English Episode Title: The Cortex — French Episode Title: Cortex
Odd pirates a soon-to-be released copy of Cyberbike 7, while the team go on a mission to test out the newly-coded Skidbladnir, and William returns to try and get back into the Lyoko Warriors gang.
This episode contains examples of:
- Adaptational Attractiveness: As with the rest of the cast, though William was already meant to be part of the "Bad Boy" archetype anyway. As with the others, his actor bears some resemblance to his animated counterpart.
- BFS: Williams' sword, as per usual.
- Blatant Lies: William catches on to the team going back to Lyoko, and odd attempts to cover initially.
- Cassandra Truth; William gives Jérémie the excuse of Odd being "a little held up" when they meet at the factory.
- Cellphones Are Useless: Odd tries to see if he can call to get help out of the closet, but he has no signal. He lampshades this by saying "What did they do, put lead in the walls?"
- Continuity Nod: Williams' hotheadedness get's brought up again by Ulrich, a common complaint by both Yumi and Ulrich in Season 4, and this leads to an allusion to the events of Final Round, where he did exactly as described by the others in this episode.
- The Skidbladnir is seen, fully repaired and recoded. It looks identical to its previous counterpart too.
- Ulrich calls Aelita princess, her nickname Odd and the others used for her on Lyoko.
- Contrived Coincidence: Jim locking Odd in the cupboard so he can't meet with the others later.
- Digital Piracyis Evil: Odd does this to a new game; Cyberbike 7. How he managed to get a hold of something before release is anyone's guess.
- Everybody Knew Already: Turns out that keeping a secret from a person who knows what to look for when a group is keeping secrets is gonna leave them pretty annoyed.
- Foreshadowing: Odd is late to the first meetup of the episode because he was late getting a game. Later, he gets locked in a closet for the same reason, leading William to take his place.
- Jerkass: Odd towards William, and vice versa.
- Shot-for-Shot Remake: As with the previous episode, some of the transitional scenes, the Skid flying through the cyberspace, as well as the virtualisation process are remakes of similar scenes in the animated series.
- Super Smoke: William uses it, explaining that some of XANA's old tricks are still with him.
- Worldbuilding: The Skid acts as a relay, which was never used as such in the original series, whereas here, it's used to virtualise William and Odd after the Skid had already left.
