Devon takes Blaze's advice on being a tough leader to heart, endangering his friendship with Cruise. The Rangers try to lure Evox into a trap.
Tropes:
- Call-Back: The Rangers once again try to trap Evox. This time, they're successful...because he let them.
- Captured on Purpose: Evox allows the Rangers to capture him so that he can get inside Grid Battleforce Headquarters.
- Foreshadowing:
- Evox cryptically tells Scrozzle that he has a "very dark past."
- Blaze downplaying the result of being hit on the arm by an enemy weapon foreshadows the fact he's not Human Blaze.
- Blaze acting like such a jerkass again after he was shown having become a nicer person and a friend to the others earlier in the season foreshadows that it's actually Robo-Blaze the heroes have been talking to.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: A janitor is so distracted by the song he's listening to through his headphones, he not only fails to realize he accidentally locked Betty and Ben in the forcefield cell, but he can't hear them asking for his help.
- The Mole: It turns out that Robo-Blaze has been impersonating Human Blaze during the entire episode.
- Only a Flesh Wound: After blocking a Tronics weapon Blaze brushes off the attack as "just a scratch" even though it should have taken his arm off. However this is early foreshadowing that this isn't the real Blaze. At the end of the episode the Rangers rip off the bandage on Blaze's arm to reveal wires and cybernetic parts revealing that he is in fact Robo-Blaze. He then mockingly tells the Rangers that it was just a scratch before leaving.
- Properly Paranoid: Cruise comments that keeping Evox in their base would be a bad idea. He's quite right.
- Title Drop: Devon tells everyone that it's "crunch time."
- Too Dumb to Live: Firing Beast-X Blasters inside a forcefield prison to try and escape might be the dumbest thing Ben and Betty have done.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Blaze seems to have regressed back to the jerk he was at the start of the series and treats Cruise like dirt. The end of the episode reveals that this is subverted as the real Blaze was never with the Rangers at all and they've been talking to his robotic counterpart.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Blaze has a negative effect on Devon and Cruise. Subverted when it turns out that they've been talking to Robo-Blaze.
- What the Hell, Hero?: At the end of the episode, Devon tells off Blaze for being mean to Cruise. This is subverted moments later when the real Blaze calls everyone from Japan, causing the Rangers to realize that the Blaze in front of them is actually Robo-Blaze.
