Episode
Attack on Titan: What Needs to Be Done Now: Eve of the Counterattack (3)
Overview
Everyone is a suspect in the investigation to find out who killed the two test-subject Titans. Meanwhile, the cadets pick which military branch they'll be joining, but after the harrowing events in the Trost attack, many are uncertain which branch to choose.
Details
- Series
- Attack on Titan
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2013-07-28
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
What Needs to Be Done Now: Eve of the Counterattack (3) is Episode 16 in Season 1 of Attack on Titan. It aired on 2013-07-28. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 15: Special Operations Squad: Eve of the Counterattack (2)
The Recon Corps moves Eren to an old abandoned castle where he will continue his training. Hange visits and reveals that she's been putting two captured Titans through a series of tests and trials — experiments that she wants Eren's help with.
Episode 17: Female Titan: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission (1)
As the Recon Corps begins its push toward Shiganshina, they encounter an intelligent Female Titan unlike any they've seen before. When Armin hypothesizes that it's really a human that's been turned into a Titan, he, Jean, and Reiner attempt to stop it.
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Episode 14: Can't Look into His Eyes Yet: Eve of the Counterattack (1)
A special military tribunal will decide Eren's fate. The Military Police calls for his execution while the Recon Corps argues that he is a powerful resource for humankind, and Mikasa is put on the spot when asked about the events of the Trost mission.
Episode 18: Forest of Giant Trees: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission (2)
As the Female Titan continues to tear its way through the Recon Corps, Levi makes a bold decision to split the ranks and send Eren and the supply wagons through a huge forest. Is his strategy genius, or does it spell certain death for the scouts?
Episode 13: Primal Desire: The Struggle for Trost (9)
Jean takes desperate measures to replace his broken Maneuver Gear. Meanwhile, Eren is able to seal the hole in the wall thanks to the help of his fellow cadets, but the cost of humanity's first victory against the Titans will be enormous.
Episode 19: Bite: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission (3)
With the Female Titan still chasing after Levi's squad, Eren considers turning himself into his Titan form, but Levi tells him to choose to be either a monster or a member of the Recon Corps. As Eren remembers what he has learned from the squad, he realizes that the danger and sacrifice they all share is not what binds them — it is trust. Now it is up to Eren to make the decision of who he will trust.
Episode 12: Wound: The Struggle for Trost (8)
The plan to reclaim Trost falls apart when Eren's newfound powers turn him into a mindless giant. As Titans continue to swarm the city, it's up to Armin and Mikasa to make sure the cadets massacred during the mission haven't died in vain.
Episode 20: Erwin Smith: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission (4)
With the help of Levi's squad, the Recon Corps has successfully captured the Female Titan. As Commander Erwin and Captain Levi begin preparations to extract whoever is inside the Titan, will the Recon Corps discover its true identity, or does the Female Titan have one last trick up its sleeve?
Episode 11: Idol: The Struggle for Trost (7)
Plans are made to use Eren's Titan powers to seal the hole in the wall in an attempt reclaim Trost. But with the government's bloodstained history and vocal dissenters in the military ranks, the biggest threat to humankind may not be the Titans.
Episode 21: Crushing Blow: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission (5)
After a last act of desperation, the person inside the Female Titan has escaped from the Recon Corps and reverted to their human form. Now, disguised as a member of the Recon Corps and equipped with Maneuver Gear, they finally catch up to their prey — Levi's squad.
Episode 10: Response: The Struggle for Trost (6)
Cadets respond to Eren's terrifying transformation with doubt and fear as he struggles to understand it himself. If Armin can’t talk the commander into using Eren’s newfound powers for the good of humankind, all hope of stopping the Titans might be lost.
Episode 22: The Defeated: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission (6)
The Female Titan has captured Eren after ripping him out of his Titan body, but Mikasa and Captain Levi give chase. Elsewhere, the Recon Corps begins preparations for the journey back home to the Wall with their numerous dead in tow.