Plot
At the end of a customs shift at John F. Kennedy International Airport, an officer opens a crate marked "Moldova" and finds a red orb inside. The orb glows, a demon manifests, and a ray strikes the officer down. Later, the team chases a ghost through Sunnyside Yard in Queens. Eduardo, who has been complaining about the weight of his Proton Pack and needling Kylie about her "girl's gun," loses the Proton Pistol when he dodges a passing train car. The team traps the ghost, but the pistol lands on a truck bed that drives off. Egon Spengler radios in another call involving a Class 13 and is furious to learn the pistol is gone.
Egon sends Garrett Miller and Roland Jackson to the airport and orders Kylie and Eduardo to get the pistol back. At Hangar Five, Roland picks up residual readings and the downed customs officer is revealed to have lost his eyes. Kylie and Eduardo trace the pistol to the City Dump, where two boys have already grabbed it and accidentally fired it, knocking over a smokestack. The trail leads through a park, past a homeless man who points them to the Brooklyn Bridge, and to a man named George who has been using the pistol to light a campfire for food. By the time they reach him, George has sold the weapon to two men, who then turn the pistol on Kylie and rob her of the Proton Pack as well.
Meanwhile, the same demon attacks the curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after he admires the orb. Roland and Garrett, visiting the curator in the hospital, suggest pulling the customs list, and Egon identifies the object as the Orb of Moldova. He explains that ancient druids believed the orb to be a holy talisman used to sacrifice eyes to the gods, but his research shows a demon named Tenebraug is enslaved to it: anyone who looks at the orb loses their eyes to the demon. With the orb on display at the museum, Egon scrambles to warn a cleaning woman who does not speak much English, but she looks at the orb and is taken. The two robbers hit First National Bank, and because the Ghostbusters are the only people known to carry such weapons, the police arrest Roland, Garrett, and then Egon.
The next day, Kylie and Eduardo disguise themselves to visit the jailed team. Egon tells them the gala unveiling of the orb is set for 7:00 that evening and orders them to convince the museum administrator to cancel it. The administrator refuses and calls security, having already looked at the orb himself. With minutes to spare, Slimer frightens the administrator into cancelling the event, and Kylie and Eduardo stuff the man into a sarcophagus when Tenebraug manifests. Eduardo accidentally catches the orb, and Kylie, eyes closed, holds it up and calls the demon to her. As Tenebraug turns toward the orb, the stolen eyes return to its victims. Eduardo smashes the orb and the demon fades away. The following day the real criminals are caught and the Ghostbusters are released and exonerated.
Cast
The episode features the regular Extreme Ghostbusters voice cast, including Tara Charendoff as Kylie Griffin, Maurice LaMarche as Egon Spengler, Jason Marsden, Pat Musick, Alfonso Ribeiro, Rino Romano, and Billy West. Guest voices were provided by Charlie Adler, E.G. Daily, and Pat Fraley.
Equipment and items
The plot turns on the Ghostbusters' hardware passing into the wrong hands: the Proton Pistol and a Proton Pack are lost and stolen in turn, alongside the team's usual particle throwers, traps, radios, P.K.E. meter, and Ecto-1. The central object is the Orb of Moldova, the talisman to which the demon Tenebraug is bound.
Notes
The orb's origin ties back loosely to the wider franchise. In Ghostbusters II, one of Vigo the Carpathian's titles is "the Scourge of Moldavia"; the eastern part of Moldavia now lies within the Republic of Moldova, the country the orb is shipped from.
This episode introduces the first known Class 13 entity in the franchise. When Eduardo boasts about defeating Tenebraug without any equipment, he points out that he never needed a trap, implying the team's new gear can capture entities that the original Ghostbusters' equipment could not have held.
Eduardo's reluctance to involve the police is read by fans as a nod to his police-officer brother Carl Rivera, introduced in "Rage." The homeless man Kylie and Eduardo question in the park is the same figure earlier rejected by Achira in "Darkness at Noon, Part 1." When Egon, Roland, and Garrett are arrested, the officer doing so sounds remorseful and concedes they may be innocent, suggesting the police hold the Ghostbusters in higher regard than City Hall does.
Episode navigation
"The Unseen" aired between "Killjoys" and "The Crawler" in the first season of Extreme Ghostbusters.
