...And Into The Fire

“***Gary**: I don't know how, but we escape this place, and we get back home... We get back home.
**Little Cato**: What do we do until then?
**Quinn**: We survive.*”
―Gary, Little Cato, and Quinn.

**...And Into The Fire** is the 1st episode of the third season of the *Final Space*, and the 24th episode overall. It premiered on March 20th, 2021 on Adult Swim.

## Plot

After escaping a near death encounter with Invictus and being forced to abandon the Crimson Light, the Team Squad begin their quest to escape Final Space and make it back home while stranded on an unknown planet.

## Summary

Among a pile of dead Gary's floating in Final Space, Gary and Quinn embrace. It's a trap. Before they can properly reconnect, Invictus approaches the pair. The Crimson Light attempts to escape with Quinn and Gary still outside the ship, but it’s too slow. Sheryl wipes another Gary corpse off the ship’s windshield, revealing two massive Titans standing before them, on a direct collision course. They're surrounded. Bolo manages to hold one off. Sheryl attempts a short-burst light fold right through the Titan's skull, with her son still outside the ship. Avocato and Gary can do little to discourage Sheryl’s crazy plan, but against all odds, they manage to kill the Titan. With Invictus still on their tail, Mooncake exits the ship to help but, for the first time, his large green energy blasts prove ineffective against the horned demon. Bolo rushes towards the crimson light and hurls it forward. They’re saved from Invictus, but they're caught in an asteroid field. After a collision, Ava instructs the Team Squad to abandon the ship. As they are escaping, Hue learns that the ship is far too damaged to transfer Ava's into himself. They all brace for impact as they eject from the main ship, crash landing on an unknown planet. On the planet, they evaluate the situation, and Quinn knows the only course of action: Survive.

## Cast

* Olan Rogers as Gary, Mooncake and Tribore
* Tika Sumpter as Quinn
* Coty Galloway as Avocato
* Vannessa Marshall as Invictus
* Keith David as Bolo
* Steven Yeun as Little Cato
* Oscar Montoya as Quatronostro
* Tom Kenny as H.U.E.
* Ashly Burch as Ash
* Claudia Black as Sheryl
* Ron Funches as Fox
* Jane Lynch as A.V.A.
* Fred Armisen as KVN
* John DiMaggio as Stan and Lizard Titan

## Inside The Episode

Inside the Episode "…And Into the Fire" - Final Space - adult swim

## Trivia

* This is one of the first few episodes to air in the 2020s.
* The name of this episode is a reference to the phrase, *"out of the frying pan - into the fire,"* which means to move from one bad situation to an even worse one.
* Watched by 368,000 viewers when it premiered on Adult Swim.
* According to Olan Rogers, Tribore was originally going to die in this episode rather than A.V.A., but killing off such a light-hearted character 'didn't feel right" to him, so A.V.A. was chosen as the character to die.
* This is the first episode to air in 2021 on the 2020s month year.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-3-20-2021.html
2. ↑ https://open.spotify.com/show/5r35rKk98S6dgjY6yDWlzy