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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 46 (S02E46) |
| Episode no. | 98 of 104 |
| US premiere | 7 October 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 22 September 2017 · État d’urgence au repaire |
| Written by | Françoise Gralewski |
| Storyboard | Gael Leroux & Milena Mardos |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Previous | Three Minutes or Less (S02E45) |
| Next | You and I Bee-come One (S02E47) |
Lair on Lockdown is episode 46 of Season 2 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by Technicolor Animation Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 7 October 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Team Sonic storms Eggman’s lair to stop his overpriced online ticket business, and a stray Mantis Bot blade smacks into the control panel. The lair’s sorting system scatters everyone into different rooms, and Sonic’s random button-pressing adds a 48-hour lockdown that only a spoken password can lift. Radio signals can’t get through the walls.
So the odd couples make the best of it. Amy cleans the basement with Tails and finds a stash of Mootonium that has to be kept cool. Sticks won’t let Orbot near her, robots being robots, though together they find an air vent. Knuckles keeps a gloomy Eggman company in the storage room, where the doctor reminisces about his first robot, Zippie. Sonic and Cubot stumble on the password, “chili dog”, and promptly switch off the lights.
Then Sticks shuts down the air conditioning to crawl through the vents, and the Mootonium starts warming up. Zippie, who could only talk in Morse code, inspires the escape plan: tapping on the pipes. Messages pass from room to room, Cubot translates the override instructions, and everyone gets out before the lair blows up. Sticks makes peace with Orbot, and Knuckles hands Eggman a souvenir he rescued: Zippie.
Trivia
- One of the episodes on NCircle’s Robot Uprising! DVD (2020).
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume Two (September 2021), Robot Uprising! (2020), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: État d’urgence au repaire. The episode aired in France on 22 September 2017, before its US premiere.
Watch the Episode
NCircle Entertainment, the show’s US home-video label, has not uploaded this episode on its own to YouTube at the time of writing, though its official channel carries two-episode compilations and Season 2 marathons. Season 2 is on DVD from NCircle (The Complete Season 2, 2021) and has been on Hulu and Netflix; see the series page for details.
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 2 guide. See the series page for the cast, the redesigns, the games and the comics.
Sources: air dates, writers and storyboard artists from Luke’s original Sonic Scene episode list, cross-checked with Wikipedia, Sonic Retro (Wayback copy) and Sonic Wiki Zone; synopsis written for Sonic Scene from the episode summaries on those sites; title card and screenshots via Sonic Wiki Zone, copied to our media library.