Friday-Monday sets a trap for our dynamic duo-lite (I still consider Margaret & Madlax to be Shin Noir) when they go to turn over the data to the Nafreece government, and Madlax and Vanessa are captured and taken to an odd stage that has been constructed to look like that battleground that the freaky kids hang out at. Friday-Monday is getting all hot and bothered in front of Madlax as he questions her about the location of Secondary, but in the end, Madlax leaves him high and dry. The Enfan goons move in to clean up the mess, only to find that their boss made the mistake of putting Madlax in an evening gown. As expected, Madlax makes short work of the soldiers. She even does a short successful stint as a naked assassin, but for the very last soldier, Vanessa has to bail Madlax out by shooting a soldier who had been camping (damn campers!) the whole time.
Vanessa gets all upset at first, but then Madlax tells her the solder isn’t dead. Quite frankly, Vanessa was lucky to even hit him in the arm. Then Vanessa asks Madlax to teach her to shoot. Clearly, carting around Vanessa is making Madlax slow, and the duo falls into another trap, albeit a very well-planned one. This time they are saved when Rimerda shoots her teammates in order to be the one to kill Madlax. Madlax messes with Rimerda’s mind by throwing her the data disc and telling her how Enfan has been the one continuing the war. Then Madlax and Vanessa are back to running for their lives, as Enfan has spread an absurd news story blaming the duo for murdering a member of the royal family. Meanwhile, Margaret finally makes it to Gazth-Sonika, with Elinor and Carossur in tow.
I found the Friday-Monday Secondary fetish scene kinda disturbing. That guy is seriously creepy. I noticed they declined to provide Madlax with underwear when they set up the whole elaborate battlefield scene. And if Vanessa was so upset at first, why does she want to learn to shoot properly later? Seems like hypocrisy to me. Either way, things are starting to move a lot faster now, and maybe by next episode, we will finally get to see Margaret and Madlax meet. Maybe.
With the way Madlax has been mentally whipping Rimerda in every single meeting, I expect Rimerda to be reduced to a sobbing shell of herself by the last episode.
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Yeesh, you didn’t mention how Rimelda was getting all hot and bothered as well with her gun… Now that is weird.
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that. The bad guys in this show are so kinky!
Man, I so wish I was her gun.
I hope you’re satisfied now that half of the cast has been slaughtered.
DOUSHITE?!??
Half the cast?
That’s actually not too much of an exaggeration,considering if you look at the poster for the show 3 out of the 7 characters are dead,and a fourth looks like she’s biting the dust in the next ep.
Oh,and like I said before,Margaret finally breaks out :p
Heh, actually, I doubt the validity of some of the characters’ deaths… But what the heck, if taken at face value as it is, Bee-Train has indeed been on a character-massacre. This is so nasty! Damn, I hate Bee-Train for that episode… =(
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