Code Lyoko S3 E13

## Plot

Yay, another season finale! The last one was so good! Anyways, William is scanned, which makes him immune to the Return to the Past. He's officially part of the group. The next day, Ulrich watches Odd compete in a skateboard competition. Odd runs into Sam, that girl he was dating in the season 1 episode Rock Bottom. Jeremie and Aelita want to run a program to find Franz Hopper, but Milly and Tamiya interrupt them. Jeremie forgot that they were supposed to interview him for the paper. Aelita says that it's okay, she'll just go to the factory by herself. At the competition, Odd is glad to see Sam, but she lives far away now and is only here for the day to compete. But… technology? I'm just saying, thanks to cell phones, computers, the internet, and social media, actually having a healthy long distance romantic relationship is possible. Aelita sees that XANA has launched an attack and calls the others. Jeremie can't get out of the interview though, Odd is competing, and Yumi has to babysit Hiroki, who won't let her leave. Ulrich would tell Odd, but he has to leave to speak with his dad about his grades. He tells Sam to give Odd a message, but she doesn't because she wants to spend time with him. The only one who can come to the factory is William. Aelita virtualizes them both, but he treats their very serious and dire situation like a video game, he has no training, and he's reckless and impulsive. Jeremie is able to ditch Milly and Tamiya and escape through the bathroom window. William doesn't listen to Aelita and is separated from her. Jeremie arrives, and so does the Scyphozoa. Aelita has to go around the outside to get to William, who doesn't listen to Jeremie's warnings to not fight the Scyphozoa. By the time Aelita gets there, XANA has already possessed William through it. He blocks her attacks and devirtualizes her. Now there's no one on Lyoko to protect the heart. Ulrich finally stands up to his father when he insults his friends and heads for the factory. Yumi leaves her house even though Hiroki threatens to tell their parents. Odd gets the message and asks Sam why she hid the truth from him. She just wanted to spend time with him. Odd wants that too, but he knows that fighting XANA is more important and leaves before his name is called, effectively forfeiting the championship. They make it to the lab and head for the heart. I'm so nervous! Will somebody stop playing that dramatic music? Uh, thanks? They confront William, and the heart loses both of its shield layers. If they lose Lyoko, they lose their only way to fight XANA, they lose William, and Aelita loses her father. Suddenly, she and Jeremie get results from the program she started to find him. They know where he is, and start running the rematerialization program to bring him back to Earth. William is able to one hit KO the others though, and he destroys the heart. They were unable to materialize Franz Hopper in time. They've lost everything, including William. However, he's still alive inside the supercomputer, still under XANA's control, and now his outfit is black. I know black normally screams evil or grief, at least in the west, and this is a French cartoon, but I wonder if that's a reference to his attraction to Yumi, who normally only wears black? Speaking of which, the group is grieving at the Hermitage when Jeremie gets a message directly from the internet. It's from Franz Hopper, who's still alive.