What Lies Below
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| This article is about the Rescue Bots episode. For the Energon comic, see What Lies Beneath. |
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| "What Lies Below" | ||||||
| Season | 2 | |||||
| No. in season | 10 | |||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | April 26, 2014 | |||||
| Writer | Brian Hohlfeld | |||||
| Director | Nathan Chew | |||||
| Animation studio | Vision Animation | |||||
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Cody's uncle comes to visit; the Rescue Team goes on a mission below the Earth's surface.
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Synopsis
Dani and Taylor are on a picnic (aided by Cody and Blades) when it's abruptly halted by a flying sphere lasering a hole in a nearby tree. Abandoning the picnic, Cody and Dani give chase in Blades as it cuts holes in all and sundry, and alert the rest of the team. They track it down to the warehouse where it cuts its way into a building. The Rescue Bots wait on the other side for it, and Boulder manages to stop it before it can laser Cody and Dani. Heatwave's about to smash the device when Chief Burns's brother Woodrow Burns arrives to switch it off. Woodrow explains it's a Deep Earth Scout, one of the units he's been using to search for evidence that aliens have visited Earth. He's impressed by the Rescue Bots, and takes Chase for a spin with the Chief. Cody and his siblings fill the rest of the Bots in on Woodrow and his archeology/inventing hobbies.
At dinner, Woodrow announces he believes he's found evidence of aliens, though Chief is irritated by his antics. The Rescue Bots are confused by his interest in aliens, given all that there is to look at on Earth. Woodrow shows off the images his DES has captured beneath Griffin Rock, though Chief dismisses them as ordinary rock formations and shadows. One image catches Heatwave's interest however, and he takes a copy of it. Woodrow intends to use the town's Tunnel Forger to drill down to the cavern to investigate further and invites the rest of the family, but Chief lectures him on his techniques and forbids the expedition.
Heatwave and Chief pass the image Heatwave copied on to Optimus Prime, who identifies it as energon and says he's coming to help. The next morning at breakfast, Cody notices Woodrow is missing, and takes Boulder to the mines where he finds Woodrow powering up the forger. Cody climbs aboard to try to stop him, but Woodrow accidentally fires it up. It knocks Boulder over as it turns, and begins tunneling downwards too fast for the Rescue Bot to catch. While Boulder heads back to get help, the pair experience a wild ride, including a jump across a chasm. Optimus Prime arrives at the fire station with a trailer to transport the energon moments before Boulder arrives with the news of what has happened in the mine. The rescue team is soon loaded on to Optimus's rocket-powered trailer and speeding through the tunnels in pursuit.
The forger finally reaches the target cavern, and Cody finds the kill switch. The pair manage to get out before the machine is buried by rock, but Woodrow is not optimistic about their chances. Optimus and the rest of the team are on their way, however, though the jump over the chasm gives most of them a fright. Woodrow and Cody explore the cavern, and quickly realize that Chief was right — the DES just photographed rock formations and not alien dwellings. They soon hear a noise which Cody interprets as the approaching rescue team, but turns out to be giant spiders, swarming out of a hole in the wall. Fortunately the rest of the team arrives in time to begin fighting the spiders. When Cody and Woodrow are webbed by the arachnids, Heatwave sprays them with water, and the team soon has them herded back to the hole they came out of.
Woodrow apologizes for the whole affair and is depressed that he's wasted his time hunting for non-existent aliens. With Optimus Prime's approval, Chief Burns lets Woodrow in on the family secret, that the Rescue Bots are aliens. The Rescue Bots prepare to harvest the energon, only for the cavern to begin shaking and collapsing. While three of the Burns siblings escape through a tunnel with Boulder and Blades, Optimus and Heatwave plunge through the floor, and Chase, Chief, Woodrow and Cody duck through another tunnel that caves in behind them.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"I don't get it. If Dani likes Taylor, why does she make him eat her potato salad?"
"I think that's her meatloaf."
- —Blades and Cody on Dani's cooking.
"Is he crazy?!"
"He's Optimus Prime. Relax."
- —Kade and Heatwave on Optimus Prime's driving.
"Sooo, you guys! Cyber-knights!"
"Cybertronians."
"Riiight. You've been leaving artifacts on Earth for what, like centuries?"
"That is a long story for another day."
- —Woodrow and Optimus Prime
Notes
Continuity notes
- While helping with the picnic, Cody uses the anti-gravity sneakers which he was testing in "You've Been Squilshed".
- Boulder claims Cybertron is located in another galaxy, though he may have been joking.
- According to Boulder, Transformers don't have siblings. In Transformers: Prime, Dreadwing and Skyquake were said to be spark-twins, which seems like it would be close to the same thing.
Transformers references
- According to Optimus, there's more to his trailer than meets the eye.
- Optimus is rather vague on the subject of Transformer artifacts ending up on Earth — this season of Rescue Bots is set during the second season of Prime, during which a major plot arc was the search for artifacts sent to Earth from Cybertron.
Real-world references
- The color scheme for the Deep Earth Scouts looks like Star Wars droid R2-D2; fitting, since they were developed by Woodrow Burns, who is voiced by Mark Hamill, the actor who played R2's owner and friend, Luke Skywalker.
Animation and technical errors
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Trivia
- (tba)
Foreign localization
French
- Title: "Oncle Woodrow et les aliens" ("Uncle Woodrow and the Aliens")
- Original airdate: ?
Hungarian
- Title: "A föld mélyén" ("Deep Underground")
- Original airdate: 18 November 2014
Italian
Portuguese
Home video releases
2015 — Rescue Bots — "Space Bots" (Beyond Home Entertainment)