In the lamest cliff-hanger cheat yet, Flash asks Aura if there's another way out of the turret and she says, "Yes! The trap-door!" They all bundle through it except Flash and Vulcan, who catch a bit of the blast. They take Vulcan back to the lab to nurse his wounds.
Ming orders everyone's deaths again. He says, "Prepare the Execution Chamber", although, sadly, we never get to see the Execution Chamber. It sounds cool, though.
Zarkov smugly wires up the door of the lab so that it's electrified. Various soldiers and Ming try the door several times and go "D'oh!" each time they get shocked. Everyone is standing around smiling as Zarkov announces "We can hold out indefinitely", but then Ming cuts the electricity to the room and, seconds later, Zarkov says "The electric energy has been cut off" and everyone looks sad.
Lion King's fleet of Spinning Top Ships attack and Ming brings the prisoners in to watch his ships destroy Lion King's men. However, Lion King's ships do better than Ming's and Flash taunts him.
Ming is about to have them all killed again (including his daughter, who he accuses of 'consorting with traitors' - he doesn't know the half of it) when Lion King and his men burst in and there's another big fight. Someone actually says, "It's THUN! And his Lion Men!"
In all the Smoke and Confusion, Ming escapes. He whispers something to the High Priest Of Evil, who is still faithfully manning the gong. He enters a chamber and is enveloped with smoke, then disappears. The High Priest tells Flash, Aura and Barin that Ming is dead. Flash seems more upset than Aura does. They return to the temple and the High Priest cackles, evilly.
The High Priest overhears Zarkov radioing the Stupid Earthlings that they're on their way home. He plants a bomb on their ship and does a rather cool thing where he walks straight into the camera, cackling away. It has to be said that the High Priest is camping it up even more than Vulcan.
Anyway, they all say their goodbyes - Aura is now one of the good guys and she's shacked up with Barin. As the ship flies off they hear the High Priest (still cackling) and get him to tell them about the bomb. They radio Flash and he chucks the bomb out of the window in the nick of time.
On their way to Earth they ask Professor Gordon to shut down every single electricity plant on Earth so they can re-enter the atmosphere safely. Professor Gordon goes, "Yeah, alright." Zarkov turns to tell Flash and Dale the good news but they're too busy making out. Zarkov watches them for longer than is strictly appropriate.
THE END
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