The target audience for these summmaries are those people who haven't seen it all, but are so hooked they have-to-have-it-all-NOW. You know who you are. Don't mind my dry sarcasm, and I'll try to keep my personal comments separate.
Please note that more often than not, all 'quotes' are paraphrases- not exact quotes.
Sousuke watches, with a serious face, as she's taken by the medical team.
*Deep Trap*
The rescue helicopter takes off, and Kurtz and officer Liang approach Sousuke. They try to be cheerful, telling him everything will be alirght, considering how tough Melissa is.
Dannigan walks by in the background, and looks away.
McKaren tells Sousuke not to worry, and good job...
Sousuke still has a serious face.
Gaulun is in custody, and Kalanin meets him. Gaulun is fake-friendly with his greeting. Kalanin wants to know what Gaulun is up to, and of course, Gaulun plays innocent (with his un-innocent smirk). Kalanin coldly explains to Glaun that he will definately kill Gaulun, after Mithril has gotten needed information from him. Not only does Gaulun not worry about this, but he makes his typical smartass jokes as he's taken away...
Kalanin stands firm as Gaulun purposefully pushes past him.
Kalanin issues the final clean up orders, and says he will have to meet with the Americans. Kalanin talks with McKaren, expressing his suspicions-
Gaulun isn't an easy man to capture or kill. Despite his casual atttiude, he's deadly serious, and McKaren wonders if it's a plan to keep Mithril's attention away from some bigger event. Kalanin doesn't know, but is sure Gaulun has his own escape plan.
They watch as crew members evaluate Venom, Kalanin and orders Gaulun into total isolation, and that he should be treated as a wild, dangerous animal.
Kaname is in the hallway, watching the returning officers.
She's very upset to see Melissa rushed by, but the medical officer cheerfuly reassures her, saying Melissa's only suffered a concussion and minor cracked ribs. She tells Kaname that Melissa is as strong as a wild young horse.
Kaname tries to feel relieved, but just then a silent, heavy stepping Sousuke walks past her...
She calls to him but he doesn't answer. She tries walking with him, but he doesn't respond...
In the locker room he sits, downcast, and clearly upset/depressed. Unable to just leave him alone Kaname approaches timidly, and he tells her he's ashamed of making a mistake and can't go with the others at the moment. He angrily pulls on his hair...
Kaname asks if anyone died,and he says no...she tries to use this as an argument for everything will be alright, to encourage him, but he resists the attempt and tells her not to be so casual. He goes on to blame himself for Melissa's injury, and is angry that he could have gotten her killed....him and that stupid Arm-Slave (the ARX).
He says he couldn't initate the LD, and goes on to rant about how stupid such a thing is as a weapon, needing emotions and mental imaging and all.
He curses it's creator...
Kaname sits, some distance away but not far, and carefully suggests that he rest a little bit. Maybe Sousuke's just tired, like from before. She quietly chatters about how Kurtz is worried too, and Sousuke finally looks at her, but then he looks away with a hard face and insists he's not tired.
Kaname says she doesn't think that really seems like him, and he bursts out with how she doesn't know him well enough to know what that he should be like. He goes on, saying he was just normal, just a ordinay soldier, just doing ordinary things with ordinary equipment- but that since that kidnapping, how awful everything has gotten. Gaulun, the ARX, the desert- and protecting Kaname...it's all just awful!
Kaname jumps up angrily, and tells him that if it were up to her, she wouldn't have anything to do with him at all! She yells at him to quit, if it's all so annoying. He yells back that he can't because he's the only one who can be successful. He tells her maybe *shes* the one who's too tired, ans she interrupts him with a denial of that, and tells him she's worried. He's quiet but hard, when he tells her he understands, and that she can leave now.
She backs off, and runs out of the room.
Kurtz and Laing are outside the door- Kaname pushes past them, fleeing, and they see her tears. Both men confirm that they saw them...
Inside the room, Sousuke looks up when Kurtz says his name- and suddenly he's flying into the wall from Kurtz's fierce punch.
