Episode 6

**A Doll's House** is the 6th episode of the Gekidol anime.

## Summary

The Alice in Deadly School play continues with Seria replacing Airi as the lead role due to her leg being in a cast. The truth about Seria's sister Alice is revealed and emotions run wild because of it.

## Plot

Standing outside of the Alice in Theater on a rainy night, Hirokazu looks down at broken doll parts. At the East Ikebukuro hospital, Kaworu informs the troupe about Airi's condition after she fell down the stairs. Airo's current condition leaves her unable to finish the remaining performances of their play due to the multiple fractures in her leg. Because a cast was set around her leg, she'll won't walk for at least a month. Kazuharu then mentions that Kaworu will have to sell herself to make up their incoming fallout, leaving Kaworu flustered. However, now using crutches, Airi appears and asks Seria to replace her role in the play. Although hesitant since she'd just be a copy of Airi's performance, Airi states that she'll properly train her for the role. Back at the Alice in Theater, rehearsal between Seria and Alice are done and while Kaworu praises it, Airi denotes how inadequate, Seria's performance was. This causes Seria to have an emotional scene with Alice later on the stage, both appearing as younger versions of themselves.

News of the cast change to the Alice in Deadly School is announced and Makoto is elated by the news. Backstage before the opening night of the performance, Kaworu holds a small meeting between the cast members about the cast change. The performance goes off without a hitch and during it, Mino is seen watching the play from the sidelines, carefully observing Alice. Sometime later, Airi continues her didactic training of Seria's performance as the lead role in the play, causing Seria to snap at Airi. Amid it, Seria has a memory relapse recalling how her sister Alice switched places with her briefly to fool their mother into thinking that Alice was Seria. Seria finally snaps out of her trance when Airi calls out to her, making her flee the scene in regret for the way she acted. Overhearing a couple of co-workers, Izumi learns about the Alice in Deadly School and is happy that Airi is doing well and runs into Hirokazu on her way home. Hirokazu informs Izumi that the following night, he plans to attend the Alice in Deadly School play and asks if Izumi would like to attend it with him, to which, she happily agrees to. Meanwhile, Kaworu lays on her couch enjoying some alcohol and thinks that all is going well so far as Seria finds her Alice Teddy bear right arm has stitches on it.

The following night, Hirokazu and Izumi are both sit in the audience, eagerly awaiting the show to begin and Izumi notes how sad she is to learn that Airi was replaced with someone else. Backstage, Kaworu is in a panic that Seria has yet to arrive, but when she does, Seria and Airi apologize to one another. The play then begins and Izumi notes how well Seria performs Airi's role so perfectly. When Izumi asks for Hirokazu's opinion, she sees that he's in an awe-stricken daze. This is because Alice was somehow manipulating the entire audience into a trance. From the TMS control room, Kaworu is astounded by this and Mino arrives at the scene stating his fear of that happening and tries to override it, but fails. Both Hirokazu and Seria have flashbacks involving their checkered pasts, Hirokazu's involving someone named Miki and Seria remembering how her Alice teddy bear's right arm was torn.

After the show, Seria confronts Alice on stage about the flashbacks she imposed onto her and Alice responds that is what Seria wanted. Therefore, Seria asks Alice to "Show her true memories", to which, after confirming that Seria truly wants that, Alice does so. The revelation is heart wrenching to Seria learning the truth behind her past that she omitted from her heart. After this, Seria and Airi have a heart to hear with each other and patch things up between them.

## Characters

* Hirokazu Takezaki
* Kaworu Sakakibara
* Mayuri Nakamura
* Manami Fujita
* Kazuharu Yamamoto
* Seria Morino
* Airi Kagami
* Makoto Higuchi
* Izumi Hinasaki
* Tomoko Hinata