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Airwolf is an Americantelevision
series that ran from 1984 through 1987. The program concerned
a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf,
and her crew as they undertook various missions, many involving espionage,
with a Cold War theme.
The series' protagonist is Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent),
a loner who lives in a cabin outside of Los Angeles, CA in a mountain
resort area called Big Bear, accompanied only by his Bluetick Coonhound,
"Tet", and the surrounding wildlife. Hawke is a recluse, spending most
of his time alone with his priceless collection of paintings which he
inherited from his grandfather (the art was a gift for his
grandmother), and serenading eagles with his equally priceless Stradivarius cello. His only
real friend and mentor is the older, eternally cheerful Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine)
who raised Stringfellow and his brother Saint John (known as Sinjin)
after their parents died. Stringfellow's father and Dominic flew in
World War II together.
Earlier, Hawke was a test pilot for Airwolf, an advanced
supersonic
helicopter with stealth capabilities and a formidable arsenal. Airwolf
was built by the FIRM, a division of the CIA (a play on the term "the
Company", a nickname for the CIA). When it is stolen by its twisted
creator, Doctor Charles Henry
Moffet, Archangel — codename of the deputy director of "the
FIRM" — asks Hawke to go to Libya
and get it back.
After finding himself stripped of FIRM support and
discovering that his pilot-episode love-interest Gabrielle (Belinda Bauer),
is undercover in Libya, Hawke, with Santini's assistance, finds Airwolf
and recovers it. But Hawke chooses not to return it. Instead, Hawke and
Santini hide Airwolf, booby trapped, in an extinct volcano (the Lair)
in the remote "Valley of the Gods" (visually modeled on Monument Valley). Hawke
refuses to return Airwolf until the FIRM can recover his brother, St.
John, who has been missing in action since Vietnam.
To get access to Airwolf, Archangel offers Hawke protection from other
government agencies who will try to recover Airwolf in exchange for
flying missions of national importance for the FIRM.
In the second season, to satisfy CBS executives who
wanted to appeal
to a wider female audience, the show introduced Caitlin O'Shannessy,
played by Jean Bruce Scott.
Caitlin is a feisty former Texas Highway Patrol helicopter pilot who
eventually joins Airwolf's crew. In "Fallen Angel" Hawke confirms
Caitlin's suspicions that he and Santini possess and operate a super
helicopter as the three fly Airwolf into East Germany to recover
Archangel.
The FIRM
The mysterious organization known as "The FIRM" is a
covert branch of the Central Intelligence
Agency, whose Deputy Director, Michael Coldsmith-Briggs III (Alex
Cord), is code-named Archangel.
In the first two seasons, Archangel is often assisted by
Marella (Deborah Pratt). She had
doctorates in Aeronautical
Engineering, Electronic
Engineering, Psychology, Microbiology, and French
Literature, and was one year away from completing her Medical Doctorate
as of the episode "Fallen Angel". Marella is last seen in the second
season closing episode "Short Walk to Freedom"; in the third season,
her place was taken by a number of different 'white ladies'.
The first season of the series was dark, arc-driven, and
quite reflective of the contemporary Cold
War,
with the FIRM personnel distinctly dressed in white, implicitly
boasting that "wearing white hats" distinguished them as good, instead
of evil. Hawke remained unconvinced, and Santini was skeptical also
(this was explained in "Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n"). Early episodes
frequently detailed the efforts of the United
States government
to secure Airwolf from Hawke, whom it officially charged with having
stolen it. Because CBS wanted to make the series more family-oriented,
the program was transformed during Season Two into a more light-hearted
show with Hawke and Santini being portrayed as cooperative partners
with the FIRM (see below for more behind the scenes information).
The FIRM, during the first three seasons, served as both
ally and
enemy for Hawke and Santini; when an opportunity to seize Airwolf
presented itself, FIRM operatives often took it.
Season
1: 1984
The first series commenced airing on January 22, 1984
with a
two-hour pilot episode, and concluded on April 14, 1984, with 11
episodes aired. It began with Stringfellow Hawke
hunting down Dr. Moffet and bringing Airwolf
back into his protection, which Hawke would then use to go on flying
missions of national importance for the F.I.R.M., the company that has
the task of recovering Hawke's brother St. John.
No.
Ep.
Title
1
1
"Shadow
of the Hawke"
The
brilliant, yet psychotic engineer Dr. Moffet, builds the advanced
attack helicopter Airwolf for the F.I.R.M., a
covert agency of American intelligence, pronounced in informal
conversation as The F.I.R.M..
During the initial test flight, Moffet attacks the airbase, steals his
creation and takes it to Libya. To get it back, F.I.R.M. operative
Archangel, who was injured during the attack, tries to recruit ace
helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke, who now lives as a recluse in a
log cabin after the disappearance of his brother St. John in Vietnam.
Hawke falls for Gabrielle, one of Archangel's associates, who
encourages him to take the mission. Hawke accepts, but only if The
F.I.R.M. hands over their classified information on the whereabouts of
his missing brother. Hawke and his close friend and mentor, Dominic
Santini, run the mission to take back Airwolf,
discovering
Moffet has used it to destroy American targets for the Libyans, and
they will not give up their new toy so easily. Eventually they secure
the helicopter and Hawke fulfills his part of the deal, but The
F.I.R.M. is not forthcoming with his brother's information.
Unsatisfied, Hawke hides Airwolf in a desert cave
and becomes custodian of the aircraft, vowing not to hand it over until
The F.I.R.M. finds his brother.
2
2
"Daddy's
Gone a Hunt'n"
Hawke
is given the assignment of finding a test pilot who is about to steal a
fighter aircraft to fly it to Russia. Hawke discovers the pilot is an
old Vietnam War buddy who would steal the plane as exchange for the
return of his half-Vietnamese son (Chad Allen).
After the war the boy grew up on the streets of Saigon. He was captured
and was being held as a bargaining chip for the plane.
3
3
"Bite
of the Jackal"
While
on a job assignment to Acapulco, Mexico (and unknowingly carrying a
young stowaway portrayed by a young Shannen Doherty),
Santini's helicopter explodes from a bomb and crashes in a desolate
mountain area. Archangel discovers the man behind the bombing is a
rival agent who wants to topple Archangel's position at The F.I.R.M.
and is using Santini as bait to capture Airwolf.[13]
4
4
"Proof
Through the Night"
Archangel
sends Hawke and Santini to help a F.I.R.M. double-agent escape the
Soviet Union. The agent is in possession of a neurotoxin developed by
Russian scientists that is valuable to the F.I.R.M. The mission is
complicated by the fact that the agent has refused to leave without his
wife and daughter. Airwolf 's fuel consumption
rates mean that
she cannot cover the requisite distance with the "extra weight" of
three passengers, so Hawke and Santini must make up the difference by
removing the weapons systems, leaving the helicopter unarmed as it
flies through hostile territory.
5
5
"One
Way Express"
Santini
is hired by a movie producer to fly as a helicopter stunt pilot for a
gold heist scene. Concerned for his friend's safety, Hawke tries to
stop him from performing the dangerous stunt. Archangel looks behind
the scenes of the movie producer discovering the stunt is actually a
cover-up for a real gold robbery arranged by a criminal
mastermind.
6
6
"Echos
From the Past"
Hawke
gets a lead that his brother St. John is alive and well but being held
in a foreign prison camp. Determined to launch a rescue, Hawke suddenly
falls unconscious and crashes his helicopter. He wakes up in a hospital
from a coma and is told he's been out for one year. He is also told
Archangel and Santini were killed after their own attempt to get St.
John had failed. Hawke soon realizes nothing is as it seems and
discovers that everything is an elaborate ruse by foreign spies to get
their hands on Airwolf.
7
7
"Fight
Like a Dove"
A
woman named Sarah LeBow seeks out Hawke and Santini to help avenge the
death of her father, who was murdered by a former Nazi named Kruger.
Sarah wants to use Airwolf to penetrate Kruger's
fortress in
Paraguay. Archangel informs Hawke that The F.I.R.M. has their own
interests in Kruger and he must not be interfered with. Hawke discovers
that their interest lies in the fact that Kruger is also a weapons
dealer in possession of an advanced artillery system known as
"Thor".
8
8
"Mad
Over Miami"
Santini
goes on a mission to deliver $2 million dollars raised by Cuban exiles
as payment to free comrades who are being held by a Cuban colonel. He
is later forced down and kidnapped by a group of mercenaries who also
nab the money. A F.I.R.M. listening post confirms Santini's
disappearance and Archangel secretly informs Hawke about the incident.
Hawke quickly sets out to find his friend while the exiles accuse
Santini of stealing the money for himself. Hawke later uncovers The
F.I.R.M.'s involvement in hiring the mercenaries for the benefit of the
colonel who they are actually in league with.
9
9
"And
They Are Us"
Archangel
sends Hawke and Santini to a small African nation to protect their
president during a military coup. Hawke discovers the leader behind the
coup is a rogue colonel his brother St. John served with in Vietnam.
Hawke goes against Archangel's orders to stay with the president and
plans to capture and extract information from the colonel but first he
must get past a fleet of helicopter gunships.
10
10
"Mind
of the Machine"
Archangel
asks Hawke and Santini to test fly an Airwolf
simulator designed by Dr. Robert Winchester who worked with Dr. Moffet
on the design of the real Airwolf.
Involved in the test is an attractive assistant who unbeknown to all is
really an undercover KGB agent with orders to steal the schematics for Airwolf
so the Russians can build their own.
11
11
"To
Snare a Wolf"
Archangel
informs Hawke and Santini that a high-ranking government official will
be using a newly launched satellite to find the hiding spot for Airwolf.
Hawke and Santini plan to hide Airwolf
somewhere else until the satellite flies over. On the way to the hiding
spot, they discover a female pilot who is stranded in the desert, but
suspicions arise that she may be a spy working for the government
official who wants Airwolf found.
Season
2: 1984-1985
The second season premiered on September 22, 1984, and
ran for 22
episodes until April 13, 1985. In order to have the series move away
from its quite dark and moody tales of international espionage into a
more domestic and straight action-oriented affair, the show hired Jean Bruce Scott
to play the role of a feisty Caitlin O'Shannessy. The moves by CBS
ultimately proved unsuccessful, however, and while production cost
over-runs remained high, creator Donald
P. Bellisario left both the studio and the series after
Season 2. Sylvester Levay
who composed and performed the music for season 1, composed 14 episodes
of season 2. The remaining episodes were composed by Udi Harpaz
(credited as UDI) (6), and Ian Freebairn-Smith (2).
