Ultraman Ace Episode 34

Episode 34: A Terrible-Monster Dances on a Rainbow Over the Sea
(featuring Rainbow Terrible-Monster Kaiteigagan)

Tanker ships are vanishing at sea. No one thought to inform TAC for severl days, after 16 ships have fanished.. Hokuto is on patrol over the sea. He finds an over turned rowboat and a boy clinging to it. He rescues the boy. Yuji. Some other boys tell Hokuto is father was a ship's captain who died at sea. The boy's sister claim Yuji would not go out in a boat, but he did. She says their mother died in car wreck a year ago but denies that their father is dead. She demands that Hokuto leave. And she wont' let her brother play with the other children. He find the boy collecting sea shells which he is obssessed with. Yuji says he has 937 and if he collects 63 his father will come home. Yuiji's sister appologies for being rude. And Hokuto learns she chases the other children away because they might tell Yuji that there father is dead. He was the captain of the first tanker to disappear. Hokuto doesn't believe in lying to children and thinks the young woman should tell her brother the truth. Later, at TAC HQ, Hokuto asks for time off to help a child. Yamanaka is as usuall a loud mouthed jerk. Captain Ryu grants Hokuto one day off. Hokuto asks Dan to help with convincing Yuji to stop collecting sea shells. by getting him to play baseball. HIs sister is annoyed because someone may tell him his father is dead. Hokuto tells her to stop being so selfish. That she is the one not wanting to face reality. Dan reports that Yuji is missing. He appoligizes for not noticing him leaving . Hokuto somehow concludes that there is a Terrible-Monster and those sea shells are connect and reports as much to TAQ HQ. And this time when he no evidence to back this claim up they don't question him. Hokuto goes looking for Yuji by jumping into a speed boat. TAC Falcon and TAC Space are launched to check on a tanker. Yuji is in a row boat. The Terrible-Monster services not far from him. Hokuto reaches the boy but he insists his father will come back if he just finds 29 more shells. Hokuto, again without any reason to suspect it claims they're not sea shells but Terrible-Monster scales. After being shot at the Terribl-Monster submerges.

Hokuto wants Yuji to give him the scales so they can be analyszed to find the Terrible-Monster's weakness but he's made at Hokuto for telling him his father is dead, and mad at his sister for lying to him about it. And the sister still refuses to admit she was wrong, because she doesn't want to face the reality that she is an orphan. Putting on his fathers coat and falling asleep Yuji has a dream of his father who tells him he can always talk to him in his heart. Ships are banned from the area the Terrible-Monster appeaed in and so far it has not reappeared. Yuji has not lived the house and now Hokuto is worried about that. Captain Ryu decides they need to draw out the Terrible-Monster so he decides they will send out an tanker as a decoy to lure it out. Hokuto says he will there on time but needs to see Yuji. He doesn't trust the sister when she claims Yuji does not want to see him. He yells out that boy's need to be strong and brave to not cowardly. The Terrible-Monster appears but apparently annoyed that the tanker is an empty decoy it turns to head to shore. TAC Falcon and TAC Space fire on it. Hokuto pulls up to the shore in TAC Panther and is about to shoot at the Terrible-Monster when he sees Yuji, being brave but foolish, wearing his father's captain's hat he is heading toward the Terrible-Monster with a fishing net. He sees a sea shore/scale and picks it up. As the Terrible-Monster attacks Hokuto looses sight of the boy but then he finds him in the water clining to drift wood. He offers Hokuto a scale so he can examine it and find the Terrible-Monster's weakness. A little late. Yoji says he cannot hold on. Hokuto's reponse is to tell him to stay there while he walks off to henshin. Ultraman Ace and the Terrible-Monster wrestle and exchange blasts of energy weapons. Eventually Ace kills it with Metalium Beam. Hokuto carries Yuji out of the water. As he is peforming CPR on the boy, Yuji hears father telling him "No, Yuji. turn around, go back!" His sister shows up and just repeats his name over and over. Dan and other boys are starting a fire, I guess the figure he needs to be kept warm. The sister appologises. The sun goes down. Hokuto's been peforming CPR for some time. No one seemd to think mabye they should call an ambulance. Of course the boy survives. And the other children are happy they can play with him again. >Preview of next episode<. "See you next week".