Elfen Lied Summary (Episode 2)

As before, the opening leads into the anime.  It's also interesting to note the few other characters used in addition to Lucy in the opening, and their timing within the lyrics.

The anime proper opens by introducing a new character.  A young girl (much younger than Lucy, Kouta, or Yuka) is seen with a small dog.

From her, we transition back to Bando on the helicopter.  Bando once again proves to be a bad/jack-ass, and basically says "screw you other guys, I'm jumping in now", ignoring further precautions.

The not-Lucy girl is then seen digging through the sand on the beach.

Episode title, much faster now.

We head back to Kouta, as he reflects on what Yuka said last episode, and thinks about it why staring at the clock a little.  At a knock on the door, he's happy, expecting to see the girl and Yuka return, but is surprised to find the police.  The police are looking for Lucy, and although they state that she is simply missing, their initial reaction tells Kouta that they're lying, so he pretends not to know her.  After they leave, he grabs an umbrella and heads out to try to find her himself.

Now back to soldiers on the beach.  Soldiers prowl the beach, wandering amongst the litter.  Bando is among the first two to find not-Lucy on the beach.  Kouta finds her, though is knocked over by Bando, who is quick to hold a gun to his head.  After a threat, Kouta bats the gun away, and flees with not-Lucy, now knowing that they are trying to kill her.

Meanwhile, Yuka is talking to the police to try to help find not-Lucy.  She realizes where not-Lucy probably is at the last minute, and heads out to try to find her on the beach.  Yuka arrives to find an unconscious Kouta, not-Lucy already missing. 

It turns out that Bando's dragged off not-Lucy, though he knocks out the other person with him when he tries to report in.  He still wants to have a "Good Time".  He wants a fight, and so is trying to get her to fight.  He hits her.

Bad move.  A little bit of trauma brings the real Lucy back out.  After a brief fakeout of Lucy having been shot, the guy with Bando bites it.  And now the ass finds out that provoking Lucy is a BAD idea.  We also get the first good look at the telekinetic 'hands' that Lucy uses.  Also, she begins chucking objects him.  Including boats.

With the explosions, the little girl seen before is now wondering what's going on.  Meanwhile, Bando means to shoot a grenade on the ground near Lucy when she comes just slightly closer, but when he pops up from cover...  she's holding the other soldier's machine gun.  She shoots him, but badasses don't die that easily.

Lucy's left him alive, and is pissed off about the whole wanting-to-enjoy-this-fight thing.  When he tries to shoot her, she disarms him.  Literally.  She then pokes the fingers of her 'hand' into his forehead, and we hear plenty of squelching from off screen.  He doesn't appear to be dead, though, only blinded.  He barely survives due to Lucy transitioning back into not-Lucy before she finishes strangling him slowly.

The little girl finds the injured Bando, and she gives him a tourniquet and calls an ambulance for him.

We then find Kouta in the hospital with Yuka.  The police come to ask Kouta about his injuries, and he tells them that he was attacked by a soldier with a rifle.  He asks about a girl on the beach being alright, but given their immediate intensity, he pretends he just saw her there, and states he didn't see anything unusual about her.

Especially with them asking about "anything on her head", Kouta makes stuff up, about a college girl with short hair, just to throw the police off.  Their comments about it being best he forget about it all 'for his own good' worried him.

Kouta heads home, while Yuka leaves for her place, but Kouta finds not-Lucy with a new shell for him when he get's back.

Flashback:  Yuka asks Kouta to not forget her, and he assures her he'll be back the next year.

It's apparently been eight years now.

Back to Kouta and not-Lucy.  She can't understand him, and doesn't know the basics like putting on clothing.  Enter Kouta, trying to be a gentleman so badly, though it's really hard to change someone with your eyes closed.

And of course, right when he's taking her bottoms off is when Yuka walks in, realizing that she still had his key.

Back to Kurama.  He's afraid that Lucy will start acting more blatantly now that Bando's been wrecked by her, so he reveals another diclonius specimen.  Specimen #7.  She's bloody, chained to the wall, and nude, but when he enters, she addresses him as "Papa".


And roll end credits.