Code Word Milkshake

"**Code Word Milkshake**" is the second episode of Season 3 of *Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts*. It premiered on Netflix with the rest of the season on October 12, 2020.

## Synopsis

Emilia's kidnapping her way to a cure. Kipo and her pals must keep their cool as they stake out the doc's unexpected hideout. Does K-pop hold the key?

## Plot

A Korean mute band performs their hit song for an audience and signs autographs. The lead singer gets shot with a dart and wakes up in Dr. Emilia’s lab. She injects him with something but he doesn’t turn into a normal animal. Jamack tells him not to worry because someone is coming.

Kipo holds a meeting with the Timbercats to figure out what to do. Only the humans can go because the sonic emitter would hurt the mutes. They fly in the sky to look for any signs of Emilia on the water and spy a giant cruise ship. They sneak onto the boat and see all of the humans having the times of their lives, on the water slide and in the pool.

On the cruise ship, the group hides in the cafeteria and someone comes in - Doag. Kipo and Troy know her from the compound and she is shocked to see them.

Dave has a boys night with Lio. They walk in on the Timbercats and snakes bonding night where they have a musical session. They make a song called the “Ultimate Friendship Alliance”.

Doag defends Emilia, saying she is nice and gives them a water slide. She doesn't believe that Emilia has a dark side and has trapped their friends. Doag decides to go get her dad but the group convinces her to take them to Emilia's lab to prove that she has no prisoners.

They break into the lab and Doag realizes that she really does have prisoners. She agrees to help get them out of there. They break open the cages and Boom Boom accidentally blows up the lab, along with the journal, with one of his nectar bombs.

Kipo gets angry and morphs into the jaguar to destroy the sonic emitter and fight Emilia. The humans run out and Emilia plays the victim, asking them why Kipo is attacking them. Kipo pleads with the humans and tells them that Emilia is evil. The humans tell Kipo that it sounds crazy and they don't believe her. Emilia offers for Kipo to stay with them to fix the mute manipulation that she must’ve overcome. Someone tries to inject Kipo with a tranquilizer and she pushes him off. The group runs away.

Dave and Lio bond over their crazy and wild night together. Doag tells Kipo that she will be a friend on the inside but that she needs to go back to the boat to be with her dad.

Looking at the burned “Project Kipo” book, Emilia realizes that Kipo is X in the equation. She picks up some of Kipo's fur on the floor and declares that she knows what to do.

“It isn’t right, she can’t just lock people up like this.”
— Kipo
## Credits

* **Written by**
	+ Leore Berris

* **Directed by**
	+ Matt Ahrens

* **Storyboards by**
	+ Florent Lagrange, Perin McLean, and Seema Virdi

* **Cast**
	+ Karen Fukuhara as Kipo Oak
	+ Sydney Mikayla as Wolf
	+ Deon Cole as Dave
	+ Coy Stewart as Benson
	+ Dee Bradley Baker as Mandu, Mega Monkey, and Gerard
	+ Sterling K. Brown as Lio Oak
	+ Dan Stevens as Scarlemagne
	+ Michael-Leon Wooley as Tad Mulholland
	+ Jee Young Han as Song Oak
	+ Steve Blum as Yumyan Hammerpaw
	+ Amy Landecker as Emilia

## Transcript

The transcript can be found here: Code Word Milkshake/Transcript
## Trivia

* It is shown in this episode when Lio drinks a lot of Explosion Berry cola, he gets extremely hyperactive.
* The two dragonflies that carry Kipo, Wolf, Troy, and Benson to the boat are last seen falling into the ocean when the sonic emitter is activated. What happened to them is not specified.
* When Wolf and Kipo walk into the lab containing the Mutes, the animation is sped up.
* When Kipo suggests using the word milkshake to keep herself from getting constantly upset with Emilia, her pupils turn star-shaped.
* An unknown leviathan is seen swimming below the waters close to Emilia's cruise ship.