Episode Title:
Wish.
Episode Description:
Squad Levi storm into the cavern and engage Kenny and his Anti-Personnel Control Squad, forcing the enemy to retreat back into their final defensive position. Meanwhile, Rod explains to Historia that the cavern and city walls were built a century ago by their ancestor, who used the Founding Titan's power to erase the memories of all citizens except a few immune bloodlines. Generations later, Frieda inherited the Founding Titan and the memories of their world before the walls. Rod explains that Frieda metaphysically lives on within the Founding Titan, with Historia realizing that she must become a Titan and eat Eren to gain the Founding Titan and see her sister again. When Kenny arrives and overhears that only those of the Reiss bloodline can use the Founding Titan's power, he furiously confronts Rod and decides to wound Eren so Historia will have to fight Eren to acquire the power. Historia is about to inject herself with the Titan serum when she sees Eren is too guilt-ridden to resist. She then remembers Ymir's wish for her to live a prideful life, and realizes that Rod's true intent is restoring his family's power, and the will of her ancestors to preserve the status quo will consume her like it did with Frieda and those before her. Historia then angrily refuses to proceed, breaking the syringe and slamming her father into the ground breaking his back, before grabbing the keys to free Eren. Desperate, Rod licks up some of the serum from the broken syringe on the ground and transforms into a massive Titan.
