FGC:Episode 21 Scene 04

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	323	TEXT:“Same Year, Antarctica”
	071
	072	A ship advances through a red sea. Pillars of salt stretch up towards a darkened sky.
	073	A strangely-shaped aurora. FUYUTSUKI:“To think this was once a continent of ice...”
	074	Fuyutsuki gazes outside, dumbfounded, through the center of the glass window. FUYUTSUKI:“There's no trace of it left.” IKARI (OFF):“Professor Fuyutsuki...” Fuyutsuki turns toward the voice.
	075	Gendo, with Fuyutsuki in front. The former has the same intrepid smile as always. FUYUTSUKI:“You? I'm surprised you survived.”
	076	Fuyutsuki and Gendo looking through the glass. FUYUTSUKI:“I'd heard that you were a member of the Katsuragi Research Team.” IKARI:“Luckily, I had returned to Japan the day before the incident, so I was able to escape the tragedy.” Fuyutsuki faces forward when he speaks. FUYUTSUKI:“I see. Rokubungi, you...” IKARI:“Excuse me, I have a different name now.”	Mr. Tines: Coincidence or enemy action? Gendo has no comment. UrsusArctos: I should say enemy action. There's no reason Keel would want his chief propagandist and coverup expert to go down with those bungling scientists. Dr. Nick: The clout the Ikari family name carries is another small thing that has more weight to it if Yui is indeed the daughter of a Seele bigwig.
	077	Gendo searches his pocket and produces a postcard.
	078	Fuyutsuki, smiling bitterly as he puts out his hand and looks at the postcard. FUYUTSUKI:“A postcard? Not a business card?”
	079	TEXT:“We're Married Gendo & Yui Ikari It has been a long time. Are you doing well?”	Dr. Nick: The curiously Rei-looking angel on the card is perhaps the cutest bit of foreshadowing in the whole series.
	080	Fuyutsuki is miffed. He looks at Gendo. FUYUTSUKI:“Ikari? Gendo Ikari...”
	081	Gendo in profile, sneering with that devil-may-care look. IKARI:“My wife has been nagging me to get this to you, Professor Fuyutsuki. She seems to be a fan of yours.”
	082	Fuyutsuki replies sullenly. FUYUTSUKI:“I'm honored.”
	083	The handwritten text on the postcard. FUYUTSUKI (OFF):“How is Yui doing? Isn't she participating in this expedition?”
	084	Gendo looking at Fuyutsuki as if scowling. He puts on rather a suspect grin. IKARI:“Yui wanted to come, but we have a child now, so...”
	085	Wave crests crash violently.
	086	Fuyutsuki goes up the stairs. Gendo follows. FUYUTSUKI:“Your organization... Seele, was it? I've heard nothing but bad things about it. I can't approve of forcibly pinning down the board of directors.” Fuyutsuki reaches the top and turns around. Gendo stops. TEXT:“Safety First”
	087	Despite being the one looked down upon, Gendo's face is calm and composed. IKARI:“You're fastidious as ever. No clean organization can survive in this day and age anymore.”	Dr. Nick: Gendo is being particularly malevolent here. He's at the ground zero of the disaster his organization intentionally caused, saying "it's no big deal, bro". Before the shock of Yui's "death" caused him to secretly distance himself from Seele's plans, he seems to have been a bona fide villain.
	088	Conversely, Fuyutsuki is the one looking down, but… FUYUTSUKI:“The official investigation of the Second Impact...”
	089	Gendo in front, with Fuyutsuki's legs blocking his way. FUYUTSUKI:“If the investigation team consisted only of Seele people, you would run into all sorts of issues later.”
	090	The opposite, Gendo with Fuyutsuki's legs in front. FUYUTSUKI:“We're just a makeshift solution to avoid that, aren't we?”	UrsusArctos: Gendo's appearance, expression and devil-may-care attitude here make him come off as a twisted version of Kaji.
	091	Fuyutsuki glares down fiercely, wanting to say, "It can't be!?"
	092	Gendo remains silent.
	093
	094	TEXT:“Year 2015”
	095	Misato sitting, hugging both knees. TEXT:“Nerv Headquarters - Isolation Facility 4”
	096	MISATO (MONO):“I still don't handle dark places very well. All the bad memories come flooding back.” FUYUTSUKI (OFF):“Who is she?”