No.
Ep.
Title
12
1
"Sweet
Britches"
Hawke
learns a Vietnam war buddy of his has been gunned down in the Texas
desert by a Sheriff after the man supposedly escaped from jail. Hawke
and Santini fly Airwolf there to investigate the
incident and
find the conditions of the killing are suspicious. There, Hawke meets
and takes interest in a female highway patrol deputy named Caitlin
O'Shannessy, who is quite aware of her Sheriff's strange dealings and
corruption. After being caught snooping around, the Sheriff has Hawke
arrested and taken to a game reserve where ruthless sportsman pay big
money to hunt down people and Hawke is being used as prey.
13
2
"Firestorm"
An
old pilot friend of Santini, who lost his nerve to fly after a crash
had killed his passengers, has become a drunken recluse living in a
trailer in the middle of the desert. The man suddenly comes to Santini
with a wild story of seeing strange lights in the sky at night.
Everyone dismisses the drunken rant until Santini witnesses the lights
himself. He and his friend investigate but disappear. Hawke arrives in Airwolf
to search for them and uncovers a secret missile base ran by fanatical
militants who plan to launch their own nuclear missile against
Russia.
14
3
"Moffett's
Ghost"
Airwolf's
systems begin to act erratic when a strange virus infects the computer
which periodically seizes auto pilot control and turns the helicopter
into a flying terror of destruction. Hawke and Santini discover the
virus is a trap originally planted by Airwolf's
designer, Dr.
Moffet, and programmed to unleash itself at a specific time unless the
proper override code is entered. Hawke and Santini must make the
decision to allow the F.I.R.M.'s engineers access to fix the helicopter
and risk them trying to seize the aircraft, or deal with the virus
themselves. This is the first episode wherein Airwolf, with Moffet
jamming its controls, climbed at its highest altitude up to 80,000
feet.
15
4
"The
Truth About Holly"
Hawke
and Santini rescue Santini's niece Holly from a compound ran by a
Mexican crimelord. Once she is safe, Santini keeps an eye on her at his
airport, but strange things begin to occur around Santini Air. Hawke
and Santini believe the gangsters may be trying to scare Holly, but the
sabotage incidents become worse after Hawke turns down Holly's
passionate advances and when former Texas Highway Patrol Deputy,
Caitlin O'Shannessy, arrives to work for Santini. Caitlin's
relationship with Hawke sparks a jealous rage in the troubled Holly
leading to suspicions she is behind the sabotage
16
5
"The
Hunted"
An
industrial millionaire offers a big paying contract to Hawke and
Santini, requesting they use Airwolf
to protect and transport him around whenever the need arises. Santini
is excited by the offer, but Hawke is skeptical, wondering why the man
requires such protection. Unbeknown to them is the fact that Caitlin's
new boyfriend is really an assassin who has been hired to kill the
millionaire. Matters become worse when Airwolf
experiences sudden malfunctions caused by someone's tampering.
17
6
"Sins
of the Past"
Santini
is stunned at the news that his daughter Sally Ann has been found dead
on a beach on the Caribbean Island of San Remo, apparently from a drug
overdose. Hawke is stunned as well because Santini never told him he
had a daughter. Both men divert from a F.I.R.M. mission and fly to San
Remo to attend the funeral which ends in a bitter argument between
Santini and his ex-wife Lila. Upon returning, Santini learns that Lila
has been murdered, and he is promptly arrested by police as the prime
suspect. Santini is taken back to San Remo and Hawke follows to conduct
his own investigation despite objections from Archangel to finish the
F.I.R.M. mission. Hawke discovers that Lila and Sally have a connection
to a ruthless casino owner who has been trying to take over the island
and he is determined to expose the man as the real killer.
18
7
"Fallen
Angel"
Both
Hawke and Santini are injured after a botched stunt in a bi-plane.
Hawke injures his arm but Santini fairs worse, injuring his back and is
bed-ridden. At the hospital, Hawke is informed that Archangel has been
taken prisoner by the criminal ex-Nazi Karl Kruger and is being held in
an East-German compound. Mounting a rescue operation, Hawke must add
Caitlin to the Airwolf crew to temporarily replace
Santini. In a rush to train her, Caitlin does not perform well and
nearly crashes Airwolf.
Hawke realizes he cannot perform the rescue without Santini's
experience, so he and Caitlin spring him against authority, from the
hospital, and head to East Germany to save Archangel.
19
8
"HX
1"
The
advanced helicopter, "HX1", is stolen by a group of mercenaries and
Hawke learns that the tactics used in the theft are similar to those
used by the special forces unit his brother St. John worked with.
Believing the mercenaries may have connections with his missing
brother, Hawke takes Airwolf out to track down the
stolen
helicopter. Hawke's suspicions are confirmed when one of the men turns
out to be a war buddy of St. John's who Hawke thought was dead. The
incident causes him to have flashbacks and he thinks he sees his
brother momentarily. The rogue mercenaries have no intention of
returning the HX1 and decide to try out their new toy against Airwolf.
During the combat, Hawke's feelings get in his way, and he must fight
his emotions if he wants to survive.
20
9
"Flight
#093 is Missing"
Flight
#093 has been hijacked and crash landed into the ocean. The terrorists
claim the hostages are still alive and threaten to finish them off
unless paid $50 million dollars. The incident becomes personal once
Hawke and Santini learn that Caitlin was on the flight and mount a
search and rescue operation to find the downed plane. Upon finding it,
they discover the terrorists are using a fishing ship armed with
rockets to thwart any rescue attempt. Time is running out for the
passengers as the plane is filling with water and running out of
air.
21
10
"Once
a Hero"
Hawke
is presented with an outdated surveillance photo of a P.O.W. camp
located deep inside the jungles of Laos where the F.I.R.M. believe his
brother St. John is being held prisoner. Hawke mounts a rescue attempt,
rounding up members of his old Vietnam War strike team to go in and
find him. His strike team is wary of the mission but reconsider once
they learn Airwolf will be supplying air support.
The team
meets up in Bangkok and begins their trek behind enemy lines to locate
the camp. Upon arrival, Hawke and his team find the camp abandoned and
his brother has been moved elsewhere.
22
11
"Random
Target"
Hawke
and Santini go on a job to film some desert terrain footage for
Santini's fellow airport business partner Sam Kowal. After completing
the job the film is given to Kowal, who later turns up dead after being
killed by thugs in a mob hit. The police cannot find any connections
Kowal may have had to the mob and determine the hit to be random, but
Hawke is not satisfied and begins his own investigation which begins to
conflict with the police detective's investigation. Hawke and the
detective soon find that Hawke and Santini may have filmed something in
the desert that the mob boss did not want to be seen.
23
12
"Condemned"
The
F.I.R.M. assigns Hawke to investigate a remote facility in Alaska where
scientists have been working on an experimental vaccine to counteract
the deadly effects of Russian bio-weapon virus set loose in
Afghanistan. The F.I.R.M. had already sent a four-man commando team in
but they failed to report back. With Santini on vacation, Hawke and
Caitlin take the assignment and fly Airwolf to the
facility.
Upon arrival, they find everyone dead and it looks as if they have all
killed each other. Suspicions arise however once Hawke detects a
Russian submarine is lurking in nearby waters.
24
13
"The
American Dream"
Hawke
helps out a troubled Vietnamese man he fought alongside with in Vietnam
whose crops are being sabotaged by a rival Vietnamese landowner known
as "The Spider". When the sabotage turns to murder, Hawke takes matters
into his own hands and is determined to bring the Spider to
justice.
25
14
"Inn
at the End of the Road"
When
a prototype weapon guidance computer called "LOKI" is stolen by
terrorists, Archangel assigns Hawke and Santini to recover the device
before it falls into enemy hands. They track the terrorists to a remote
mountain lake where the criminals become lost and cannot find their
contact. They find a cabin and take the owners hostage, discovering one
of them is a pilot, and force him to fly them out. Airwolf
gives chase, but when a critical system in the midst of repairs fails, Airwolf
is forced down and crashes in a wooded mountainside. Hawke finds his
communications are also out and he cannot call for help. Time is
running out for the hostages who are holed up in a frozen meat locker,
and the terrorists have installed the LOKI device in a helicopter
gunship and plan to wreak havoc.
26
15
"Santini's
Millions"
Santini
is piloting Airwolf
on a mercy mission to deliver a transplant heart to a dying boy in a
Los Angeles. Along the way he comes upon a downed aircraft piloted by a
millionaire named Carl Barron and renders aid. The millionaire is
desperate to make a business meeting in L.A. and offers Santini 50,000
dollars to divert from the heart delivery and take him straight there,
but Santini refuses and continues on to Chicago. With the heart
delivered, Santini takes Barron to L.A. in record time for a
helicopter, but very late for the meeting. Later that evening, for no
apparent reason, Barron commits suicide but leaves behind a will that
gives all his riches to Santini, “the most honest man he ever met”.
Both Santini and Barron's selfish business partner are stunned by the
act, but the partner denies the will and refuses to hand any money over
to Santini. Santini clearly does not want to be involved in the first
place but quickly finds himself in over his head and his life possibly
in danger.
27
16
"Prisoner
of Yesterday"
Hawke
is on a relaxing fishing trip with a doctor friend named Jason Gifford,
but the tranquil setting is disturbed when two South American rebels
show up and kidnap Dr. Gifford at gun-point and disable Hawke's Jeep so
he cannot follow. Determined to get his friend back, Hawke learns that
Gifford had been treating a South American President with antibiotics
but the man is suffering from radiation poisoning which had been traced
back to Gifford's drugs. The plot thickens when upon arrival in the
country, Hawke learns a rebel leader is plotting an attack on the
American Embassy and to overthrow the President covertly by slowly
killing him off, and win political support by framing Gifford (and
American involvement) for the death.
28
17
"Natural
Born"
Kevin,
a young hotshot pilot, encounters Airwolf
in action, and the boy is so impressed that he has to get a closer look
at "The Lady" while she's on the ground. He befriends Hawke and Santini
in the process. The next day, a group of drug dealers murder the boy's
grandfather when he refused to buy their latest shipments and then
torched his hangar to cover it up. Out for revenge, Kevin seeks
employment at Santini Air performing aerial stunts until he spots the
dealer's black helicopter and gives chase. Hawke and Santini have no
idea what the boy is doing and decide to ground him since he will not
tell them about the murder. Secretly, Kevin plans to hunt down the
killers, even stealing Airwolf if he has
to.
