Five Servos of Doom

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

Brief Synopsis

The episode begins at night where Prowl, Jazz, Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime, are tracking down Sunstorm. When Sentinel captures him without any help or making a noise Prowl is suspicious and goes to investigate. It then flashes back to the past where Prowl has been taken out of Stockade by his master. He and him then train him until he is ready to gone a journey to find his spark. When he returns, the place has been attacked and the master left for dead.

In the Present day, Prowl has followed Sentinel to a football stadium where he is making a deal with the bounty hunter Lockdown. When Prowl comes in, he finds out that it's a trap and there's a RBFATE. Prowl learns POM and the episode end with him getting all the credit and the rest learning that Ultra Magnus is damaged.

Stats

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Prowl (1) Jazz (2) Optimus Prime (3) Sentinel Prime (4) Jetstorm (9) Jetfire (10) Yoketron (11) Warpath (12) Cliffjumper (15)	Lockdown (5) Sunstorm (6) Blitzwing (7) Swindle (8) Lugnut (13) Liar Starscream (14)

Quotes

Jazz: "Deceived by a Decepticon. Who'd have thought?"

—Yeah, who would have?

Note

• Yet again Sari isn't in the episode, Primus how long can someone sleep.
• 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.
• This is the first episode where Lockdown is seen working for an Autobot. Guess Sentinel was willing to fork over the Energon this time 'round.
• The first 2 helmets shown to Optimus by Prowl belong to Ultra Magnus and Blitzwing, respectively.
• So, Sentinel was going to hand over a (presumably) important part of his ship to Lockdown to obtain all of those Decepticons, leaving him stranded on Earth and unable to hand them over to Ultra Magnus? Not only is he a jerk, he doesn't plan ahead too much.
• Prowl probably did not realise his master's helmet the first time he wore it.. Although that helmet design is a little bit different .
• This is another of the few Animated episodes in which there are no humans at all. 'Cept 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 unarmed by Lockdown, the main Decepticon cast seem to be completely weaponless. Almost makes you wonder why the Autobots are so scared of these guys.

Animation errors

• Near the beginning on Sentinel's ship, Optimus is interrogating Sentinel. He appears to be 2-D from the chest down.
• Prowl can be seen in his pre samurai armour once wearing it.
• 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?
• If Prowl actually SAW Master Yoketron die, why did he accuse Sentinel of meeting with him?
• 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, wouldn't that make Prowl as old as Ratchet? Because the protoforms were to serve as back up if Omega did not win the war. Or maybe, Yoketron just likes to pretend he's in the past.
  • Prowl was meant to be quite young and inexperienced in that flashback, whereas Ratchet's flashbacks to the same time show him as being if not old, then at least in the Cybertronian equivalent of middle age.

Trivia

• The stadium is called Tigatron stadium, after the Beast Wars character of the same name.
• 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.
• Having his mouth rivoted shut must be driving Random Blitzwing crazy!...er.
• This is the first appearance Blizwing makes in the third season but he hasn't said a thing...
• "I'm George Takei, dammit!" Yes, Mr. Sulu voices Yokitron. Cool. This makes him the second Star Trek actor to voice a Transformer. The first is Leonard Nimoy who voiced Galvatron in the 1986 movie.
• Lockdown is apparently very knowledgable and very experienced in Cyber-Ninja martial arts.