Ok, so this really is a synopsis for the 14th episode, confusing as it
is. No Japanese speakers have volunteered to explain things to me, so
you're stuck with this.  And after we get this out of the way, we can
get on to the ground-breaking 15th and especially 16th episode, where it
is revealed that Kiyone is the missing sixth Beatle.

By the way, the infamous 10th episode which no one has written a synopsis for
shows up again too.

Anyway, the synopsis for the 14th episode follows.

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NEW TENCHI MUYOU -- 14th episode

Like I said, I was pretty confused by this episode.  There's a lot of
grand facial expressions, icons drifting across the screen, bodies
distorted by the depth of their emotions, which is OK, but there's also
a bit of important conversation furthering the plot, which is a problem.

But here goes:

I'm really doing it.

A comet streaks through space.  It's actually two comets, intertwined.
But as it approaches Earth, there's some sort of crash and it vanishes
from sight in a flash.

The comet makes news even in Okayama, where the Masaki house is. Kiyone,
Mihoshi, (both in uniform), Ryouko, and Washuu are watching an announcer
on television talking about the comet when an angry Ayeka steps in
front of the screen.  I think she wants to go see Tenchi.  She talks
also about "that weird Yuugi" coming by and blasting all of them --
that's shown in flashback.  I think she's worried about Tenchi.  But
she's going to have a hard time getting to Tokyo.  Nobuyuki has left (he
left a note, which I can't read), Washuu leaves for some reason, Kiyone
and Mihoshi have to go one patrol (I think) and they leave (stepping on
Ayeka's toes), and even Ryouko isn't going.  I'm not sure why, but it
has something to do with the "date" she went on with Tenchi back in the
10th episode.  (Whoops!  No one has written that one up yet, have they?)
In particular, she thinks back to the moment when Tenchi took her hand,
and she blushed furiously.

So Ayeka is stuck in Okayama.  (Don't ask me about the warp.  I could
not discern a reference to it, but then, I miss a lot.)  But Ayeka hears
Sasami's voice asking Ryou-oh-ki if she's all right.  And Ayeka thinks
Ryou-oh-ki could take her to Tokyo!  But Sasami yells at Ayeka.  For
some reason, Ryou-oh-ki is not well.  She's exhausted, and she spends
most of this episode lying limply on Sasami's head.

The guys on the news are interviewing some guy with a monkey, and this
gives Ayeka an idea.  She's going to hitchhike to Tokyo.  Sasami comes
out carrying a vacuum.  I guess she's done vacuuming.  Ayeka drags her
along with her (incidentally bashing Ryou-oh-ki with the vacuum as they
leave.)

Yuugi is watching Ayeka and Sasami make their way to the road.  She
knows their going to Tokyo, where Sakuya and Tenchi are getting along. 
Tsugara (Pirate Person) shows up and they talk for a while.  I think she
wants them to not get to Tokyo?  The comet has something to do with
this.  (It's shown as they talk.)  Anyway, Tsugara leaves to carry out
some sort of plan.

Ayeka and Sasami are out by the side of the road, holding a sign reading
"Tokyo" (in Japanese, of course)  And Ayeka tries to thumb a ride. 
"Hai!" she calls as the cars pass by.  First a bus passes them up.  The
next car stops, but its carrying two lecherous men, so she blasts them. 
I think the next car is a taxi or something, because they apologize to
the driver. A bus filled with old tourists stop, but Ayeka decides the
leering old men would not be pleasant company on the trip.  (It's about
250 miles from Okayama to Tokyo.)  A bus filled with little school girls
stops, but they call Ayeka a middle-aged woman (I guess) or somehow make
fun of her, and she doesn't go with them.

Sasami wants to give up, but Ayeka will not be deterred.  She gives what
I assume is a stirring speech (and for some reason images herself
playing a fretted instrument while being carried by two white birds)
which ends with "Never give up!" (in English) and she holds up her sign.

And sure enough, a woman on a motorcycle stops.  She stops a few feet
past them, gets off her motorcycle, and takes off her helmet, revealing
long dark hair. She unzips her suit a little bit, gratuitously
revealing some cleavage. Ayeka and Sasami can't believe such a beauty is
riding this bike (I guess.) "Tokyo?" asks the rider.  "Wanna ride?" (I
guess.)

Ayeka answers in English.  "Yes, but I have no money.  OK?"

Sasami and the rider are perturbed at this linguistic anomaly.  (And in
fact, I had to listen to this 4 times before I figured out what Ayeka
was saying.)

"OK" replies the cyclist.

"Thank you.  Yeah!" replies Aeka (in English.)

Ayeka and Sasami get in the sidecar wearing pink beanie helmets. 
"Comfortable?" asks the cyclist (I guess.)

"Yes!" answers Ayeka.  And they zip off, passing traffic at an
incredible speed.  Ayeka thinks this is cool.  Sasami and Ryou-oh-ki
thinks this is too fast.  Ayeka yells something like "We'll be in Tokyo
in no time!"

The Pirate Person materializes where Ayeka and Sasami used to be.  She's
unhappy.  I guess she missed them.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Tenchi is drawing the exterior of the school
building. (His father is an architect, you know.)  Sakuya comes by, and
she thinks this is really cool.  She leans real close to Tenchi over his
shoulder to admire it.  (You know, Sakuya is really pale....)  When she
notices their proximity, they pull away, and laugh.

