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Inside Man is the twenty-fourth episode of the first season of Ben 10: Alien Force, and the twenty-fourth episode overall.
Synopsis
Ben and company rescue Tyler, a runaway prisoner of the DNAliens, while trying to stop them from completing the Jump Gate.[CN 1]
Plot
A man named Tyler nerviously drives a truck in the middle of the desert, and starts having trouble driving because his mind is invaded by strange memories, suddenly, loses control and the truck crashes, fortunately, Tyler wasn't hurt and gets out of the truck. He tries to hitch a ride with someone but is unsuccessful. He later walks all the way to the police station where he is questioned and accused of being completely mad, as he was talking about how aliens attacked and captured him and how they came to invade the Earth.
He is later put in a cell, and as he struggles to remember who he is and what he is supposed to be doing, he is attacked by the police who put him in there. They actually turn out to be DNAliens wearing ID Masks. They ask questions about what he had done with the "key", but he has no idea what they are talking about, as part of his memory was temporarily erased in the crash. Out of nowhere, he seems to have superhuman strength, as he takes the metal cot that was in the cell and pins the DNAliens to the wall with it. He escapes out of the police station only to find even more DNAliens outside waiting for him. A green car comes and the driver tells him to get in. With fear for his life, Tyler makes no hesitation as he gets in the vehicle.
Ben, Gwen, and Kevin turn out to be the people in the car. The team asks Tyler if he knows anything about an Oscillator Key but Tyler just can't seem to remember. Suddenly, he does remember what it was, and he remembers where he left it too. Tyler directs Kevin to the ditch where he walked away from the wreck. Ben transforms into Chromastone and peels the truck open to have a look at the Oscillator Key. Tyler tells them that he stole it from the aliens. As Chromastone looks at the Oscillator Key, a horde of DNAliens comes out from behind it and attack him. Chromastone, Gwen, and Kevin manage to hold them off, and Tyler remembers everything he was supposed to do. He also remembers the Highbreed plan to build a giant gateway that helps lead to the end of the human race.
Ben finds out why he remembers; Tyler is a DNAlien (wearing an ID Mask). Tyler is deeply upset, and he doesn't understand why this has happened to him. Tyler remembers that he was supposed to deliver the Oscillator Key to Los Soledad. Gwen realizes that when Tyler was turned into a DNAlien, he kept his human personality with him. This means that he was fighting the transformation the whole time. That means that all of the humans that were turned into DNAliens are fighting back too, and all they have to do is find a way to reverse the transformation like Tyler did. Kevin quickly reminds them that they have to get the Oscillator Key out of sight before the DNAliens get it.
Ben transforms into Humungousaur to take the Oscillator Key out of there, but a Highbreed Tractor Beam Ship spots them and sends down a tractor beam to retrieve it. Humungousaur grows to 60 feet to get it away from them. Humungousaur drops the Oscilator Key back down in the ditch just as the DNAliens start coming out of the ship and transforms back into normal. Humungousaur transforms into Jetray and starts shooting at some of the DNAliens. Kevin and Tyler manage to fight off some of them, but soon a few DNAliens come and take Tyler so they can overwrite him, and he won't remember anything.
They take Tyler and the Oscillator Key up in the tractor beam. Kevin advises Jetray to shoot the mirror that the tractor beam is being projected out of so the DNAliens won't have it, but Ben realizes that it could also kill Tyler, who is declared expendable by the rest of Ben's teammates. So Jetray does the unthinkable; he swoops in and saves Tyler from the DNAliens letting them get away with the Oscillator Key.
Kevin and Gwen get angry at Ben for disobeying orders, but Ben says that he isn't making any sacrifices even though Tyler told them he would sacrifice himself so the Highbreed can't finish their plan. Tyler gets upset because he thinks that the Highbreed have won and that he is stuck as that "thing" forever, but Ben uses the Omnitrix to transform Tyler back to normal. Ben reminds everyone who's responsible for saving all of humanity; "And like it or not, I think it's us.".
