Attack Cornelia (episode)

Attack Cornelia is the seventh episode of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion.

Summary
Cornelia sets a trap for Zero at the Saitama Ghetto as she begins to clear another resistance cell. Despite C.C. trying to stop him, Lelouch takes the bait and goes to the aid of the Saitama resistance. His plan falls apart from a combination of Cornelia's superior tactics and the resistance cell's dissimilar motivations. Lelouch is cornered and nearly discovered, but C.C. dons his Zero costume and distracts the Britannian Army, allowing him to escape. Lelouch blames his defeat on the undisciplined rebels and resolves to build something better than a mere resistance unit, first an army, then a "people," and finally a nation.

Quotes

 * Conversation between Lelouch and Charles
 * Lelouch vi Britannia: "Hail, Your Majesty. My mother, the Empress, is dead."
 * Charles zi Britannia: "Old news. What of it?"
 * Lelouch vi Britannia: "What of it?!"
 * Charles zi Britannia: "You sought an audience with the Emperor of Britannia simply to inform me of that?" [Whispers to guard] "Send the next one in, I've no time for these childish games."
 * Lelouch vi Britannia: [Approaches Charles] "Father! Why didn't you keep mother out of harm's way? You're the Emperor! The greatest man in this nation if not the world; you should've protected her and now you don't even visit Nunnally!"
 * Charles zi Britannia: "I've no use for that weakling."
 * Lelouch vi Britannia: "'That weakling?'"
 * Charles zi Britannia: "That is what it means to be royalty."
 * Lelouch vi Britannia: "Then I don't want to be your heir; I give up my claim to the throne!"
 * [Croud gasps]
 * Lelouch vi Britannia: "I'm sick of the fighting and scheming over who will succeed you, father! I've had enough!"
 * Charles zi Britannia: "You are dead. You've always been dead to me; dead from the moment you were born. Who gave you the fine clothes you wear and comfortable home, the food you eat and your very life? All of those, I have given to you. In short, you are nothing to me because you have never existed! Yet you dare speak this foolishness to me?!"
 * [Lelouch gasps and falls]
 * Charles zi Britannia: "Lelouch... You are dead, therefore you are not entitled to any rights. I am sending you and Nunnally to Japan. As prince and princess you will serve well as bargaining tools."
 * Conversation between Lelouch and C.C.
 * C.C.: [Points gun at Lelouch] "You can't go, Lelouch. You need to fulfill your part of our bargain so I won't have you dying before that."
 * Lelouch Lamperouge: "Notice that what you're saying and what you're doing are contradictory."
 * C.C.: Oh, I won't kill you; I'm merely going to shoot you in the leg to quiet you down.
 * Lelouch Lamperouge: "Now I get it; you're unable to use Geass yourself, aren't you? I'm not surprised, I suspected as much. You obviously wouldn't have asked me to do it if you could've done it yourself. [Pulls out a gun and points it at C.C.]
 * C.C.: "You honestly think you can threaten me with a gun?"
 * Lelouch Lamperouge: "Yes I do." [Points gun at his head] "Until I met you, I was dead. An impotent corpse existing behind a false guise of life. A life in which I did nothing real. Day to day, I merely went through the motions of living as if I were a zombie. And I always had the feeling that I was gradually dying. If I'm condemned to go back to that, then I'd rather..."
 * C.C.: "Stop it! I see now; it's life without meaning, and a life like that..."
 * "Honestly, I didn't like Lulu at the beginning when I first met him. He gave the impression that he was flippant, and the only thing he worked hard at was avoiding hard work. But back when we were both freshmen, I happened to see him come upon a traffic accident. A driver rear-ended another car and was clearly at fault, but he tried to blame it on the elderly owners of the other car. Nobody tried to help them. And then... Lulu didn't do it so he could boast to his buddies or laugh about it later. He did it with the same bored expression he always wears. That's when I wondered, 'what's up with this guy? What goes on in his mind? What does he want to do?' I really wanted to know, and in the process of finding out..." - Shirley Fenette
 * "Beaten us easily... But that's not how this game is supposed to go! This... This is what real organization can do..." - Lelouch Lamperouge
 * Conversation between Lelouch and C.C.
 * Lelouch Lamperouge: "Why did you rescue me?"
 * C.C.: (Dressed as Zero): "I told you already," [Removes mask] "I can't have you dying."
 * Lelouch Lamperouge: "I wouldn't have lost if the conditions were equal!"
 * C.C.: "You sore loser. If you're really that good, you should be able to set up conditions the way you want."
 * *Lelouch Lamperouge: "That's what I'll do then, I'll set them up. I'll raise an army that can't lose to Britannia. A people; a nation!"


 * "Where and how can I find troops? Who will serve in my army? If only I could ask Suzaku to join me... No, that ship has sailed; he's a Britannian soldier now. Even if he doesn't enter into the fray, he's still my enemy. Well then, I'll just have to choose." - Lelouch Lamperouge (Preview for the next episode)