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Episode 3: Mother
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Ed and Al are looking for books on the Philosopher's Stone when Al comes across an introducton to alchemy book, which triggers the flashback episode (when the two are about 8 and 9). The two boys are trying to make Winry a present using alchemy, but it ends up scaring her because of the human-esque form (it ends up being a doll). Later Trisha and Winry's parents are trying to explain to her that Ed and Al were only trying to do something for her. Pinako comes in with the doll and says that they're definitely 'his' sons, being able to use alchemy so well already. Trisha takes them home, and seems quite happy they're able to use alchemy.
The issue with their father is brought up when the two transmute some sort of metal toys, and Al asks if their father would be proud of them. Trisha gets this saddish look and says to ask him when he comes home, seeming to cling to the hope that he would eventually. This gets Ed mad, and he runs off. The two end up eventually and Winry's, who just found out that her parents had been killed. This point is where the two begin to think more about human transmutation.
When the two are 9 and 10, Trisha falls very sick, and the doctor says that it must have been going on for many years. Out of desperation Ed and Al send out letters to all the people that had written to their father in an attempt to bring him back. He doesn't, and she dies. At her grave after the funeral, Ed suggests they bring her back.
They start going through their father's research for human transmutation, with Al protesting a bit. It's clear that they don't know exactly what they're getting into, and the consequences involved. They find Izumi and relearn alchemy from the beginning, and end up back in their father's lab, drawing the transmutation circle and getting the 'ingredients' that make up an adult human. They beging the transmutation, and we see Roy standing on a hill in the rain overlooking Risembool. Doing nothing, but hey.
It shows the rest of what happened during the failed transmutation--Al being sucked into the portal, losing his body, and Ed losing his arm and leg and having to attach Al's soul to the armor. And Roy, watching the pretty light show.
Al takes Ed to Pinako's, where he's bandaged up, and Pinako figures out what they were trying to do. Roy comes in at that point, also figuring out what they did, and says he got a letter from them. (The name on the letter says James, though, so I've no idea what's with that...) He shows them his watch, which marks him as a Nationally Certified State Alchemist (long name, that), and says that they've been looking for Hohenheim, Ed and Al's father, but if Ed used human transmutation and survived, he would turn out to be much more interesting. As he leaves he tells them to come to Central and introduces himself as Lieutenant Colonel Roy Mustang, so he must have gotten a promotion sometime between then and present time.
Ed begins the road back to recovery, and he tells Pinako to make him an automail arm and leg, so that he can go to Central and become a State Alchemist. State Alchemists are allowed access to restricted research material and an unlimited budget to study, which is why he wants it, not caring that he would have to become the military's dog to do so. He gets the automail, through much pain, but it turns out to be equal to his arm and leg, as he and Al have a sparring match afterward. Later Al says that since Ed's going to do it, he'll become a State Alchemist as well. It's at this point the two pretty much decide in their minds that their goals in life will be to restore each other, and that to get their mother back is a hopeless dream. They leave Risembool, burning their house down behind them.
This is the last episode that uses that song with the vocals, I believe. I miss it...
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