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* When the Vehicons "All hail Starscream", he begins a hilarious victory-dance routine, with his final moves being an impression of John Travolta in ''Saturday Night Fever''. | * When the Vehicons "All hail Starscream", he begins a hilarious victory-dance routine, with his final moves being an impression of John Travolta in ''Saturday Night Fever''. | ||
* The phrase "awkward" is used in many other pop-culture movies and shows in this context. | |||
===Trivia=== | ===Trivia=== | ||
Revision as of 04:09, 19 October 2013
| This article is about the Prime episode. For the dog from Generation 1, see Patch (G1). |
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 Everybody cut loose! Footloose! | ||||||
| "Patch" | ||||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | October 19, 2012 | |||||
| Written by | Duane Capizzi | |||||
| Directed by | Shaunt Nigoghossian | |||||
| Animation studio | Polygon Pictures | |||||
Starscream proposes a truce with Megatron, but the Decepticon leader remains suspicious.
Synopsis
Atop the Decepticon warship, Megatron asks Starscream what he seeks in return for the Omega Keys, his answer being that he merely wishes to once more be a Decepticon under Megatron's command. Megatron points out that Dreadwing is now his second-in-command, and Starscream insists he will keep to his place. Skeptical, Megatron has Knock Out extracted from the wall so that he can connect Megatron and Starscream with a cortical psychic patch.
By rummaging through Starscream's memories, Megatron intends to find what really drives him. Once inside, he reminds Starscream that there are no secrets, even as they watch Starscream's base consciousness obnoxiously celebrating becoming leader of the Decepticons, much to the present Starscream's embarrassment and Megatron's amusement.
He begins by reviewing the events surrounding the space bridge explosion. Megatron watches various instances of Starscream's attempts at assassination: the time he made a bunch of clones to infiltrate the Nemesis; and when he tried to make a deal with Airachnid. Starscream lamely claims he was half-crazed with energon deficiency at the time, and insists he always had Megatron's best interests at heart, like removing the Dark Energon from his body so his mind did not become corrupted by it. Naturally, Megatron doesn't buy it. Upon replaying Starscream's musings when Megatron was trapped underground, he suggests that Starscream refrain from thinking out loud in the future. He also drops the hint that if Starscream fails to be convincing, the patch session will end in Starscream's termination.
Starscream claims the occasional trouncing is enough to bring him back into line, and tries to play up his own generosity, bringing up the gift of Cliffjumper's corpse for Dark Energon experimentation, and his use of his wits in dealing with the Autobots. Megatron points out his wits are usually insufficient to compensate for his arrogance: when he faced Optimus Prime while charged up on Dark Energon; or when he tried to use the Energon Harvester on Bulkhead. The revelation that MECH took Starscream's T-Cog greatly amuses Megatron, though Starscream is hoping that that might be restored to him in exchange for the Omega Keys — after all, he usually transforms with such style. He points out that at the time he deserted the Deception cause, he was not being made to feel particularly welcome there, despite apparently learning his place. Megatron does not believe Starscream's change of heart at the time would have lasted, and replays a discussion between Starscream and Knock Out while Megatron was lying in a coma in the sick bay. In the real world, Knock Out starts to realize that Starscream's memories are going to be equally incriminating to himself. Panicking, he comes up with a plan to disconnect the patch, trapping Megatron in Starscream's mind.
As Knock Out goes to unplug Megatron, Dreadwing stops him and he is forced to make up an excuse. Megatron's psychic interrogation of Starscream continues, and while Starscream claims that not even Dreadwing may have been a "perfect" replacement as his second-in-command, Megatron agrees, but points out at least Dreadwing and his departed brother Skyquake were loyal and honorable. Starscream's memories of Skyquake's death and revival through Dark Energon are replayed, and he recalls how Skyquake was left in an undead state in some dimensional nether-realm. This revelation comes as a shock to Dreadwing, who is still watching in the lab. Megatron announces that Starscream will be allowed to rejoin the Decepticon forces proper, as they must be working as one unit if Cybertron is to be properly restored, a fact also addressed to the watching Knock Out. Shaken, Knock Out turns away from the monitor to discover that Dreadwing is no longer in the room. The second-in-command is instead on the outer hull of the Nemesis, and aims a scream of rage at the sky.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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*Only appeared in flashback.
Quotes
"Few things of value come without a price."
- —Megatron
"This is going to be juicy."
- —Knock Out will regret that prediction.
The camera focuses on Starscream after they see his victory dance memory
"A-heh-heh-heh... you're inside my head, aren't you?"
- —Starscream realizes what Megatron's up to.
"A word of advice? Stop thinking aloud."
- —Megatron reckons Starscream talks too much.
"Ah, I do transform with an exceptional sense of style... I said that out loud, didn't I?"
- —Starscream doesn't take Megatron's words to heart.
"Uh oh... Does this thing have a fast forward button? Or better yet, erase?!"
- —Knock Out knows he's in the scrap yard now.
"Awkward..."
- —Knock Out aptly summarizes the general atmosphere of the episode.
"Infighting has nearly destroyed the Decepticons during your absence. We are to operate as a united front if we are to revive and conquer Cybertron. That means each and every one of us... Knock Out!"
- —Megatron, swatting two flies in one hit.
Notes
Animation and technical errors
- When Knock Out is looking around the lab to see Dreadwing is gone, the tables are empty, when Megatron and Starscream should be visible on them.
Continuity errors
- Starscream was not present when Skyquake was trapped in an alternate dimension in "Shadowzone", nor was that fact ever made clear to him or any other Decepticon. While it is obvious that Skyquake lost his arm (since it attacked Starscream), Starscream shouldn't have such precise knowledge of his fate.
Continuity notes
- This is the first truly Decepticon-focused episode, with no Autobots appearing outside of flashbacks.
- Dreadwing learns of Starscream's attempt to revive Skyquake as a zombie minion in "Shadowzone", as well as his imprisonment in an alternate dimension at the end of that episode.
- Megatron tells Dreadwing to free Knock Out from the wall of the Nemesis, which occurred in the previous episode.
Real-world references
- When the Vehicons "All hail Starscream", he begins a hilarious victory-dance routine, with his final moves being an impression of John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
- The phrase "awkward" is used in many other pop-culture movies and shows in this context.
Trivia
- This is the second clip episode, the first being "Grill".
- Megatron's mental projection has his original arm, not the dead Prime's arm, just like in the previous episode.
- For being clever enough to engineer a plan to successfully steal all four Omega Keys, Starscream didn't really think through his plan to regain Megatron's favor. He went in with no insurance policy to make sure Megatron didn't just simply scrap him and take the keys instead.
- So, uh... how did they get Knock Out out of the wall? And how did he expect to get put back into it?
- If the wall was torn down by Dreadwing, Knockout would be suggesting that Megatron will order the wall to be built again with Knockout's dead corpse sticking in it.
- Starscream's got sweet dance moves!
Foreign localization
German
- Title: "In Starscreams Kopf" ("Inside Starscream's Head")
- Original airdate: 25 February 2013
Japanese
- Title: "Shikkoku Henkei! Uragiri no Kage" (漆黒変形!裏切りの影, "Blackest Transformation! The Shadow of Treachery")
- Original airdate: 16 March 2013
- A scene that was cut from the original Japanese dub of "Rock Bottom" is actually kept in and dubbed in this episode.
Brazilian Portuguese
