Un Secuestro en Meridiana

Un Secuestro en Meridiana (A Kidnapping in Meridiana) is the first episode of the Cybersix live-action television series as well as the first episode of the first season. The episode is based on the first monthly issue of the comic book series.
==Episode synopsis==
Detective and cartoonist Miao Yashimoto spies on Cybersix as she attacks one of Doctor von Reichter's creatures, draining him of Substance, Despite being ambushed by a group of Fixed Ideas, she fights them off and escapes on motorcycle. We then flashback to the day von Reichter and his assistant Krumens hire Yashimoto to track down Cybersix. Yashimoto refuses at first, but reluctantly agrees when they inform him that they've kidnapped his younger sister Ikiko. 
Elsewhere in Meridiana, at a school for delinquent students, Professor of Literature Adrian Seidelman is teaching a class when one of his students, Lori Cadenas, tries to forcibly kiss him. After class, Adrian is lured to a warehouse where Lori and her gang corner him. Lucas Amato arrives to save Adrian and Lori and her gang run off before the police arrive. Over drinks at a café, Lucas tells Adrian how he's spoken with Cybersix and learned about her life. Adrian warns him to stay away from her since she isn't human, but Lucas says he's drawn to her. Once at home, Adrian undresses, revealing that he is actually Cybersix.
Yashimoto is haunted by nightmares of his sister Ikiko in danger and is driven to find Cybersix. He walks the streets of Meridiana asking people for information before eventually scaling the buildings and looking for her on the rooftops. Krumens calls to remind him that time is running out to find Cybersix and plays a recording of Ikiko crying for help.
Lori spies on Adrian's apartment from the rooftops of the building across the street. She sees Cybersix enter through the window and assumes that she is Adrian's girlfriend and the reason he doesn't return her advances. She tells her gang what she saw and the next day is shown a newspaper article by Lucas asking for any information about the woman in black who walks Meridiana's rooftops.
Yashimoto meets Lucas at his office, having seen the same article. He says he can lure Cybersix out by offering to sell her a large supply of Substance and gives Lucas his business card. As soon as he leaves, Lori enters and tells Lucas that Adrian and Cybersix are in a relationship.
Lori interrupts Adrian's class and mocks him while dressed as Cybersix. Adrian asks Lori where she heard about the "woman in black", but before she can answer, Lucas angrily confronts Adrian and asks why he lied about knowing Cybersix. After punching Adrian and saying he wants nothing to do with him or Cybersix, he tosses Yashimoto's business card to him and says how he has a shipment of Substance for her. Unbeknownst to both of them, Yashimoto witnessed the entire incident and follows Adrian home. 
Yashimoto waits for Adrian to fall asleep before breaking into his apartment. He finds Cybersix sleeping in the bed and wonders what's going on before being knocked out by her when she wakes up. Cybersix dresses as Adrian and slaps Yashimoto awake and confronts him about talking in his sleep, mentioning that von Reichter kidnapped his sister. Yashimoto admits that von Reichter hired him and will give back his sister if he gives him information on Cybersix. Adrian tells him to go meet Cybersix and that she'll help save him and his sister.
On his way to meet Cybersix, Yashimoto is accosted by Lori's gang. He recognizes Lori from a photo Adrian showed him (having lied that he was interested in Lori to get Yashimoto to stop asking him if he's in a relationship with Cybersix). Cybersix interrupts and after a brief confrontation with Lori, convinces her and her gang to help save Ikiko.
They head to the mansion Ikiko is being held hostage in and the audience is introduced to von Reichter's violent and hateful son, José von Reichter. Lori dresses as Cybersix and provides a distraction while the rest of the group enters the mansion. Cybersix and Yashimoto locate Ikiko just as José realizes the Cybersix on the security cameras is a fake. He deploys a tube that traps Cybersix. Yashimoto tries to free her, but Cybersix tells him to run. A shootout between the Fixed Ideas and Lori's gang starts. José tells his men to let them all go because they have Cybersix. The glass tube trapping her begins to fill with gas and slowly knock her out while José and von Reichter (via a TV screen) taunt her. The episode ends on a cliffhanger.
==Differences with the comic==
*Although the majority of the episode is taken from the first monthly issue, Fantastica Creature Della Notte, a few other chapters are referenced. Lucas's confrontation with Lori's gang and the café scene afterwards are from the first weekly chapter Un Pezzo Di Notte and Cybersix telling Lucas her life's story, although only mentioned and not seen, is from the fourth weekly chapter Ricordo d'infanzia. 
*Although the confrontation with Lori and her gang and conversation at the café are very similar to how they happen in the comic, Lucas and Adrian appear to already know each other in the TV series, where as in the comic they introduce themselves as if they're meeting for the first time.
*Lori spies on Adrian from the roof of a building, where as in the comic she simply follows Adrian home and spies on him in the hallway of his apartment building. 
*In the comic, Lucas affectionately talks to Cybersix on the phone when he tells her about Yashimoto's claim to have a large supply of Substance (while Yashimoto himself is outside the apartment eavesdropping) and invites her over. 
*Julian and Nacho do not appear in the episode and thus don't help with the plan to save Ikiko.
*Cybersix is captured by José and von Reichter at the end of the episode, whereas in the comic she escapes with Yashimoto and everyone else.
==Trivia==
*None of the music in the episode is an original composition. All the tracks are taken from a variety of Hollywood movies.
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