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A Lack of Goodwill is the sixteenth episode of Season 4 and the eighty-first episode of Code Lyoko.

Plot[]

In the cafeteria, Odd and Aelita play with their food by flinging it into the air on the backs of their forks. Eventually, the William Clone begins imitating them from another table and flings a glass into the air. Jim catches the glass, berates the clone, and gives it detention. The Lyoko Warriors then discuss the William Clone and his behavior, and Jeremie explains worriedly that it is not supposed to have the ability to take personal initiatives, and thus should not have tried to imitate Odd. Jeremie also mentions that he installed an upgrade the day before to try and make the clone "less stupid", and that he may have to delete the upgrade if the clone continues to act out.

After lunch, Jeremie announces more news in the courtyard: he has modified the Superscan program so that it may detect Replikas on the Network, and he has already managed to locate a new one. After making plans to explore the Replika that evening, Aelita expresses regret over having gotten the clone into trouble. Jeremie then reminds her that, as a program, the clone as no feelings, and the group disperses to go to their afternoon classes. However, it's revealed that Milly and Tamiya have been eavesdropping on the Lyoko Warriors' conversation, and now know that the William at school is actually "an artificial clone" so they decide to conduct an investigation.

Once classes let out, the William clone serves its detention in the campus library with Jim while the group heads over to the Factory. There, Aelita, Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich are sent to Lyoko and board the Skid. Aelita then pilots the ship out of Lyoko and into the Digital Sea, where they travel to the new Replika. Meanwhile, on campus, the William clone finishes its detention and is approached by Milly and Tamiya. Under the pretense of doing a report on school punishment methods, the girls attempt to learn more about "William" and his status as a clone.

The Skid arrives on the Replika, which is revealed to be a copy of the Desert Sector, and Aelita docks the ship to a tower. Jeremie then activates the tower and uses it to translate Aelita and Ulrich to Earth while Yumi and Odd stay behind to guard the Skid. In the dormitory building, Milly and Tamiya continue to interrogate the William clone until, unaware it is supposed to keep the information secret, it reveals to them that it is not the real William that they're talking to, confirming the girls' suspicions.

Meanwhile, Ulrich and Aelita arrive at an abandoned military facility somewhere in the New Mexican desert. As they navigate through the building, Yumi and Odd are confronted by several Hornets on the Replika, and a battle breaks out in front of Jeremie's tower. In William's dorm room, the clone tells Milly and Tamiya about X.A.N.A., Lyoko, the Supercomputer and the fact that the real William is X.A.N.A.'s prisoner. They become concerned whether or not they should call the police about that but he assures them that "Lyoko Warriors" are trying to free him. When they ask for proof, the clone offers to take them to the Factory.

While Jeremie virtualizes the Overboard and Overwing for Odd and Yumi, he is alerted to activity in the scanner room, and it is revealed that the real William, still possessed by X.A.N.A., has returned to Earth. Jeremie watches security camera footage of William going down to the Supercomputer Room, instead up to the lab so he leaves the it to confront him. On the Replika, Yumi and Odd defeat the Hornets but are forced back into battle shortly afterward when three Tarantulas appear at their position.

Jeremie arrives in the Supercomputer Room armed with a metal pipe but is quickly dispatched by the super-powered William. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, Ulrich and Aelita find an automated assembly line manufacturing circuit boards, but Aelita is more worried when she notices they have lost contact with Jeremie. As Aelita and Ulrich discuss whether or not to abort their mission, Milly, Tamiya, and the William clone arrive at the Factory only to find Jeremie at the mercy of the real William. The clone advances on William to defend Jeremie and the two clash violently. Jeremie, whose ankle has been injured, asks Milly and Tamiya to go up to the lab and relay information to the others to which Tamiya immediately agrees.

