History Recap / MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercuryEpisode19NotTheBestWay

After Guel and Kenanji depart on the Permet elevator, Prospera sets her own plan into motion. Retrieving the GUND-Bits she had smuggled down to Earth, she deploys a data storm over the area, taking control of a protestor's tank, firing on herself and Aerial, using this as an excuse to retreat from their assigned post. Ignoring Miorine's attempts to call her, Prospera retrieves Aerial's rifle next, breaking into a hidden bunker filled with production-model Lfrith Gundams. Feng reveals to Belmeria that the Space Assembly League's high council have supported Ochs Earth covertly for the past twenty years after it was supposedly rendered defunct, which is where the Lfrith Ur and Thorn came from. Outraged by the survival of the company which trampled on the ideals of the massacred Vanadis Institute, Prospera uses Aerial's Bit-On Cannon to destroy all the Lfriths.

!!Summary
Boarding an orbital elevator, Miorine and Guel descend to Earth. Miorine admires the sight of the Earth she'd longed to visit, but remarks it's not the time for her to enjoy it. Guel mentions his desire to check on the situation since he was last on Earth in Dawn of Fold's custody. Inside Aerial, Prospera receives a report from Godoy, telling him to proceed with their preparations.

Touching down on Earth, Miorine and Guel are escorted to a meeting with the leaders of the protests; Elan, Nugen and Shaddiq discuss Miorine's negotiation attempt, Elan suggesting that using Aerial to suppress the protestors could win Miorine support in the election, though Shaddiq believes she would never allow it. Feng begins interrogating Belmeria over a tea party, revealing the high council of the Space Assembly League is planning to take action against the Benerit Group. On their way into the negotiations, Guel encounters Sedo from the Dawn of Fold refugee camp, following him after he is removed by the guards, with Kenanji taking off after him. Meeting with the demonstration leadership alone, they rebuff Miorine's attempts at negotiations, demanding the complete exodus of Spacians from Earth.

Watching the GUND-ARM Inc. PV during a break in the negotiations, Miorine returns to the meeting, presenting them with the company's prosthetic legs. She rejects their demand for all Spacians to leave Earth, citing the counterpoint would be all Earthians returning from space, a notion she can't abide owing to her admiration for her friends in Earth House. Recognizing she lacks the power to follow through with her ideals, Miorine resolves to win the Benerit Group presidency so she can dictate the terms of further negotiations. The protest leaders agree to suspend their activities until the election is over.

After Guel and Kenanji depart on the Permet elevator, Prospera sets her plan into motion. Retrieving the GUND-Bits she smuggled down to Earth, she deploys a data storm over the area, taking control of a protestor's tank, firing on herself and Aerial, using this as an excuse to retreat from their assigned post. Ignoring Miorine's attempts to call her, Prospera retrieves Aerial's rifle next, breaking into a hidden bunker filled with production-model Lfrith Gundams. Feng reveals to Belmeria that the Space Assembly League's high council have supported Ochs Earth covertly for the past twenty years after it was supposedly rendered defunct, which is where the Lfrith Ur and Thorn came from. Enraged by the survival of the company which trampled on the ideals of the massacred Vanadis Institute, Prospera uses Aerial's Bit-On Cannon to destroy all the Lfriths.

* CallBack: Like Miorine in the second episode, Norea sits crouched while muttering "die, die, die" over and over. This time, however, it's significantly less humerous.

* TrueCompanions: The Earth House kids pull Suletta out of her depressive spiral by simply being there for her with a warm meal and giving her their unconditional support. When Suletta genuinely smiles for likely the first time since she lost the rigged duel against Guel, their happiness is visible and Lilique even sheds a tear. Likewise, when Martin confesses to reporting Nika, the guilt of which has been gnawing at him for the last few episodes, they respond with understanding rather than the recrimination he was afraid of.
* VillainHasAPoint: Shaddiq's brutal dismissal Vim Jeturk as a shallow man obsessed with company politics who morally gave up the right to complain about being assassinated when he was plotting to kill Delling in the first place is pretty dead on.