Noteworthy Events
Major Events
- The DNAliens retrieve the Oscillator Key, which they intend to use to complete the Hyperspace Jump Gate.
Character Debuts
Characters
Main Characters
- Alien Force
- Tyler (first appearance; flashback and present)
Antagonists
Other Characters
- Jeff (first appearance)
- Mr. Liu (first appearance; non-speaking)
- Mr. Molen (first appearance; non-speaking)
Transformations
Quotes
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Naming and Translations
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| French | L'Infiltré | The Inside Man |
| Hungarian | Belső Ember | Inside Man |
| Polish | Ktoś Stamtąd | Someone From There |
| Portuguese (Br) | Infiltrado | Infiltrated |
| Romanian | Omul Din Interior | The Man Inside |
| Spanish (HA) | El Informante | The Insider |
| Spanish (Spain) | El Hombre Interior | The Inner Man |
| Turkish | Köstebek | Spy |
Cast
Continuity
- According to Ben, this episode takes place a few weeks after Undercover.
- As shown in Tyler's flashbacks, the Hyperspace Jump Gate is closer to being complete than it was in Undercover.
- Ben and Gwen recall the events of Undercover and Max Out, respectively, to Tyler.
Allusions
- The episode title is an allusion to the 2006 movie Inside Man.
Errors
- Throughout the entire episode, whenever Ben activates the Omnitrix, the aliens' holograms face away from him.
- When Chromastone gets thrown out of the truck and says "DNAliens!", his mouth does not move.
- When Kevin absorbs the truck, he gets coated with stone instead of metal.
- Gwen states that Max Out took place in Los Soledad, which is untrue as the episode in question took place in Santa Mira.
- Gwen says that they lost Max in Max Out even though she found out that he is alive in the previous episode.
- When dragging the Oscillator Key, Humungousaur is briefly seen in his giant form in the far shot, but is in his normal sized form in the surrounding shots.
- Humungousaur says the Oscillator Key looks like a tuning fork, which is incorrect. This is due to a discrepancy between the script and the storyboarding or animation process, as it was described as a tuning fork in the script.[script 1]
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Trivia
- The last hint towards the events of War of the Worlds are foreshadowed by Tyler's comments.
- The date each version of the script was completed is:
- Outline: February 3, 2008.[outline 1]
- Third draft: March 6, 2008.[script 1]
- Final numbered draft: March 7, 2008.[script 1]
- As-broadcast: November 5, 2008.[script 1]
- The episode was initially titled A Man Inside.[outline 1]
- In the script outline:[outline 1]
- Los Soledad is referred to by its working name, El Soledad.
- Tyler's flashbacks are from his point of view.
- The Oscillator Key is referred to as a Non-Dimensional Oscillator.
- When the team come to Tyler's rescue at the police station, Ben gets out from Kevin's car and uses Swampfire to defeat an officer disguised as a DNAlien.
- Instead of Tyler realizing he was a bass player through finding a pick on his person, he recalls his past when met by DNAlien slime, leading to a flashback showing his bandmates, staff and patrons at a club being taken over by Xenocites.
- Ben uses Big Chill to free Gwen and Kevin from the DNAliens' slime.
- Tyler was from El Soledad. He also remembers his name much later in the episode, instead of early on by reading his ID card.
- Ben uses Goop to corrode the Non-Dimensional Oscillator with acid.
- In the as-broadcast script:[script 1]
- Jeff wears a fishing hat.
- After Jeff abandons Tyler, Tyler sees a passing car.
- There are two Highbreed in Tyler's flashbacks instead of three.
- Tyler does not hide behind a car after escaping the highway patrol station.
- Ben retains his flashlight after transforming into Chromastone, and absorbs the light to boost his laser’s effectiveness.
- Humungousaur does not grow in size when he sees the tractor beam from the ship.
- Los Soledad was supposed to appear at the end of the episode.[script 2]
