Episode 44

    Yami Marik is taunting Odion who is approaching the dueling platform. Joey wants to interfere, but Ishizu won't allow it.  Yami Marik attacks with the rod, but Odion continues to encourage Marik to fight.  He says that Marik created Yami Marik so he can destroy him.  Marik enters back into his body to battle for control.  He begs Yami to attack and gives a final apology.

    Yugi doesn't want to attack, but Yami says they have to.  Sacrificing all the monsters he has in his deck, hand, and graveyard he can use Ragnarok to use all that power in a final attack.  Bye bye Ra, bye bye Yami Marik... and only 1 life pt left for real Marik. Marik is still standing, but which Marik is it?  Joey points out that his face isn't as weird, which means it's normal Marik.

    It's Marik's turn.  He decides to take his place as a tomb keeper, and forfeits the duel.  Yami wins the duel and Yugi is freed!  Ishizu thanks Yami who, as usual, gives credit to the whole team (are we sure he was a pharaoh?)  Yugi wins the Battle City crown too.  Oh, and Marik shows Yami the tatoos on his back.  That means his family has now fulfilled their mission and is free to live a more normal life.  Yami also gets Ra  and Marik promises everyone who was sent to the Shadow Realm will be returned.  (That means Baku is back!!!)  Anyway, it turns out the Pharaoh had erased his own memory, but knew he would need it, so that's why the whole tomb keeper thing.  It didn't look like Yami was able to read Marik's back though...

    Marik gives Yami the rod and the ring.  Then Kaiba says they all have to leave because in one hour the tower will explode!  And I don't think the blimp engines are fixed yet... even though Kaiba thinks the are.  The brothers start the sequence.

    Joey goes in to see Mai, but she isn't up.  She and Serenity decided to play a mean trick on Joey, apparently at Serenity's suggestion.  Hey, but Joey gets a hug out of it!

    They pass the kitchen and find Bakura eating a banana... and he's clueless, as usual...  but he does know he was in the shadow realm.

    The ship isn't leaving because no one knows where the Kaiba brothers are.  The main four run off to find them and the others try to start the blimp, but the engines aren't working...

    Fourty five minutes to go, and no engines... 

    Notes: Marik called Odion his brother... and Odion is really tall.