Attack on Titan Season 4 Part 1

Hange and Floch's group hear the explosion of the Thunder Spear and decide to investigate. Meanwhile, a female Pure Titan approaches the dying Zeke, tears open her abdomen and places him inside. Yelena and the Volunteers hold the Paradis government hostage with the threat of them being turned into Titans as most of them have drunk the wine that was spiked with Zeke's spinal fluid. She then explains Zeke and Eren's euthanasia plan to the imprisoned Survey Corps members: a widespread Eldian sterilization to prevent the births of any more Subjects of Ymir until the death of Historia's child, after which humanity will be free from the threat of Titans. In the meantime, they will use the threat of the Rumbling to prevent interference on Paradis from other nations. Eren meets with Gabi, ordering her to cooperate with him, but is interrupted by Pieck who surprisingly offers to join the Jaegerists. She states that the Marleyans must be punished for their poor tr...

The badly wounded Zeke Jaeger remembers his life. As a child, Zeke was treated harshly by his parents Grisha Jaeger and Dina Fritz, especially when he fell behind in his Warrior training. In addition, he also experienced the Marleyans' attitudes towards Eldians. They saw him as a tool in their plans to restore Eldian society and overthrow Marley. One day, Zeke encountered Tom Ksaver who was the current owner of the Beast Titan and over the years, they developed a father-son relationship while playing catch and sharing information. When Zeke learned that his parents were Restorationists, he turned them over to the police at the urging of Ksaver and to save himself from being turned into a Pure Titan on Paradis. Later, Ksaver told Zeke that his Titan research revealed that the Founding Titan is able to manipulate the body structure of Eldians, the Subjects of Ymir. Together, Zeke and Ksaver resolved to "save" the Eldian people from further persecution by s...

At their round-table discussion, Eren claims he is acting on his own free will. As each Titan host is affected by memories of its previous owner, Eren asserts that Armin is being manipulated into regularly visiting Annie's crystal by Bertholdt's memories. Eren then reveals that Mikasa has been programmed to protect the Eldian royal family because of her Ackerman bloodline, being no more than a slave in his eyes, for which he had hated her since they were children. Enraged, Armin attacks Eren, although he's first unwillingly stopped by Mikasa. Eren repeats that it is due to Mikasa's lineage. Armin punches Eren in the face and is sent into a shelf. After Eren beats him and mentions he would never last in a fight, he and the Jaegerists take Armin, Mikasa and Gabi to Shiganshina District where Eren plans to rejoin Zeke. In the forest, Levi plans to have Zeke eaten by a Jaegerist to prevent Eren from using the Founding Titan. However, Zeke runs from the cam...

In the forest, Zeke tells Levi that four years earlier on Marley's orders, his spinal fluid was released in a gaseous form towards the Ragako villagers on Paradis. He says it initially paralyzed them, then he turned them into Titans with his scream. Zeke claims he did it to maintain his cover, but Levi accuses him of not truly caring for the people he killed. During Nicolo's dinner for the Braus family, Kaya points him out to Gabi and Falco as the Marleyan who invited them, explaining that Nicolo was probably in love with Sasha. After the Survey Corps arrive in the restaurant to question him, he forcefully takes a bottle of Marleyan wine from Conny and Jean, telling them that it would be wasted on Eldians. Nicolo takes the wine with him to the cellar, to where Gabi and Falco follow him, revealing themselves as Candidates and telling him that a global alliance is preparing for an assault on the island. Nicolo deduces that Gabi killed Sasha, and attempts to blud...

Gabi kills her prison guard and escapes with Falco into the wilderness. They are found by a young girl named Kaya who offers them food and shelter at the Braus stables. Lady Azumabito arrives at the completed docks with a Hizuru delegation and a covered aircraft powered by Iceburst Stone, which she describes as the "world's first flying boat." For leaking information about Eren's imprisonment to the press, Hange incarcerates four Survey Corps members including Floch and Louise. Meanwhile at the Braus stables, after Gabi rails against Kaya for being a "devil", Kaya reveals that she knows Gabi and Falco are Marleyans. Kaya explains how her village was destroyed and her mother was eaten alive by a Titan four years ago, and questions why these people should die for sins committed by Eldians hundreds of years ago. Falco calms the emotions between Gabi and Kaya, and the latter informs them that they have been invited to dinner at the restaurant r...

Gabi kills her prison guard and escapes with Falco into the wilderness. They are found by a young girl named Kaya who offers them food and shelter at the Braus stables. Lady Azumabito arrives at the completed docks with a Hizuru delegation and a covered aircraft powered by Iceburst Stone, which she describes as the "world's first flying boat." For leaking information about Eren's imprisonment to the press, Hange incarcerates four Survey Corps members including Floch and Louise. Meanwhile at the Braus stables, after Gabi rails against Kaya for being a "devil", Kaya reveals that she knows Gabi and Falco are Marleyans. Kaya explains how her village was destroyed and her mother was eaten alive by a Titan four years ago, and questions why these people should die for sins committed by Eldians hundreds of years ago. Falco calms the emotions between Gabi and Kaya, and the latter informs them that they have been invited to dinner at the restaurant r...