29
18
"Out
of the Sky"
Hawke
and Santini film aerial footage for a music video by country star
Roxanne Marvel. Unbeknown to everyone, Roxanne's corrupt manager is
plotting her murder to boost record sales, and replaces her with a body
double. Unfortunately for him, the double is not on par to the singing
talent of the original and the dupe is revealed, however it is too late
since the real Roxanne has already been kidnapped by the manager's
thugs. Hawke and Santini mount a rescue in Airwolf
and have to recover the star before her big concert
appearance.
30
19
"Dambreakers"
Hawke
is hired to fly a news reporter to interview a group of religious
puritans who have an isolated commune near a hydro-electrical dam.
Hawke and the reporter discover the villagers have been abducted by a
group of terrorists who disable Hawke's helicopter and prevent them
from leaving. They are then held as hostages where the leader gives the
reporter the news story of her career; his plan is to blow up the
Tiewater Dam if fellow extremist members are not released from American
prisons. Hawke manages to escape and gets a message through to Santini.
He and Caitlin come looking for him with Airwolf,
but they are attacked by the terrorist's bomber which will be used to
destroy the dam.
31
20
"Severance
Pay"
Hawke
is assigned to find Larry Mason, a disgruntled former F.I.R.M. agent,
who has been shafted on his retirement benefits. As a result, Mason
begins to reveal classified information to the press about his previous
employer and it begins to jeopardize foreign relations and national
security. One of the secrets threatening to be leaked is the existence
of Airwolf and the whole story behind it. When
specific
information is leaked about a mission that Mason was never involved
with, Hawke becomes suspicious and believes there has to be another
mole lurking inside the F.I.R.M.
32
21
"Eruption"
Hawke
and Santini are on a job to take atmospheric samples around Mt.
Catherine, a dormant volcano that is showing signs of "waking up". They
collect their data just in time to witness Catherine "blow her top" and
escape the blast. The eruption shock destroys a town in a nearby valley
and Hawke and Santini set down to render aid. They find some of the
survivors holed up in an abandoned mine where another quake from
Catherine nearly kills Hawke as he tries to guide them out. Hawke soon
discovers the real danger is not the volcano, but a rival community
leader with murderous plans to eliminate the town mayor and make it
look like an accident.
33
22
"Short
Walk to Freedom"
Caitlin
is hired to fly a group of archeology students and their teacher to
Mayan ruins in South America. In reality, the teacher is really a
mastermind thief and is using the trip as cover to steal whatever
priceless artifacts he can find. The trip goes astray however, when a
group of guerilla fighters block the road and hijack the bus. The
F.I.R.M. learns of the hostage crisis through their South American
contacts and Archangel informs Hawke of the situation. He and Santini
quickly mount a rescue in Airwolf to find Caitlin
and the students. Once the guerilla fighters see Airwolf
arrive they plan to capture the high-tech chopper for themselves and
fire a missile to bring her down.
Season
3: 1985-1986
The third season premiered on September 28, 1985, and
concluded on
March 29, 1986, with 22 episodes aired. Following the departure of
series creator Donald
P. Bellisario, Bernard Kowalski stepped in as executive
producer for a third season, but after ratings remained low, the
series was canceled by CBS.
No.
Ep.
Title
34
1
"The
Horn of Plenty"
Hawke
flies a woman named Angelica to an Arizona resort where she carries a
suitcase full of priceless gems for a buyer named John Bradford Horn. A
sudden change in plans sends Hawke and Angelica to Horn's private
compound in Texas, but upon landing, they are surrounded by armed men
and taken prisoner. A videotape is sent to Santini where Hawke explains
he is being held captive and tells Santini to deliver Airwolf
to Horn's compound by a certain time or he'll be executed. Santini
informs Archangel of the situation, who devises a plan. He tells
Santini to deliver Airwolf as requested, but he
will provide a
platoon of soldiers who will storm the compound once Hawke is safe. The
plan backfires when Hawke shoots Santini with a tranquilizer gun as
soon as he sets Airwolf down.
35
2
"Airwolf
II"
Hawke
is interrupted during a friend's ceremony when Archangel arrives to
inform him that Hawke is suspected in a train robbery where the thieves
used a Santini Air helicopter and a weapon similar
to one Airwolf
carries, to stop the train. Hawke, Santini and Caitlin are baffled when
the FBI finds the getaway chopper, complete with several bullet holes,
parked at Santini's hangar as further evidence. Archangel uses his
perks to help Hawke as much as he can but then he is dismissed from the
F.I.R.M. under suspicions that he may have also been involved in the
robbery. Investigating further, Archangel discovers the F.I.R.M. has
built a second Airwolf, dubbed Redwolf,
and the
designer, Harlen Jenkins, who is still loyal to the notorious Dr.
Moffet, has a personal vendetta against Hawke and set up the robbery to
get him out of the way. Once Hawke is let out of jail, a deadly
showdown begins against Jenkins to see which wolf
can outmatch the other.
36
3
"And
a Child Shall Lead"
A
leading aircraft designer, Robert Phelps, is abducted by foreign agents
to the horror of his mentally challenged son, Bobby. Hawke takes the
assignment to find Phelps, obtaining leads form Bobby, whose autism
gives him the ability to draw detailed clues from memory. While in the
agent's custody, Phelps has a sudden heart-attack and is rendered
useless to them. Learning that his latest design plans could be
accurately reproduced by Billy, the agents attempt to kidnap him, but
Hawke and Airwolf get in their way.
37
4
"Fortune
Teller"
Archangel
fails to meet Hawke and Santini at a secret rendezvous point, and the
F.I.R.M. learns he has been kidnapped and being tortured by a criminal
military hardware dealer named Stoner. They give Hawke 48 hours to find
him, or the F.I.R.M. will send in a group of assassins known as "Zebra
Squad" to take him out themselves. Stoner wants information about a
device called "The Fortune Teller" which allows a pilot to fly his
aircraft through mental commands. Hawke and his companions now race to
save Archangel before the Zebra Squad can be activated.
38
5
"Crossover"
Hawke
is working covertly for the F.I.R.M. in Baja, Mexico to meet a
defecting Russian laser-scientist named Victor Janek, and his young
daughter Inge. Hawke soon learns that a Soviet bounty-hunter is hot on
the duo's trail with orders to eliminate them. The hunter manages to
kill Victor, but Hawke and Inge get away and make a run into the
desert. Santini and Caitlin become dismayed when Archangel refuses to
help them since Hawke has crossed over from the F.I.R.M.'s strict
mission stipulations, and has already been written off. Santini and
Caitlin go out in Airwolf to rescue them on their
own.
39
6
"Kingdom
Come"
A
stockpile of nuclear detonators, (which can detonate any large amount
of radioactive material and turn into a deadly bomb), are stolen from a
government facility. The mastermind behind the robbery is a former
associate of Caitlin who she gave piloting lessons to. The robber
decides to smuggle the detonators out of the country by kidnapping
Caitlin and forcing her to fly them out in Airwolf,
whose stealth technology will provide perfect cover.
40
7
"Eagles"
An
advanced airplane built by Stappleford Industries, the "X-400", is to
be handed over to the U.S. Air Force who are interested in the craft's
performance. The X-400's main test pilot, Roane Carver, knows the plane
has potentially deadly flaws and interferes with the final sale knowing
her company is selling a dangerous lemon and steals the schematics.
Hawke gets involved in helping Roane fight her greedy employer, who
goes as far as attempted murder to shut her up and get the plans
back.
41
8
"Annie
Oakley"
An
advanced laser device called "The Mongoose", is stolen from a F.I.R.M.
transport while it was on its way to a testing ground. The thief, Karl
Stern, is expected to sell the laser on the black market to an East
German buyer, but when his partner, Slade, realizes he is being shafted
on his cut of the sale money, he threatens to go to the F.I.R.M. for a
reward. Stern refuses to give in so Slade carries out his threat and
makes the call. Hawke and Santini are ordered to pick up Slade at a
wild west rodeo, but Slade is killed in a mysterious accident. It is
now up to them to find and secure the weapon before Stern can smuggle
it to Cuba.
42
9
"Jennie"
Hawke
and Caitlin go to a war-torn South American country, meeting up with a
legendary soldier named "El Gato", and work to find an imprisoned
scientist. Hawke learns that in the year the scientist was held, he
developed a robotic tank called the "ALV" (Automated Land Vehicle)
which can be piloted remotely and it is now in the possession of the
rebel forces. The group springs the scientist, during which El Gato is
killed. Outnumbered, the group hides out in remote village where they
meet an American woman who is teaching deaf children. The rebel army
sends the ALV into the village to wipe it out and the only hope lies in
Airwolf to destroy the tank
first.
43
10
"The
Deadly Circle"
The
families of three of Hawke's Vietnamese friends have been kidnapped and
taken to an isolated compound in the California desert. He discovers
the kidnappers are survivors of "Village #108" which was a target
destroyed in an air strike led by Hawke and his three friends after
intelligence said it was a Viet Cong hide out. Archangel reveals the
original intelligence was wrong and Hawke's men had destroyed an
innocent village by mistake. Now the two survivors from that village
seek revenge and plan to execute the families in a similar airstrike of
the compound where they are being held.
44
11
"Where
Have All the Children Gone?"
A
Vietnam War buddy of Hawke's named John Fargo has died and been laid to
rest. Hawke takes Fargo's coffin flag and war medals to a small town to
give them to Fargo's only relative, his estranged brother Billy, who
did not show at the funeral. Billy however, is nowhere to be found, and
a young girl at his residence informs Hawke he does not live there
anymore. Hawke tries to locate the local Sheriff but finds Billy
running the town which is populated by hippy youths who look upon Billy
as their "father figure". Hawke's snooping lands him in jail until
Santini comes looking for him. Santini springs him out and the two
discover the militia trained youths have stolen a nuclear missile
called "Spaceguard" from a nearby aerospace facility and plan to target
Washington D.C. in the ultimate "anti-war" message. Hawke and Santini
must press Airwolf to her limits and stop the
missile before it
hits its target. This is the episode wherein Airwolf pushed its
altitude limit from 85,000 to 100,000 feet almost above stratospheric
height.
