History Recap / NeonGenesisEvangelionEpisode19Introjection

* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Half of Gendo's face and body is splattered when from Unit-01's with its arm is dismembered during the battle with Zeruel. He still wears said blood on his face when him and Fuyutsuki watches the berserk Unit-01 from his office, lending him quite a lot of menace as he smirks in triumph at the sight and declares that ItHasOnlyJustBegun.

* DisappointedInYou: Gendo tries this line with Shinji during his reprimanding of him, but at that point, Shinji is so angry with Gendo that the line has absolutely no effect on him.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: An unspoken version. After the whole Bardiel, Shinji finally decides that his father's approval isn't worth a damn to him any more and shows no fear, reluctance, or skittishness when being confronted by him, only responding to him with ice-cold resentment.

* DynamicEntry: Unit-01's arrival into Central Dogma's Command Center, stopping Zeruel's attack.

Gendo affirms his suspicions and says that this is only the beginning.

It grips one of the Angel’s arms and kicks the creature, ripping off its limb and sending it flying backwards. Unit-01 then integrates the torn limb into its own severed arm and regenerates it. The regenerated limb, however, is nothing like how it looked before and actually looks like a human arm. The Angel tries repelling Unit-01 with its A.T. Field, but with a swat of its hand, the Eva extends its own A.T. Field, which smashes through the Angel's barrier and slashes the creature, making its blood and chunks of its flesh spray all over the Geofront. Ibuki notes that Shinji’s sync ratio with Unit-01 has reached an astonishing 400%, with Ritsuko remarking on how the Eva unit is finally aware. As the Angel is down, Unit-01 crawls over on all fours, growling and snarling like an ape. Zeruel, gasping as if it is in pain, meekly attempts to attack the Eva, only to have its face swiftly crushed by Unit-01's hand. The Eva goes on to eat the Angel, with Ritsuko explaining that the Eva has begun assimilating the Angel's S[[superscript:2]] engine into ''her''self. As the Eva continues to eat, it starts growing, causing the armor to break. This armor turns out to not only protect the EVA but also serve as restraints for the beast inside. "We can no longer stop the Eva," Ritsuko darkly comments.

With its nerve connections cut, Unit-02 is rendered completely immobile. Asuka, while still alive, sits fuming with anger inside the Eva, cursing her own weakness. As the Angel moves forward toward NERV Headquarters, Shinji watches the battle rage on. As he stands outside, he sees Kaji taking care of his watermelons. Kaji asks him what he is doing here and Shinji explains to him his decision to quit being an Eva pilot. When Shinji asks Kaji what ''he's'' doing here, Kaji replies that now that the end of the world is near, he just wants to enjoy what little time he has left. Optimally he would have liked to have been in the arms of Misato for this dark occasion, but since that was impossible and gardening is the second best thing he knows, he figured that it is what he is going to do as he dies. He explains that it is said that when an Angel makes contact with Adam (who Kaji believes to be under NERV Headquarters) it will result in the complete eradication of mankind. As they talk, Shinji sees Rei come up with an N2 mine cradled in Unit-00's arm. Despite both Misato and Gendo ordering her to stop what she is doing and fall back, she runs toward the Angel, pierces its A.T. Field, and detonates the mine. But it has no effect on the Angel, who emerges unharmed from the explosion, and soon Rei is put down as well. Kaji reminds Shinji that all he can do is care for his watermelons at this point. Shinji, however, has something else. He has an ability that no one else has and with that, Kaji leaves the final decision to Shinji. Gathering all of his resolve, Shinji determinately starts running towards the battlefield...

Some time later, Ritsuko and Misato survey yesterday's battlefield, which is still littered with pieces of Unit-03, their talk soon turns to the incident with Shinji, and Misato fears for his state of mind. Asuka and Rei hang around near the hospital wing while Asuka remarks on how Shinji can’t talk himself out of this situation. Rei asks her about Shinji's condition, and Asuka answers that Shinji wasn't injured during the extraction, so he is probably safely dreaming away as they speak. "Dreaming?" asks Rei puzzled. "Yeah. Don't tell me you don't dream?" says Asuka, but Rei doesn't answer her.

Meanwhile, Ritsuko and Misato survey yesterday's battlefield, which is still littered with pieces of Unit-03, their talk soon turns to the incident with Shinji, and Misato fears for his state of mind. Asuka and Rei hang around near the hospital wing while Asuka remarks on how Shinji can’t talk himself out of this situation. Rei asks her about Shinji's condition, and Asuka answers that Shinji wasn't injured during the extraction, so he is probably safely dreaming away as they speak. "Dreaming?" asks Rei puzzled. "Yeah. Don't tell me you don't dream?" says Asuka, but Rei doesn't answer her.

