Review by Chris

December 1, 2000

At the New Edwards base, Trowa destroys a group of Leos and Tragos that are attacking him. He and Wufei proceed to an aircraft hangar and find it booby trapped with explosives. Wufei proceeds anyway and sets off all the explosives. Moments later, he and Trowa both take off in mobile suit carriers. Nearby, Duo and Quatre fight off the Leos themselves because Heero is still consumed in thinking about killing Noventa. Elsewhere, Treize's plane lands on a ship. Lady Une tells him that she assigned Zechs to capture the Alliance base in Luxembourg. When she asks about the Gundams, Treize says he will leave their destruction to her. She contacts a nearby OZ base and tells them to activate the self detonation devices of the missiles at the New Edwards base. On a nearby plane, Sally intercepts the OZ transmission about the missiles. She orders her planes to land at the New Edwards base. Sally and her forces take over the control room. Nearby, Heero is hit and just lets his Gundam take a beating, which forces Duo and Quatre to protect him. Sally contacts Heero, and he flies over to the missile silo. He slices the silo open with his beam saber and goes inside. At the last second, he manually deactivates the missiles. He curses himself for botching his mission.

In Luxembourg, Zechs holds the commander of the base at gunpoint. He accuses him of war crimes during the destruction of the Sanc Kingdom. The commander recognizes him as Milliardo Peacecraft and pulls out a gun. Zechs shoots first instead. Out on the ocean, Lady Une tells Treize how she failed to destroy the Gundams with her plan. He tells her that she can't go detonating bombs on Earth. Two cargo planes from the New Edwards base request clearance to land, and she recognizes them as being Gundams. Trowa slams his plane into a ship and exits the plane on Heavyarms. Wufei slams his plane into another and attacks with the Shenlong. Trowa jumps onto Lady Une's ship, and she has her Leos attack. She orders one to catapult toward him and knock him into the sea so that the Cancers can destroy him. Wufei heads for Treize's ship, and Lady Une attacks him with a Leo. She holds out until he severs one of the Leo's arms. Treize's ship hails Wufei and allows him to come over. Wufei exits the Shenlong and begins a sword fight with Treize. Treize quickly beats him, and Wufei promises to keep coming back until he kills him. He then jumps into the ocean in shame.

Surprisingly, this was another good episode. Looks like Heero is still pissed off about being lured into killing Noventa. Lady Une continues to show what an evil bitch she is with her underhanded tactics. She was willing to destroy a base full of soldiers just to get the Gundams. A funny note in this episode is that when Heero is crawling around to turn off the missiles, he sees a display that says 'Intel Outside' on it. There's also some interesting revelations for Zechs, as it is revealed that he is really Milliardo Peacecraft, which makes him Relena's brother. I feel sorry for any man who has her as a sister.

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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