#52 The Key
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The episode starts out in the lab. Jeremie is pouring over all the notes he's found in Hopper's diary. The others arrive as he's doing so. He shows them a particular video entry in the diary. As he shows it, he skips through various parts to reach the part he wants to show them. As he's doing so, the parts that get played reveal the history of Lyoko.
In the video entry, Hopper explains that he worked on something named Project Carthage, which was intended for military use. Its purpose was to disrupt enemy communications. Thanks to Jeremie, a portion of this history is skipped. It continues to show that Hopper is trying to destroy the project. Why is uncertain. He creates Lyoko and XANA to accomplish this. Jeremie skips another part. He gets increasingly paranoid, thinking that someone is watching him, probably with good reason. Hopper continues to work on the project, and mentions how he learns of returning in time. It gives him unlimited time to find an answer. The next few entries suggest that he uses the return trip more than two thousand times. It should be noted that the current date (repeated over and over) is July 6, 1994.as the day repeats over and over. Eventually, he says that he has contained the keys to Lyoko within both him and Aelita and intends to live there with her, forever, protected from the rest of the world. XANA needs these keys to escape Lyoko.
In the cafeteria, Jeremie says that he's found the key to separating Aelita from the supercomputer. It turns out that a virus was not the cause of the link, but rather a fragment stolen from Aelita. They plan a mission to Lyoko to end XANA's threat. Aelita, however, is not keen on the idea and runs out. Jeremie follows. She says that she never wants to go to Lyoko again. Her father, rather paranoid in her opinion, ruined her life by taking her there. She's also afraid that XANA will get her memory and escape Lyoko. She storms off without any further discussion.
As the others leave the cafeteria, Jim mentions something about an "End of the Year" dance. He is listing off various rules about it, including something about suggestive dancing. Odd goes off to find a girl to take there. However, all the womanizing he's done has polarized most of the women against him, and his luck is bad to say the least. Ulrich is about to ask Yumi when William shows up and drags her off. Jealous, he agrees to take Sissi when she shows up. Odd is surprised, and Ulrich warns him against going any further on the subject. Yumi turns down William down as this is happening.
At the factory, Aelita shows up in the supercomputer room. She walks over to the supercomputer and shuts it off, taking herself along with it.
Back at the school, Jeremie is having trouble finding Aelita. She won't answer her cell phone and the supercomputer won't respond either. Concerned, he decides to head to the factory. Yumi comes up and is about to ask Ulrich to the dance, but Sissi butts in at just the right moment to reveal what he agreed to earlier. She also gives Ulrich some kind of gift. Yumi is mad about it, to say the least. Ulrich mentions her talk with William, but she is too mad to correct him and storms off. Ulrich warns against Odd's quips once she's gone, but he does so anyway.
At the factory, Jeremie finds that the interface is shut down. He goes down to the supercomputer room to find it shut down and Aelita along with he. He quickly turns it back on and attempts to wake her. She wakes up fairly quickly, and he begins to question her on why she'd do such a foolish thing. She says that she was trying to protect everyone. Jeremie assures her that they can do that together.
In Odd and Ulrich's room, Ulrich is mulling over the gift given to him by Sissi. Odd tries to prod him into talking to Yumi. Ulrich won't listen, so Odd leaves to find a girl to take to the dance. Ulrich opens the gift, which is a small cube with pictures of Sissi on each face. He leaves it on his bed and leaves the room.
At Yumi's house, Ulrich tries to talk to Yumi. Hiroki is there, and teases Yumi about her "boyfriend." She gets rim of him and walks up to Ulrich. Both mention how they don't plan to attend the dance. Before they can say anything else, Jeremie calls and tells them about the mission he's planned.
At the school, Odd is still trying to get a date for the dance. He almost manages to find one, but when she learns his name, and the reputation that precedes it, she turns him down. Jeremie calls about the mission and ends any further attempts.
At the factory, Jeremie explains their final mission. He's located the fragment of Aelita in Carthage and is going to send them there to get it. Odd and Ulrich go first, followed by Aelita and Yumi.
