Jail Break

"Jail Break" is the 49th episode of Steven Universe.

Synopsis
Steven teams up with a new ally to rescue the Crystal Gems.

Plot
Following their defeat against 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 captives 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 he (mistaken as "Rose") is top priority.

He frees Sapphire and reunites her with Ruby, who both are revealed to be a fusion of 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 water powers, she chains her fused self and drags it into the ocean, saying that she and Jasper will remain on Earth together in misery.

With the battle finally over, Steven receives a call from Connie, whom he left a message earlier. However, he is unable to respond.

Characters

 * Steven
 * Pearl
 * Greg Universe
 * Garnet
 * Amethyst
 * Ruby
 * Sapphire
 * Jasper
 * Peridot
 * Lapis Lazuli
 * Malachite
 * Lion
 * Connie (Voice heard at the end)
 * Opal

Locations

 * TBA

Objects

 * TBA

Songs

 * Garnet's Song

Trivia

 * This marks the second time a gem had a different outfit, the first being Pearl.
 * It is revealed that Garnet is a fusion of two Gems named Ruby and Sapphire.
 * The title card for this episode is a shot of space, instead of the hand of the statue for the first time.
 * This is the first episode where two fusions are shown instead of one.
 * Garnet sings in this episode.
 * Two new gems are technically "shown" but have been with us the entirety of the series, Ruby and Sapphire.
 * The Crystal Gems were eventually going to show Steven that Garnet was a fusion; they planned to show him on his next birthday.


 * 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 causes big damage to 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 electrocutes him.
 * Although it is revealed Garnet is gem fusion, it is not yet explained how a fusion can fuse with non-fusion gems.

Cultural References

 * Ruby and Sapphire are shown to fuse by kissing each other on the lips. This may be a reference to the infamous Japanese-exclusive Kiss Players multimedia project of The Transformers, which involved teenage girls fusing with Autobots by kissing them.

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.

Errors

 * TBA

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.

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