Ninjago S5 E7

## Plot

Back at the tea shop, the guys are fortifying it with water traps in case Morro and his friends come knocking for the sword. Misako and Wu still have to figure out the third clue, a skull. The mailman gives the guys a letter, which says that they'll be shut down if they don't get customers soon. Nya is trying to reverse the flow of the water. Ronin advises her to not try so hard. She can't fail if she doesn't care. He says that when someone wants something too badly, they trip over their own feet. Bansha contacts Ronin psychically. His debt is about to be paid. Morro wants him to steal the sword and bring it to him. Wu and Misako call the guys in for an update. They haven't found the tomb yet, but they did find the way to locate it. Apparently, there's a map on the back of the airjitzu scroll that Morro has. If the sword is used on the map, the blade's reflection will reveal the tomb's location. Ronin finds the case the sword is hidden in, but nothing's there. Nya has it. She's figured out that he planned to steal it to pay off his debt. They fight, and he takes the sword from her. She raises the alarm, and the guys confront him. However, he doesn't even have to use the sword on them, because they trip over their own traps. He fights Wu and Misako and escapes with Rex. The ninja head to the Bounty. Wu summons his elemental dragon, and he and Misako go after him. So! Cool! However, when they catch up, they see that he's not on board the ship. It was a trick. Nya is at the river lamenting her failure when she sees Ronin in a boat. She runs after him. She tells him that Morro will never hold up his end of the bargain, and that Ronin can't trust him. However, he thinks that he has no other choice. He's too fast in the boat. Nya uses her powers to reverse the flow of the river. However, it's rocky, and Ronin uses the sail to get away. He says that she's not strong enough and cares too much. Asshole. Still, he says that he's sorry and wishes that it had never come to this. He returns to Stiix and gives Morro the sword. With it and the map, he discovers the tomb's location. However, he says that Ronin isn't free yet. He wants the ninja too. Ronin won't do it, saying that he'll keep his cursed soul. The ninja, especially Nya, have become his friends. He tries to leave, but no one is gonna let him walk away after that. Nya apologizes for not telling the others right away about her suspicions of Ronin. He's taken the sword to Morro, but he could be anywhere in Ninjago. Wu yells that that's enough fighting. They all knew that the path to saving Lloyd and Ninjago was never going to be a straight line. They were all fooled by Ronin, but that doesn't make them fools. At times like this, the answer is to work together, not to fight. The falcon receives a message from Ronin, who says that Nya and Misako were right. He tells them that the tomb is in the Caves of Despair. Whoa. Now that's a major callback. Wu and the guys went there during the pilot to find the scythe. They never saw any tomb, but there are still miles of unexplored mines. It's definitely a trap by Morro, but none of them know that yet. Nya does point out that it could be a trap, but they have nothing else to go on. Wu forbids her from going, saying that she's still not ready. It turns out that Ronin was being possessed by Morro when he gave them the message. Lloyd tells him that he's not the green ninja. The green ninja would never need to lie. Morro tells him that he won't be the green ninja for long. They'll head for the real location of the tomb at dawn, and leave Ronin there now that he's worthless to them. We return to the Caves of Despair, and *wow*, has the animation improved in four years. The guys observe that it's like everything has come full circle. They find the third symbol near one of the cave entrances. It was carved there by Ghoultar. They notice a cave in and smell kethanol, a highly flammable gas released from deep well mining. Some of the rocks from the cave in have been moved recently, and they wonder if Morro has already been through here. The kethanol geyser burned everything in this area to ash. They can't stay long, since it could ignite again at any time. They discover Morro's remains. Sure, it's still a LEGO mini-figure skeleton, complete with clothes and hair, but damn, he really did die a horrible death looking for the tomb. Ghoultar reveals himself and that it's a trap, and that the ninja will suffer the same fate. He causes a cave in, and the entrance is blocked. The cave in created a gap. Cole shoves a boulder into the geyser, but Zane says that he just made the problem worse. Now every cave in a 10 mile radius will be filled with fire. They use airjitzu to get to the gap and run for their lives. They're able to jump down to a mine cart, which starts moving. Ghoultar is destroyed by Jay with his Aeroblade. They come to a dead end and use their Aeroblades as brakes. It doesn't work, and they fall. Before they can fall into a giant pool of lava, Ronin comes in on Rex and saves them. It turns out that it's on autopilot again. He left a message for them, saying that he was under Morro's control, and that they can use Rex to get to the real location of the tomb. It's under the ocean, which explains why Misako and Wu never found it. He says that this will be the last the ninja see of him. He also says that if Nya wants a reason, it's because he cares. Am I the only one who's a tad creeped out by their relationship, especially since Ronin was going to kiss her to try and take the sword? Anyways, he wishes them luck, and they head for the real tomb.