Episode
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom: Succession
Overview
Three months after Reiji's near fatal death at the hands of the Scythe Master in the wharf district of San Francisco, Inferno was able to take control of some of the crime families in the eastern area of the United States and integrate them under Inferno control under Claudia's command. Isaac confides to Raymond that Claudia may be acting suspicious after the conference. Claudia was later seen to be visiting the grave of Romero McCunnen. Reiji, now taking the codename of Zwei again after recovering from his wounds, is declared to be Phantom by Raymond after killing off multiple gunmen at an unknown warehouse complex.
Details
- Series
- Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2009-06-11
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Succession is Episode 11 in Season 1 of Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom. It aired on 2009-06-11. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 10: End
Lizzie and her group are dispatched by Claudia with the objective being to assassinate the Scythe Master, upon learning of his whereabouts. Although reluctantly, Lizzie also admits Reiji into the assassination team and are dispatched to the wharf in San Francisco. They were able to defeat Scythe Master's reinforcements with Reiji being able to corner him when Elen appears just in time after Reiji shoots his pistol at him. Reiji drops to his knees after seeing her take the bullet for Scythe Master, collapsing due to the new gunshot wound. Taking advantage of the change in his situation, Scythe Master finishes Reiji off by shooting at him multiple times before he collapses into the sea. He is later found to be alive, but wounded from gunshot wounds on his body.
Episode 12: Apparition
Six months later, Reiji has just taken down the No.2 man in the Gambino family in his latest assignment, leaving Inferno sole control of the East Coast and spreading fear to the criminal underworld. Claudia receives permission from McGuire to directly handle negotiations with the Godoh family in order to control the monopoly of exports to Japan. When she and Reiji go off to meet representatives of Godoh in Isaac's territory, they find that all the men, including some of Isaac's, are killed by a professional assassin. Reiji finds a passerby killed in the crossfire. When he returns later to the scene to mourn, he finds a girl named Cal Devens, who tells him that it was her sister Judy who was killed. She tells Reiji that she knows who killed Judy and insists on working with him to investigate. Reiji relents and takes Cal with him, as he feels an affinity with her since both their lives were destroyed by Inferno.
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Episode 9: Name
Reiji, now rejecting his Phantom codename Zwei, escapes with Ein while the rest of Inferno gets worked up on their escape. Ein had planned to commit suicide by shooting herself as she had no place to call home before Reiji stops her from killing herself. He consoles her and gives her a new name and identity of her own: Elen. Elen encounters Scythe Master in an alley after gunning down an armed man looking for her. Lizzie and Claudia capture Reiji in a parking lot when he was about to hotwire a car. Reiji was subsequently interrogated, being accused of assisting Scythe Master in rebelling against Inferno. Claudia offers Reiji assistance in saving Elen, locked up in an unknown location, by releasing his restraints and offering him a pistol for him to use. In return, Reiji promises Claudia that he would take care of Scythe Master.
Episode 13: Disguise
Reiji is accused by Isaac of lying to hide Cal away from him as he wanted to interrogate Cal regarding the shootings in his turf. Reiji and Lizzie face McGuire, Isaac and Claudia on whether the former was hiding something from them. He promises to train Cal to be an assassin like him as he claimed she has the potential to be a killer like him. Before going to the meeting, Cal showed him the $5 million dollars she hid from the scene after Judy was killed by stray fire and pleading to him to kill those responsible for Judy's death yesterday. In the end, Reiji is conflicted on how he could avenge Judy's death and train Cal to be a successful assassin at the same time.
Episode 8: Emergency
Ein is dispatched to take out Inferno henchmen in a warehouse district as part of a plan hatched by Raymond and Claudia to eliminate Scythe Master. Claudia, in summoning Zwei to her mansion, gives him his Japanese passport and reveals his real name to be Reiji Azuma. When Zwei is in shock, Claudia offers him a place alongside her after revealing her feelings. However, Reiji returns back to the complex hideout to see Ein wounded after being shot by Lizzie when the two confronted each other. Reiji receives a call from Claudia, telling him that he would be killed if he would assist Ein in any way. Refusing to be intimidated, Reiji helps Ein remove the bullet from her wound before he secretly evacuates her from the complex in order to avoid being tracked down by Inferno for refusing to join with Claudia in her plans to take over Inferno and get rid of Scythe Master.
Episode 14: Surveillance
Reiji and Cal go out to get clothes before he started to train her in firearms when he was told by Lizzie that McGuire wished to get details on Cal's training. Meanwhile, Claudia tells Reiji that she plans to use Godoh and his henchmen to smoke out Isaac as she believes that he's the one responsible for the shootings back in Los Angeles. Reiji shadows the Godoh group in Las Vegas before he finds one of the group's henchmen killed in his Las Vegas hotel room. Reiji pursues the supposed assassin towards the elevator when he caught a supposed glimpse of the assassin, who he thinks is Elen. However, Reiji thinks that Elen can't be alive since he remembers accidentally shooting her when the girl tried to protect Scythe Master from being killed back in San Francisco.
