Police Action, Part 1 During a meeting, Prowl and the other Autobots on Earth recruit Pennington for their investigation work. Later, Spike Witwicky comes to Prowl, asking him to do something about Ben Simpson and his spreading mistrust for the Transformer race on television. He refuses, and upon learning that Spike is going away for some time, decides to spy on him. Meanwhile, Jazz asks Bumblebee for permission to hunt down the remaining Decepticons on Earth, but is denied due to his killing of a human last time he was in the field.
Prowl secretly tails Spike around Albuquerque, but spots nothing out of the ordinary. Suddenly, Breakdown shows up and tries to run down Witwicky, and Prowl is forced into action. Streetwise chases the Decepticon off, but breaks protocol by transforming into robot mode in the process, earning both cops a chewing-out from Ultra Magnus once they return to base. Prowl takes this opportunity to tell Magnus about his suspicions of both Ben Simpson and of a Decepticon conspiracy, but is told to stick to one investigation—Spike's.
Following orders, Prowl travels to the place where Scrapper was killed, where he discovers liquefied remains of the Decepticon's face. His suspicions are raised, as the weapon that killed Scrapper shouldn't have been able to melt any part of him, but when he's busy taking a sample he's suddenly hit by an explosive shell. As he tries to crawl away, more shells hit the building, which begins to collapse on him...