45
12
"Half-Pint"
Hawke
discovers that his brother St. John has a half-Vietnamese son named
LeVan who is living with an adopted family. The adopted father Darran
McBride tells Hawke that he was part of St. John's strike team where he
personally saw his brother fall during a raid on a Viet Cong chemical
weapons facility and believes he was killed. Hawke does not believe the
story and checks on McBride's war record which is a clean slate. Hawke
then takes his nephew for a weekend trip to his cabin and spends time
getting to know his new nephew. Hawke gets emotional when he has to
return LeVan to the McBride family but later gets involved when he
learns LaVan has run away from home. Hawke, Darran and Darran's friend
Glen Carlson search for him, finding the boy being harassed by street
thugs. Hawke gets suspicious when he learns Carlson is somehow involved
with the thugs and finds out he and McBride are running a mercy
operation to retrieve dead American soldiers still being found in
Vietnam. The coffin operation turns out to be a front for Carlton's
cocaine smuggling business.
46
13
"Wildfire"
Santini
gets to spend time with an old oil-drilling friend named "Big Cec" and
his son "Lil' Cec". Santini is shocked to learn the son was thrown out
of college for marijuana possession and their "father-son relationship"
has been falling apart since Cec's wife died. Big Cec hopes things will
go better for his son now that he was given a promising job at the oil
company, but trouble really begins when it is revealed that Lil' Cec
job has been smuggling drugs out of Mexico for the company's shady
owners.
47
14
"Discovery"
The
criminal mastermind, John Bradford Horn returns, and has sent his
henchmen to execute a woman, Grace Harrison, and her boyfriend out in
the desert. Grace is shot but manages to get away, crawling into a cave
which happens to be the hiding spot of Airwolf.
Hawke and
Santini rush out in response to a security alarm and find Grace
unconscious and near death. The two take her to a hospital run by the
F.I.R.M. She is treated, and Archangel decides to let her go, but puts
a tail on her. Grace is captured again by Horn but she reveals the
location of Airwolf is exchange for her
life.
48
15
"Day
of Jeopardy"
Tess
Dixon, the wife of the infamous crimelord Cullen Dixon, and an old
flame of Hawke's, escapes her husband's bodyguards and Archangel
contacts Hawke to deliver her to a safehouse. She plans to testify
against her husband's involvement in a plot to assassinate several
top-ranking Washington officials, but Hawke's previous involvement with
Tess makes it difficult for him. He must set his feelings aside once
Tess comes under attack by Cullen's thugs who want to make sure Tess
does not live to testify.
49
16
"Little
Wolf"
Hawke
is visiting a former Vietnam War pal named Greg Stewart and finds him
in the midst of a child custody battle between him and his ex-wife,
Rainey. The battle becomes more complicated when Greg's rich mother
Martha, gets involved and refuses to release the child from her custody
at her ranch. Rainey hides the child in Santini's car, and he and Hawke
quickly find themselves accused of kidnapping.
50
17
"Desperate
Monday"
Caitlin
is attending a Kappa Lambda Chi fraternity homecoming on the Queen
Mary
luxury liner. Unbeknown to her, one of her friends, Barbara Scarelli,
the daughter of a rich businessman, is about to be kidnapped in an
extortion attempt set up by her shady boyfriend Robert. The kidnap
attempt backfires when one of the kidnappers kills one of Barbara's
bodyguards and sets off alarms. In a panic, the three thugs take the
whole gathering hostage and make demands for a helicopter to the SWAT
team that stands by. The F.I.R.M. sends in Airwolf
to trap and take the criminals out.
51
18
"Hawke's
Run"
An
old Vietnam War buddy invites Hawke to join his mercenary squad, but
Hawke turns down the offer. The friend then invites Hawke to an art
showing, but upon getting there, he finds himself betrayed and set up
for assassination as gunmen storm in and shoot up the place. Hawke is
shot, but manages to escape. He is helped by a passerby who gets him to
the hospital under an assumed name. Hawke tries to contact Archangel
for help, but Zeus intervenes and believes Hawke has been compromised
and calls in the Zebra Squad to finish him off. Hawke now finds himself
running from assassins on both fronts.
52
19
"Break-In
at Santa Paula"
Hawke
helps a friend get her wrongly convicted son Terry, out of a brutal
Mexican prison. Hawke goes to get a layout of the prison and poses as
Terry's uncle to get close to him. The rescue attempt fails when Terry
refuses to leave a fellow inmate behind and Hawke's cover is blown. He
finds himself thrown into the same prison until Santini and Caitlin
mount a rescue.
53
20
"The
Girl Who Fell From the Sky"
During
a night-time fishing trip, Hawke spots a helicopter fly down and dump a
body into the lake. He fishes the body out the river finding it to be a
young girl who is barely alive and takes her to a hospital. The girl
recovers but has lost all memory of who she is or what happened to her.
Uncovering her identity, Hawke learns that she is a drug addicted
prostitute but has no idea why someone wants her dead. When the thugs
learn she is still alive, they come to finish the job and to kill the
only witness, Hawke.
54
21
"Tracks"
Hawke
takes a group of wheelchair-bound vets on an outdoor trip into the
mountains, but the group runs across a deranged woodsman known as "The
Cat" who has been terrorizing and murdering anyone who trespasses on
"his mountain". Santini and Caitlin learn Hawke and the men are in
trouble and mount a rescue attempt, racing against time to find the
team first before the killer does.
55
22
"Birds
of Paradise"
Hawke's
nephew LeVan shows up at Santini Air begging for help to find his
stepmother, Minh Van McBride, who has been missing for weeks. With
Archangel's help, Hawke and Santini track Minh Van's last whereabouts
to a swanky nightclub. They learn she has been abducted by Nick
Kincaid, a "white slaver" who kidnaps foreign women and sells them as
sex-slaves. Hawke also learns that Kincaid is a drug trafficker,
currently looking for a reputable pilot to smuggle shipments for him.
Hawke poses as an interested pilot to get inside Kincaid's operation
and locate Minh Van.
Season 4: 1987
For season four, CBS
wanted to make the show into a more family-friendly, action-oriented
program. Bernard L. Kowalski abandoned the project a year after series
creator Bellisario had decided to leave as well. USA Network
picked up distribution of the show, but with the remaining principal
cast being too expensive to hire, an entirely new cast was created.
Season four aired from January to August 1987, and was
produced on a
comparatively shoe-string budget. Atlantis Production's contract did
not provide the producers with the flying Bell 222 helicopter used for Airwolf,
and recycled aerial footage and poorly-produced special effects failed
to match the quality of the prior seasons. The full-sized mock-up of
Airwolf from prior seasons was used for static shots.
In the first episode of this new version, "Blackjack",
Hawke's
missing brother St. John was suddenly (and surprisingly easily)
discovered, creating contradictions to the character's already-varied
history. He took over as pilot of Airwolf with its new crew. "The
F.I.R.M." was now suddenly referred to as, "The Company," and gone were
its famous white suits. Filming of the fourth season was completed in
six months.
No.
Ep.
Title
56
1
"Blackjack"
Hawke
and Santini's niece Jo, are testing a helicopter control device, and
after landing, they find an audio tape that someone secretly placed
into the helicopter. The tape reveals evidence that Hawke's lost
brother St. John is still alive and being held prisoner somewhere in
South East Asia by a rebel mercenary group. Hawke takes the tape to the
F.I.R.M. where he finds Archangel has been suddenly reassigned to the
Middle-East and replaced by Jason Locke. Locke determines the tape
proves nothing and refuses to get involved. Later, Hawke receives a
mysterious package containing St. John's ring, further proof that his
brother may still be alive and trying to send a message. Suddenly,
Santini is killed when the helicopter he was about to fly explodes. The
blast seriously injures Hawke and he slips into unconsciousness at the
hospital. Meanwhile, Locke assigns pilot Major Michael Rivers to find Airwolf
and return it to the F.I.R.M. (which has been renamed "The Company").
Jo Santini discovers what is going on and intercepts Rivers convincing
him to help her find St. John. Rivers goes against orders and flies Airwolf
to Asia to rescue St. John and bring him back home. St. John is found
alive and returns to the United States just in time to be with Hawke's
final moments of life.
57
2
"Escape"
Jo
is in Istanbul awaiting her contact who has smuggled top secret papers
out of Bulgaria. The papers contain the locations of Soviet missile
installations and are brought to a Stockholm peace conference as
evidence that the Soviets are violating treaty stipulations. Her
contact fails to show so she goes looking for him and finds him shot.
Before he dies he reveals his hiding place for the papers and Jo
retrieves them. She gets on her plane for Stockholm but the flight is
forced down by Bulgarian fighter jets. Jo is arrested as a spy and
taken to a prison. Now St. John and Rivers must rescue her in time for
the conference.
58
3
"A
Town for Hire"
Jo
is testing a new navigation computer in her Jet Ranger helicopter, as
St. John follows in his plane. Suddenly, both aircraft are fired upon
by a laser weapon. Jo crashes in the wilderness but St. John manages to
make an emergency landing at a nearby airport. He is injured and taken
to the small town of San Maria's hospital, but is furious that no one
is looking for Jo's downed helicopter. Once he recovers his strength,
he forces a local deputy to go looking for Jo but they can find no
trace of the helicopter. The plot thickens as the whole town seems to
be under the control of the nearby company, Lundhal Industries. Once
the company is revealed to be a secret weapons testing facility, and Jo
has stumbled on their operation, St. John fetches Airwolf
to conduct a rescue, but soon Airwolf becomes the
laser's next target.
59
4
"Salvage"
St.
John and Rivers go to the remote town of Devil's Peak to meet a former
F.I.R.M. employee and check on her story of strange sounds and lights
coming from a nearby Indian burial ground. Investigating, the two
stumble upon a secret base where an advanced military helicopter called
the Scorpion is being tested and ready to be handed
over to the KGB.
60
5
"Windows"
The
Company sends the Airwolf
crew to tail a KGB agent who has stolen computer boards belonging to a
new government spy satellite. The team must recover the boards before
they are handed off to his Soviet comrades. They manage to kill the
agent and secure one of the boards but the other has already been
handed off to a second operative. The crew must get it back before the
second agent before he can escape the country.
61
6
"A
Piece of Cake"
Jo
catches a teenage boy hiding at the Santini Air hangar who has run away
from a nearby wilderness youth camp. The boy seems afraid of being
returned to his abusive grandfather, but Jo and Rivers bring him back
to the camp and decide to help make sure nothing happens to the boy.