Two years ago on Zeke's advice, a special envoy of Hizuru, Kiyomi Azumabito, landed on the newly-completed docks of Paradis Island for negotiations. A tattoo on Mikasa's arm revealed that she is the descendant of Hizuru's ruling shogun. Lady Azumabito believed that Hizuru could help Paradis achieve Zeke's plan using the Rumbling for Paradis' protection, in return for acquisition of the valuable Iceburst Stone - the mysterious Paradis substance which powered ODM gear. She listed Zeke's propositions: to enact a test of the Rumbling, strengthen and modernize the Paradis military, and for the Beast Titan to be passed down to someone of royal blood who would bear children to pass on the titan every 13 years. Historia agreed to inherit the Beast Titan, but Eren vehemently rejected Lady Azumabito's proposal. However, Hizuru's help rooted in greed, and a year later, they would not help Paradis negotiate trade with other nations, hoping to kee...

Three years prior to the attack on Marley, Eren's Attack Titan destroyed the first Marleyan scout ship and its crew were captured. Yelena and other Marleyan conscripted deserters who call themselves the "Anti-Marleyan Volunteers", offered help to the Eldians, backing Zeke Jaeger's plan to carry out the Rumbling in order to support them against Marley. Yelena and Onyankopon provided them with schematics of Marleyan guns and advanced weaponry. Using Yelena to lure in more scout ships while Armin's Colossal Titan takes some of them down, the Survey Corps recruited Marleyan soldiers as labor to build docks for the island. In the present, a Marleyan chef named Nicolo, who befriended the now deceased Sasha, grieves for her death and encounters the Braus family, inviting them to his restaurant. Meanwhile, Levi shows Zeke the Forest of Giant Trees where they will be staying, and Commander Pyxis has the Volunteers detained in order to keep Zeke on a sho...

Eren engages in a brief battle with Reiner's Armored Titan, who is quickly beaten by Eren but manages to save Porco. Eren, having reached his limit, stops fighting and escapes with Mikasa. Levi arrests Eren for initiating his own mission and involving the Survey Corps in his rescue. Gabi rushes after the airship with a rifle, but is stopped by Falco who realizes the enemy's own need for revenge after the devastating attack on Paradis aiming to secure the Founding Titan. Gabi refuses and kills the Survey Corps recruit Lobov, then uses his ODM gear to reach the airship with Falco. Gabi climbs aboard and shoots Sasha in the chest. Pieck tells Magath that the woman who trapped them prior to the battle is a soldier named Yelena who was a member of the missing first naval scout fleet sent to Paradis three years prior. Gabi and Falco are taken before Zeke who appears to have switched sides. Sasha dies from her wounds and Eren starts laughing after hearing her last ...

The Survey Corps surround Porco's Jaw Titan, but they come under attack from Pieck's Cart Titan carrying the Panzer Unit armed with machine guns, which are effective at picking them off. While Eren is distracted by the commotion, Lara partially re-materializes the War Hammer Titan, impaling and trapping the Attack Titan in a tree-like structure made of its hardened substance, but fails to pierce its nape. Zeke's Beast Titan arrives while Marleyan soldiers surround Liberio. Falco emerges from underground, protected by a bud-like shield formed by Reiner's partial transformation. Eren transforms for the third time to escape the War Hammer Titan. As the Survey Corps lose several soldiers, Armin arrives and transforms into the Colossal Titan, destroying the Marleyan Navy. Levi uses the distraction to disable the Beast Titan, dropping a grenade on the fallen Titan's nape. Sasha kills a machine gunner of the Panzer Unit on the Cart Titan's back, ena...

Willy begins his theatrical presentation to the audience while Eren and a terrified Reiner listen in the basement below the stage with Falco. Willy tells the well-known story of Marley's hero Helos, who formed an alliance with the Tybur family to defeat the Eldian King Fritz. However, he reveals Fritz and the Tybur family fabricated the myth themselves since Fritz longed for peace. His ideology was passed through his bloodline, which kept his successors bound to his desire, while vowing to release the Wall Titans if the peace is shattered by Marley. Meanwhile, Pieck and Porco are sent down a trap door by a Marleyan soldier, which drops them into a small, stone-walled cellar, preventing them from transforming into Titans. On stage, Willy announces that an uprising has occurred on Paradis, and that the Founding Titan has been stolen by a man called Eren Jaeger. Willy explains that Eren is a threat to world peace as he is not bound by Fritz's vow to renounce wa...

Willy begins his theatrical presentation to the audience while Eren and a terrified Reiner listen in the basement below the stage with Falco. Willy tells the well-known story of Marley's hero Helos, who formed an alliance with the Tybur family to defeat the Eldian King Fritz. However, he reveals Fritz and the Tybur family fabricated the myth themselves since Fritz longed for peace. His ideology was passed through his bloodline, which kept his successors bound to his desire, while vowing to release the Wall Titans if the peace is shattered by Marley. Meanwhile, Pieck and Porco are sent down a trap door by a Marleyan soldier, which drops them into a small, stone-walled cellar, preventing them from transforming into Titans. On stage, Willy announces that an uprising has occurred on Paradis, and that the Founding Titan has been stolen by a man called Eren Jaeger. Willy explains that Eren is a threat to world peace as he is not bound by Fritz's vow to renounce wa...