Straight to Heart

Straight to Heart
Air Date (US)	October 4th, 2006
Air Date (France)	September 9th, 2006
Written by	Françoise Charpiat
Storyboard by	Paul Beneteau Lionel Allaix Alain le Dong
Season	3
Episode #	53
Production #	301
Preceeded by	X.A.N.A. Awakens (production-wise) The Key (chronological)
Followed by	Lyoko Minus One

Straight to Heart is the first episode of Season 3 and the fifty-third episode of Code Lyoko.

Plot

A new school year begins. Back from their relatively quiet two-week summer vacation, Lyoko Warriors quickly find themselves back at war with X.A.N.A.. The diabolical, rogue artificial intelligence who has made its way into the World Wide Web has raised the stakes with a new strategy of attack: wipe Lyoko off the digital map by destroying a huge transparent, white sphere, which located in a yet undiscovered chamber in Secter 5 directly below the arena. In effect, to rip out the very heart of the virtual world itself!

Meanwhile, Odd finds to his dismay that he is not in the same class as Jeremy, Ulrich and Aelita. But Odd also stumbles across a little-known tidbit of historical information from Jim’s past that might help him out: Jim once starred in a disco dance film, and the gym teacher doesn’t want the students at Kadic Academy to find out. Armed with this secret, Odd decides to blackmail Jim to get himself reassigned into his friends’ class, only to claim that "blackmail's not his style", guilting Jim into helping Odd get into his friends' class. Meanwhile, Yumi claims that she and Ulrich should stay "just friends and that's all" on a strictly platonic level of friendship, which Ulrich doesn't take well.

Trivia

• The original French name for this episode is Droit au cœur.
• After this episode, Aelita no longer requires materialization program to materialize on Earth, since she is revealed to be fully human. As another result, Aelita develops an incredibly strong weapon of her own: small deep pink-colored, electric energy orbs called "energy fields."
• At the start of the episode Yumi and Aelita are seen playing a game of "Go", a Middle Eastern board game thought to be over two thousand years old. Aelita is seen to be winning by 6 1/2 points.
• During the scene in the cafeteria, the Superscan detected X.A.N.A.'s presence somewhere on North America. It's quite possible that the location was New Mexico, which means that the theory that X.A.N.A.'s replikas existed since it escaped the supercomputer might be true, as this could've been the discovery of the Desert Replika if they actually had the Skidbladnir to navigate the Digital Sea to realize this.

Gallery

Aelita and Yumi playing a game.

Ulrich and Odd back in the Factory after the vacation.

Hiroki introduces his friend, Johnny, to Yumi.

Odd complaining about being in another class this year.

Odd begging to see the principal.

Jeremie looking at his laptop.

Yumi and Ulrich talking about their friendship.

Odd laughing because of what Jim is doing in the video.

The Superscan finds the Desert Replika and X.A.N.A. in New Mexico

Monsters seen in Sector 5 as seen on the computer.

The Countdown.

Aelita back in the scanner.

Lyoko Warriors on their vehicles in the Ice Sector.

The Transport Orb about to bring the Lyoko Warriors to Sector 5.

Ulrich saving Odd just at time.

The Lyoko Warriors being shot by the Manta's.

Odd about to jump from the Manta.

Manta being destroyed.

The Core of Lyoko!

The Core being attacked.

There goes Yumi.

There goes Odd too.

Ulrich super-sprinting to Aelita.

And there goes Ulrich.

Aelita creating her first Energy Field.

Finally, Aelita is devirtualized.