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This is probably one of the most anvillicious episodes out there, referring to the way it presents its morals to the audience.

For the theme song, the subtitles use a combined approach this time: both the original Japanese script and the English translation. What awaits us next?

As usual, a recap; Mars and Neptune are running and get surrounded by a circle of blue fire. Mars's skirt starts burning.

Unfortunately, before it burns completely, Neptune Deep Submerges the fire, revealing it was just an illusion. Mars starts making goofy faces. Doesn't suit her at all.

They find themselves back in the black-and-red void. Nehellenia captures Neptune. At least she does know that in such situations, the hero will put down the weapon and step away.

Mars... Flame...

(Will you really shoot her? Boom! Aargh!)

Mars... Flame...

(Shoot, it's your duty blah blah blah!)

...SNIPER!!!

A brilliant subversion of the classic trope.

They find themselves back in the forest, then fall into a puddle in a very forced and unrealistic manner. Then they're sealed in mirrors, proving that this sequence was all for nothing as well.

Meanwhile, Usagi is walking through the snow, still barefoot, still untransformed. Suddenly...

...the scenery changes to a flower meadow.

Meanwhile (yes, I'm getting sick of these meanwhiles), Venus and Pluto are running from NC-17s instead of trying to blast them. As usual, the scenery keeps changing at random.

Pluto tells Venus to leave her behind and run across the rickety bridge, then makes a long speech about leadership and saving the princess. Meanwhile, the NC-17s keep ridiculously slowly running towards them.

Venus does leave Pluto behind. After all, she can't really miss the opportunity to watch her fencing the NC-17s with her staff in melee combat instead of using a couple of Dead Screams.

Usagi searches for Mamoru in the meadow — fruitlessly, of course. The flowers start to talk! And talk her into forgetting her and Mamoru's names!

Who came up with this scene? A novice writer with a Lewis Carroll obsession? No wonder Usagi headpalms and goes all... blue-eyed.

Meanwhile™, Pluto finally remembers that she has that purple ball thing. Dead Scream! But what worked last time, doesn't work this time, and the NC-17s reassemble. Demoted to a dwarf planet again?

Venus returns (running through half the bridge) to blast them, and then both run away from the NC-17s through the bridge, which is what they should have done immediately when the NC-17s were still far behind. Predictably, they fall to their doom...

Venus Love Me Chain! Not quite.

MWAHAHAHAHAHA! Quite.

Not quite. Not quite dead, that is.

But still, it shows that their sequence was pointless as well.

Nehellenia prepares to slap the absent-minded Usagi rrrreeeaaallll bad, as a means of her rrrrrrrevenge!

But Jupiter comes to the rescue.

Unlike Usagi, she doesn't seem to be affected by the flower-spell (okay, sorry, I can't say it with a straight face! Hahaha! Flower-spell! Hahaha!) at all, and tries to wake Usagi up. Unsuccessfully. Enraged, she charges at Nehellenia. The latter waits until Jupiter runs the lllooonnnggg distance, and then simply floats into the air, giving us the opportunity to learn that Sailor Senshi uniforms canonically include underwear.

Jupiter Oak Evolution! Of course, no success. Will you really die for her blah blah blah? Yawn.

"You have failed, your majesty. I'm a Senshi, like Usagi before me."

"So be it... Senshi."

ZZZZAAAKKK!!! ZZZZAAAKKK!!! ZZZZAAAKKK!!!

ZZZZAAAKKK!!! ZZZZAAAKKK!!! (Yawn.) ZZZZAAAKKK!!! ZZZZAAAKKK!!! ZZZZAAAKKK!!! Finally, Juputer falls on the ground and is encased in a mirror as well. Another pointless sacrifice, oh well. It is the attempt to hug Usagi that counts.

Jupiter does, however, throw a rose brooch. It induces an association in Usagi's nearly lost mind, and she awakens. Nehellenia, instead of teleporting her away, teleports her straight to the footsteps of her palace — Usagi's final destination.

Except... there is one problem.

And Usagi can't just fly over the bush, although she flew before. Instead, she starts crawling right through it.

Suddenly, there comes a big twist — in the form of Chibi Moon and Saturn. The latter spins the Silence Glaive in a really cool manner, and a third episode in a row ends with a cliffhanger (which is, as always, not quite a cliffhanger if you watch the spoilers past the ending theme).