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Mother Knows Best
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I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's, at all, and this transcript is unofficial and without any permission whatsoever. Please link back to me if you use my work. For more information about my transcript format, please click here.
Episode originally made available online circa November 29, 2010
TEASER
(Zora pauses sweeping the walk outside the front of her building with a gusty sigh. Yusei, Jack, Crow, Bruno, Akiza, and the twins approach her. Each of them is carrying a metal part or two, which perhaps indicates that they're on their way back from shopping or scrounging for duel runners.)
Crow: Hey. What's wrong, Zora? You seem a bit upset.
Zora: Mind your business!!
Yusei: You *do* seem a bit down.
(As usual, Zora smiles and simpers when speaking to Yusei. Crow glares at him, infuriated.)
Zora: Ohh, Yusei, thank you for inquiring. The truth is I *am* down; at the town meeting it was decided that my beloved clock must be replaced.
(She turns and looks up at the clock on the front of the building, which has, for as long as we've known it, been stopped at 5:32 or so.)
Crow: It *has* been broken for some time.
Zora: Butt out, you punk!!
(Crow cringes.)
Yusei: Well, *that's* a shame.
Zora (melancholy): It really *is*.
Crow: Uhh, could someone tell me why Zora's *picking on me* here?
Zora: Ohh, it's just that my youngest son Linden is coming to town. (rapid mood shift, shouting in Crow's face) And he and I-- are fighting!! So I'm practicing!!
Crow: Aw man, there's nothing quite like a mother's love!
(The rest of the group laughs.)
(Opening)
ACT 1 <1:46>
(The clock on Zora's building still reads 5:32. Inside, work on the guys' runners is well underway. Bruno's computer screen shows a series of bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, lists of data, and runner schematics. He's sitting next to Yusei on a small folding stool, with the desktop computer monitor and keyboard propped up on a box, and the CPU right beside it. Yusei's sitting on his runner, and to his right, Jack's also sitting on his. Crow, on Bruno's left, is also on his runner. Bruno types a bit.)
Bruno: All righty. How does the balance look *now*, Yusei?
Yusei: Well...
- Looks good to *me*.
Crow (to Bruno): All right-- then can ya fix up *mine*, next? <2:00>
- Huh, what's to fix up? Your duel runner looks totally *awesome* as-is!
Crow: Thanks!
- And that goes *double* for Jack's duel ride!
Jack: Got *that* right! The master of faster maintains his machine at all times!
- And it *shows*; in fact, I'm super-impressed with *all* you guys. You're even cooler than I thought you'd be!
(Akiza and the twins have been watching from behind the test runner, to Jack's right.)
Akiza: Wow, so many kind words, I just have one question. Who's the one *saying* them?
- Me!
Akiza and twins: Huh?
(Everyone looks; standing in the wide-open garage doorway is a guy about the same age as most of them or a bit younger, in jeans, sneakers, a bright orange jacket with rolled-up sleeves over a bright green T-shirt, and that over a lavender button-up shirt, with long, bushy blonde hair under a bright red bandanna.)
Signers, Leo, and Bruno: Who are you?
- Who am *I*? C'mon, guys, we're practically family! Hehheh, 'who am I', they ask...
Crow (aside to Bruno): Whaddaya think?
Bruno (aside to Crow): Could be a spy, sent by one of the other duel teams.
Jack: Or maybe he's even a *duel bot*; you know, like a new, goofy kind of model...
(The stranger sheepishly runs a hand through his bushy hair, confused.)
- I dunno what you're talking about, but, I *do know* I love* what you've done with my room.
Yusei: Your room? How is this *your* room?
Linden: Because I used to *live here*! Hi, I'm Zora's son Linden; she musta told you I was comin'! We-e-ell, here I am! Where should I put my stuff?
Crow: Wait-- so he's staying with *us*?!
Linden: Yeah, and I am *so super stoked!* We are gonna have the best time *ever* gettin' to know each other over this month! <3:00>
Jack: Over this *month*? So *that's* why Zora's on bad terms with this kid, he's a *freeloader*. Oh well, I'm sure Crow's got space in *his* room.
Yusei: Yup.
Bruno: Done deal.
(Crow whimpers comically.)
Linden: Nah, that's not why we're fighting. Mom's mad because I wanna be a pro duelist.
