Of these young children, Phil is the only one who is told the truth…and he takes it like a champ. Since the kids aren’t harvested until they are at least six years old, that gives them at least two years to find a safe place to live and then come back for the others. Emma was forced to admit that it wasn’t practical to take them along for many reasons – but she swears that she will come back for them later. Phil is fine, by the way! Him – along with all the other children around his age and younger – being left behind was also according to plan. ‘Ah, oh well.’Įpisode 12 Phil is one badass 4-year old. There’s so many kids in Neverland, and yet I feel like we don’t really get to know much about most of them. These kids really are way tougher than they look. But they just press some hankies to their heads like its nothing. I completely forgot about this in the manga somehow, but Emma and Ray cut a huge chunk of their ears off with the trackers inside?! I know, I know I need to stop nit-picking details like this but that…that’s gonna bleed a lot. That’s gonna hurt a lot. The triumphant scene where the other kids reveal they’ve been helping Emma out all along really ties the entire thing together, and it all just works so much better, and is so much more satisfying, than telling the story in a completely linear way. After that, the pieces fall into place and we see what really happened – as well as catch up on what had been going on behind the scenes the entire time. We’re first lead to believe that Ray successfully sets himself on fire, putting us directly into Isabella’s shoes. And it succeeds so well here because Emma not only outwits Isabella, and not only outwits Ray, but outwits the audience as well. It does an excellent job at being the climax of the core themes of this arc of Neverland – that is, keeping one step ahead of the enemy and outsmarting them with mind-games. It’s difficult for me to say much here as things were more or less the same as the manga, but, in terms of writing, this really does stand alone as one of the strongest episodes so far – it’s certainly the most suspenseful. Ray noooo I know this was a serious moment and all but Isabella’s face here is kinda priceless. Now, as Isabella watches Grace Field burn, everyone is ready to leave for good…but Phil is still at the house.
Of course, while the dummy Ray is fake the fire is real, and it engulfs the entire orphanage – although everyone has already escaped, revealing to Ray that they had been planning it all along! All the kids are well aware of the truth behind Grace Field now – and most of them had already heard way back when Krone was still around by eavesdropping. Emma is able to stop him from setting himself on fire, but Isabella doesn’t know this – and with the children’s help and a trusty knife, the stage is set for a ploy that would trick Isabella into thinking Ray perished in the blaze he started. While Ray decide that they will start a fire in order to cause a distraction under which they can escape, a letter Norman left before his departure reveals that Ray had been planning to kill himself from the start, right before his birthday, as a final ‘eff you’ to Isabella and the demons. However, one trick that ties the entire plan together is the fact that she not only has to trick Isabella…but Ray, too. With Isabella monitoring her, she knows that she isn’t monitoring the other children as much – and they are the ones she’s relied on to put all the final touches in place.
Isabella isn’t aware of it, but Emma’s plan has been continuing smoothly this whole time, and her pretending to have given up was part of it. Barely in time for the next round of First Impressions!
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