Review by Chris

January 30, 2001

Quatre's derelict Leo is found floating near a colony. He wakes up and is told by a young female doctor that he needs to recover. He asks for a shuttle, but she agrees to do so only if he rests. At Barge, a large mobile suit is detected coming in from Earth. Trowa believes it to be the Tallgeese, and he wants to test the Vayeate and Mercurius over Nichol's objections. She allows him to take the suits and let Heero be the pilot of one of them. Trowa says that since Heero fought Zechs in Siberia, this would be the continuation of that fight. In the even Heero tries something with the Mercurius, Trowa has the ability to activate the self detonation device from the Vayeate. They launch with a squad of Taurus mobile dolls. Trowa asks Heero how he would fight a mobile doll, and Heero sneaks up behind one and destroys it. He destroys several more and Trowa tells him to stop. The Tallgeese is located, and the mobile dolls are sent to attack it. Zechs finds his reaction time is slower in space. He is able to destroy several mobile dolls, but most of them are destroyed by Trowa and Heero. They corner him, and he surrenders. He leaves the cockpit and finds Heero waiting for him with a gun.

Quatre arrives at his family's space colony. He gets into an argument with his father, who is a staunch pacifist and objected to Quatre fighting with a Gundam. It also turns out that the doctor is one of his 29 sisters. His father negotiates unsuccessfully with the colony leaders, who want OZ to have jurisdiction. They vote to remove the Winner family from their position as leaders of the colony. Quatre reviews Instructor H's files and decides to build a new Gundam. His sister asks what point there would be in that because people hate the Gundams now. She tells him how on TV a Gundam was recently destroyed. In the streets, people protest for the Winner family to end their monopoly and cruel rule. Quatre's father disconnects the asteroid satellite from the colony. The local OZ forces decide to retaliate. Quatre in his sister get in a shuttle to convince their father to escape, but he says that by dying he is escaping. The colony fires on the asteroid and destroys it. Quatre cries out in anger and laughs maniacally about getting revenge. Elsewhere, Zechs is taken into a colony.

Gee, a Quatre episode. I have one question to raise that's been bothering me: how could Quatre possibly be Arabian?! He's a blonde pretty boy. His sister is a blonde pretty girl, and his father dresses like a space pirate. That just doesn't make any sense. And what was the point of Quatre's father sacrificing himself? All it achieved was driving Quatre insane. When a wussy goes insane, watch out. And what's with Heero and Trowa being pilots for OZ? Aside from destroying a few mobile dolls, they don't seem to be accomplishing much. Maybe they thought they could copy Zechs and do the same as him. Unfortunately, they forgot the masks.

Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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