Hellsing episode 3
Sword Dancer
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Alucard and Seras encounter Father Alexander Anderson.
Original Japanese broadcast date: October 24th, 2001
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
Synopsis
Enrico, the son of a noble Italian family, tells his boyfriend Mick he just wants to be with him forever. Enrico is later killed and examined, where a chip is found inside him. Integra and a police lieutenant watch the examination. The lieutenant wonders if this is part of a larger plan, but Integra says it doesn't change the Hellsing organization's mission: search and destroy. Meanwhile, Seras attempts to drink blood, but ends up flushing it away. Alucard talks to her telepathically, warning her she'll become weak if she doesn't drink blood.
Integra looks at the chip and tells Alucard about it. She says that humans are now creating vampires and asks him what he thinks that says about the world they've created. Alucard thinks it says that history is full of man's cheap imitations. Meanwhile, Enrico has become a vampire and revives in the morgue. He goes on a rampage looking for Mick, not realizing that he's dead already. He starts slaughtering anyone that gets in his way, leading to Hellsing being called in. Seras is sent in as part of Gareth's unit, but most of the unit gets wiped out. Seras guns down the ghouls and is about to kill Enrico, but Gareth is suddenly killed when Father Anderson appears and stabs him in the back with a bayonet. He then attacks Seras.
He's about to fight Enrico, only for Alucard to appear and kill Enrico instead. Anderson is from the Vatican's Iscariot organization. Anderson says Iscariot was ridding the world of sacrilegious monsters centuries before the Hellsing family ever existed. He then casts a barrier all over the hallway. He and Alucard start fighting, which ends quickly when Alucard shoots him in the head. However, Anderson is a regenerator, able to take such damage without issue. He stabs Alucard several times with his blessed blades. Alucard thinks if he shoots Anderson in the head enough times he'll stay down for good.
Before they can resume fighting, Integra arrives and stops Anderson by giving him new orders from the Archbishop: he must return home immediately. Anderson leaves, telling Integra he looks forward to the next time they meet. She then lambastes Alucard and Seras for their failures. Alucard tells Seras she must drink his blood, so she can be free of her servitude to him and become true family. Seras is about to do so but then stops herself. Alucard says this is what the police girl chose, as he then disappears. Seras says she's not ready.
-For the most part, this episode doesn't follow anything from the manga, up until the very end. The scene where Alucard and Anderson clash, only to be stopped by Integra, does happen in the manga. However there are a couple of major differences. Firstly, in the manga, Anderson decapitates Alucard, "killing" him, although he revives later. Alucard will be decapitated by Anderson in this episode.
-In the anime, Seras only gets hit by one bayonet, whilst in the manga, she gets hit with several, which mostly hit her back.
-When Integra attempts to stop Anderson in the manga, she's with two of her own guards. Anderson promptly kills the guards and then attacks Integra, who defends herself with a sword. The anime changed this by having Alucard and Anderson at a stalemate, and Anderson leaves peacefully when Integra shows him the new order from the Archbishop.
-The chip removed from Enrico has a Nazi swastika on it. In the manga, this is because the chips are creating by Nazi vampires, however in this series the Nazis don't appear.
-At the end of the credits, there is a shot of Alucard's sunglasses. One of three characters can be seen in them in each episode: Alucard, Seras or Integra. In this episode, Seras is seen.
