Jail Break

"Jail Break" is the 49th episode of season 1 in Steven Universe, and the 49th episode overall.

Synopsis
Steven and the Crystal Gems attempt to escape Jasper's clutches.

Plot
Following their defeat by Jasper, Steven wakes up in a prison cell blocked by a yellow force field. He is able to walk through the force field as he is half human, then he sets out to find the others. He sees an irate Gem prisoner named Ruby, who is surprised to see him penetrate the force fields so easily. They then hear singing from far away, Ruby recognizing it to be from her lover, someone named Sapphire.

They run through the hallways, and as Ruby calls for Sapphire, Steven discovers that they are in the hand-shaped ship orbiting above Earth. They then find Lapis Lazuli, who is also imprisoned. Before Steven tries to free her, Ruby runs off to go find Sapphire. Then Lapis begs for Steven not to fight their captors and stays in her cell. Not wanting to allow his friends to be hurt anymore, he continues through the hall, promising to get her out.

As Steven nears Sapphire's cell, he overhears Jasper telling Sapphire to stop singing, then ordering Peridot to set a course for the Gem Homeworld despite her original mission to visit the Cluster, as Steven (mistaken as Rose Quartz) is top priority.

Steven then tells Sapphire that he likes her singing and frees Sapphire as she takes Steven to a large hall and reunites with Ruby, who both are revealed to fuse into Garnet. Now whole again, Garnet apologizes to Steven for meeting her halves in this situation, before telling him to rescue Pearl and Amethyst and head to the control bridge, with the help of her Future Vision.

Garnet is able to hold her own and overpower Jasper in a rematch, while Steven rescues the others and take over the control bridge, tying up Peridot in the process. By the end of their battle, Garnet throws Jasper into the ship's core and causes it to crash land back on Earth, near the temple. Peridot escapes beforehand and drops in a pod somewhere in North America.

Everyone survives the crash, including Jasper and Lapis. As a last resort, Jasper convinces Lapis to fuse with her in an act of revenge, but Lapis' consciousness fights back. Using her hydrokinesis, Malachite chains her fused self and drags it into the ocean, saying that she and Jasper will remain on Earth together in misery. Lapis says, "I'm done being everyone's prisoner... Now you're my prisoner, and I'm never letting you go!" As Lapis drags her fused self into the ocean, The Crystal Gems stare at the ocean in disbelief and with the battle finally over, Steven receives a call from Connie, whom he left a message for earlier. This leads directly into the events of the next episode, "Full Disclosure".

Characters

 * Steven Universe
 * Pearl
 * Garnet
 * Amethyst
 * Ruby (debut)
 * Sapphire (debut)
 * Jasper (antagonist)
 * Peridot (antagonist)
 * Lapis Lazuli
 * Malachite (semi-antagonist, debut)
 * Lion
 * Connie (voice)

Locations

 * Gem Warship

Objects

 * Gem Destabilizer
 * Gem Warship
 * Gem Warship Escape Pod
 * Steven's Cellphone

Production Notes

 * This episode was originally the last season 1 episode; however, in order to air this episode during Steven Bomb week March 9th-14th 2015, a few season 1 episodes had to be pushed back, which caused some episodes to air out of order.

Songs

 * Stronger Than You
 * Malachite Fusion
 * Steven's Lament (ringtone only)
 * Love Like You (with lyrics)

Trivia

 * This marks the first time when the title card doesn't feature the Crystal Temple's hand.
 * This marks the second time a Gem has had a slight redesign, the first being Pearl in Steven the Sword Fighter.
 * This is the first episode where two different fusions are performed.
 * Alexandrite was formed twice in "Fusion Cuisine."
 * Garnet sings for the first time.
 * Two new Gems are "shown", but have technically been with us the entirety of the series, Ruby and Sapphire.
 * While Jail Break is Ruby and Sapphire's official debut, they were both seen in Fusion Cuisine when Alexandrite unfused.
 * Peridot and Jasper used an object called a Gem Destabilizer. Its function is to cause critical damage to a Gem.
 * In the case of a fusion, it immediately destroys their physical form, and forcing them to retreat to their gemstones.
 * The same technology is used as barriers in the Gem Warship, preventing Gems from escaping.
 * Steven could manage to escape. This is due to him being half human, which causes the field to, instead of injuring him, slightly shock him.
 * When Pearl and Amethyst took over the control bridge, Peridot called them both clods. A "clod" being a foolish, or clumsy, person.
 * After Garnet is destabilized and her component gems were forced to retreat into their respective gemstones, Garnet re-emerges in a body suit with a different color scheme after Ruby and Sapphire fuse again.
 * Due to the differences in Garnet's outfit, it is possible that Ruby and Sapphire regenerated themselves, wearing different outfits then when they fused as Garnet for the first time.

Cultural References

 * In an effort to find Sapphire, they end up finding Lapis Lazuli instead which could be a reference to how people have often confused the gemstone, lapis lazuli, for sapphires throughout history.
 * Peridot's line "Go to Earth, they said. It'll be easy, they said..." is a reference to the Laundry Room Viking meme.

Continuity

 * Prior to this episode, Garnet hinted that she was a fusion in "Alone Together", saying it wasn't hard for her to fuse together.
 * Jasper alludes to when Lapis was a prisoner on Earth as seen in "Mirror Gem."

Errors

 * In a scene, Sapphire's gemstone isn't seen.
 * When Sapphire grabs Steven's hand to run towards Ruby's voice, she holds his right hand. However, while she's running, she's holding his left hand. Then when she stops, she's holding his right hand again.
 * Peridot can be seen with a full hand during the song "Stronger Than You". This happens when Steven grabs onto the Gem Destabilizer. Jail Break Steven Peridot's hand error.png
 * During the song "Stronger Than You", when Jasper and Garnet are by the ship's core, Jasper's visor can be seen broken before it should have been, which happens just a few seconds later.
 * At one moment, Garnet's gauntlet is attached to her sleeve.
 * When Steven looks out of the window to find they are in space, the ship is shown to be a right hand but in every other scene, including "The Return", the ship is shown to be a left hand.
 * When Pearl, Amethyst, and Steven see Garnet entering the control room, Steven's black eye is a regular unbruised eye. Same thing happens when Steven grabs onto the Gem Destabilizer as seen in the Peridot's hand error photo.
 * Steven's ringtone is played in a different concert pitch, as heard in, "Full Disclosure."

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.

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