Mech-X4 S1 E9

## Plot

The episode starts somewhere with everyone panicking in red lighting while drones come after them. Leo, on a video screen, tells them that the robot is going to self-destruct. We go back four hours earlier to see how they got there. Mark has been super nice to Ryan since the adoption reveal. Harris is analyzing a fingerprint found on the note. Um, who says that it isn't Grace or Ryan's far more recent fingerprint? He also has to come up with an invention for the first round of the Harper grant. The fingerprint is Leo's, and they learn that his last name is Mendel. Like Gregor Mendel? I sense a genius bonus. Meanwhile, he's still being tortured. While being served food, he hides a utensil. The only reason he's still alive is because he has information that the Leader needs, and out of respect for their shared past. He wants to know where the pilots are. He's determined to break Leo, and will do whatever it takes it make him talk. There's a police file on Leo. He's suspected of stealing large pieces of technology from various companies. They find his last known address, 2810 Foothill Road. The chances of finding Leo himself there are slim. They don't even know if he's still alive. They take Mark's car there. Also, I love Mark's car. It's green with what looks like a black stripe on it. It reminds me of my dream car: A red 2010 Camaro with two white stripes on it. I have a toy model of it. The shot where they pull up is beautiful, especially for live action Disney TV. It's probably because of the sun setting in the shot. All they find is an abandoned lot. It's really a hologram. Ryan finds the door to a secret building. It's a warehouse with another robot in it. It's an earlier model of Mech-X4, called Mech-X3. It's meant to be controlled by an artificial intelligence called Leo OS. Before he can kill them with drones, Ryan says that he's a technopath. OS says he won't kill them… for now. It's been over two years since he last saw Leo. That's long after Leo made the video for Mech-X4, so he could still be alive. Leo uses the utensil on his magnet controlled restraints to break free. He's able to open his cell door. OS is a failed experiment. The only way to reliably control a robot like Mech-X4 is with a technopath. Plus it seems like he's one of those malfunctioning, ax crazy insane AIs. Ryan has a lot of questions for OS. However, all of the files are classified, per Leo's orders. He shuts down. Harris and Spyder turn the power back on while Mark and Ryan head to the data core. When they attempt to steal the files though, OS tries to kill them with drones, leading into the first scene. Ryan wants Mark to go down to the equipment room and help Harris and Spyder, but Mark doesn't want to leave him. Ryan finally gets him to act like the somewhat annoying big brother he grew up with. Nothing's changed. Mark saves Harris and Spyder. OS decides to blow up the robot in one minute. Ryan convinces him not to though. Leo implanted a receiver chip in his brain to download his psychological profile into Leo OS. He can send a pulse on it that can tell them where he is, as long as he's not dead or out of range. To send out the pulse though, OS would have to exhaust all of his power and resources. He does so, since this is the kind of thing that family does for each other. At first, Ryan worries that Leo might be dead, but then he receives the longitude and latitude coordinates. Leo tries to escape, but discovers that he's underwater. The Leader tells him that there's no possibility of escape, and that no one can find him there. The Leader wants to know who the pilots are. Harris wrote a report about making terrible decisions a la Spyder for the Harper grant. They find out that Leo is at the bottom of the ocean.