Ryoko boards Ryo-ohki
bearing the bad news; Tenchi is apparently dead. Seeking revenge on
Kagato, Ryoko activates her battle suit and files Ryo-ohki straight
at Kagato's ship, piercing its shields. Arriving on Kagato's ship, Ryoko,
Ayeka and Mihoshi, all dressed in their battle armour, split up to locate
their foe.
Meanwhile,
on Earth, Sasami has sensed what has happened to Tenchi. With no time
to waste, she rushes to Yosho's life tree and performs an ancient Juraian
incantation. She disappears into the trunk of the tree. Among the floating
wreckage of the Ryu-Oh, Tenchi's body is suspended in a shield generated
by Azaka and Kamidake, alive but very badly wounded. A beautiful Juraian
woman, Tsunami, appears before him and absorbs herself into his body.
Back
on the Soja, the girls have arrived outside Kagato's main chamber. Mihoshi,
who turns up a little late, accidentally drops her GP control cube and
it teleports her into a mirror version of the ship. Ayeka and Ryoko
proceed to confront Kagato, and they attack. Tricked by an illusion,
Ryoko is caught by Kagato and turned to stone, and with her out of the
way, Kagato tries to probe Ayeka's mind for the secret of Jurai.
Meanwhile, in the
mirror world, Mihoshi is attacked by a pair of giant stone snakes, and
in her panic to defend herself with her control cube, she manages to
free a young girl who was sealed inside a crystal. The girl, Washu,
saves Mihoshi from the snakes and brings Ryoko's astral body into the
mirror world to return her back to normal. Washu introduces herself
as the top scientific genius in the universe, the creator of Ryo-ohki
and Soja, and Ryoko's mother. She sends Ryoko back into battle against
Kagato, but she and Mihoshi cannot help, as they are trapped in the
mirror world and can do little more than cheer Ryoko on.
Some
distance away from the Soja, Tsunami has restored Tenchi's body and
saved him from near-death. She tells him that she is the personification
of a Juraian ship, and that her owner is Sasami (even her reflection
looks like Sasami). She also tells him that he must assist Ryoko in
combat, relying on his own power to succeed.
Back aboard the
Soja, Ryoko is having a tough time beating Kagato. Washu realises that
Ryoko cannot use her full power without risking Ayeka's life, so she
teleports Ayeka to the safety of the mirror world. Annoyed at Washu's
interference, Kagato uses Ryoko's gems to fire his destructive weapon
on Earth, but before the beam hits, a set of Juraian Light Hawk Wings
belonging to Tsunami appear and absorb it. As Kagato is about to kill
the weakened Ryoko, Tenchi appears and engages him in combat. However,
he is still not powerful enough to defeat Kagato by himself, and he
is almost defeated before he remembers Tsunami's advice; not to rely
on the sword alone. Discarding the sword, he draws on his own power
to summon the Light Hawk Wings from his own body. Transforming one of
the wings into a sword, he rushes at Kagato and cuts him in two. Kagato
dissolves away, and the battle is won. The
girls are quick to rush and thank Tenchi for saving them, but they have
to abandon ship hastily; along with Kagato, the Soja was cut completely
in half by Tenchi's sword!
Back on Earth, Washu
has joined the others as yet another house guest, and Azaka and Kamidake
have found a job serving as gateposts and guards outside Tenchi's house.
Stuck with so many unusual lodgers at his home, poor Tenchi's life remains
in chaos...
There
are two hidden frames in one shot here. The first is when Mihoshi
kicks an attacking stone snake in the face, and the second when the
kicked snake lands on the other. Both frames feature red Japanese
text inside yellow 'impact' lines.
Not
exactly a hidden frame, but an interesting moment nonetheless. When
Washu exclaims "that is why it is so perfect!" (about her
designing and building Kagato's ship), we get this amusing pose, featuring
Washu with her middle finger raised. It should be noted that this
gesture does not have the same connotations in Japan as it does in
many western cultures. The Japanese text in the background is obscured,
but the readable words are "atashi" (a feminine variant
of "watashi", meaning "I" or "me") and
"tensai" (meaning "genius") - clearly it is Washu's
oft-repeated boast of "I am a genius!". Needless to say,
Washu's gesture necessitated this shot to be removed from the censored
TV version.