Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's - Episode 105

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's - Episode 105

Names
Series
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Number	105
Season	2
Chronology
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's episodes (season 2)
Previous	"Knight Takes Pawn"
Next	"Primo's Plan, Part 1"

"Rook Takes Knight", known as "The Dark Card, Hidden Knight -Hook-" in the Japanese version, is the one-hundred-and-fifth episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

Team 5D's faces Team Catastrophe in the second preliminary round of the World Racing Grand Prix. Nicolas of Team Catastrophe, has his Shadow Monster "Hook the Hidden Knight" attempt to crash Crow's Duel Runner by inflicting real damage. Crow pushes himself to the very limit by attempting to dodge.

Summary

The second round of the WRGP commences with the duel between Team Catastrophe and Team 5D's. Hermann of Team Catastrophe uses "Hook the Hidden Knight", which has a shadow effect where, every time the monster attacks or deals damage by its effect, a phantom shadow of the monster tries to physically destroy the tires on Crow's Duel Runner with its hooks. Knowing that his injuries make it painful to ride, Team 5Ds calls Crow back to the pit, but he refuses and pushes on. Having already dodged one of the phantom's attacks, Crow relies on his steering reflexes to dodge "Hook the Hidden Knight" while trying to come up with a strategy to destroy it. Each dodge frustrates Team Catastrophe further, even pushing Crow to rely on Blackbird's flight mode as their monster becomes more bold. But though the strain and shock from swerving are aggravating Crow's injuries, Crow's determined rage pulls him to launch multiple attacks, culminating in an attack from Black-Winged Dragon, overwhelming Hermann's defenses and Life Points to destroy Hook the Hidden Knight. Even Hermann's attempt to revive the shadow monster for his teammates is countered by Crow, and only when the monster is gone for good is Crow content to return to the pit. Jack takes his place.

The second half of the episode involves the duel between Jack Atlas and Team Catastrophe's next duelist, Nicolas. During his first turn, Nicolas sets one card facedown and ends his turn. During Jack's turn, he discards Dread Dragon to summon his Power Giant and he uses this card to attack. Nicolas counters with a trap called Doom's Ray which inflicts 800 Life Points of damage for each card in the user's hand to both players. Since he has 5 cards, 5 * 800 = 4000. (He also mentions that Hook the Hidden Knight wasn't the only shadow card, and then Team 5D's members realize that Doom's Ray is another shadow card). A large explosion from the trap fills the field, and to his shock, Nicolas is being affected by the real damage. Primo then mentions how he doesn't need him anymore. But Jack is unfazed, as Power Giant's special ability prevents Jack from taking any damage when he attacks with it. On the outside, everyone sees the explosion and a Duel Runner being blown to bits, with Team 5D's and their friends thinking it was Jack. But then Jack emerges from the flames and is carrying Nicolas. Because Nicolas's Duel Runner was destroyed, and therefore he could not make it back to the pit to tag Hans into the match, his team loses. Lester asks Primo why things never work out in his way, but Primo had already left. The scene cuts to a large garage opening, releasing legions of Riding-Roids onto the highway. From atop a tall building, Primo issues his orders to the Riding-Roids, calling them "Diablo".

Featured Duels

Crow Hogan vs. Hermann

Continued from the previous episode...

Turn 2: Crow
Crow sets 4 cards and ends his turn.

Turn 3: Hermann
(Hermann's SPC 2; Crow's SPC 2)
Hermann draws. He then switches "Hook the Hidden Knight" into Attack Position (1600/0). He then summons "Dark the Hidden Knight" (800/0) in Attack Position. "Dark the Hidden Knight" attacks Crow directly via its own effect (Crow 3200 → 2400). "Hook the Hidden Knight" then attacks and destroys "Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn". The shadow hook then tries to grab Crow's Duel Runner, but Crow swerves to avoid it. Hermann then sets one card and ends his turn.

Turn 4: Crow
(Hermann's SPC 3; Crow's SPC 3)
Crow draws. He then activates his face-down "Blackback", to Special Summon "Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn" from his Graveyard (2000/900) in Attack Position. Next, Crow Special Summons "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" from his hand (1300/400) in Attack Position via its own effect. Crow then activates the effect of "Gale the Whirlwind" to halve "Hook the Hidden Knight's ATK and DEF until the End Phase ("Hook the Hidden Knight": 1600 → 800/0 → 0).

