Episode 26

FOLLOW PAPA AND MAMA (MISSION: 26　ちちとははをびこうせよ) is the twenty-sixth episode of the SPY x FAMILY TV anime series, and the first episode of the second season.

Synopsis
Yor is shot in the butt while on a mission and looks miserable when she gets home. Loid mistakes her very apparent miserable mood as her being unhappy with their marriage of convenience and offers to take her out on a date.

Summary
After assassinating an armed militant group, Yor speaks to her employer over the phone, confirming her job completion. As she plans to get milk and eggs for Loid before she goes home, she does not notice that one of her victims still lives as he aims a gun at her and shoots.

At home, Loid, Anya, and Bond are watching a news report on TV regarding the death of members of the Red Circus, a radical terrorist group. Anya, disinterested in the news, asks to watch cartoons instead. Loid initially refuses but is persuaded by Anya's tearing up, and she happily switches the TV to Spy Wars. Loid greets Yor as she arrives home with the groceries but is concerned by Yor's irritated facial expression. Yor mentally reveals she got shot in the butt and that her grumpy facial expression is due to the intense pain, shocking Anya. As Yor goes to bed, Loid mistakenly assumes she is upset at being asked to do errands and is determined to fix it and hopes she will feel better in the morning.

As the morning comes, Yor still has not recovered from her injury, with her expression even worse than before. Determined to cheer Yor up, Loid invites her out on a date. Recalling a conversation with her co-workers about not going on dates, Yor agrees to the date, wanting to learn to play the part of a married woman. Anya is excited about going on a date with them, but Loid rejects her as it would not be a date with her there, to her shock. Loid gets Franky to look after Anya and Bond while he and Yor go on their date, paying him for his help.

Determined to give Yor the perfect date, Loid even gets a chauffeur and comes up with 862 date ideas, including a helicopter and wine date. Unfortunately, Yor is still in pain from her injury and unable to sit, preferring to walk for their date. This eliminates 794 of Loid's date ideas, and he believes she is still angry with him. As Loid and Yor head off, Anya is worried about the two of them. Remembering a scene from her cartoon, she proposes to Franky that they shadow Loid and Yor on their date. Franky happily agrees, wanting to observe Loid's seduction arts, and the two get into disguises while Bond guards the home with Anya's toys.

Despite their attempts to not be seen, Loid is able to spot them within seconds, but pretends not to notice to prioritize cheering up Yor. Loid brings her to a mall and suggests a suit for Yor to wear, but she refuses as the pants would put pressure on her wound. Loid continues to take Yor to other date locations, including the cinema, the club, the pond, the spa, and the zoo, but is deterred by Yor's apparent lack of interest. On the other hand, Yor is unable to focus on the date due to the pain, while Loid is distressed at being unable to cheer Yor up at all.

Franky laughs at Loid for being unsuccessful on the date and begins bantering with Anya as Loid and Yor enter an expensive-looking restaurant. Franky and Anya try to enter the restaurant as well but get rejected due to their casual clothing and Anya's age. As they prepare to go home, Anya's mind-reading abilities pick up on someone recognizing Yor's assassin identity, "Thorn Princess." A waiter inside the restaurant turns out to be the sole survivor from the Red Circus group that Yor assassinated earlier and decides to avenge his fallen comrades. Although Anya knows that Yor can likely take care of herself, she worries that Yor will expose her identity and cause Loid to break up the family. At her insistence, Franky and Anya decide to infiltrate the restaurant in spy getup.

At the restaurant, Loid and Yor order drinks, while Loid praises the restaurant for being the few that serve blowfish. The former Red Circus member squeezes blowfish poison into a cocktail glass and serves it to Yor in an attempt to kill her. Meanwhile, Anya is inside the vents with Franky, overhearing his plan and tries to hurry Franky. Anya is too late, as the blowfish-poison martini is already being served to Yor. Yor drinks the poisonous martini, but it is revealed that she has a high tolerance for poison, and the blowfish poison has simply numbed her injury. Yor is once again joyful, confusing Loid and the Red Circus member.

Despite his failure, the former Red Circus member decides to improvise a bomb with ingredients from the storeroom. Anya, still in the vent, notices the room is just nearby and vanishes from Franky's sight. As the former Red Circus member recites the steps to making the improvised bomb, he slips on a large puddle of olive oil in the hallway and sends him crashing into a shelf. As he enters the storeroom, a bucket of objects falls on his head. He notices a container that would be suitable, but soon realizes that the swelling container is a bomb. The makeshift bomb explodes on him, revealing that it was just made non-lethal with peanuts. Anya appears before him, threatening him not to approach Yor ever again and to make his girlfriend, Catherine, happy. The former Red Circus member faints at the shock of an apparent child underling of the Thorn Princess knowing his personal details, but not before deciding to live a normal life.

Yor, no longer in pain, talks cheerfully to Loid about the restaurant's food, and Loid is relieved that she has finally cheered. Franky and Anya hide behind a bush as they watch Loid and Yor, with Anya proud of herself for helping out and Franky wondering where she went earlier. As Loid and Yor look out at the city's night scenery, Yor thanks Loid for taking her out on a date and hopes they will be able to do this again (when she is not injured). Yor notices a carnival, and Loid proposes they visit it. Anya excitedly insists on tagging along, wanting to ride the Ferris wheel. The next day, the numbing poison wears off and Yor is once again in pain, to Loid's confusion.

Anime Notes

 * Due to this adaptation of Extra Mission 2 taking place much later than it originally did in the manga, Bond appears in this episode, having already become a member of the Forger family.
 * When Anya and Franky leave home to tail Loid and Yor, Bond is shown left in charge of guarding the house alongside Director Chimera and Agent Penguinman.
 * In the opening scene where Yor is talking to the Shopkeeper by phone, there are no bodies near the desk where she is making the call. In the manga, there was body on the desk, another in front of the desk and a third body nailed to the pillar on the left.
 * There are additional scenes showing Anya and Franky's perspective at the date spots Loid takes Yor to.
 * When Loid and Yor go to the mall, the outfit that Loid tells Yor she would look great in is actually the same suit she will later wear at the start of the Cruise Adventure Arc (Chapter 45 specifically). This is different from the manga, where Loid recommended an indistinct outfit with long pants.
 * When Loid and Yor visit the zoo, instead of seeing an elephant, they go to a bear exhibit, where the bear sees Yor's pained face and backs away in fear.
 * Loid and Yor's visit to the bookstore does not appear in the anime.
 * When Loid and Yor enjoy their dinner, they appear to be talking, though there is no dialogue. The English dub adds dialogue to this scene, with Loid wondering aloud what Anya is doing, and Yor replies that she is "torturing Franky," to which Loid chuckles in response.
 * In the Latin American Spanish dub, the dialogue of the Red Circus Survivor is not censored when he is thinking of the ingredients to make the bomb. In the dub, the five uncensored items he lists are: acetone, peroxide, cyanide, baking soda and amonia.