History Recap / NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWaterE7TheTowerOfBabel

* NoodleIncident: From their dialogue after being thrown into the Atlantean prison cells, this isn't the first time the Grandis Gang has ended up in a cell and had to stage a jailbreak. Given their line of work, it'd be more shocking if they ''hadn't''.

*** It's also stated the Slave Stars have been dormant for 12,000 years. So this gives a time frame for the fall of ancient Atlantis. This provides another hint that the Atlatnis of ''Nadia'' was a far, far older civilization than usual depictions, which further hints at the AncientAstronauts origin.
** Nemo knows Gargoyle is trying to develop a new Tower of Babel. On the first watch, it seems like intel he and his crew have collected in the Secret War. It's only during the re-watch that it's clear he knows, because this was the trump card Gargoyle sought to secure 13 years earlier during his coup in old Tartessos.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/RogueOne "I delivered the weapon [Emperor Neo] requested. I deserve an audience to make certain he understands its remarkable... potential.]]"]]

Captured by the soldiers (also known as the Neo Atlanteans), Nadia is taken before Gargoyle, who implies that he has known Nadia since she was a baby. He demands his captive to reveal the whereabouts of the Blue Water. When Nadia refuses to obey, Gargoyle threatens to kill both Marie and King. With no choice, Nadia reluctantly admits that Jean has it.

The soldiers begin to search the complex for Jean, while the Grandis gang decides to escape. Both sides inadvertently come across each other when they board a freight train bound for Gargoyle's castle. Gargoyle tours Nadia around the compound and introduces its center — a spiral tower known as Babel, which can obliterate anything in its path. That evening he forces Nadia to witness the tower's awesome powers as it demolishes an island in the distance.

Out at sea, Captain Nemo sees the same explosion and declares that Gargoyle has "finally released the great abomination."

* AssholeVictim: The soldier Gargoyle shot in front of Nadia was still a henchmen of Neo Atlantis and thus involved in enslavement and massacres.

* CulturalPosturing: Gargoyle shows Nadia how culturally superior was Atlantis relative to humans.

** Somdom and Gomorrah are also revealed to have actually existed. They were actually destroyed by the Tower of Babel.

* PlotHole: A minor one with the Slave Stars. If

** The Blue Water resonating with the Tower hints at a common origin, along with Gargoyle having an imitation.

* BadBoss: In order to demonstrate how brutal he is, Gargoyle shot ''one of hisown soldiers''. Nadia soon relents after this.

** The Slave Stars reveals ancient Atlantis had the technological know-how and engineering to launch artificial satellites into orbit. Even if Atlantis was an advanced bygone civilization, how is that even possible?

[[caption-width-right:350: Build your own Tower of Babel at home! Explosive Sparkles not included!]]

** Nemo knows Gargoyle is trying to develop a new Tower of Babel. On the first watch, it seems like intel he's collected in the Secret War. It's only a re-watch that it's clear he knows, because this was the trump card Gargoyle sought to secure 13 years earlier during his coup in old Tartessos.

* AllMythsAreTrue: The Biblical Tower of Babel is revealed to have been an ancient Atlantean weapon (although subsequent episodes will reveal it was actually a communications relay; it's weapons capabilities were a secondary feature).

* OhCrap: Nemo's grim reaction upon realizing the Neo-Atlanteans has completed a new Tower of Babel.

[[caption-width-right:350: Built your own Tower of Babel at home! Explosive Sparkles not included!]]

** The Atlantean Slave Stars. Atlantis had the technological know-how and engineering to launch artificial satellites into orbit. Even if Atlantis was an advanced bygone civilization, how is that possible?