Fullmetal Alchemist (2003–2004): Season 1, Episode 49 - Tobira no mukô e - full transcript

What is the real secret to alchemy? What fuels transmutations? Is Equivalent Exchange the defining principle of the world, or a fabrication that give false hope to the weak? All answers will be revealed, as the confrontation with the homunculi's leader sends Ed to a place that could shatter his entire understanding of alchemy: the other side of the Gate.

Welcome home, Father!

I'm home, Selim.

Here.

You can go ahead and open it.

Okay!

Thank you very much!

Happy tenth birthday, Selim.

Where are we?

We're at You-know-who's place.

"You-know-who"?

The one who is making you Homunculi
search for the Philosopher's Stone?

That's not all. The one who found us,
brought us together, and nurtured us.

You're being tricked... all you
Homunculi who want to become human.

Those who are being tricked are fools.

What about you?

Yeah, I know. That person just wants the
Philosopher's Stone to use personally.

So what? As long as I get to see
humans suffer, that's good enough for me.

Hey, now, your body is precious.

Don't do anything reckless.

Shoot!

How many people do you think Scar killed
to make you the Philosopher's Stone?

Of the soldiers that charged into Liore,

7000 of them disappeared in an instant.

They're not dead.

They're all right here.

Oh yeah, and the guys
that died long ago in Ishbal

that were in Scar's right arm, too.

They're locked away inside there,
as well.

Awesome, awesome!

You've got thousands... tens of thousands...
of lives there inside you.

We should put them to good use, huh!?

I should have died...

Back then...

and back then...

and back then, too.

So then, why am I still alive?

Brother?

Dad?

The Philosopher's Stone.

Those who obtain it are set free
from the Law of Equivalent Exchange.

There is no need to pay a price
in order to obtain something, either.

We sought it, and found it.

Edward-san!

What were you doing?

Sorry. Is this the place?

Yes. This is definitely the place.

Show me one more time.

Dad once came here to Central,
looking for a way to refine the red water.

He wound up going to a place
called the 5th Laboratory,

and there, he met up
with a certain alchemist.

That person told him that there
was some indispensable element

that was necessary...

...to transmute the red water
all the way into a Philosopher's Stone,

and hinted to him
that it was human lives.

He also showed him where
the real laboratory was.

The 5th Laboratory was nothing more
than a secret entrance.

In fact, there was an even
larger human experimentation lab.

This does indeed appear to be the place
that we have been searching for.

I'm going alone.

But Al-kun is in danger,
though we don't know what kind, right?

It's all right. He's just gotten
a little lost, that's all.

Ed...

The reason why we showed you
what was in this journal...

...was not because we wanted you
to make a Philosopher's Stone.

I know. I'm not going there to create
a Philosopher's Stone. Believe me.

Come back to us, now!
Come back to us alive!

According to Dad's journal, you descend
from the temple of the ancient religion,

and go further and further underground,
and then suddenly...

...there's another city,
all tucked away beneath Central.

Dad said that judging
by its style of architecture,

it looked like the city
was nearly 400 years old.

There's a legend that says
that the city that was there,

where Central is now, vanished overnight.

Dad says he thought that
there might have been alchemists...

...that were performing
some kind of experiment,

and may have closed up
the whole city underground.

The people of the city
were all sacrificed

to be used in their Philosopher's Stone.

And then, to hide the fact
that there weren't any people left,

they made the city itself disappear.

There's actually someone
who thought that up?

Is anyone there!?

I know you're here! You knew
about everything, didn't you,

Pop!?

No, Gluttony.

Be patient.

This girl's body is very important,
after all.

So pretty. It's no wonder
why Ed and Al would like you.

They are his children...

Hey, what happened to Lust!?

Yes, what could have happened to her?

That's right, I need
to get my dress ready.

We have to be pretty when we greet him.

Somebody's here.

My, that was quick.

Where is he?

Where is he!?

Wrath...

Where's the Philosopher's Stone!?

