Nina and Dieter continue to stay in Prague so that she can regain her memories of what happened to her mother, Johan and herself when they were staying there. However, she can only see flashbacks of the past and starts to realise that something is not quite right with her memories especially the part when she saw someone looking exactly like her welcoming herself home. Dieter screams at Nina and this breaks her train of thoughts just in time before she gets overcomed by fear. He tells Nina that she doesn't have to remember the past since painful memories should be left behind. Like what Tenma told him, all he has to do is to make good memories and forget the bad ones. He tells Nina that they should return to Munich and look for Dr Reichwein instead of staying in Prague.Meanwhile in Prague, Vardeman comes to the police station and asks to take part in the interview of the 5 people who used to attend the reading sessions by Franz Bonaparta. He is told that he can only listen and not raise questions. Surprisingly, the detective in charge of this charge is Suk and he doesn't like the fact that Vardeman keeps asking questions despite his objections. The people being interviewed seem to remember very little about their pasts and what happened in that mansion of red roses. In addition, they are not very emotional people and has the same expression even when talking about sad happenings.
Suk flares up at Vardeman and tells him to take note of what is required of him. Vardeman reveals that they both have personal agendas with regards to this case. Suk wants to clear his name after being framed for having links to the former Czechoslovakia secret police and Vardeman wants to prove whether his father was indeed involved in the brainwashing experiments conducted by Franz Bonaparta at the mansion. One of the interviewees reveal that Vardeman's father told the kids to run away from the mansion and said that there were better things at the other end of the rainbow which seems to suggest that he wasn't supportive or directly involved in those experiments.
Nina and Dieter return to Munich to stay with Dr Reichwein but she is constantly in a daze. She also refuses to talk about what happened in Prague. Dr Reichwein praises Dieter for getting Nina to return and stop trying to retrieve her memories. Karl and Lotte come to visit them which makes Nina very happy.
Dr Reichwein receives a letter from Tenma who tells him that Eva is coming to seek help from him. He also mentions that he is going to end this case soon. Nina asks Karl to find out where Tenma sent the letter from. In addition, Nina tells Dr Reichwein that it is time for her to remember the past and says that she will not regret whatever happens by then.
Dr Reichwein arranges for Dr Gillen to conduct a hynopsis on Nina so that she can remember the past. Nina warns Dr Gillen that he might hear something horrifying later and tells him to be mentally prepared. Under hynopsis, Nina reveals that her father used to be a millitary personnel with the government but was murdered according to what her mother said. However, Nina had never seen him before. In addition, Nina's mother was from the anti-government movement thus had to hide with her kids in the apartment bearing "The Three Frogs" signboard. Just at this time, Karl comes to Dr Reichwein, Dieter and Lotte and reveals that Tenma sent the letter from Frankfurt.
At this moment, Nina seems to remember everything but simply refuses to reveal who she really is. She gets violent when probed by Dr Gillen but he manages to save himself from being strangled to death in time. No doubt Nina had refused to speak during hynopsis, she has managed to remember everything after this session.
2 days later, Nina leaves Dr Reichwein's place without a word and heads to Frankfurt to look for Johan so that she can end everything and save Tenma...
What an exciting episode! However, before we can get to the bottom of things, there is a cliffhanger yet again. Nevertheless, I have some opinions on some things shown in this episode:
The person who was at the mansion of red roses might not be Johan. It seems like Nina was the one who actually went through the experience of seeing those dead bodies, being welcomed home by someone who was dressed exactly like her (most probably Johan) and ran away from the mansion through the thorny rose bushes (especially when they showed someone with long hair and a dress). I have a hunch that Nina got confused and thought that Johan was being brought to that mansion. This is also the same when she saw someone welcoming her home but all along, she kept saying that she was the one who was waiting at home for Johan to come home. And that evil looking girl waiting at home seems more like Johan to me. Or was Nina not that innocent and kind in the past? However, it doesn't seem logical in another way since Johan knew a lot about that mansion and even had a motive to burn it. If he had never been there, his familiarity with the place seems unbelievable.
So what exactly does Nina know? Who is she? These answers could prove crucial to explain why Johan is doing all these and what he is planning to achieve. Come to think of it, Nina looks more and more like Johan especially in this episode. I never noticed this so much in other episodes but since there were lots of close-up shots of her, it suddenly dawned on me how much she looks like Johan especially those scenes when she was in anguish over her recovered memories.
Another surprise was the return of Suk. I thought I would never see him again and now, he's involved in checking the case of the mansion with Vardeman. Seems like he has recovered and returned to work. However, it seems like he has changed quite a bit after that case and being deceived by the fake Anna posed by Johan. And it seems like Vardeman's dad wasn't too supportive of the experiments conducted by Franz Bonaparta when he even instigated the kids to run away. Nina/Johan could be one of those who heard his words and followed his instruction. Anyway, it seems like the duo can turn up more facts from the interviews of those who used to attend the reading sessions.
Where is Runge? After he found Franz Bonaparta's son, there should be an explanation on this. And next episode is on Tenma (he seems injured, again for the Nth time) so I doubt Runge would appear. I'm hoping for more information with regards to this subplot.
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