Yusei: I don't understand, why would she be mad about *that*?
Linden: 'Cause, she's always wanted me to follow in my father's footsteps, and become a *boring ol' clocksmith*!
(Flashback.)
Linden (VO): It all started when the town clock *mysteriously*... broke down one day.
(A younger Linden is up in the small room that houses the clock gears, leaning over the rail to see them.)
Linden (VO): My mom insisted that I go up there and fix it, so that's exactly what I tried to do. But, it was *tough going*.
(Zora is waiting below, watching the clock on the front of the building with a few other townspeople; they hear a crunching noise and gasp-- that doesn't sound good!)
Linden (VO): No matter what I tried, things stayed *completely cuckoo*.
(Change flashback. Linden wearily stands in the doorway. Zora is leaning on the table with both arms, her back to him, tense and angry.)
FB Zora: If you didn't waste all your time dueling and were more like your father, the town clock would be working!!
(Linden was just as angry at being scolded, arms tensed into fists at his sides, eyes squeezed shut.)
FB Linden: Dueling is *not a waste of time*, it's the *best*! If you only saw my duel deck, maybe *then* you'd understand!
(Incensed, Zora turns away from the picture frame on the table.)
FB Zora: I *have* seen your duel deck!!
(The picture behind her shows a family of three; Linden as a kid, maybe five years old; herself back when her hair was dark brown, smiling and laughing; and Linden's father Reginald, a cheerful-looking bearded man, lifting Linden on his shoulders to cheer to the bright blue sky.)
FB Zora: And I *do* understand, I have since you were a boy!
(End Flashback.)
(Linden is sitting on a chair telling his story, with everyone else standing around him.)
Crow: *Wow*, so this fight's been goin' on for a *while*. <4:00>
Jack: Must be tough.
(Linden looks down sadly, fidgeting his shoulders.)
Linden: Yeah. I miss being close with my mom.
Akiza: I'm sure she misses being close too, why not patch things up?
(Linden perks up immediately and the goofy grin is back.)
Linden: Funny you should say that, 'cause that's *exactly the reason that I'm here*! To make good with my mom, and get our lives back on track! And how do I plan to do that, y'ask? Well, I'll *tell ya*! I took a clock repair class not too long ago, and I plan to finally *fix* that old clock!
Jack: Well, then, you'd better get a move on. The town's planning to replace that ticker with a brand new one.
Linden: They're tearing my mom's clock down?
Akiza: I'm afraid so, Linden. Apparently they just had a meeting, and it was decided.
Linden: Well, that's that...
Crow: It doesn't *have to* be...
Akiza: *Right*. That is, unless you're really not serious 'bout making up with your mother and being *close again*.
Everyone Else: Yeah...
(Linden jumps up and grabs both of her hands, surprising her a bit.)
Linden: You're right! This is my chance to be a big-time hero--!!
(Yusei grabs him by the shoulder and pulls him back to the center of the group.)
Yusei: *Easy*, Linden, you've still got a lot to prove.
Crow: If you're provin' *anything* ya better hurry; word is that they're tearing that clock down *today*.
Linden: Whoa, they move pretty *fast*! Well, I better go!
(He sprints for the door.)
Akiza: Hold on! You're not goin' *anywhere* like *that*.
Linden: I'm not?
Akiza: Not if you wanna impress your mom, you're not. <5:00>
Yusei: Time for a *tune-up*.
ACT 2 <5:02>
(Linden is nervously trying to tie his dark green tie. He's now wearing a snappy black business suit.)
Linden: Okay, the rabbit *goes in* the hole an' around the *tree*, an'--
(Jack grabs him by the front of his suit, aggravated.)
Jack: Enough already, that's your *tenth try*, *I'll* do it, gimme that!
(Jack pulls on the tie, strangling him. Akiza separates them.)
Akiza: *Stop* it! (snaps at Jack) It's his *first suit*!
(Jack stands off to the side, arms folded, while Akiza gently ties the tie.)
Akiza: Here we go... how's that?
(Yusei and Crow have also been watching, elsewhere in the room.)
Yusei: Not too shabby.
Akiza: Psychic dueling and neckties; my two specialties.
(She smiles cheerfully at the necktie and straightens up.)
Akiza: Mm. All set.
Crow: Great, then take a deep breath--
(Linden does, looking terrified.)