Ayeka on the sidecar is passing trains.  "Ayeka is coming, Tenchi!"

Back in Okayama, Ryouko is hungry.  Washuu, it turns out, is cooking.
Washuu tells Ryouko that Sasami is gone.  Washuu's cooking looks
completely normal, and nothing funny happens with it.

The cycle is parked, Ryou-oh-ki is sleeping in the sidecar.  Ayeka and
Sasami are sitting in the roadside cafe (not quite like the Minuteman in
NEWHART) They're served ice tea, which I suppose the cyclist is buying,
since Ayeka has no money.  Sasami is pretty beat; she's resting her chin
on the table. The cyclist introduces herself has Misayo -- Manukida
Misayo.  (That looks about right.)  Ayeka and Sasami introduce
themselves.

Ayeka tells very emotionally (with the grand facial features and all)
tells Misayo of her story.  The way she tells it, Tenchi is an innocent
lady, who leaves for the big city, leaving a distraught Aeka.  Tenchi
very morally sweeps and tends the shrine, but waiting for him is that
snake Sakuya. (And she is depicted with a snake's tongue.)  Sakuya
carries off Tenchi (literally) and subjects him to her depravity!  This
involves tying him up and hanging him with only a pair of speedos, while
Sakuya gloats over him wearing a lot of leather and holding whips. 
(This is even bigger than Ryouko's imagination in the previous episode!)
 Ayeka really goes wild telling this story, at least until Sasami says
something that embarrasses Ayeka.

But this story seems to have struck a chord with Misayo.  She relates
(without as much detail) that she has a similar story, I guess someone
she loves and is searching for.  Ayeka gets wrapped up in this,
imagining Misayo working on her motorcycle, riding around with her empty
sidecar looking for her love. (All right, the only word I understood in
this tale was "sidecar."  I'm extrapolating quite a bit.)  Sasami is
upset at this.  She has birds on her head. (I think they're confused
birds.)  But this seems to have been a bonding experience for Misayo and
Ayeka.  They hold hands and emote "Aeka-san!" "Misayo-san!"  etc. as
Sasami floats away, ghost-like.  ("You're both nuts.")

Suddenly some guys run in talking about someone tearing through the
road, kicking up a cloud of dust.  "That couldn't be Misayo's..." thinks
Sasami.  Misayo seems to think it could be.  She grabs a guy by his
outfit and gets more information from him.  Then she goes to her bike
(alone) and starts it up.

And then my tenuous understanding of this episode really starts to
unravel. Tsugara (Pirate Person) appears and talks to Misayo.  I don't
know about what, but it must have something to do with Ayeka and Misayo
and the guy she's chasing. Tsugara leaves, and Misayo isn't too happy. 
Then Ayeka and Sasami come and they talk some more, and its kind of
emotional.  But it ends with Misayo being happy and grateful to Ayeka,
and Ayeka being happy, and everybody getting into the cycle to chase
after the guy.

(I get the impression that Ayeka is giving up something for Misayo to be
able to go after the guy, but I'm not really sure what.)

Anyway, they tear off after the guy, and Ayeka is really into the speed
thing, and Sasami and Ryou-oh-ki really are not.  But they zoom along
and eventually they get close enough to to see that the guy is a strange
looking guy (he looks like he's carved to me) in a runner's outfit
running along the highway. Ayeka, I think, realizes that they need to
pour on more speed.  They come to a bridge, which is out.

The running guy does not stop.  He leaps into the air!

The motorcycle doesn't stop either.  They ride into the air!

Ayeka and Sasami and Ryou-oh-ki jump out of the sidecar!

The motorcycle keeps on going.  Misayo is yelling something, which I
don't understand.  She jumps off her motorcycle and grabs his hand, and
a white glow envelops them.

Ryou-oh-ki turns into a giant pink mechanical bunny and grabs Ayeka and
Sasami well before they would go splat.  The running guy and Misayo
float down.  They can float on their own now, and they're still glowing.
 They thank Ayeka, and fly away.

Ayeka is moved.  "Fight!  How inspiring!"

Pirate Person sees this, and is mad.

Anyway, Ayeka and Sasami continue their journey, and its night by the
time they reach Sendai.  Sendai?  That's 200 miles north of Tokyo! 
(Okayama is east of Tokyo.)  They're a long way from where they want to
be.  (A map is put up, in case you don't know your geography.)  Ayeka
is really upset.  I think she's mad a Sasami too.

It's late at night, when Tenchi hears a knock on his door.  He opens it,
and sees a very exhausted Ayeka and Sasami.  "What are you doing here?"
he asks, but he doesn't get an answer.  Without a word, Ayeka and Sasami
come in, crawl into Tenchi's bed, under the comfortable, and drop to the
floor of the Masaki residence.

Ryouko is eating cup ramen when she hears the "thud."  She goes out and
sees Ayeka and Sasami lying on the floor asleep.  She puts blankets over
them.

Meanwhile, the comet, which was actually those two people, speeds away
from earth.

Ayeka smiles in her sleep.  "Misayo-san," she says.

And the episode ends.

Whew!

At last, tomorrow we get to the 15th episode, which was easier for me to
understand, and quite cool.  It's unquestionably dynamic!

-- Randall M! Gee, Keeper of Gummi Wisdom
(gee@math.berkeley.edu)