The episode is about a Decepticon Bounty Hunter named Lockdown who is hired to hunt down the Autobot who destroyed Megatron. Not knowing that it was actually Starscream who did the deed, Lockdown thinks it's Optimus Prime and kidnaps him. One of Lockdown's nastier habits is stripping down Autobots for parts for himself, before he hands them over to whoever hires him. That makes him a particularly credible threat.

The old robot Ratchet is the focus of the story and the episode flashes back to his time in the Great War and the time he and a woman Autobot Intelligence Officer named Arcee were captured by Lockdown, and the suffering they endured. What Ratchet had to do to escape wasn't pretty.

I thought the episode was great but there were some things I had mixed feelings about. On the one hand, it's kind of ridiculous to watch a kids cartoon about robots suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But on the other, when it comes right down to it, the episode did a good job explaining the costs of war which is something the old show steadfastly ignored at the audience's expense. The PTSD the show demonstrates is pretty accurate to the symptoms too, so I have to give it credit for that as well.

The fight scenes were pretty tight this episode and I liked the fact that they got Susan Blu to voice Arcee (she did her voice on the old show). I particularly liked seeing Prowl school Lockdown in their first confrontation. And knowing the history between Ratchet and Lockdown made his defeating the bounty hunter all the more satisfying. I also like that we are gradually seeing more robots throughout the show, that hints that the overall cast of the series is probably much larger than the five Autobots the cartoon is centered on, would lead you to believe.

This show is proving itself to be much better than the version from the eighties and I wish the one I grew up with had had stories this cool and compelling. I'm very impressed with this new series.