Fullmetal Alchemist - Episode 51

Episode 51: Immortal Army

I do respect the poor souls attached to those mannequins but honestly, they are really gross. They eat people and they can even eat themselves. They didn't want such thing to happen to them, but unfortunately they got caught up Father's business.

From what we ended in Episode 50, the Immortal Army got activated and if you think that they are only few, then you are wrong! They are so, so, so, so, many. And another thing, they are zombies who are mindless and are kinda persistent to stay alive. They fed on the general that activated them and also the scientist who is part of the experiment.

Ed and his group arrived inside the undergrounds of the Third Laboratory and they encounter a very huge door. While Ed is trying to open the door, the Immortal Army flooded the door and they are suddenly swarmed by them. Ed recognizes them as dolls infused with souls similar to what was inside Envy's true form. Worried that they will get out on the village and start eating people, Ed sealed the gate to prevent such horrifying thing to happen. However, doing such act traps them inside along with immortal dolls.

For Mustang's men, they got to know that the Briggs soldiers are already on the move, thanks to Fuery who is listening to radio communications between the soldiers. Realizing that they will be having a hard time to enter the city, Mustang comes up a plan so that they can enter the city.

On Central, Olivier uses the general she stabbed as an hostage to stop the attack on Mustang's men. The general ordered otherwise even though Olivier gave him another stab on the foot. Suddenly, Sloth appears at the back ready to crush Olivier but was able to evade and mashed the general instead. Apparently, Sloth was ordered to stop the lady leader of Briggs from doing anymore action that would give them problem. This starts the battle between Olivier and Sloth.

On the outskirts, Heinkel gets bored and irritated that he is unable to fight alongside Ed. He then checks on Al and he noticed Selim's tapping. Al said that he is just playing with his head but Heinkel, a man from the military recognizes that it is actually a morse code. Selim is telling someone of his location and that person is now behind Heinkel. Kimblee arrived to rescue Selim and he set out explosions that injured the already injured Heinkel.

May Chang who also at the underground encounters the Immortal Army. She feels that Envy betrayed her because the secret to immortality leads to the mindless mannequins. While fighting them, Envy's jar suddenly gets eaten by the mannequin and this allows Envy to have enough energy to restore his original form. By consuming all of the mannequin around, he was able to come back to his form and with this, he gives May his thanks.

We go back to Olivier and Sloth showdown. Olivier tries shooting the big Sloth but unfortunately, this doesn't give any damage to the big guy. Situation gets harder when a group of soldiers appear with a shoot if sight order. However, the soldier groups gets astonished by his presence and they were accidentally attacked by his chains when Olivier dodged him. Using a grenade from one of the soldiers, she threw it at Sloth, hoping to give even a small damage. Unfortunately, such a thing would not hurt him. Olivier gets cornered and was about to be crushed but suddenly, Major Armstrong, his brother, arrived to save her. Armstrong wants to take care of Sloth, since fighting him will be his specialty.

The people of Kanama and around Central notices the sudden presence of the military men. Marcoh worries and wants to warn Heinkel and Al about the recent happenings. Yoki tells him to calm down then the smoke from Kimblee's explosion starts to arise to the atmosphere.

From the explosion, Heinkel is badly injured and before Al could reach him, Pride restrained him with his shadows. With quick thinking, Al makes an explosion and by removing his legs, he was able to run away from Pride and the explosion bought him more time to talk to Heinkel. The injured chimera wants Al to save himself and leave him but Al refuses to do such. Even though he lost his legs, he tries to drag Heinkel to safety. He told Heinkel and he and Ed already swore to never let anyone die again.

With this, Heinkel hands him the Philosopher Stone that Kimblee left dropped previously. With the thought of saving the world , Al used the stone to repair himself and to save Heinkel as he gets ready to face Kimblee and Selim.