- Story Arc: Avalon Mystic Tour
- Characters: Goliath, Elisa, Angela, Bronx, Diane, Fara Maku, Tea
- Enemy(ies) : Anansi
The group arrives in Nigeria, where Elisa was surprised to see her mother, Diane. Things go bad when Diane's old friend, Fara Maku, gets attacked by his former love, Tea, who was leading a group of panther poachers. To everyone's surprise, Fara Maku turns into a panther himself and runs off into the jungle with Tea in hot pursuit. Goliath, Angela, and Bronx reveal themselves to save Elisa and Diane from the poachers before going off to search for Fara Maku and Tea. They find the cause of everything was Anansi, a giant spider monster.
Anansi returns (in cameo) in "The Gathering Part 1".
This episode contains the following tropes:
- Achilles' Heel: Anansi's gluttony has made him too fat to stand on his own. Angela realizes this and encourages the group to destroy the silken strands that connect his web to the ground, as he'll be unable to get up once it collapses.
- Art Shift: Diane's story of Anansi is animated in brighter colors and with a more limited style than the show's usual animation.
- The Atoner: Unable to break the curse, Faku Maku and Tea dedicate themselves to protecting the jungle; the former to atone for cursing Tea, and the latter to atone for her actions with the poachers.
- Badass Normal: Diane joins the battle against Anansi armed with nothing but a wooden plank and her anger. She's instrumental in defeating him. Elisa, as always, counts.
- Bad Liar: Elisa tries to claim she's in Africa working a case. Diane immediately calls her on it.
- Create Your Own Villain: Tea became Faku Maku's enemy after he gave her the mark so she wouldn't leave him. Which also motivated her to lead a group of poachers, murdering panthers in pursuit of him.
- Deal with the Devil: Fara Maku sought out Anansi to become a werepanther so he could give the mark to Tea in order to keep her by her side. In exchange, he must hunt for him.
- Foil:
- Diane smothers Elisa (that's Elisa's opinion at least). Goliath keeps Angela at a distance, as it is gargoyle custom to not favor one child over another.
- Similarly, Elisa and Angela. The former is sick of the constant attention and involvement, while the latter practically craves it.
- Giant Spider: Anansi has grown fatter than a car from all the hunting down on its behalf.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Upon arriving in Nigeria, Angela notices the buzzing of flies and gets a look of horror when she sees what they're buzzing around: the skinned corpse of a poached animal.
- "Hey, You!" Haymaker:Poacher: (points gun at Elisa and Diane) Say bye-bye! (eyes widen when seeing Goliath) Gasp!Goliath: Bye-bye. (punches poacher)
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Anansi's enslaving Faku and Tea to hunt for him ends up backfiring, as his fattened size makes him too heavy to support his own weight.
- Honor Before Reason: Angela desperately wants Goliath to treat her like his daughter and respect her, but Goliath refuses to give her any "preferential" treatment because gargoyle tradition holds that every child is viewed as the offspring of the whole clan, not just one or two parents...even though she's literally the only gargoyle hatchling alive that he knows in the outside world (the others are on Avalon). Diane calls him out on this and encourages him to use common sense as opposed to honor, which he eventually agrees to do. Of course, it's also the result of (a) his general inexperience as a parent and (b) him not wanting Angela to get too curious about her biological mother, someone he does not want her being influenced by.
- Hypocritical Humor: Goliath believes that Elisa shouldn't keep secrets from her mother.Angela: (smirking) You're right. Parents and children should always be able to discuss anything. (cut to Goliath looking indignant)
- My Beloved Smother: Elisa views her mother Diane this way because she always wants more; "More time, more answers" etc. It's one of the reasons she dumps her on Goliath to keep an eye on her.
- Not Quite Dead: After Goliath impales Anansi, a little spider is shown crawling away unnoticed. We later see him summoned by Oberon in "The Gathering."
- Our Werebeasts Are Different: In this case, werepanthers. A werepanther transformation turns one affected by it into the form of an average panther, not any sort of bipedal, beast-like form. The transformation into the panther form is generally from being in a state of anger. And by Word of God, each werepanther has a one-time ability to mark another person as a werepanther (which Fara Maku used on Tea, and Tea has not used yet).
- Parental Neglect: Goliath is reluctant to fully acknowledge Angela as his daughter because "the Gargoyle Way" dictates one hatchling not get special attention just because she is biologically his. Diane points out that all children need special attention every now and then and that it wouldn't be a disservice to the others if Goliath paid special attention to the child that's actually with him.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Tea goes on one when Fara curses her. She's unable to live in the city with the curse, which he gave to her for completely selfish reasons (making sure she couldn't leave him), so she gets together a group of poachers to hunt down every panther they can find.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Anansi is in danger of being defeated, he immediately tries begging for mercy, offering to give the group whatever they want in exchange for letting him live. Diane's having none of it—"YOUR wishes always come at a price, trickster!"—and keeps on attacking.
- So Proud of You: Goliath give this to Angela after defeating Anansi, and at the same time finally acknowledges her as his daughter.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Or spiders in this case for Diane.
