English Episode Title: Time Warp — French Episode Title: Paradoxe temporel
Aelita, Odd and Ulrich get stuck in a time loop thanks to a trap set by Tyron, so Yumi, Jérémie and William must rescue them.
This episode contains examples of:
- The Bad Guy Wins: Tyron finds out that the supercomputer is at Kadic because Laura recognised the CGI characters as Jérémie's gang.
- Broken Record: Due to the time loop, Jim is stuck talking about a mouse that kept him awake that he'd rather not talk about, as well as constantly confiscating Odd's phone as he's waiting for a call from a ticket seller.
- Call-Back: To A Bright Career Ahead, where Laura finds a quantum physics school card, the same one she keeps in that episode. She rings up, and one of Tyron's henchmen answer and set up an interview.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- The buggy programs that lock Jérémie out of the supercomputer come in handy, as he recreates them for use on the Cortex supercomputer, to which Yumi installs and the time loop ends.
- The calling card for the quantum physics school Laura finds in her workbooks is the same one she has in A Bright Career Ahead. Of course, here, she doesn't recognise it due to her Laser-Guided Amnesia.
- Continuity Nod: The plot bares resemblance to A Great Day, which has the villain stick the crew in a Time Loop, in this case a virtualized one. Tyron's goal is not to improve the supercomputer capacity, but to get the warriors away from earth long enough to work out where the supercomputer is. He doesn't succeed with this plan, but Laura tells him via her interview that the CGI characters he shows Laura that they look like Jérémie's gang.
- Contrived Coincidence: Jérémie spraining his wrist means that he isn't at Gym, meaning he wouldn't be stuck in the loop.
- Foreshadowing: Jérémie uses the supercomputer to erase Laura's memory of the lab in Mutiny, as thanks to an update he did on the supercomputer, he can control how time travel works, and more pertinently, who it affects. In this episode, Tyron creates a localised time loop in a seperate time stream, meaning he too has figured out how to bend time around certain people.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: One that lasts less than a minute. Ulrich, Odd and Aelita are stuck in Gym class, repeating the same minute of conversation with Jim, and Odd constantly having his phone go off.
- Obviously Evil: Lampshaded by Yumi, of all people.
- Running Gag: Jim talks about a mouse that kept him awake the previous night, but he'd rather not talk about it.
- Stable Time Loop: Odd sends an email in Jérémie's name to the supercomputer to tell him of the time loop in the present, which present day Jérémie uses to get them out of the time loop.
- Violation of Common Sense: Played straight, then averted. Jérémie doesn't believe Odd that they're stuck in a time loop, and think Odd's joking at first, but an email from the past from himself (actually Odd) convinces him otherwise, and starts to help out.