Crow: 'Cause it's time to make up with your mom!
(Linden stands before the front of the building in his snazzy suit.)
Linden: Ohh, I hope this works...
(He approaches the door. Jack and Crow peek out from around the side.)
Crow: It *will*! Go!
(The front door opens; the bell attached rattles, and Zora looks up from a desk surrounded by different makes of clock.)
Zora: Can I help you?
(She blinks, surprised, and gasps aloud, standing.)
Zora: Ahh..! Linden!
Linden (nervously): Hey. What's happenin', mom? Don't look so surprised. I, I *toldja* I was coming...
Zora: Not all dressed up.
Linden (awkward): Aw, well, this is the *new* me. Look, mom... I know we've had our share of troubles and all, but...
Zora: But *what*?
Linden: Heheh, whaddaya say we just put all that behind us, okay? That's right, mom-- <6:00> your little Linden's all grown up! Gone is the stubborn, back-talking kid you knew. I finally took your advice-- I took a break from dueling and went to clock repair school, so you can quit all your nagging!
(Meanwhile, the Signers, Leo, and Bruno have been watching from the window.)
Jack: Ooh! 'Nagging'; Zora's not gonna like *that*...
(As Jack predicted, Zora picks up the wooden chair she was sitting in and raises it over her head.)
Zora: You think me telling you to go to clock repair school was *nagging*?!?! How *dare* you!!
(Linden yells and runs out the door, ducks to the ground; the chair smashes on the sidewalk outside behind him. Zora stands over him outside the shop, while the Signers watch from behind her.)
Zora: You haven't changed since the day you broke the town clock!!
Everyone else: Huh?
Crow: Wait, *who* broke the clock? *You*?!
Linden: Well... sort of...
(Flashback. Back to Linden up in the clocktower; he pulls down on a heavy lever to the side several times, winding the big clock.)
Linden (VO): See, back when I was a kid, one of my chores was to make sure the clock was *always wound*. It was back-breaking work! So, one day I got to thinking-- maybe with a few little adjustments, I could get the clock to run more efficiently! So I started tinkering...
FB Linden: Let's try *this*!
(Linden puts a blunt metal chisel to the center of the stopped gear in the center, and hammers once. It clatters and starts spinning.)
FB Linden: Yeah! ...Huh?
(He notices another stopped gear.)
Linden (VO): And then tinkering *more*... and then tinkering *more*, and *more*, and *more*-- until pretty soon I was tinkering everything in sight!! Only I wasn't really *tinkering* anymore, I was *hammering*! And hammering hard! <7:00>
(Zora and the townspeople listen from below, and exclaim as the clock makes a loud, ominous 'sproing' sound, and the doors that reveal the little figures in the front of it swing closed.)
Linden (VO): I couldn't help myself; I just kept banging and banging and banging until--!
(End Flashback.)
Zora: *Until my beloved clock was banged into oblivion*! You hammer-heavy harebrain!!
Linden: But... I'm here to fix it, mom...
Zora: Linden, you're my son and I love you, but get outta here! You don't *fix* things; you put people *in* fixes! Now *go*!
(Linden looks about ready to break down in tears, wide-eyed and hurt. Then it gets covered up with anger.)
Linden: Fine, then, I'm *gone*!
(He stands up, and starts all but running away. Crow starts to run a few steps after him.)
Crow: Wait! Linden! Ugh, hold up!
(Linden turns back.)
Crow: Don't go. Your mom's just upset; let's all just take a *few minutes* to *cool down*--
Linden: I don't *wanna* cool down! I just want outta here! She doesn't care about *me*, she just cares about her--
Crow: *Come on*, you know that's *just not true*, Linden.
Linden: All I know is that my mom *doesn't care about my dreams*! Not one *bit*!
Crow: ...Huh?
Linden: That's why I want outta here! And for *good*!
Crow: Okay... you wanna go and I want ya to stay, so that leaves *one option*!
Linden: Huh? It does?
Crow: Yeah-- and as a pro duelist in training, I have a hunch you'll like it! You and I are gonna duel, and if I win you give your mom another chance! <8:00> On the other hand, if *you* win, you go on your way! I won't try and stop you; you can take off and never come back for all I care!
(Zora frowns, and is surprised at Linden's response.)
