Lana Del Rey performs "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans".

Paul Brittain's final episode as a cast member.

Mick Jagger performs "The Last Time" with Arcade Fire , a medley of "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" with Foo Fighters, and "Tea Party", an original blues tune with Jeff Beck and the SNL Band.

Abby Elliott, Andy Samberg and Kristen Wiig's final episode as cast members.

Jon Hamm appears in the "Lawrence Welk Show" cold-open.

Chris Parnell appears in the SNL Digital Short, "Lazy Sunday 2".

Steve Martin appears in "The Californians" sketch.

Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Chris Kattan, Will Forte, and Lorne Michaels appear during the goodnights.

Operation Enduring Freedom
* Afghanistan (2001-14)
* Philippines
* Horn of Africa
* Trans Sahara
Iraq War

Index-tan complains about her lack of screen time, Laura answers people's questions about the movie, and Tōma tries to decide which girl he should punch.
Lucia and the Amakusa Catholics hold off the battle nuns while Tōma, Index and Orsola continue onwards to the flagship. While Tōma distracts an army of ice golems, he soon encounters Biagio, who uses his magic enlarging crosses and gravity magic to defeat him. Meanwhile, Orsola manages to finds Agnese but is soon found by Biagio who reveals he needs Agnese so he can use the Fleet's powers to destroy Academy City. As Biagio subdues them, Tōma arrives and knocks him down. With his plans foiled, Biagio activates the Fleet's self destruction spell that will cause a large explosion. Tōma orders Orsola to escape with Agnese and the others while he fights Biagio one more time, finally defeating him and stopping the spell despite the flagship sinking. As Tōma wakes up in a hospital, he gets a call from Heaven Canceler who informs him that he is being flown back to Academy City and reminds him of Mikoto's bet for him. In London, Kaori is informed of the recent events by Motoharu and greets Orsola, who has returned with Agnese. Meanwhile in the Vatican, a nun with a pierced face from God's Right Seat forces the Pope to sign an order to investigate Tōma and eliminate him if he is seen as an enemy.
Having survived the explosion, Tōma is found by Accelerator, who is impressed that Tōma has managed to actually bring him so close to death. Tōma lands a hit on Accelerator, realizes his Imagine Breaker is able to nullify the latter's powers, and continues to physically beat the esper up with his right hand. Accelerator breaks away and begins to manipulate the air to launch projectiles at Tōma, who is saved when Mikoto arrives. However, she realizes that Accelerator is creating a plasma attack by controlling the direction of the wind and condensing it into one place. Finding the injured Misaka 10032, Mikoto convinces her to tell the other Sisters to increase the city's wind turbines to disrupt the wind Accelerator needs for his attack. Unable to form his plasma storm, Accelerator tries to make a final lunge at Tōma, who knocks him out with a punch before fainting. When Tōma wakes up, he is in the hospital with Misaka 10032, who explains that the experiment has been halted and that all the surviving Sisters will be sent away to be treated for their shortened lifespans but promises to meet him again someday. In the morning, he is visited by Mikoto, who thanks him for saving the Sisters, and then by a worried and annoyed Index, who wants him to come to her for help next time.
While Heaven Canceler attends to Seiri, Stiyl manages to lead Tōma and Tsuchimikado to Oriana's location. Oriana inflicts a curse on Tsuchimikado and gives Tōma trouble with her variety of spells, yet Tōma's determination allows him to land a hit on her. Oriana escapes but leaves behind her cargo, which is later revealed to be a decoy. Laura soon learns that the Stab Sword is actually the Croce di Pietro, an artifact which she fears the Catholic Church will use to put Academy City under their control if the trade goes through. After Tōma, Stiyl and Tsuchimikado are informed of this, Tōma has lunch with Index, his parents, Mikoto and Misuzu, and is surprise to learn Misuzu is actually Mikoto's mother.
Imaginary Number School District - Five-Element Agency

