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01:42 This week we are covering victory episode eleven, schrakutai no Boheki or the Shrike team bulwark. The episode was written by Oka Akira, storyboarded by Kase Mitsuko, the original chief director of 0083, Stardust Memory, and directed by Egami Kiyoshi. The animation director was Osaka Hiroshi, Victorys character designer. And now the recap. Battered but unbroken, the Camion convoy and its shrike team escorts completes the journey to the DD rendezvous point. Shakti seems preoccupied, thinking about everything they left behind at the goat, the chickens. She wants to go back. Uso is determined to stick with the league militaire. Shakti accuses him of only caring about getting to see Miss Katagina again. For a moment, Uso's face betrayed. Praise him, but he assumes an innocent countenance and denies the charge. He just wants to learn more about his parents. Maybe the league militaire people know something. Didi turns out to be an old airfield at Bohenia, some 50 miles due south of Uig, guarded by James guns, federation forces, mobile suits. The gathering is less impressive than they might have hoped. Besides the James guns, there are only a couple of transport planes with their crews and three complete victory gundams. Until now, the Camion team has believed the plan was to consolidate resistance forces here at DD before launching an all out attack on the yellowjacket. Base at Largaine, expelling the invaders and securing Europe. To their dismay, the Federation transport pilot, Lieutenant Gomez, says that his orders are to retrieve the victory units and transport them to Ireland, where they will be loaded onto a federation ship and sent into space. After all, this civilian level resistance is no match for the professional Bespa forces. It is obvious enough that Gomez doesnt want to be here, and as Romero stalks away in a foul temper, the Federation pilot snarls that this is all the fault of that fool hungerg Eben. If he had just stuck to his duties. Ouco whirls around. Excuse me, excuse me. He tugs on Gomezs vest. How do you know that name? But Gomez just shakes him off, leaving Uso to wonder how it is that a Federation soldier would know his fathers name. The tension between Marbet and Oliver hasnt dissipated yet, and its obvious that the source of the trouble is his commitment to the shrike team. The shrikes themselves are amused by the tiff, but they are quick to get to work loading the three victory gundams onto the waiting transport planes, all the while rebuffing unwelcome flirtation from the planes crew. Uso wanders the hangar looking more childish than ever, asking every Federation crewman he can find if they know the name of Hunger Geben. One after another, they brush him off just like Gomez did. Cant he see how busy they are harassing these beautiful and stylish women? Odello interrupts the haphazard interrogation and drags Uso outside for a private conversation. Hes worried about Warren and Susie. If Uso is going to go looking for his parents, he should at least have the good grace to do it when the young orphans arent watching. Besides, its embarrassing seeing him suck up to those federation scumbags. Uso only seems to hear the second part. Im not sucking up to them. Theres just something I want to ask them. But when he tries to walk away, Odello tackles him. The sound of the boys fighting attracts first the shrikes, who place bets on which boy will win, and then Shakti, flanked by Haro and Flanders, who looks with horror and disgust on this violent creature who used to be the sweet boy next door called Uso. Elsewhere, a team of yellowjackets from Pipinidens unit is hunting for the league military convoy, the scars from Dupres final battle point south, and when a loose lipped local in a sleepy bar confirms that he saw a truck carrying mobile suits headed in that direction just half a day ago, the scouts realize the league must have been headed for the old airfield at Bohenia. Lupe puts out the call for reinforcements before casually executing everyone in the bar. Back at the airfield, Leonid chats with Uso as he tends the scrapes and bruises from his scuffle with Odello. It turns out that he and the other old men also knew hangar Geben, but never suspected he had left a son behind in an out of the way place. Like Kasarelia, Leonid remembers him as a careful man who used his connections with the Federation to help establish the league militaire. But no one knows where he's gone now, if he's even alive or dead. A man like him, Sanskar wouldn't hesitate to use the guillotine if they caught him. And they know nothing about Uso's mother, Mira Miguel. The conversation leaves Uso stewing as he wanders around the woods, idly kicking trees. He runs into Odello again. The older boy scowls at him, and at first it seems like hes come to finish their fight away from prying eyes and interfering girls. But then his expression softens. Your dad worked for the public transport corporation, didnt he? At RD Gibraltar? Thats the headquarters for the whole eurozone. I think its worth checking out. USO accepts the olive branch and they are friends again, just in time, because the forest shakes with sudden violence and the sound of not too distant explosions alert everyone to the arrival of Bespa forces. The Katarl team is first to arrive, their light battle bikes now augmented by an enormous galaxy mobile armor. Lupe's thomliots are not far behind. The shrikes race for their gun easy mobile suits, determined to protect the transport plane until it can get away with the three intact victory units. This was their original mission, after all, and no one can muster much confidence in the James guns defending the airfield. Lieutenant Gomez wants to take off immediately. His orders are to get the victories out of there, and he refuses to stick around to fight. Basakti, Flanders, Haro and the baby Karlman are all missing. Without a second thought, Uso hops on his waapa and goes looking for them, followed moments later by Odello and company. Over the ineffectual protests of Romero and Oliver, the agile battle bikes cut the sluggish James guns to pieces, but they are in turn decimated by the shrikes, who seem to be everywhere at once on the battlefield. Odello catches up to Uso and manages to convince the latter to get back to his gundam and join the battle raging all around them. Odello and the others will find Shakti, but none of them are going to escape alive. Unless USO and the other fighters can hold off the yellowjackets, Shakti is deep in the woods, planting fireweed seeds and watering them with tears. Heedless of Carlmans sobbing harrows, entreaties, and flanders insistent, tugging on her sweater. Suzy hears the baby crying, but no amount of pleading or cajoling by the other kids can get Shaktis attention. Theyre nearly caught in a burst of gunfire from a passing Thomleyat, but even that has no effect on her. In the end, Suzy and Warren have to manhandle the distraught girl onto their Waapa Uso, shielding them with the body of his mobile suit, while shrike team officer Junco keeps the enemy at bay. They race back to the airfield just in time to see one of the shrikes, Helen, crushed inside her cockpit by a Thomliat's fist. But Helens sacrifice gives the rest of them Camion crew, Gundam pilots, largaine orphans and shrikes alike, the chance to get away. But they will not be going to Ireland with the planes damaged and more mobile suits on board than they had planned. They will be going south west toward the Alps, then the Pyrenees and beyond Gibraltar. The battle has left its scars on all of them. Oliver tries to comfort Junco, telling her not to cry as tears stream down his face. In the planes cockpit, Romero lays a comforting hand on Lieutenant Gomez's trembling arm. We're fighting a state that rules through terror. That's all there is to it.