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Madlax Episode 21 - guilty

Vanessa nurses Madlax while Margaret and Carossur open the gate of truth - Margaret tries to stop Carossur going through, but finds herself spirited into a flowery landscape. Carossur, meanwhile, finally sees what happened 12 years ago...

The rest is in the extended entry, because finally we get some answers. Wow, what an awesome episode! I think one of the major stumbling blocks of Madlax is that the first episodes vaguely look like they're supposed to be realistic - if you take the whole thing as pure fantasy, as it's now become, those first episodes don't seem anywhere near as stupid.

Carossur was on the same plane as Margaret when the accident that killed her parents occurred - it appears that Friday used the power of the books and the resulting explosion of energy hit the plane.

Carossur and Margaret were the only survivors (or were they? Remember Chris from episode 5? I think he was on the plane too.), and escaped through the battlefield that Friday has turned Gazth-sonika into. They ran into a confrontation between Colonel Burton (Margaret's father) and Friday - Friday calls Burton "Madlax"! Burton shot Friday in the face (explaining the mask I guess), and Margaret ran to him - we see Carossur get shot, and the wound re-opens in the present day as the gate shuts.

Reticia warns Carossur not to re-open them, since he will die if he does so, but he pays no heed. He finally sees the truth about Madlax as the Carossur in Reticia's dreamscape fades away, leaving Carossur to die beside Margaret. This gives Friday (who is still alive!) the opportunity to retrieve the books and capture Margaret, and the apparent truth is reconfirmed - that Madlax shot Margaret's father.

Posted by BluWacky at September 6, 2004 12:03 AM | TrackBack