English Episode Title: Mutiny — French Episode Title: Mutinerie
Laura convinces William to use the Virus at the Cortex while the rest of the crew are doing cross country.
This episode contains examples of:
- Adaptational Name Change: The Kankrelats are now called Roaches again (as was their name is Season 1 of the animated series), while the Scyphozoa was changed to be called the Medusa.
- Call-Back: Yumi briefly explains that William was once XANA's slave and couldn't control anything, which was basically the entire arc of Season 4 of the animated series.
- Easily Forgiven: William, though given that Laura was intentionally poking the hornets nest that is his emotional instablilty, the gang don't exactly blame him for any of the mess.
- Emotions vs. Stoicism: Jérémie versus Laura in this case. Jérémie relies on his friends as much as his friends rely on him and as such are very tight-knit. However Laura shows no empathy, relies too much on statistics and reasoning and logic. Jérémie and the crew doesn't want to use the virus yet on XANA as Aelita hasn't found her mother yet, to which Laura responds that the chances of finding her is absurdly low.
- Gaslighting: Odd (successfully) fools Jim into think that Yumi, Jérémie, and Aelita sped past him.
- "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: Ulrich tries this with XANA!William, but it only leads to a fight.
- Lack of Empathy: Really noticeable here for Laura. She actively manipulates William via his own emotions about being left out of the group, and they agree to mutiny against the group, which ends up getting him taken over by XANA briefly. Even when her plan results in XANA taking control of William again, she still doesn't realize how badly she messed up and refuses to take accountability for it.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: A greater example than most others in the show. Jérémie implies through his Techno Babble that Laura and only Laura will get a mind wipe after he updated the supercomputers' Return to the Past functionality, to which she isn't exactly delighted about.
- Loners Are Freaks: Laura uses this against William to mutiny against the group to deploy the virus early.
- Manipulative Bitch: Enough to get her kicked out of the group at the end of the episode. She thinks emotions are keeping the group from destroying XANA as Aelita won't be able to find her mother otherwise. Her reliance on statistics over actual friendships is something Jérémie wholeheartedly dislikes about Laura. She thinks that Aelita's mother is a lost cause and goes behind his back with William anyway.
- Never My Fault: Even after her reckless plan for the virus results in William being possessed by XANA again, Laura refuses to admit that she was in the wrong and continues lambasting the group for supposedly letting their emotions cloud their judgment. Unsurprisingly, this infuriates them and leads Jérémie to suggest Laura be excluded from the group—something everyone agrees with.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: What Laura see's herself as, believing it's the right call to release the virus and destroy XANA, even if it costs Aelita her only chance of finding her mother.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: While everyone is rightfully furious at Laura's betrayal, Odd is the one who angrily orders Laura to shut up when she refuses to acknowledge her mistake and continues lambasting the group for not seeing things her way.
- Techno Babble: Jérémie manages to update the Return to the Past to get rid of Laura's malicious coding, with his words essentially boiling down to "only you'll forget everything, not anyone else".
- Tranquil Fury: Jérémie towards Laura for taking William to the Cortex, and he tells Laura that "you don't get to talk to me right now" when Laura asks what he's doing.