* TrueCompanions: The Earth House kids pull Suletta out of her depressive spiral by simply being there for her with a warm meal and giving her their unconditional support. When Suletta genuinely smiles for likely the first time since she lost the rigged duel against Guel, their happiness is visible and Lilique even sheds a tear. Likewise, when Martin confesses to reporting Nika, the guilt of which has been gnawing at him for the last few episodes, they respond with understanding rather than the recrimination he was afraid of.

* DisturbingStatistic: When Miorine tries to entice the Earthian protest leaders with a new factory, they find it rather insulting in the face of the ''1529'' Earthians dead or missing from the Benerit Group's response [[DisproportionateRetribution to an attack on a single factory]]. It's clearly much more extensive than Miorine had any idea.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: After spending several episodes of manipulating Suletta, Prospera sets up a FalseFlagOperation on Earth by further causing civilian unrest and widespread death and destruction ''while piloting Aerial''.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Miorine naively approaches the political matters at large thinking she has a solid idea of what she's getting into. While the protest leaders initially brush her off because of this, she manages to recover and earn a modicum of their respect. Then she gets a front-row seat to the real reason Prospera brought her there: manipulating the tense stand-off between the Earthians and Spacians into a violent suppression. While Miorine might have been able to empathize with the Earthians, she was totally unprepared for the sheer ''depths'' of violence and extremes Prospera was willing to go to for her own ends. It's to the point that ''even the protestors'' quickly figure out she has no idea how manipulated she is. What innocence Miorine had is torn asunder, realizing she had played into Prospera's hands ''again.''

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Again for Miorine, who naively approaches the political matters at large thinking she has a solid idea of what she's getting into. Then she stumbles straight into the Earthian protest incident that Prospera manipulates into a violent suppression, not knowing a single thing about the sheer ''depths'' of violence and extreme DisproportionateRetribution the Spacians inflict upon those that get in their path. It's to the point that ''even the protestors'' quickly figure out she has no idea what she's actually covering for and how manipulated she is. What innocence Miorine had is torn asunder by realizing she was simply not ready for a bloody conflict.

* TemptingFate: When Shaddiq, Elan and the Peil CEOs were discussing Miorine's planned negotiations, Elan notes if Miorine used the Gundam to crush the Earthian protests, it would give her a sizeable boost in the election. Shaddiq is quite confident that Miorine would never allow such a thing. [[FalseFlagOperation Cue Prospera setting her plan into motion.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: Among the signs of the Earthian protest is one that reads "STOP [[PrecisionFBomb FUCKING]] OUR LIVES FOR YOUR OWN WEALTH", [[SceneryCensor with the profanity covered up by another sign]].

Back at Asticassia, Lauda is outraged to discover the completed Gundam Schwarzette being moved to the Jeturk House hangar. At Grassley House, Norea breaks down and has to be restrained by Elan #5, who brushes off Nika's confused distress after witnessing the breakdown.

Catching up with Sedo, the boy asks Guel if he'd be able to enroll him in Asticassia, wishing to follow in the footsteps of "The Prince." Recognizing the nickname from Shaddiq's time in Grassley's Academy, Kenanji interrogates Sedo further, allowing Guel to realize the attacks on Asticassia and Plant Quetta were Shaddiq's doing. Calling to inform Miorine of his discovery, she advises him to return to Asticassia to search Grassley for Sarius, who would be able to prove the truth of Shaddiq's crimes.

After Guel and Kenanji depart on the Permet elevator, Prospera sets her plan into motion. Retrieving the GUND-Bits she smuggled down to Earth, she deploys a data storm over the area, taking control of a protestor's tank, firing on herself and Aerial, using this as an excuse to retreat from their assigned post. Ignoring Miorine's attempts to call her, Prospera retrieves Aerial's rifle next, breaking into a hidden bunker filled with production-model Lfrith Gundams. Feng reveals to Belmeria that the Space Assembly League's high council have supported Ochs Earth covertly for the past twenty years after it was supposedly rendered defunct, which is where the Lfrith Ur and Thorn came from. Enraged at the survival of the company which trampled on the ideals of the Vanadis Institute, Prospera uses Aerial's Bit-On Cannon to destroy all the Lfriths.