* BigDamnHeros: Shinji arrives in Unit-01 and interrupts Zeruel's attack, just as it is about to point blank blast Misato, Ritsuko, Fuyutsuki, and the bridge bunnies to smithereens.

With its nerve connections cut, Unit-02 is rendered completely immobile. Asuka, while still alive, sits fuming with rage inside the Eva, cursing her own weakness. As the Angel moves forward toward NERV Headquarters, Shinji watches the battle rage on. As he stands outside, he sees Kaji taking care of his watermelons. Kaji asks him what he is doing here and Shinji explains to him his decision to quit being an Eva pilot. When Shinji asks Kaji what ''he's'' doing here, Kaji replies that now that the end of the world is near, he just wants to enjoy what little time he has left. Optimally he would have liked to have been in the arms of Misato for this dark occasion, but since that was impossible and gardening is the second best thing he knows, he figured that it is what he is going to do as he dies. He explains that it is said that when an Angel makes contact with Adam (who Kaji believes to be under NERV Headquarters) it will result in the complete eradication of mankind. As they talk, Shinji sees Rei come up with an N2 mine cradled in Unit-00's arm. Despite both Misato and Gendo ordering her to stop what she is doing and fall back, she runs toward the Angel, pierces its A.T. Field, and detonates the mine. But it has no effect on the Angel, who emerges unharmed from the explosion, and soon Rei is put down as well. Kaji reminds Shinji that all he can do is care for his watermelons at this point. Shinji, however, has something else. He has an ability that no one else has and with that, Kaji leaves the final decision to Shinji. Gathering all of his resolve, Shinji determinately starts running towards the battlefield...

The scene then shifts to the train car inside Shinji’s mind. Toji is there as well, seemingly as a separate entity, standing in the next car over. Studying his surroundings in a daze, Toji is confused to where he is. As he looks towards the other car, he registers that Shinji and Rei are in there, sitting opposite each other and are having a conversation that he is not able to hear. In the other car, Rei asks Shinji why he threatened to destroy NERV. He says it’s because his father betrayed him and didn’t try to understand his feelings. Rei continues to press him by asking him whether he tried to understand his father’s feelings. Shinji becomes more frustrated, bending down and covering his ears, saying that he tried. Rei tells him that he is just running from reality again. "What's wrong with that?! What's wrong with running away from unpleasantness?!" Shinji shouts back at her.

At the train station, Shinji has one last conversation with Misato. She tells him that his life will be very difficult if he keeps cutting his ties to people, but Shinji answer that it might be her philosophy, but he can't live like that. Being straight to the point, Shinji asks her the only question he has; why was Toji chosen? She relays him the information she only recently discovered herself; that all of his classmates are potential pilots. She acknowledges what happened with Toji was a mistake, and that she and everyone else at NERV have been placing a lot of responsibility on Shinji’s shoulders since he is a pilot of an Eva Unit. She knows it has been a huge burden but remains steadfast in her belief that the end justifies the means. She tells him that she will be saving his pass-code to Headquarters and keeping his room unchanged. He tells her that won’t be necessary and firmly states that he won’t pilot an Eva again. Misato is surprised by his tone and wonders if Shinji is truly speaking his mind for once. As Shinji waits for his train to arrive, the alarms begin to wail signalling the arrival of the fourteenth Angel, Zeruel, a huge and bulky, vaguely humanoid creature with a leering skull-like mask for a face.

After he regained consciousness, Shinji was detained in a cell to await a meeting with the Commander. As he is brought before his father in handcuffs, Gendo tells him that his insubordination and attempted hijacking of Unit-01 constitutes serious offenses, before asking Shinji if he has anything to say in his defense. Shinji just coldly tells him that he doesn’t want to pilot an Eva anymore and has resolved to go back to living with his old teacher. Gendo's only response is to tell Shinji that he is just running away again and he is disappointed in him, but Shinji is unmoved by this. "I assume that we'll never meet again," Gendo notices. "Yes, that's my intent," answers Shinji with clear determination in his voice as he calmly walks out of the office. Gendo proceeds to order the deletion of all of Shinji’s data and designates Rei as Unit-01’s pilot with the dummy plug as backup.

