Keeping The Peace

Due to a sudden diamond finding in a small town several forces are at arms with each other. With the AN's Sawada involved, Guile must get to the bottom of what's going on before it's to late.

Guile and Escher talk over shots of a town, explaining that the town has suddenly boomed due to a farmer digging up a well and finding a fortune in emeralds. The problem is that no-one knows where the border is and who claims what and there are several forces at tense terms with each other. AN troops have been sent in but Escher wants Guile to go down as it might be an ideal spot for Bison to plan something. Guile goes down there, gets into a fight in a Street Fighter match, wins, then goes to his apartment. T.Hawk shows up (he's working with the AN in this episode) and ...arrests Guile by order of Sawada for "breaking the peace", which Guile scoffs at, only to be told that Sawada is now a Colonel, which was Guile's previous rank before he was discharged.
 

A flash back reveals what happened. After the assault in Shadowloo city and the victory against Bison, a court session was held was Captain Sawada accused Guile of disobeying a direct order and putting everyone's lives in danger.
 

The jeep pulls up to the AN HQ, and Sawada asks Guile why he is here. Sawada explains that there are now two major sides, but Guile says he hasn't been sent to help either of them. Sawada starts to go on about recent attacks when a sniper dot appears on his head which Guile notices, and shoves Sawada out of the way before the shots hit him.
 

Guile, T.Hawk and Sawada rush outside to try and get the sniper before he has a chance to leave, but instead, General Mendoza shows up, asking what is up. Sawada explains about the sniper attack, and Mendoza brings forward a man they just happened to find who was carrying a sniper rifle. Sawada thanks the general and offers to take the man in, but Mendoza says that he will take him to the proper authorities.
 

Guile leaves as Sawada and T.Hawk return to the HQ. Guile meets up with Chun-Li, the latter of which has found out about some shifty looking guys making a "delivery", so she and Guile follow them. They end up at one of Mendoza's mines, which the men go into, then run out. Guile says he'll go see what is in the mine and orders Chun-Li to follow the men.
 

Guile walks down into the mine and finds a bomb. Realising how much is left on the timer he tries to defuse it, but then simply Sonic Booms it, breaking the bomb.
 

Guile meets up with Chun-Li again and tells her what happened in the mine. Guile grabs a pair of binoculars he seemed to get out of nowhere to spy on the men who set the bomb in the mine meeting up with the general. Just after that an alarm sounds and Guile and Chun-Li have to face off a few of the general's troops before running away.
 

Mendoza goes to his base's cellar to inform... Sagat! You see, Bison sent Sagat to work with the general. By blowing up his own mines, people will show sympathy towards Mendoza's side and the AN will side with them. But because of the seemingly faulty bomb (hint: Guile Sonic Boomed it) the plan has been ruined slightly. Sagat says the AN must lose something important, and who better than Sawada. Mendoza rings Sawada and tells him that they extracted information from the captured sniper, who told them that his people were going to attack one of the general's mines tonight. Sawada says he will protect the mine and gets a strike force ready. Guile and Chun-Li show up and try to convince him that the general is a fraud, but he refuses to believe that and goes off.
 

Sawada goes off with a few troops in an attack vehicle, but Sagat's force detonates some explosives which flip the vehicle over. Sawada and his men scramble out and return fire on their attackers. Guile, Chun-Li and T.Hawk see this and decide to get down there via jeep.
 

Sagat's forces surround the AN troops and eventually close in, and force them to surrender. They are taken to the mine to be killed, but thanks Sawada mentioning Guile being right, Sagat gets mad at Mendoza. Sawada punches down a guard with a special move and runs off.
 

Two of Sagat's troops run after him, but Sawada does another special move thing which slices their guns up. They run off, but then Sagat shouts that if Sawada doesn't come out, all of his troops will die. However, they are going to die anyway since Sagat has a bomb prepped, ready to blow up the mine.

Guile and co. show up, Guile burns Sagat badly, and then tries to fight him, but Sagat runs off to the bomb and arms it before running off. Mendoza and his men run out of the mine, so Sawada tells T.Hawk to take the AN troops and Chun-Li out whilst he and Guile deal with Sagat. Sawada stays with the bomb whilst Guile chases Sagat, but Sagat uses his Tiger Shot to destroy part of the mine's roof, and Guile can't follow him any more.

Sawada tries to disarm the bomb but is running out of time. Guile annoys him by saying he should stop and let him take over as he's done this once today already, but Sawada says that each bomb is different are reacts differently to anything done to it. Guile persists which ticks Sawada off and gets him into a fist fight with Guile. Guile knocks out Sawada with a Sonic Boom and then carries him out of the mine as the bomb explodes.

The bomb goes off but Guile and Sawada make it out okay. With the general and his troops captured by the AN guys, alls well that ends well.

Sawada makes his first appearance in the series here. He was originally a new character in the Street Fighter live action movie who was seen in the battle scenes near the end. He looks quite different there than here though, and his accent is completely different to the movie version of Sawada. It's also ironic how in the flash back scene, Sawada is shown dobbing Guile in for it, but in the movie, Sawada was move than ready to help Guile out, even if it meant not following orders. Sawada shows up again in "The Hammer Strikes" and suddenly has a samurai sword, for some reason.


Thanks to an animation layers cock-up, during the sniper attack Guile actually gets shot twice, although it's actually suppose to be the filing cabinets behind him that have been hit. Guile doesn't act as if he's been shot so animators, you are no good.


In the opening of this episode, it shows you a few shots of the town as Guile and Escher talk. A newspaper blows past at once point, and it seems to have the same stories as the one seen in "Chunnel Vision" what with the "Mad Gear gang busted!" and all, although this one has a picture of some guy on it.

The timers for both the bombs are pretty ridiculous. The first bomb, for example, has about six seconds left when Guile realises what it is, but somehow Guile has enough time to move up to the bomb, try to disarm it, then throw a Sonic Boom at it. The timer for the second bomb seems to get caught in slow motion when Guile and Sawada start to fight each other, too.