| "King of the Hill (Part 2)" | |
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| Season 3, Episode 2 | |
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| Air date | April 29, 2017 |
| Written by | Adam Beechen |
| Directed by | Frank Marino |
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King of the Hill (Part 2) is the forty-seventh and the second episode of Transformers: Robots in Disguise Season 3.
Plot[]
Team Bee find themselves struggling to contain the Stunticon Heatseeker while trying to avoid the potentially catastrophic detonation of a nuclear waste disposal site.
Synopsis[]
As five guided missiles head towards them, the Autobots turn tail to try to draw them away from the nuclear waste disposal site in Grand Valley, but swiftly realize Grimlock is lagging behind. Drift fortunately recognizes the type of missile and the Autobots are able to use their comms to remotely short out the detonators. That dealt with, they return to the task of apprehending the Stunticon and start making their way towards his hiding place on a rocky outcropping.
Russell's football game is not going well, and he dejectedly leaves the field, believing he can't make a field goal while the opposing team has that one really tall kid.
When Sideswipe and Strongarm reveal that they encountered a hermit before, Bumblebee tells them to go make sure he leaves the area. The Autobots split up, with Bumblebee and Drift finding their path goes through a disused gas station. Observed by the mysterious Mini-Con, the pair start making their way across, only to find the Stunticon's scattered oil-filled barrels around. The boastful Heatseeker appears and starts blowing the barrels up with missiles, forcing the pair to take cover.
Strongarm and Sideswipe find the hermit, who is still determined to find some aliens. Sideswipe takes the initiative to transform to robot mode and reveal that he's an alien. He's about to go contact the army, but when the pair try to talk him out of it, he concludes he's hallucinating due to being drugged by the government, and drives off in panic.
As Grimlock joins Bumblebee and Drift, Bumblebee asks him to create a distraction. Grimlock charges at Heatseeker and quickly gets knocked around by exploding barrels, but this successfully allows his fellow bots to sneak up behind the Stunticon. Heatseeker takes out Drift using a stunt flip, then sends Bumblebee hurtling into a huge pool of oil. Bumblebee desperately tries to get traction with his tires as a missile streaks towards him... and then suddenly the Mini-Con links with him, giving his vehicle mode flight capability.
Russell packs away his helmet, and when Hank questions him, he claims he's injured his ankle. Denny sits down and tells Russel about his days as a straight-A student, and the emotional crash of the day he got a D... and then how he refused to allow himself to wallow in that setback, and got right back to working hard and making good grades (and then sell vintage stuff to discerning collectors).
Bumblebee takes a moment to enjoy his new flight mode before trying to question the Mini-Con. He doesn't get anywhere before more of Heatseeker's missiles appear. The rest of the Autobots pick Drift up and observe Bumblebee's flight as he shakes the missiles. They all head after Heatseeker, who's found the hermit trying to fix his broken-down RV. They manage to surround the Stunticon, letting the hermit escape. The cornered Heatseeker prepares to fire more missiles, and the Autobots dogpile him quickly, but not quick enough to stop his armed missiles from detonating right in the middle of the pile of bodies. As the smoke clears, Heatseeker has run for it, and the Bee Team is unconscious... and merged into one big robot.
Heatseeker continues to run for it, but as he passes by the abandoned gas station, he notices a half-buried piece of Cybertronian technology.
Russell returns to the football game, realizing that giving up really isn't an option, volunteering to kick a field goal. He talks to Hank about adjusting their strategy, and with a little change in their setup, he's able to clear the extremely tall kid and score the winning field goal.
Ultra Bee decombines, and the Autobots regain consciousness none-the-wiser as to what's happened. As they try to work out what's happened, Bumblebee realizes his Decepticon Hunter is missing, and they decide to head home and prepare for future confrontations.
Heatseeker meets with his chief, who is not surprise with the Stunticon's return. But Heatseeker quickly lies about why he's back, omitting the whole "Autobots beat him up" thing and showing off the new technology-tracking device he found.
Meanwhile, the Mini-Con, in possession of the missing Decepticon Hunter, opens a purple GroundBridge portal through which the voice of Soundwave orders him to bring the weapon.
Featured Characters[]
Autobots[]
Decepticons[]
- Heatseeker
- Motormaster
- Soundwave (Voice Only)
Humans[]
- Russell Clay
- Football team kids
- "Stretch"
- Denny Clay
- Hank
- Hermit
Others[]
Quotes[]
"Hi guys! I'm alive!"
- —Grimlock
"No, you're not aliens. No visitors from another planet would disguise themselves as flashy cars!"
- —The hermit displays impeccable logic.
"You just paid the Stunticons' toll, ya broken toaster!"
- —Heatseeker after taking out Drift.
"Chief. It finds Cybertronian tech. Which is scattered all over this mudball!"
- —Heatseeker tells Motormaster that scavenger hunting never changes.
Trivia[]
- Drift notes that an explosion atop the nuclear waste facility could potentially cause the storage drums to leak, and later implies that radiation from the storage site is what is interfering with their communications. However, the entire point of a storage site is to have the waste drums buried deep underground where the radiation, if there was any escaping in the first place, would be absorbed by the soil and rock between the storage levels and the surface.
- Before this episode the only time Soundwave spoke in his own voice in the Aligned cartoons was in "Minus One", for the purpose of trolling his Autobot captors. Apparently his "choosing not to speak" thing has been dismissed in the name of efficient communication with his new minions.