After killing the members of the Akai squad, the Gauna proceeds en route of collision with Sidonia and Captain Kobayashi orders an emergency evasive maneuver by accelerating diagonally at level 5. This causes massive casualties in the ship's residential area, despite the citizens' efforts to brace themselves. As the Gauna makes a turn back to target the ship again, Kobayashi orders dozens of guardians to defend it, and sends Kunato, Shizuka, En Honoka, and Nagate to salvage one of the weapons used by the KIA squad to fight the Gauna: the Kabizashi. However, just as Nagate's team retrieves the artifact, Gauna 487 turns it's attention to them and fires a Heigus particle cannon with a Hegius accelerator that incapacitates all their units, except for Nagate's Tsugumori. Shizuka's unit goes out of control forcing her to bail out and instead of following his orders to tow the other two guardians back, Nagate grabs the Kabizashi and fights the Gauna head on, destroying it with certain ease. As the others celebrate his feat, Nagate disobeys orders once more and leaves in search for Shizuka, despite being warned that he is distancing himself from Sidonia to a point of no return.

The Agnese Forces face off against the Amakusa Catholics as a diversion while Tōma, Stiyl and Index sneak inside an amusement park. While escaping from some of the Amakusa Catholics, Tōma manages to find Orsola and gives her a crucifix necklace that Styil gave him earlier. The two are reunited with Stiyl and Index, who are facing against the leader of the Amakusa Catholics, Saiji Tatemiya. Working together, Tōma and Stiyl defeat Saiji and the rest of the Amakusa Catholics are captured by The Agnese Forces. However, the captured Saiji reveals to Tōma and Index that the Amakusa Catholics have never stolen The Book of the Law, as the real reason the Catholic Church wanted Orsola was to kill her to prevent the secrets of the grimoire from being abused. The Amakusa Catholics only got involved as Orsola sought them for protection but ran away as she did not trust them. Troubled by this revelation, Tōma asks Lucia and Angelene, two of the Catholic battle nuns, to see Orsola again but he accidentally angers Lucia, who tries to kill him, Index and Saiji. However, she and Angelene are forced to retreat when Index uses spell interception on Angelene's magic and counters Lucia's attack.

Lady Antebellum performs "We Owned the Night" and "Just a Kiss".

The Guardians form a defensive line against a second wave of Gaunas incoming from the main body, when Tsumugi manages to free herself and disobeying Kunato's orders to retreat, keeps fighting in a state of fury, despite her wounds. Izana steps in to calm her down and her Guardian ends up too damaged to continue. While Tsumugi takes Izana to safety, Nagate and the others keep attacking the main body until it fuses all its remaining cores into a single structure that fires a powerful Hyggs beam that destroys several Guardians and threatens to deal a lethal blow on Sidonia. However, Tsumugi uses her own body as a shield to deflect the beam and protect the ship. Before the Gauna has a chance to fire again, Nagate ejects Tsugumori's own main propulsor to create an explosion that exposes the main core for the other pilots to destroy it for good. Once recovering, Nagate calls for Izana and Tsumugi, and a wounded Izana calls back, asking for help, with her guardian holding Tsumugi's body, which is severely damaged.
Nagate's fellow pilot Eiko Yamano is killed and absorbed by the Gauna. Nagate regains consciousness and he fights the Gauna that has now taken the shape of Yamano, despite being ordered not to since the Heavy Mass Cannon was fired from Sidonia to drive it away. Nagate skirmishes with the Gauna but having no weapons that are able to eliminate it, Nagate retreats. The shot hits the target and the Gauna is knocked back and away from Sidonia while the remaining cadets return safely home. A funeral is held for Eiko and the high command officially announces that once again, Sidonia is at war against the Gauna. Three days later, Nagate is still disturbed with what happened and barely manages to sleep or eat properly. Even though it has only been three days, his bones have healed, but he is forced to remain wearing the casts. Meanwhile, the four highest ranking veteran pilots, led by Mochikuni Akai, pay a visit to the academy. Word gets out to the cadets, and Kunato and his friends assume they are there to see him, but are shocked when Akai completely ignores them. Instead, Akai approaches Nagate, infuriating Kunato.

