Summary:

Canaan is trudging along and puking at the thought of Alphard owning her, while Maria mooches food on Yunyun’s house boat.  As expected, Yunyun is working for Liang, because all Borners need special medicine to stay alive.  Liang volunteers for Alphard’s plan to infect the undersecretary of Japan with the Ua virus, and in turn Liang tasks Yunyun with the grunt work.  Because Yunyun merely has two appendixes, she’s considered an expendable piece, and Liang doesn’t care if Yunyun gets killed by Canaan in the process; in fact, Yuri has already given Canaan the file on “Sun Yun Mei.”

Yunyun barely passes the job interview at Cosplay Santana because of her Borner connection with Hakkoo, but soon finds she lacks some of the tools of the trade.  Yunyun can’t drug the undersecretary’s drink because he only wants to drink from Hakkoo’s hands, leaving Cummings to  inject the target during a fake acupuncture session.  Yunyun then gets ambushed outside by Canaan, before Maria comes by and makes Canaan feel guilty for being a murderer.  Desperate now, Yunyun takes Maria hostage with some dynamite so as to launch a kamikaze attack on Canaan, but Canaan disarms the dynamite (which was still lit underwater…) and becomes friends with Yunyun after reconciling with Maria.  Minoru notices the Borner mark on Yunyun’s butt, and asks her to be a correspondent for them.  Later that night, someone slips a sealed envelope under Minoru’s hotel door.

Reaction:

We already know that Maria’s dad came up with an anti-virus so why are the Borners still working for Liang?  I’m pretty sure that Yunyun can be saved by making out with Maria since Maria is chock full of anti-virus.  For that matter, how is Hakkoo still ok if she’s not taking the yellow and pink pills that Liang has?  And what extra organs did GSK and Hakkoo get?  Anyway, I’m starting to think that plot will not be a strong point in this show, but I’m ok with watching this show as an action flick with nice choreography.  I thought the humor was very good in this episode, and Yunyun ended up being more interesting than I expected.  We’ll probably get some triple agent action going, since Liang doesn’t realize that Maria has added Yunyun to her little harem (although Canaan is the top haremette, whereas Yunyun appears to be the community haremette).

I still like weird, tiny, Liang (haha, why did she eat the photo to recycle it?) and immature Canaan, but Maria is wearing on me.  She doesn’t even do any reporting work; Minoru is stuck doing everything.  I also can’t believe Maria cheated on Canaan and got an extra key for Yunyun’s pad.  I thought for sure that Canaan would kill Yunyun when she discovered the infidelity, but somehow Maria reminded Canaan: don’t hate the player, hate the game.  I do have to admit that I was a little angry at Liang this episode when she ignored Yunyun’s hints about reimbursement.  Come on, those were totally business expenses!