[Where I Watch] Black Cat (Dub) - Unboxed Spoilers!

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Ep 4 - The Grinning Cat

Y’know, I’m beginning to develop a grudging affection for this peppy little theme tune. Eve sleeps, and is spoken of as one would a product. Rinslet tells Sven that security’s tight. Sven would like to be more up front about the break-in, and seeks to accomplish his aim with a kitty-faced catnip bomb. His weapon of choice attracts hundreds of cats, which don’t quite serve to distract the guards so much as shock them before Sven knocks them out.

Johnny’s arrived! Yay, more angst! WOO! Runny, shooty, runny, shooty, runny, shooty! Torneo’s men don’t like Johnny-runny-shooty. Rinslet’s in the basement and someone’s stalking her! Johnny runs! Shoots! Opens doors! ACTIONY! Sven’s way behind, but somehow, using his Right Eye of Doom will tip things in his favor.

Downstairs, Rinslet is learning why you should never go into a strange basement: After using a keycard-slug to open a door, she is astonished when she sees… something other than Eve, who is being commanded by Torneo to hunt some prey. She’s reluctant… so the jerk slaps her, to stifle “the willpower inside of her.” Yeah, he’ll be dead by the end of this episode. Eve tightens her grip on her kerchief-napkin.  

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Rinslet investigates an abandoned reaserch lab, and finds an oddly labeled disk, and a strangely glowing tank. Johnny’s fast, so Torneo wants something called an NS-Oscillating Amplifier. Sven turns out to be faster. Rinslet sees no rhyme or reason to the freaks of nature in the tanks. Sven feeds Eve a Jawbreaker, and she wipes his face with his now-really-dirty hanky.

Johnny arrives! Eve turns her arm into a BFS! Now that is cool! The jawbreaker and the promise of a nice dinner is the only thing keeping Eve from showing Johnny her recipe for kitty shish-kebab. That, and Sven’s well-timed punch to Johnny’s face. Torneo isn’t having any of Eve’s plans for an outing, though, and has his crony slam a card onto her chest. (The visual is… disturbing.) This turns her into a spikey-haired, glowing, sword-handed, emotionless killing machine that immediately starts hunting Johnny.

When Torneo turns his guns on Sven, Rinslet pops out of the floor, providing enough of a distraction for the two to get away. Sven and Rinslet make it outside, where Sven launches himself into the fray, and is pierced by Eve’s claw as he rips the card off Eve’s chest. Torneo is not pleased by Eve’s subsequent tears, and is so not pleased by the fact that his lab is exploding that he goes mad shortly before he and his crony are consumed by flames. CALLED IT.  

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The gang, including Sven, seems to have made it out okay. Rinslet reiterates that she didn’t set the lab to blow, the person who trashed it before must’ve. Sven tells her that she must’ve enjoyed the fact that it did. Rinslet says yes, the job was personal. Torneo destroyed a military lab in her hometown, killing thousands. Johnny seems intent on adding one more to that body count, but then he remembers Nomiko’s words about a shooter being in control of their gun: “If I don’ wanna shoot, then I won’t.” Thankfully for Eve, today is not a good day to die.

Sephiria and the Ozlings seem to think Johnny got the job done. Nomiko says hello to Johnny and asks him his name. He just smiles, ‘cause he knows I make up better ones! 3nodding blaugh