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<pre>Season 2 (1992)
Three to five minutes each, shown on Liquid Television.
1. "Gravity" (September 22, 1992)
While Ãon and Trevor kiss, Trevor uses his tongue to open up Ãon's fake tooth and place a rolled up picture inside. We find Trevor is in a train and Ãon on an airplane flying alongside the train. The two are kissing through the windows. Ãon spies an industrial vehicle driving past at the same moment. A passenger from the train enters the plane and it flies off. Ãon then retrieves the picture from her tooth to find it is a photo of the passenger who just entered the plane, and a suitcase. She climbs out the window of the passenger area and moves along the side of the plane to spy on the man, who is reading documents from the same suitcase. Ãon must jump mid-air to the back of the plane to get inside, but she misses and falls.
Realising her impending death Ãon points her gun to her head, but before pulling the trigger notices the industrial vehicle from earlier stopping at the side of a cliff. Men get out and throw ropes over the side of the cliff to salvage something. They pull at the ropes to bring it to the surface while an intrigued Ãon struggles to keep her binoculars at her eyes from the air resistance. She notices a bridge near the point at which she will land, and shoots a rope at it to save herself. At the same time Trevor's train is passing over the bridge and inside he is kissing his Breen lover. While she swings from the rope Ãon is distracted by the men salvaging the object which is obscured from view by the cliff, but is glowing brightly. Ãon's distraction leads the rope to loop around her neck. A moment before she can clearly see what the object is, the rope tightens and she is killed.
A deleted scene in this episode shows the woman Trevor was kissing while Aeon was falling slamming a door between her pelvic area repeatedly.
2. "Mirror" (originally aired as "Night") (November 3, 1992)
Ãon is on an assassination mission and infiltrates her target's home. On her entry she falls over, and notices she is spied on by a security camera. While walking down a hallway she notices a room where the security camera recorder is being kept, and enters. She goes to destroy the tape but at the last minute decides to review the footage. The picture is faulty because of a loose video jack dangling in front of a running air conditioner. Ãon goes to fix the connection but in the process spills coffee on herself. While she is in a nearby bathroom cleaning her arm, unnoticed by Ãon, footage of another intruder previously entering the building plays on the monitor. Ãon accidentally sprays water on herself in the bathroom's shower, spoiling her signature hairstyle.
Ãon hears gunshots, and evacuates the area to find her target killed, shot twice in the stomach. She rushes out of the bedroom, but is then also shot by the assassin. While Ãon lies on the floor dying, she looks at the figure in the security monitor, but the image is still distorted. Ãon shoots a nearby temperature control knob; disabling the air conditioner. With the air conditioning off, the loose video cable stops shaking, and the security camera picture clears up. The moment before her death she sees the face of the other assassin on the monitor â Trevor Goodchild. This is the only point in the Ãon Flux universe where Trevor intentionally kills Ãon.
3. "Leisure" (November 10, 1992)
Ãon enters her living quarters to find some one had disturbed a container of eggs she was keeping in her fridge. In a kitchen cupboard, she finds a deformed Trevor (or a clone of Trevor) chained up, licking an egg. Ãon leaves her apartment, but before venturing outside the Monican base, she witnesses another agent fall and fail to successfully complete jumping through a row of training grids. Ãon steps up to practice jumping through, just as the other female agent walks away, and flawlessly executes the acrobatic and complex jumps through the training grids. Later, she enters an alien spaceship and collects some of the same eggs seen earlier in her apartment. She's agonising while trying to resist breaking one of the eggs. Her desire to play with the embryo is stronger than her good sense to get out of the ship quickly before the parent alien comes. She analyses the broken contents under a portable microscope and finds it to be an aggressive infant form of an alien.
On her way out Ãon is confronted by an adult, four-legged, and extremely tall alien, but holds up one of the eggs and threatens to break it if the alien attacks her. She runs away, and the alien triggers a grid barrier similar to the one at the Monican training base. Ãon jumps through it with ease, but its revealed that the alien can use its four legs to navigate the barrier much faster. It swiftly catches up to Ãon and kills her from behind.
This episode contains the only English dialogue heard in the first season: the single word, "Plop." Given the title of the episode and the image of the mutated Trevor's ecstatic consumption of an egg in the beginning, it's hinted that the alien eggs may be a recreational drug, and the mission to retrieve more eggs could be optional. But may also be financially motivated if the drug were meant to be sold.
