Five Servos of Doom

Sentinel has incredible success capturing fugitive Deceptions, leading Prowl to suspect he's getting help.

Brief Synopsis




Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes
Jazz: "Deceived by a Decepticon.  Who'd have thought?"
 * Yeah, who would have?

 Prowl (To Yoketron) "See ya!" (Transforms into cybertronian Vehicle mode)
 * Wait, something's different about that Prowl.

 Jazz: Okay, stealthy ain't exactly S.P's strong suit.
 * And the long list of Sentinel's negatives continues to grow.

 Jetfire: Sentinel Prime sir, please do tell us...  Jetstorm: How did you making capture this time?  Sentinel: He wasn't expecting the old piston drop or the fender bender, aw it's all about leverage. (Jet twins high five).
 * So they don't understand Jazz's fighting slang, but the do understand Sentinel's?

 Optimus: "Step away from the Autobot."  Liar Starscream: "What? This isn't my Autobot, I'm just holding it for a friend"
 * So wait, it is his Autobot and he isn't holding it for a friend?

 Liar Starscream: "That didn't hurt."
 * The Liar, after a large chunk of Tigatron Stadium was dropped onto his head.

Jazz: "Wow! P over M! Sweeet!
 * After Jazz sees Prowl use Processesor Over Matter (Hey, it worked this time! Unlike last time.)

Animation errors

 * Near the beginning on Sentinel's ship, Optimus is interrogating Sentinel. He appears to be 2-D from the chest down.
 * Prowl's Samurai armor is not worn in the sequence where the scoreboard falls on him, Lockdown, and Liar Starscream. However, it is present in the following sequence where Prowl exhibits his mastery over processor over matter.
 * During the first scene at the Elite Guard's ship's stockade, Blitzwing's changing his heads and when it comes to Hothead's, how can his massive chin fit in to the mouth clamp without potruding out? Then again, we can ask how that chin fits in Blitzwing's helmet in the first place, so yeah.

Continuity errors

 * What did Sentinel pay the fine for Swindle with anyway? That or "paying the fine" was code for "hiring Lockdown, who must've been pretty pissed off when he found out that all of Swindle's gear was deactivated".
 * Sentinel said he wouldn't remove Sunstorm's metal clamp because the last time they were "friendly" with Starscream he run away. Now that excuse sucks, not only because muting a giant robot isn't going to stop them from escaping and this wasn't technically Starscream, but because the time Starscream was captured he had a metal clamp as well. Sentinel needs a new teacher in lying.
 * Given Cybertronians' ability to talk by sending signals directly to each other via comlink, clamping their mouths would not prevent Sentinel's captives from revealing his scheme.
 * If Prowl actually SAW Master Yoketron die, why did he accuse Sentinel of meeting with him?
 * Answer: His guilt must have eaten away at his logic and he must've missed his master quite terribly.


 * So why didn't anyone inform Cliffjumper about Longarm Prime's real identity?
 * Answer: The Earth team may have assumed that Cliffjumper figured it out.


 * So Master Yoketron told Prowl about Project Omega. This would make Prowl closer to Ratchet's age than the others, though he is clearly young and experienced in the distant past (unlike the Ratchet of the Great War flashbacks) and so is not likely as old as the doc-bot. However, this does make Prowl quite older than Optimus Prime, as well as Sentinel (who hadn't seen a Decepticon up close as of Mission Accomplished.)
 * The Autobots call Sunstorm "Starscream" instead of making any mention of his being a clone, though the Liar is referred to as "the Starscream" at one point.
 * On Sentinal's ship, the only Decepticon weaponry not missing is Lugnut's "punch of kill everything", the only part of the bunch he previously expressed interest in.

Miscellaneous trivia

 * The Tigatron Stadium bears a striking resemblance to Tiger Stadium, with the notable exception of the giant scoreboard (of course, by the end of the episode, that difference had been taken care of).
 * Not to mention that it is apparently named after the character of the same name from Beast Wars.
 * While fighting Prowl in the stadium, Lockdown mentions the fact that he betrayed Yoketron, hinting at the fact that he was perhaps an Autobot or a Decepticon spy prior to becoming a bounty hunter.
 * Yoketron claims that one of his pupils brought shame on their order and was kicked out (leaving a space for Prowl). It's implied in the stadium fight that Lockdown was that pupil (though it could have been Oil Slick.)
 * Mr. Sulu voices Yoketron. This makes him the second Star Trek actor to voice a Transformer. The first was Leonard Nimoy who voiced Galvatron in the 1986 movie.
 * Lockdown is apparently very knowledgable and very experienced in Cyber-Ninja martial arts.
 * As Prowl leaves the dojo immediately after being given his weapons, the sound of a zat gun from Stargate can be prominently heard in the background.
 * Warpath is a bit quieter and a bit more violent than his G1 counterpart, threatening to beat up the "peacenik" Prowl. He also still has the "BAM KAPOW" quirk, but he says it the same way he talks normally. Which is pretty creepy, actually.
 * Sunstorm's toy-given name wasn't given in the ending credits, both of the clones credited only as "Starscream."
 * In the holo deck where past ninjas are celebrated, there is Sky Garry's head on one of the holo projectors along with Tap-Out, Heavy Load, Springer, Jazz, Dai Atlas, and Yoketron.
 * This is Blitzwing's first appearance in the third season.
 * Third episode of no Sari. Slag!
 * Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee don't appear either. Probably couldn't stand being anywhere near Sentinel.
 * We learn that apparently Ultra Magnus isn't dead (yet). Better luck next time, Shockwave.
 * This is the first episode in Animated where a Transformer has willingly extinguished his own Spark. One must wonder if the new body, created from a fresh protoform (but seen going gray when Yoketron dies), will be usable. You gotta assume Yoketron didn't let himself die for nothing, though.
 * This is the first episode where Lockdown is seen working for an Autobot. Guess Sentinel was willing to fork over the "Energon-y goodness" this time 'round.
 * The first two helmets shown to Optimus by Prowl belong to Ultra Magnus and Blitzwing, respectively.
 * Prowl didn't recognize his master's helmet the first time he wore it. However, the helmet from that episode wasn't perfectly identical.
 * This is another of the few Animated episodes in which there are no humans at all. Except for Prowl's Mustache Man, but that's a hologram, so it doesn't count.
 * With Starscream bodiless, Megatron's weapons confiscated by Omega Supreme and the captured Decepticons disarmed by Lockdown, the Decepticons seem to be completely weaponless except for Thundercracker, Skywarp, Female Starscream and Starscream's head with a gun in his mouth. Almost makes you wonder why the Autobots are so scared of these guys.
 * As of this episode, every main-cast Autobot had a flashback and had their Cybertronian vehicle mode revealed.
 * If everything the Liar clone says is a lie, one can only wonder if the "better deal" he offered Lockdown was real. Of course, in the event of a double-cross, Lockdown would be just as happy to take the Liar's blasters and leave the rest for the scrap heap.
 * Though all of the Liar's statements have been lies thus far, he has shown the ability to ask questions without the need to make them misleading, as well as make genuine surprise reactions, such as to Safeguard's attack.