Inspector #13

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Inspector #13
General Information
Original broadcast	February 4, 2012
Series	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Details
Season	3
Episode	24 (Production Order) 12 (U.S. Airing Order)
Overall	44
Overall (franchise)	142
Credits
Written by	Geoffrey Thorne
Directed by	Butch Lukic
Episode Guide
Previous episode	Solitary Alignment
Next episode	Enemy of My Frenemy
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Errors

Inspector #13 is the twenty-fourth episode of the third season of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and the forty-fourth episode overall.

Synopsis

A mysterious Techadon Master visits Earth, looking for the Ultimatrix. And he turns out to be more dangerous than any Techadon ever imagined.

Plot

Inspector 13 and Kevin

A Techadon Weaponmaster visits Kevin's garage, looking for an Omnitrix signal. Kevin attacks, ending up unconscious. Gwen later finds him, clad in sports clothes, as they promised Julie they'd help her practice tennis, Kevin points out the need to hunt down the Weaponmaster, as he is a bigger threat than every Techadon they've ever faced combined.

Inspector 13 capturing Ben

Meanwhile, Ben and Julie are playing tennis. Ben isn't doing well, so he transforms into Echo Echo to play better against Julie. Inspector 13 arrives. After Echo Echo transforms back into Ben, Inspector 13 wants to study the Ultimatrix so he captures Ben. He takes Ben on his ship, telling him that he was sent to investigate a series of Techadon unit failures and wishes to reverse engineer the Ultimatrix to revolutionize the weapons industry, so he tries to cut off the Ultimatrix, but Ben tells him that a security measure in the Ultimatrix will cause it to self-destruct if he cuts it off, so Inspector 13 hacks the Ultimatrix instead, easily breaching the security measures and unlocks the Master Control.

Gwen as Diamondhead and Kevin as Jetray

Gwen and Kevin teleport aboard. Gwen destroys the security machines that Inspector 13 sends at them, for they have no defense against Anodite powers, but they are adapting to her. Ben tries transforming, but it backfires, causing Gwen and Kevin to transform into Diamondhead and Jetray respectively. They are released off of the ship, falling down to Earth. Diamondhead encases herself and Jetray in a mana crystal by accident, allowing them to land safely.

Inspector 13's ship is damaged in the battle, so he flies to the Techadon factory in downtown Bellwood to use its technology and materials for repairs. Ben is able to escape into the factory, and the Weaponmaster pursues him. Ben uses some Techadon hands from the incomplete Techadons to try and defeat Inspector 13. In the battle, Gwen and Kevin call Ben and tell him that they want to be transformed back into normal, so Ben transforms them using the Ultimatrix. As Gwen, Kevin and Julie drive to the Techadon factory, Gwen and Kevin are transformed into Clockwork and Wildmutt. Wildmutt is barely able to avoid traffic as he crashes just outside the Techadon factory, which can't be moved. Clockwork remarks that the military has been trying to get into the factory for weeks, with no results. Ben tries to use the Ultimatrix as Inspector 13 captures him. Clockwork is transformed into Humungousaur and Wildmutt into Way Big. Just before they both try to break in the factory, Ben presses the Ultimatrix, causing Humungousaur to transform into Murk Upchuck and Way Big into Nanomech. Murk Upchuck is disgusted by her powers with Nanomech trying to make her eat through the factory wall. She tries to, but the factory repairs itself and is impervious to Murk Upchuck's energy balls.

Gwen as Rath battling the unfinished Techadons

Nanomech flies through the hole Murk Upchuck created before it regenerates after her attack. He attacks Inspector 13 as Murk Upchuck arrives and eats the bonds holding Ben. She and Nanomech are transformed into Rath and Ampfibian, respectively, and start destroying the Techadons, as Ben uses voice command mode to make the Ultimatrix recognize him, transform Rath back into Gwen and Ampfibian back to Kevin. Ben transforms into Four Arms, and punches Inspector 13, defeating him. Ben, Gwen and Kevin force the ship to take off, and Ben, Gwen, Kevin and Julie return to downtown Bellwood.

Gwen tells Ben that since she and Kevin got Ben's powers, Ben might have gotten Gwen and Kevin's powers during that time. Ben feels so frustrated that he fought the Techadon master with his human skills instead of seeing if he had Anodite and Osmosian powers while he had the chance.

Noteworthy Events

Major Events

• The Master Control is unlocked on the Ultimatrix, but is soon re-locked when Ben resets it.

Character Debut

• Inspector 13

Ultimatrix Alien Debut

• Clockwork

Minor Events

• Echo Echo's species is revealed to be Sonorosian.

Characters

• Ben Tennyson
• Gwen Tennyson
• Kevin Levin
• Julie Yamamoto

Villains

• Inspector 13 (first appearance)
• Techadon Robots

Aliens Used

By Ben

• Echo Echo
• Terraspin
• Four Arms (selected alien was Rath; cameo)

By Gwen

• Diamondhead
• Clockwork (first appearance)
• Humungousaur
• Murk Upchuck
• Rath

By Kevin

• Jetray
• Wildmutt
• Way Big
• Nanomech
• Ampfibian

Quotes

Ben: (just as Inspector 13's blade is about to cut his hand off) You cut it off me and BOOM! Inspector 13: Boom? Please define "boom".

(Gwen moans) Kevin: (to Gwen) Are you okay? Ben: I'm not! I'm strapped to a torture table!

Gwen: (After being turned into Diamondhead and looks at Kevin who is now Jetray) Kevin? Kevin: (Who discovered that Diamondhead is really Gwen) Gwen? Ben: (annoyed) Aw, come on!

