Quarry's Quarry
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| "Quarry's Quarry" | ||||||
| Season | 3 | |||||
| No. in season | 10 | |||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | December 27, 2014 | |||||
| Writer | Mairghread Scott | |||||
| Director | Nathan Chew | |||||
| Animation studio | DHX Media Top Draw Animation | |||||
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Colonel Quarry kidnaps Professor Baranova and demands robotic dinosaurs from Doc Greene, so the Rescue Bots take on dinosaur modes.
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Synopsis
Frankie and Professor Baranova are out fishing on the floating laboratory. Doc Greene slices off some ice cubes for their drinks, and seems very keen on the pair getting along together. When Heatwave asks why they've brought him along, Doc makes an excuse and makes off in the Rescue Bot, leaving Frankie and Baranova alone on the lab as was his plan. The pair are discussing Frankie's cicada project when the lab suddenly receives a distress call. Frankie's unable to raise the rescue team, so Baranova steers the lab towards the source of the signal. When they arrive at an island dock, Baranova has Frankie hide on the ship while she investigates, and rightly so, as it turns out the source of the signal is Colonel Quint Quarry. When he finds that Doc Greene isn't aboard the lab, Quarry takes Baranova prisoner. Frankie, having evaded the Q-Drones by hiding in a pile of life vests, heads ashore as well.
Meanwhile Cody and the Rescue Bots watch Doc Greene manufacture some mustard. He's about to head back to the floating lab when a Q-Drone arrives and displays a hologram of Quint Quarry, demanding that Greene supply five dinobots in exchange for the return of Professor Baranova. Though Greene tries to protest that the dinobots weren't his work, Quarry doesn't believe him and gives him twelve hours to get the goods together. Later at the fire station, the team goes over options, and Chief Burns reveals that he's called in Optimus Prime. It's decided that Heatwave, Chase and Blades will scan dinosaur modes and join Optimus and Boulder in pretending to be the dinobots Quarry wants. Heatwave and Chase successfully scan a Brachiosaurus and a Stegosaurus, respectively, but when Blades reluctantly scans a Pteranodon, he finds himself unable to transform into either of his alternate modes and thinks something's wrong with his T-cog. As they wait at the rendezvous point, Blades laments that he's ruined the plan, and Cody offers to check under his dash. As Quarry's heli-jet arrives, Heatwave throws a tarpaulin over Blades and Greene uses the excuse that the last dinobot is unfinished. The Rescue Bots and Greene are taken on board the heli-jet, with Cody still inside Blades, and it takes off.
Some time later, the heli-jet lands on the island and Quint reveals to Doc Greene that he intends to sell the dinobots so he can use the profits to rebuild his business. While Quarry takes the four "completed" dinobots to test them, Doc Greene is left with Blades and a warehouse of tools and equipment to complete the last dinobot. Blades reveals that Cody has come along too, and the boy has some suggestions how they can find Baranova and Frankie. Meanwhile Quarry puts Optimus and the other Rescue Bots through their paces, having them fight the Q-Drones. Frankie finds the hut where Baranova is being held and, distracting the Q-Drones guarding it, attempts to throw a fire-hose in a window to the professor. Unfortunately she trips some laser alarms, and though Baranova's already disabled the external alarms, the hut seals, trapping Frankie inside with Baranova. At the fire station, Graham succeeds in working out where Quarry's island is located. Frankie apologizes to Baranova for screwing up the rescue, but once they set some ground rules, they start coming up with a new escape plan.
