Episode 04: Daylight
Posted by: Anonymous Club Officer in Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid, SummariesI loved this episode. The fight scenes are quite literally breathtaking. Mao is cornered by one of the twins, Xia Yu Lan, who turns out to be a spectacularly skilled dual sword wielder. Despite her own admirable skills, Mao is a bit out of her league, and lucks out when a large number of other foot soldiers show up and force Xia Yu Lan to retreat.
Xia Yu Fang, the other sister, shows her own skills off through an AS fight with Kurtz. Like Mao, Kurtz finds himself at a disadvantage to Fang, and eventually has his M9’s arm cut off by Fang’s giant AS sword. He does manages to throw in a couple of his own punches, though, but eventually makes a retreat.
Sousuke, of course, works his way out of Gates’ ambush. Unfortunately, he finds that he is unable to harm Venom, due to the enemy AS’s lambda driver.
Mao takes it upon herself to lead the captives to safety, and both her teammates try to help out. The problem is that the enemy obviously knows Mithril’s moves before they are actually executed, and all around just makes life difficult for our heroes. It turns out that Vincent Blueno has been rerouting communications to Gates through a transceiver. Tessa begins to suspect foul play, and decides to use a random statement that an officer had made during the briefing for this mission as a clever code:
“All Cretans are liars”
With the help of her second officer, Tessa manages to relay the exact inverse of her true orders to the Mithril troops, a ploy which really confuses the enemy. Blueno understands what is going on, but can’t believe it, because it sounds so difficult to do. Tessa sends troops to check up on him, but Blueno manages to escape before he can be caught.
In the meantime, Gates finds himself cornered by the Mithril AS’s, but doesn’t have a problem due to his damn lambda driver. Sousuke jumps directly into the fray with his Arbalest, but can’t get his own lambda driver to work. Luckily, Venom overheats, and Gates is forced to retreat (which he does by flooding the tunnels with water). Everyone makes it out safely, but Sousuke is obviously very upset about his inability to handle the lambda driver.
The Xia Yu sisters comfort each other on the top of a distant building. They talk about how disappointed they were about not being able to capture the Arbalest, and also mention their “sensei” again. (They did this before in episode 2).
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