The Victoria Nightmare – Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Episode 4

The Victoria Nightmare is the 4th episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. It premiered in Japan on 28 April 1995 and later aired in North America on 9 March 2000. The episode was written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa and directed by Tetsuya Watanabe. Zechs’s shuttle flies with the Tallgeese inside.

Synopsis

Zechs’s shuttle flies with the Tallgeese inside. Zechs examines information obtained from Walker about the Heavyarms and Sandrock Gundams. Lieutenant Noin from the Lake Victoria Base contacts Zechs. She is the instructor of the pilots there. Wufei, who is watching the Victorian Base from a cliff, jumps on a motorcycle and heads off; Shenlong is laying on a nearby cliff.

Otto informs Zechs that Wufei is near, but they can’t find the Gundam. Zechs and Noin both graduated from the Lake Victoria Base, where they were the top 2 students. In her quarters, Noin looks at a collage of Zechs and calls him ‘Peacecraft’. The next day, Noin instructs her students and their Taurus space mobile suits are brought outside. Zechs arrives. They talk that night in a lounge area of the base. Noin, who is clearly infatuated with Zechs says that they’ll transport the Taurus mobile suits tomorrow.

Otto calls Zechs, and tells him that while many are working on the Tallgeese, it will be a month before it is finished. Later, after everyone has gone asleep, Wufei arrives outside the base. He pushes a button, triggering a huge explosion. The worst area hit is the trainee’s quarters. Noin heads there, where most of the trainees are dead. Leos head out, although there is no sign of the enemy.

Noin heads out in an Aries suit and locates Wufei riding a bike using a heat sensoring system. Two more Arieses head out with a space laser. She fires at Wufei, knocking him off his bike. She realizes that Wufei is just a boy, and when she pauses Wufei, who notices that she is a woman, takes the opportunity to escape. He gets in his Gundam, destroys the two other Aries mobile suits and then attacks Noin’s suit.

Meanwhile, an OZ officer has the Taurus mobile suits loaded onto an air carrier and prepared for takeoff. Zechs thinks that this is a bad idea and that the Gundam won’t come to the base. The carrier is launched anyway and Wufei uses the space laser to blast it out of the sky. He tells Noin he won’t kill bleeding hearts or women and leaves.

At Duo’s base, Heero uses his laptop to determine the necessary repairs for Wing Gundam. Duo offers to have both of their Gundams repaired simultaneously by his crew, but Heero refuses to let anyone else touch his mobile suit. He then gets a message in his Gundam’s cockpit about a mission to destroy an OZ carrier transporting Gundanium Alloy. Meanwhile, Relena stands on a cliff calling Heero’s name. At an Alliance meeting, the leaders conclude that the Gundams are their enemies, and are from the colonies. Mr. Darlian doesn’t believe this and thinks the colonies want peace. He believes that the Alliance is the problem. The other leaders argue with him and General Septum asks him to leave. Treize, elsewhere, tells Lady Une to take care of the situation with Darlian.

Back at Duo’s base, Heero works all night repairing Wing Gundam and takes off early the next morning. Duo is impressed that he was able to repair his Gundam by himself in just one night, but then realizes that Heero stole the necessary parts from Deathscythe, which is now inoperable. Heero locates the OZ carrier and blasts it out of the sky with his Gundam’s buster rifle, accomplishing his mission.

Meanwhile, at Quatre’s home, he plays a violin while Trowa plays a flute. The Magunac Core, Quatre’s desert troop friends, fix both of their Gundams and wonder about Trowa. A defeated Noin returns to the Lake Victoria Base and talks to Zechs. She accepts Zechs’ offer to join him in taking on the Gundams. Meanwhile, Wufei comes upon a pack of wolves. He screams, scaring them away and despairs over how empty he feels about defeating such a weak enemy.

Featured mobile suits

Taurus

Characters

Lucrezia Noin
Lady Une
Rasid Kurama

Production notes

Script by Katsuyuki Sumisawa.
Unit direction by Tetsuya Watanabe.
Animation direction by Atsushi Shigeta.

Broadcast and home media

Premiered in Japan on 28 April 1995.
Broadcast in North America on 9 March 2000.

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