Code Lyoko S2 E5

## Plot

An elf is running from a wolf in a forest when it lunges at him. It's another one of Aelita's nightmares, and her scream wakes Sissi up at five in the morning. It's the third night in a row she's woken her up due to a nightmare. She also briefly hallucinates that there's a wolf in the shower. Jeremie advises her to go back to the Hermitage, because that's where the visions started. The others all go with her. Aelita goes upstairs, which she didn't have a chance to do during her last visit, and has more visions in a child's bedroom. The elf hides in a knothole, but the wolves find him. He digs up a box and opens it. Inside is a light, like the opposite of Pandora's box. Aelita finds a hole in the wall behind a poster of a tree. Inside is the elf, but it's really a doll. Aelita recognizes it and calls it Mister Pück, despite having never seen it before except in her dreams. Why would anyone name a child's doll after a Shakespeare character known for causing mischief? At the very least, I'm surprised a children's show about a virtual world would reference English folklore. When most of the group fights for the toy with Sissi, Nicholas, and Herb before class, something falls out of it. Jeremie doesn't know what it is at first, but he quickly figures out that it's the key to a train station locker. Inside the locker is a briefcase with CDs in it. The initials on the briefcase are F.H. The CDs are Franz Hopper's diary. Everything is encrypted, so it could take Jeremie a while to decode it. XANA uses something called a specter to try and possess Odd, but it doesn't work. It also doesn't work on Ulrich. It does work on Jeremie though. XANA kidnaps Aelita through him and tries to take her to Lyoko. He also destroyed Franz Hopper's diary. Yumi witnesses this and tells Ulrich and Odd. Because of the specter, Jeremie now has incredible speed, strength, and electric powers, allowing him to fight off Odd and Ulrich. Yumi's surprise attack with a wrench is the only thing that saves them. Yumi, Ulrich, and Aelita go to Lyoko to deactivate the tower while Odd stays behind to fight Jeremie. They're in the Ice Sector when they run into Bloks. Jeremie easily defeats Odd, multiple times in fact, and heads down to the supercomputer. He forcibly materializes Yumi and tries to do the same thing to Ulrich, before being interrupted by Odd. The Scyphozoa shows up again, but Ulrich cuts its tentacles. Aelita deactivates the tower before Jeremie can kill Odd. Jeremie reveals that he copied Franz Hopper's diary onto a restricted part of the supercomputer, so they haven't lost his notes. They deduce that the specter was able to take control of Jeremie because he doesn't have as much resistance against XANA. He's virtualized on Lyoko offscreen one more time to fix this. As the episode ends with Aelita sleeping peacefully with Mr. Pück, we hear the doll's previous owner. "Come on Mr. Pück, let's go and play in the garden."

## Review

This was a good episode. The dreams and the elf are confusing, but you get what they were trying to go for. Slight spoilers ahead. I think that the wolves were metaphors for the men in black, XANA, and the monsters on Lyoko, and the elf represented either Aelita or Franz Hopper, or both. Or maybe Hopper was the light from the box, and the knothole was a tower. It could have been part of an old bedtime story that Franz told Aelita so that she'd remember where the key was hidden. This is all just my own personal conjecture though. I think it's fitting, since Jeremie told Aelita in the season premiere, just before she started getting the visions for the first time, that monsters only exist in fairy tales (and horror movies, but that's irrelevant). I don't know Jeremie, I'd classify XANA and the men in black as monsters.