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Escape from Zeta Point is the 13th episode of Dinosaur King, in Series 1. It is the 2nd episode of the 2-part Zeta Point arc.

Summary[]

Dr. Z and the Alpha Gang are holding the D-Team hostage, and he announces that all dinosaurs that became cards are his. Wondering what to do with them, Zander and Ed try to make them their slaves, but Ursula scares the idea out of them. But then, Rex reveals that he still has a hold of the Ceratosaurus card, which he summons to chase off the Alpha Gang and the Alpha Droids. Using high-kicking action to free themselves from the Droids, the D-Team runs off into a nearby elevator.

In wandering around, they find the main engine room of Zeta Point, and humorously suggest the Alpha Gang may be from a different planet. They escape from a horde of worker droids upon being noticed by Seth. Tanking an elevator, they are soon caught by Helga, who drags them, as well as Rod and Laura, into the study room, sitting them at computers displaying Reimannian Geometry from the General Theory of Relativity (as they "are children, und children must study").

Dr. Z has apparently captured Ceratosaurus, but when he sees that all his other cards are gone, he suspects the D-Team (except Helga has them). Meanwhile, Max comes up with the genius idea of distracting Helga with a clogged toilet to escape (he also sees she has the deck of cards in her apron, but can't grab them). They walk with Rod and Laura around the surface of the island, discussing how the two fit with the rest of the Alpha Gang, and it comes out that Dr. Z wasn't the one to originally create the Dinosaur Cards. However, it all turns out to be a trap, as Rod and Laura send Dr. Z their location!

Luckily (but unfortunately) for the D-Team, Reese flies overhead in a hydroplane, and Dr. Taylor jumps out with a parachute, but he's got it on upside down and gets snagged in a tree! After being freed by Rex, he tries to attack the Alpha Gang with his lizard-tongue whip, but it gets caught on a branch behind him. When the Alpha Gang summons their dinos, the D-Team escapes back in through the ventilation shaft.

Inside, Dr. Z gets notified by Seth that Zeta Point's engines are ready to be fired up. Dr. Z is also preparing to add more dinosaurs to his army, but Dr. Taylor rescues Chomp's card from the Alpha Controller just in time, and the D-Team takes Ace, Paris, and Ceratosaurus' cards, too. Just then, Helga arrives, and the entire base starts shaking. Max makes a grab for the cards in Helga's apron, with Chomp tearing off the pocket and Dr. Taylor snatching them all with his whip.

They run to Zeta Point's beach in order to meet Reese, but they find out to their surprise that the entire island is moving on its own! To make matters worse, the Alpha trio catches up with them, cornering them with their dinosaurs, including Styracosaurus. The D-Team summon their dinosaurs and Ceratosaurus, and use their new Move Cards to defeat the Alpha Gang, and reclaim Styracosaurus.

Once Reese finds them at the island's new location, she lands, and the D-Team board and head home. Unfortunately, even after this whole ordeal, Max still hasn't gotten out of finishing his 3 days of janitor duty. And apparently, Zeta Point's plumbing still hasn't been fixed yet from when Max wrecked it (as Dr. Z soon finds out).

Battles[]

Alpha Gang vs. D-Team[]

The Alpha Gang corners the D-Team on a sandy peninsula with Terry, Spiny, Tank, and Styracosaurus. The D-Team summons Chomp, Ace, Paris, and Ceratosaurus.

Dr. Taylor quickly pulls out some of the new Move Cards they just got from the recaptured card-folio deck and gives them to Max, who distributes them. Ace uses Ninja Attack and defeats Tank; Paris uses Stomping Hammer and defeats Spiny; Ceratosaurus defeats Styracosaurus without a Move Card; and Chomp uses Styracosaurus' original Lightning Spear and defeats Terry.

D-Team wins

Quotes[]

(Dr. Z has the D-Team held captive)
-Rod: "So, what are we gonna do with these three? We can't really just let 'em go, can we?"
-Dr. Z: "Hmm, eh…times like this…we could really use a plank."

(Dr. Taylor and Reese are flying over Zeta Point to rescue the D-Team)
-Reese: "There's nowhere for me to land this hydroplane."
-Dr. Taylor: (putting on a parachute, obviously doing something wrong) "That's all right: I'm ready for anything!"
-Reese: "Wait, do you know how to work that?"
-Dr. Taylor: "No clue! (opens the plane door) How difficult could it be?"
(Dr. Taylor jumps out of the plane)
-Reese (to herself): "Less difficult if you had it on right-side up."

