Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 108

"Settling the Score, Part 1"

Names
English	Settling the Score, Part 1
Japanese name Japanese さらわれたモクバ 海馬ｖｓサイコショッカー Rōmaji Sarawareta Mokuba Kaiba Vāsasu Saiko Shokkā Translated Kidnapped Mokuba - Kaiba vs. Psycho Shocker
Series
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh!
Number	108
Season	3
Music
Japanese OP	"WILD DRIVE"
Japanese ED	"Paradise"
English OP & ED	"Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 2 Theme"
Air dates
Japanese	May 28, 2002
English	December 13, 2003
Chronology
Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes (season 3)
Previous	"Mechanical Mayhem, Part 2"
Next	"Settling the Score, Part 2"

"Settling the Score, Part 1", known as "Kidnapped Mokuba - Kaiba vs. Psycho Shocker" in the Japanese version, is the one hundred and eighth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. It first aired in Japan on May 28, 2002 and in the United States on December 13, 2003.

Summary

Tristan Taylor wakes up and finds himself in the body of a short robot monkey. Nezbitt, in Tristan's body, appears before Seto and Mokuba Kaiba. He assaults Seto, but as they are reunited with Yugi Muto and the others, he is attacked by the robot-monkey Tristan and Joey Wheeler. Nezbitt escapes on a motorbike and kidnaps Mokuba along the way. Kaiba chases him on another motorbike.

Tristan cannot speak in his robot-monkey body, but Serenity Wheeler convinces the others to bring him with them since he tried to save Kaiba.

Kaiba is stopped by Leichter, crashing his motorbike, and the two of them begin a Duel. Like his associates, Leichter is in the form of his Deck Master, but he has disguised it with clothes, a hat, and sunglasses. Kaiba does not attempt to learn his identity, and only when Leichter uses his ability to destroy Trap Cards is it revealed to be "Jinzo".

Noah stops Nezbitt, who is fleeing with Mokuba, claiming that Mokuba's kidnapping goes against his rules. He makes Nezbitt turn over Mokuba to him. Mokuba wakes up in an unfamiliar room where he and Noah watch Kaiba's Duel via Noah's surveillance.

Leichter reminds Kaiba of one of his past birthdays, when Gozaburo Kaiba gave him a large sum of money (10 million dollars in the dub) and set him a test to raise 100 times that amount (10 times in the dub) within a year to prove his business acumen. With Leichter's help, Kaiba bought 51% of the shares of a funeral home. (The nature of the company is not mentioned in the dub.) Kaiba athen forced the owner to buy the shares back at five times the price (ten times the price in the dub), threatening to otherwise fire all the staff. Kaiba then proceeded to pass Gozaburo's test. (In the English dub, the first resell was enough for Kaiba to pass the test in a single day). Leichter complains that Kaiba was given all the credit, despite Leichter only having worked under Kaiba's directions.

Yugi, Joey, Téa, Serenity and Duke try to follow Kaiba in a pickup truck.

Featured Duel: Seto Kaiba vs. Leichter, Part 1

Deck Masters

• Seto Kaiba: "Lord of Dragons"
• Leichter: "Jinzo"

Turn 1: Leichter
Leichter draws a monster and subsequently sets it. He then Sets two cards (one of which is "Imperial Order").

Turn 2: Kaiba
Kaiba draws. He then Normal Summons "Spear Dragon" (1900/0) in Attack Position. "Spear Dragon" attacks and destroys Leichter's face-down monster. It's revealed to be "Hiro's Shadow Scout" (650/500). "Spear Dragon" then inflicts piercing damage to Leichter (Leichter 4000 → 2600). Since "Hiro's Shadow Scout" was flipped, its Flip Effect activates, forcing Kaiba to draw three cards and reveal them and if Kaiba draws any Magic Cards through this effect, they will be discarded. The revealed cards are "Cave Dragon", "Double Snare" and "Magic Reflector", and the latter two cards are discarded. "Spear Dragon" switches itself to Defense Position at the end of the Damage Step due to its second effect. Kaiba Sets a card ("Crush Card"). On Kaiba's End Phase, Leichter activates his face-down "Solemn Wishes". Now each time Leichter draws a card, he will gain 500 Life Points.

