"The Race to Escape, Part 1", known as "Terror of Gatling Ogre" in the Japanese version, is the eighty-ninth episode of the animeYu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. It first aired in Japan on December 16, 2009 and in the United States on December 11, 2010.

After a brief fight, Yusei grabs Kalin and escapes from the mine. Upon escaping, they reach a graveyard, where Kalin recognizes the "graves" of those who were defeated in duels and forced to go to the mine, realizing everything here is his own doing, shocking him.

West and Nico show up, saying that a Duel Runner might be necessary for 2 people at once to get out of town, delivering Yusei his Duel Runner.

When Yusei tries to help the people sent to the mine, Lawton appears and makes his assault. Wanting to save Kalin and the others, Yusei has a Turbo Duel against Lawton. In the meantime, Kalin starts an uprising to escape the mine.

Featured DuelsEdit

Yusei vs. LawtonEdit

Turn 1: Lawton
(Lawton's SPC: 0; Yusei's SPC: 0)
Lawton draws "Skill Successor". Lawton's hand contains "Explosive Wall", "Narrow Tunnel", "Barrel Behind the Door", "Secret Barrel", "Skill Successor", and "Gatling Ogre". Lawton Normal Summons "Gatling Ogre" (800/800) in Attack Position. He then prepares to set five cards, so he can perform his FTK strategy, but Yusei then activates the effect of "Effect Veiler", sending it from his hand to the Graveyard to negate "Gatling Ogre's" effects until the End Phase. Lawton then sets 5 cards face-down in his Spell & Trap Card Zones and ends his turn.

Turn 2: Yusei
(Lawton's SPC: 1; Yusei's SPC: 1)
Yusei draws "Sonic Chick". Yusei's hand contains "Max Warrior", "Desperate Tag", "Quickdraw Synchron", and "Return Marker". He then sends "Sonic Chick" from his hand to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Quickdraw Synchron" (700/1400) in Attack Position. When this monster is used for a Synchro Summon, he can treat its name as the name of any Synchron Tuner Monster. Yusei intends to perform a Synchro Summon, so he can destroy "Gatling Ogre, however Lawton then activates the Trap Card "Narrow Tunnel". Now both players can only summon one monster onto their side of the field once a turn and if they control more than one monster, they must destroy monsters they control until they control only one. Yusei then sets 2 cards face-down in his Spell & Trap Card Zones and ends his turn.

Turn 3: Lawton
(Lawton's SPC: 2; Yusei's SPC: 2)
Lawton draws "Full Armor Ogre". He then activates the effect of "Gatling Ogre", sending the 4 set cards in his Spell & Trap Card Zone to the Graveyard (The 4 cards are "Explosive Wall", "Barrel Behind the Door", "Secret Barrel" and "Skill Successor") to inflict 800 damage to Yusei for each card sent this way. With four sent this way, Yusei takes the effect of "Gatling Ogre" four times, for a total of 3200 damage (Yusei 4000 → 3200 → 2400 → 1600 → 800). Lawton then Tributes "Gatling Ogre" to summon "Full Armor Ogre" (1600/1600) in Attack Position. "Full Armor Ogre" attacks and destroys "Quickdraw Synchron". Yusei then activates "Desperate Tag", reducing the Battle Damage he would take to 0 and letting Yusei Special Summon "Max Warrior" from his hand (1800//800) in Attack Position at the end of the Damage Step. Since "Full Armor Ogre" destroyed a monster by battle, its effect activates, inflicting 1000 damage to Yusei, but Yusei activates his Trap "Return Marker", negating the effect of "Full Armor Ogre" and inflicting damage to Lawton equal to "Full Armor Ogre's" ATK (Lawton 4000 → 2400). Lawton ends his turn.

Turn 4: Yusei
(Lawton's SPC: 3; Yusei's SPC: 3)
Yusei draws "Turret Warrior". He then tributes "Max Warrior" to Special Summon "Turret Warrior" (1200/2000) in Attack Position. Due to the effect of "Turret Warrior", it gains ATK equal to the ATK of "Max Warrior" ("Turret Warrior": 1200 → 3000/2000). "Turret Warrior" attacks and destroys "Full Armor Ogre" (Lawton 2400 → 1000). Since "Full Armor Ogre" was sent from the field to the Graveyard, its effect activates, allowing Lawton to Special Summon "Gatling Ogre" from the Graveyard (800/800) in Attack Position. Yusei ends his turn. Lawton intends to draw either a Speed Spell or a Trap Card on his next Draw Phase. If it's a Speed Spell, Lawton can use the effect of "Speed World 2" to remove 4 Speed Counters and inflict 800 damage to Yusei for each Speed Spell in his hand. If it's a Trap, he will set it and use the effect of "Gatling Ogre" to send the set card to the Graveyard and inflict 800 damage to Yusei.

Continued next episode...

Featured cardsEdit

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

ErrorsEdit

• In the dub, a shot of Lawton's opening hand shows the card "Barrel Behind the Door" with its unedited Japanese artwork. Interestingly, this is the second time this same error has been made with the same card in the space of only a few episodes, as a few episodes earlier the Guard Robot drew "Barrel Behind the Door", again featuring the unedited Japanese artwork, rather than the English artwork.

Differences in adaptationsEdit

• In the dub, the bullets that "Gatling Ogre" fires are recolored purple and the sounds effects are laser-like. Oddly, the bullet fired by "Full Armor Ogre" remains unedited.

ExtrasEdit

In the opening credits there was another 10th Anniversary Movie preview and then revealed a corrupted version of "Rainbow Dragon".