Since his defeat, Accelerator is no longer feared by others, though he remains powerful enough to get rid of troublemakers. During the last day of summer vacation, he is approached by a younger Misaka clone capable of showing emotions, who introduces herself as Misaka 20001, nicknamed Last Order, and begins to follow him around, much to his annoyance. Because she is hungry, Accelerator takes Last Order to a restaurant and sees Ao Amai, a former researcher for The Sisters project, but does not pursue him. As Last Order eats, she converses with Accelerator on the Sisters and how she believes that Accelerator was an unwilling participant of the Level 6 Shift project. Tired of her comments, Accelerator leaves her at the restaurant to confront Kikyō Yoshikawa, a researcher in charge of the Level 6 Shift project. She informs him that Last Order was not created for the Sisters project but for administrating the Misaka Network and that Amai injected a virus into Last Order, which could spread to the other Sisters and cause them to go berserk and attack humans. To stop the virus before activating by midnight, she gives Accelerator the choice of finding Amai to explain how to stop the virus or returning Last Order to her incubator, so Accelerator chooses the latter.

Banana Wars
* Spanish–American War
Philippine–American War

After Tōma leaves, Komoe successfully helps Index heal her wounds using an ancient magic ritual but asks Tōma the next morning who she is. When he lies that she is his sister, Komoe spots the fib immediately but decides not to press the issue since she believes it is something he must solve on his own. While Komoe goes out to shop, Tōma learns that Necessarius, the organization that Index belongs to, implanted the Index Librorum Prohibitorum into Index's mind so that she would be a living library for the Church, since reading the originals would curse and taint people. Meanwhile, Stiyl and Kaori continue to watch Index and comment on how her happiness will be short-lived. When Tōma and Index get into a fight and separate, Tōma finds himself in an empty street and meets a girl wielding a nodachi, which so happens to be Kaori.

With her weapon destroyed, Tsumugi attacks the enemy Gauna with her bare hands and Tsuruuchi attempts to take her down while she is distracted but Nagate interrupts him. Tsumugi is then restrained by the Gauna and Nagate steps in to save her. Upon obtaining authorization from Kunato, Tsumugi unleashes an attack that pierces the Gauna instantly, destroying it. Kobayashi then announces that Tsumugi is actually a Chimera, a Gauna-human hybrid developed inside Sidonia, and discontent with the captain for allowing it, the Immortal Ship Assembly decides that they must intervene. After the battle, thanks to Kunato's efforts, all of Ochiai's research is extracted from the auxiliary brain and Kobayashi decides that only she must have direct access to it. Some time later, Kunato holds a meeting to introduce Tsumugi to the public. Upon seeing Nagate, Tsumugi thanks him for helping her, but gets too exited to the point of shaking up the entire room and scaring the audience who turns against her, forcing Kunato to end the meeting. On a later occasion, Nagate and Izana pay a visit to Tsumugi and they become friends with her. Meanwhile, the Immortal Ship Assembly decides unanimously to impeach Kobayashi and have her replaced, but Ochiai appears before them and revealing that he had listened all their conversation, kills all of them under Kobayashi's orders.
Nagate and Shizuka return to Sidonia where they are heralded as heroes and for their services in the last battle, Nagate, Shizuka, Kunato and En Honoka are promoted to official Guardian pilots. In the occasion, Kunato apologizes to Nagate for his previous behavior towards him and Nagate meets Captain Kobayashi, with questions for her about why his grandfather raised him in the underground and why his wounds heal an accelerated rate, but the Captain only asks for him to continue with his good work. After the party, Nagate is approached by Yuhata who asks him to accompany her in a underwater ride and Shizuka and Izana accompany them. However, Yuhata attempts to get alone with Nagate in a bathysphere and when the others interfere, Nagate ends up riding alone with Shizuka instead. The two spend some quality time until they are called for another sortie, as a large Gauna pod is seen approaching Sidonia. Nagate departs to confront the Gauna 488 with Shizuka and wakes up some time later in the hospital, where he learns, to his horror, that Shizuka was killed in the battle.

