Code Geass

[In C's World, Lelouch finally sees his mother in real form]

Lelouch:
Mother... It can't be!

Marianne:
My, Lelouch. How you've grown.

Lelouch:
Mo-Mother!

Charles:
Marianne, I see you've come.

Lelouch:
Is this an illusion?! You're doing this?

Marianne:
No, it really is me, Lelouch. However, I can only take on my original appearance while I'm present within this system.

Lelouch:
It really is...

Charles:
Lelouch, I will now answer your previous question. Half a century ago, my elder brother and I existed in a Hell on Earth; our family were just rivals competing for the throne. Assassinations occurred with regularity, dealing with betrayal and spawned by lies, killing each other off. My own mother fell victim to it. My brother and I were sick and angered by the world, we therefore both sworn an oath: to create a world without lies.

Marianne:
Both C.C. and I agreed to this as well. V.V., however...

[Cut to the Britannian homeland, eight years ago...]

Marianne:
What did you call me for today? I cleared everyone out of here, I even had Cornelia withdraw.

V.V.:
Sorry to do this, especially without Charles around.

Marianne:
Is this about the Sword of Akasha?

V.V.:
Oh, no. This is only about Charles. Ever since he met you, Charles has been acting like a different man. It seems to me that you and he have come to enjoy learning more about one another. You realize if this continues, the contract we made will never be fulfilled. I will be left alone. From the beginning of time, it's always been the woman who led the man astray.

Personal Guard:
Lady Marianne!

Marianne:
I told you to stay out of here!

[V.V. pulls out a rifle and shoots Marianne and the guards repeatedly, killing them all.]

V.V.:
[talking on a cellphone] The job is done. Right, Begin the cover-up, maybe we can make Nunnally act to be the witness. It's imperative that this look like the work of terrorists.

[A young Anya Alstreim hides behind the pillar, staring at the wounded Marianne.]

Marianne:
Anya Alstreim, the young girl who arrived a week earlier to be schooled in etiquette. [Marianne uses her Geass to transfer her spirit into Anya.] My Geass power enables me to cross over to another person's mind. The power that had been latent for so long activated for the first time as I was dying. I hid inside Anya to save myself from being killed by V.V. and when I realized when my consciousness had surfaced, I could communicate mind to mind with C.C. When she discovered the truth, C.C. left the directorship to V.V. and then disappeared.

Charles:
I spoke with my brother about it. However...

V.V.:
I heard; what a tragedy. I shall miss Marianne.

Charles:
[angrily] My brother lied to me! After we'd sworn to create a world without deceit.

[Back to the present...]

Lelouch:
How dare you! Don't try to pass off blame for everything on the dead! Nunnally and I... you sent us to Japan as hostages!

Charles:
IT WAS NECESSARY!!!

Lelouch:
NECESSARY FOR WHAT?! What kind of parent does that?!

C.C.:
If you have someone you don't want to lose, you should keep them at a distance.