After the events involving Bardiel and the dummy plug, Shinji holds Unit-01 under his control and refuses to exit the entry plug. He accuses Gendo of trying to kill Toji with "my own hands", and demands that his father explains himself. He threatens to destroy NERV Headquarters using the few minutes of power that he has left if his demand is not met, and refuses to be talked out of it. Cold and pragmatic as ever, Gendo does not speak to Shinji, and instead has the pressure of the LCL inside Unit-01's plug raised until Shinji loses consciousness, commenting "We have no time to waste on a petulant child." Shinji is subsequently extracted from the plug.

With its nerve connections cut, Unit-02 is rendered completely immobile. Asuka, while still alive, sits fuming with rage inside the Eva, cursing her own weakness. As the Angel moves forward toward NERV Headquarters, Shinji watches the battle rage on. As he stands outside, he sees Kaji taking care of his watermelons. Kaji asks him what he is doing here and Shinji explains to him his decision to quit being an Eva pilot. When Shinji asks Kaji what ''he's'' doing here, Kaji replies that optimally he would have liked to be in the arms of Misato, but since gardening is the second best thing he knows, it is what he is going to do as he dies. He explains that it is said that when an Angel makes contact with Adam (who Kaji believes to be under NERV Headquarters) the world will end. As they talk, Shinji sees Rei come up with an N2 mine cradled in Unit-00's arm. Despite both Misato and Gendo ordering her to stop what she is doing and fall back, she runs toward the Angel, pierces its A.T. Field, and detonates the mine. But it has no effect on the Angel, who emerges unharmed from the explosion, and soon Rei is put down as well. Kaji reminds Shinji that all he can do is care for his watermelons at this point. Shinji, however, has something else. He has an ability that no one else has and with that, Kaji leaves the final decision to Shinji. Gathering all of his resolve, Shinji determinately starts running towards the battlefield...

Soon enough, Zeruel blasts its way through to the inside of the Geofront with Asuka waiting to challenge it, haughtily declaring that she can easily do this even without Shinji's help. She tries to bring it down with every weapon she has in her arsenal but it’s all completely ineffective and the Angel calmly advances completely unhindered towards Unit-02 before it pauses and extends two razor-sharp limbs to cut off the Eva's arms. As she screams in pain, Asuka charges toward the Angel in a blind rage, while the creature repairs to attack again. Misato orders the nerve connections to be cut just as Unit-02’s head is severed from its body.

Asuka, while still alive, is rendered useless after Zeruel’s attack. She sits inside the Eva, cursing her own weakness. As the Angel moves forward toward NERV Headquarters, Shinji watches the battle rage on. As he stands outside, he sees Kaji taking care of his watermelons. Kaji asks him what he is doing here and Shinji explains to him his decision to quit being an Eva pilot. When Shinji asks Kaji what ''he's'' doing here, Kaji replies that optimally he would have liked to be in the arms of Misato, but since gardening is the second best thing he knows, it is what he is going to do as he dies. He explains that it is said that when an Angel makes contact with Adam (who Kaji believes to be under NERV Headquarters) the world will end. As they talk, Shinji sees Rei come up with an N2 mine cradled in Unit-00's arm. Despite both Misato and Gendo ordering her to stop what she is doing and fall back, she runs toward the Angel, pierces its A.T. Field, and detonates the mine. But it has no effect on the Angel, who emerges unharmed from the explosion, and soon Rei is put down as well. Kaji reminds Shinji that all he can do is care for his watermelons at this point. Shinji, however, has something else. He has an ability that no one else has and with that, Kaji leaves the final decision to Shinji. Gathering all of his resolve, Shinji determinately starts running towards the battlefield...

Soon enough, Zeruel blasts its way through to the inside of the Geofront with Asuka waiting to challenge it, haughtily declaring that she can easily do this even without Shinji's help. She tries to bring it down with every weapon she has in her arsenal but it’s all completely ineffective and the Angel extends two razor-sharp limbs to cut off Unit-02’s arms. As she screams in pain, Asuka charges toward the Angel in a blind rage, while the creature repairs to attack again. Misato orders the nerve connections to be cut just as Unit-02’s head is severed from its body.

Shinji, in the meantime, is sitting in a shelter reminiscing about Asuka telling him how pilots like them never have to go through evacuation drills. His thoughts are soon interrupted by Unit-02’s head crashing through the shelter’s roof.