Kaori, Tsuchimikado and Misha, all suggesting that the spell caster must be someone close to Tōma, join him at the beach resort at night to investigate the source of the spell. Tsuchimikado reveals he used to be an onmyōji before becoming an esper. It is explained that Tsuchimikado and Kaori were able to cast a spell against Angel Fall, but they remain affected, appearing to others as a famous pop singer named Hajime Hitotsui and Stiyl, respectively. Kaori was formerly a priestess of the Amakusa Church, a Japanese Catholic organization, and was a Saint with the gift of stigma, the ability to temporarily use holy powers. However, she left the organization due to her resenting both her fate as a priestess and the concept of luck and fortune. When Tōma later gives Misha some gum using his right hand, she hesitantly takes it, but somehow knowing more about Angel Fall firsthand. The next day, Misha insists on accompanying Shiina back to her new home, since she forgot to lock the door, but Tōma and Tsuchimikado decide to get there first due to suspicion. Upon inspecting the contents of the house, Tōma realizes that Tōya's appearance has not changed upon seeing his family photos. Racing back to the resort, Tōma confronts his father, deduced as the spell caster.
Tōma pursues Hyōka but encounters Sherry instead and is forced to fight her. He learns Sherry once had a friend named Ellis who was an esper involved in an experiment between Necessarius and Academy City twenty years ago to create the first esper-magician hybrid but suffered from the experiment and was killed by the Knights as the experiment was a violation of the truce between science and magic. To prevent this tragedy from occurring again, Sherry intends to divide both sides forever through conflict. Outraged that Sherry does not believe that people who are different like Index and Hyōka could be friends, Tōma successfully defeats Sherry. However, doing so results in Golem Ellis above ground losing control, and Index is cornered until Hyōka suddenly appears and destroys the golem each time it reforms. After Tōma arrives to deliver the finishing blow, Index and Hyōka reconcile, and Hyōka later fades away to the Imaginary Number School District. Meanwhile, Tsuchimikado confronts Aleister upon realizing the later was behind the whole incident all this time to test the Imaginary Number School District and warns him that Tōma will be his enemy if he keeps using him. As each of the characters settle back into their daily lives, Stiyl meets with the Archbishop of Necessarius, Laura Stuart, who decides that Necessarius will need Index and Tōma's help for an upcoming problem as Kaori is missing in Japan after the events of Angel Fall.

Gotye performs "Somebody That I Used to Know" and "Eyes Wide Open" and appeared in the second SNL Digital Short.

Steven Spielberg appears in the first SNL Digital Short.

Kimbra joins Gotye on his first performance.

Maroon 5 performs "Moves Like Jagger" and "Stereo Hearts". Adam Levine also appears in the "Kings of Catchphrase Comedy" commercial and the Greek Economy sketch.

Gym Class Heroes' Travie McCoy joins Maroon 5 for their second performance.

Day's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-star Danny DeVito appears in the opening monologue.

Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center

Following the impact of the Heigus beam, the remaining pilots regroup and attempt to break into the enemy placenta. With her Guardian damaged, Ren Honoka entrusts Nagate with her last core-piercing projectile, asking him to defeat Benisuzume and avenge Hou's death in her place. Ren then withdraws from the battle, along with damaged unit 314. Nagate then stays behind to confront Benisuzume, while Samari and the seven remaining pilots fly inside the Gauna pod to destroy the 'Master Gauna'. Nagate engages Benisuzume in a vicious duel, and is knocked unconscious when his frame is hit, but he is just barely saved by Izana, who is subsequently injured when her frame is damaged by the pursuing Benisuzume. After regaining consciousness, Nagate exhausts his ammunition fighting Benisuzume, and in a last ditch effort, fires Tsugumori's entire left hand, holding the projectile given by Ren, into the Gauna, finally destroying it. Meanwhile, after pilot Kōichi Tsuruuchi exhausts the last of his Heigus supply breaking through the last barrier protecting the 'Master Gauna', the remaining members of Samari's platoon destroy the Gauna's main core. Carrying Tsuruuchi with them, Samari and Seii escape to safety with the others as the anti-planetary missile obliterates its target. Back on the Sidonia, Ren thanks Nagate for fulfilling his promise to avenge Hou, and explains that she and her sisters are only five years old, having undergone accelerated growth and compressed mental training. Nagate pays a visit to Kunato upon learning that the latter intends to quit being a pilot, and despite being unable to forgive him, expresses his desire to fight alongside him in Sidonia's defense, but Kunato leaves without answering. Afterwards, Nagate leaves to visit Placenta Shizuka again, unaware that she is not in the lab anymore.

