Jail Break

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

Synopsis
Steven attempts to release all the Gems from the prison in space and finish off Jasper.

Plot
Following their defeat by Jasper, Steven wakes up in a prison cell blocked by yellow force field. He is able to walk through the force field before setting 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 a friend named Sapphire.

They run through the hallways, with Steven discovering that they are in the hand-shaped ship orbiting above Earth. They then find Lapis, who is also imprisoned. Before Steven tries to free her, Lapis begs for him 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.

Nearing Sapphire's cell, he overhears Jasper ordering Peridot to set a course for the Gem Homeworld as recapturing Steven (mistaken as Rose) is top priority.

He frees Sapphire and reunites her 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 to another part of the planet.

Everyone survives the crash, including Jasper and Lapis. Jasper convinces reluctant Lapis to fuse with her into a giant Gem in an act of revenge, but Lapis' consciousness fights back. Using her hydrokinesis, she chains her fused self and drags it into the ocean, saying that she and Jasper will remain on Earth together in misery. Lapis said, "I am tired of being everybody's prisoner but now your my prisoner".

With the battle finally over, Steven receives a call from Connie, whom he left a message earlier. This leads directly into the events of the next episode, "Full Disclosure"

Characters

 * Steven Universe
 * Pearl
 * Garnet
 * Amethyst
 * Ruby
 * Sapphire
 * Jasper (Antagonist)
 * Peridot (Antagonist)
 * Lapis Lazuli
 * Malachite (Semi-Antagonist)
 * Lion
 * Connie (Voiced)

Locations

 * Gem Warship

Objects

 * Gem Destabilizer
 * Gem Warship

Production Notes

 * This is the first appearance of the space title card and the first title card that doesn't feature the temple's hand.

Songs

 * Stronger Than You
 * Full Disclosure (ringtone only)
 * Love Like You (with lyrics)

Trivia

 * 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.
 * This marks the second time a Gem had a different outfit, the first being Pearl.
 * This is the first episode where two gem fusions are performed in one episode.
 * Garnet sings for the first time in this episode.
 * Two new gems are technically "shown" but have been with us the entirety of the series, Ruby and Sapphire.
 * Peridot and Jasper used an object called a gem destabilizer. Its function is to cause great damage to a gem.
 * In the case of a fusion gem, it immediately knocks out the gem and undoes the fusion, making it retreat to the gems which formed it as shown in "The Return" with Garnet.
 * The same technology is used in the ship for the cages. It keeps a gem from running away as it would injure them if touched.
 * Steven could manage to escape. The reason due to him being half human and half gem which instead of injuring him badly, it slightly shocks him.
 * When Pearl and Amethyst took over the control bridge, Peridot called them both clods. A clod is a lump of earth or clay.
 * Garnet has fused with Amethyst when she is already fused.

Cultural References

 * Peridot's line "Go to Earth, they said. It will 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, Ruby's gem isn't seen on her hand.
 * Peridot can be seen with a full hand during the song "Stronger Than You". This happens when Steven grabs onto the gem destabilizer.
 * 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. The visor can be seen broken ahead of time.
 * At one moment, Garnet's glove 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.
 * 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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