i think i'm probably the third one

neon genesis evangelion (episode twenty-three, "rei iii")

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Misato is in a drunken grief haze where she listens to Kaji’s message over and over. Asuka is staying at Hikari’s house, playing video games until she has to go to sleep. Rei is Rei. Shinji and Pen-Pen are on their own, at least until this episode’s Angel shows up. And it is… a circle of light? A double helix of light? Rei goes out and the Angel attacks and then infects her.

As with Asuka, this is a clearly painful experience that has sexual overtones, but the Angels seem to have learned from what happened in the last episode and this encounter does not instantly start shredding Rei’s mind. Rei has a conversation with the other consciousness that has arrived in Unit 00. The Angel asks Rei if she’d like to become one; Rei says no; the Angel says, well, tough luck there it’s already happening.

Back at NERV HQ send Asuka out to…