The paladins tail Lotor's ship, and the prince challenges the paladins by using the fact that they're piloting different lions against themselves. He then lures them onto a planet to effectively blind them and take them out using the environment. Keith pushes on to take Lotor out despite his teammates warnings, declaring that taking Lotor out now was their best option.
Tropes for this episode include the following:
- Ace Pilot: Lotor gets to show off this particular skill throughout the entire episode.
- Apologetic Attacker: Allura ends up doing this the most since this is her first time piloting a lion.
- Brutal Honesty: Lance calls out Keith for his decisions and how it's breaking up the team. Even when Keith realizes his mistakes, Lance doesn't deny it, but assures Keith that they could still fix their situation and find the others.
- Deadly Gas: Thaseryx is filled with nitrade gas.
- Don't Think, Feel: How Allura finally manages to get a handle on piloting the Blue Lion. She compares it to how Lance's instincts figured out how to use it back in the first season.
- Face Fault: Hunk does this when Lance yells at him for using taglines.
- Friendly Fire: The Paladins end up doing this, since half of them are still unused to their new lions, and because Lotor played them against each other.
- How Do I Shot Web?: The team has a new member who hasn't piloted a lion before, and two of the original members have switched to new lions that handle differently. As a result, three of the five paladins fly so badly that Lotor comes to the conclusion that Zarkon took out half the team and they're breaking in a new flight roster.
- I'm Standing Right Here: Pidge, Lance and Hunk talk about how scary Allura gets when she can't focus. Allura tells them through the comm channels that she could hear them, and they shriek in fear.
- I Take Offense to That Last One: Allura claimed that the way she used the Blue Lion was to "be like Lance and not think as much." Lance is obviously flattered until he stops mid-sentence to ask, "are you calling me dumb?"
- It's All My Fault: Keith laments this when he gets separated from most of the group and notes that if he hadn't rushed in, they wouldn't be in this situation.
- I Will Find You: Lotor says this as he searches for Allura.
- Just Toying with Them: Zethrid yells at Lotor to stop messing with the paladins and tells him to "bring the pain!"
- Leave Me Alone!: When asked for a plan Keith just tells everyone to stay out of his way.
- Lured into a Trap: Lotor draws the lions onto Thasaryx where he could fly freely, but the paladins wouldn't be able to use their radios or see.
- No One Gets Left Behind: Hunk is the first to pull back when Allura can't catch up, and Lance yells at Keith to turn around so they can stick together as a group.
- Nothing Personal: Ezor apologizes to Narti when she notes that the paladins flying into the gas planet would be blind. Narti doesn't really seem to mind.
- Now It's My Turn: Allura gets the chance to turn Lotor's plans against him and uses her ice beam to damage his ship.
- Pink Means Feminine: Averted. While the most feminine of the female paladins does wear a pink uniform, Allura explains to Lance that she chose the color because of its significance in Altean culture (it symbolizes remembrance, not femininity, and she wears it to honor the fallen paladins that had gone before, including Shiro and her father).
- The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Hunk says this as one of his taglines, however you can also see this literally once Allura bonds with Blue and begins to turn Lotor's plan against him.
- Too Fast to Stop: Lance is still getting used to flying Red, and one of his problems is he doesn't know how to slow down. He even asks as he flies across the screen if the Red Lion had any brakes.
- Touché: Lotor begrudgingly compliments Allura for luring him in the nitrade gas and taking down one of his plane's wings.
- What Would X Do?: Allura can't seem to get Blue to work with her, so she ponders how to get the Lion to listen and asks "What would Lance do?". She attempts to flirt with the Lion in a Lance-like manner... but it doesn't work.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Zethrid asks why Lotor doesn't just shoot the Paladins and Acxa explains that Lotor and the Lions are in a place of concentrated nitrade gas. Shooting anything in that area would create a huge explosion.
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Keith continues to pursue Lotor despite his teammates warnings. After Lance yells at him to turn around his eyes widen and he angrily pulls Black away.
