Whiteout
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 "My legs are frozen solid! You're going to have to cut them off with a saw!" | ||||||
| "Whiteout" | ||||||
| Season | 1 | |||||
| No. in season | 5 | |||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | September 28,2018(CN app/website)
September 29,2018(USA) | |||||
| Writer | Kate Leth | |||||
| Directors | Robert Cullen&Ehud Landsberg | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
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A mysterious clue from Bumblebee's memory leads Windblade on a treacherous journey.
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Synopsis
At some point in the past, a disoriented Bumblebee comes to on an icy mountainside, and is briefly confused by a mountain goat.
In the present day,Windblade,still inside Bumblebee's mind, finishes watching yet another memory. Although Bumblebee still can't remember anything meaningful about the location of theArk,Windblade finds the image of the mountain familiar and consults the ship's logs to determine that it matches a peak in theHimalayas.Leaving a disappointed Bumblebee to guard the ship, she sets off. In the meantime, Bumblebee distracts himself by watching some humantelevisionon thescout ship's monitors.
Having arrived in the Himalayas, Windblade is unaware that her communications with Bumblebee have been picked up by theDecepticonsThundercrackerandNova Storm.Their commanderSlipstreaminstructs them to follow the signal while she catches up with them.
Somewhere in the upper slopes of the mountain range, Windblade arrives at the spot she saw in Bumblebee's memory and uses her fans to reveal astasis podofAutobotmanufacture and a blaster, both left abandoned in the snow. Unfortunately, that's all she finds: her scans are unable to pick up theArkitself, and she's unaware that the Decepticons have tailed her to her present location until the threeSeekersreveal themselves!
Captured by the Decepticons, Windblade is interrogated by Slipstream for information on the location ofOptimus Primeand the other Autobots, her glib answers only infuriating Slipstream and providing her with the window to break free and escape. A battle ensues as Windblade makes her escape, and though Windblade is able to send Thundercracker tumbling off a cliff into the fog, Nova Storm proves a tougher foe, and Windblade herself is nearly thrown off the same cliff before taking Nova Storm down, then uses her fans to drop Slipstream into the snow before finally making her escape.
Back at the ship, Windblade catches up with Bumblebee about her adventure, and happily presents him with his old blaster. Now, Windblade is certain that they're on the right track: theArkis somewhere on Earth, and they'll have to find it before the Decepticons do!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"All I can remember is those little creatures. They were very kind - they took me in, they treated me as one of their own. They even kept butting me with their cute little heads."
- —Bumblebee
"Found you!"
[goat bleats]
"Not you."
- —Windblade
"What are you doin' here, Windblade? I thought they left all the useless 'Bots on Cybertron."
"Clearly not;you'rehere. "[pause]"...who are you, exactly?"
- —SlipstreamandWindbladetrash-talk
Notes
Continuity notes
- The crew of theArkentered stasis during their deep space voyage in "The Journey,"though how the ship got from there to Earth is a tale that has yet to be told.
- Windblade warns Bumblebee not to push the ship's buttons, a callback to "Memory,"where his impulsive button-pushing blew their cover.
- Bumblebee is shown actively recording voice clips while he channel surfs, explaining where the repository he uses in speech comes from.
Transformers references
- TBD
Real-world references
- Bumblebee is shown watching a spoof of the game showWheel of Fortune.
Trivia
- Mountain goats don't actually live in the Himalayas, though the closely relatedHimalayan tahrdoes exist there.
Animation and technical errors
- TBD
Continuity errors
- TBD
Foreign localization
French
- Title:"Derrière le voile"(" Behind the Veil ")
- Original airdate:October 21,2018
German
- Title:"Spurlos verschwunden"(" Vanished Without a Trace ")
- Original airdate:November 24,2018
Hungarian
- Title:"Hideg közeg"(" Cold Conditions ")
- Original airdate:November 17,2018
Indonesian
- Title:"Tempat Bersalju"(" Snowy Place ")
- Original airdate:November 24,2018
Italian
- Title:"Tempesta di Neve"(" Snowstorm ")
- Original airdate:October 27,2018
Japanese
- Title:"Ark no Yukue"(アークの hành phương," TheArk's Whereabouts ")
- Original airdate:May 11,2019
Malay
- Title:"Ribut"(" Storm ")
- Original airdate:November 24,2018
Portuguese
- Title:"Picos Nevados"(" Snowy Peaks ")
- Original airdate:November 6,2018
Home video releases
- DVD
2019 —Transformers Cyberverse— The Journey (Beyond Home Entertainment)
2019 —Transformers Cyberverse— Intégrale Saison 1 (ESC Éditions) — French audio only
