With Marik's abduction plan foiled for good, Yugi and co. can finally focus on getting to the location of the Battle City finals. Putting their locator cards on their duel disks activates a set of directions and the group heads off. And with that, the rest of the episode's focus shifts elsewhere.
In the recesses of Ryou Bakura's mind, Marik approaches Yami Bakura and tells him to get a move on with the plan. He'll have to get a Duel Disk and six locator cards before the Battle City finals if he wants to obtain the Millennium Rod. Bakura agrees, and after knocking Solomon Muto out, he leaves the hospital and mugs an unfortunate duelist for his Duel Disk and a single locator card. (He would have taken his deck, too, but he deemed it worthless.)
After intimidating other duelists into telling him that duels are taking place at the cemetery, Yami Bakura finds Bonz, Sid, and Zygor scaring duelists into giving up their locator cards by pretending to be zombies. He's not scared at all by their act, and demands that they duel him for all of the cards they have. Bonz agrees, and while he scores an early lead, Bakura defeats him and sends them all to the Shadow Realm. Now he has all six locator cards and a ticket to the Battle City finals!
This episode contains examples of:
- Adaptation Expansion: Yami Bakura's duel against Bonz was just one panel and had Yami Bakura beating Bonz with a card called "Spiritualism".
- Animation Bump: This episode boasts some of the best animation of the entire series.
- The Bad Guy Wins: This is the only duel in the series where Yami Bakura wins.
- Bullying a Dragon: Bonz and his cronies taunt Yami Bakura even when they're in bad shape. It doesn't end well.Sid: Aw, disappointed cause you can't move?
Yami Bakura: On the contrary... I'm disappointed because this duel has to end, and I wanted to prolong your misery! - Call-Back: Zygor notes that Bakura looks vaguely familiar, referring to "Arena of Lost Souls, Part 2." This is exclusive to the English dub—they all recognized him in the original, with Zygor remarking that he doesn't know what kind of deck Bakura uses, since he's never seen him duel.
- Continuity Snarl: Ectoplasmer is a Field Spell instead of a Continuous Spell.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Bonz only gets in a good attack with The Snake Hair to destroy Headless Knight and uses Skull Invitation's effect to harm Yami Bakura after he uses Spiritualism's effect to power up The Earl of Demise.
- Death by Adaptation: In the manga, Bonz dueled Yami Bakura alone, and thus was the only casualty of their duel. Here, Syd and Zygor spectate, and are thus dragged into hell with him.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Literally what happens to Bonz, Syd, and Zygor in the Japanese version. In the Dub, they're dragged off to the Shadow Realm.
- Fog of Doom: When Yami Bakura and Bonz begin their duel, a strange purple mist covers the area. Yami Bakura reveals that its because he had transformed the duel into a Shadow Game.
- Fusion Dance: Bonz fuses The Snake Hair and Dragon Zombie to form Great Mammoth of Goldfine.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Not only does Great Mammoth of Goldfine's destruction cause Bonz to lose a large amount of life points, he's damaged even further by his own Trap Card.
- Hope Spot: An antagonistic one. When Bonz draws Nightmare Steel Cage and subsequently activates it to prevent Yami Bakura from attacking for two turns, it looked like he had bought himself some time to come up with a plan. Unfortunately, Yami Bakura reveals he has a card that can bypass the Steel Cage: Ectoplasmer.
- Kick the Dog: Yami Bakura mugs a random duelist for his Duel Disk and cards, tells him his deck is worthless, scares other duelists into giving him information, makes up a legend about his Headless Knight card to scare Bonz, and finishes things off by sending Bonz, Sid, and Zygor to the Shadow Realm as punishment for losing.
- Later-Installment Weirdness: Dragon Zombie is a Normal Monster instead of Crawling Dragon brought Back from the Dead via Call of the Haunted.
- She's a Man in Japan: Inverted. One of the duelists Yami Bakura intimidates is clearly a guy, but the English dub gives him a woman's voice.
- Unnaturally Looping Location: Upon learning that Yami Bakura had turned the duel into a Shadow Game and that the loser would be claimed by the dark spirits surrounding them, Syd tries to run for it, only for him to end up back at the site of the duel.
- Villain Episode: The majority of the episode revolves around Yami Bakura, with Yugi and his friends only appearing in the opening scenenote .
- You Dont Look Like Yourself: Great Mammoth of Goldfine goes from being a gold Palette Swap of Mammoth Graveyard to having one eye and longer tusks.