Hacking system: Accessing Galvan code. Ben: Ha! Good luck hacking the Ultimatrix. You'll never... Ultimatrix: Firewall 1 breach. Firewall 2 breach. Firewall 3 breach. Ben: Yeah, okay, but there's no way you get Master Control Access. Ultimatrix: Master Control Access: Granted.

Ben: Boy, am I stupid. Rath (Gwen): LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, BENJAMIN KIRBY TENNYSON! EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT!

Naming and Translations

Language	Name	Origin
Hungarian	A 13-as Számú Nyomozó	Detective Number 13
Italian	L'Ispettore Numero 13	Inspector Number 13
Polish	Inspektor Numer 13	Inspector Number 13
Portuguese (Br)	Inspetor 13	Inspector 13
Romanian	Inspectorul 13	Inspector 13
Spanish (HA)	Inspector 13	Inspector 13
Spanish (Spain)	Inspector 13	Inspector 13

Cast

Voice Actor	Role(s)
Yuri Lowenthal	Ben Tennyson Ultimatrix
Ashley Johnson	Gwen Tennyson Diamondhead Clockwork Humungousaur Upchuck Rath
Greg Cipes	Kevin Levin Jetray Wildmutt Way Big Nanomech Ampfibian
Dee Bradley Baker	Echo Echo Terraspin Four Arms Inspector 13
Vyvan Pham	Julie Yamamoto Computer

Continuity

• Ben mentions that the Omnitrix was destroyed, referring to the events of The Final Battle: Part 2.
• When Inspector 13 pitches the idea of an army with soldiers each in command of their own Omnitrix, Ben replies saying "Been there, done that", referring to Secrets.
• The Techadon factory is still stuck in Bellwood after the events of Greetings From Techadon.

Errors

• After Inspector 13 opens the garage door, Kevin's car appears next to him.
• When Gwen appears in Kevin's garage, she has a sweat band on her left wrist. When Kevin tells her to power up, the sweatband is gone.
• After Inspector 13's ship arrives, the Echo Echos' rackets are gone.
• After the ship lands, the net disappears, and not only does an Echo Echo disappear, but Julie is also on their side. In the next shot, the second Echo Echo disappears.
• When Inspector 13 lifts Ben's left arm, the Ultimatrix's dial faces the wrong way.
• In one shot when Julie punches the ship, the door is gone.
• Inspector 13 says "No one has seen us and lived" although he knew Kevin and Julie had tried fighting him and survived.
• When Ben is strapped to the torture table, the position of the shackle on his left hand keeps changing. For a while, the Ultimatrix is partially inside the shackle, then it comes out and goes back in.
• Several times on Inspector 13's ship, Kevin's armor changes color.
• In one shot when Diamondhead is falling, the shards on her back are missing.
• When Diamondhead tries to form a mana bubble, the shard on the back of her head is colored green like her crystals.
• After Kevin's car crashes, Clockwork's left foot disappears.
• Ben mentions Goop as a bad option to fight a Techadon Robot despite having defeated one with Goop in The Gauntlet.
• When Ben activates the Ultimatrix to turn Gwen into Rath, his hologram initially faces him, but in the next shot, it faces away from him.
• When Gwen as Rath tears off the head of the Techadon Robots, there are four fingers on her head.

Kevin's car is gone

Gwen's sweatband is gone

The rackets are gone

An Echo Echo and net disappears

Ultimatrix dial error

The door disappears

Inside the shackle

Outside the shackle

Bluish metal armor

Greenish metal armor

Missing shards

Miscolored head shard

Missing foot

Hologram error

Rath with four fingers

Trivia

• The episode's title is listed as Inspector 13 within the episode itself and on iTunes, and Inspector #13 on the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: The Ultimate Ending DVD, the Cartoon Network website, Amazon Prime Video and by Geoffrey Thorne himself.
• According to Derrick J. Wyatt, Echo Echo being able to duplicate the things he is holding was born from a glitch in the Ultimatrix.
  • However, it is unknown if this is canon as Matt Wayne seemed to be unaware of the existence of glitch powers.
• Inspector 13's plasma cage and Gwen's powers scrambled the Ultimatrix into thinking Kevin and Gwen were both Ben, and so the device transformed them both.
• The reason Gwen as Diamondhead created mana colored crystal instead of mana energy is because the energy in the Techadon factory scrambled her powers.
• Ben was lying when he said the Ultimatrix would self-destruct if his arm was cut off.
• Inspector 13 didn't use custom-made Techadon Robots against Ben because it takes a while to build them.
• Despite Gwen telling Ben that he may have had her and Kevin's powers, that was not necessarily the case.
• Clockwork debuted in an off-screen adventure before this episode.
• Geoffrey Thorne chose all the aliens who appeared in the episode, except for Clockwork.
• Inspector 13 referred to some aliens by the names of their home planets (e.g.: Geochelone Aerios as "Aldabran" and Human as "Terran"). However he also used their proper names such as "Sonorosian".
• The aliens Gwen transformed into didn't have a female appearance like they did in Gwen 10 and future episodes where Gwen had the Omnitrix.
  • In the Latin American dub, Humongosaur's and Rath's voices remained the exact same as when used by Ben.
• The cold open and the scene following the intro were storyboarded by Aluir Amancio.
• There is a deleted scene storyboarded by Dalton Grant Jr., where Ben tries to fend off Inspector 13 and is captured by metal tentacles, only to break free using Rath. A similar scene appears in the final version of the episode, but Ben is saved by Kevin as Nanomech.