Captain Marvel has an idea to figure out why the ghost is haunting Dexter's laboratory. Billy will disguise himself as Dexter by wearing Dexter's white lab coat. Billy reasons if the ghost is actually after Dexter, then by disguising himself as Dexter, perhaps he can get the ghost to talk.
As if on cue, the ghost enters the room, spewing out more of his mathematical mumbo jumbo...
Billy admonishes the ghost for not speaking in the King's English and is swiftly rewarded with a mallet to the head, knocking him unconscious. By my reasoning, you could say "Shazam!" about three or four times in the time it takes to say, "Then Captain Marvel will have to---UGG!" But I suppose if Cap showed up early, Billy wouldn't have had a chance to get bound and gagged. (Which brings me to a slight divergence, but if you could turn into Captain Marvel with a single word, why in the hell would you ever go back to being Billy Batson?)
Sure enough, when Billy awakens he is bound and gagged. The ghost, he notices, is over in the corner, furiously tinkering at a work bench. When the ghost is finished, it unleashes its creation on the helpless Billy...
The ghost, after knocking Billy out, tied him up and began to construct this terrible octopus robot. Things would have worked out considerably better for the ghost if he had just killed Billy while he was unconscious.
With the robotic tentacles crushing the very life out of Billy, he lifts his legs up and manages to kick over a large jug of acid onto the mechanical menace. As the robot sizzles away, Billy tugs his gag off with the help of some tools...
Once Captain Marvel shows up, he uses the wisdom of Solomon to piece all the clues together and reveal the mystery of the ghost. Have you figured it out yet?
"OK, we all know that ghosts rattle chains, right? And chains are made out of metal, right? And we also know that any other metal would make that same sound, right?"
Cap's investigation further uncovers Dexter's unknowing involvement in the ghost's existence. The robot Mr. Two, as his very name would indicate, was not the first robot! Mr. One, Dexter's original robot was a bit of a rebel, apparently. One day his electronic brain just went wild and started shooting out dangerous atomic rays everywhere! Dexter had no alternative but to put him down and bury him...
Captain Marvel rushes over to Mr. One's grave and digs up the robot's remains...
...and takes them to the moon for reburial. Even making the robot a tombstone, Captain Marvel wishes the 'insane robot' to rest in peace...
...then immediately turns around and taunts the ghost as he flies off. I love the anguished scream of the ghost as Cap just takes off, basically saying, "have fun up here alone, bitch!"
I wonder what Dexter did with Mr. Two's remains?
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