Review by Chris

February 10, 2001

An OZ shuttle lands carrying the survivors of Barge lands at an airport. Nichol disembarks and has the comatose Lady Une taken to a hospital. Treize visits and is told that though her wounds have healed she is still in a coma. He tells her that he must lead the world because it would be too much of a burden for Relena. He gives a speech to the Romefeller Foundation urging the citizens of the World Nation to unite as one and fight off the terrorist White Fang organization. Relena leaves Earth in a shuttle and heads for Libra to talk to Zechs. On Libra, Quinze tells Zechs that the construction has been completed. Zechs tells Quinze to assemble the crew in the main hangar so that they can hear his final speech to Earth. Elsewhere, a group of OZ Tauruses escapes the White Fang to head for Earth. They are surrounded by mobile dolls, and most of them are destroyed. Wufei shows up and begins fighting the dolls. His actions inspire one of the OZ pilots to perform a kamikaze mission and destroy a mobile doll carrier. The Altron is heavily damaged in the battle and floats lifelessly in space. A shuttle picks it up, and Wufei is surprised to find Sally and Heero along with Wing Zero and Heavyarms.

Sally asks Wufei to join them, but he wants to fight on his own. Several mobile doll carriers approach, and Wufei wants to fight them. Heero convinces him not to take the damaged Altron, but to instead use Wing Zero. He warns Wufei about the Zero System and tells him that it will show him his enemies. Wufei attacks the mobile dolls, and the Zero System activates. He sees images of Zechs and Treize, and he concludes that they are his enemies and the obstacles to peace. He also sees the four other Gundam pilots and realizes that his fate is with them. Wufei returns to the shuttle and decides to join them. On Libra, Zechs gives a speech about how history is filled with bloodshed and war. He demands that Treize eliminate Earth or else face a war. As Libra starts up, a shuttle carrying Dorothy approaches. Zechs orders his men to fire at it, but Dorothy tells him a story about a man with two names. He decides to let her live and join him. Elsewhere, Relena's shuttle continues its journey to Libra.

There were a few people in this episode that I didn't expect to see. I never thought I'd see Nichol again because I assumed Lady Une had him executed or something. This time he didn't seem to be the bastard he was before. Speaking of Lady Une, there's a possible continuity glitch here. In the Treize clip show, the ending showed Lady Une standing behind Treize. If she's still in a coma, then that must have been Treize's imagination, or else it's a big error. I still hate Wufei, and this episode shows just how insane he is. While the Zero System drives everyone else insane, it makes him normal because he was already insane. That's just weird. Zechs isn't very good at making demands. He demands that Treize eliminate Earth? That's not something that Treize has the power to do. And what's the deal with Dorothy and her stories about people with two names? She used the same story on Heero. Also, it looks like Relena is taking one really slow shuttle. At the beginning of the episode the shuttle is seen approaching the Moon, and at the end it still is. You'd think space travel would be faster in AC 195.

Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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