On the Replika, Yumi and Odd battle the Tarantulas until Tamiya arrives at the interface and tells them to "come back right away". Aelita and Ulrich hear the instructions as well and they knock each other out, forcing them both back to the Skid. Yumi and Odd continue to fight until Yumi is devirtualized by a Tarantula. Once she wakes up, Aelita manages to energize Odd back into the ship and detach from the tower. The Skid then leaves the Replika and begins the return trip back to Lyoko.

Meanwhile, during their struggle, the clone hurls William into the elevator, which goes up to the lab. Tamiya, thinking he is the "good guy", relinquishes control of the interface to William. After some thinking, she recognizes that he's the bad guy and she won't let him destroy the supercomputr but he attacks her before shutting down the Scanners with Yumi still inside one of them. When the Clone arrives in the lab, William deletes it with a few keystrokes before tampering with the Supercomputer's cooling system. Down in the Supercomputer Room, Jeremie and Milly watch as the server begins to overheat, and Jeremie asks Milly to go up to the lab to confront William as the clone has failed.

Meanwhile, in the Digital Sea, the Skid is attacked by two Sharks, and Aelita releases Odd and Ulrich's Nav Skids to engage them. Yumi finally manages to pry her Scanner doors open as Odd and Ulrich defeat the monsters. As Milly arrives in the Lab and begins shouting empty threats at William, Aelita rushes back to Lyoko and docks the Skid in its hangar. Ignoring Milly, William finishes sabotaging the cooling system and sets up a delayed virtualization for himself.

Ulrich, Odd, and Aelita devirtualize one another in the hangar, and the three of them and Yumi go up to the lab together to confront William. However, William returns to the scanner room just as the group arrives by using the emergency ladder and escapes back onto Lyoko. Aelita then takes control of the interface and manages to repair William's damage, saving the Supercomputer. Once the chaos dies down, the Lyoko Warriors humor Milly and Tamiya by giving a full-disclosure interview about Lyoko before Jeremie performs a return to the past, wiping their memories, healing Jeremie's ankle, and restoring the William Clone.

Back in the cafeteria, Odd refrains from flinging his food again, worried about how the clone may react. Jeremie then reveals to the others that the upgrade he gave the clone was actually a preexisting program Franz Hopper had made, and postulates that the program was instrumental in the creation of X.A.N.A.'s tyrannical personality. Jeremie vows to create a new, less dangerous program, and as he looks over at the clone, it smiles back at him.

Trivia[]

  • The original French name for this episode is Œil pour œil, which translates to Eye for an Eye in English.
    • There was a longer, more detailed fight scene between Jeremy and William.
    • William (the real one) watches with delight as the Supercomputer rises up and leaves its cooling chamber. Wisps of smoke envelop and wind around him. The innards of the machine are exposed in front of him. We hear Jeremy's voice as the elevator door opened up, I had no idea you were into computers, William!
    • The Xana logo in his eyes, William turns towards Jeremy, who has just rushed out of the lift. Jeremy leaps towards William, knocking him to the side with his momentum... Jeremy: Oof! The two boys stand up and face each other. Jeremy throws a punch, then another. William dodges both of them with great speed. Jeremy swings another punch. William blocks the genius's hand and throws Jeremy against a wall. Jeremy makes a painful landing. William walks towards him menacingly, decided, merciless. Jeremy attempts a kick, but William grabs the boy's foot and, spinning around, throws him into another wall... Jeremy falls down again, dazed, and his glasses land beside him... The boy tries to stand up, but he winces in pain... Jeremy (pained): Aah, my leg... William (distorted voice): This is too easy... Jeremy picks up his glasses and puts them on his nose... William grabs Jeremy by the collar and lifts him up like a wisp of straw...
    • William (distorted voice): And now, you're going to witness the total destruction of the Supercomputer and the end of your little gang of friends!
  • The Sharks make their debut in this episode.
  • Jim's weight is revealed to be roughly 240 pounds in this episode.
  • This episode marks the only time where Milly and Tamiya have been to the lab.

