Ninjago S1 E9

## Plot

The Serpentine are searching an old temple for the second Fang Blade. It's rigged with traps though, so they have Lloyd go through it. However, the blade is gone. Kai is impatient because he hasn't unlocked his true potential yet. Cole recognizes the Fang Blade from a picture he has. Back where he grew up, there was an annual competition, and the winner always got the Blade Cup, which is basically a trophy with a Fang Blade sticking out of it. His dad won it a bunch of times. He's not an athlete, but part of a barbershop quartet called the Royal Blacksmiths. The Fang Blade was made into a trophy by this guy who collected priceless artifacts. His name is Clutch Powers, in a tie in to a LEGO movie that had come out around the time this season originally aired, although the two are in separate continuities and played by different actors. We don't meet this version until season 11. Cole doesn't know who has the trophy now, because he hasn't talked to his dad in years. He thinks that he's in Ninjago City training at a performing arts school. He doesn't know that Cole is a ninja. He wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, but Cole couldn't sing or dance, so he ran away. When his dad sees that he can't dance, he'll know that he's been lying in all the letters he's been sending him. Garmadon and Wu fight rock monsters called Craglings. The guys arrive in Cole's hometown. Their plan is to find out who has the trophy, steal it, and leave. However, Cole's dad Lou reveals that they have to win it in that year's talent show. He broke his foot, so his quartet can't perform. He thinks that Cole and his friends came to replace them. He decides to train them. The guys decide to get close enough to the Blade Cup during the show to steal it, and then they can leave. Cole reveals that his father convinced him to try the Triple Tiger Sashay when he was only seven. The thing is, it's the most difficult dance move ever created, and no one has successfully completed it. The Serpentine learn where the Fang Blade is. It looks like Garmadon betrays Wu, but then he jumps in through the portal after him. They wind up back in Ninjago. Lou overhears the guys talking about stealing the Blade Cup. Cole admits that he's a ninja, and that they have to steal the trophy, or the Serpentine will. Lou is angry and disappointed in him and leaves. The Serpentine perform in terrible disguises to win, and Pythor poses as a judge, because he swallowed the original one whole. Instead of stealing it, the guys decide to try and win it. Cole does the Triple Tiger Sashay. Pythor gives them a zero, but the original judge adds a one to it to make it a ten. The guys win the Blade Cup. However, Cole's dad isn't in the audience. Once they're backstage though, Lou comes back and reveals that he watched it all, probably from outside or something. He's proud of his son for fighting for what's right. He apologizes for pushing him so hard to follow in his footsteps. The Serpentine drop a bunch of equipment from the ceiling. It lands on Lou and Cole, who jumped on top of him. Pythor gets away with the Fang Blade. The guys notice Cole's scythe glowing. He's found his true potential. His relationship with his father was what was holding him back. He's basically super strong and invincible.