"Gale the Whirlwind" then attacks "Hook the Hidden Knight", but Hermann activates the effect of "Hook the Hidden Knight", switching both battling monsters to Defense Position. The second effect of "Hook the Hidden Knight" then activates (Crow 2400 → 1600). The shadow hook tries to grab Crow's Duel Runner again, but he jumps to avoid it. "Sirocco the Dawn" then attacks "Hook the Hidden Knight", but Hermann activates the effect of "Dark the Hidden Knight", Tributing it to switch "Hook the Hidden Knight" into Attack Position. The effect of "Hook the Hidden Knight" then activates, switching both battling monsters to Defense Position. The second effect of "Hook the Hidden Knight" then activates (Crow 1600 → 800). The shadow hook again tries to grab Crow's wheel, but he activates the flight mode of Blackbird to avoid it. Since a "Blackwing" monster Crow controls had battled with one of Hermann's monsters and that monster is still face-up on the field at the end of the Damage Step, Crow sends "Blackwing - Etesian of Two Swords" from his hand to the Graveyard to inflict damage to Hermann equal to the ATK of "Sirocco the Dawn" (Hermann 4000 → 2000).

Crow then activates "Urgent Tuning" to allow himself to Synchro Summon one Synchro Monster during the Battle Phase. Hermann activates Shadow Concealing Darkness. Now Defense Position monsters can't be destroyed in battle. If Crow has a LIGHT monster on his field, "Shadow Concealing Darkness" will be destroyed. Crow then tunes his two monsters together to Synchro Summon "Black-Winged Dragon" (2800/1600) in Defense Position. Crow then activates his face-down "Defenders Intersect", switching "Hook the Hidden Knight" and "Black-Winged Dragon" to Attack Position and negating both monsters' effects. "Black-Winged Dragon" attacks and destroys "Hook the Hidden Knight" (Hermann 2000 → 0). Due to the rulings of the WRGP, it goes immediately to Crow's End Phase. Hermann activates "Revival Knight" to Special Summon "Hook the Hidden Knight" (1600/0) in Defense Position, but Crow activates his face-down "Gravity Collapse", Tributing "Black-Winged Dragon" to negate the summon of "Hook the Hidden Knight" and destroy it.

Crow wins. Crow, at this point, can no longer take the strain from his arm, so he returns to the pits and passes the baton to Jack. Due to the rulings of the WRGP, Jack starts off with 4000 Life Points. Hermann passes the baton to Nicolas who proceeds in Dueling Jack.

Jack Atlas vs. Nicolas

Turn 5: Nicolas
(Nicolas's SPC 4; Jack's SPC 4)
Nicolas draws. He then sets 1 card and ends his turn.

Turn 6: Jack
(Nicolas's SPC : 5; Jack's SPC : 5)
Jack draws. He then sends "Dread Dragon" from his hand to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Power Giant" from his hand (2200/0) in Attack Position. Because Jack summoned "Power Giant" this way, its Level is reduced by the Level of "Dread Dragon" ("Power Giant": Level 6 → 4). Jack's hand contains "Speed Spell - The End of the Storm", "Dark Resonator", "Trust Guardian", and "Powerful Rebirth". "Power Giant" attacks Nicolas directly, but Nicolas activates "Doom Ray", inflicting 800 damage to both players for each card in Nicolas's hand. Nicolas has five cards in his hand, so both players take 4000 damage. Nicolas intends to destroy Jack's Duel Runner with the power of "Doom Ray", but the shadow effects of "Doom Ray" affect him too. Due to the effect of "Power Giant", Jack takes no effect damage until the end of the Damage Step, so only Nicolas takes the effect damage (Nicolas 4000 → 0).

Jack wins. Also, because Nicolas' Duel Runner was destroyed, Team Catastrophe loses the match by default.

Featured Cards

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Nicolas
Spell Cards Speed World 2 Trap Cards Doom Ray

Flashback
Spell Cards Speed World 2

Mistakes

• Crow says that "Blackback" allows him to Special Summon a Blackwing from his Graveyard with less than 2000 ATK points, when he should have said 2000 or less. If the effect was the way he said it, he wouldn't have been able to summon "Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn", since it has 2000 ATK.
• Jack said that Power Giant's effect works for both duelists. He was supposed to say it for himself. This is corrected in the English version.
• When the computerized voice was saying what level Power Giant was, it was supposed to say it was a level "6" but it ended coming out differently then the word of it was supposed to say which was "six"