Transcript[]

Escape from Zeta Point/Transcript

New Cards[]

Trivia[]

  • Dr. Z repeatedly uses the term "Alpha Dinosaur" to refer to any Alpha Gang-controlled dinosaur, as opposed to just the altered Alpha Dinosaurs.
  • Empty folio cards

    Blank fronts of folio cards

    When all the folio cards are dropped, most of the Dinosaur and Move Cards are shown to be blank, with the image space being all light blue on the Dinosaur Cards and all dark gray on the Move Cards. This could either mean than most of them simply had no content (perhaps incomplete or leftovers from the initial production), explaining why none of them were used or were part of the total dinosaur card tally, or that it was a simple way for the animators to show a large collection of cards without needing to decide which ones, though creating a seeming plot hole through their existence.
  • Rod's "So that's a dad" line at the end of the episode implies that he and Laura grew up without real parent figures, but it is later revealed that they not only have parents, they're homesick and wish to return to them, making this comment seem out of place in retrospect.
  • This episode marks not only the first usage of the phrase “Alpha Slash!”, but also the first time the transformation sequences were not shown in their entirety.
  • When this episode first aired, the D-Team emblem was yellow. In the Japanese DVD and all subsequent releases, this was changed to cyan.
  • This is the first episode in which a non-main dinosaur was defeated by another non-main dinosaur, in this case Styracosaurus by Ceratosaurus.
  • Since Rex had summoned both Ace and Ceratosaurus, it is unknown why only Ace used Ninja Attack when Rex scanned the Move Card with his Dino Holder. It's possible that Ceratosaurus used the Move at the same time as Ace off-screen, allowing him to weaken Styracosaurus before he defeated him with a physical hit, although this isn't addressed. Alternately, given that in other episodes the Dino Holder's screen shows the active dinosaur's card image as Moves are being slashed, it's possible the active dinosaurs can be toggled by the user to select which one receives the effect of the Move.

Dub Edits[]

  • The emblem on the parachute harness was replaced with a yellow circle in the dub.

Videos[]

Escape_from_Zeta_Point

Escape from Zeta Point

Dinosaur King episode 13

Navigation[]

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Season One:
(Dinosaur King)
Prehistory in the Making · Battle at the Pyramids · Tanks a LOT! · Bungle in the Jungle · Rubble Trouble · Don't Mess With Maiasaura · A Game Show Showdown · Maui Owie! · Dino Snore! · Downtown Runaround · Alpha Bets It All · Alpha's Zeta Point · Escape from Zeta Point · Child's Play · Volcanic Panic · All Fired Up! · Field Of Screams · Dance Evolution · The Big Apple Grapple · Tee'd Off · No Free Lunch · Just Plane Crazy · A Loch Ness Mess · Fashion Victims · A Miner Disaster · Double or Nothing · Carnival of Chaos · Daddy Dearest · Rhino or Dino? · Dinosaur Amour! · Temple Tempest · Falls Alarm! · Battle Royale! · Ninja Nightmare! · Ruff and Ready · Metal Imbalance · Dueling Dinos · Mythical Mix Up · Beast Or Famine · A Mesozoic Mess · Lights, Camera, Destruction! · Planes, Trains and Dinosaurs · Vaccination Vacation · A Kyoto Caper · Santa Saurus! · Full Scheme Ahead · Tricks of the Traitor · One Final Move! · Dinosaur War!
Season Two:
(Mesozoic Meltdown)
Alien Parent Trap · Ancient Roman Holiday · Desperately Seeking Spartacus · Coliseum Clash · There's No Place Like Rome · Dinosaurs of the Caribbean · X-treme Map Quest · High Sea Chase · Amazing Treasure Race! · Four Part Harmony · Elements of Surprise · Monk in the Middle · The Third Cosmos Stone · Two Shoguns are Better than One · The No-Fun Shogun · Dinosaurs, Ninjas and Bears! Oh My! · There's No Business Like Shogun Business · The 39 Thieves · Desert Heat · Princess of the City · Malice in the Palace · The French Conniption · The Wee Musketeers · All for One · The Haunted Hunt · Bad Deal · The Forestfire Effect · The Search for the Last Cosmos Stone · Clash for the Cosmos Stones · Fate of the Cosmos
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