Cat's Eye Episode 53 Discussion

This was probably the most tragic episode of the series so far. I can't recall all the previous episodes to know for sure, but it was a very poignant and personal episode for Hitomi either way. Teaming up with Mac, a random sailor, to help find his girlfriend and a lost gem. Seeing Cathy deceive, use and ultimately murder poor Mac for effectively the thrill of it understandably riled Hitomi up.

Even without the show pointing it out explicitly, which it did, the parallel between Cathy's relationship with Mac and Hitomi's own with Toshi certainly must have left her unsettled.

Of course, we know Hitomi's not like that, that she does love Toshi, but it's a reminder of that fine line she walks. And brings up interesting questions like the validity of Rui's claim that episodes like this where they help Toshi catch criminals somehow make up for all the items they've stolen on his watch. And of course what the end game of Hitomi's relationship with him really is and how it'll play out. But that's saved for another time. By the end of this one only this is certain: Mac is dead, and he died blissfully unaware that his love was nothing more than a lie...tragic indeed.