Linden: ...Fine.
Zora: Ah...?
Linden: You got yourself a deal. Now let's get it on!
Jack (aside): Wow. Crow must really want Linden and Zora to patch things up, huh?
Yusei (aside): Yeah. The question is-- will *one duel* actually do the trick?
(Crow and Linden square off on the plaza sidewalk outside Zora's building. Linden's back in his regular clothes.)
Crow: Let's do this. You go first.
Linden: Aw, with pleasure! Draw! Alrighty, I summon to the field Monster Clock!
[Monster Clock 0//L1/]
Crow: But that monster has zero attack points! *What're you up to*?
Linden: Nothing-- I end my turn!
Crow: Then it's *my* move! And with it I summon Blackwing - Fane the Steel Chain!
[Blackwing - Fane the Steel Chain 500/800/L2/]
Zora: Ohh, what a scary monster-- be careful, son!!
Linden (mutters): *Embarrassing*...
Crow: *Linden*-- it sure sounded like your mom cared about ya right *then*, don'tcha think?
Linden: If she cared about me, she'd let me live the life *I* want! <9:00>
Crow: Linden... I know you've been mad with your mom a long time, but when you're mad-- you *can't always see things clearly*! But maybe by the time our little duel is over, that won't be the case anymore. *Speakin'* of our duel, since Blackwing Steel Chain is on my field, I can now summon *this* card from my hand-- Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind!
[Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind 1300//L3/]
Crow: Go, Blackwing Whirlwind! Attack!
Linden: Not so fast! I play Monster Clock's special ability! You've heard the old saying that 'time's on your side', right? Well not *this* time around!
(Monster Clock flicks out a big, sloppy pink tongue, and grabs Whirlwind like a frog catching a fly, sucks it into its gullet, and then pops its tongue back out again as a little spring, with Gale the Whirlwind as the little cuckoo bird on the end of it.)
Crow: My Blackwing...?!
Linden: Huhuh! Now Monster Clock gains attack points equal to the attack points of the monster it just *swallowed*! And *that* means, my rough-and-tumble timepiece's attack points tick up *higher* than your Blackwing Steel Chain's attack points!
Crow: Doesn' matter! With Steel Chain's special ability, I can *still* wage a direct attack! So let 'im have it, Blackwing! <10:00>
(Linden takes the direct hit, to Zora's reaction of concern, and is down to 3500 lifepoints.)
Crow: It's *your move*, Linden-- and *everyone's* watching!
(Especially Zora...)
ACT 3 <10:10>
Crow: Everyone's *watching*, Linden! If you really wanna *run away from home and never come back*, ya better make *this* turn *count*!
(Crow's lifepoints stand at 4000, Linden's at 3500.)
Linden: You better *believe* I will! Watch n' learn! It's *my draw*! Alright, first I'm summoning Clock Knight Number Twelve to the field!
[Clock Knight #12 1200//L4/]
Linden: Then, from my hand, I activate the spell card "Clockwork"! With this card, I'm allowed to summon out a monster whose level is *lower* than the Clock Knight on my field! So here goes-- I'm summoning Clock Knight Number Three!
[Clock Knight #3 300//L1/]
Linden: I know, I know, 'what's with the Clock Knights'. Well they have an ability that lets me flip a coin, and if it lands on heads, then they'll gain twelve hundred attack points until the turn's end phase!
Crow: *Twelve hundred*...?
Linden: But the *best* part is, that since there are two of them out at the same time, if either of my coin flips lands <11:00> in a way that I don't want, I'm allowed to toss a *do-over*!
Crow: A *do-over*?!
Jack: So he's got two chances to power up?
Yusei: Yeah, and two *redo's* if things don't go his way on the first go-around.
Akiza: I'm no mathematician, but I'm pretty sure that means the odds of those Clock Knights getting a whole lot stronger are *good*.
Linden: Yep, but *bad* for Crow! Now let's get flipping-- heads'll be the sun!
(The two Clock Knights flip a coin. Linden does a little dance.)
Linden: C'mon, sun! Let's go, sun!
(One of the Clock Knights catches the coin on its wrist, and reveals it--)
Linden: Aww! It's the *moon*! ...No prob! Thanks to Clock Knight Number *Three* being out on the field, I'm allowed to just flip again!
