Episode 1

            We open with Bakura running through the city at night.  Unfortunately he is running from the voice inside his head – Yami Bakura – and even in the church where he seeks refuge the ancient thief cannot be lost.  Bakura has finally realized that someone is living in him and using him and he refuses to be a part of it any longer.  But Yami Bakura still wants the millennium items, and if he has to take Bakura by force he will.

            The scene switches to the Egyptian desert.  Here we see a younger Grandpa Moto.  Apparently he is telling the story of how he found the tomb of the Pharaoh of the Shadow game.  He waits until midnight to enter and he wants the tomb for the games not for treasure, and his guides are very reluctant.  It seems the last man who dared enter that tomb went crazy.

            The tomb is filled with riches – and dead bodies.  Or, rather, skeletons of bodies long since decayed.  It is also full of traps.  Grandpa Moto is very good at finding these traps – and at reading hieroglyphs evidently.  He finds the entrance to the pharaoh’s tomb, along with a warning – those who enter without respect will die.  This probably isn’t a problem for Professor Moto, but his guides seem very greedy.  They enter a maze and are forced to remain there when the door closes and spikes begin to approach.  Of course, the maze is very difficult, there are statues with swords that can move!  Grandpa realizes the maze is a game with rules.  He discovers that if he walks the whole maze with his left foot in front the statues won’t move (something about left foot forward showing respect to the Pharaoh because the heart is on the left of the body… seems the warning was a riddle).  One of the guides is startled and forgets and he dies, but the other two make it.

              Before the next chamber they find another warning.   It says that the creatures of stone will judge them and only the pure of heart will survive.  It appears this is the treasure room.  The guide tells Professor Moto to go first and then shoots him in the back with a slingshot.  Grandpa falls off the path, hanging on to the edge by one hand.  The guide goes ahead and the beasts come out of the stone and attack him.  Grandpa starts to fall, but Yami appears and helps him up, saying he had been waiting for him.  When he wakes up again he is safe and he sees the box with the Millennium puzzle inside.

            Having finished his story, gramps wants to know why Yugi is interested.  It seems he is going on a trip to Egypt the next day.  He plans to hold the Egyptian God cards to the stone tablet again.  He hopes this will restore Yami’s memories.  He wants to know if Gramps remembers where the tomb was and Gramps forbids him to enter it.  Gramps wants Yugi to leave the god cards and they have a brief scuffle, but gramps knows the Pharaoh saved him for this purpose – to get him memory back.  He says only Yugi can help the Pharaoh and tells him to treat everything like a game – because that is what he does best.

            As Yugi sleeps, resting up for his journey, Rex and Weevil show up in his window.  What are they up to?

            Yugi is oblivious, dreaming.  In his dream he is at school, but he is with Yami.  He wonders how he can help Yami when Yami has always been the one to help him.  Before he finished the puzzle he had no friends and nominal dueling skills.  Yami reminds him that he was alone for 5 thousand years and Yugi gave him friends as well.  He is awoken by the window breaking.  Rex and Weevil are trying to snag the god cards.  But when they get far away they find the duffle bag they stole holds the millennium items.  The ring rises as Yami Bakura appears in the ally.  He knocks Rex and Weevil down and then Yugi shows up.  Will Yami Bakura take the other items?  Or will Yugi retrieve them in time?

            Notes: Yay!  My Bakura is back!  But I think they changed the voice actor for both parts… bummer.  At least he still has the right accent.

So, did Bakura originally willingly help Yami Bakura as Yami Bakura implies?  It never seemed so.  I mean, even in Battle City Bakura didn’t seem to know anything about Yami Bakura…

Yami Bakura lit all the candles in the church… and when did Bakura discover Yami Bakura exists?... He broke all the church stained-glass windows too…

Younger grandpa Moto has an unusual voice.  At first I thought it was Yami – now I’m not sure.

Tomb of the nameless pharaoh… even in his tomb poor Yami doesn’t get a name.

Is that really Gramps?  He’s awfully tall.

Gramps says he might have exaggerated – that must be why he’s so tall ^_^ 

If the Ishtar family is supposed to be guarding the tomb how did anyone get in?

Love that Kaiba is on the list of Yugi’s friends.

Wait!  If Bakura didn’t have the ring how was Yami Bakura chasing him?  Controlling him?  And does that mean the single item he still had was the millennium eye?