Whiteout

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"My legs are frozen solid! You're going to have to cut them off with a saw!"
"Whiteout"
Season	1
No. in season	5
Production company	Allspark Animation
Airdate	September 28, 2018 (CN app/website) September 29, 2018 (USA)
Writer	Kate Leth
Directors	Robert Cullen & Ehud Landsberg
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio
Watch this episode on YouTube

A mysterious clue from Bumblebee's memory leads Windblade on a treacherous journey.

Synopsis

At some point in the past, a disoriented Bumblebee comes to on an icy mountainside, and is briefly confused by a mountain goat.

In the present day, Windblade, still inside Bumblebee's mind, finishes watching yet another memory. Although Bumblebee still can't remember anything meaningful about the location of the Ark, Windblade finds the image of the mountain familiar and consults the ship's logs to determine that it matches a peak in the Himalayas. Leaving a disappointed Bumblebee to guard the ship, she sets off. In the meantime, Bumblebee distracts himself by watching some human television on the scout ship's monitors.

Having arrived in the Himalayas, Windblade is unaware that her communications with Bumblebee have been picked up by the Decepticons Thundercracker and Nova Storm. Their commander Slipstream instructs them to follow the signal while she catches up with them.

Somewhere in the upper slopes of the mountain range, Windblade arrives at the spot she saw in Bumblebee's memory and uses her fans to reveal a stasis pod of Autobot manufacture and a blaster, both left abandoned in the snow. Unfortunately, that's all she finds: her scans are unable to pick up the Ark itself, and she's unaware that the Decepticons have tailed her to her present location until the three Seekers reveal themselves!

Team Seeker's blasting off again!

Captured by the Decepticons, Windblade is interrogated by Slipstream for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, her glib answers only infuriating Slipstream and providing her with the window to break free and escape. A battle ensues as Windblade makes her escape, and though Windblade is able to send Thundercracker tumbling off a cliff into the fog, Nova Storm proves a tougher foe, and Windblade herself is nearly thrown off the same cliff before taking Nova Storm down, then uses her fans to drop Slipstream into the snow before finally making her escape.

Back at the ship, Windblade catches up with Bumblebee about her adventure, and happily presents him with his old blaster. Now, Windblade is certain that they're on the right track: the Ark is somewhere on Earth, and they'll have to find it before the Decepticons do!

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Others
Bumblebee (1) Windblade (3)	Thundercracker (4) Nova Storm (5) Slipstream (6)	Mountain goat (2)

Quotes

"All I can remember is those little creatures. They were very kind - they took me in, they treated me as one of their own. They even kept butting me with their cute little heads."

—Bumblebee

"Found you!"
[goat bleats]
"Not you."

—Windblade

"What are you doin' here, Windblade? I thought they left all the useless 'Bots on Cybertron."
"Clearly not; you're here." [pause] "...who are you, exactly?"

—Slipstream and Windblade trash-talk

Notes

Continuity notes

• The crew of the Ark entered stasis during their deep space voyage in "The Journey," though how the ship got from there to Earth is a tale that has yet to be told.
• Windblade warns Bumblebee not to push the ship's buttons, a callback to "Memory," where his impulsive button-pushing blew their cover.
• Bumblebee is shown actively recording voice clips while he channel surfs, explaining where the repository he uses in speech comes from.

Transformers references

• TBD

Real-world references

• Bumblebee is shown watching a spoof of the game show Wheel of Fortune.

Trivia

• Mountain goats don't actually live in the Himalayas, though the closely related Himalayan tahr does exist there.

Animation and technical errors

• TBD

Continuity errors

• TBD

Foreign localization

French

• Title: "Derrière le voile" ("Behind the Veil")
• Original airdate: October 21, 2018

German

• Title: "Spurlos verschwunden" ("Vanished Without a Trace")
• Original airdate: November 24, 2018

Hungarian

• Title: "Hideg közeg" ("Cold Conditions")
• Original airdate: November 17, 2018

Indonesian

• Title: "Tempat Bersalju" ("Snowy Place")
• Original airdate: November 24, 2018

Italian

• Title: "Tempesta di Neve" ("Snowstorm")
• Original airdate: October 27, 2018

Japanese

• Title: "Ark no Yukue" (アークの行方, "The Ark's Whereabouts")
• Original airdate: May 11, 2019

Malay

• Title: "Ribut" ("Storm")
• Original airdate: November 24, 2018

Portuguese

• Title: "Picos Nevados" ("Snowy Peaks")
• Original airdate: November 6, 2018

Home video releases

All releases listed are in English audio unless otherwise noted.

DVD

2019 — Transformers Cyberverse — The Journey (Beyond Home Entertainment)
2019 — Transformers Cyberverse — Intégrale Saison 1 (ESC Éditions) — French audio only