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Section III heads to confront Mione and the flamethrower user when they find that Claymore One, one of the most powerful assault teams from Section I is already there which Alice opposes.

Impressions:

That was just simply amazing. This is one of the best episodes in this entire series. I was on the edge of my seat the whole way though the episode. Unlike some other episodes that have pretty big plot involvement, only about half of that episode deals with it and the other half is something else. This entire episode from beginning to last was just amazing. There was HUGE plot advancement into what this Silver Wheel was, things that are working in the background, Section III interfering with what they think is right, a mystery behind why a super uber assault team has to take out amateurs. I was just constantly blown away by this episode. Truly amazing. This show may have had some slow episode sin the past which hurt the series a bit, but I just cannot say enough about this episode.

Although they had been recently focusing on 908, the flamethrower guy. Most of the excitement and awesomeness that this episode was seemed to be around the confrontation of Mione and the masked guy and then between Section III and Claymore One. I’m not upset at all that there wasn’t much confrontation against the actual flamethrower guy. First off the masked guy was again awesomely fucking cool the way he whipped out those knives on wires and killed a dozen people like it was nothing. Then, after that was over there was the conflict behind what the hell Claymore One was even doing there. Captain Hunks seemed shocked at that and said something fishy is going on, like they are trying to cover something up. I just think so many things came together in this episode that they didn’t have to focus on just one conflict. Even though some episodes don’t show it, there are many forces working in this plot that conflict and I think this episode was an amazing example of how good this show can be.

Alice was especially awesome in this episode. Again she showed a huge since of courage and doing what is right. She stood up to Section I for being in their way, not letting others opinions of Section II matter. Standing up saying what they are doing is wrong, and going up against them herself when she is one person against a team of what is apparently one of the best assault teams in the army. Not to even mention the fact that it was amazing cool of her to be wielding a gigantously huge double bladed sword. Her fight scene and just standing up to Claymore One members was so cool to see.