History Recap / NeonGenesisEvangelionEpisode05BeyondReisHeart

* AccidentalPervert: Shinji falling on top of the naked Rei. It is remarkable for not being portrayed as even remotely comedic, but rather played for as much discomfort and awkwardness as possible.

*** Similarly, Gendo using gloves to conceal the burns on his hands he sustained during this incident. Gendo will keep the gloves as part of his outfit for the remainder of the series -- and long past the point where the burns would've healed enough to make them unnecessary. While it can initially be seen as a way of concealing his injury (or, from a Meta perspective, saving money by not altering his character model), it'll turn out they're awfully [[JustForPun handy]] for concealing something or ''someone'' in plain sight...

In the present, at the site where Shinji killed Shamshel, NERV is out in force to examine the almost intact corpse of the Angel and have managed to partly recover the its damaged power source. An excited Ritsuko shares her findings with Misato and Shinji: The computers cannot fully analyse the matter the Angel is composed of, but it has an "inherent wave pattern" making it a "form of matter similar to light" and, despite the difference in the matter, how said matter is composed carries a eerily striking similarity to the human genome; a 99.89% match in fact. Shinji, meanwhile, sees that Gendo and Fuyutsuki are at the site to inspect the remains of the Angel's core. Looking at them from a distance, he sees that his father has taken his gloves off, and that his hands have burns on them. Misato notices his curiosity, and Shinji asks her about his father's wounds. Ritsuko tells him that he suffered them while he saved Rei from an accident with the Eva. This catches Shinji's interest as it conflicts with the view he has of Gendo and he starts to wonder what kind of connection he has to Rei.

*** Similarly, Gendou using gloves to conceal the burns on his hands he sustained during this incident. Gendo will keep the gloves as part of his outfit for the remainder of the series -- and long past the point where the burns would've healed enough to make them unnecessary. While it can initially be seen as a way of concealing his injury (or, from a Meta perspective, saving money by not altering his character model), it'll turn out they're awfully [[JustForPun handy]] for concealing something or ''someone'' in plain sight...

** Elaborated on further when she catches Shinji with his father's glasses. She tries to take them off him and attack him upon seeing this, and attacks him again when Shinji badmouths his father. According to the manga Gendou is the only person Rei has faith in, and he is something of a BerserkButton to her.

** Gendo is this to Rei. Her reaction to Shinji with his glasses is to try and attack him, and when he says that he can't have faith in him Rei slaps Shinji. He's just as shocked as the viewer, and this would be addressed as the series goes on where Rei would gradually subvert and then avert her feelings towards Gendo entirely.

** Ritsuko's genetic analysis of Shamshel's corpse, which reveals that the underlying matter that makes up the Angels somehow has a 99.89% match to the human genome. How this could be possible will be finally revealed in ''The End of Evangelion''.

** Ritsuko's genetic analysis of Shamshel's corpse, which reveals that the underlying matter that makes up the Angels somehow has a 99.89% match to the human genome. [[spoiler: It'll eventually be revealed that Humans and Angels are, for all intents, genetic cousins. Humanity collectively is the 18th Angel and is descended from Lilith while the other Angels are all descended from Adam.]]

*** Similarly, Gendou using gloves to conceal the burns on his hands he sustained during this incident. Gendo will keep the gloves as part of his outfit for the remainder of the series -- and long past the point where the burns would've healed enough to make them unnecessary. While it can initially be seen as a way of concealing his injury (or, from a Meta perspective, saving money by not altering his character model), it'll eventually be revealed [[spoiler: Gendo has Adam's embryonic form implanted into his hand after the events of "Auska Strikes!". He's still wearing the gloves to conceal he's got the, for all intents, detonator for the Third Impact literally in the palm of his hand.]]

*** Similarly, Gendou using gloves to conceal the burns on his hands he sustained during this incident. The gloves will be quite handy for, oh say, [[spoiler: concealing that you've implanted the embryonic form of the first Angel in your hand as part of your 'Trigger Your Very Own Third Impact!' plan.]]

* VisibleSigh: Actually a justified version. Rei's sigh at the end of Unit-00's activation test is visible, because she is emerged in liquid and has been holding her breath.

Same day, at a synch test, Shinji watches Rei through the Unit-01's camera. He notices that Gendo walks up to her, and zooms closer in. He is shocked to see that they are both smiling, and are apparently having a pleasant conversation.