The boy's hostile grandfather shows up threatening to kill everyone
with a rifle and a bomb unless his grandson his handed over. In a
scuffle, the man kidnaps Jo and takes her to a nearby dam. St. John
arrives to help in Airwolf and he and Rivers try to
get Jo back before the madman carries out his threat to kill her if his
grandson is not returned.
62
7
"Deathtrain"
Airwolf
is on a mission to guard a train carrying a deadly nerve gas on its way
for disposal, but a rebel mercenary group sets up a trap ahead of the
train at a mountain tunnel. The train enters the tunnel and the Airwolf's
crew temporarily lose sight of it until it reemerges at the other end.
Soon, they realize they have been duped and are following a decoy train
that was hidden in the tunnel while the real one has been stopped and
diverted elsewhere. The mercenaries take the gas canisters off the
train and hand them over to their fanatical leader who has his own
dubious plans for the deadly chemical. The situation intensifies when
Locke and a Russian commander who were on the train to supervise the
disposal, are captured and held as hostages.
63
8
"Code
of Silence"
Airwolf
is supporting a group of military helicopters who are returning a
kidnapped U.S. Ambassador who has just been set free by friendly ground
forces. The mission is being led by Colonel Combs, a man who St. John
once served under and is not on good terms with. During the flight
home, one of the helicopters piloted by an Army General's son, is shot
down and crashes. Now Colonel Combs is being held responsible for the
pilot's death. St. John is stunned when Combs chooses his former enemy,
St. John, to help in his defense at the court martial.
64
9
"Stavograd
(Part 1)"
"The Stavograd Incident (Part 1)"
On
a covert surveillance mission, Airwolf's
scanners detect a large plume of radioactive gas being vented from the
nuclear power plant at Stavograd, Russia. A new component at the power
plant has failed and the engineers cannot stop the dangerous gas leak
which is threatening the lives of millions. Disobeying Company orders
to not get involved, St. John offers the Russians assistance but they
refuse the help and warn not to enter their airspace. St. John pilots Airwolf
into Soviet airspace anyway and is quickly fired upon. Although Airwolf
avoids their missile strike, she is eventually surrounded by Migs and
forced to land where the crew are captured. Learning Airwolf
has been compromised, The Company simply writes them off and denies
involvement.
65
10
"Stavograd
(Part 2)"
"The Stavograd Incident (Part 2)"
The
story continues as the Airwolf
crew are being held as spies and "The Lady" is in the hands of the
enemy. Locke is furious about his employer's decision to abandon them
and decides to enter Russia on his own under a bogus passport, posing
as an international athlete. Arriving at Stavograd, Locke attempt to
get the crew out of lock up, but his cover is blown and he finds
himself in jail with them. Once St. John learns of the commanding
officer, General Kirov's plan to fire a missile into the Stavograd
reactor to seal the leak, St. John indicates that only Airwolf's
laser can fire so accurately. When one of Kirov's fighters tries the
maneuver and fails, Kirov turns to St. John's plan, but St. John
negotiates to do the job only if they release his companions. Kirov
reluctantly agrees, and as promised, St. John flies Airwolf
to the reactor to seal the leak.
66
11
"Mime
Troupe"
The
Airwolf
crew go to France to protect Anna LeBlanc, the star of a mime troupe
and whose father is dedicated to fighting terrorism. The Company
believes she may be the target of a retaliation after her father
receives a threat letter. St. John and Locke try to uncover who is
plotting her demise, while Jo and Rivers stay close to the girl, but
she does not believe her life is in danger once the agents reveal who
they are.
67
12
"X-Virus"
St.
John investigates the murder of a Japanese businessman who was injected
with a deadly experimental virus. St. John learns that if the virus
were released it could kill millions of people. Now he must uncover the
madman behind its creation and avert his deadly attack.
68
13
"Rogue
Warrior"
Once
again the Company tries to take possession of Airwolf
after Rivers and Locke ignore orders not to proceed into Soviet
airspace and retrieve information from a double agent. On their return
home, The Company fires Locke, along with the rest of the Airwolf
crew and they demand "The Lady" be handed over immediately.
69
14
"Ground
Zero"
Jo
is kidnapped by a Japanese businessman and forced to fly him to a
nuclear power plant. St. John discovers that the man was a Japanese
pilot, shot down in World War II by his father, and he seeks
revenge.
70
15
"Flowers
of the Mountain"
St.
John is testing a new military aircraft called the "Viper", but
something goes wrong with the plane and bails out before it crashes.
After it is revealed that the company who engineered the plane has made
a lemon and just wants a quick military sale, St. John tries to expose
their scheme but quickly finds himself on the run after the company
sends hit men after him.
71
16
"The
Key"
Anti-nuclear
protestors seize nuclear missiles in both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The
group threatens to detonate them unless both countries destroy their
nuclear stockpiles. At the same time Airwolf is off the shore of a
Scottish island, while Mike infiltrates the group's headquarters to get
a code that can stop the plan. Mike gets caught and the protest group's
leader is killed by his partner. The partner drugs Mike to get him to
give up Airwolf's location. Hawke frees Mike before he talks.
72
17
"On
the Double"
Mike's
near twin, an East German pilot, will appear at a European air show and
Mike has to replace him, while he is debriefed. Things get complicated,
with a schedule change, and Mike has to rush his mission training. At
the air show the Airwolf team find that the East Germans are on to the
agent and have imprisoned his wife until he completes his part in the
air show.
73
18
"Storm
Warning"
In
a war-torn South American country, Airwolf must rescue Hawke's friend,
Jack, from a local General. Hawke and Mike break in, while Locke uses
Airwolf to provide cover. Unfortunately, Jack is already dead, leaving
the mystery of where some smuggled money might have gone
unsolved.
74
19
"The
Golden One"
An
Afghan rebel wants military weapons and Jo Santini. Meanwhile Hawke and
Jo are testing Airwolf when Jo gets a message. A former boyfriend wants
to see her, and asks her to visit him in Afghanistan. She does go,
unknowingly walking into a trap.
75
20
"The
Puppet Master"
Locke
falls for a beautiful woman, who works for the Ridgemont Institute. The
Institute is run by a former employee of the F.I.R.M. who was a mind
control expert. When Kate shows Locke her workplace, he is captured and
an implant is used to gain control of him. He is then sent home,
unaware of the control in an attempt to get Airwolf.
76
21
"Malduke"
Hawke
and Mike find out via television that a madman wants all diseased
people quarantined so they can no longer contaminate the world. Airwolf
is sent to investigate. The madman finds out about Airwolf and
threatens to poison the Pacific if it is used against him.
77
22
"Poppy
Chain"
In
Laos, Mike tries to capture one of the world's largest opium suppliers.
After he fails, Hawke, Jo, and Mike are sent on separate missions to
stop portions of the drug lords operation.
78
23
"Flying
Home"
Hawke
and Mike investigate stolen plutonium, while Jo's dad lets her know
that hi is dying. The guys find out that an employee was blackmailed
into the theft by neo-Nazis who want a nuclear weapon.
79
24
"Welcome
to Paradise"
Hawke
ends up helping an old friend, who owns an aircraft charter service, at
the friend's wife request. They find him shot dead. They go after the
man responsible, who wants the land for his lumber scheme.
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 08:12 PM - ANIME Posted by Administrator
Black Cat(ブ
ラックキャット,Burakku
Kyatto)
is a Japanese Shōnenmanga
series written and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki. It was
originally serialized in Japan in Shueisha's
Weekly Shōnen Jump.
It was later collected in twenty tankōbon volumes from
January 11, 2001 to October 9, 2004. The series was adapted into a
twenty-four episode anime series by Gonzo
studio.
Chronos, an organization bent on world peace, rules one
third of the
world's economy. To maintain the balance of the world, Chronos is
therefore essential, and there is a need for people to protect Chronos.
Thirteen special elite assassins each possess unique orichalcum-forged
weapons and are called the Chrono Numbers, assassins who work for
Chronos. When the thirteenth Chronos Number (Train Heartnet), also
known as the infamous Black Cat, meets a Sweeper (licensed bounty
hunter) named Saya Minatsuki, Train's morals and values are changed
from those of Chronos's to those of his own. Instead of killing his
victims like he is ordered to, he merely uses Hades (his orichalcum
gun) to stop them instead. This leads to tension between him and the
Chronos Elders, the leaders of Chronos, and eventually culminates in
Train's departure from the organization. Creed Diskenth, a Chronos
assassin, resents the way that Saya changed Train's life, and murders
her. Six months later, Train is an easygoing Sweeper, traveling with
his partners Sven Vollfied and Eve, when Creed appears before Train
once more. Creed showed up before Train to get him to become partners
with him to overthrow Chronos and rule over the world. However, Train
refuses to join and the story goes on from there. Along the way Train
and company learn more about 'Tao' users.
Episodes
#
Title
1
"The
Solitary Cat / A Lonely Cat" "Kodoku na neko"(孤
独な猫)
Train Heartnet,
an assassin known as the Black Cat, and a sweeper named Sven Vollfied
pursue the same target without realizing it, the feared mobster and
soon-to-be governor, Lib Tyrant. While Train has to do it per orders
from his superior, Sven wants to earn the money from Tyrant's bounty.
During a party to celebrate Tyrant's assess to governor, Sven's right
eye sees that in five minutes Tyrant will be killed in five minutes and
tries to avoid it. However, Train easily kills Lib and Sven pursues him
to ask him why did he do that. Before he can do that, one of Tyrant's
bodyguards tries to kill Train, but fails. Train spares the bodyguard,
who is then killed by Train's partner. Sven discovers later on that
Train is a member from the organization Chronos. While remembering his
parents' deaths, Train meets a girl named Saya Minatsuki
on the rooftop while she is singing her song.
2
"The
Hesitant Cat / A Bewildered Cat" "Tomadou neko"(戸
惑う猫)
Saya
introduces herself to Train as a sweeper, and both start frequenting
each other every night despite Train's cold attitude. One day, Sven
meets a woman named Rinslet Walker,
who hires him to rescue her "sister", Eve,
a girl who was kidnapped by the weapons dealer Torneo Rudman. During
one of Saya's missions, Train helps her to take down Preta Ghoul, a
murderer with corrosive powers though Train questions Saya for not
killing him. Afterwards, Train meets Belze and is then sent to kill
Eve.
