Mao is obsessed with C.C., and fair enough; he got his geass when he was just a child and was both raised by her and saw her as the only real person.
He wants to take her away to an isolated location. But he's ax crazy.
Lelouch entraps him and kills him.
My teenage son is getting a summer job and he tells me he has five female coworkers.
Mao manipulates Shirley into proposing a murder-suicide with Lelouch. Proposing at gunpoint, that is.
Lelouch uses his geass to force her to forget everything about him.
He's shaken by the loss of something he didn't even know he had or valued.
Shirley shot her with Lelouch's gun, but she didn't die. She was rescued later. She saw that he was Zero.
Shirley, meanwhile, is having a crisis. The man she loves also killed her father.
This is not helped when Mao, another geass user whose power is mind reading, finds her.
I need to backfill here. Viletta Nu is the Knightmare pilot that Lelouch stole a Knightmare from back in the first battle.
She has no memory of the incident, but she does remember Lelouch from right beforehand.
She's the one who told Shirley to follow Lelouch.
Zero throws good effort after bad and uses the JLF as bait for Cornelia. The win will justify the deaths.
Shirley follows Lelouch to see what he's up to and comes to the battle.
When Lancelot interferes to save Cornelia, Zero ejects and lands next to Shirley. She sees his face.
Shirley finally works up the courage to ask Lelouch out on a date. But they both have something to do first.
Lelouch has to arrange an alliance with a Kyoto, group that funds rebels.
Shirley has to identify her father's body. He was killed by Zero's actions in the prior fight.
C.C. uses her power to give Suzaku mental trauma. But when Lelouch touches her, he gets a vision of her history.
Including her real name. (We don't get to hear it though.)
Cornelia's army retreats. This battle, everyone loses.
The Black Knights recruit. Kallen gets a custom Knightmare: the Guren Mk II.
Cornelia moves to crush the JLF, a major terrorist organization active in Japan. The Knights interfere.
They nearly capture Cornelia, but Lancelot rescues her and nearly captures Zero.
A drug that gives vivid hallucinations of the past becomes popular among the Elevens.
The Black Knights bust the distribution ring, but Kallen's mother is caught tripping.
Kallen and Lelouch have a fight about his attitude: all he does is make snide comments from the sidelines.
Zero and the resistance rebrand as The Black Knights Of Justice. Including matching uniforms.
They take the fight to another terrorist group who have taken civilian hostages. (Including most of the student council and Euphemia.)
Attacking the unarmed is out of bounds now.
Cornelia sets a trap for Zero, and Lelouch can't help take the bait.
C.C. bails him out by disguising herself as Zero and drawing attention away from him right before he is caught.
Cornelia is a higher class of enemy than Clovis was. Lelouch will have to up his game.
Suzaku transfers into the school. He and Lelouch resume their friendship. Secretly at first, until a cat steals the Zero mask, and Suzaku publicly saves Lelouch from a fall.
Princess Cornelia becomes the Viceroy of Japan and takes over control of the military.
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?
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.
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.
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.