Skeletons in the Closet

Lady Jaye receives a letter of inheritance from Dame Agatha Doyle, leaving her a Loch Lomond manor house that turns out to be Destro's ancestral castle. She witnesses a winter solstice ritual to raise the power of evil, and if seen, she may be forced to participate in, leaving Flint and G.I. Joe to come rescue her. It is revealed that Lady Jaye and Destro share an ancestry, thus making them long-lost cousins. This knowledge does not sit well with the two of them, but they reluctantly accept and respect it.

"Now you know. And knowing is half the battle." The Sunbow run closed every episode with a public-service spot delivered by a Joe character, addressing kids on a real-world hazard or virtue. The cartoon's deeper ethic, threaded into the writing across the run, was that Cobra's worldview was based on fear and the Joes' was based on responsibility.

1. Sunbow Season 1 daily run (1985). 55 episodes aired Monday through Friday in afternoon syndication, September to December 1985.
2. Production code: 600-57
3. Studio: Marvel Productions / Sunbow Productions / Toei Doga
4. Originally aired: December 11, 1985 in afternoon syndication.