The scene then shifts to the train car inside Shinji’s mind. Toji is there as well, seemingly as a separate entity, standing in the next car over. Studying his surroundings in a daze, Toji is confused to where he is. As he looks towards the other car, he registers that Shinji and Rei are in there, sitting opposite each other and are having a conversation that he is not able to hear. In the other car, Rei asks Shinji why he threatened to destroy NERV. He says it’s because his father betrayed him and didn’t try to understand his feelings. Rei continues to press him by asking him whether he tried to understand his father’s feelings. Shinji becomes more frustrated, bending down and covering his ears, saying that he tried. Rei tells him that he is just running from reality again. As Toji comes to, he finds Hikari sitting by his bedside, and she tells him he has been out cold for three days. Toji is about to ask if it means she has been watching over him the whole time, but she quickly nips his question in the bud and frantically explains that she is just visiting as part of her duties as the class representative. "Yeah, I know that," answers Toji with a knowing smile. He apologizes for not being able to eat the lunch that Hikari made and asks her to tell his sister that nothing’s wrong with him. He also notices that Shinji is no longer in his bed.

It grips one of the Angel’s arms and kicks the creature, ripping off its limb and sending it flying backwards. Unit-01 then integrates the torn limb into its own severed arm and regenerates it. The regenerated limb, however, is nothing like how it looked before and actually looks like a human arm. The Angel tries repelling Unit-01 with its A.T. Field, but with a swat of its hand, the Eva extends its own A.T. Field, which smashes through the Angel's barrier and slashes the creature, making its blood and chunks of its flesh spray all over the Geofront. Ibuki notes that Shinji’s sync ratio with Unit-01 has reached an astonishing 400%, with Ritsuko remarking on how the Eva unit is finally aware. As the Angel is down, Unit-01 crawls over on all fours, growling and snarling like an ape. Zeruel, gasping as if it is in plain, meekly attempts to attack the Eva, only to have its face swiftly crushed by Unit-01's hand. The Eva goes on to eat the Angel, with Ritsuko explaining that the Eva has begun assimilating the Angel's S[[superscript:2]] engine into ''her''self. As the Eva continues to eat, it starts growing, causing the armor to break. This armor turns out to not only protect the EVA but also serve as restraints for the beast inside. "We can no longer stop the Eva," Ritsuko darkly comments.

It grips one of the Angel’s arms and kicks the creature, ripping off its limb and sending it flying backwards. Unit-01 then integrates the torn limb into its own severed arm and regenerates it. The regenerated limb, however, is nothing like how it looked before and actually looks like a human arm. The Angel tries repelling Unit-01 with its A.T. Field, but with a swat of its hand, the Eva extends its own A.T. Field, which smashes through the Angel's barrier and slashes the creature, making its blood and chunks of its flesh spray all over the Geofront. Ibuki notes that Shinji’s sync ratio with Unit-01 has reached an astonishing 400%, with Ritsuko remarking on how the Eva unit is finally aware. As the Angel is down, Unit-01 crawls over on all fours, growling and snarling like an ape. Zeruel, gasping as if it is in plain, meekly attempts to attack the Eva, only to have its face swiftly crushed by Unit-01's hand. The Eva goes on to eat the Angel, with Ritsuko explaining that the Eva has begun assimilating the Angel's S2 engine into ''her''self. As the Eva continues to eat, it starts growing, causing the armor to break. This armor turns out to not only protect the EVA but also serve as restraints for the beast inside. "We can no longer stop the Eva," Ritsuko darkly comments.

The scene then shifts to the train car inside Shinji’s mind. Toji is there as well, seemingly as a separate entity, standing in the next car over. Studying his surroundings in a daze, Toji is confused to where he is. As he looks towards the other car, he registers that Shinji and Rei are in there, sitting opposite each other and are having a conversation that he is not able to hear. She asks him why he threatened to destroy NERV. He says it’s because his father betrayed him and didn’t try to understand his feelings. Rei continues to press him by asking him whether he tried to understand his father’s feelings. Shinji becomes more frustrated, bending down and covering his ears, saying that he tried. Rei tells him that he is just running from reality again. As Toji comes to, he finds Hikari sitting by his bedside, and she tells him he has been out cold for three days. Toji is about to ask if it means she has been watching over him the whole time, but she quickly nips his question in the bud and frantically explains that she is just visiting as part of her duties as the class representative. "Yeah, I know that," answers Toji with a knowing smile. He apologizes for not being able to eat the lunch that Hikari made and asks her to tell his sister that nothing’s wrong with him. He also notices that Shinji is no longer in his bed.

