Episode 3: Case 2 Vice Voice

## Episode 3

**Episode 3: *Case 2 Vice Voice*** is the third overall episode of *Princess Principal* season 1.

## Summary

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## Story

Episode three is the second episode from a chronological perspective. It is a direct continuation of episode two, with Ange le Carré and Princess on the Queen's Mayfaire Academy roof. Ange reveals that she became a spy so she could cross the wall and reunite with Princess so they could run away together to Casablanca,where Ange had arranged a safe house for them both. However Princess rejects Ange’s offer as she wishes to remain and become Queen to tear down the London Wall and create a world where they both can live together without having to hide, to fulfil a promise they made together as children. Ange does not like Princess’s plan knowing the danger they will face and brings up the death of Foreign Affairs Committee Member Morgan, but agrees to carry out her wish nonetheless, vowing to deceive everyone, even herself.

After the intro section, a brief summary of the world and its history is given through voice over and still pictures. The voice over establishes the series premise and covers events such as cavorite, the air fleet, the revolution and the Londen wall.

Back to the present, Beatrice is brushing Princess’s hair and making conversation about the events from the previous day when Dorothy interrupts them. The conversation then morphs into how they explain to others why they are hanging out with each other without causing any suspicion, it is concluded that they should be part of a club together.

The club, which has yet to be decided, will be conducted from the Natural Science Room which Dorothy brings Ange, Princess and Beatrice too. Dorothy has set up the room with various weapons and gadgets hidden inside it, to which they show Princess. Dorothy reveals to Princess and Beatrice that they have received a mission from control, to recover stolen printing plates abroad the HMS Gloucester and need Princess to act as a distraction, so they make a plan to sneak on board.

During the conversation, Beatrice does not want Princess to get involved with spies and begins to shout, in which her voice breaks and turns robotic in sound. She excuses herself in embarrassment. Princess then reveals that Beatrice's father was obsessed with machines and eventually started to use his daughter as a subject for his experiments, one of them being in which he surgically operated on her throat and had a mechanical device placed there instead to act as a voice box. The device requires constant maintenance from Beatrice to avoid issues.

At the HMS Gloucester, Princess is welcomed abroad by the ship’s captain and Dorothy who was accompanying Princess as her ‘driver’ is denied entry, until she convinces a guard otherwise. At the same time, Ange and Beatrice wait atop a water tank just off from the airship, with Ange waiting to infiltrate the vessel and Beatrice throwing accusations at Ange believing her to be a liar and planning to replace the princess.

Dorothy having gotten the soldier who was guarding her to leave, starts crawling through the ship’s vents until she enters a room where she can control water flowing, allowing a path for Ange to get into the ship through the pipes. When the pre-organised time is reached, Ange puts an aqualung in her mouth and prepares to jump into the water tank pump system.

Beatrice is however not done throwing accusations at Ange and grabs her mid jump, leading them both to be being pushed through the water pipes into the ship. In the tank, Beatrice is unable to breathe due to all the water and begins to drown, falling unconscious. Ange swims after Beatrice and saves her from drowning. She waits for her to regain consciousness. At the same time a wide shot from the ground reveals that Princess and Dorothy are no longer on the Airship having left after the hanger after the captains tour, sometime while Beatrice was unconscious.

When Beatrice regains consciousness she continues her argue with Ange and refuses to help her as she is a commonwealth spy, to which Ange puts a gun to her head and tells her that if she does not cooperate that not only would her life be cut short but if the Kingdom was to get hold of her that they would found out about Princess’s involvement also.

Ange and Beatrice sneak though the ship avoiding patrolling soldiers and enter a switchboard room. Ange listens to the many broadcasts to figure out that the ships captain and one of the dukes men are discussing the plates and using the switchboard wire’s location to distinguish where the men are after consulting the ship’s blueprints.

In order to get to the plates without rising the alarm, Ange decides the best way is from the ship’s exterior. She attaches a cable to herself and begins walking along the side of the ship using her C-ball. This is the first time Beatrice has seen the C-ball’s power and is left dumbfounded. While walking the ship’s exterior the ship is hit by lightning from some storm clouds, which electrocutes Ange making her fall unconscious. The ship’s alarm is raised when a soldier notices Ange's motionless body swinging from the cable.

The soldiers open fire upon Ange from across the ship, who quickly regains consciousness and avoids being shot while charging toward the location of the dukes men who has the plates who are firing at her from an open hatch. Her C-ball is shown to have cracked slightly due to the amount of time it has been on for. During this change, she returns fire towards the duke’s men and is able to hit an exterior piece of paneling which comes loose and is hurled towards the men, causing them to retreat back into the hatch.

Ange enters the hatch and beings fighting with the armed men, while another group of men try to get into the room where Beatrice is hiding in. Beatrice escapes the room by zip lining on Ange’s cable into the same room as Ange. In the room, Beatrice finds Ange injured, who begs her to take the plates and parachute to safety leaving her behind to die, before the soldiers blast their way inside.

Beatrice refuses, instead using her mechanical voice box to perfectly mimic the captain’s voice to trick the soldiers into not firing upon the door. This works in getting all of the soldiers except one, Corporal Henry, to leave. Corporal Henry begins asking questions to which Beatrice does not know the answers to, however she is able to change the subject and get Corporal Henry to leave with Ange’s help who remembered hearing his voice in the switchboard room.

Ange and Beatrice parachute off the airship together with the last surviving parachute using the remainder of the C-ball’s Cavorite to slow their decent. They both land safely in a field. The episode ends with Ange, Beatrice, Dorothy and Princess back in the Natural Science Room discussing what club they should be and having tea. Ange and Beatrice are shown to have grown closer and are accepting of each other.

## Errors

* Ange le Carré can be seen holding a blueprint of the HMS Gloucester that contains a wrong spelling of the name.

(Ep. 03)
## Trivia

* Episode 3 and episode 1 are the only two episodes in season 1 whose case number is the same as their chronological episode number.
* The airship, HMS *Gloucester*, shares its name with that of 11 real life royal navy ships and is named after the 1909 Town-class light cruiser of the same name.
* While onboard the HMS *Gloucester*, Ange and Beatrice were able to move around the outside of the ship without breathing problems; while the crew opened hatches to fire on them. This strongly implies that the flight altitude was within normal atmospheric pressure, well below the Mount Everest 'Death Zone' of 8 kilometers, or 26,000 feet. In the First World War, German zeppelins tended to fly at much lower altitudes, ranging from as little as 2 kilometers (6,500 feet) to 6 kilometers (around 20.000 feet).