00:00Cross the rainbow bridge of Asgard, where the booming heavens roar, you'll behold in breathless wonder, the god of thunder, mighty Thor.
00:16While mighty Thor, the thunder god, is visiting Asgard, he gets a psychic message from planet Earth concerning Jane Foster, learning she is confined in a hospital.
00:34Fretting at this news, Thor petitions his father, the lordly Odin, for permission to return to Earth.
00:41Odin reluctantly agrees, and immediately Thor is on his way.
00:45I must reach Jane at once.
00:48Unerringly, Thor's mighty hammer draws him to Jane's hospital room.
00:53I have found her.
00:55She should have recovered by now. I don't understand it.
00:59What could have happened during my absence? I must find out.
01:07Jane, darling, do you hear me?
01:10His voice. I must be dreaming.
01:13No, Jane, you're not dreaming. I've returned.
01:16Don.
01:17You knew I'd return.
01:18No, I didn't know. One moment you're beside me, then you vanished.
01:23Oh, I can't bear it. You've told me you love me, but you're keeping some terrible secret from me.
01:29Jane, how can I believe in you when you desert me for days, weeks at a time?
01:34But, darling, my absences have never affected my love for you.
01:37I only know that you leave me, and each time it breaks my heart.
01:41Jane, listen. You've got to understand.
01:43Jane, I can't bear to see you hurt.
01:46I'll prove my love.
01:48Look at me, Jane Foster. I command you.
01:51Forgive me, Father.
01:52I do what must be done.
01:57Thor.
01:58What?
02:00Oh, Don.
02:02Now behold Thor, son of Odin, god of thunder, who truly loves you, Jane Foster.
02:09Don. Thor. Both the same.
02:12Now you share my secret. I plight my troth.
02:15I love you so. Both of you.
02:18No one must know but you and I.
02:21Ah, but someone does. Odin, with his immortal extrasensory perception.
02:27Thor. My son has betrayed his trust.
02:32Hold. Someone approaches. I shall return. Tomorrow.
02:40Don. I'll be waiting. Always.
02:45By the golden gates of Asgard, my own son hath divulged his immortal identity to a female earthling.
02:53Even the heavens do quiver and shake in celestial indignation.
02:57Though he is my favored son, he has broken the law.
03:02There must be reckoning.
03:04Haunted by the image of the girl he loves and by his duty to Odin,
03:07Dr. Don Blake is torn between love and duty.
03:11As he struggles with his conscience, his mental agony is almost as great as that of Odin,
03:16who even now suffers similar pangs as he beseeches Zeus to help him in his quandary.
03:22Hercules, Atlas, stay all arms.
03:27Hercules, strongest of all my sons.
03:29Stand aside.
03:30I have a mission for you.
03:33Behold, an image of planet Earth.
03:36It is there you shall go.
03:38The reason shall be disclosed in due time.
03:40And so, in a mighty burst of solar energy, Hercules descends from Mount Olympus toward Earth
03:46as Dr. Don Blake reaches the only possible decision.
03:52I must return to Asgard and explain to Odin.
03:55So be it.
03:59And then, within a matter of minutes, I shall return to my beloved Jane.
04:03Little knowing of the strange reception which awaits him, Thor hurtles toward Asgard.
04:08Hail, most noble father.
04:12If my father hath no desire to converse, then I shall return to Earth.
04:16I say thee, nay.
04:19The fury in your eyes, the thunder in your voice.
04:22Father, you know.
04:24Not for nothing am I, Odin, the all-wise.
04:30Balder, come you to my side.
04:32You call, sire.
04:35Thor, my friend who is more than brother to me.
04:38I embrace thee.
04:40Silence, courageous one.
04:42There is a task to be done.
04:45My son hath betrayed his trust.
04:48He must endure the ritual of steel.
04:51Smite him.
04:52Smite him, loyal Balder.
04:54And should he survive,
04:56he shall nevermore set foot upon the planet Earth.
04:59No, father, I beg you.
05:01Hear my words.
05:02Punish me as you will, but I cannot forsake my heart.
05:05My strength, my limbs, my very life are in thy service, sire.
05:09But even a thunder god has the right to love.
05:13Still thy tongue.
05:15Thou hast no choice.
05:19Odin hath spoken.
05:20Then, like a thunderclap, the ritual of steel begins.
05:32But Thor is one, and he faces an army.
05:52In Asgard, Thor battles to gain his freedom.
05:55Battles to return to his loved ones.
05:57With a final mighty burst, Thor breaks clear.
06:09The all-seeing eyes of Odin follow the flying thunder god,
06:12and he ponders the punishment he must inflict
