This episode starts with a flash back with Yin running in on her mom on the phone. Her mother tells her that her father died in a plane crash. Back in the present Yin is still headed towards her home town on a train with her teacher and the detectives. Yin is still insisting that she won’t go back. The two contractors Itzhak and Berta are headed the same way as the train Yin is on. They easily get by a police checkpoint and continue towards where Yin is going.
Meanwhile Yin notices that they are being followed by the contractors and tells her teacher. So they get off the train with the detectives are oblivious to what has happened. Yin and her teacher make it to an abandoned house and they find a piano inside. Yin begins to play and she starts to have visions of her mother, there is an image of her mother saving her life from an oncoming truck. While this is going on Hei is on his way there on a train.
Hei runs into Gai on the way to Yins position and tells him to get lost; Gai thinks that he is a stalker. Hei wants nothing to do with him and shocks him unconscious. Yin senses Hei coming and her teacher goes to intercept him. Hei asks her teacher why he took her but he realizes that she left by herself. Yin’s teacher says that Hei is working with Yin doing some shady things. He confesses and Yin starts to run towards him but the building started to shake. They run outside and it’s Berta and Itzhak attacking.
Hei runs towards Berta who is about to take down the house and he stops his heart with vibrations, he fight back by using his power to restart his heart. He then shoots out his belt cable and proceeds to kill her with electricity. Itzhak starts to run towards the car and is shot down by Huang who was waiting with a sniper rifle off in the distance. Huang takes aim at Yin but can’t pull the trigger. After they die Yin starts to cry and her teacher is still trying to get her to go back home. She puts her finger on his lips and Hei shocks him. The episode ends with Yin using her finger to push up her face to make a smile.
Impressions:
I didn’t like this episode too much, although I did enjoy how more of Yin’s back story was shown. I also enjoyed how they’re showing her and Hei having real emotions, like there some kind of special contractor or doll. I still don’t like those detectives, they need new comedy relief! Next week November 11 is back!
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I’d say this eps is so-so because I didn’t find it all that memorable. For some reason they just couldn’t make Yin’s back story heart moving enough. Yin is very much like one of these almost loli characters without expressions, kind of reminds me of Primula from Shuffle. What is very interesting to me near the end is the fact that Huang, the street wise cynic NYC/Mafia gangster-ish person who always treats contractors and dolls like disgusting tools, did not snipe Yin after witnessing her closest emanation (that’s the closest word I can think of expressing, not using bigger words on purpose) of feelings and a soul. In short, Yin cried and that stopped Huang from shooting her. Here we see Huang’s prejudice and fear is based on the fact that contractors and dolls are often emotionless. The dolls, especially, in their primary state, act just like robots. That made it easy for Huang to despise and to treat them like lifeless tools. But in this case, he is so stunned by the revelation that literally shined on him that he couldn’t pull the trigger.
Huang would make a great character in a novel, a fanfic. It’d be interesting to team him up with the detective Gai.
I still don’t understand how Yin get to become a doll. And what exactly is a doll, anyway? How is it different from a contractor?
Anyway, I must be in the minority, because I truly love this episode. In fact I love both episodes about Yin. The way she used her finger to smile is so cute and funny, not to mention a sign that she is a lot more emotional than most people thing. In a way, she reminds me of being a new born baby, starting out with a clean slate. She doesn’t know anything, so she has to learn everything from the start. The people around her are emotionless, at least on the surface, so she learns to be emotionless as well. At least that’s my take on it.
This episode is sad and uplifting at the same time, IMO. And with Huang’s change of attitude, I wonder if the working dynamics of the group will change for the better.
Briar, you are not in the minority. I also really liked this episode. And the smile at the end was so charming, it was so sweet. I’m finally beginning to see emotional interaction between the people of the syndicate, Yin, Hei, Huang and Mao. I also liked Berta and Itzhak, some contractors I can sympathize with.
The length of the episode titles are becoming ridiculous.
@Raymond I feel the same way its hard to give a character with no emotion an emotional back story.
@Briar From my understanding dolls can be programmed to do whatever the user wants they are emotionless spirit mediums. Where as contractors have some type of control and a renumeration for there power.
@Xerox I do enjoy that we get to see more emotional interaction between the syndicate.
@BriHaus You dont wanna see next weeks title XD
I really like this episode too, it was very sweet, i love how Kirsi choose to be Yin because Hei call her comrade.
And I love Hei making his own heart beat again!!! so badass!!!!
@ Keith: I see, that makes sense. So there are actually even worse stuff than being a contractor.
I actually quite like the titles. They are a lot more poetic and interesting than normal anime titles.
I also thought this episode was pretty good. The flashback with the piano, pointing to Yin’s lack of feeling in the piece, contrasted with the later performance was good. I liked how Yin changed in those little aspects compared to her in the flashback.
By the way, does anyone know the name of the song Yin played?
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