Tōma returns to school after summer break but is followed by Index, who thinks she will not have anything to eat for lunch while he is away at school. Arriving at school, he learns that Komoe is doing research on AIM , a diffusion field of power that espers emit. When Index arrives in class, Komoe sends her away and then introduces Aisa as the new transfer student. Instead of leaving, Index runs into another transfer student, Hyōka Kazakiri, and befriends her. When Tōma finds them later, Komoe catches Tōma skipping the opening ceremony and Hyōka mysteriously vanishes. Aisa becomes suspicious of Hyōka, recalling her as the top student at her old school but was never seen, and warns Tōma and Komoe about her. Meanwhile, Tsuchimikado meets with Aleister concerning the illegal arrival of a Necessarius mage named Sherry Cromwell in Academy City and, despite Tsuchimikado's offer to take care of Sherry discreetly to preserve the peace between Necessarius and Academy City, Aleister wants Tōma to defeat her, as his involvement will help the "key" to the Five-Element Agency. As Tōma, Index and Hyōka head to an underground mall for lunch, Kuroko finds Sherry and attacks her unsuccessfully when the latter summons a golem. Though Kuroko is saved by Mikoto, Sherry escapes and casts a spell to send eyeballs throughout the city.

Beijing Power Engineering and Electronics Institute

After Tōma has some women trouble with Index, Mikoto and Kuroko following lunch, Tsuchimikado manages to find Oriana's location and instructs him and Stiyl to go there. However, while Tsuchikimado tries to track Oriana, she goes straight to him and attacks him. She defeats Tsuchikimado and destroys his search spell, but he manages to bluff that he has summoned reinforcements to trick her into running away before she finishes him off. Meanwhile, Aisa Himegami becomes worried about Tōma, with Komoe suggesting she should invite him to a night parade at the end of the festival. However, when they bump into Oriana as she makes her escape, she sees Aisa's magic Celtic Cross and mistakes her for a Necessarius magician, attacking her with a vicious spell which leaves her brutally wounded. As Tōma falls into despair upon witnessing her state, Komoe recalls the healing spell she performed on Index, so Stiyl stays to help her perform it while Tōma chases after Oriana.
Gekijōban Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan -Endyumion no Kiseki- ga Attari Nakattari

Coldplay performs "Paradise" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" and appears in the "Someone Like You" sketch. Chris Martin also appears in the "Garth and Kat" segment on Weekend Update.

Andrew Garfield appears in the opening monologue.

The song Ta Douleur by Camille was played during the Les jeunes de Paris sketch.

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

Florence + the Machine performs "Shake It Out" and "No Light, No Light". Florence Welch also appears in the "New Jack Thanksgiving" sketch and the "Massachusetts Afternoon" sketch.

The Muppets - Kermit the Frog , Miss Piggy , Rowlf the Dog , Fozzie Bear , Gonzo the Great , Scooter , Camilla the Chicken and Statler and Waldorf appear in the opening monologue. Additionally, Kermit the Frog appears in a Weekend Update segment, and Rowlf and Gonzo appear in the "Massachusetts Afternoon" sketch.

Paul Rudd appears in the "Vogelchecks' Thanksgiving" sketch and the "Massachusetts Afternoon" sketch.

James Franco is shown in a family photo at the end of the "Vogelchecks' Thanksgiving" sketch, reprising his role as a member of the Vogelcheck family.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman appears on Weekend Update.

Olivia Wilde appears in the SNL Digital Short.

The Black Keys perform "Lonely Boy" and "Gold on the Ceiling".

Maya Rudolph appears as Whitney Houston in "The Miley Cyrus Show" sketch.

