Betrayed by Home, Far Away

Betrayed by Home, Far Away is the 17th episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. It premiered in Japan on 28 July 1995 and later aired in North America on 28 March 2000. The episode was written by Katsuhiko Chiba and directed by Tetsuya Watanabe. Alliance troops, piloting Leos, are chased out of a colony by Taurus Mobile Dolls.

Synopsis

Alliance troops, piloting Leos, are chased out of a colony by Taurus Mobile Dolls. The narrator explains that despite the fact that the Alliance was defeated on Earth, the Alliance space forces still remained in space. OZ’s powerful Taurus Mobile Dolls, Mobile Suits with programmed commands were easily able to defeat many of these troops.

A group of Tauruses, led by Officer Nichol enters Space Fortress Barge. He calls up Lady Une, who is without her glasses, out of uniform and has her hair down. Lady Une heads out to speak to the colony leaders. At colony Area D, the head of the colony shows a presentation of the Alliance forces being defeated. Lady Une sits in the audience. After the meeting, she has a brief talk with the leader and leaves after telling him her name.

On Earth, Duo and Quatre, upon hearing about OZ’s schemes in space, decide to head back there. Since the colonies can no longer be used as a shield without revealing OZ’s true intentions, they can make it clear to the other three pilots to head to space as well. Leaders in colony area D talk about OZ, and the elder advisor is opposed to them supporting OZ. He is the only one who feels this way. Meanwhile, a group of Mobile Dolls eliminates a large group of space mines in space. Lady Une is informed about an engineer found in a Gundam Manufacturing Plant. She talks to him, and he claims to have a created one of the Gundams, the Deathscythe. He claims the other four were made by four other engineers.

At that time, Deathscythe and Sandrock attack the Singapore Spaceport Base in order to steal HLV shuttles to get to space. Quatre is determined to let the other pilots find this out. The colony leaders from Colony Area D watch footage of the Gundams attacking and decide to inform all that they no longer support them. The leader makes a televised announcement declaring the Gundams their enemy and suggests the other colonies follow suit. Duo, sees this and is upset, but Quatre is confident that eventually the colony citizens will support the Gundams again.

Sandrock gets knocked over, as does Deathscythe, Duo and Quatre are severely outnumbered, but Wufei arrives in Shenlong to help them out. They find out that Heero and Trowa are doing the same at other spaceports across the world. Meanwhile in space, Nichol and Lady Une surround the last Gundam Engineer, and capture him after threatening to harm the colony. The engineer is none other than Doctor J.

Back on Earth, Deathscythe and Shenlong are loaded on to HLV shuttles, but Quatre is still outside fending off the Leos and Tragos attacking him. Convinced that the Leos and Tragos will shoot down their shuttles when they take off, Quatre decides to sacrifice himself and pushes Sandrock’s self-detonation button. Suddenly, without explanation, Sandrock automatically raises its shield and opens the cockpit so he can escape.

Quatre runs to a shuttle and escapes into space with the others as his Gundam blows up. On Barge, Doctor J is thrown in a cell and introduces himself to the other four engineers, whom he has not seen in fifteen years. The five shuttles carrying the Gundam pilots to space are located by OZ, but an electrical interference prevents Barge from attacking them. Doctor J thinks OZ will regret not killing them.

Characters

• Nichol
• Professor G
• Doctor S
• Instructor H
• Master O

Production notes

• Script by Katsuhiko Chiba.
• Unit direction by Tetsuya Watanabe.
• Storyboard by Masashi Ikeda.
• Animation direction by Shinichi Sakuma and Hitoshi Waraya.

Broadcast and home media

• Premiered in Japan on 28 July 1995.
• Broadcast in North America on 28 March 2000.

References

1. “Betrayed by Home, Far Away,” Gundam Wiki, accessed 12 November 2025, https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Betrayed_by_Home,_Far_Away.