SPY x FAMILY Season 3 Episode 4
SPY x FAMILY Season 3, Episode 4: The Obsidian Chess Gambit Teaser: The Walls Have Ears And Eyes The air in Ostania’s capital has grown heavy, not with the promise of peace, but with the pressure of escalating intelligence warfare.
This episode opens with a chilling reality: WISE knows the SSS (State Security Service) has been hunting for Twilight’s weakest point, and that weakness is named Anya Forger.
The plot spirals when Loid Forger master spy Twilight is forced into a deadly, no-win scenario: save Anya’s life, or save his identity.
The SSS is not attempting a simple capture; they are executing a sophisticated psychological trap designed to make the unflappable spy commit a fatal error in the public eye.
An imminent threat, masked as a routine school activity, looms over Eden Academy, and this time, Twilight must choose between the success of Operation Strix and the survival of the family he was only meant to simulate.
He believes this is a test from Ostanian counter-intelligence, but the true threat is far more intimate and deadly, originating from a direction no one not even Loid or Yor could possibly predict.
The Thorn Princess is about to learn that protecting her family means becoming a target, and the psychic girl’s silent scream is the only thing standing between them and a firing squad.
Important Characters and Their Motivations Character Role in the Episode Motivation/Conflict Loid Forger (Twilight) The centerpiece of the SSS trap.
He is working a new WISE directive involving a high-value data package being moved near Eden Academy.
Motivation: Maintain the illusion of the perfect family man while completing his mission and, crucially, proving his real dedication to Anya when her life is threatened.
Conflict: The SSS forces him to choose between his cover and Anya.
Yor Forger (Thorn Princess) Tasked by her handler with a discreet assassination in a crowded district, she is pulled back toward Eden Academy by a sudden, intense feeling of dread.
Motivation: Secure her identity as a government employee and a loving wife/mother.
Her primal urge to protect Anya overrides all mission protocol.
Conflict: Her two worlds collide; she must use her lethal skills in a non-lethal, public capacity without exposing the Thorn Princess.
Anya Forger (The Telepath) The unwitting bait in the SSS trap.
She reads the true, horrifying intentions of the new SSS operative, which causes her to panic and lose control of her powers.
Motivation: Keep the fake family together at all costs.
She must find a way to warn Papa (Loid) without him knowing she can read minds, lest she ruin Operation Strix.
Conflict: The mental noise from the SSS plotters is too overwhelming to discern specific details.
Bond Forger (The Future-Seer) Serves as Anya's crucial, silent communication link.
He sees a flash image of Loid being unmasked and Anya crying, triggering his protective instincts.
Motivation: Protect Anya.
He uses his future sight to guide Loid indirectly through subtle actions.
Agent Dagger (SSS) New Character.
A cold, high-ranking SSS operative within the State Security Agency, disguised as an innocuous Eden Academy groundskeeper and janitor.
Motivation: Execute the Obsidian Gambit, a plan to psychologically corner Twilight, force him to use his spy skills publicly to save Anya, and expose him as an agent of WISE.
He aims for maximum spectacle to demoralize Westalis.
Conflict: He is overly reliant on his psychological profiling of Twilight and underestimates Yor's maternal rage.
Important Scenes in Sequence 1.
The Garden of Lies The episode opens at Eden Academy, which is hosting a “Future Leaders’ Environmental Day.
” Loid, meticulously dressed and maintaining his genial father persona, is attending a silent auction while simultaneously tracking a WISE data courier in the adjacent district.
The new groundskeeper, Agent Dagger, offers Loid a friendly, almost unsettlingly specific compliment about Anya's potential.
As Dagger turns away, Anya, playing with Bond near the gardening shed, touches his tool cart.
A horrific thought instantly floods her mind: a detailed mental blueprint of a catastrophic failure, a plan to detonate a pressurized steam pipe beneath the main stage during the auction’s climax, leading directly to Loid’s location.
The thought is clear: Eliminate the child first, then watch Twilight break cover.
Anya is mentally paralyzed, dropping her garden trowel.
2.
Yor’s Interruption Meanwhile, Yor is several blocks away, scouting a target for her current assassination mission a corrupt defense contractor.