	097	A perfectly white room. Misato (15 years old) is all alone. MAN (OFF):“She's the sole survivor of the original expedition.”	UrsusArctos: Ironically, this is a bright place, but the lighting puts the contrast between adult Misato and her teenage self in full display. Mbryo: Raises questions about how Misato survived and was rescued. Adam's explosion supposedly equaled billions of tons of TNT in explosive power, enough to level a whole continent, not to mention the LCL-ifying Anti AT Field. So how did Misato survive all that by floating off in an escape pod? And who saved her in the midst of all the chaos?
	098	TEXT:“Year 2002”
	099	On a chair and hugging both knees, Misato sits in complete isolation. FUYUTSUKI (OFF):“Katsuragi? She's Dr. Katsuragi's daughter?” TEXT:“South Pole Investigation Ship - Isolation Facility 2” MAN (OFF):“Her name is Misato Katsuragi.”	UrsusArctos: The toys make it seem as though Misato has mentally regressed from a teenager to a child. The sterile white barrenness of the room evokes both a hospital and Antarctica itself, and makes it feel almost like a clean version of Rei's room.
	100	Fuyutsuki and the man peer in through the tiny window. FUYUTSUKI:“That's terrible.” MAN:“Yes, she hasn't spoken for almost two years now.”
	101	An expressionless Misato. The frame of the window in front. MAN (OFF):“It attests to the hell that she witnessed. Her physical injuries have healed, but psychological wounds do not heal so easily.”	UrsusArctos: Misato is literally framed as a helpless prisoner who has no voice in what happens to her. Her highly independent adult self seems to have been constructed in part as a deliberate reaction to this period of her existence.
	102	Fuyutsuki leaves, slightly distressed. FUYUTSUKI:“I suppose so.”	UrsusArctos: Fuyutsuki is described as "slightly distressed", a perfectly normal reaction. But he makes no attempt at contact with Misato, leaving her alone. Even though Misato is acknowledged as human, her visitors seem to have "othered" her because of her sole surivor status and trauma-induced muteness.
	103	Fuyutsuki standing at the locale from earlier. FUYUTSUKI:“We can't conclude our findings for our investigation lightly either.” TEXT:“Safety First”
	324	Infrared lighting. FUYUTSUKI (OFF):“A completely localized change to the atmospheric elements.”
	325	Heavily-equipped gear for use outside the ship. FUYUTSUKI (OFF):“The thorough extermination of all life, including microorganisms.”
	326	Subterranean scan image of the former continent of Antarctica. (A Geofront is visible.) FUYUTSUKI (OFF):“The traces of an enormous cavern directly below the blast center.”	Dr. Nick: Is the White Moon name-checked anywhere in the series proper, by the way? UrsusArctos: While I'm in no position to double-check, I'm pretty sure this image and the CI are the only places where the White Moon is referred to by name.
	327	Fuyutsuki, looking at a report dubiously. FUYUTSUKI:“And this giant of light.” Insert: A photograph of the Giant of Light attached to the report. Pull-in on this photo. FUYUTSUKI:“This incident is full of mysteries.” He lifts his face.
	104-105	Missing numbers due to rearrangement.
	106	Headline being played up in a current newspaper. FUYUTSUKI (MONO):“Soon after, the United Nations issued an official statement stating that the Second Impact was caused by a massive meteor.”
	107	A dark newspaper photograph (dots visible) zoomed in on the countenance of Keel. T . B. FUYUTSUKI (MONO):“But from where I stood, I could see”
	108	Likewise, the visage of Gendo. T ・ B. FUYUTSUKI (MONO):“that the information had been blatantly massaged.”	Editor's Note: The translator re-used the ADV translator's euphemism for "intelligence rigging" (jouhou sousa) and made a note of it.
	109	Newspaper photo T ・ B. Is the main figure a high-ranking person in the United Nations? Kiel and Ikari are displayed behind him, scarcely visible. FUYUTSUKI (MONO):“Behind all this was Seele and hints that a man named Kiel was involved. And it made me want to learn the dark truth of that incident.”	UrsusArctos: How considerate of Gendo and Kiel to lurk in the background and tip off folks that the information presented a total fabrication! The HIC members in Episode 14 complained that Gendo was a master at manipulating the truth - and this is solid evidence to the audience that they were right on the money. Mbryo: The entire lower half of Kiel's body is revealed to be machinery in EOE, but in this photo, he appears to be a man normal enough to walk around in public. Did his health deteriorate so rapidly that most of his body needed to be replaced?

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