Laing has to hold back Kurtz as Sousuke asks him what he's doing... Kurtz shows his anger as he apologizes but says he just had to hit him. Kurtz hates to watch Sousuke trying to be a 'hero'.
Sousuke doesn't get much of a change to counter, and the two are facing off as Kurtz explains to him how Sousuke's acting like a kid and saying awful things to a girl. He curses at Sousuke, and compares him to violent husbands.
Laing seems kinda embrassed....
Kurtz still doesn't let Sousuke finish speaking...and tells him what an idiot he is for making someone as great as Kaname is cry...Kurtz goes on a little more, but Sousuke's changed- he's surprised that Kaname cried. Kurtz shuts up and the two stare- finally Kurtz gives a 'Humph!'and explains to Sousuke that sometimes bad stuff just happens- it can't always be prevented. Sousuke just watches, and Kurtz demands to know if Sousuke's planning on doing everything himself but only gets a reaction when he yells at Sousuke to not be so arrogant. Kurtz walks off in a huff...
On the bridge- Tessa has received a report that there hadn't been anything wrong with Venom. It's been secured and isn't expected to cause any trouble. There is a self-destruct device that could pose a problem, but only if someone messes with it. Tessa has to be prodded (she's elsewhere mentally), but she says that the Venom will be dealt with at the base and dismisses the reporting officer.
Tessa requests a few moments to talk privately with Marducas...
Another submarine, another bridge.
The captian has received a transmission that states that the 'Toy Box' will be in his vincinity within 12 hours, and to collect data on it if possible. The captian seems rather pissed off. His second tries to calm him down with a reasonable voice, but implies they are in this situation because of a previous mistake.
The captian, pretty calm now, relates a childhood story-
He was once captian of a little leauge baseball team. On this team he had a player who was pretty worthless. He did his best to minimize this player- and deliberatly embrassing him for any mistake made. He says that now he thinks this must have been what that player felt when he was being punished for messing up.
The second makes a comment about what a boring story, and the captian shows his temper yet again...
Depressed Kaname is hanging out in the mess hall kitchen.
The other dude is trying to cheer her up, offering her snacks, but she's not hungry. He suggests maybe she go back to Tessa's quarters and take a nap, but she says she doesn't want to go back there.
he tries to reassure her a little more (trying to convince her to go do some things to make herself feel better) but her response is just to ask if he would rather she left.
He says no....
But after a moment she leaves anyway.
Meanwhile Sousuke's looking for her. We see several shots of him asking around, but noone he speaks with knows her whereabouts-
Kaname's wandering by herself somewhat aimlessly...
Both look very down.
Finally Kaname makes her way to the hanger, where it's quiet and she's alone.
She remembers she has Kyouko's camera with her, and goes to take a snapshop of the EQ there, but stops...
Sousuke's in the kitchen, clearly learning she had been there but left...
She's reviewing past images still stored in the camera...
a lot of her laughing with Kyouko, groups of classmates...ocassionally Sousuke's in one, and finally she stops at an image of herself with him in the background, looking serious as normal....
Suddenly she switches it off, and stands...
She's running through the halls...
Sousuke's running too, looking...
Gaulun is totally strapped in, held entirely immobile by a straightjacket, and is being guarded by two officers, Dannigan and Laing.
Laing yawns, and Dannigan reprimands him to be on alert. Laing wonders what Gaulun could do, being held as securely as he is. Gaulun smirks.
Dannigan explains their job is to be ready for any kind of thing to happen at any time... Laing wonders 'like what' as Dannigan raises his gun....and aims at Laing's head.
'something like this?' Dannigan asks, as he silently blows the poor guy's brains out.
Gaulun, freed from his restraints, tells Dannigan he wasn't sure how long he was going to have to sit like that. Dannigan says he wasn't sure about it himself, but that he'd been decided on this since the last mission. He tells Gaulun he's pretty nervous about this whole thing...
(aside- if Gaulun was ugly in the AS suit, he's even uglier in his thermal style underwear! EW!)
Gaulun thanks him, and asks his name....Dannigan introduces himself as John Dannigan.
Gaulun smiles his awful smile, and very chummily says 'thank you John' while drawing out 'John' in a very rude, mocking manner.
