The Mysterious Painting
 
    The episode opens with Sakura drawing a picture and it's a picture of our favorite guardian beast. Kero was posing for a long time and wants to quit but Sakura tells him not to move. She finished and showed it to Kero. Kero didn't like it. "I don't have a wierd face like that! My eyes don't look like that! My legs are too fat!"

    Sakura was called to supper and Kero was left complaining to himself. Aiden and Tori asks her what she was doing and she told them she was drawing. Sakura then thinks about her trip to the art museum tomorrow for drawing class.

    The next day, Sakura is at the museum with Madison. A guy talks about their drawing and directs them to the inner garden and tells them to be quiet. Madison comments on that and they choose a sculpture and decide to draw that while everyone else goes where they were told.

    They get ready to draw but before they begin, Sakura sees the "Modified" drawing of Kero and it reads. "This is the REAL me." . Sakura does a modest drawing and is blown away by Madison's. Sakura leaves Madison behind to go to the inner garden to find her other friends when she meets a kid trying to get at one of the paintings. A security guard stops him but he protests. The kid states that the painting is his dads but someone painted over it with some masked woman. The fight some more when suddenly we have Dead of night silence and Sakura saw the painting move. The painting was called "Smile" and it showed a masked woman in front of a window. When the guard removed the little urchin, he dropped a tag which told of his name and his grade.

    Madison called Sakura and said that it was time to leave. Sakura told Madison about the moving painting and the silence it caused. Sakura thought it might be haunted but it was dismissed. But then Sakura realized that it might be a clow card and they agree to check it out tonight.

    That night, we see Julian catch Sakura trying to sneak out of the house. Julian asks about it but Sakura trips over a response she came up with viewing the stars. Julian then replied. "Don't forget aout the moon!" and asks Sakura if Tori was home. Sakura said yes but told Julian not to tell Tori about what she's doing.

    We see her now at the museum and with Kero and Madison. They talk about how the museum is quiet and the Silent card likes that. Kero also tells Sakura that it...wait he doesn't remember. "What? and you're a beast of the seal?" Madison gets Sakura into a battle costume which makes her look like a thief with bat wings out the back. Madison also swiped a guard scedule which gives them a 55 minute window.

    They enter the museum and see the kid they saw earlier that day. He's as suspicious as usual and they comment on how they're suspicious too. They think he's a thief and wonder what to do. Kero then makes the plan to make himself appear to be the guardian diety of the museum and make it seem haunted. So they project his image on the wall making him look huge. The thief is not convinced and Sakura and Madison find out it's the kid from before. He goes over to them and Kero roars at him. He freaks out and faints.

    When he comes to, and after they have a serious conversation, he joins Sakura and Madison and they find the painting together. Alex tells about how his father died and he painted the picture but someone painted over it, how sad. Sakura relates to it and tells of how someone messed up her drawing. (I'm not pointing fingers...)

    They walk to the painting and try to remove it by peeling it off the painting because the paint is fresh. Sakura comments on how much knowledge he has and he vows to become a painter too. They raised their voices a little too high and Silent began to move her finger to her lips and they were removed. They went back in and tried not to make any noise. Alex dropped his remover and silent did it again. They went back in and Sakura, Kero and Madison had a tiny and quiet conversation and they raise their voices again. Alex looked at her and she said that she sneezed. Silent did it again and they were once again outside. Only time was running out and the guards would be back. Alex went back in even though it wasn't wise and was caught.

    The guard saw him and knew he was the kid from before. Sakura then decided to use the shadow card and catch it from outside. She managed to catch it with Madison's help and the Kid managed to sneak away from the guard. He was depressed because he failed. Sakura smiled and told him to look at the picture and it was back the way it was. His hat fell of and her long flowing hair flowed out. Alex was really a girl and Sakura apologizes for calling her a boy.

    She thanks Sakura and leaves. Sakura and Madison talk about how she'll be great just like her father and they head home as well. When they leave, we see a figure on the rooftop, holding a glowing tool and saying. "I sense a clow card near by..."

KERO'S CORNER  : )

    Kero greets everyone and then talks about the battle costume and describes it as a high tech suit with good looks and bat wings. Kero then begins to talk about the watch Madison used during the capture. He then wraps up the show like he always does and that's the end of that.
 
 

LEAVE IT TO TODD   ^_^

Todd Arcana's Rating:    4.1 / 5.0   ^_^

This is one of the better episodes, it focused on helping someone in distress rather than capturing clow cards. It was also funny at times when Silent kept kicking them out for making even the slightest noise and on how big of a critic Kero is of himself. The scene with Li Showron sensing the clow card ended it making me feel very intrigued.