(Clock Knight #3 flips a second coin.)
Linden: C'mon, now, sun!!
(The second coin flip is revealed.)
Linden: Yeah!! Sunny side up! Now my Clock Knight Number Twelve's attack points increase by a bell-ringing twelve hundred!
(That gives it 2400 attack points.)
(The spectators gasp.)
Linden: And *next* up, is Clock Knight Number Three! So whaddaya say we get right to it and *flip out*!
Crow: Rrghh...!
Linden: Let's go, sun! Let's go, sun!
(Coin flip, and it's the sun on the first flip.)
Linden: Hoo-hooray! Day breaks again! And you know what *that* means-- <12:00> twelve hundred extra attack points!
(That gives Clock Knight #3 1500.)
Linden: And *now* to put those attack points to use! Clock Knight Number Twelve, attack Steel Chain!
(Fane the Steel Chain is destroyed, and Crow's lifepoints plummet to 2100.)
Linden: I'm not done! Now it's Clock Knight Number *Three's* turn to wage battle! And since there's no monsters on the field, guess he'll be battling *you*!
Crow: Not quite! I'm summoning out, Blackwing - Ghibli the Searing Wind in defense mode! Ya see, if Ghibli's in my hand and I'm attacked directly, his ability lets 'im come to my aid!
[Blackwing - Ghibli the Searing Wind /1600/L3/]
Linden: Oh, no, clock-wing! (sic) Abort, abort! Even *with* your powerup, you don't have enough points to win *that* battle! Let's just end this turn while we're ahead!
Crow: You call *this* being *ahead*, Linden? You're losing! But this duel should be the least of your concerns-- *I* only hope that you can see what *I* see before it's too late! It's my draw now.
(Crow glances at his card--)
Crow (think): "Mirror Force", *perfect*. This destroys all monsters in attack mode! (aloud) I place one card facedown! And *then*, I'll summon out <13:00> Blackwing - Blizzard the Far North!
[Blackwing - Blizzard the Far North 1300//L2/]
Crow: And when *this* card is successfully summoned to the field, I can bring out Blackwing - Fane the Steel Chain, from my graveyard, in defense mode!
[Blackwing - Fane the Steel Chain 500/800/L2/dark]
Linden: Ahh..!!
Crow: Now-- level-two Blizzard the Far North, tune with level-two Fane the Steel Chain, and level-three Ghibli the Searing Wind! Tune and let your wings give flight to a new and even mightier bird of prey! The synchro monster, Blackwing Armor Master!
[Blackwing Armor Master 2500//L7/]
Linden: Ahh...!!
Crow: And now, Armor Master, attack that Clock Knight Number Three! Flying Fist Strike!
(The attack lands; Linden's down to 1300 lifepoints.)
Linden: Ahh...! ... That's it... I've had enough.
(Both Zora and Crow listen silently, somber and serious.)
Linden: I give up. You win.
Crow: You mean you're *quitting*?! <14:00>
(Linden waves an accusing finger, tears streaming down his cheeks.)
Linden: Yes, I'm quitting, why go on!! You have a super-tough monster and I'm practically out of lifepoints! There's *no way* that I can win!!
Crow: Not with *that* attitude! *Come on*, Linden, don't ya see? That's been your problem, all along. You only see the negative in your situation-- like you only see the negative with your mom! But there *is a positive side*-- if you only took the time to *look* for it!
Linden: But... I... *did take the time*!
(Flashback. Linden sweeps the sidewalk outside a store with an ornate clock on the front, then shines the side of an old, fancy clock, looking miserable.)
Linden (VO): I went to clock repair school like mom wanted!
(A mean-looking man with a big mouth and a trim hairdo-- probably the teacher, yells at Linden, impatiently showing him the inner gears of a pocketwatch. He keeps yelling as Linden meekly cowers before his wrath; two other students watch glibly in the background.)
Linden (VO): The teacher was *crazy*! The class conditions were *awful*! I was yelled at *daily*! But still...
(Change flashback. Linden is hunched over, his face inches from the desk, with a magnifying lens on one eye, working on delicate clock mechanisms.)
FB Linden: This is fun...!
(The gears quietly tick in perfect rhythm. Linden's desk lamp is the only light in the room; the other guys who share his room are fast asleep, as he keeps tinkering with clocks late into the night.)
