Sara and Fujita are waiting in an airport, and Sara is raging about some creep who was hitting on her. Fujita doesn’t do a thing about it (even though he clearly recognizes the man), and this agitates Sara even more. While Sara is ranting, a little imp of a man approaches Fujita. It turns out it’s Moretti, the curator of the Uffizi Museum. Moretti, Pietro, and 10 other couriers are transporting a bunch of important paintings for a Renaissance exhibit in Japan. Because a Japanese TV station is footing the bill, Moretti agrees to the transportation against the wishes of the other couriers. Meanwhile, several professional art thieves sneak aboard the airplane and stow away in the baggage area. When the plane gets in the air, there is a struggle between the thugs and the couriers, and the climate control system in the baggage area is shot (literally). This causes the temperature to drop, and the wood paneling behind the Madonna Granduca to warp, cracking the paint right in the middle of her face.
At the sight of the cracked painting, Pietro goes bonkers and gets shot in the shoulder, leaving the restoration job up to Fujita. Naturally he does a brilliant job, even using one of Raphael’s apprentices’ paintings to take shavings to make historically accurate paint. Everyone is wowed, and then Fujita goes to first class to confront Carlos, the creep who was hitting on Sara. I guess they go way back and Fujita convinces Carlos to let him pay a ransom on the art to get it safely to its destination. Moretti is then forced to go to the Uffizi and wire the deposit to a Swiss account. Naturally, Moretti’s pissed about this, but everyone else has newfound respect for Fujita and recognizes that he did what he had to do to protect the art.
After some more complicated episodes, this one was pretty easy to follow and straightforward. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and I couldn’t believe that I was getting so wrapped up in a sequence about restoring paintings (like wtf, that has to be so damn boring to watch in real life). I really liked the part where Fujita whips a specially-curved restoration workbench out of the side of his suitcase and explains that the Japanese are experts at making weirdo gadgets like that.
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IMÃDOM EZT AZ ANIMÉT!!!!!!!!
gondolom ha ezt ilvasátok semmit nem értetek mert az egy angol oldal ha jól látom,de nem baj (^_^)