Episode
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom: Surveillance
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2009-07-02
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Surveillance is Episode 14 in Season 1 of Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom. It aired on 2009-07-02. The runtime is 24 min.
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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 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.
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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.
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 11: Succession
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.
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.
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 18: Confrontation
Reiji kills Inferno's men who bombed his apartment and makes his escape. Scythe Master and Shiga explain the whole situation to McGuire, pinning the betrayal on Claudia and Phantom. Claudia calls Reiji to tell him the reason of her betrayal and needs his help to escape. Elen goes to kill Reiji per Scythe's orders and Scythe reveals the next generation of assassins he's creating: the Zahlen Schwestern and reveals that Elen is no longer needed. Claudia and Lizzie meet up and drive to the beach, where Lizzie is forced to execute Claudia for her betrayal. Reiji returns to the desert warehouse and Elen arrives to kill him. After he persuades Elen to stop, the girl wants him to end her suffering. Reiji refuses to kill her and since he has a promise he is able to keep he would like to keep it. Elen decides to leave Scythe Master and Inferno and escape with Reiji. Lizzie visits Claudia and her brother Romero's graves. After getting fake Mexican passports, Reiji and Elen prepare to leave America.
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 19: Promise
The entire episode is a summary of Cal's life with Reiji with a few added scenes. While Reiji's apartment was bombed by Inferno's attack, Cal was actually out shopping in a store. For a few days, Cal remained in the apartment ruins waiting for Reiji to return but he never showed up again, since he's now on the run with Elen. Scythe Master appears to Cal and encourages her false belief that Reiji has abandoned her and broken his promise. Meanwhile, Reiji and Elen have headed to the outskirts of Mexico.
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 20: Old Home
2 years have passed since Reiji and Elen escaped America and have settled themselves in a small town in Japan. They try to live out their lives normally and enroll in school. One day, Reiji is dragged by one of his classmates, Sanae, to meet her friend Mio Fujieda, who attempts to confess her feelings for him. After an awkward conversation, both of them agree to go on a date. During their date, Reiji and Mio encounter a biker who does a harmless sneak attack. Although Mio has no idea what's going on, Reiji is sure the biker is one of Inferno's men. Reiji and Elen have a discussion where Elen reveals that Mio's real surname is actually Godoh, which means she belongs to the yakuza family. Elen's intention is to be Mio's friend so that she can use her as leverage if Godoh and Inferno ever catch up to them. The pair begin to make plans for their escape. The next day, Reiji goes home from school and encounters the biker again, who produces a familiar pocket watch and plays its tune. To his shock, Reiji realizes the biker is none other than Cal, who is very much alive.