3
"The
Cat in the Dark / A Cat in the Dark" "Yami no naka no neko"(闇
の中の猫)
Sven
arrives at Torneo's mansion as Train is about to shoot Eve. Torneo's
men interrupt them, forcing Sven and Train to escape. The next day,
knowing that Rinslet is not Eve's older sister, Sven confronts her
concerning what she really wants. Rinslet explains that Eve is a
genetically engineered bio-weapon and that she wants to take the data
from Torneo's experiments. Sven runs into Eve, who escaped from Torneo,
at a park and befriends her. As both eat an ice cream, Eve is
re-captured by Torneo and Sven decides to rescue her. That night, Train
and Sven devise a plan to attack Torneo's mansion.
4
"The
Grinning Cat / A Smiling Cat" "Hohoemu neko"(微
笑む猫)
With
Rinslet, Sven goes to rescue Eve. Train easily defeats most of Torneo's
men, but Sven is able to get to Eve before him. As he catches up with
him, Train tries to shoot Eve, but is punched by Sven who escapes with
her. With Eve having decided to join Sven, Torneo activates a device
planted on Eve that turns her into a monster by controlling the
nanomachines inside her body. As Eve is ordered to kill Train, Sven
manages to escape from Torneo's men with Rinslet's help. Sven removes
the device at the cost of being stabbed. Train then destroys all of
Torneo's experiments, collapsing his castle. While Sven is healing,
Train once again attempts to shoot Eve but decides not to do it
remembering Saya's way of life.
5
"The
Departing Cat / A Determined Cat" "Ketsui suru neko"(決
意する猫)
Thinking that he is being used by Chronos, Train
decides to leave the organization to start a new life. Chronos sends Creed Diskenth
to kill Train, but Creed is easily defeated. Creed then asks Train to
join him in a revolution against Chronos which Train denies. When Train
leaves, Chronos' soldiers come to stop Creed, but he kills them
furiously as they interrupted his meeting with Train. Train finds Saya,
gives her his gun, Hades, and thanks her for helping him to decide to
leave Chronos. With Creed being unable to stop Train, a high ranking
member from Chronos, Sephiria Arks
goes to confront him.
6
"The
Cat Under Fire / A Targeted Cat" "Nerareru neko"(狙
われる猫)
Sephiria fights Train but both are interrupted
by one of Creed's comrades, Shiki,
as Creed still wants to make Train become his partner. They escape when
Saya's song dispels his magical insects. While returning to his house,
Train starts playing with Saya who returns Hades. Saya then arranges to
have a date with Train to watch the fireworks during a festival that
will be celebrated the next day. Enraged with how Train is changing,
Creed leaves a note in Train's house the next day, which has him
running desperately to find Saya. Before the date, Saya is attacked by
Creed, but is only able to stop him from killing children from the
festival. Train attacks Creed before delivering the final hit on Saya,
who still dies happy that she was able to see fireworks with
Train.
7
"The
Wounded Cat / A Wounded Cat" "Kizu darake no neko"(傷
だらけの猫)
When
an enraged Train fights Creed, Eve smells the blood and asks Sven to
take her to its source. A week later, Train wakes up in Sven's cabin as
Sven and Eve found him seriously injured during the festival. Eve still
does not trust Train because of his former life as an assassin,
resulting in Train telling her that she is also a murderer. After this,
Eve escapes scared from the cabin and she is found by the Chronos
assassin Jenos Hazard
who wants to finish Train's work. Train comes to Eve's defense and
helps her to knock Jenos out, who still fakes his defeat to avoid
fighting. Meanwhile, Chronos changes its focus to Creed, instead of
Train. The next day, Train leaves with Sven and Eve to work as a
sweeper.
8
"The
Sweeping Cat / A Traveling Cat" "Tabi suru neko"(旅
する猫)
Six
months after Train joined Sven and Eve, the trio has problems to obtain
money and Train and Sven do not allow Eve to capture a criminal by
herself. Rinslet is hired by Jenos to search for a man and a girl, Charden Flamberg
and Kyoko Kirisaki,
who are giving criminals a Tao-laced potion. These two people meet a
criminal who has killed people for destroying plants and give him a
potion. Rinslet then meets Train's group and tells Sven of such
criminal. Eve hears the conversation and goes alone to stop him. She
finds him but both start drinking tea while Eve questions the murderers
he made. The criminal goes berserk when Eve steps on a plant, and eats
the potion, becoming able to control his garden. Train tries to stop
him, and with Sven's help he is able to kill the criminal.
9
"The
Charming Cat / A Charming Cat" "Miwaku suru neko"(魅
惑する猫)
Rinslet
goes off in pursuit of Charden and Kyoko while Train's group go after a
Gyanza criminal enhanced by the power of Tao and who was arrested by
Sven seven years ago. Train temporarily leaves the group in search of
milk, and meets Kyoko, who falls in love with him after he saves her
from a gang in the moment she was about to kill them. Train ignores her
and returns to the group to prepare to capture Gyanza. Sven disguises
himself as a woman to make Gyanza attack him. In the course of the
fight Kyoko is involved, but she avoids all of Gyanza's attacks. By
using his right eye, Sven helps Train to defeat Gyanza. Charden then
comes and introduces Kyoko and himself as Apostles of the Stars,
a group created by Creed.
10
"The
Cat Unleashed / A Runaway Cat" "Bousou suru neko"(暴
走する猫)
Before
escaping on a helicopter, Charden tells Train that he can meet Creed in
the San Geles City. During a political gathering from such city, Creed
and the Apostles of the Stars start a terrorist attack as part of their
plan for a revolution. When Train finds and threatens Charden and
Kyoko, Creed appears before him. Creed once again requests Train to
join him, but Train tries to kill in revenge for Saya's death. All of
Train's bullets are blocked by Creed's sword and when he manages to
pierce a bullet through his chest, Creed easily heals his body with
Tao's power. When Creed's partner Durham Glaster
shoots Train, Sven receives the shot, and Creed leaves frustrated.
Train firously asks Sven why did he get in the middle of the fight, but
Sven hits him for fighting alone. Rinslet then explains to Train that
Sven's best friend was a comrade from the FBI and died in a battle for
protecting Sven, causing him to be afraid of losing his partner with
his right eye being the one from his friend. Next day, Train and Sven
make up by having a childish fight.
11
"The
False Cat / An Imitation Cat" "Itsuwari no neko"(偽
りの猫)
During
a conversation, Creed tells Durham that he is no match for Train
leaving him irritated. While searching for a criminal, Train's group
discovers that their target has already been captured by a man
impersonating Black Cat. Eve meets such person, Woodney,
and it turns out that he is using such identity to scare people who
want to bother him. Still, Eve befriends Woodney and secretely defeats
a trio of people wanting to defeat Black Cat before they proceed to
attack Woodney. Meanwhile, Jenos finds Rinslet and requests her to stop
pursuing the Apostles of the Starts though she denies doing that as she
wants to find the Tao potion. When Rinslet and Sven search for Creed's
group alone, Durham finds and treatens Eve to know Train's location,
but Woodney tries to protect her. Train then encounters Durham and
easily defeat him. Next day, with Woodney's help, Train's group make
Durham tell them Creed's location.
12
"The
Fighting Cat / A Fighting Cat" "Tatakau neko"(闘
う猫)
After
having a nightmare of Saya's death, Train goes to Creed's castle. At
the same time, Jenos and his partners Beluga J. Heard and Naizer
Bruckheimer, locate and attack Creed's castle in order to kill him. The
three Chronos' Numbers are attacked by the Apostles Kyoko, Leon Elliott
and Maro, but they manage to defeat them by attacking them with the
first floor's roof. While continuing their pursuing, Charden, Echidna
Parass, and Shiki confront the Numbers. Sven, Rinslet and Eve enter
into Creed's castle, but Eve separates from them to rescue Leon and
Rinslet and Sven are captured by "Doctor". Train gets to Creed, and
both fight once again. During the fight, Creed requests Train to shoot
him in his head so that he may recover his assassin nature. Train does
so but Echidna blocks the bullet. Jenos enters into Creed's room, but
he falls from the castle due to one of Creed's attacks. Beluga shoots
the castle with his bazooka until making it collapse, making the
captured Sven and Rinslet also fall. Before continuing fighting Creed,
Train decides to save his friends instead of seeking revenge and Creed
is ambushed by Naizer and Beluga. Later, in Sven's car, they talk about
why Train saved them instead of getting revenge. Somehow he
conversation leads to Saya, and Sven asks if she was Train's
girlfriend. After a few seconds of thinking, he says that she was just
a close friend. However, Eve doesn't think so and states that Train got
dumped.
13
"The
Love Cat / A L♥ve Cat" "LOVE neko"(LOVE
猫)
Creed
kills Durham, which influences Charden's and Kyoko's decision to leave
the Apostles. Kyoko decides to make Train a chocolate for "Heart Gift"
day. Doctor Kanzaki
shows up and tries to shoot Kyoko with a nanotech bullet, "Lucifer,"
but Train jumps in front and is hit.
14
"The
Kitty Cat / A Chibi Cat" "Chibi neko"(ち
び猫)
The
nanotech bullet has changed Train into a young boy. Eve and Train meet
Tim, Layla, Mika and other orphans, and they help them fend off a group
of gangsters. Train's past, where his parents were killed by an
assassin who raised him, is explained.
15
"The
Distant Cat / A Distant Cat" "Tooza karu neko"(遠
ざかる猫)
The
condition of Chronos wanes as Creed reveals its existence and the
corrupt nature to the world while he seeks media attention. The Numbers
grow restless, and Sephiria moves in to seek answers from, and even to
kill, Train. However, Sephiria is interrupted as Charden interferes and
combats both. Afterwards, Sephiria gives Train an orichalcum bullet to
use later.
16
"The
Cat and the Lizard / A Dragon-Hunting Cat" "Ryu wo kariru neko"(竜
を狩る猫)
Sven looks into a sweeper alliance
formed to catch Creed. Train and Eve go after a lost pet lizard, Flora.
The lizard turns out be a Tyrannosaurus,
but Train and his friends manage to subdue it. Train learns of Creed's
location, Kraken Island, from the alliance and heads out
alone.
17
"The
Napping Cat / A Dozing Cat" "Madoromu neko"(ま
どろむ猫)
Train
meets a woman named Saki while crossing a mountain on his way to Creed.
Saki looks identical to Saya, and she lives a mysterious existence,
protecting a baby prince from hisenemies. Train helps her, and then he
wakes up in the road with his friends there. Train has a dream of Saya
where he remembers that she was the reason he is the way he is
now.
