Captain Planet Season 2 Episode 9 - The Big Clam-Up Episode Title:The Big Clam-Up.Episode Description:The people of San Francisco are collapsing with symptoms that suggest a whole range of pollution poisoning. As the Planeteers follow clues to solve this mystery, Ma-Ti, who has been reading 1940s detective novels, keeps imagining himself as a private eye. Ma-Ti proves a poor sleuth at first, but eventually traces the source of the illness to Verminous Skumm, who is serving seafood tainted by storm drain runoff in his restaurant, The Sinking Ship. This is the episode where the Planeteers are tortured.