Quote Originally Posted by random11 View Post
Good writer: The guards are smart and the safety protocols are good, but the villain somehow outsmarts them, forcing the heroes to chase and capture him again.

Lazy writer: The guards are stupid and the villain escapes easily, forcing the heroes to capture him again.

Writer with no idea what he is doing: The guards are smart and manage to prevent escape, leaving the hero to do something completely different, and making the entire scene pointless.
I'm guessing that sequence was meant as foreshadowing - there's something weird going on (getting the key caused her to wake up, despite being in an entirely different star system), and the guards just notified the Shadowy Government OrganizationTM.