Hellfire
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The thirteenth, and final, episode of the Hellsing anime.
Summary
Seras holds her chest tightly as she begins to bleed from the deep cut, still trying to pass a magazine of Jackal ammunition to Alucard. Alucard, who begins to decay, stands and uses his mind to draw the cartridge into the chamber, unloading shot after shot into Incognito’s head. However, the power that wraps around Incognito holds the bullets within his head, and turns them back on Alucard, who is then torn from head to toe with silver bullets, causing him to instantly collapse, with only a part of his head still constituted. As Seras screams in horror, Alucard says that she probably should have listened to her master, and Seras takes hold of his head and begins to lick the blood, though, as Incognito comments, his rotten blood won’t allow her to become a true vampire anymore. Outside the Tower, as Integra and Walter’s helicopter are about to be destroyed by the British air force, Integra says that she doesn’t want to lose Walter too, but he only smiles and states that he’ll carry out his orders, tearing apart the left side of the craft with his threads and lowering Integra to safety just as the helicopter explodes.
Integra awakes to find she has been captured by Incognito, who has just finished summoning the Egyptian god Set from Hell, which appears as an energy snake outside the Tower area and destroys most of the nearby British army. Back in the Tower, as Incognito stands over Integra’s body, he declares he’ll assimilate Set into his body, destroy this city, and then violate and eat up every part of Integra. Integra responds, at first, by quietly releasing Alucard’s control restriction to level 1, but realizing that he isn’t responding, she screams his name across the area.
After a few moments blood from all around the “Bloody Tower” and London begins to drain and collect in one area, while Incognito continues to draw Set in towards his body. Alucard appears before Seras, noting that the nice moon is out again, and, upon vanishing, Seras remembers that “he’s not human.” Alucard and Incognito begin to battle once more, Incognito now fused with Set, and Alucard at full power, using his hellhounds as a conduit. As their fight rages on, destroying parts of London in the process, a tall, solitary priest stands high above the crowd of on-lookers, his smile stretching almost ear-to-ear. Their battle rises to the skies, erupting into storms on Earth, but they strike each other down to the world below, with Incognito laughing at Alucard’s threats of eternal pain, as that is exactly what Incognito wishes. As Incognito forms new MGLs from his very flesh, Alucard calls his pain hobby disgusting, and the two rush at each other. Alucard’s hair, now rising and burning brightly, begins to melt a nearby silver cross, unearthed and tossed about during their battle. Alucard pulls the trigger of his shattered Jackal, and holy light warps around the liquid silver and impales Incognito through the chest, who asks who Alucard really is. Lightning strikes behind Alucard, and for a moment a vision of a pale, mustached man with black hair becomes apparent.
A message appears on the screen, reading “The traitor discovered in the Round Table conference has been secretly judged and silenced. MI-5 is still searching for organization responsible for creating the artificial vampires...”
The camera returns, closing in on an isolated jail cell, where Integra sits, arms handcuffed. Alucard appears, and reminds Integra that it is still her choice. She smiles.
Trivia
-Who is the pale, mustached man that impales people? None other than Vlad the Impaler, we are left to assume.
-While Anderson has no speaking lines in this episode, his amusement at even this level of Alucard’s power shows to what lengths the man will go to someday defeat the vampire.
-This exchange of lines after Alucard’s reconstitution are similar to those found when they first meet in episode 1, and just shows how much Seras relies on her connection with him.
-The power Alucard releases near the end of the episode may be seen as one of the few things that the manga may have possibly used in its run, as near the end of the manga series (around V7&8) something on this scale calls the attention of Alucard’s full power, allowing him to drain blood and power from all those around him who have died. Also, the final form result is somewhat similar in appearance, though at this stage in the manga the final opponent is much different.
-For more information on Set, please visit Hellsing Indepth’s References section.
-Walter’s comment about equipping the helicopter with “sidewinders” is a reference to air-to-air heat-seeking missile found on various kinds of military aircraft.
-The Judecca to which Alucard refers is part of the ninth and final circle of Hell in Dante’s “Inferno,” and is named for the apostle Judas, who betrayed Jesus Christ for thirty pieces of silver. In Judecca, the traitors of the world, along with the devil, are entirely submerged in ice.
-This episode appears on the Volume 4 DVD, titled "Eternal Damnation," of Geneon’s release of Hellsing.
