Five Little Rescue Bots
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| "Five Little Rescue Bots" | ||||||
| Production code | 225 | |||||
| Season | 2 | |||||
| No. in season | 25 | |||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | June 6, 2020 | |||||
| Writer | Danny Stack | |||||
| Director | Ray Quigley | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
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Whirl's power of observation is tested when the Rescue Bots disappear one by one on a training exercise.
Synopsis
[edit]Whirl is admiring a seed pod with Chase when the other recruits arrive. After Whirl tries unsuccessfully to guess what they've been doing, Chase uses his powers of observation to work out they've been rescuing a fisherman from alligators in the Florida everglades. Whirl is impressed, and Chase points out her final exam on deductive reasoning is coming up. It's going to be held during a wilderness training camp, with Heatwave having designed an puzzle even Chase doesn't know about.
Chase and the recruits arrive in the wilderness on Natura Island where they're met by Cody Burns. The island has an anti-techology defense system, which Cody has turned off. The first task is building camp, something that the recruits struggle with, or at least the recruits not named Hoist and Medix. The second task is to collect firewood and, treating it as a competition, Hot Shot immediately runs off to get started. They hear a commotion and Hot Shot is gone, with only scuff marks left behind. Realizing that this is her test, Whirl sets to work looking for clues. This leads her to a dead end in a clearing, and while she's puzzling over where she went wrong, Hoist also goes missing. While Whirl and Chase continue to search, Cody goes to check in with the academy, and soon he, Wedge and Hoist disappear too. Chase suggests Whirl rethink her theory, and she realizes maybe she was mistaken in thinking this was her test. If Heatwave isn't abducting everyone, maybe it's the anti-technology defenses.
They put down a spare energon battery as bait, and sure enough, a probe appears. It teleports Whirl and Chase to a junkyard where the other recruits are being menaced by a Scrapmaster. While Chase distracts the Scrapmaster by wrestling with it, Whirl yanks out its battery. They're ready to take teleport back, though Hot Shot insists on plugging the Scrapmaster back in before they leave. Back on Natura Island, Cody makes sure the anti-tech system is off and Whirl says she's ready for Heatwave's actual test, but Chase believe she has adequately proven herself. Chase goes to call Heatwave, but Whirl points out he doesn't have to as she's worked out that Heatwave is nearby, disguised as a tree.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
[edit]"You'll never guess what we just did!"
"Oh! OK, um, you went on a space race to Cybertron and got sucked into a parallel dimension! No, I got it: you rescued a troupe of clowns who got stuck in their miniature car."
- —Wedge and Whirl
Notes
[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- Technology similar to that seen in this episode has been seen previously in Rescue Bots — notably "Countdown" featured mobile drones that could teleport people elsewhere, and "The Island of Misfit Tech" showed that Griffin Rock routinely got rid of unwanted technology by teleporting it to an island.
- The Scrapmaster is another piece of returning Rescue Bots technology, first appearing in "Cody on Patrol". Its design has been slightly tweaked, now possessing pupils and large claws.
Transformers references
[edit]- Chase describes the seed pod as "more than meets the eye" because of course he does.
Real-world references
[edit]- The episode's title is based on the former title of the Agatha Christie mystery novel And Then There Were None, which also involves a group of people on an island being picked off one by one.
- Chase uses his "powers of observation and deduction" to determine the precise nature of the recruits' mission to the Everglades in a fashion similar to fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, even paraphrasing Holmes' "It is elementary, my dear Watson" with "It is elementary, my dear bots."
Animation and technical errors
[edit]- TBA
Trivia
[edit]- Whirl's HUD when scanning the Scrapmaster features the Cybertronian text "INFRARED", "SEARCHING" and "DANGER".
Foreign localization
[edit]- TBA
