Episode 26: Farewell, Dragon
(featuring Shadow assassins Four Shadow Great Gods: Wind, Lightning, Water, Fire & Shadow Boss: Dark Tiger)
God of Fire (second on the left) manages
to get Dragon's map piece. And all four watch as Dragon appears to fall
to his death inside the crater of the volcano. God of Wind (first on
the left) says he will take care of Dragon's friends while the other
tree report back to "boss".
God of Wind goes to their prisoner, Kojiro
(tied to a tree) and tells him that Dragon is dead., trying to use
Dragon's piece of the map (which he must have gotten from God of Fire)
as proof., Kojiro just mocks him. Wind cracks his knuckles preparing to
slowly beat Kojiro to death so he can go see Dragon in hell. But Dragon
walks out from behind a tree stating that "its not necessary to go that
far". He also thanks Wind for the use of his rope (which is how he kept
from falling into the lava). Wind says he will just have to kill Dragon
again. Dragon laughs at the notion that if the four couldn't kill him
one certainly cannot. Kojiro tells God of Wind to flee for his life.
When Wind moves towards Kojrp, Dragon strikes and says that Wind should
listen to Kojiro but of course he doesn't. Scratch one false god as he
ends up smacking his head into a tree from a blow from Dragon and
Dragon with complete contempt turns his back on him, Only turning
around to retrieve the map piece from his corpse. Dragon rips the ropes
of Kojiro tells him about the gold and the two hurry to get to Dr. Kuri
and Rika before Shadow does.
Meanwhile, at the hotel, Rika and Dr. Kuri
decide they are wasting time waiting for Dragon and Kojiro and each set
off for the locations on their pieces of the maps, not even knowing
what they are looking for. They fail to notice the car containing Dark
Tiger, God of Fire, God of Water and God of Lightning. Dark Tiger is
revealed that they had made the job of getting them easier by leaving
the hotel. Water and Lightning set off after them on foot. Dark Tiger
has Fire drive off. Dragon and Kojiro arrive to learn their friends
have left. When Dragon surmises that they went to the locations on
their pieces of the map, Kojiro says that means Rika went to the Tennis
Plaza. And Dragon says that Dr. Kuri went to Kazahaya Peninsula. Kojiro
heads after Rika, promising not to screw up again. Dragon goes after
the doctor.
God of Water catches up to Rika, and
despite there not being another soul in sight, complains that he cannot
do anything in such a public place. God of Lightning finds Dr. Kuri
alone and reclaims the map piece saying "it was ours to begin with".
Dr. Kuri realizes he's from Shadow and never having actually seen Dark
Tiger he assumes this is him. God Lightning laughs at the notion of the
boss wasting his time on such a nothing as this old man.. He takes the
map piece and tries to throw the doctor off a cliff to his death but
Dragon appears and tells him he has the wrong opponent and asks "do you
want to follow God of Wind into the next world?" God of Lightning
swears revenge before joining the other false god in hell from a kick
to the face by Dragon. Dragon retrieves the third map piece and returns
it to Dr. Kuri..When the Doctor asks about Kojiro and Dragon tells him
he went after Rika, the doctor wonders if the are okay and Dragon
taking the doctor by the arm they leave to find out.
Kojiro and Rika are riding bicycles.
Korjiro runs his into a a branch on the road and crashes, because he
wasn't paying attention but bragging to Rika that since he is there
everything will be all right, so much for not screwing up again. Of
course the branch was placed there by God of Water who apparently
decided a city street was less crowded than an empty tennis court.
Kojito attacks God of Water who doesn't even flinch he just knocks him
out and grabs Rika. Boss arrives calls God of Water an idiot and
informs him that Dragon is still alive but Wind and Lightning are dead.
Dragon receives a phone call demanding the map pieces for Kojiro and
Rika. Dragon desperate for a way to rescue his two friends from 3
opponents (God of Water, God of Fire and Dark Tiger) comes up with a
plan requiring Dr. Kuri's help (desperate in deed). Kokiro and Rika are
tied, fully dressed (they are never nailed or naked on TV) to opposite
sides of the same cross. Usually the plan isn't to actually crucify
them but to shoot them. In this case they would be beaten to death if
Dragon doesn't hurry up and bring the map pieces. Dark Tiger sees
Dragon in the distance and yells at him to hurry up. But then Dragon
appears on the hilltop to take down the last two false gods, Water and
fire before he frees the hostages. Dragon yells at Dr. Kuri who is
wearing a white suit like Dragons and still not in close range to Dark
Tiger, to "get out of there". Dark Tiger at the bottom of the hill can
only watch as Dragon free Kuri and Rika. Water and Fire don't put up
much of fight, Dragon simply kicks them out of the screen, we don't
even seem them drop dead, they are just gone.
Dark Tiger's response to all this is "You
deceived me, Dragon!" Dragon tells Kojiro to take Rika away to safety,
but of course the two simply hide behind some rocks to watch the final
battle. Dr. Kuri joins them. Dragon fights unarmed, Dark Tiger with a
metal crutch. (The stuntman doing the actual fighting for Dark Tiger is
too thin). Dark Tiger losses, his weapon, his hate and his sun glasses,
His last attack on Dragon, he strangles him and hits him on the head.
Dragon's head bleeds. Dark Tiger staggers back shouts "A'salam" (Arabic
for "peace" and part of a longer Muslim greeting), as Dragon silently
drops. Dark Tiger adds "I've won, Behold the glory of Shadow!' before
getting a pained look on his face, dropping to the ground, rolling,
groaning and then falling still and silent. The boss of Shadow Japan is
dead! He did not live to see, Dragon slowly, painfully raise to his
feet. His friends run to him, in slow motion, Kojiro shouting "Bro!
Bro!" (aniki), Dr. Kuri shouting "Ryuma!" (his name) and Rika shouting
"Brother!" (oniisan). Sometime later, they shout the same (accept its
Kokiro, Rika and then Dr. Kuri) at a jet plane as Dragon flies off to
find and defeat Shadow in other countries, it is after all an
international assassins guild. As Dragon sits inside the jet he speaks
his final words of the series to the camera: "Kokjiro, Rika-chan, Dr.
Kuri, I will wipe out Shadow every where in the world. One day I will
return to Japan, I promise. Until then, be well". But Kojiro has the
last word as he screams out "Bro!" then says a quick prayer for Dragon
followed by one last "Bro!" with tears in his eyes.
‹THE END›
