Phantom -Requiem for the Phantom- 18
August 8th, 2009
Summary:
Reiji kills the Inferno bombers, and then flops in the alley until Claudia calls him up to ask him to meet her at the 39th Drive Inn. Instead, Lizzie meets Claudia whom she has been ordered to kill, while Reiji heads back to his old training facility, where he knows that Ellen will be waiting to kill him. Thinking he’s already lost everything, Reiji forfeits the knife fight and pulls off Ellen’s mask so he can see Ellen’s face before she stabs him. Even though he’s got Ellen straddling him, all Reiji can think about is how Ellen’s raison d’être is Scythe Master’s magical hands and amazing rubdowns.
Unexpectedly, Ellen gets topless and gives an interesting speech about how she admired Reiji’s desire to survive. He fought to stay on the path she’d abandoned, and it gave her hope to think of him as a genderbent version of her living on elsewhere. While Reiji clearly wanted to touch Ellen’s chest scar, Ellen presses his hands to her abdominal scar and says she wouldn’t want to live without Reiji. Reiji realizes that there’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, and decides to spirit Ellen away with Mexican passports so she can get away from Scythe Master and his new experimental dolls.
Reaction:
At first I thought it made no sense that Reiji didn’t check for Cal’s body, but then I realized that Reiji was caught in a classic Goldilocks situation. The reason why he didn’t meet Claudia or wait for Cal (aside from his hatred of names that start with “C”) was because Claudia was too old, Cal was too young, but Ellen was just right. I kept desperately hoping that Ellen would interrupt their heart-to-heart with a stern, “Reiji, my eyes are up here,” but alas that moment never came. Speaking of which, I only just noticed in this episode that Ellen’s has survival mode eyes as well (blue, unlike her normal brown eyes).
As for Cal, I was certain she was alive even before the preview. No one in this series dies if you don’t see the body, and Reiji didn’t even bother looking for her body. I also suspect that Lizzie let Claudia escape, even though the director clearly wanted us to think that Lizzie executed her childhood friend because Inferno ordered it. Yeah, a likely story, although I liked seeing young Lizzie. Lizzie probably told Inferno she dumped Claudia’s body in the ocean when in reality she let Claudia drive away. Finally, what the heck did the Godo group invest in that was worth more than stolen cocaine?!
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