Return of the King

"Return of the King" is the first episode of the American animated television series ''The Alpha Squad. ''It originally aired on Nickelodeon on April 15, 2000, following the 2000 Kids' Choice Awards. The episode was directed by series creator Conner Jones and was written by Jones and Kate Boutilier.

Summary
Taking place one year after the events of The King of Heroes, the city of Highwell has been lacking criminal activity, and Tyler Thompson and his friends are trying to find a criminal to fight, so that the Alpha Squad can make a comeback.

Plot
One year after defeating Nathaniel Barnes and saving the world, the city Highwell has been experiencing a "crime dry spell" in which people haven't been committing any crime. Tyler Thompson is eager to save the city once again as the King of Heroes and wants his friends/teammates, Mikey, Kylie, Sammy, and Ollie, to be alongside him as the Alpha Squad. He convinces them to go on patrol with them and they agree to do so. Later that night, they spend three hours looking for crime, but no crimes occur and the team gets mad at Tyler for wasting their time. Following this incident, Tyler decides to try different activities to take his mind off the lack of crime in the city.

Meanwhile, a group of robbers who call themselves the "Brash Bandits" plan to rob the First National Bank of Highwell and use the money to skip town. They also believe that they can get away with the crime easily because nobody has seen the Alpha Squad in over a year. Back at his house, Tyler is in his room, trying to take his mind off of the crime dry spell by reading books. As he does this, he watches the news and sees the Brash Bandits robbing the bank. Tyler tries to tell his friends, but they refuse to come with him because of what happened the previous night. As a result, Tyler reluctantly goes to bank by himself.

Tyler arrives at the bank as the King of Heroes and manages to take down a couple of the robbers, but there were too many robbers for him to handle. Luckily for Tyler, the rest of the Alpha Squad arrive and they help him take Tyler defeat the rest of the Brash Bandits. After the bandits get arrested, Tyler's friends apologize to him for their refusal to help him earlier and promise to work as a team from now on. The episode ends with the Alpha Squad heading out to find more criminals to defeat.

Production
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VHS
This episode was featured on the VHS release of The Alpha Squad: Return of the King,

DVD
This episode was featured on the DVD release of The Alpha Squad: Return of the King and Hilarious Heroes, and the DVD release of The Alpha Squad: The Complete First Season.

Blu-ray
This was included with all the other episodes and movies on the Blu-ray release of The Alpha Squad: One Heroic Collection.

Trivia

 * Not only was this the first episode of The Alpha Squad, this was also the first double-length (22-minute long) episode of the series.