Archbishop Laura Stuart informs Stiyl Magnus that The Book of the Law has been stolen and a skilled decoder named Orsola Aquinas has been kidnapped both by the Amakusa Catholics. She sends him, along with a group of Catholic battle nuns known as the Agnese Forces, to Japan to search for this grimoire as well as Orsola. In order to get Tōma's assistance, Stiyl pretends to kidnap Index. While Tōma coincidentally runs into Orsola on the way to save Index, the Amakusa Catholics appear and abduct her via a hole in the ground. After determining that the goal of the Amakusas Catholics is to use a special teleport magic to escape with Orsola before midnight, Tōma, Index, Stiyl and the Agnese Forces set up camp at the required location, where Tōma gets into a lot of awkward situations with the group's leader, Agnese Sanctis. Because Kaori was once an Amakusa Catholic, Stiyl knows he may have to fight her if necessary. Meanwhile, the Amakusa Catholics prepare to make their move.
劇場版とある魔術の禁書目録たん-エンデュミオンの奇蹟-があったりなかったり
In London, the ladies of Necessarius try to learn to use a new washing machine. Back at Academy City, Mikoto finally claims her phone straps, while Tōma encounters Misaka 10032, who is searching for Last Order, and buys her a necklace so he can distinguish her from Mikoto. As Mikoto rejoins them, Misaka 10032 starts teasing her and clinging onto Tōma, attracting the attention of Last Order before Misaka 10032 chases after her again. Elsewhere, Hyōka appears from the Imaginary District and is apprehended by AntiSkill. Accelerator heads to the underground mall to look for Last Order and ends up encountering Index, who decides to help search for her after he treats her to a meal. Meanwhile, Last Order approaches Tōma to thank him for stopping the Level 6 Shift experiment, mentioning how she hopes to protect Accelerator. Tōma and Last Order soon part ways and join up with Index and Accelerator respectively, though Tōma and Accelerator don't actually see each other, and start making their way home.

The first home Ozeta Dukla kit, worn in 1994–95.
The alternative Ozeta Dukla kit, as worn in 1996–03.

It turns out that Tōya knows absolutely nothing about Angel Fall, but when Misha appears to them, she is revealed to be an impostor taking advantage of her appearance as Sasha Kruezhev, a member of Annihilatus. Misha subsequently unveils herself to be the Archangel Gabriel, the fallen angel who cast the spell in hopes of destroying the world in order to grant her return to Heaven. While Kaori holds Gabriel off, Tsuchimikado tells Tōma and Tōya that the ritual site is actually the family's new home, since Tōya accidentally cast the spell from coincidentally arranging occult souvenirs around the house in a Feng shui arrangement. Tsuchimikado plans to destroy Tōya, technically being the source of source of Angel Fall. However, when Tōma tries to stop Tsuchimikado, the latter beats up the former then knocks Tōya out. In a sudden twist, Tsuchimikado casts a spell to destroy the ritual site, despite knowing his life is at risk from using magic, which allows Gabriel to return to Heaven. Tōma returns to the hospital again, surprised to see Tsuchimikado alive and well, all thanks to his psychic healing ability, Auto Rebirth. Tsuchimikado is actually a freelancer for many organizations for espionage. Tōya and Shiina visit Tōma, who is outraged to learn that his family's new house was completely destroyed by Tsuchimikado's spell. However, Tōma must suffer Index's wrath for mistreating her while she was under the spell, appearing as Aogami the whole time.
Tōma learns that Stiyl and Kaori will come at exactly midnight to perform the spell to erase Index's memory. Despite Tōma's attempts to find another way to save Index, midnight arrives and he is helpless as Stiyl and Kaori arrive to prepare the spell. The duo give him time to say goodbye to Index. In this time, Tōma becomes suspicious of Kaori's statement that Index's memory only has fifteen percent for daily life in a year. Calling up Komoe, he learns that humans can never suffer or die from being overloaded with information and realizes that the Church regularly erased Index's memory to ensure her loyalty to them and tricked Stiyl and Kaori. Determined to save Index, Tōma tries to dispel a magical rune in her throat, only to activate her John's Pen mode. Unable to analyze and devise a means of countering Tōma's ability, John's Pen activates St. George's Sanctuary, a spell it has determined as the most effective way of eliminating Tōma.
As Tōma, Index, Stiyl, Saiji and Orsola barricade themselves from the battle nuns, Tōma and Index come up with an idea that Orsola could help them decipher The Book of the Law in Index's head to their advantage. When Orsola mentions her deciphering method, Index reveals her translations would be false, revealing Orsola was never able to really decode the grimoire all along. While the others fend off against the battle nuns, Tōma confronts Agnese, who attacks him with her Lotus Wand. However, Tōma manages to learn its attack patterns and lands a hit on Agnese. As Agnese tries to bluff that Tōma sacrificed his friends as decoys, they arrive with Innocentius, who Stiyl managed to summon thanks to the Amakusa Catholics. With her confidence broken, Agnese is knocked out by Tōma, breaking the battle nuns' morale, before Tōma himself falls unconscious. Waking up in a hospital in Academy City, Tōma is greeted and taken care by Kaori, who thanks him for helping and tells him that Orsola and the Amakusa Catholics are now under the protection of the Church of England. Meanwhile, back in London, Laura reveals to Stiyl that the true reason she got involved with the Orsola incident was to get the Amakusa Catholics under her control and use them as leverage to ensure Kaori's loyalty to Necessarius.