What a pest!

What's the meaning of this? I thought
he was keeping an eye on Edward.

That's what I thought I told him to do.

Please! Give me the
Philosopher's Stone, quick!

Wrath, you have to be a good boy,
or I won't make you human.

There's no time for that!

Mama... Mama is going to be all gone!

Mama?

He means Sloth.

Sloth is not your mama.
Homunculi do not have mothers.

Bring Mama back to life, please!

Don't talk like you're human.

Mama... Mama!

Mama!

Envy!

Please!

What do you think you
can you do in your shape?

What power!

It's only natural that Edward Elric
would use Automail. This is fun!

Someone like you is a soldier?

That explains why no one has
realized who the Fuhrer is!

It's still not too late
for you. Become one of my men.

We are ready to wage war on the north,
and on the west, and on the south.

The time has come for
the continent to be united.

Not interested.

In that case, die!

Your pupils will be
following you soon, as well.

What are you doing!?
I am your superior officer!

You, too!?

Izumi-san!

Where's... Ed?

By now, both brothers
should be at the place

that was written about in that journal.

You all believed... in those boys?

Believing in and protecting children
is the job of an adult.

That's what someone once told me.

Rose?

Ed...

You finally came.

Now, that should teach you a lesson.
Don't start any fights with these guys.

You really don't ever learn
unless you get hurt.

Something the matter?

I think I just figured something out...

What?

Before Hughes-san died, he said something.
"What if everything was backwards?"

I never understood what he meant.

And you figured it out?

We've been thinking that the Homunculi

were trying to create
a Philosopher's Stone.

But what if it was the other way around?

They wait until it is just
barely completed, and then take it away.

Then, they eliminate everyone
who can prove it ever happened.

What's left is a rumor that says that
if you come near the Philosopher's Stone,

you'll be destroyed.

In time, people become afraid
of the Philosopher's Stone...

So they will keep away from it?

But that would almost make
them good people, wouldn't it?

They're making sure people
stay out of danger, after all.

What's more, no matter
how dangerous it is,

I'll bet that people will
still go on looking for it.

I wonder how Edward-san
and his brother are doing.

I'm sure they're getting along fine.

That much is certain.

Pain that teaches a lesson, huh?

But God is the only one
who can teach that kind of lesson.

R-Rose, what are you doing here?

I've been waiting for you,
a long, long time.

Ed, I...

Rose...

Rose, was Al brought here?

What on earth is this place?

My baby...

My baby...

You should have danced with her.

She's been waiting for you
ever since we fled here.

You're despicable.

Lyra, you brought Rose here?

There's an old city that
only alchemists know of.

That's what Dante-sensei told me.

Speaking of Dante-san, I still
haven't heard how she was killed.

She was killed by that Homunculus Greed.
I thought I told you.

That is a lie.

A lie?

The transmutation circle that
was left in Dante-san's house...

...was one that could keep
a Homunculus from moving.

There were bones from the man
on whom Greed was based there.

Greed should not have been able
to take action against Dante-san.

Are you sure?
Still, Dante-san definitely is dead.

But supposing that what was there
was nothing more than a shell

that her soul had sloughed off...

What are you saying?

Suppose there were people who used
the power of the Philosopher's Stone...

...to move from one body to another,
and who have lived for hundreds of years.

Back there, you made it
look like you were dead,

and then took over Lyra's body.
Isn't that right!?

Ed, stop! I am...

That was close.

When did you see the gate, Lyra?

You transmuted without
a transmutation circle.

That's my answer, Dante!

When did you figure it out, Edward Elric?

Then it's true?

I've really come to like this body.

So then, what number is she?

Who knows? It hasn't
been ten yet, though.

After all, I have to use
the Philosopher's Stone each time.

Did you wipe out the residents of this
city to make your Philosopher's Stone?

Yes, the same as with the nation to
the east, which was destroyed overnight.

I should mention, though,
that I was not the one who made them.

Hohenheim of Light...