Believing the destruction of the Ochs Earth bunker to be an attack, the protestors begin another riot. Despite orders not to attack, Benerit Security forces panic and return fire. Over Miorine's pleas of innocence, the protest leaders take their leave after the apparent betrayal. Belmeria tells Feng and Guston what she knows of Quiet Zero, but as they board a ship to make for Plant Quetta, they are attacked by Godoy. Feng is shot, pushing Belmeria through the airlock and out of the line of fire, she and Guston witnessing Godoy apparently executing Feng as the doors close.

Watching a news broadcast detailing the horrific outcome of the riot enrages Norea and Lauda for their own reasons, while Elan laughs over having predicted the outcome. Realizing Prospera had figured him out, Shaddiq makes plans to begin a counterattack, quietly voicing frustration with Guel for having "defiled" Miorine. Seeing Aerial on the news amidst the carnage, Suletta connects a speech Lilique had made with Aerial's previous rejection of her, coming to a revelation about her sister's motivations. On a rooftop overlooking the burning city, Miorine falls to her knees, blaming herself for the disaster.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Lauda is enraged and appalled when he discovers that there is a Gundam made by their own company. Make sense considering that Gundams started Jeturk's sudden decline, regardless of how it could bring them prestige.

* HeroicBSOD: Suletta coped with Miorine's rejection by becoming a StepfordSmiler who ate a lot and threw herself into school life, but Aerial's rejection on top of that has sent her into a catatonic depression where she ''stops'' eating and no longer goes to class or does anything except lay in her bunk.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Prospera calls Ochs Earth “sinners” for trampling on GUND’s ideals by creating Lfriths, then proceeds to destroy the bunker holding the mass produced Lfriths, igniting another fight that, ironically, Miorine was trying to defuse ''with'' those ideals.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Shaddiq's ever present smug smile and confidence vanishes when Prospera ruins his plans and escalates the tension between Earthian's and Spacian's, even blaming Guel for "defiling" Miorine by putting blood on her hands, despite the latter having left Earth by that point.
* TheScapegoat: The episode ends with Miorine being blamed for escalating the tension between Earth and space by turning the whole city into a battlefield.

* ThrowTheDogABone: After back-to-back episodes where her entire world came crashing down, Suletta finally gets a reprieve when the Earth House students invite her to dinner and manages to help Suletta regain her confidence.
* TemptingFate: Shaddiq, Original Elan and the Peil CEO's were discussing Miorine's actions in which Elan noted if Miorine uses the Gundam to crush the Earthians to silence them it would give her sizeable boost in the election. They are quite confident that Miorine would not resort to that. [[FalseFlagOperation Cue Prospera setting her plan into motion.]]
* TitleDrop: Lilique mentions the episode's title when trying to reassure Martin about sometimes being left with no other options when confronted with a dilemma, said dilemma being ratting out Nika in this case. Later on, Suletta repeats the same sentiment when she witnesses the chaos on Earth, realizing Eri's intentions in driving her away.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Lauda is enraged and appalled when he discoveres that there is a Gundam made by their own company. Make sense considering that Gundam's started Jeturk's sudden decline, regardless of how it could bring them prestige.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Lauda was enraged and appalled when he discovered that there is a Gundam made by their own company. Make sense that it was the one thing that started Jeturk's sudden decline, regardless how it will bring them prestige.

* HandshakeRefusal: Miorine offers one of the protest leaders a handshake and says she hopes they can speak on equal terms. He respond with open skepticism and calls her to the meeting room without his arms leaving his sides.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Shaddiq's ever present smug smile and confidence vanished when (unknowingly) Prospera ruined his plans, even blaming Guel despite the latter gone from the scene.

* OverzealousUnderling: Discussed; when Miorine is told the Benerit security forces have killed, unlawfully arrested, or even ''tortured'' hundreds of people since the Plant Quetta attacks, she says they were told to do anything like that. The protest leaders are not surprised by her ignorance, nor do they care.