Episode 7: The Past
Ein leaves Zwei to meet Scythe Master, while Zwei decides to practice his driving while she is gone. However, McCunnen appears and begins to move in on Zwei, to which Scythe Master warns Ein not to let the infatuated McCunnen steal Zwei away. Meanwhile, Ms. McCunnen starts to form her own plans within Inferno. Later on in the day, Zwei has a dream about his past, where he witnesses a murder of an Inferno target, shot by Ein. After fleeing for days, Zwei is caught by Ein and Scythe Master, who seems interested in his innate ability to survive. After waking up, Zwei asks Ein whether she has had any dreams about her past, to which she say she has. However, she is apathetic and uninterested in finding out her past. Later on, the two are asked to back up a Phantom operation that consists of stealing 500 kilograms of cocaine. Right as they are about to head out, Zwei is asked to switch jobs and protect Ms. McCunnen in Lizzie's place instead. Though hesitant at first, Ein insists that Zwei follow Ms. McCunnen's orders, so Zwei agrees. Meanwhile, Raymond McGuire and Ms. McCunnen's plans to get rid of Scythe Master are revealed.
Episode 15: Reunion
Godoh is furious over the murder of his men once again and demands an explanation with Claudia promising that she'll do everything in her power to smoke out the culprits responsible. Reiji was given the assignment to locate the culprits responsible for killing Godoh's subordinates. Accepting the assignment, Reiji brings Cal along to assess the situation and determine the potential sniping locations where the assassins will use to disrupt the meeting between Godoh and the executives of Inferno. During the meeting, Reiji was able to gun down one of the armed assassins during his counter-sniping assignment with Cal when he finds out that the sniper he killed is Randy Weber, the right-hand man of Wisemel. However, a second sniper rifle is heard when the meeting is interrupted. Godoh and his remaining subordinates point their sidearms at the Inferno executives. Reiji doesn't know that Ein had survived, being the second sniper for interrupting the Inferno-Godoh conference.
Episode 6: Great Fire
The surviving members of Tony's mafia plan revenge against Inferno by planning to release crucial information on certain mobsters who are suspecting of supporting Inferno from behind the scenes to discredit them and be eliminated from the inside. However, Inferno plans to conduct an assassination spree on all anti-Inferno mafia personalities in the West Coast of the United States with Ein and Zwei being in the forefront working with Lizzie to carry out the assassinations on the orders of its top leaders under insistence from Claudia. Thanks to their efforts, Inferno was able to consolidate their influence in the area.
Episode 16: Confession
To appease Godoh, Claudia shoots and kills Isaac as the one responsible for the sniper attack. Later, Reiji confides to Lizzie that the sniping occurred after Randy Weber was killed, which means it wasn't part of Isaac's plan. Reiji plants the money that Cal stole at Wisemel's mansion to implicate him further in his treachery. Cal offers to help Reiji in his assassinations, he doesn't want her to get involved any further but Cal still wants to help Reiji, as she feels isolated as Reiji is alone in this assassin lifestyle. Cal wants to be Reiji, with him Forever. Though Reiji feels that with Cal here, Cal won't have to help him with his Phantom work as he will stop his current life so he can be with Cal. After confirming Isaac's treachery, McGuire makes Claudia his new second-in-command. Scythe Master frames Reiji for killing Godoh's man after he shows them an incriminating photo of him. Reiji receives a call from Lizzie, telling him to help her deal with some restless remnants of Isaac's Bloodies. Cal disappointed that she won't be able to spend the day together with Reiji Sighs. But as Reiji leaves he says 'we have penalty of time, aren't we going to be together forever' Unknown to him, Lizzie is being used by the Godoh group to lure him out.
Episode 5: Instant
Inferno tries to establish contact with a mafia family somewhere in Los Angeles led by Tony Stone, who was currently busting up individuals selling drugs at Melanie Square personally. During this time, Claudia invites Zwei over to her estate in order to act as her secondary bodyguard and a spy to maintain recon on the mafia itself. When the meeting for Inferno to conduct its influence on Melanie Square was not working in their favor as Tony refuses to do so, Ein and Zwei are deployed to wipe out the entire mafia and assassinate the wife and only child of Tony to prove that Inferno is a force to be reckoned with.
Episode 17: Truth
Reiji leaves The apartment, while Cal is disappointed Reiji promises he will return. Upon reaching the rendezvous, Reiji realizes it's a trap by Godoh and his men. When Reiji tries to convince Godoh of the misunderstanding, the yakuza leader believes that Claudia has tricked his gang. Godoh reveals that Claudia sent him and Shiga to steal the cocaine a year back. After the drug heist, Claudia's deal was to get Godoh's group to join Inferno. Godoh tells him that Claudia used all of them as chess pieces to further her own goals. Before anything else can happen, an unknown sniper attacks all of them. While the rest are killed or scattered, Reiji pursues the attacker and comes face to face with Elen. But Elen, now reverting to her Ein persona, warns him that Inferno will kill him before escaping. Godoh survives the attack and remembers Mio, his sister, who was separated from the family. As he makes plans to deal with Inferno, Shiga kills him to prove the Godoh group's loyalty to Inferno due to Scythe Master's manipulations. Lizzie goes to Claudia's mansion but finds it empty. Reiji plans to run away with Cal, but a bomb placed outside his apartment destroys it, leaving him to think that she died.