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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 44 (S02E44) |
| Episode no. | 96 of 104 |
| US premiere | 9 September 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 19 September 2017 · Vector, le détector |
| Written by | Reid Harrison |
| Storyboard | Jeremy Klein & Adrien Fromentiel |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
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Vector Detector is episode 44 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 9 September 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Amy’s hammer has vanished, and without it she falls apart in a fight with Eggman’s Ball Bots. Her answer is to call in Vector the Crocodile, now the star of a reality detective show produced by Dixon, and Sonic tags along, sure he can crack it faster.
The clues lead everywhere. A Meh Burger VIP card proves worthless, since almost everyone has one. Hammer-shaped dents in Comedy Chimp’s vandalised studio point to Justin Beaver, whom the chimp had mocked on air, until a stakeout finds Justin at his nightly book club. Then a pie with a hole through its centre turns up in Amy’s garden, and a pie festival to catch the culprit flops, until Vector realises the pie was thrown in someone’s face.
That points to Wolf Sidekick, Comedy Chimp’s regular pie target, and the hammer turns up in his prop chest. Case closed, except Amy’s remark that nobody else owns a hammer like hers sets Vector thinking: why steal something so recognisable for a TV act? Over Dixon’s objections, Vector reopens the case with Sonic and unmasks the producer himself, who framed Justin for dumping him as manager, then Wolf. Nobody remembers to release Wolf.
Trivia
- Vector the Crocodile’s guest spot in the series, voiced by Keith Silverstein. Boom’s Vector wears a leather jacket and has an arm tattoo in place of his usual headphones.
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume Two (September 2021), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: Vector, le détector. The episode aired in France on 19 September 2017.
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.