Episode 10: Case 22 Comfort Comrade

## Episode 10

**Episode 10: *Case 22 Comfort Comrade*** is the tenth overall episode of *Princess Principal* season 1.

## Episode Summary

The episode begins at a “train facility” in the Commonwealth called the Farm. On the farm a younger Ange is seen completing various train exercises such as bomb defusal. In this flashback we are introduced to a female classmate nicknamed Prefect.

Back in the current time Control as discussing the Prefect among each other and order Ange and Dorothy to meet with Prefect “on-site and determine how to proceed.

Dorothy tells Beatrice that they are on a top secret operation to steal secret documents from the estate of the first lord of the admiralty. The operation is to take place on Christmas Day. Beatrice is unsure as they have not prepared as the 25th, Christmas Day is in fact the same day. Ange informs her that they have an informant on the inside and not to worry.

Cut to the Lord of the Admiralty residence, where the Lord of the Admiralty is having a letter transcribed for him by Prefect. The lord of the admiralty discuss how Europe is changing and with this change brings an “increase in military power” and that if they are to resist the navies of the other world powers it is best for the Albion channel fleet to be disbanded and to join it with the Atlantic fleet combining all of the Kingdom's forces into a new “Grand Fleet.” The Lord of the Admiralty and Prefect (referred to as Eleanor) make idle chat about Christmas and if Prefect has any plans, to which is informs him she doesn’t as she does not care much for the holiday as it reminded her of a “old acquaintance”, who was the woman that she always wished she could be.

Ange, Dorothy and Beatrice have now since entered the lord of the admiralty residence and sneak in through a prearranged unlocked window on the second story using Ange's C-Ball. They sneak around the building until Beatrice is grabbed from behind and a knife put to her throat. It is revealed to be Prefect, who criticized Beatrice's posture and loud footsteps.

They chat briefly before continuing to sneak through the building once again and steal a key to the Gamekeeper’s cabin where the secret documents are being held in the cellar. In order to get to the Gamekeeper’s cabin they need to get past a pack of guard dogs. It is now revealed why Beatrice was brought on the mission with her voice box, she is able to create a high pitch whistle that subdues the dogs, much to Prefect’s bewilderment. Ange grapples down to the gate house and looks for the documents.

The episode then cuts Princess Charlotte and Chise, who were absent from the mission. They are shown together at a Japanese garden showcase in London, where they are talking about Ange. Princess asks what a shishi odoshi is, of which Chise informs her but she herself does not know why they are used for.

Back to Ange, Dorothy, Beatrice and Prefect, they have since successfully completed their mission and escaped the estate of the First Lord of the Admiralty. They have now gone for drinks and chat with Prefect. They discuss old times on the Farm and how Prefect was always second-best to Ange and threw some insults at each other. Prefect goes the use the powder room, where she injects a drug into herself to calm herself. When she goes back to the table only Dorothy remains having supposedly sent the “children home” and invites Prefect to drink with her.

    A cut to Ange and Beatrice show them entering Prefect's boarding house to complete their “real” mission which is to investigate if Prefect is a double agent.

Dorothy and Prefect reminisce about an Exam that they did back on the farm where they lost sight of the target and believing that had already failed and might be expelled went to a funfair instead since they don't let then out of the Farm every day. While they were out fooling around at the funfair Ange went and found their target, passing the exam for them. There conversation moves onto have they ever had someone you really looked up to and wanted to be like so badly but just couldn't pull it off.

Ange and Beatrice having searched Prefect's boarding house leave having found no evidence of treachery leave the house to which Beatrice is glad Anges friend not a double agent, to which Ange responds that Prefect is not her friend. In the boarding house there was a trap where when stepping on the carpet would leave footprints behind Ange figured that if she was up to anything she would react and make a move. Prefect having departed from Dorothy arrives at her boarding house and sees the footprints. Know that she has been found out departs for a nearby train station to flee.

The Team plans to surround her when she gets to the station. Before this can happen though confronts Prefect in the streets at gunpoint and tells her to put down her gun and briefcase and put your hands in the air. Prefect comments on how Ange has changed while putting down the briefcase which contains a hidden machine on a timer. The Machine gun briefcase goes off sending Ange diving for cover allowing Prefect to escape. Dorothy is not happy with Ange having told her that they would surround her and believes she was trying to prove which one of them was really the better spy.

Prefect having escaped runs onto the platform and hops onto a departing train and bribing an onboard conductor who sees her to a vacant compartment. Hearing a knock on the compartments door Prefect opens it expecting to see the conductor who she asked earlier to return with a blanket for her instead she is confronted with an armed Dorothy.

Dorothy and Ange had caught up by car and jumped aboard the train with the C-ball, leaving Beatrice to drive the car. Dorothy sits across from Prefect gun drawn and congratulates her on finally beating Ange having given Ange the slip earlier at the station and the skilled need to do such a thing. Prefect explains that Dorothy just doesn't get it, the woman she looked up to and wanted so badly to be like but never could was never Ange but was in fact Dorothy.

Prefect then brings up the funfair and how it was the most fun she ever had and how she still dreams about it and how the two of them fooled around and laughed together, before she goes to grab her gun to which Dorothy tells her to stop as she "don't want to shoot a friend”. Because Dorothy was kind enough to call Prefect her friend, Prefect gives her what she describes as a "Christmas present,” a free pass out of having to shoot her friend. Prefect then says "goodbye" to Dorothy and shoots herself in the head in a suicide.

After the mission Dorothy thanks Ange for jumping the gun earlier, to try and make sure Dorothy didn't have to shoot Prefect as they drive to Control headquarters. At control, they go to report their mission and it is revealed that L has been transferred and that they now will be taking orders from the General. The General seeing how successful they have been tells them to move right onto their next assignment, to assassinate Princess Charlotte.

## Trivia

* After the death of Eleanor (Prefect), Ange le Carré and Dorothy remain as the only two spies left from their class at The Farm.
* The Gamekeeper’s cabin was surrounded by exactly 17 dogs.