Errors[]

  • Jim's comic book is nowhere to be seen after he stops reading it.
  • William is shown wearing his Season 4 clothing in this episode, yet when he was first virtualized onto Lyoko in Final Round, he was wearing his Seasons 2-3 attire, and there is no way he could have changed clothes while on Lyoko.
  • When Tamiya tells Yumi and Odd that they have to come back to Earth immediately, she finishes her statement by saying "...whoever you are", as if she does not recognize either of the aforementioned Lyoko Warriors' voices at all, even though those are two of the students known to associate with Jeremie.
  • When Aelita arrives at the Lab to fix the Supercomputer's cooling system, she does not put the earpiece on when she sits down, yet in the next shot, she is shown wearing it.

Gallery[]


ve Episodes
Pilots "Les enfants" • "Garage Kids"
Prequel "X.A.N.A. Awakens" (Part 1Part 2)
Season 1 "Teddygozilla" • "Seeing Is Believing" • "Holiday in the Fog" • "Log Book" • "Big Bug" • "Cruel Dilemma" • "Image Problem" • "End of Take" • "Satellite" • "The Girl of the Dreams" • "Plagued" • "Swarming Attack" • "Just in Time" • "The Trap" • "Laughing Fit" • "Claustrophobia" • "Amnesia" • "Killer Music" • "Frontier" • "The Robots" • "Zero Gravity Zone" • "Routine" • "Rock Bottom?" • "Ghost Channel" • "Code: Earth" • "False Start"
Season 2 "New Order" • "Uncharted Territory" • "Exploration" • "A Great Day" • "Mister Pück" • "Saint Valentine's Day" • "Final Mix" • "Missing Link" • "The Chips Are Down" • "Marabounta" • "Common Interest" • "Temptation" • "A Bad Turn" • "Attack of the Zombies" • "Ultimatum" • "A Fine Mess" • "X.A.N.A.'s Kiss" • "Vertigo" • "Cold War" • "Déjà Vu" • "Tip-Top Shape" • "Is Anybody Out There?" • "Franz Hopper" • "Contact" • "Revelation" • "The Key"
Season 3 "Straight to Heart" • "Lyoko Minus One" • "Tidal Wave" • "False Lead" • "Aelita" • "The Pretender" • "The Secret" • "Temporary Insanity" • "Sabotage" • "Nobody in Particular" • "Triple Trouble" • "Double Trouble" • "Final Round"
Season 4 "William Returns" • "Double Take" • "Opening Act" • "Wreck Room" • "Skidbladnir" • "Maiden Voyage" • "Crash Course" • "Replika" • "I'd Rather Not Talk About It" • "Hot Shower" • "The Lake" • "Lost at Sea" • "Lab Rat" • "Bragging Rights" • "Dog Day Afternoon" • "A Lack of Goodwill" • "Distant Memory" • "Hard Luck" • "Guided Missile" • "Kadic Bombshell" • "Canine Conundrum" • "A Space Oddity" • "Cousins Once Removed" • "Music to Soothe the Savage Beast" • "Wrong Exposure" • "Bad Connection" • "Cold Sweat" • "Down to Earth" • "Fight to the Finish" • "Echoes"
Evolution "X.A.N.A. 2.0" • "Cortex" • "Spectromania" • "Mrs. Einstein" • "Rivalry" • "Suspicions" • "Countdown" • "Virus" • "How to Fool X.A.N.A." • "The Warrior Awakens" • "Rendezvous" • "Chaos at Kadic" • "Friday the 13th" • "Intrusion" • "The Codeless" • "Confusion" • "An Assured Professional Future" • "Obstinacy" • "The Trap" • "Espionage" • "False Pretenses" • "Mutiny" • "Jeremy's Blues" • "Temporal Paradox" • "Massacre" • "Ultimate Mission"
Movie "Havoc" (cancelled)
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