Elsewhere, Quarry starts a new test on the Rescue Bots, sending a torrent of boulders down on them. Optimus knocks Chase out of the way, but is himself buried by rocks. Thinking quickly, the other Rescue Bots pretend to fight amongst themselves, knocking and blasting the pile of boulders until Optimus is freed. Quarry is ultimately happy and believes this will make them even more valuable, so orders his drones to take them to the docks while plotting to get Greene to make even more dinobots. Frankie and Baranova use Frankie's hologram watch to escape their cell and moments later run into Doc Greene, Blades and Cody who've come looking for them with some heat-sensing goggles Doc Greene has made. They reach the docks to find Quarry taking the trapped Autobots on board his ship. Blades reveals his status as a sentient robot to Professor Baranova, shortly before managing to finally change into his pterodactyl form. He takes out the drone trapping the others, and Optimus blasts Quarry. Quarry detonates the ramp to his ship and tries to escape, but Chief Burns and the rest of the team arrive aboard the Darby Ava to arrest him. As the team gathers around after locking Quarry up, Baranova reveals she knows the Rescue Bots are sentient, and Optimus welcomes her to the family.
Featured characters
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Quotes
"Oh! Look at that! I forgot my special recipe mustard! Can't have a proper sandwich without it! Berightbackbye"
- —Doc Greene makes a rapid exit.
"And those giant bots, your work too, I presume. Unless they just fell out of the sky."
"Ah, well, I..."
- —Quarry and Doc Greene
Doc Greene: So, the only way to get Anna and Frankie back, is to give Quarry "Dinobots", that I don't have.
Optimus Prime: Excuse me, Doctor, "Dinobots" you don't have yet.
Chief Burns: When I heard this was about "Dinobots", I took the liberty of calling the original.
- —Optimus Prime shows up and reveals Chief Burns called him and a plan is formed.
"Rescue Bots. Scan and transform."
- —Optimus Prime commands the Rescue Bots to scan and transform into "Dinobots."
"Just tell me if you see green spots. Oh, or red ones. But not blue. If you see blue spots, I don't even wanna know."
- —Blades
Notes
Continuity notes
- Doc Greene's first name is finally revealed as Ezra.
- Quint Quarry was previously introduced in "Big Game". The patches they use to prevent dino-rampages were also introduced in that episode.
- Optimus asks Boulder if he's prepared his colleagues for taking on a new form. The involved nature of scanning an additional mode was originally depicted in "Changes" when Heatwave was preparing to scan a third mode, and appears to have happened off-screen in this episode.
Transformers references
- With Chase, Heatwave and Blades joining Optimus Prime and Boulder as Dinobots, the Rescue Bots cartoon has achieved analogs of the original G1 Dinobot team: Optimus Prime for Grimlock, Heatwave for Sludge (although Heatwave is actually a brachiosaurus), Boulder for Slag, Chase for Snarl, and Blades for Swoop.
- Boulder's seismic stomp refers to Sludge's abilities, while Heatwave's water breath and Blades' mouth laser are tweaked from the Dinobots' iconic fire breath, accompanied by Optimus Prime's sonic roar. Chase's tail bolts also refers to Snarl's ability to fire lasers from his tail spikes.
Real-world references
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Errors
- Does Quarry seriously expect Doc Greene to be able to build three enormous dinobots from scratch in twelve hours? Even if Doc already had the blueprints and materials, it would have taken him months (at least) to build one. Even with help from Frankie, Dither, and the Burns family, it wouldn't be possible. Good thing they didn’t need to build them!
Trivia
- This episode also had the working title of "Quarry Vs. Quarry", which somehow made it out to some online listings and TV listings, with even Discovery Family's schedule listing it under that name, though the preview video used the correct title.
- This episode was adapted in interactive game-storybook form as "Dino Island".
- In dino-mode, the bots possess what could be regarded as weaponry; both offensive and defensive capabilities that are separate from simply creatively using their alt-modes.
Foreign localization
French
- Title: "Les Dinobots à la rescousse" ("Dinobots to the rescue")
- Original airdate: ?
Hungarian
- Title: "Quarry akciója" ("Quarry's Operation")
- Original airdate: 22 September 2016
Italian
Portuguese
Home video releases
2015 — Rescue Bots — "Dinobots!" (Shout! Factory)