Linden (VO): In fact, the only reason I was able to tolerate the day and night study sessions was... because... I loved it.
(End Flashback.)
Crow: Did you just say you *loved it*, Linden? I think that we're finally *gettin'* somewhere, kid! And I think that we can get a lot *further* if we keep dueling.
Linden: Huh?
Crow: So whaddaya say, Linden? Wanna keep going? If not for me, then for your *mom*. Whaddaya have to lose, huh? Come on, Linden, you can *do* this! <15:00>
Linden: Fine, if you say so. Here goes... (draw) Ah? Oh.
(He drew Time Wizard.)
Linden: Whoa... I can't believe it...! *This* card?
(Flashback. As a little kid, Linden sits sobbing under a tree. His dad sits down next to him.)
FB Reginald: What's wrong, son? Didja get in another fight with your mother?
FB Young Linden: Y-yeah. She asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up; (looks up) but when I told her I wanted to be a duelist, she said *no*, that wasn't allowed!
FB Reginald: I see. Well, son, take heart. Your mom loves you and I know for a fact that she only wants what's best for you.
(He takes a card out of his pocket and hands it to Linden-- Time Wizard.)
FB Reginald: Here.
FB Young Linden: Ahh! Awesome, a Time Wizard! I always *wanted* one a' these!
FB Reginald: I know, and now you've got one, son!
FB Young Linden: Yeah! Thank you, dad!
FB Reginald: You're welcome, son; just try not to stay mad at your mom, okay? Because believe it or not, Linden, it was your mom who told me to *get* this card for you.
(End Flashback.)
Linden: I wonder how she knew...? Ah; I can't give up. I gotta see this duel through to the end! <16:00> So for my move, I play Time Wizard!
[Time Wizard 500/400/L2/light]
Computer: Time Wizard is a level-two spellcaster-type monster, with five hundred attack points and four hundred defense points.
(Crow looks a little startled at the appearance of Linden's new monster.)
Crow: Looks like *someone* got wound up. (grins) ...Huh!
Linden: Well, let's *see* how much you like it, when I take you down and win this duel! And Time Wizard's gonna help me do *just that*!
(Time Wizard's scepter has a small spinner on top. It's divided into six equal parts: two red crests, and four white skulls.)
Linden: See, with Time Wizard, I spin the arrow. If it lands on red, all *your* monsters are destroyed; but if it lands on white, all *my* monsters are destroyed, and I take damage equal to half the total amounts of their attack points!
Yusei: Linden's putting a whole lot on the line with this spin, but if it goes his way, it *might* just be worth it.
Linden: All righty! Time Wizard, do your thing! Let's take this duel for a *spin*!
(Time Wizard's spinner begins to spin. Skull - Crest - Skull - Crest...)
(Series of flashbacks. When Linden was a baby, Reginald's hair was a dusty blond; he laughs as he plays with baby Linden.)
Linden (VO): Whoa-- Time Wizard's not just taking this duel for a spin, he's taking *me* for a spin-- Down memory lane!
(Linden as a baby was very rosy-cheeked and cute. Zora laughingly holds him in her ams and Reginald plays with him. Linden as a toddler was still very rosy-cheeked and adorable, with almost the same hairdo he has now. He leans over the desk, watching his dad tinker with a watch.
Linden (VO): All those moments in the past, they're flooding back! I remember watching my dad work on clocks, <17:00> and how much I loved it!
(The happy family of three walks through the park, Reginald with Linden on his shoulders; all three laugh happily.)
Linden (VO): And how my mom was *always there watching me*.
(Change flashback to the one we saw a bit earlier, with Reginald and Linden sitting under a tree.)
FB Reginald: Your mom loves you, and I know for a fact that she only wants what's best for you.
(End flashbacks.)
Linden (think): I *get it*...!
(More spinning dial flashbacks. While little Linden leans over Reginald's desk and watches him work on clocks, Zora chuckles and sweeps the floor in the next room, watching them over her shoulder. Zora and Reginald laugh when baby Linden grabs a lock of Zora's hair. End Flashback.)
Linden: Now to win this duel! Time Wizard, stop!
(The spinning arrow starts to slow down, and stops--)
Linden: It landed on red! You know what that means-- Time Wizard destroys Armor Master! Go, Time Magic!
