This episode opens with Kei listening to music but this annoys Yuri, who can't concentrate on her reading and has a small fight with her partner and friend, ending up with Kei hurting her nose when the zero gravity mode is deactivated. Kei then reveals that she has a date with a boy younger than her at Planet Antares, where they are heading in their rented spaceship.
They are intercepted by a huge unknown thing that causes turbulence and flashes. The event disturbs the girls who land safely at a space station. Kei gets told she can't leave the station, ruining her plans and getting upset about it. The girls identify themselves and manage to enter the city.
Kei takes a shower while Yuri walks around the streets and gets sudden visions, flashbacks to the incident, and a strange voice cries: “Die!”
The redhead is preparing for her date but something attacks her and she shoots it, causing a commotion. A bunch of ships also start attacking the city, specifically Yuri. Kei then shoots at a ghastly device and chases it throughout the city, in her undergarments no less, in fact, she's in her underwear throughout half of the episode. Yuri also faces off against some machines.
Yuri saves Kei and both of them leave the planet and engage in a space fight against the ships that are following them, Yuri theorizes that they are trying to capture them alive for unknown reasons. They are then taken to a disposal station for nuclear waste, the girls then evacuate the ship in their space suits and they are swiftly attacked by the mechanical enemies surrounding them.
They realize that the creator of the disposal station was a mad scientist named Criados who designed the place like a technological nightmare, a doom trap created to get revenge on the Dirty Pair since the gals defeated him in a previous case. A countdown begins and the Lovely Angels then are forced to escape the traps set there by the deceased madman.
Their little companion robot, Nanmo, gives them its memory disk. They use the robot's self-destruct feature in order to blow up the center of the station and get rid of the AI that controlled the place. After that, Yuri is left alone in the rubbles by Kei, who promptly flees to get to her previously mentioned date.
The mystery unfolds in quite an engaging manner, you never really get a true sense of what's going on and the investigation actually becomes rewarding because of how unpredictable it is. The animation is again top notch and the actual designs and details of the ships and the giant fortress in this episode are some of the best in the series.
It's an outlier in the sense that it sets the comedy and the fights aside in service of the procedural and astounding vehicle and mechanical designs but it works despite some small contrivances that are inevitable because of the quick nature of the format. Another great episode overall.
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