Episode 33: Al, Captured (2003 series)

Continuing off from the previous episode, Al faces the three Chimeras, Roa, Martel, and Dolcetto. Martel is able to get into Al's armor and use her snake abilities to hinder Alphonse's movement enough so Roa can restrain him. Once the signal is blown, Greed prepares to leave and plans to deal with Ed so he can't pursue them. However, noticing Dante and Lyra, Greed decides to leave at once with Solf J. Kimblee back to their hideout. A short while later, Ed is searching the city for Al, while Izumi and Sig Curtis meet with Dante who informs them of the situation. The only clue they have is the cigarettes left behind with the words Devil's Nest on them. After Dante and Izumi talk about their different philosophies on the way of the world and that Izumi points out the Elric brothers would find a truth different from Dante and her obsession with alchemy, the Curtis's leave. At the Devil's Nest underground bunker, Al converses with Dolcetto and Martel and asks how they became Chimeras. They respond by mentioning they were once soldiers injured on the battlefield out east, and then turned into chimeras as research subjects before Greed broke them out of their imprisonment in Laboratory 5. Greed then returns revealing that their place is for people who can no longer live normal lives and as Al recognizes Shou Tucker, Greed mentions they only need him to treat the chimeras. Recognizing Greed as a Homunculus from his Ouroboros tattoo, Al learns Greed and the other Homunculi are enemies.

Greed then admits how impressed he is by Al's soul being bound to the armor and clearly wants that secret to truly become immortal even if he has disassemble Al's armored body. When Al points out Ed will come from him, Greed admits what he did and an angry Al now knows that Greed can't be trusted creates a transmuted stone hand to attack Greed. However, Greed shrugs off the attack, knocks down Al (apologizing to Martel who is inside Al's body) and lets Roa behead him to demonstrate his regenerative powers. Greed then reveals that even his Homunculus body is not truly immortal. Someone then creates a door to the underground bunker, which Al believes is Ed, but is actually Izumi who has arrived with Sig. Outside Ed runs into Major Armstrong, and though he accuses the military of tailing him and letting Al get kidnapped, Armstrong reveals the Chimeras are also their target and they are going to raid their hideout, the Devil's Nest. Izumi has defeated the Chimeras and tries to attack Greed explaining what she had come to do, but Greed's Ultimate Shield blocks her attack. After yelling at Al for what she going to do to him and Ed afterward for what happened on their errand, Izumi manipulates the floor with alchemy to trap Greed. Once Greed mentions his intentions to her, she uses the same alchemy attack Al used earlier but it also has no effect, allowing Greed to break free.

As they are surrounded, Sig fights the Chimeras, leaving Izumi to fight Greed. When Izumi attacks Greed with a spear, her condition affects her, rendering Izumi helpless until Ed arrives. Outside the troops led by Frank Archer prepare for their attack. As Ed demands Al back, Al reveals Greed as a Homunculus, and Izumi breaks free when Greed is caught off guard by Ed. Once Ed and Izumi's next attack fails and then with Izumi now helpless from her condition, Ed must face Greed alone. Outside the military operation begins, and Kimblee has killed Ulchi in another room to get to Greed's safe. While fighting Ed, Greed reveals of how similar their obsessions are due to what they are seeking, though Ed denies it. Seeing how serious Ed is, Greed transforms into his full armored form, and is able to resist Ed's attacks pointing Ed can't beat him or the other Homunculi due to Ed never having intentionally killed anyone before.

The military continue their raid as Kimblee now has the skull in his possession. Greed is then informed to what is happening upstairs, and though they block the door, Kimblee arrives with Archer. Recognizing that Kimblee has the Skull, Greed realizes that Kimblee has betrayed him and quickly retreats through the hole created by Roa with the Chimeras, taking Al with him. Ed cannot purse them because the soldiers are holding him at gunpoint explaining that Archer demands to meet with him.

Episode Notes

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