(The little clock hand on Time Wizard's face spins faster and faster, creating a portal of shimmering multicolored lights above the duel. Armor Master looks up into it, trapped, and disintegrates into dry, brittle dust. It falls to the ground in a pile and blows away.)
Linden: And now that your field is clear, Crow, I'll have Monster Clock and Clock Knight Number Twelve attack you directly!
Leo: Whoa..! If this hits, Crow is done-for!!
ACT 4 <17:47>
Linden: Monster Clock and Clock Knight Number Twelve, attack Crow directly!
Crow (think): Tha-a-at's right, Linden-- come and get me! Finish this! I *knew* that you could do it.
Yusei: Crow's gonna lose! <18:00>
Jack: Yeah, just like he *planned*.
(Crow's "Mirror Force" remains facedown; Crow doesn't activate it. He takes the attacks, first from Monster Clock, then from Clock Knight Number Twelve.)
Crow: Rrrrghh!
(Crow's lifepoints fall to zero. He's lost. There is a long silence. Linden catches his breath.)
Leo: No way!
Luna: Linden *won*...!
(Crow recovers his strength and straightens up.)
Crow: Congratulations, Linden; you beat me fair and square. Guess you can leave as ya please now.
Linden: Huh?
Crow: Go on, now! That's what ya want, so get *goin'* already!!
Linden: No, I- I was... wrong. *This is where I belong!*
(Zora gasps. Crow grins.)
Linden: Ya see, I've finally realized something. Something I should've realized long ago. Only problem was, I was too stubborn to. But now, thanks to this duel, it's all become so *clear*! I thought I wanted to be a duelist, <19:00> but the truth is, my favorite part about dueling is when I get to use monsters and spells that have *clocks* in them! Clocks like the ones my dad used to always fix.
(The spectators are listening silently, surprised.)
Linden: And my mom *knew* it! She saw my deck when I was a kid. She knew what I was before *I* did. I... was a clocksmith.
(Zora walks over to stand beside Crow. Linden is in tears.)
Linden: *That's* why she was always pushing me to learn the trade!! Because *she knew* it would make me happy! But the more she pushed, the more I pushed back; well I'm *done* pushing! I'm gonna *fix* the town clock, mom!
(Zora's crying too.)
Zora: Son...!
Linden: 'Cause fixing clocks is what I love!!
(Linden runs past Zora and Crow into Zora's building. Zora watches him go.)
Zora: Son...!
(Yusei and the others join Crow.)
Yusei: Way to go, pal, but how did you know that *dueling Linden* would solve this?
Jack: Yeah, how, Crow?
Zora: ...*I* know how. Crow peeked at Linden's deck.
Crow: Yeah... When he first got here, I saw all the clock cards; and, well, I just had a hunch.
(The sun is setting over New Domino when the hands of the clock whir around to show 6:00 and the bell within begins to toll. The twins, standing in front of the building, turn with surprise.) <20:00>
Leo and Luna: Huh?
(The front of the clock opens up, and the twins begin to laugh and cheer, watching a little wooden band swivel around outside the clock as it chimes the hour.)
Leo: I- it's working!
Leo and Luna: Look, everyone!
(Yusei, Jack, Crow, Bruno, Akiza, and Zora run over and join them.)
Bruno: Oh wow, that's *awesome*!
Zora: My...! He actually did it!
Crow: Yeah, *I'll* say!
(Linden walks out to meet them from the side of the building.)
Linden (nervously): So... you like?
(Zora runs to him, arms outstretched.)
Zora: Oh, Linden! It's *beautiful*!
LInden: Thanks, mom!
(They hug.)
Zora (crying): You've made me so proud!
Linden: Do ya mean it?
Zora: Oh, of course I mean it, Linden! I'm so glad you're back.
(They hug again. Yusei puts a hand on Crow's shoulder, and they share a smile; Yusei nods in silent praise of what Crow did for them. On the clock above, over the heads of the little marching band, sits a wooden family of three around a little wooden table.)
END <20:47>
* Special thanks to YouTube, DailyMotion.com and their heroic uploaders for making this episode accessible online in an easily-transcribed format.
* Special thanks to Yugioh Wikia as a source for checking cards.
* Special thanks to Kazuki Takahashi, 4Kids, et al. for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's!
Last Updated: December 27, 2010
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