On Lyoko, the trip to Carthage is uneventful. No monsters try to stop them on their way their. Once they arrive, it's an entirely different story. Creepers pop out from every wall to stop them. The timer switch is on the wall at a near-unreachable distance. Odd and Ulrich start running defense while Yumi heads for the switch. On her way there, she shows off various acrobatic moves on the pillars leading to it. Meanwhile, Odd and Ulrich destroy Creeper after Creeper. Yumi eventually makes it to the top pillar where the switch is. A Creeper is there to try and stop her, but it fails. She flips past its lasers and hits the switch. At the same time, she grabs its head with her legs and tosses it to the ground below. As expected, the fall kills it. With the timer off, a stairway opens in the floor.
After taking the stairs to a lower level, the group ends up on a long pathway to a glowing blue orb - Aelita's fragment. As they head for it, platform carrying Creepers move in. As the Creepers attack, Aelita runs for the fragment. Her trip is cut off when she reaches a gap in the platform. The others are still fighting the Creepers, but are outnumbered and forced to run. Odd stays behind to stall them. He gets a few shots off before being devirtualized. Ulrich and Yumi reach Aelita and toss her across the gap. They follow after doing so. They aren't quite able to make it, though, and Ulrich is left hanging on by one hand with Yumi clinging to his leg. The Creepers show up and devirtualize her. Aelita manages to pull Ulrich up in time for him to block any more shots. The problem only gets worse, though, as the entire area starts to fall apart. The Creepers fall first. Aelita and Ulrich continue to run, but the platform falls apart faster than they can run, and they are soon taken with it.
Before they can fall into oblivion, two Mantas show up to catch them. While this would normally be bad, these Mantas are glowing white in the fashion of Franz Hopper's towers. Jeremie confirms that Hopper is controlling them. The Mantas take them to Aelita's fragment. Aelita's walks up to get a better look. The orb has a miniature version of her inside it. As she grabs it, it breaks apart. The whole area follows suit. Pieces of the ceiling crush everything, the Mantas and Ulrich included, leaving Aelita alone on the platform.
Back in the lab, Jeremie is very worried about the turn of events. Ulrich shows up, upset at his inability to help. On the screen, the Scyphozoa shows up to steal Aelita's memory. With no defenders to save her, it succeeds in its task. Once it finishes, it drops her back onto the platform. Aelita loses consciousness as she lands. On Jeremie's screen, the screen showing her memory blinks red and black, accenting what has happened.
What happens next can only be described as the realization of the group's fears. The entire region goes black from the center out. Once it has shut off completely, XANA spreads out to Lyoko. Every tower in every region goes red. Outside of the factory, a constant stream of XANA's spectres pours out from the roof and into the sky above.
Back in the lab, the group, save for Jeremie, is at a lost for what is happening. Jeremie explains, though not very clearly thanks to the sadness in his voice. The situation does not stay bleak for long, however. In the now darkened Carthage, Aelita is surrounded by a bright sphere of light. As it surrounds her, the memories of her past come flooding back.
Her memories tell the tale of what happened to her family, and her as well. Hopper and his wife were living in the mountains with Aelita. She recieves the Mister Pück doll here. They seem to be happy at the house, with Hopper teaching Aelita to play the piano, until his wife just disappears. She more than likely died. More memories show Aelita at the Hermitage. She learns to ride a bike here. Eventually the "Men in Black," as identified by Aelita, show up. Hopper checks to make sure that she knows where Mister Pück is, and then leads her out of the house. The agents follow of course, but they remain a step ahead. The pair eventually end up at the factory. Hopper explains that they'll be going to a world where they'll be safe. He promises to see her right after they're transferred, but it doesn't turn out that way.
With all her memories returned, Aelita is returned to Earth and Lyoko is restarted by Hopper. Every tower that was once red now glows white. The group heads to the scanners to get her. She doesn't say much after returning. Instead, Jeremie just embraces her.
Back in Jeremie's room, they realize that shutting down the supercomputer won't stop XANA now. Aelita is still upset over Hopper's sacrifice. They promise to find him while still fighting XANA. They aren't quite sure how, but Jeremie insists that they'll find a way. Aelita agrees, saying that it's her job to fight him. Jeremie corrects her, saying that it's their job, not just hers. They all hold hands in a small circle and the episode ends.
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10 Déc 2005, 02:10 
But season-2 was pretty darned great, overall. Aunty-Philm, Madame S, et.al. did a wonderful job!