4. "Tide" (November 17, 1992)
Ãon and a red-suited partner are on an offshore facility. Ãon is trying to prevent a plug from being removed by a rope key draped from a hovering helicopter by shooting at it, while her partner holds Trevor Goodchild captive in a nearby elevator. As Ãon returns to the elevator Trevor has overpowered the partner, and attempts to leave, pressing all of the elevator's level buttons. Ãon stops him and attempts to obtain the numbered key he possesses, but he throws it behind a sink. When retrieving it, Ãon accidentally rips off the attached numbered label, so it is unknown on which level the key will be useful.
Ãon attempts to use the key in a storage locker on level six, while avoiding gunfire from a Breen soldier and again shooting at the hanging plug key, which has stopped swaying enough for another attempt to pull the plug. Upon returning to the elevator, Ãon handcuffs Trevor to a handrail and attempts to retrieve the numbered label, but it is just out of her reach. Ãon repeats the leave elevator-shoot at soldiers-try key-shoot plug key-return to elevator cycle for subsequent floors, while her traitorous partner kisses Trevor while Ãon is away. By level two, the now-injured Ãon realises what's going on, and the partner tries to stop her from killing Trevor, during the struggle she get Ãon's empty gun and throws it at her, Ãon falls back and is killed (although it is not explicitly indicated in the episode that she is dead, the DVD commentary indicates that she is). The partner takes the key and runs to the level two storage locker. A Breen soldier enters the elevator and shoots Trevor, and on his way out shoots the hanging key to buy him some time to get out of the facility.
The partner opens the storage locker with the key and retrieves a storage barrel that is latched shut, taking it back to the elevator. Inside she finds a giant, ribbed rubber washer (noted to obviously be a double entendre). Unsatisfied with what seems like such a measly prize, she runs out leaving the washer behind and not bothering to check the storage locker on level one. As she reaches the concrete cylinder holding the plug, the helicopter has successfully inserted the key, and starts to pull up and away with the key and the Breen soldier that presumably last shot at the key. We see that the helicopter also has pulled out, with the key, an identical rubber washer, causing presumably seawater to spout out of the newly vacant hole. The facility and gangway to the plug behind her sinks into the ocean, leaving her stranded alone standing on the empty plug.
Peter Chung states on the DVD commentary that he planned this episode like a piece of music. The entire segment is composed of twenty backgrounds shown for two seconds each in the same order and same angle for seven cycles.
5. "War" (November 24, 1992)
Ãon is involved in a large battle between Bregna and Monica. After killing many soldiers, Ãon is attacked from behind by a Breen fighter who was previously playing dead. With a gun aimed at her head Ãon notices an approaching Monican soldier and tries to buy some time by distracting the soldier by licking her lips suggestively. We see the soldier's eyes twitch in anger, before he kills both Ãon and the approaching Monican. He then removes his helmet, and facing down a large hill, fires at an approaching army of Monican soldiers, almost all of which are killed. Later the soldier moves towards the entrance of an underground Monican base, off-screen violently engaging the guards. We see a bloody tooth landing directly into an empty glass drink bottle, signifying that violence has taken place nearby, emphasizing the random nature of life (and their downstream consequences). This theme of random, cascading events and their effect on people is perpetuated throughout the Ãon Flux universe. Incidentally, Ãon has a fake tooth, as we see in the next episode "Gravity".
Inside the base the Breen soldier is confronted and eventually killed by a Monican swordsman soldier, who then comforts his daughter and sends her to her living quarters after an alarm goes off. Meanwhile another Monican soldier's painting is interrupted by the alarm and he leaves to join the Monican forces. While the swordsman opens a gate to leave the base, grease drips into a pool on the floor. Outside he kills oncoming Breen fighters who drop down from an air ship. Inside the ship, his death is suggested by the appearance of a pool of blood on the floor. Then comes a female Breen soldier, who enters the Monican base using the painter Monican's body as a doorstop. She then frees her captive lover and they run from gunfire, unknowingly towards the dripping pool of grease. It seems their deaths are inevitable.
This episode was created to play with the emotions of the viewer, showing the stereotypical way that people view a hero of a Hollywood action film as invincible. This episode crushes those assumptions and keeps the viewer truly on their toes feeling a sense of shock and loss every time the new "hero" is killed.
According to the DVD commentary, the three "heroes" that follow Ãon have names that are never mentioned in the short due to the absence of dialogue. These are, in order of appearancce: Vaasch Lockney, Romeo Svengali & Donna Matrix.
[edit] Running Order
For the 2005 DVD release, the shorts were arranged in the following order:
1. War
2. Gravity
3. Leisure
4. Mirror
5. Tide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%C3%86on_Flux_episodes </pre>
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