Read or Die - TV - 19: The Family Game

Title:Read or Die - TV
Episode:19: The Family Game
Synopsis
Anita freaks as she watches the holograph of the fire at the British Library, and runs screaming from the house. She cannot remember why she was there, and realizes it was Yomiko who started the fire. Yomiko blames herself for being a "coward" and not taking "responsibility for what I did". Nenene says that though she did "overreact a little" it's thanks to her actions that Junior and Nancy have been reunited. About the holographic experience, Junior comments that "I felt as if something was pouring into me--like water gushing through my head". Nenene asks Yomiko why Anita was at the fire--she doesn't know. Meanwhile, the house is being watched by "Mirror Man", who reports to Joker that he has located the fugitives. Joker instructs him to contact Junior, recover the BotASE, and capture the others alive if possible. Nenene proposes that the book be burned, so that Joker won't have a reason to keep pursuing them--though that may also mean they'll never be able to reconstruct Anita's past. Yomiko prefers that it be buried for now, and she prevails. Junior tells Anita that just as Nancy thought he was dead, he thought she was dead, and has had only Joker and Wendy as a defacto family. When he's alone in the bathroom, Drake suddenly walks in--and demands the BotASE...
Comments
I don't understand how Junior was able to holographically reconstruct every detail of the fire at the library, when he was presumably not there himself. Is he a psychic? Was Mr. Gentlemen present, and is Junior reading his memories from the BotASE? I suspect the encoded details of Mr. Gentlemen are already being transferred to Junior, though not exactly under the circumstances Joker had in mind.

[Forbin]
Actually all is going to plan, realize that the library incident happened after the Gentelman book project so that means that Mr. Gentelman is still around somewhere and the books are just a means to find the proper person who can handle his powers. When he morphed into the book (and the book accepted him as a viable candidate) he saw one of Gentlemen's current memories of how Yomiko burned the library. (Anita was a small bonus). This alerted Joker that Jr has been accepted as the next successor and he needs him back NOW. (Joker always knew where the house was and until Jr was ready he didn't need him right away) Hence sending in the "Mirror Man."

This begins the final arc of RoD The TV where you begin to understand just how powerful the Gentleman really was. (Here's a hint, in the OVA notice that Gentleman talks to Joker without a radio?)

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