Code Lyoko S2 E1

## Plot

Jeremie has designed vehicles for the gang to get around faster on Lyoko. Odd has the Overboard, Ulrich the Overbike, and Yumi the Overwing. While in the Desert Sector, Odd crashes while racing Ulrich, since Jeremie didn't have time to finish perfecting the program that calculates trajectory. Good thing cats always land on their feet. I wonder if that negates fall damage, or is that even a thing on Lyoko? Aelita is riding with Yumi on the Overwing. XANA unleashes a new, stronger monster on them, which Odd later names a Tarantula. It seems smarter than the other monsters too. It quickly devirtualizes them all, except Aelita, who ran to a tower to rematerialize. They have a surprise for her. Jeremie created a new program to scan for activated towers, so Aelita won't have to stay on Lyoko. They've already enrolled her as a boarder at Kadic. Her new alias is Aelita Stones, Odd's cousin from Canada. The 8th and 9th graders go on a school field trip to the woods for science class to draw plants and take pictures. Yumi is paired up with a new kid in her grade named William Dunbar. Ulrich thinks that they like each other. Odd tells him that William is cool. He was kicked out of his last school. Jeremie tells Aelita that there aren't any monsters in these woods. He realizes that he forgot his laptop and runs back to Kadic to grab it in case XANA attacks. William tells Yumi that he was kicked out of his last school for putting up love letters, and says love makes him crazy. Far off foreshadowing? Aelita starts having strange visions. She hears wolves and runs away. XANA activates a tower in the Ice Sector and has two Tarantulas guard it, which Jeremie learns about thanks to the superscan when he enters his room. He calls Ulrich and Yumi separately and tells them about it. They have to pick up Aelita first. Yumi and William both listen to the Subsonics, and she's forced to leave when Jeremie calls her. Aelita reaches an old abandoned house, called the Hermitage. She has a brief vision of what it used to look like. No one lives there now. XANA's eye symbol is on a camera in the yard, which is watching her. Ulrich and Odd meet up with Yumi where Jeremie left Aelita, but they only find her sketchbook, which she dropped. Kiwi gets her scent and leads them to the Hermitage. Aelita enters the living room and has a vision of a man playing the piano. Her eyes start watering, as if she's crying. XANA has possessed the house. Jeremie heads to the factory while the others look for Aelita. XANA starts attacking them in the house. While getting Aelita out, Yumi and Ulrich get trapped in the boiler room, and XANA cranks the heat up. Their only hope now is for Aelita to deactivate the tower. While outside, she has another vision of the piano man and herself going through a passage that leads to the sewers, which she and Odd use to get to the factory. Yumi admits that she should've told Ulrich about William sooner, but she insists that he's only a friend. When Aelita needs a vehicle, she usually uses Yumi's Overwing. She lures away one of the Tarantulas with the cutest wave and wink ever known to humanity. The Overwing is devirtualized like at the beginning of the episode, but Odd was waiting underneath the edge of the sector, and he destroys the Tarantula by hitting the eye symbol on its head with all of his laser arrows at once. Jeremie programs more. Ulrich passes out from the heat. Odd distracts the other Tarantula and Aelita enters the tower. Yumi also passes out from the heat. Aelita enters the code. Yumi and Ulrich are saved with an RTTP. Odd and Ulrich were able to do their work this time. Aelita says it's like she had already seen the Hermitage before, in a dream. They all agree that her visions are certainly very strange. It looks like they have a new mystery to solve. Nice try, but you kids aren't the Scooby-Doo gang, or the Hardy Boys, or Nancy Drew, or even the Scoobies. I'd say this is the start of your very first mystery. Jeremie has another surprise for Aelita. He bought her a pink cell phone so they could stay in touch in case of XANA attacks. He is officially boyfriend goals.

## Review

This was a good episode. This season promises to actually have a main overarching plot, as opposed to the previous season, which I'm looking forward to. I don't think I'd like wolves either if I ever encountered one. Those eyes… William is an okay character. Too bad he doesn't do anything significant until the season 3 finale. He is pretty cute though. I can see why Yumi may or may not have a thing for him. He certainly likes her. Odd is apparently really good at drawing, or at least he's better at it than Ulrich, who was using his camera to try and spy on Yumi and William. Later on though, he did respect Yumi's privacy by not looking when she took her shirt off in the boiler room. Good thing she had a bra on, although I'd understand if they took all their clothes off while basically being cooked alive. Seriously, why didn't Yumi do that once Ulrich passed out? I guess you could argue that she didn't have his consent, but I doubt he'd care since it was a matter of life or death. I wonder if Aelita ever feels guilty about the others or civilians almost dying, especially since her safety is prioritized during the first two seasons due to her nature as an A.I. meaning that she can't be devirtualized, plus she's the only one who can shut down towers and stop XANA attacks.