Turn 3: Leichter
Leichter draws (Leichter 2600 → 3100). Leichter then Sets a monster and Sets a card.

Turn 4: Kaiba
Kaiba draws. He then Normal Summons "Giant Germ" (1000/0) in Attack Position (1000/100). He then switches "Spear Dragon" to Attack Position. "Spear Dragon" attacks Leichter's face-down monster, but Leichter activates his face-down "Mask of Perplexity" to redirect the attack to "Giant Germ", destroying it (Kaiba 4000 → 3100). Kaiba attempts to activate his face-down "Crush Card" which will destroy every monster in Leichter's hand, field, and Deck with at least 1500 ATK, but Leichter activates the Deck Master ability of his Deck Master: "Jinzo", which negates all of Kaiba's Trap Cards. Since "Giant Germ" was destroyed in battle, its effect activates, inflicting 500 damage to Leichter (Leichter 3100 → 2600) and allowing Kaiba to Special Summon another "Giant Germ" (1000/0) in Attack Position. "Spear Dragon" switches itself to Defense Position at the end of the Damage Step due to its effect.

Turn 5: Leichter
Leichter draws (Leichter 2600 → 3100). He then Sets two cards.

Turn 6: Kaiba
Kaiba draws. He then switches "Spear Dragon" to Attack Position. "Spear Dragon" attacks and destroys Leichter's face-down monster. It's revealed to be "Cyber Jar" (900/900). "Spear Dragon" then inflicts piercing damage to Leichter (Leichter 3100 → 1700). Since "Cyber Jar" was flipped, its Flip Effect destroys every monster on the field and allows both players to pick up 5 cards from their Deck as well as allow both players to Special Summon any Level 4 or below monsters that they pick up while the other picked-up cards are added to the players' hands. Kaiba Special Summons "Vorse Raider" (1900/1200) in Attack Position and "Twin-Headed Behemoth" (1500/1200) in Defense Position while Leichter Special Summons "Injection Fairy Lily" (400/1500) in Attack Position. On Kaiba's End Phase, he discards three cards from his hand due to him exceeding the hand size limit.

Turn 7: Leichter
Leichter draws (Leichter 1700 → 2200). Leichter then activates "Watch Tranquilizer" to target "Vorse Raider" and decrease its ATK by its Level times 100. "Vorse Raider" is Level 4 ("Vorse Raider": 1900 → 1500/1200). "Injection Fairy Lily" attacks "Vorse Raider". Leichter then activates "Injection Fairy Lily's" effect to pay 2000 Life Points (Leichter 2200 → 200) and increase his "Injection Fairy Lily's" ATK by 3000 ("Injection Fairy Lily": 400 → 3400/1500) during damage calculation only. "Injection Fairy Lily" destroys "Vorse Raider" (Kaiba 3100 → 1200). Leichter then activates his face-down "Sebek's Blessing" to increase his Life Points by the same amount of Life Points Kaiba has just lost (Leichter 200 → 2100). After damage calculation, the effect of "Injection Fairy Lily" expires ("Injection Fairy Lily": 3400 → 400/1500). Leichter then Sets a monster.

Turn 8: Kaiba
Kaiba draws "A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon". His hand contains "Pot of Greed", "Polymerization", "Cave Dragon", "Ring of Defense", "A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon", "The Wicked Worm Beast", and "Hyozanryu". Kaiba Sets a monster. On Kaiba's End Phase, Leichter activates his face-down "Life Absorbing Machine". Now during each of Leichter's Standby Phases, he will gain Life Points equal to half the total amount of Life Points he paid during his last turn.

Turn 9: Leichter
Leichter draws (Leichter 2100 → 2600). On Leichter's Standby Phase, the effect of "Life Absorbing Machine" activates (Leichter 2600 → 3600). Leichter then Tributes his face-down monster ("Fire Princess") in order to Tribute Summon "Satellite Cannon" (0/0) in Attack Position.

Continues next episode.