Not further acknowledging his existence, Rei carefully stores the glasses in their case, and nonchalantly starts to get dressed, while the now very flustered Shinji rather incoherently tries to explain both the reason for his presence in her apartment and that he didn't mean to grope her. But Rei doesn't seem to pay him any mind at all, and once she is done putting on clothes she simply exits the apartment before he can hand her the new access card. He follows her as she heads for NERV HQ, but she continues to be apparently oblivious to him. At the access gate, Shinji finally gets to hand Rei the card, but she continues onward with no comment. Shinji tries to strike up a conversation with her, and apologizes for what happened in the apartment, but Rei apparently doesn't know what he wants to apologize for. Changing the subject, he asks her if she isn't scared about the upcoming activation test for Unit-00 when she was so badly hurt the last time. She asks him if he isn't the Commander's son, which Shinji affirms. She then asks him if he has faith in his father's work, Shinji flat out tells her: "Of course not! Not in a father like that!" This strikes a cord in the stoic girl, as she, without a word, turns around and gives him a glare before slapping him. She then goes back to ignoring the surprised Shinji.

* NotSoStoic: Besides the moment Rei actually smiling during her conversation with Gendo and later slapping Shinji in anger, there is also a more subtle moment when we see her sighing in relief after of Unit-00's activation test. It makes it evident that, despite her claims of having no worries about the activation test to Shinji, she still was worried enough to hold her breath throughout said test.

** The reason for Gendo's uncharacteristically extreme panic when Unit-00 goes haywire in the prologue? [[TheLostLenore Turns out that it has happened to him before...]]

* NotSoStoic: Besides the moment Rei actually smiling during her conversation with Gendo, there is also a more subtle moment when we see her sighing in relief after of Unit-00's activation test. It makes it evident that, despite her claims of having no worries about the activation test to Shinji, she still was worried enough to hold her breath throughout said test.

** The reason Gendo's uncharacteristically extreme panic when Unit-00 goes haywire in the prologue? [[TheLostLenore Turns out that it has happened to him before...]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ritsuko's wistful comment when she compares Gendo to Rei, does imply that she knows Gendo a bit more intimately than she lets on.

* NotSoStoic: Besides the moment Rei actually smiling during her conversation with Gendo, we also see her sighing in relief after of Unit-00's activation test. It makes it evident that, despite her claims of no worries about the activation test to Shinji, she still was worried enough to hold her breath throughout said test.

* NotSoStoic: Besides the moment Rei actually smiling during her conversation with Gendo, we also see her sighing in relief after of Unit-00's activation test. It makes it evident that, despite her claims of no worries about the activation test to Shinji, she still was worried enough to hold her breath through said test.

In the present, at the site where Shinji killed Shamshel, NERV is out in force to examine the almost intact corpse of the Angel and have managed to partly recover the its damaged power source. An excited Ritsuko shares her findings with Misato and Shinji: The computers cannot fully analyse the matter the Angel is composed of, but it has an "inherent wave pattern" making it a "form of matter similar to light" and it shares a 99.89% likeness with human DNA. Shinji, meanwhile, sees that Gendo and Fuyutsuki are at the site to inspect the remains of the Angel's core. Looking at them from a distance, he sees that his father has taken his gloves off, and that his hands have burns on them. Misato notices his curiosity, and Shinji asks her about his father's wounds. Ritsuko tells him that he suffered them while he saved Rei from an accident with the Eva. This catches Shinji's interest as it conflicts with the view he has of Gendo and he starts to wonder what kind of connection he has to Rei.

Not further acknowledging his existence, Rei carefully stores the glasses in their case, and starts to get dressed, while the now very flustered Shinji rather incoherently tries to explain both the reason for his presence in her apartment and that he didn't mean to grope her. But Rei doesn't seem to pay him any mind at all, and she simply exits the apartment before he can hand her the new access card. He follows her as she heads for NERV HQ, but she continues to be apparently oblivious to him. At the access gate, Shinji finally gets to hand Rei the card, but she continues onward with no comment. Shinji tries to strike up a conversation with her, and apologizes for what happened in the apartment, but Rei apparently doesn't know what he wants to apologize for. Changing the subject, he asks her if she isn't scared about the upcoming activation test for Unit-00 when she was so badly hurt the last time. She asks him if he isn't the Commander's son, which Shinji affirms. She then asks him if he has faith in his father's work, Shinji flat out tells her: "Of course not! Not in a father like that!" This strikes a cord in the stoic girl, as she, without a word, turns around and gives him a glare before slapping him. She then goes back to ignoring the surprised Shinji.

Same night at Misato's apartment, Ritsuko is invited over for dinner. As it is Misato's turn to cook, she insists on serving her own mixes of various TV dinners, much to Shinji and Ritsuko (and Pen Pen)'s displeasure. During dinner, Ritsuko asks Shinji to do her a favor: Rei has been issued a new access card, and she wants him to deliver it. Seeing Shinji looking intensely at Rei's picture on the card, Misato decides to tease him over his interest. Embarrassed, Shinji explains that he just finds Rei strange because he knows so little about her. Ristuko tells him that Rei is a nice girl, but she is a bit like Gendo, "not very adept... at living."