THE FANATIC'S GUIDE TO

"Now You See It, Now You Don't"

English Version Written by Steve Blum

First Appearances: Chief Cabinet Secretary

From the angle that begins with Takato saying "What? What are you trying to say, Henry?" Terriermon's ears are abnormally long.

Tally informs Yamaki that "one of the researchers needs him to explain something." But as we'll see, it is no mere researcher - it is the Chief Cabinet Secretary, one of the government officials that oversees Hypnos, and Yamaki's immediate superior.

The layout of Takato's class has changed once again - our goggle-boy still retains his seat by the window, but now the adjacent desk is occupied not by Ayaka, as was the case in "Dream a Little Dream," but by Jeremy, who we last saw sitting up at the front of the class in the same episode. The other kids sitting closer to the front of the class are not recognisable, but the girl sitting in front of Jeremy is Jeri's third, nameless friend.

I can't believe that Yamaki gets away with mouthing off so badly to the Chief Cabinet Secretary. In future episodes, when he talks to the secretary and the other chiefs, he addresses them with a forced politeness - but here, he's just plain rude.

Maybe it's just me, but when Takato is talking to the schoolgirl, and holds his hands above his head (see screenshot) and says "He's got these... huge ears," he doesn't look to be mimicking Calumon's ears at all. It looks much more like he's imitating Rika's hair, as if he was searching for her in the original, not Calumon - and it makes more sense for him to be looking for her, to try and find some explanation for Guilmon's disappearance, than to be looking for Calumon. The recap for this episode in "A Question of Trust" does indeed state that Takato was looking for Rika.

When Takato and Rika are talking, Vilemon's name is back to being pronounced "Veel-ah-mon" again, rather than "Veel-mon" from the episode recap in "O Partner, Where Art Thou?"

When Henry tells Renamon to leave so that she won't disappear, she says "Rika?" without moving her mouth.

Renamon's "fade-out" is different this episode. Rather than simply slowly disappearing, as she has done before, she distorts and seems to dissipate, as though she were deleting, before the fade-out effect occurs.

I swear, Yamaki is in a REALLY pissy mood this episode. Not content with insulting his boss to his face, he proceeds to threaten Riley when she protests the use of the Yuggoth. But as we'll later learn, Riley is Yamaki's live-in lover - you'd think he'd be a wee bit nicer to the woman he's... y'know... with.

Observe as Riley says "yes, sir," for the second time, and starts to activate the Yuggoth. Rotating on the screen is the Yuggoth symbol, which we've been seeing on the screen behind Yamaki in that one piece of reused footage from "Guilmon Comes Alive." At least it's *supposed* to be there now.

I've never quite gathered what this "energy field" is. They sort of attempt to do some explaining in "The Journey Begins" - when Guilmon uncovers the portal to the Digital World, his hands start to fade out, in the same manner as he does in this episode. But this isn't just some simple portal to the Digital World - it's got, like, cables 'n' stuff that hold Guilmon captive. Metablade indentifies it as a "Digital Zone."