drop the gold bullion bricks on Clover and Sam below! "This will finish those girls off for good!" he says, as he starts to bring the crane into position.
Saldo has forgotten one detail, however. And that detail is named Alex. She returned to the Transmission Room vent and saw her backpack. She quickly recovered it and re-entered the vent. She'll get to the pier area that way. As she gets to the vent kicked open by her friends, she evaluates the situation. Sam and Clover appear to have everything under control, but where is Saldo? Then she sees him in the overhead crane.
Alex activates the jet part of her go-go-boots and flies low, so Saldo doesn't see her coming. When she gets within ten feet of the door kicked open by Clover, she rises to the same level and flies straight in on Saldo!
Saldo was caught totally off guard! He has only been able to get the load of bricks over Sam, when Alex hits him. He rams into the closed door on the opposite side of the crane, and as he sinks to the floor, he hits the load release button!
Alex immediately flies out of the crane control area and races the falling load toward the unsuspecting Sam!
Clover screams, "SAM! LOOK OUT!"
Sam looks up and sees the rapidly descending load of bricks. She freezes for a split second. But Alex hits her from behind sending her about fifteen feet away from the impact area. The jarring action that started the rapid descent of the bullion toward Sam has jarred one of the top bricks to fly free. Alex is free of the falling load, but not the jarred brick! It catches her a hard glancing blow off the side of he head. Alex does not move.
"ALEX?" asks Sam as she rushes toward her friend.
"ALEX!" cries Clover as she rushes toward her friend too.
WOOHP has finally arrived and is rounding up the guards, and Saldo. Jerry looks for his spies and sees Clover and Sam by the unconscious Alex. He quickly runs toward the spies, with the WOOHP medical team right behind him.
Sam is crying as she cradles Alex in her arms. Clover is holding Sam and Alex, as she too cries.
Jerry arrives by the spies and immediately checks for a pulse for Alex.
"She needs medical assistance ASAP!" Jerry responds, and the WOOHP medical team tenderly takes Alex from the arms of her friends, and puts her on a stretcher.