When he comes to, he orders the soldiers to die, and they all willingly commit suicide.

A Knightmare arrives. Lelouch orders the pilot to turn it over to him.

Too bad his power only works on people he can look in the eye.

But a careful deception get the pilot out, and Lelouch steals the mech.

Now, Lelouch stole one of the terrorist's communicators, originally intending to turn it over to the authorities, but now he uses it to rendezvous with the resistance.

There's no news of what's happening in the ghetto, which means they want to keep it quiet.

This means they can't call for reinforcements. Lelouch helps pick off Britannian Knightmares, and rescues Kallen. Conveniently, there's a train full of spare Knightmares. Lelouch makes an offer to the resistance: do what I say, and you can win.

Lelouch's Knightmare is still connected to Britannia's coms. He has the heading and location of all the other Knightmares on the battlefield. It's easy to set traps that way.

They break ranks to fill the gaps and get sucked into an even nastier trap.

Meanwhile, Lelouch's childhood friend Suzaku has miraculously survived the earlier fracas and has been recruited by Lloyd Asplund, head of special weapons engineering for Britannia, to pilot the experimental Knightmare, Lancelot.

With the ordinary Knightmare's losing to Lelouch's sigint advantage, now is the time for Lancelot to enter the fray.

And it's a monster. Suzaku has a massive hardware advantage. Worse, he thinks that if he defeats the terrorists and stops the fighting, he can rescue Lelouch.

Kallen buys Lelouch time to get away and eject. Suzaku stops his pursuit to save a woman falling from a collapsing building.

The soldiers close in on the resistance, but just as they're about to win, Prince Clovis calls and end to hostilities.

Wait, what?

He moved his guard Knightmares out to fill holes, letting Lelouch get close enough to speak.

Game over, man.

But here's the kicker: Lelouch is a lost prince. 17th in the line of succession. He tells Prince Clovis that he has returned... to change everything.

Lelouch wants answers. Specifically, who killed his mother? He suspects assassination.

With use of the power, Clovis gives up that it was masterminded by Prince Schneizel and Princess Cornelia.

Lelouch kills Clovis. Can't change the world without getting your hands dirty.

In the second largest piece of tonal whiplash ever, we jump to school where the student council president is chewing out Lelouch for his absence yesterday.

And look who's come back to school! It's Kallen Stadtfeld, daughter of a wealthy family.

Too bad her recurring illness keeps her out of school so often.

(The illness is called Secretly A Member Of The Resistance.)

Mind control let's you skip the dance and just confirm that she's the same Knightmare pilot.

But when he tries to keep her silent, it doesn't take.

Here's Lelouch's younger sister Nunnaly, who is a blind and wheelchair-bound.

If you had to ask why Lelouch hates the empire, what happened to his sister is a good start.

Lelouch tests his power. The limit is: he can only use it once per person.

Kallen begins to suspect that Lelouch is The Voice who directed the battle. Or at least knows something.

He throws off suspicion with a ruse.

Kallen is recruited to join the student council, because of course.

They finally admit that Clovis is dead. And they pin it on Suzaku!

Lelouch arranges a meeting with the terrorists. (He wears a mask.) He wants them to switch from terrorism to actual war.

To prove himself, he arranges a demonstration of his ability to make the impossible possible: he breaks Suzaku out and throws doubt on the accusations.

Now known as Zero, the masked terrorist has held a crowd hostage, taken responsibility for killing Clovis, and broken Suzaku out.

But when asked to join him, Suzaku refuses. He'd rather make Britannia worth from inside than destroy it. He turns himself in for his court martial.

Remember the girl who gave Lelouch his powers in episode one? She's less dead then advertised.

She calls herself only by her initials, C.C. She moves herself in with Lelouch and his sister and starts wandering around the school.

Suzaku has been set free for lack of evidence. He falls in with a girl known as Euphy. After showing her around town, he meets up with Lloyd and regains the Lancelot to break up a battle.

Euphy is really Princess Euphemia. She wants to end the fighting, but how?