Code Lyoko S1 E10

## Plot

Jeremie tries launching his materialization program again, but it still doesn't work. He keeps getting angry and frustrated with himself. Aelita keeps encouraging him. She calls him her best friend. Aw. Aelita is in the Mountain Sector when she hears something. She turns around and screams. Milly and Tamiya are snooping around and they see what Yumi's heirloom/antique is. It's samurai armor. Sweet. Yumi is doing a presentation on Japan. They don't shut the doors properly though and XANA possesses it. Jeremie is tired because he hasn't gotten enough sleep. He's been busy working on his program. Principal Delmas introduces them to their new classmate, Taelia. The group thinks that she's a dead ringer for Aelita. Except Aelita doesn't have red hair, she has pink! Taelia is an anagram for Aelita though. Yumi wonders why she didn't recognize them if it is Aelita. Jeremie speculates that she may have lost her memory when she was materialized. When Odd talks to her, she thinks that he's flirting with her. Taelia brushes him and Jeremie off, big time. The group comes up with a way to find out if it's really Aelita. If it's really her, then she isn't on Lyoko. Jeremie can't wait until after class, so he fakes being sick to go to his room. When Aelita doesn't answer, he fully believes that he materialized her this time and that she's Taelia. Yumi finds that the armor is missing during her presentation. She doesn't hesitate to think that it's XANA, and it is. In the lunchroom, Jeremie yells at Odd and the others that the reason they can't reach Aelita on Lyoko is because she isn't on Lyoko. Yeesh, he really does need some sleep. The others don't believe it and want to go to Lyoko, free Aelita, and stop XANA. Jeremie goes to Taelia's room and tells her about XANA and that she has to hide. Taelia says that she doesn't trust anyone who's gone mad. Can't really blame her either, Jeremie *was* acting crazy during that scene. The possessed samurai armor finds and attacks them. They run for it. The police have been questioning Yumi about the attacks by the possessed armor since it's technically hers, or at least her family's. But if you're officially interrogating her, then don't her parents have to be there and give you their consent, since she's a minor? Then again, I don't know what the justice system of France is like. Jeremie and Taelia escape to the factory. He tells her everything about Lyoko and XANA. Taelia says that if XANA is so dangerous, then why doesn't he just shut it down? Which is a *brilliant* idea. Since Jeremie blindly believes that she's Aelita, he has no reason to keep the supercomputer on, which would kill the real Aelita, or at least send her back to "sleep" again. He's about to turn it off when Ulrich and Odd appear. They demand to be sent to Lyoko to make sure that Aelita is still there. "Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Odd. Virtualization." The normal music that plays during this sequence sadly isn't in this one, which is a shame because said music is **awesome!** During it Taelia apparently left the factory. Odd has a vision of Aelita in the Mountain Sector, held prisoner by a guardian. Taelia is going to tell the police everything. Smooth move Jeremie. You know, there are functioning *security cameras* in the factory. Yumi is at school, and runs into the armor. The guardian is a program, so Jeremie may be able to help since the guardian is impervious to weapons or brute force. Yumi uses a pipe to fight the armor. Taelia comes to the factory with the police. Jeremie makes a clone of Aelita to trick the guardian. There's also new footage of the tower scene. Aelita, Odd, and Ulrich are all there. They jump off the platform, fall through data, and float to another platform in the Forest Sector. They can all use Way Towers to change sectors. Yumi is still fighting the armor. Taelia, Principal Delmas, and the police enter the lab. Ulrich fights two Bloks. He defeats one, but is then frozen and devirtualized by the other. Odd defeats the other Blok and Aelita enters the tower. Yumi loses her pipe and is backed up against a wall. Aelita enters the code just as Yumi is about to be struck down. Jeremie initiates a Return to the Past as he's being taken away by the men in black. Taelia is an orphan, hence why she didn't want to talk about her family. Yumi's presentation goes off without a hitch this time and everyone loves the cool armor.

## Review

This was a good episode, but it could have been better. For example, when I first watched this episode, I thought that Taelia was a look alike of Aelita to trick the group as a plan of XANA's to destroy Lyoko, therefore destroying Aelita. *Except*, I forgot that in seasons 1 and 2, if the supercomputer is shut down, then both Aelita *and* XANA will die, since they're both connected to it. Whoops. XANA had tried a similar plan earlier with Yumi, so why not try to improve on the same plan? Plus it was hard to believe that someone who had a resemblance to Aelita just happened to show up at the perfect time. Jeremie royally screwed up this episode. Almost everything bad that happens in this episode is because of him: Taelia and others finding out about the factory, XANA almost succeeding, Lyoko almost being destroyed, etc. However, some character development comes out of it. Jeremie was questioning his abilities because he could never materialize Aelita. So when he created a clone of her and destroyed the guardian, it gave him a much needed confidence boost. Yumi also has amazing fighting prowess. She can hold her own for a long time against a suit of armor, complete with a sharp katana, with nothing but *a pipe*. That is awesome! Another episode I'd happily recommend.