18
"The
Cat Deploys / A Sailing Cat" "Fune dasuru neko"(船
出する猫)
The
sweeper alliance gathers at a port before heading to Creed's island. It
turns out the leader of the alliance is really Number X, Lin Shao Lee,
and that Chronos has hired them to act as decoys. Dr. Kanzaki releases
nano/Tao beasts on the city, and the sweepers defeat them. They and
Chronos decide to work together and fight against Creed.
19
"The
Sprinting Cat / A Scampering Cat" "Shisou no neko"(疾
走の猫)
The
sweepers and the Chronos Numbers attack Creed's Island. Train meets
Creed and fights him. Eve fights Leon showing him who his real partners
are.
20
"The
Cat's Showdown / A Confronting Cat" "Taiketsu suru neko"(対
決する猫)
Sephiria
orders Train to dispatch Creed, but Train declines, wishing only to
apprehend him as a sweeper. During their battle, Train, with help from
Saya's spirit, fires an orihalcon bullet into Creed's fully-awakened
Imagine Blade, shattering the weapon and defeating Creed. Eve disables
the nanomachines within Creed, who leaves with Echidna Parass.
The heroes win the battle, but it appears some of the Numbers and
Apostles have betrayed them.
21
"The
Drowning Cat / A Drowning Cat" "Oboreru neko"(溺
れる猫)
Mason,
along with a few traitorous Numbers and Apostles, has formed the Zero
Numbers. They have a plot that involves taking Eve to Eden, a giant
experimental machine. They kidnap Eve by placing a device on her that
removes her personality and makes her an unemotional weapon.
22
"The
Cat Bares Claws / A Claw-Sharpening Cat" "Tsume wo togu neko"(爪
を研ぐ猫)
Mason
merges Eve with the machine Eden. Eden then creates a nanomachine rain
that consumes people. While Rinslet finds Eve's creator Tearju Lunatique,
Train gets the assistance of the remaining Numbers and the sweeper
alliance, and everyone heads off to stop Eden.
23
"The
Cat's Paradise / A Cat in Paradise" "Rakuen no neko"(楽
園の猫)
Eden uses the consumed people to go to a more
powerful, second stage. After Leon, Kyoko and Charden
encounter and join them, the heroes trap Eden by luring her into a
canyon using Sven and fireworks as bait. A battle ensues with the Zero
Numbers while Train and Sven attempt to enter Eden to save
Eve.
24
"The
Carefree Cat / A Wayward Cat" "Kimama na neko"(気
ままな猫)
Train
and Sven successfully enter Eden and fight their way through their
defenses, but they meet Mason. Creed shows up to fight Mason while
Train and Sven go to save Eve, but Train meets Zagine's ghost due to
Eden tampering with his past memories. After some talking Train severs
the link between Eve and Eden and everyone returns to their lives.
Rinslet is with Jenos as Sven and Eve drive off looking for Train, who
disappeared after the battle; they are confident in that he will join
them again eventually. In the end, Train walks into the streets
thinking of Saya, with a smile on his face.
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 08:28 PM - ANIME Posted by Administrator
KURAU Phantom Memory(ク
ラウ ファントムメモリー,Kurau
Fantomu Memorī)
is a Japanese science fictionanime
series, produced by Bones and Media Factory, which was
broadcast in Japan by the anime television networks Animax
and TV Asahi.
Set primarily in the year 2110, it explores themes such as
inter-familial relationships and ethics in science. The series was
licensed by A.D. Vision
for North American localization since the first episode aired, and the
first DVD was released on April 10, 2007. In 2008, the show, and along
with over 30 other titles from A.D. Vision were transfered to Funimation Entertainment
In the year 2100, Dr. Amami is a scientist working in
the field of alternative energy, who
at the beginning of the series is on the verge of a major breakthrough
in the area of Rynax energy.
His daughter Kurau accompanies him to the lab on her twelfth birthday,
where an experiment goes horribly wrong and she is struck by a bolt of
this energy, which knocks her unconscious.
When she wakes up again, it is found that her body has
been taken
over by two Rynax, who are actually sentient life forms and not just a
form of energy. However, one of the Rynax is too weak to awaken. The
awakened Rynax takes on Kurau's name and identity, and though her
newfound superhuman abilities make her a subject of interest for
scientists, Kurau manages to live a relatively normal life. Ten years
later, the second Rynax awakens and emerges as a twelve-year-old girl,
whom Kurau names Christmas. The two look and interact very much like
sisters.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 09:16 PM - ANIME Posted by Administrator
Shikabane Hime(屍
姫,
lit. Corpse Princess) is a Japanese manga
series written and illustrated by Yoshiichi Akahito. Premiering in Monthly Shōnen Gangan
on April 12, 2005, the on-going series centers around the "Corpse
Princess" Makina Hoshimura, an undead girl who is hunting
down 108undead
corpses in order to gain entry into heaven with the help of a
secret society of anti-corpse Buddhist monks.
Feel and Gainax
partnered together to adapt the series into a thirteen episode anime
series. The first season, Aka(赫),
premiered on AT-X
on October 2, 2008. A second season, Kuro(玄),
aired between January and March 2009. The anime is licensed for North
American distribution and release by Funimation
Entertainment, which has already started releasing the
episodes in subtitled form as Shikabane Hime
through various online distribution companies and through its own
website.
Shikabane
Sometimes referred to as corpses. When a person dies
with a powerful regret or obsession, they may become a Shikabane. As a
Shikabane, they are not alive in the same way a human is alive. Their
appearance may also differ greatly from that of a human. Shikabane are
given superhuman strength and a unique ability or attribute called a
curse. Shikabane have no feeling towards living and tend to kill them
by either because of there regret or obsession. A Shikabane can be
killed by destroying their brain or cutting them up into small enough
bits.
Shikabane Hime
Shikabane Hime are Shikabane that follow the Kōgon
Sect. They are partnered with a monk, who provides them with life
energy called Rune. In exchange, the Shikabane Hime act as shields for
their monk. They are used to hunt and kill Shikabane. So far, only
girls of a certain age group can become a Shikabane Hime. If their
partner monk dies, the Shikabane Hime usually dies, otherwise they
become Shikabane. Shikabane Hime keep their human form, but do have a
monster form that occasionally emerges. Unlike Shikabane, Shikabane
Hime usually do not have a curse. In order for a Shikabane Hime to go
to Heaven, they must kill 108 Shikabane. This number may be from the
number of sins in Buddhism.
Contract Monk
Contract Monks are the partner monks of the Shikabane
Hime. They usually provide their Shikabane Hime with support and linked
by via a bond. To become a Contract Monk, you must have a bond with the
Shikabane Hime.
Curse
A curse is a unique power that a Shikabane possess.
Generally, it has something to do with their obsession or regret.
Investigator
A monk who acts as support for Contract Monks. They
usually do not have a contract of their own.
Season
1: Aka
#
Title
01
"The
Dead Dance" "Shi ga Mau"(死
が舞う)
Makina Hoshimura, a deceased teenager, is given
her first mission to eliminate dead corpses on Earth. Her target is
Hagino, a criminal accused of killing women, who came back from the
dead as a vampire corpse.
02
"The
Game Continues" "Yūgi no Tsuzuki"(遊
戯のつづき)
After several children killed in a highway
accident come back to life as corpses, Makina is dispatched to kill
them. However, Ouri Kagami gets in the way when one of them pleads to
him to help her escape. Keisei and a band of anti-corpse monks assist
Makina to take down the child corpses.
03
"Voice
of Night" "Yoru no Koe"(夜
の声)
Makina is tasked to hunt down an unknown Corpse
responsible for killing off young women. Keisei learns that someone
familiar with Corpses is using a doctor to conduct illegal experiments
on dead bodies in order to turn them into monsters.
04
"Hymn
of Tragedy" "Sanbika"(惨
美歌)
Makina is dispatched to assassinate Kun Osaki, a
J-pop
singer who became a Corpse after refusing to accept her death because
of her wish to continue singing. Armed yakuzas are, however,
instrumental in fending off the first attempt when an unknown monk
warns Osaki's manager. Keisei gives Makina a hand in killing
Osaki.
05
"Traitor
Monk" "Haishinsō"(背
信僧)
A Corpse disguised as an SUV roams around the Greater
Tokyo Area, killing off anyone who dares to enter it. Keisei
tells Ouri the true nature of his job, which results in his suspension
unless he kills Ouri. A new Shikabane Hime team arrives, namely Itsuki
Yamagami and her contractor priest Takamasa Sougi, to deal with a rogue
Kougon cult priest.
06
"At the
End of the Dangerous Run" "Yōsō no Hate"(妖
走の果て)
Makina defeats the SUV corpse after being
assisted by Keisei. The rogue priest is revealed to be Akasha, a member
of the Kougun cult who went underground due to his radical views of
using Corpses as instructed. Keisei uses a cube
filled with the blood of dead corpses as a shield to temporarily defeat
Akasha, who retreats. The entire Kougun cult is shocked to learn that
Akasha has resurfaced while contemplating plans to reinstate Keisei
back with them.
07
"The
False Power of Words" "Nisegotodama"(偽
言魂)
Ouri encounters an ex-high school student named
Mitsuyoshi, who had somehow turned into a Corpse with telekinetic
abilities after dropping out of school. Despite Makina and Minai's
intervention in trying to kill him, Mitsuyoshi's abilities and his
fighting strength somehow hampers their efforts in subduing
him.
08
"Serenity" "Yasuragi"(安
らぎ)
Minai defeats the Corpse, Mitsuyoshi, with some
help. After killing him, Ouri has his cell phone taken away for
"evidence" by Minai. After school, Minai and Ouri go buy a new one
together. Later Minai's contract priest is killed by a group of thugs
making Minai a normal Corpse. She is hunted down by other shikabane
hime, but escapes with Ouri's help. He takes her to the bar where he
works and says she will be safe there. There, she is told that if she
makes a contract with Ouri she will be able to survive as a shikabane
hime. However, it is later revealed that it is in that very bar Minai
is disposed of by the owner and his hime.