Dannigan is annoyed, and tells him not to be so friendly! He isn't allowing Gaulun to call him John...
Gaulun laughs, and asks him if he doesn't plan on following any of Gaulun's orders, and Dannigan says 'you got it!'. Then he makes the mistake of turning his back on Gaulun. (was the 'wild animal' description not passed on to him??)
Suddenly Dannigan is on the ground, and Gaulun's taken his gun. Gaulun aims it at Dannigan's face and gloats about how easily 'Jooohnn' was surprised... and makes fun of the guy (Gaulun shows some of his most terrible expressions here).
Dannigan swears at him some more, so Gaulun aims the gun at Dannigan's...um...most private personal equipment.
Suddenly (sweating) Dannigan is willing to agree with Gaulun...He promises he won't cause any more trouble, and will obey his orders.
Gaulun's now in the standard Mithril uniform, and the two men sneak through the halls on the way to the bridge.
Suddenly they are stopped...McKaren is aiming at them. He expresses surprise that one of them could be a traitor, but was prepared because of Kalanin's warning.
Gwen comes up from behind, and McKaren orders him to summon the others. But Gwen doesn't act as ordered- he shoots McKaren dead instead.
Gwen was the other traitor. He seems pretty cheerful, and requests a bonus from Gaulun...
right when Kaname (looking for Sousuke) runs in. She stops, shocked by what she's seeing (Gwen dragging a bloody body)...and Gaulun grins.
Suddenly Gwen launches himself at Kaname, and she takes off running, but he grabs her hair and she falls back into him- he slams her head into the wall and tells her basically to play nice, or she'll suffer some permanent physical damage.
Dannigan wants to kill her, to prevent her from causing trouble, but Gaulun denies it- saying she's very special and he wants her alive.
Gaulun moves in close to her, and chummily asks her if she's been well- if school's been good.
The bridge crew jumps up but Tessa orders them to stop when the three men, with Kaname as hostage, enter the bridge.
Gaulun shows his pleasure at Tessa's intelligence.
He tells everyone to behave, or bad things will happen to the 'cute captian'. Kaname joins the 'cute captian', and Tessa asks her if she's alright. She says she is, but that a solider had been killed...
Gaulun orders Tessa to change the Daanan's heading, and she refuses. Gaulun threatens an officer- Kaname makes a loud protest but Tessa holds her back- the officer tells Tessa not to give in, but Tessa decides to comply at the last moment, explaining its only a change in heading. She orders the change.
Gaulun has examined the computer equipment, and explains he had anticipated resistance, so he brought a backup plan.
He holds up a cd labeled 'Toy Box', and tells them that Dannigan and Gwen aren't the only ones working for him. He says that even officers in Mithril Headquarters are able to be bought- and that Mithril, as an orgnaization, doesn't have that much intregty.
He loads in the cd, and the bridge screens switch from blue to red- and the AI voice welcomes 'Captian Gaulun'.
Tessa is in disbelief, and Gaulun orders an emergency evacuation drill.
All around the sub an alarm sounds as an announcement is made ordering the crew to evacuate to the hanger. The crew is surprised at such poor timing for a drill, but runs as ordered.
Sousuke runs in the opposite direction...but is stopped by an officer.
An emergency door is closing behind the man as Sousuke tries to quickly explain he's looking for Kaname, but the man tells him he can't allow Sousuke to go past- since everyone behind the closed doors will be considered failed evacuees and dead. It's an order-
Sousuke thinks a moment about Kaname, and then defies that order, and dives past the man and underneath the door just as it slams shut.
He gets up, only to discover Kurtz up ahead, who teases Sousuke for violating orders. Kurtz says he's there only because he doesn't like doing the same thing everyone else is doing, and says that he was suprised somneone like Sousuke behaved the same way.
Sousuke cuts him off, saying there must be something wrong, and Kurtz agrees. They set off together...
On the bridge the evacuation is reported as complete. Kaname, with angry confidence, takes Tessa's hand, and whispers to her that they can't lose.
Although looking uncertian, Tessa half smiles...
End
