A frazzled Yor is gasping for breath as she fights assassins on the luxury ship’s upper deck, while Loid and Anya retreat towards their rooms after enjoying a beautiful fireworks display. The opening scene of Spy x Family Season 2 Episode 9 effectively sums up the vastly different experience that Forger family is having onboard the Luxury Cruise Lorelai, with a dash of subtle humor.

Read: Spy x Family Episode 1 Review for plot overview

Titled “The Hand That Connects to the Future,” this episode of Spy x Family continues its focus on Yor Forger’s battle with hired contract killers. Unbeknownst to her, the ship has been planted with several bombs to ensure they all die before their planned escape. Luckily, Loid figures out about the plnated explosives after overhearing state security personnel. So, even the top spy finally gets to do some serious work as he slips into a disguise to help with the bomb situation after dropping Anya at a child-care station. However, mind-reader Anya is determined to help her mom Yor and slips out to have her own dangerous little adventure. Will the Spy Family survive this?

With each protagonist busy with their own missions, this edition moves at lightning speed and will keep loyal fans entertained throughout. Anya, being her goofy, nosy self and thinking she can save the world, had the most amusing bits in the story. In some more character development, Loid too starts to have a slight shift in his views on what it means to be a family. While most of the tone of this episode is dark and serious, with Anya’s scenes serving as comic relief in between, the ending, for a change, does not close with a cliffhanger and instead wraps up the cruise chapter on an optimistic note. It’s a well-rounded chapter.

You can stream Spy x Family on Netflix.

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