Code Geass Reacts: The Blame Game

Stage 02: The White Knight Awakens

The next episode begins playing, but the first 34 seconds are all the same summary told by C.C as before, so Nunnally asks A.A if they can skip it.

After watching the opening song again, the title of the episode reveals itself.

STAGE 2

The White Knight Awakens

Suzaku sighs. He doesn't want to be reminded of the fact that he was called the White Death, knowing that the term White Knight refers to a hypocrite, which he was. He preached the very same ideals he couldn't follow so self-righteously, and then he did exactly what Lelouch was doing.

Lloyd grins. "Here we go. Time for Lancelot's big reveal!"

A tank can be heard driving past Lelouch's location as the camera begins by panning up from the grotesque shot of civilians murdered by the same soldiers that were trying to kill Lelouch.

The student is on a knee beside C.C, paying his respects to her dead body.

Lelouch: "I don't understand what it is you wanted me to do. Why did you give me this bizarre power?"

He contemplates the question, knowing she won't respond.

Suddenly, an explosion rocks the building he's in as a knightmare slowly rolls in.

The pilot is Villetta Nu. The KMF's head opens up like a butterfly and scans the area with its camera, and her HUD zooms in to survey her surroundings, only to find a squad of dead Britannian troops as well as a suspicious lone survivor.

Villetta: "How could all these Royal Guards be dead?"

She presses a button to activate her KMF's microphone to talk to Lelouch.

Villetta: "What happened here, boy? And why is a Britannian student in a place like this? Are you deaf?! Answer me or I'll-!" 

The woman is clearly impatient, so she fires her machine gun at the wall behind Lelouch several times, causing his hair to whoosh from the wind caused by the bullets.

However, he doesn't even flinch.

"Oh? Impressive," Schneizel smirks. 

"Most impressive," Gino adds. "He didn't even flinch."

The kids from Ashford Academy are all impressed and wary of Lelouch, as well. They're civilians just like him, but they all know that they would've at least done more than just flinch, if not cowered in fear in such a situation.

Villetta: "Answer me!"

Lelouch: "I order you to come out. At once!"

The audience sees him activate his Geass, and they wait with baited breath.

However...

Villetta: "Who the hell do you think you are to order me?"

"What? Did his Geass fail him? No... That can't be." Tohdoh is running the variables through his mind.

'But none of it makes sense. His power shouldn't fail him. Unless...'

Lelouch: 'I see. It only works with direct eye contact.'

Tohdoh's eyes widen. 

Next to Tohdoh, Xingke is thinking the same thing as they exchange looks.

Geass has its limitations.

Now wondering what other kind of limitations Geass imposes, the two feel a small sense of dread that perhaps they were the ones in the wrong...

However, for now, they push that thought to the back of their minds to focus on what they're watching.