After discovering Shizuka was one of the casualties during the battle, Nagate recounts the events and what ensued during the fight: Nine squads of frames are deployed to destroy Gauna 488 with Kunato's squad tasked to destroy the tail of the massive Gauna using explosives. Kunato, Shizuka, En and Nagate plant their explosives around the tail of the Gauna and prepare to detonate on Kunato's orders. Kunato however, activates a secure channel with Nagate and deliberately orders him to detonate the explosives too soon. This causes the Gauna to become aware of their plans and the other explosives are shaken loose due to the imbalanced explosion. All frames are then ordered to temporarily fall back and re group but Nagate loses confidence and is struck by the tail. As Nagate begins to fall unconscious, the Gauna almost kills him but Shizuka saves him at the expense of her own life. The remaining pilots do manage to destroy most of the Gauna but seven pilots are lost during the battle. En Honoka survives but is critically injured. In the present, Nagate has recovered from his injuries but is now greatly hated by the population as they believe his "failure" was the cause for the many deaths during the battle . Nagate takes some time away with Izana and he slowly regains his confidence in piloting the Tsugumori. Meanwhile, the captain orders the destruction of a planet, where the surviving Gauna from the previous battle have fled. With Yuhata instated as the new Executive Officer, the planet is destroyed successfully but Gauna 489, 490, & 491 appear from the planet's remains. The Captain orders Yuhata to assemble a squad to intercept and destroy the Gauna. When more detailed images of the Gauna are shown, it is revealed, to everyone's shock, that the Gauna have taken the form of Guardians with the unit number 702, formerly the callsign of Shizuka.

After losing track of Oriana, it is then that Tōma and Tsuchikimado realize Oriana is actually scouting the city to find the perfect location to use the Croce di Pietro. Thanks to the information provided by Orsola, they learn the Croce di Pietro can only be activated in a large open area where the constellations can be seen at sundown. Tsuchikimado figures out that the Academy City airport located at School District 23 is the perfect area to activate the cross, so he, Tōma and Stiyl head there quickly as sundown is approaching. By the time they have arrived, Lidvia Lorenzetti, the Catholic nun that Oriana is working with, has brought the Croce di Pietro and starts activating its magic while Oriana defends her from the trio, defeating both Tsuchikimado and Stiyl, with Tōma the only one left standing.
Index-tan behaves like a certain squid girl, a chibified Agnese argues with Index-tan, and Ruiko Saten enjoys a quiet evening away from the action.
Kuroko finds Awaki at a nearby building and uses the latter's trauma of self-teleportion to make the first strike, but during their battle, Kuroko's injuries make her unable to concentrate on teleporting and she is trapped under a pile of furniture. Awaki explains to Kuroko that she and her organization, the Science Syndicate, plan to build a new Tree Diagram in order to create other species of espers. Believing that Kuroko wants to find the answer for having acquired her esper abilities, Awaki tries to persuade Kuroko to join her in the cause, but Kuroko rejects her offer, verbally abusing Awaki for making excuses for her own behavior. Kuroko breaks loose and tries to attack Awaki, only to be shot by her. After a brief traumatic loss of control over her powers, Awaki attempts to kill Kuroko by dropping the building on top of her, but she is saved by Mikoto and Tōma, who came to rescue her after he was alerted by Misaka 10032. As the Anti-Skills stop the Science Syndicate, Awaki tries to escape but is confronted by Accelerator, who uses the Misaka Network to utilize his powers in order to defeat her and destroy the Tree Diagram remnant. As everyone recovers, Mikoto gives her thanks to Kuroko.

