Episode 15: Who Is Black Jaguar?!
(featuring Shadow Boss: Black Jaguar)
Dragon looks through a pair of those pay
to use binoculars and spots Black Jaguar in a speed boat. So finds a
boat to follow in. Black Jaguar laughs at how easy it was to lead
Dragon into the trap. Underwater mines are detonated but they do is
cause Dragon to abandon boat. Black Jaguar speeds away. Dragon phones
the hotel to warn Risa, Kojiro and Dr. Kori that Shadow's boss Black
Jaguar in in town and not to leaver their hotel room. But Kojiro being
dumb as ever opens the room door because he thinks its room service
knocking and finds himself facing a masked man who laughs at him. When
Kojiro doesn't realize who it is Black Jaguar asks "Don't you recognize
my voice?" And Dr. Kori cries out in fear "Black Jaguar!" Kojiro
manages to run past Black Jaguar as the villain knocks out Risa. Kojiro
meets Shadow henchmen in the hall but is surprisingly able to fight
past them. Risa and Dr. Kuri are taken away.
Kojiro has hidden in the trunk of Shadow's
car. He thinks he's fooled Black Jaguar and sets out to find Dragon.
But Black Jaguar appears (wearing a different mask), wonders if Dragon
will actually listen to that scatterbrained fool and laughs. He walks
up the hill to see his men standing around, when he asks "where is the
woman", they fall over and Dragon appears saying "I rescued her".
Dragon demands that Black Jaguar remove his mask. Black Jaguar laughs
as challenges Dragon "to come take if if you can". Challenge accepted.
Dragon is about to unmask Black Jaguar when a dagger comes flying
missing Dragon but allowing Black Jaguar to escape. Kojiro cannot find
Dragon but Risa finds Kojiro and tells him she can take him to Ryuma,
Dr. Kuri and Ogawara. Not noticing that she some how manged to change
clothes after supposedly being capture by Black Jaguar, he believes her
and she leads him into a trap because she is " Black Jaguar's spy"
(which I realized the moment she appeared in the previous episode, of
course I had also figured out early on who Black Jaguar had to be.)
Having had his heart broken yet again, Kojiro swears to remain single
forever, she laughs saying "forever won't be long" to which he rather
foolishly i think talking to an assassin, replies "like you care, just
get it over with, kill me"..
A man leading a horse approaches Dragon
and asks if he wants a ride. When Dragon says he has no time the man
says "someone wants to meet you" so Dragon mounts the horse but the man
soon runs off and Dragon finds himself facing the Shadow Riders. Dragon
deals with them then tries to force the man who set him up tell him
where and who Black Jaguar is but he's interrupted by Black Jaguar 's
spy pointing a dagger at Kokiro who tied to a tree. The Shadow Riders
come back and one of them ties a rope around Dragon's wrists and drags
him behind a horse. The spy attempting to cut Kojiro accidentally frees
him. They spar and she should have won but he got lucky and hit the
dagger into the air when it came back down the spy was stabbed in the
back by her own weapon, and Kojiro didn't even realize he had killed
her. When he does he goes screaming in terror looking for his "bro".
Thinking they have defeated Dragon they take Black Jaguar who tells
them to tie rocks to his body and toss it in the river but Dragon jumps
up stating he allowed himself to be captured so he would be taken to
Black Jaguar. After the servants are defeated, Dragon once against
takes on their master..
When Black Jaguar, is finally unmasked he
turns out to be the only man he could be, Dragon's late mentor's
closest friend. Ogawara, Eizo. I had it figured from the start, but
Dragon only realized it when Ogawara's secretary turned out to be Black
Jaguar's spy. Ogawara, Eizo tells Dragon he intends to continue being
believed by the world to be a generous philanthropist while secretly
running the Shadow assassination organization so he cannot let Dragon
live. And Dragon says he cannot let the leader of Shadow live. Ogawara,
Eizo grabs a samurai sword for is final battle. He warns Dragon, "even
if you kill me Shadow will go on" before hurling himself of a bridge to
his death on the rocks bellow. Dragon ponders. "The leader of Shadow is
dead, but Shadow goes on?".
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‹To Be Continued›