You shouldn't address
your own father like that.

So he has prolonged his life
the same way? For what reason?

Because we deserve to.

You covertly create
the Philosopher's Stone

just so you can use it
to extend your own lives.

You think you can get away with that!?

Humans cannot use
the Philosopher's Stone.

Is that why, when people fail
to complete a Philosopher's Stone,

you obliterate everything,
and leave behind the story...

...that you will be destroyed if you get
too close to the Philosopher's Stone?

Yes, to keep people from getting
too close to the Philosopher's Stone.

And for those who still get too close,

we take it from them at the last minute,
and use it carefully.

After all, there's no telling
what humans would do

if they were given a
Philosopher's Stone, right?

I do it to keep foolish people
from destroying the world.

You could say that I have extended
my life to protect the world.

To keep humans from doing anything
foolish with the Philosopher's Stone.

Cut the crap! You're human, too!

Not anymore.

Lust!

Lust! Where's Lust!?

What a shame.

I was looking forward to
entering this girl's body,

and making love to Hohenheim's son.

Rose's body is next, is it!?

Yes. I have obtained a
Philosopher's Stone again, and all...

Al!? Where is Al!?

Where's Lust!? What happened to Lust!?

Try asking him, Gluttony.

Lust!

Lust! Where's Lust!?

She's dead. And it was my fault.

Lust... is dead?

Yeah. Your pal Wrath sealed her up.

Gluttony?

Lust...

Gluttony!

Lust...

Here I come!

I knew it.

Repeatedly bonding just your soul is not
something you can continue doing forever.

Equivalent exchange! That's the backlash
from performing that idiocy over and over!

Equivalent exchange? Do you still
believe in that childish theory?

It's no theory! It's the law of alchemy...
no, of the whole world!

You're the one who said so, aren't you?

That in order to obtain anything,
it requires something of equal value?

That's something that
only a child would say.

Like "make everything equal",
or "that wouldn't be fair."

However, there's no such thing
as equivalent exchange.

That's absurd!

There is a cost required in order
for you to obtain something...

In that case, if you reverse it...
if you pay a price...

you are certain to
obtain something, right?

That's right. That's why people
put forth an effort to pay the price.

But there's something
strange about that.

After all, even if you
pay the same price,

you can't always necessarily
obtain the same thing.

Well, that's...

There's the State Alchemist Exam, right?

In order to pass it, many people
spend time studying. That's a cost.

But only a handful of people
actually pass it.

Everyone may start out the same
when they learn alchemy,

but huge differences arise
in their actual abilities.

And people's lives are
not all equal, either.

If nobody does anything,
that baby is going to die, right?

Stop!

It really would be easy
for me to kill it.

If I do, was the baby born
only in order to die?

The baby is paying the price
of desperately trying to survive.

Yet, is death the only thing
it is going to get for that?

Elsewhere,

there are people that kill others,
and continue to go on living.

No matter how hard you may try to live,
when it's time for you to die, you die.

When you compare that to people
who don't make any effort,

yet are afforded riches and power,
and live lives of happiness,

it's quite unfair, isn't it?
The world is quite cruel.

Which is why you might
say it's so beautiful.

Cut the sophistry!

My baby...

Equivalent exchange is an excuse that
the weak use to comfort themselves.

They tell themselves
that by paying a price,

it's supposed to make themselves happier.

This baby doesn't have
to make any excuses!

You're his son, all right.

Yowch...

What is this? What's going on here?

My eyes...

Who is this?

What's that?

Edward-kun!

What are you doing!? It's an air raid!

Hurry up!

Wait! Pop, what are you doing here!?
What is this place!?

"Pop"? Edward-kun,
what are you talking about?

I thought you were at Dante-san's place!

What is this place!?
What's happened to me!?

My face... my hand?

Are you Edward, my son?

Of course I am!

What are you doing here?

I don't know...

Let's go! They're coming!

Who do you mean, "they"!?

Zeppelins!

Zeppelins?

for you.

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