14 The Mother of All Battles
24.09.01
Tohru's feisty spitfire of a Mom comes to town and immediately gets into grumpy-old-folks combativeness with Uncle. Mom's ever-critical and Tohru's the perennial black sheep, eager to make her proud. So when a yakuza-like crime family offers him to cut him in on a heist, it looks like Tohru's gonna do it, for the money. Meanwhile, Jackie is asked by Black to guard a famous jeweled artifact, the Kyoto Octopus, at the Japanese Expo, which turns out to be the same item Tohru is to help steal. But Tohru hasn't really gone bad & tips Jackie off. Unfortunately, Tohru and Jackie get taken hostage by the Mobsters, who demand the Octopus (which Jade has swiped for safekeeping) as ransom. The ever-bickering Uncle and Tohru's Mom come to the rescue and kick Mobster butt, with an assist from Jade. In the end, Mom's proud of Tohru and approves of his new "family" -- all except for that "billygoat" Uncle. © 2001 Adelaide Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.