Settling the Score

****Settling the Score****
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**Settling the Score** is the twentieth episode of the second season of *Glitch Techs*, to premiere on Netflix on August 17, 2020.

## Synopsis

Miko declares war when a new gamer in town beats her high scores at the arcade. But their showdown soon spirals out of control.

## Plot

After Miko gets trolled by new residents Ryu and Mikey, she looses her cool seeing that one of them wiped out her high score on her favorite arcade game. After getting her new high score immediately outplayed again, she looks for Ryu thinking it was him. Arriving at Ryu's home, she instead meets Mikey and learns it was really him who trounced her score. Enraged, Miko challenges Mike to a settle the score game, spending hours on a single match trying to overtake the other. Not wanting to waste his day, Five leaves to do work while Miko obsessively continues, unintentionally causing an epic-tier "Code: Green" glitch. All Glitch Techs from Bailley and Dabney mobilize against 100-meter tall glitch monsters. Five recognizes the characters Miko and Mike are playing, and climbs atop one to hijack a connection link to call Miko. Hearing Five, Miko realizes Mikey is just like her when she was his age and stops, allowing her glitch to derez, leaving the second open for capture, netting 100 Billion Shared XP for the Techs. Despite the antagonistic meeting, Mikeyand Miko decide to be friends and play together. Five picks up Miko, happy she and Mike became friends.

## Characters

* High Five
* Miko Kubota
* Phil Altiere
* Mike Simms (debut)
* Nix
* Phil
* BITT
* Bergy
* Zahra
* Alpha
* Joan Fishback
* Nameless
* Simi
* Ray
* Wes
* Blake
* Kodama
* Ryu Simms (debut)
* Sabrina (cameo)

## Trivia

* While playing sock-em-rockers, Miko states, “…and like Yar, I shall have revenge!” referencing popular Atari 2600 game Yars Revenge.
* Nix's Scorekeeper/arcade uniform shirt is inspired by Walter Day, founder of the Twin Galaxies organization that keeps track of world records pertaining to video games.
* The three games Nix says Ryu has the top scores in are all named after series directors:
	+ *Hyunjoo* is named after Hyunjoo Song.
	+ *Graham's Maze* is named after Chris Graham (who directed this episode specifically).
	+ *Allora* is named after Phil Allora.
* A number of references are from Ghostbusters related media:
	+ "...at the corner of Tully and Melnitz", reference to both Louis Tully and Janine Melnitz as street names.
	+ When B.I.T.T. calls a code green, his siren sound is the Ecto-1 siren.
* When Five is on top of Colossusaurus to hijack a connection link to call Miko he says "Wi-fi-fo-fum", which is a reference to the fairy tale *Jack and the Beanstalk*.
* Eric Robles said this was the last episode produced during post production of season 1, since Nickelodeon froze production of the 10 episodes after that.
* While the storyboard of "Kaiju Baby", it used a Korean song Fantastic Baby-BIGBANG. The music in storyboard of "Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em" is BANG BANG BANG-BIGBANG.

## Music

### "Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em"

Written by Marshall Bang, Brad Breeck, Nieah, Dan Milano and Justin Bates

Produced by Justin Bates and Brad Breeck

#### LYRICS

감은 눈을 떠 빛이 번져

(open your closed eyes as the light spreads)

보지마 뒤는 이미 멀어

(you can look, but I’m already miles away)

you can sock em rock em

겁낼 필요는 없어

(no need to be afraid)

baby 그래 나를 던져

(enough talk, just throw me)

무너진 자신감을 모두 던져

(that broken pride, just toss it/throw it/put it in the fight)

모두 던져

(throw it all)

그래 전부 모두 던져

(that's right, just throw it all)

시간없어

(Time's running out!)

punch punch

그래 나를 믿어

(yeah believe me)

punch punch

내 자신을 믿어

(yeah gonna believe in myself)

punch punch

### "Kaiju Baby"

Written by Marshall Bang, Brad Breeck, Nieah, Dan Milano and Justin Bates

Produced by Justin Bates and Brad Breeck

#### LYRICS

준비됐니 시작해볼까

(are you ready for this, you ready to get this started)

불타는 이 분위기 위를 날아가자

(let’s set this feeling on fire, let it take us higher)

넌 절대 도망못가

(You can’t run away from this)

절대 넌 못떠나

(You’ll never be able to escape this)

there’s no hope for you

yeah you can try it out

going

Down down down down

yeah, i’m a kaiju baby

Fight! Yeah

심장소리를 들어봐

(hear the thumping of my heartbeat)

yeah i’m a kaiju baby

소릴 더 질러 더 크게 높여

(make some noise, louder and higher)

정해진 길 로만 갈필욘 없잖아

(you don’t have to go the path that you’ve been told to go)

넘어져도 일어나 what 또 시작해

(If you fall down, get back up, restart)

다 털고 다시  걸어가 더 느낄 수있게

(brush yourself off, walk it off, feel it more)

feel the thump of your heartbeat

the kiss of the mean streets

do you

see the line drawn in the sand

못가

(You can’t escape)

뭘봐 이바보야

(What you looking at)

## Videos

Glitch Techs Season 2 Trailer 🎮 Netflix Futures

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1187953982087417857
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B4EXkA-DMsv/
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/DanMilano/status/1293255756779724800
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/DanMilano/status/1298800763095851010
5. ↑ Timestamp: 6:12
6. ↑ Timestamp: 13:44-13:48