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Albert and his mother are saved by the Count's lackeys. Morcef and the Count fight until their mechs are destroyed, then continue without them.
Morcef stabs the Count through the heart, but it doesn't take.
The Count tells Albert how he met and merged with Gankutsuou in prison.
Morcef stages a coup d'etat. His wife confronts him over his betrayal of Dantes. He shoots her and Albert, and almost shoots himself, but decides to confront the Count first.
The Count confronts a fleeing Danglars and ruins him.
At Villefort's trial, Cavalcanti testifies that he's his son, then poisons him with a needle.
On the day of the wedding*, Albert sneaks in disguised as a servant and breaks Eugenie out. Cavalcanti is arrested for impersonating an aristocrat, among other crimes.
* it's technically a pre-wedding financial commitment ceremony that Danglars is using to reassure investors.
The Count manipulates the stock market. Danglars' investments crash.
His only hope is to move up Eugenie's marriage so he can get access to Cavalcanti's fortune.
Eugenie tries to flee, but is stopped by Cavalcanti.
Sadly, the Count's heart has already been transformed.
Albert wakes up and realizes what has happened. He races to the duel site, but is too late to stop it.
Franz dies in his arms.
He has learned Gankutsuou's weakness. It replaces the body of its host with crystalline structure. If there's any man left inside the Count, the heart will be the weak point, and Franz has a conventional sword inside the armor to strike when the Count is close enough.
They duel before dawn in full power armor. It's only once Albert is defeated and the Count has gotten out to land the killing blow that we realize it's not Albert in the suit.
Franz has drugged Albert and taken his place. Being defeated is all part of the plan.
I remain unconvinced, and yet still unable to formulate a coherent explanation of why.
I'm terrible at chess and I don't know why.
The Count makes a full confession to Albert: he arranged everything. The chance meeting on Luna? His plan. The kidnapping? They work for him. Peppo has been reporting on his movements. The gold watch is bugged.
Albert challenges him to a duel.
Morcef used the money to buy himself a fake aristocratic title.
Edmond Dantes was sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Betrayed by his friends and fiancée.
Gankutsuou, the immortal man was also imprisoned.
Franz puts 2+2 together and figures out what's going on.
Albert's father is running for President. But his campaign comes to a screeching halt when Haydee reveals that his war heroics are actually war crimes. She was princess of a distant planet; Morcef killed her father and sold her into slavery.
Franz leans more about Gankutsuou.
Villefort attempts to kill the Count and is arrested.
Eugenie is officially engaged to Cavalcanti, despite not caring for him.
A despondent Albert agrees to accompany the Count to space.
But the Count has a character witness for his defense, right in his car: Mrs. Villefort. Would you like her testimony?
Oh, it looks like the Count won't be arrested today after all.
Franz looks into the meaning of Gankutsuou, but it's super-classified.
Mr. Danglars throws Albert out of the opera house, but he sneaks in backstage to watch their performance.
It turns out that Cavalcanti arranged the performance and paid for all the tickets.
The Count is arrested on suspicion of poisoning.
Mrs. Villefort collapses, a victim of her own poison. They youths escape.
Mr. Villefort puts the clues together and has her committed.
Albert's fiancé, Eugenie, is set to play the piano at the opera house.
Her father wants to cancel their engagement.
The three heads of household receive an invitation to a funeral. The sender is a man they had betrayed, who they thought was dead.
Their coconspirator in this was also invited.
The youths sneak Valentine out of her house, but are caught in the act.
Franz overhears a conversation with the Count and learns the name Gankutsuou.
Albert is accidentally poisoned. It was meant for Valentine, who is now in a bad way. We know it's her stepmother.
Andrea Cavalcanti, the Count's other protégé, implies things, mysteriously.
The count invites all the others, both youth and adult to his villa.
This is a plot to let Victoria Danglars and Gerard Villefot know that he knows about their secret love child.
The count also reveals to Albert that he has contracted a degenerative disease.
