Heero: Distracted by Defeat
Treize arrives at the old European Federation HQ to meet with Zechs. Lady Une questions Treize's favoritism of Zechs, and means it can lead him to inapropriate behaviour. Treize tells her to worry over more important things instead. As Lady Une and Noin leave to discuss future plans, Treize confronts Zechs about his personal revenge that now has been taken. Zechs states he would like to work with Treize a while longer - to eliminate the Gundam pilots.
Lady Une briefs the assembled troops about the impending mission - to destroy the Gundam pilots once and for all. OZ will relocate a mobile suit factory due to security problems, and she reveals that they have leaked false information about the two transportation routes. Details about each Gundam is given, and Lady Une is arrogantly sure of that this mission will be successful due to superior leaders. Lady Une also asks Zechs to take on the 01 Gundam by himself with Tallgeese, claiming Zechs must wipe away his shame for losing against it once.
Relena returns to the school, and finds out that Heero and Duo have left it. She understands that he must be on a mission.
As the operation to destroy the Gundams is started, Lady Une and Noin joins the control room, where Lady Une reveals that there is no dummy route - both the air and te ground route are real, it's a trap for the Gundam pilots.
The first Gundam to appear is 04 - Quatre and the maganacs - by the ground route. Because of the heavy security, Quatre thinks this must be the real one, but before he can do any great damage, he nearly gets run over by the train... Fortunately for him, Duo shows up at the exact right moment and saves the day.
Meanwhile by the airborne route, Gundam 03 makes its appearance, and promptly gets attacked. Zechs encounters Gundam 01, and a duel begins. At this moment, Lady Une smugly reveals her secret weapon - missiles aimed at the colonies. She demans that the Gundam pilots surrender immediately, and hand over their Gundams, or she'll blow up colonies. Zechs ries to talk Lady Une out of launching the misslies, but she ignores him, claiming that she's only trying to materialise Treize's ideal world. Noin criticises Lady Une as well, and gets slapped for it. As she once again orders for the misslies to be launced, Dr. J appears on all viewscreens. He claims that the OZ are all a bunch of idiots, it's not the colonies that fight OZ, only him. Then states he will surrender, but not unconditionally... They will give up, but not hand over the Gundams. Heero accepts the new mission, and self-destructs.
As Heero blows himself up, falling down onto the ground seemingly dead, Quatre clutches his chest. In front of his glazed over eyes, the OZ people appear, before he doubles over in pain, claiming his heart hurts. He snaps out of it as Trowa announces that they must leave now. the Gundams retreat, and Trowa, with the hand of his Gundam, picks up the bloody corpse of Heero.
Lady Une gets admonished by Treize for once again turning to tactics not approved by him.