Episode 4

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"Look Out, Patalliro!" is the fourth episode of the ''Patalliro'' anime, originally airing on April 29, 1982.

## Summary

Patalliro meets his long-lost brother Marion. Meanwhile, he gets a doctor for his diabetes, who instills a lethal prescription on him.

## Story Recap

In the Royal Palace of Malynera, while Patalliro has been officially crowned as Emperor he requests for the Royal Physician as well as the Prime Minister to address him as Highness. While the Royal Physician is chiding Patalliro in his diet choices due to his poor health, the Prime Minister intrudes with urgent news that someone claiming to be Patalliro’s elder brother has arrived in the palace.

Upon entering the room, Patalliro sees a tall figure with silver hair and questions the age of the man to which he responds that he is 46. Patalliro wonders if the previous emperor can father a child at 9 years old, the Prime Minister chips in to explain that the man is actually the lawyer representative of the proclaimed elder brother.

The lawyer presents a jewellery, presumably the crest of the Malynera Kingdom. According to the lawyer, the crest was deposited in a Swiss Bank Vault by the King Higgins the Third, (Patalliro’s Father) together with a handwritten letter. The letter states that the previous king had fathered another child 15 years ago with a woman while overseas and the crest is to be inherited by that boy. The boy was tracked down in an orphanage and the lawyer requests for the boy to be instated as a prince of Malynera.  The lawyer introduces Marion, the supposed, First Prince of Malynera to Patalliro and Patalliro is immediately taken by the beauty of the bishounen.

Marion is touched to tears to be reunited with Patalliro and they both share a heartfelt embrace with Patalliro starting to touch Marion in weird places. The lawyer becomes upset at Patalliro’s action and exclaims that Marion is a true prince of the Malynera Kingdom but Patalliro expresses his doubts as he has receives several similar claims from people wanting a stake in Malynera’s riches. The parties decide to give each other time to look into the issue further with the lawyer expecting to be rewarded for his efforts.

Patalliro rings up Bancoran in the MI6 while he was frolicking with a boy. Patalliro tells Bancoran of the problem at hand and requests for Bancoran to investigate the matter citing that it is not in the previous King’s character to abandon his own son and that Marion does not appear to have lived in an orphanage. Bancoran agrees to the request.

That night, Marion is woken up in bed by strange rushed footsteps approaching his room. Patalliro soon enters the room with a wine glass and offers the drink to Marion. Marion declines that he does not drink and Patalliro explains that he always has a glass before bed to sleep better due to his nightmares. Marion thanks Patalliro for his kindness and Patalliro expresses that there no need to by shy as they are probably brothers anyway. Marion goes on to say that he is not interested in Malynera’s riches but am simply happy to be reunited with his younger brother, a blood relative, after being alone in the world for the longest time. Marion proceeds to gives Patalliro a goodnight kiss on his lips, making Patalliro weak in the knees. Marion subsequently picks up the glass of wine and drinks it, ending with an evil twinkle in his eye.

Internal Malynera investigation reveals that the crest was indeed taken out of the Royal Vault 15 years ago and the letter was also handwritten by the former King. Should Marion’s position as first prince be recognised, this means that Marion will be first in line to inherit the throne followed by the former King’s younger brother (Patalliro’s paternal uncle). This infuriates their uncle and he refuses to accept Marion and quarrelling ensures.

Patalliro and Marion leaves the quarrelling parties and Patalliro asks Marion to give him an afternoon nap kiss to which Marion gladly complies. The Royal Physician meets Patalliro and reminds him to take his medication. Marion passes the Royal Physician and secretly enquires if things are going as planned to which the Royal Physician replies that everything is underway.

Late in the night, Patalliro is woken up by a long distance call from Bancoran and vents his frustrations on Bancoran. Bancoran notices that Patalliro is in an unusually bad mood and asks what is wrong to which Patalliro mentions that he is feeling in the best of shape recently. Bancoran proceeds to give a status report on his own findings and mentions that there is nothing amiss on the boy and the lawyer comes from a reputable law firm in France as well. The only thing out of the ordinary was that was robbery at the aforementioned Swiss bank that the jewellery was stored in last year and $5million dollars in cash was stolen. The robber is man called the Silver Fox and is rumoured to have silver hair. No one truly knows his face nor his whereabouts. This alarms Patalliro as he recalled that the lawyer had silver hair.

The next morning, while pondering if the lawyer was indeed Silver Fox, he visits Marion and asks Marion how long has he known the Silver Fox to which Marion replies about 2 months ago. Patalliro asks further if the lawyer has made him sign any legal document and Marion says no. Patalliro leaves the room and continues to think aloud, wondering if the Silver Fox would take advantage or blackmail Marion should Marion take over the thrown in Patalliro’s absence. At this stage, Patalliro realises that he has forgotten to ask for a morning kiss from Marion and  returns back to where Marion is.

There he finds Marion gone from is seat but noise coming from the shower room. Patalliro is tempted to enter the shower room and while he is battling his inner demons, Marion is communicating with a communication device. The conversation talks of Patalliro being suspicious and that they should get rid of him soon. Marion replies that he understands and will be careful in executing his mission.

When Patalliro finally opens the door to the shower room, he peeks at Marion who has just came out of the shower drying himself and realises that Marion has a brunette wig and his natural hair is silver. This shocks Patalliro and Patalliro realises that Marion is part of the Silver Fox.

Marion quickly injects poisons into Patalliro through a syringe. Marion explains that for a normal person, the amount of toxin will not be deadly but for Patalliro who has been on long term medication, there will be fatal consequences due to adverse drug reactions. There won’t be any trace of the poisoning and that the Royal Physician is part of the plan too.  Patalliro question Marion of the lawyer were his father and if they are Silver Fox to which Marion replies that the entire law firm is Silver Fox.  Marion goes on the explain that while robbing the bank, they found the crest and proceeded to forge a letter with the handwriting of Higgins the Third as well as  orphanage records of the character Marion. It took them about a year to carry out the plan.

In his attempt to escape, Patalliro is blocked by Marion and soon falls to the ground clutching his chest. Surprised that Patalliro can still move about, Marion decides to inject another syringe into Patalliro to hasten the effects of the poison.

However, in the midst of the second attempt, the syringe is broken by a gunshot through the window and Bancoran appears through the glass window. Bancoran explains his presence stating that Patalliro acted a little unusual last night and thus come to investigate.

Bancoran and Marion meets and Bancoran questions the identity of Marion while introducing himself as Bancoran from MI6. As Marion has just stepped out of the bath, he is dressed in a bathrobe. Sensual music plays and Marion attempts to seduce Bancoran by undressing his bathrobe and standing in front of Bancoran naked. He pretends to fall for Bancoran at first sight and states his desire to be with Bancoran at least once prior to his capture by the MI6 agent. Bancoran appears to be convinced but Patalliro spots that Marion has a syringe and is about to stab Bancoran in the neck when Patalliro grabs the remaining syringe on the ground and tosses at Marion. Bancoran is thus made aware of Marion’s action and proceeds to slap Marion.

2 days later, Patalliro is all recovered and the Silver Fox group has been apprehended by Interpol. Patalliro laments that it was fun while having an elder brother. Episode ends with Patalliro trying to escaped being jabbed by his newly appointed Royal Physician.