09
"Set
Your Heart Aflutter" "Sono Mune ni Tokimeki wo"(そ
の胸にトキメキを)
Makina saves a bunch of students from a Corpse,
specifically Kasuka (nicknamed Omune-sama), a girl who later becomes
infatuated with Makina's beauty of death. Later, Ouri investigates what
happened to Minai from Makina with no success. Curious about Ouri's
insensitivity towards death, Makina approaches Keisei asking why he is
so compassionate towards the Shikabane. Keisei shows us a flashback of
Ouri's first appearance at the orphanage, where we see an emotionless 3
year old Ouri. He had been detached from the world until he rescued a
kitten crying by the riverbed. In a tragic twist, that cat died shortly
after from a car accident. Ouri, affected by this incident, is aware of
death constantly. Kasuka visits Makina bad mouthing Ouri, suggesting he
would never know Makina like she does. Makina defends him by stating he
knows more about her (death) than Kasuka ever will.
10
"Stars
on the Ground" "Chi ni Hoshi"(地
に星)
Keisei learns that Minai is dead after being
killed by an auditor, which is strange to him since Ouri was hiding
her. He rushes out of the hospital to his superior, Bishop Gon to
confront him. Afterward, Ouri is called out by Kasuka to look at a
magazine featuring a cult with followers that regenerate after being
burned alive. Under the belief that it is related to the Shikabane,
Ouri visits this cult only to discover it to be a hoax instead. Upon
Ouri's departure, the cult leader is visited by Seven Corpses calling
themselves Skikusei Hokuto. He is killed by Hokuto, the leader of the
Shichisei Hokuto. The group is contacted by the Kougon traitor, Akasha
to plot the elimination of the Kougon shikabane sect, Shouhouha.
Meanwhile, Keisei tracks down the auditor to Ouri's part time job.
Forced to keep hidden, the auditors leave suddenly. Finally we see
Makina's visions of the Shichisei Hokuto, suggesting she was killed by
them.
11
"One
Night" "Aru Yoru"(あ
る夜)
The Kougan discover from surveillance videos
that Hokuto is in the area. Aragami-san gives the intel to Keisei, upon
which Makina shivers trying to keep her excitement and anger under
control. Ouri is back at the orphanage for the time being since he is
out of work. Keisei tells Ouri about how in his past, he was raised by
Makina's father, and why he made the pact to be a contracted priest.
The Shichisei Hokuto, Ena-san makes his move and targets Ouri by
possessing him. The Buddhist Corpse of Shikusei Kowaku and the Traitor
Asaka attacks Keisei and Makina at the temple grounds. Asaka escapes
and Keisei pursues. While checking on the safety of the orphans, Keisei
is stabbed by the possessed Ouri.
12
"Dawn" "Yoake"(夜明け)
Keisei is later wounded more heavily and dies
after shifting his contract with Makina to Ouri. Makina manages to
defeat Shichisei Kowaku whilst fighting with Ouri.
13
"Funeral
Program for a Contracted Monk" "Keiyakusō Kokubetsushiki Shidai"(契
約僧告別式次第)
Keisei's funerals are celebrated and Ouri
decides to become a priest because now the only thing that his brother
has left to him is Makina. He understands that the night of the
Keisei's death has changed his life for ever...
Season 2: Kuro
#
Title
01
"Path
of Light" "Hikari no Michisuji"(光
の道筋)
A priest wants Makina to be killed. Makina is
currently imprisoned and spirits are eating her rune. Ouri undergoes
priest training but gets cut off because of an incident at Makina's
prison.
02
"My
Enemy" "Waga Teki"(我
が敵)
The shichisei make their grand entrance and a
minor fight is held but quickly cut short. Major characters assemble
and are re-introduced.
03
"Beloved
Aberration" "Itoshiki Igyō"(愛
しき異形)
Makina completed an Enkiri to get rid of the
rotten rune. Meanwhile, Ouri is continuing training but Makina
interrupts Ouri in the hot springs and demands to be released from the
contract. She is then captured and put in prison. "Genpaku" Takamasa
takes Ouri to observe one of his missions to kill a corpse.
04
"Itsuki's
Form" "Itsuki no Katachi"(異
月の貌)
A bit of history about Itsuki and "Genpaku"
Takamasa's early days as a team. Genpaku has to face a friend from four
years ago, one that he could not kill back then.
05
"Nature
and Regrets" "Saga to Miren"(性
と未練)
Itsuki fights a corpse and Ouri is shown a side
of the shikabane hime he doesn't know. Rumours are heard that Keisei's
body has turned into a corpse, and Sadahiro is sent to destroy it.
Later on, Makina meets with "Keisei's corpse" but it turns out that it
was the shichisei Ena. Ouri and Makina meet with Sadahiro and his
shikabane hime in the forest; they all face the body controlling
shichisei.
06
"Monster
Named Happiness" "Kōfuku to Iu Kaibutsu"(幸
福という怪物)
Ouri and Makina fight Ena, one of the Shichisei.
Ouri is shown to have a bit of Zadan Jutsu power, having entered the
Kougonshuu. Meanwhile, Kagusa gets controlled by Touya, the "balloon
monster" shichisei. Ouri and Makina confirm their contract but
afterwards, the controlled Kasuga goes into Ouri's apartment and pushes
him down onto the floor.
07
"Mundane
Wish" "Arifureta Nozomi"(あ
りふれた望み)
Inuhiko[?], Ouri's classmate smacks Kasuga in
hopes of getting her back to normal, but Kagusa escapes and Inuhiko
tells Ouri that Kasuga loves him. Makina hears of the incidents at
school and runs there, and meets Kasuga who manages to trap Makina with
the balloon curse and runs away. Ouri catches up with Kasuga who is
about to get eaten by her "happiness". Makina defeats a shichisei but
is knocked unconscious by another. Ouri makes an attempt to destroy the
happiness monster with a Zadan Jutsu but fails. It is revealed that
Ouri is believed to be the child of a corpse.
08
"My
Mother Is Immoral" "Waga Haha wa Kegare Tamaishi"(我
が母は穢れたまいし)
Kasuga Nozomi dies completely because she did
not fulfill the requirements needed to become a shikabane hime. Only
girls of a certain age group and under special circumstances can become
Shikabane Hime. Makina wakes up in the Shichisei Headquarters and
fights Hokuto excitedly. The shichisei reveals some plans and the
kougonshuu reveals to Ouri that they believe that he is the child of a
corpse. He loses control when he remembers his childhood, and the high
priest Gon kicks him out of kougonshuu to relieve him of his job as a
contractor priest. A small scuffle over Ouri's priest friends allows
him to escape back to the orphanage. One of the shichisei, Huzuchi, is
revealed to be killed by Ouri's "mother" and has a grudge against Ouri
for being the only one left alive.
09
"The
Value of the Living" "Shōja no Kachi"(生
者の価値)
Ouri learns of his mother being a corpse and
more of his past. The Kougon Sect regroups as the Seven Stars commence
the final action of their plan as Planes all over the city crash into
buildings creating Countless Shikabane.
10
"To the
Other Side of Hell" "Jigoku no Saki e"(地
獄の先へ)
The true agenda of the Seven Stars and the
Traitor Monks is revealed as the Catastrophe of the city creates
Numerous Shikabane and The Corpse Princesses Fight the hordes. Only to
collapse when their Contract bond is broken as Hokuto destroys a
mysterious Casket.
11
"One
Hundred and Eight Lies" "Hyakuhachi no Uso"(一
〇八の嘘)
The secret to the Shikabane Hime's power is
Revealed as it is the corpse of the first Shikabane Hime. The truth
behind The Traitor Monk is told. The Shikabane Hime who collapsed
Continue to fight. Hokuto Becomes a Shikabane Hime herself as Ouri and
Makina find New power to continue the fight.
12
"Beyond
the Dead" "Kabane no Hate"(屍
の果て)
As the battle between Hokuto and Makina
Continues it is revealed that Corpse Princess' Choose to Bond with
their Monks and all the Princess' regain their power. Another of The
Seven Stars is defeated and one gives up. The last Seven Stars escapes
with Hokuto. Makina and Ouri decide to make a final decision on their
Future.
The method of heating plasma used in VASIMR was
originally developed as a result of research into nuclear fusion. VASIMR is
intended to bridge the gap between high-thrust,
low-specific impulse
propulsion systems and low-thrust, high-specific impulse systems.
VASIMR is capable of functioning in either mode. Scientist and former
astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz
created the VASIMR concept and has been working on its development
since 1977
The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket,
sometimes
referred to as Electro-thermal Plasma Thruster or Electro-thermal
Magnetoplasma Rocket, uses radio waves to ionize and to heat propellant
and magnetic fields to accelerate the resulting plasma to generate
thrust. This type of engine is electrodeless and as such belongs to the
same electric propulsion
family (while differing in the method of plasma acceleration) as the electrodeless plasma
thruster, the microwave
arcjet, or the pulsed inductive thruster
class. It can also be seen as an electrodeless version of an arcjet,
able to reach higher propellant temperature by limiting the heat flux
from the plasma to the structure. Neither type of engine has any electrodes.
The main advantage of such designs is elimination of problems with
electrode erosion that cause rival designs of ion thrusters
which use electrodes to have a short life expectancy. Furthermore,
since every part of a VASIMR engine is magnetically shielded and does
not come into direct contact with ionized plasma, the potential
durability of this engine design is greater than other ion/plasma
engine designs.
The engine design encompasses three parts: turning gas
into plasma via helicon RF antennas;
energizing plasma via further RF heating
in an ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) booster; and using
electromagnets to create a magnetic nozzle to convert the plasma's
built-up thermal energy into kinetic force. By varying the amount of
energy dedicated to RF heating and the amount of propellant delivered
for plasma generation VASIMR is capable of either generating
low-thrust, high-specific impulse exhaust or relatively high-thrust,
low-specific impulse exhaust.
VASIMR is not suitable to launch payloads from the
surface of the
Earth due to its low thrust to weight ratio and its need of a vacuum to
operate. Instead, it would function as an upper stage for cargo,
reducing the fuel requirements for in-space transportation. The engine
is expected to perform the following functions at a fraction of the
cost of chemical technologies:
drag compensation for space stations
lunar cargo delivery
satellite repositioning
satellite refueling, maintenance and repair
in space resource recovery
ultra fast deep space robotic missions
Other applications for VASIMR such as the rapid
transportation of
people to Mars would require a very high power, low mass energy source,
such as a nuclear reactor
In August 2008, Tim Glover, Ad Astra director of development, has
publicly stated that the first expected application of VASIMR engine is
"hauling things [non-human cargo] from low-Earth orbit to low-lunar
orbit" supporting NASA's return to Moon efforts
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