Featured cards

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

Flashback: Cards representing shares (forward shot)

Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Alligator's Sword Ancient Elf Armaill Battle Ox Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts Dark Gremlin Hyozanryu Koumori Dragon Serpent Night Dragon Swordsman of Landstar Effect Monsters Beast of Gilfer Big Shield Gardna Jinzo Kuriboh Lord of D. Obnoxious Celtic Guardian Masked Beast Des Gardius Revival Jam Rocket Warrior Ryu-Ran Ritual Monsters Black Luster Soldier Magic Cards Black Luster Ritual Card Destruction De-Fusion Exchange Foolish Burial Leading Question Mask of Brutality Masked Doll Meteor of Destruction Shrink Spring of Rebirth Swords of Revealing Light Temple of the Kings The Dark Door unknown Spell Card 1 unknown Spell Card 2 Trap Cards Crush Card Virus Dragon Capture Jar Embodiment of Apophis Graverobber Mask of Restrict Ring of Destruction Sacrifice's Blast The Dragon's Bead Type Zero Magic Crusher Fusion Deck Fusion Monsters Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon Alligator's Sword Dragon

Flashback: Cards representing shares (51 card shot)

Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Amphibian Beast Armaill Armored Lizard Axe Raider Flying Elephant Giltia the D. Knight Horn Imp Ipiria Left Arm of the Forbidden One Masaki the Legendary Swordsman Serpent Night Dragon x2 Stone Statue of the Aztecs x2 Effect Monsters Amazoness Chain Master Ashingray Exodia the Forbidden One Insect Queen Lord of D. Obnoxious Celtic Guardian x2 The Legendary Fisherman Magic Cards Amplifier Anti-Magic Arrows Card of Sanctity Cup of Sealed Soul De-Spell Elf's Light Emergency Provisions Exchange Graceful Charity Graceful Dice Living Arrow Ring of Defense Spell Reproduction Spring of Rebirth Trap Cards Bottomless Trap Hole Destiny Board x2 Embodiment of Apophis x3 Graverobber x2 Gust Magic Cylinder x2 Michizure Numinous Healer Ring of Destruction Fusion Deck Fusion Monsters Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon

Cast

Japanese character name	Japanese voice actor
Yugi Mutou	Shunsuke Kazama
Anzu Mazaki	Maki Saito
Katsuya Jonouchi	Hiroki Takahashi
Hiroto Honda	Hidehiro Kikuchi
Seto Kaiba	Kenjiro Tsuda
Mokuba Kaiba	Junko Takeuchi
Ryuji Otogi	Ryo Naito
Shizuka	Mika Sakenobe
Noah	Chisa Yokoyama
Gozaburo	Tetsuo Komura
Big 4	Hiroomi Sugino
Big 5	Hisashi Izumi
Other	Hiroshi Kikkawa

Differences in adaptations

• In the original, when Kaiba is instructed to select his Deck, Kogoro Daimon (Leichter) reveals his knowledge of the God Cards, that he will not find them in their system and that they are forbidden cards. This is not mentioned in the dub.

• A glow effect is added to "Mask of Perplexity" in the dub.

• The giant hypodermic needle used by "Injection Fairy Lily" is changed into a rocket in the dub.

• The dart from "Watch Tranquilizer" hitting the neck of "Vorse Raider" is obscured in the dub.

• A closeup of Kaiba and a shot of "Injection Fairy Lily" are cut from the dub, while Kaiba is thinking out his strategy.

• The writing on the IOU is obscured in the US version, even though it is not readable in the Japanese.

• Cut from the dub are shots of Nezbitt in Tristan's body with the unconscious Mokuba on the motorcycle.

• In the original, Nezbitt in Tristan's body knocks out Mokuba after he grabs him. This is removed from the dub.

• In the Japanese version, the card Kaiba throws at Nezbitt is just an non-identifiable Monster Card. It's changed to a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in the dub.

• In the flashback which shows Kaiba likening 100% of stocks in a company to 100 Duel Monsters cards, the cards in the dub keep changing between shots. "Ring of Destruction" can briefly be seen with its Japanese artwork (grenades rather than fireballs) in the first shot.

Mistakes

• The Battle Damage Kaiba's "Spear Dragon" inflicts to Leichter's "Cyber Jar" is 1400, which is 400 more than it should be, making the math incorrect as their point difference is 1000.

Trivia

• Leichter is the second member of the Big Five to assume the form of a monster used by a main character. He Duels Seto Kaiba using Joey Wheeler's monster, "Jinzo". The only other example is Johnson, who Duels Joey using Kaiba's monster, "Judge Man".