Dark Glass
Dark Glass was an unproduced episode planned for Beast Wars third season, written by Christy Marx.
On February 17, 1999, Larry DiTillio gave the following plot summary:
"Rattrap salvages a computer bank from the Axalon and in its circuits he and Rhinox find the core consciousness of the old Dinobot. (You will recall Dinobot downloaded this in a previous episode.) Rattrap gets obsessed with the idea that he can restore the old Dinobot by getting it into the new Dinobot's systems. Rhinox tells him this will probably not work, as core consciousness without a spark is only an illusion of the person to whom it belonged. And if it didn't work, it just might give the new Dinobot all the old Dinobot's datatrax on the Maximals which could give the Preds an advantage. Optimus thus forbids the attempt. But Rattrap defies this order, sneaks out and at much risk to himself, does manage to get the core consciousness in place. For a moment the old Dinobot does seem to emerge but, as Rhinox warned, he is only a shadow of his former self and must do everything he can to keep the new Dinobot from regaining control of his body, a weird mental struggle which would have been fun to animate. The old Dinobot knows he is doomed to lose this struggle and tries to 'sacrifice' himself again by infilitrating the Preds and taking out Megatron before he can complete his master plan to destroy the Autobots. It doesn't work and the New Dinobot regains control of his body only to be blasted by Megatron. Rattrap comes to accept that his old pal is truly dead and realizes he cannot bring him back. However he honors his friend's memory."
Hasbro pulled the episode because they either felt the concept was too dark, the episode did not contain enough action, or a combination of the two. A script of some sort reportedly exists but has never been publically available. Fans have extrapolated that this episode would have explained Dinobot's re-emerged personality in the final episode, "The Nemesis, part 2."