Just as she prepares to strike, a deep, bone-chilling dread, a feeling she hasn't had since her days training as a child, washes over her.
It's an overwhelming, non-specific urge to return to her daughter.
She abandons the Thorn Princess mission mid-setup, creating a complicated mess for her handler, but races back toward the school in a frenzy of speed and anxiety, her shopping bag swinging wildly.
3.
The Activation and the Freeze Dagger, noticing Loid has received a discrete, urgent message on his comms from WISE, subtly triggers the steam pipe pressure release system.
Loid, reading the WISE message (Package inbound, SSS counter-op suspected, abort if compromised), realizes he has minutes before the disaster.
He starts making his way toward Anya, pretending to be distracted.
Anya, unable to speak a verbal warning without giving away her powers, grabs Bond and focuses her psychic energy, projecting a chaotic, visual warning directly into Loid’s mind: a flash image of the groundskeeper's murderous intent, followed by a vision of Loid wearing his spy mask (Twilight), not his doctor clothes.
Loid, momentarily stunned by the psychic intrusion (which he dismisses as severe stress-induced paranoia), realizes the immediate danger is not the data package, but the pressure pipe.
He understands the meaning of the threat but not the source of the warning.
4.
Twilight’s Impossible Choice Loid sees Dagger positioning himself to block the emergency shut-off valve.
Loid cannot use any non-civilian move no specialized gadgets, no covert takedowns or Dagger will immediately use a coded signal to SSS command, validating his suspicions and exposing Twilight.
Loid must act as a frantic, concerned civilian.
He yells a fabricated warning about a gas leak to create chaos, but Dagger ignores him.
Loid then fakes a severe sprain, drawing close to Dagger, and with a seemingly clumsy fall, he uses a microscopic, almost invisible nerve pinch he learned in training (a move too minor to be suspicious but effective) on Dagger’s wrist.
The groundskeeper flinches, losing control of his hand for a crucial second.
Loid capitalizes on this, seemingly stumbling over Dagger and accidentally hitting the hidden pressure release switch with his elbow, diverting the explosion away from the main stage and toward an empty equipment shed.
The resulting boom is muffled but jarring.
Security immediately rushes toward the shed, giving Loid precious moments.
Dagger, recovering instantly, knows he has been subtly countered.
He realizes Twilight did not use a spy move, but Loid’s reaction was too surgical for a doctor.
He hesitates, watching Loid rush to Anya.
5.
The Thorn Princess’s Veto Just as Dagger prepares to engage Loid physically, Yor arrives in a blur.
Seeing Loid rushing towards the debris and Anya clinging to Bond in tears, she sees only one thing: a sinister figure (Dagger) standing menacingly between her husband and daughter.
With pure, uncontrolled speed, Yor intervenes.
She doesn't use the stiletto weapons of the Thorn Princess.
Instead, in a display of terrifying civilian strength, she executes a perfect, non-lethal move: a swift, devastating reverse-laundry-toss-and-spin, using her heavy shopping bag (now full of bricks she bought as a cover for her abandoned mission) to knock Dagger off his feet and send him spinning into a compost heap, completely incapacitating him through sheer blunt force trauma while looking like a clumsy, panicked mother.
Dagger is knocked unconscious, his coded signal un-sent.
Yor simply dusts herself off, checks on Anya, and looks at Loid with genuine relief: Loid, darling, are you alright? That man was acting suspiciously, so I just.
tidied him away.
Loid, staring at the motionless Dagger in the compost heap, is left speechless.
He had planned a complex espionage escape; Yor solved it with a sack of bricks and a domestic reflex.
The Climax and The Dramatic Twist Loid, still reeling from the psychic vision and Yor's unexpected intervention, quickly checks Dagger, confirming he is SSS based on a concealed patch.
Loid realizes the entire school event was a highly sophisticated setup to force him to break cover.
Twilight manages to discreetly plant a tracer on Dagger before the academy security arrives.
The Twist: Later that evening, WISE debriefs Loid, confirming the SSS was indeed targeting him.
Loid is confident the crisis is averted, and his cover is intact.