The scene then shifts to the train car inside Shinji’s mind. Toji is there as well, seemingly as a separate entity, and is confused by what’s happening around him as he watches Shinji from a distance. This time, Shinji is sitting opposite to Rei. She asks him why he threatened to destroy NERV. He says it’s because his father betrayed him and didn’t try to understand his feelings. Rei continues to press him by asking him whether he tried to understand his father’s feelings. Shinji becomes more frustrated, bending down and covering his ears, saying that he tried. Rei tells him that he is just running from reality again. As Toji comes to, he finds Hikari sitting by his bedside, and she tells him he has been out cold for three days. Toji is about to ask if it means she has been watching over him the whole time, but she quickly nips his question in the bud and frantically explains that she is just visiting as part of her duties as the class representative. "Yeah, I know that," answers Toji with a knowing smile. He apologizes for not being able to eat the lunch that Hikari made and asks her to tell his sister that nothing’s wrong with him. He also notices that Shinji is no longer in his bed.

It grips one of the Angel’s arms and kicks the creature, ripping off its limb and sending it flying backwards. Unit-01 then integrates the torn limb into its own severed arm and regenerates it. The regenerated limb, however, is nothing like how it looked before and actually looks like a human arm. The Angel tries repelling Unit-01 with its A.T. Field, but with a swat of its hand, the Eva extends its own A.T. Field, which smashes through the Angel's barrier and slashes the creature, making its blood and chunks of its flesh spray all over the Geofront. Ibuki notes that Shinji’s sync ratio with Unit-01 has reached an astonishing 400%, with Ritsuko remarking on how the Eva unit is finally aware. As the Angel is down, Unit-01 crawls over on all fours, growling and snarling like an ape. Zeruel, gasping as if in it is in plain, meekly attempts to attack the Eva, only to have its face swiftly crushed by Unit-01's hand. The Eva goes on to eat the Angel, with Ritsuko explaining that the Eva has begun assimilating the Angel's S2 engine into ''her''self. As the Eva continues to eat, it starts growing, causing the armor to break. This armor turns out to not only protect the EVA but also serve as restraints for the beast inside. "We can no longer stop the Eva," Ritsuko darkly comments.

It grips one of the Angel’s arms and kicks the creature, ripping off its limb and sending it flying backwards. Unit-01 then integrates the torn limb into its own severed arm and regenerates it. The regenerated limb, however, is nothing like how it looked before and actually looks like a human arm. The Angel tries repelling Unit-01 with its A.T. Field, but with a swat of its hand, the Eva extends its own A.T. Field, which smashes through the Angel's barrier and slashes the creature, making its blood and chunks of its flesh spray all over the Geofront. Ibuki notes that Shinji’s sync ratio with Unit-01 has reached an astonishing 400%, with Ritsuko remarking on how the Eva unit is finally aware. As the Angel is down, Unit-01 crawls over on all fours, growling and snarling like an ape. The Angel, gasping as if in it is in plain, meekly attempts to attack the Eva, only to have its face swiftly crushed by Unit-01's hand. The Eva goes on to eat the Angel, with Ritsuko explaining that the Eva has begun assimilating the Angel's S2 engine into ''her''self. As the Eva continues to eat, it starts growing, causing the armor to break. This armor turns out to not only protect the EVA but also serve as restraints for the beast inside. "We can no longer stop the Eva," Ritsuko darkly comments.

Asuka, while still alive, is rendered useless after Zeruel’s attack. She sits inside the Eva, cursing her own weakness. As the Angel moves forward toward NERV Headquarters, Shinji watches the battle rage on. As he stands outside, he sees Kaji taking care of his watermelons. Kaji asks him what he is doing here and Shinji explains to him his decision to quit being an Eva pilot. When Shinji asks Kaji what ''he's'' doing here, Kaji replies that this place is where he’d like to be when he dies, since it is said that when an Angel makes contact with Adam (who Kaji believes to be under NERV Headquarters) the world will end. As they talk, Shinji sees Rei come up with an N2 mine cradled in Unit-00's arm. Despite both Misato and Gendo ordering her to stop what she is doing and fall back, she runs toward the Angel, pierces its A.T. Field, and detonates the mine. But it has no effect on the Angel, who emerges unharmed from the explosion, and soon Rei is put down as well. Kaji reminds Shinji that all he can do is care for his watermelons at this point. Shinji, however, has something else. He has an ability that no one else has and with that, Kaji leaves the final decision to Shinji. Gathering all of his resolve, Shinji determinately starts running towards the battlefield...

Soon enough, Zeruel blasts its way through to the inside of the Geofront with Asuka waiting to challenge it, haughtily declaring that she can easily do this even without Shinji's help. She tries to bring it down with every weapon she has in her arsenal but it’s all completely ineffective and the Angel extends two razor-sharp limbs to cut off Unit-02’s arms. As she screams in pain, Asuka charges toward the Angel in a blind rage, just as the creature repairs to attack again. Misato orders the nerve connections to be cut just as Unit-02’s head is severed from its body.