Naomi is heading for a camping trip with her class and her parents try to lure Commander Steel away from their daughter. Meanwhile, Dee and Zumbado go after the injured bounty hunter Jaeger
Tropes featured in this episode:
- Bait-and-Switch: During their first attempt to find Moonshine Jimmy, all the kids do is stumble upon Director Richard's cookie supply.
- Dark and Troubled Past: According to Zumbado, Dee of all people is a former war criminal.
- Easy Amnesia: Anthony doesn't remember what happened when he had Dilsutel poisoning clearly, so he remains Locked Out of the Loop about Naomi being an alien.
- Enemy Mine: Dee and Zumbado, despite the animosity between them, work together to find Jaeger.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Jaeger, an unrepentant bounty hunter, speaks in a very appalled way about the Thanagarians, who have been brutally conquering countless of planets.
- Facial Horror: Counselor Jeff's real face
. - Flashback: At the beginning of the episode, we see Naomi and Nathan going on a date 7 months ago.
- Genre Savvy: Annabelle makes several references to horror films when she thinks that they are hunting a ghost, like saying that sequels always have a bigger bodycount or telling her friends that this is the part where the audience starts yelling at the characters to turn back.
- Ghost Story: The counselors tell an urban legend about a logger named Moonshine Jimmy, who went on a murderous rampage.
- Honour Before Reason: Despite still being injured and outnumbered by Dee and Zumbado, Jaeger refuses to stand down, claiming that he plans on fulfilling his contract. He gets unceremoniously
- Human Alien Discovery: Counselor Jeff is an alien of undisclosed heritage.
- Mythology Gag: Naomi and Anthony a material called Dilustel, which is the substance that gives Captain Atom his powers.
- Oh, Crap!: Jennifer and Greg, when they see that Commander Steel has found Naomi's rock.
- Pet the Dog: Despite his dislike of Dee, Zumbado tells him that the name of his former lover Qyeala is also on the list Jaeger had on him.
- Phantom Zone: After Jaeger is dealt with Dee gives him to Adam Blake to imprison him in the Phantom Zone.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Dee gets Zumbado to help him with Jaeger by pointing out that the man may start talking and reveal Zumbado's presence on Earth, something Zumbado very much does not want.
- Shipper on Deck: Annabelle is shipping for Naomi and Nathan.
- Shout-Out:
- At their date 7 months ago, Naomi and Nathan were watching The Matrix.
- When watching the camcorder footage, Annabelle mentions The Blair Witch Project.
- Spotting the Thread: Commander Steel seemingly realizes that Greg and Jennifer tampered with the test to cover up something.
- Summer Campy: Naomi and her class are going to a camping trip and she and Anthony accidentally stumble upon an alien substance and discover that one of their counselors is an alien.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
- Anthony and Nathan are obviously still not comfortable around each other.
- Dee and Zumbado swallow their animosity for a moment to find Jaeger.
- Toxic Phlebotinum: What exactly the blue-glowing Dilsutel is good for is not revealed, but it has a toxic effect on humans, and Anthony starts bleeding from the nose after standing near it for a short period of time.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: Three, in this case, as all subplots have equal importance.
- We Need a Distraction:
- Annabelle fakes interest and asks Mrs. Varady to fetch some bear fossils so that Anthony can snatch the camcorder.
- Jennifer distracts Lieutenant Ramirez so that Greg can swap out the material sample.
