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"Storm in the Room" officially aired on February 18, 2017 on Cartoon Network. It is the 16th episode of the fourth season of Steven Universe and the 120th episode overall. The episode was written and story boarded by Colin Howard and Jeff Liu

This episode focuses on Steven and his inner conflict with his feelings in regards to his Mother. He seeks answers in his room in the temple.

Plot
The episode starts off with Connie and Steven talking about her protecting the city while he was gone. As Connie packs to leave, her and Steven joke, and she asks if Greg likes the sign she made. Steven reassures her his dad does, and that Garnet and the other gems are putting it up. As it starts getting darker Connie starts to worry about her mother because she’s late to pick her up, and calls her but gets no answer. Steven tries to reassure her by saying they get to spend more time together, with a bit of convincing, she hesitantly agrees.

The scene moves to later in the night, both Steven and Connie are seen playing a word game, the room is scattered with various games they’ve seemingly played. As Steven starts reading the filled in story they have made Connie becomes noticeably worried, stepping away and calling her mother repeatedly. Steven offers to give her a ride on Lion. Connie reminds him that her mother is never late to things, and that on the off chance that she comes and they are gone, she would stress more. Steven proposes they play another Weird Word Game."  Connie’s words begin growing more morbid. As she takes a deep breath she hears a cry, her mother rushes into the house, and they hug each other tightly. Connie’s mother explains that she had to cover for another doctor and that she lost her charger and as a result her phone died. She apologizes and thanks Steven before leaving.

Steven then goes to shower and make himself dinner, as he sits to eat he looks and gets distracted by the picture of his mother (Rose Quartz). Not wanting to look at the picture he moves outside to enjoy his meal, finding comfort in the light rain, but lightning flashes causing him to have to run back inside. Looking at his rain-soaked dinner and back the painting he starts to wonder if his mother is same good person everyone says she is. He longs to know the real version of his mother, and not the one everyone chooses to tell him about. His gem begins to glow and Rose’s room opens for him.

As Steven enters he greets the room kindly, and asks to see his mom. The room creates a version of Rose, and she walks over to a red-faced Steven and says hello. They shake hands and she asks him what he wants to do. He asks her if she likes video games, and they proceed to play. As she asks him about the game Steven wins and asks her what other activities parents do with their kids. The room creates a football and they proceed to play catch while Steven asks Rose if she likes sports.

After they finish playing Rose asks Steven to sit next to her. Steven admits that he’s been thinking of her a lot more, especially about the stories regarding her kindness and how loving she was. He confesses that when he looks at her picture in the temple he feels inspired, and that he’s thought of dying his hair pink more than once to look like her. Rose reassures him that his hair is perfect the way it is as he rests his head on her leg. Steven comments on how nice it is to be with her and then decides to take a picture with his mom to capture the moment. Once he does though, he looks at the picture and sees he’s the only one in it. It hits him that she isn’t real and only a creation of the room, acting how he wants.

Steven doesn't even know if this is how she acted in real life, he starts to remember how much he’s learned about her. About all she hid. She locked Bismuth away without telling Pearl or Garnet, shattered Pink Diamond causing a gem war, and then just leaving them in the wake of her mistakes. He gets angry realizing that all she did was put those she loved in danger and disappeared.

The entire room swirls into a storm, clouds swirling around, picking up Steven and dropping him down. He yells out that Rose was only a liar. Everyone claimed that she never wanted to hurt anything or anyone, but hurt everyone she cared about instead. Confused on why she would leave the gems and Greg, he stresses that no one knows what to do without her and that they probably didn’t matter as much to her as the secrets she was so intent on hiding. Steven confesses he wonders if that’s the only reason he’s her, so she wouldn’t have to deal with the mess she made.

As he finishes speaking the imaginary Rose begins talking to him, saying he knows that isn’t true. Reminding him of the video she left for him, in which she expressed how happy she was to have him and have him exist. She asks if he thinks everything on that tape was a lie, Steven doesn't think so and knows she meant it. He embraces Rose tightly as rain falls around them, finally understanding she didn't want him to have fix her issues. However as she became apart of him so did the responsibilities she left behind, as he realizes this Rose vanishes.

He exits the room and collapses on the couch. His father (Greg) and the crystal gems walk into the house carrying pizza. Steven is visibly happy to see them. Greg says that the pizza is mushroom as they were out of pepperoni and asks if that’s okay. Steven replies, “It’s perfect.”

References/External Links
List of Steven Universe characters

https://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/steven-universe/storm-in-the-room-episode.html 