Bon Iver performs "Holocene" and "Beth/Rest".

A girl resembling Mikoto wearing military goggles uses a sniper rifle to shoot a teenager called Accelerator, only for the shots to be reflected back and her to wind up face-to-face with Accelerator. Tōma runs into Mikoto at a vending machine and, after learning of how he defeated her, expects the worst until she is caught off guard by Kuroko Shirai, Mikoto's kōhai, who soon teleports away, and then by another girl who looks exactly like Mikoto, identified as Mikoto's younger sister and referred to as simply Misaka. Frustrated, Mikoto leads Misaka away despite Misaka’s objections, though Misaka approaches Tōma later that day and helps him carry tin cans. At summer class the next day, Tōma, Tsuchimikado and Aogami learn that Mikoto became the third most powerful esper in Academy City from Level 1 to 5 through hard work and effort while Mikoto later tells Tōma how she dislikes Tree Diagram, a powerful supercomputer on a space satellite that monitors Academy City. As soon as Mikoto leaves, Tōma runs into Misaka again, who wants to care for a black cat. As Tōma leaves her to find books on caring for cats, Misaka senses Accelerator nearby and a fight ensues in a back alley.

Kelly Clarkson performs "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" and "Mr. Know It All".

This episode was delayed due to the Lions at Saints football game.

Komoe demonstrates extrasensory perception to Index and Aisa, based on Schrödinger's theory using a chocolate box as a prop. In the past, Mikoto had attracted a group of doctors, who told her that her ability may help people with paralysis, only to later learn about her DNA being used to create clones for the military in Academy City and was horrified to witness how her Sisters were used to fight Accelerator. Tōma confronts Mikoto about the experiment, where 20,000 clones of Mikoto would be used in lieu of 128 exact duplicates of her to fight against Accelerator in specific locations to advance him to Level 6. Mikoto feels helpless for being unable to stop the experiment, since a research center, pinpointed on her map as an X mark, would be created after each one she destroys. Mikoto believes that sacrificing herself is the best solution to save her Sisters because the scientists no longer have Tree Diagram, which Index has destroyed, to recalculate the values for the experiment. As Tōma tries to talk her way out of considering death as her only option, a frustrated Mikoto shocks him over and over again. Tōma is somehow able to get up each time, eventually moving Mikoto to tears. Tōma passes out while trying to think of alternatives toward ending the experiment.
Accelerator starts to fight Amata, but the battery for his link to the Misaka Network runs out, leaving him paralyzed and defenseless. However, he begins to move again by force of will and starts to come after Amata. Meanwhile, Tōma fights against Vento, who continues to be weakened by Testament, while Hyōka makes snow appear over the city, protecting the unconscious civilians. Vento reveals her hatred towards science because both she and her little brother got into accident at an amusement park that was supposed to be the safest and the hospital only had enough blood to save her alone. Tōma argues against her reasoning for her actions and manages to punch and knock her out. Index appears in Amata's HQ and, thanks to Mikoto's knowledge of science, learns that Last Order is being used as a container to create the angel. She sings a song in order to sever the shackles controlling Last Order, which in turn resonates with Accelerator who awakens as a result and blasts Amata into the sky. In the end, Acqua of the Back from God's Right Seat appears and gives Tōma Vento's cross as her Divine Punishment has been dispelled before warning Tōma not to fight him as he is a Saint and leaves with Vento.

The Shins perform "Simple Song" and "It's Only Life".

Tom Hanks appears in the opening monologue.

John McEnroe appears in the SNL Digital Short.

The title card for the thirty-seventh season of Saturday Night Live.

Barbara Cade, Tara Uptergrove, Tucker Copeland, Kyde Eddleman

Sherry begins her assault on Academy City to start a war between it and Necessarius. As a result, Tōma, Index and Hyōka are locked in the underground mall before they can be evacuated with everyone else. Mikoto and Kuroko find them and Kuroko then teleports Mikoto and Index away first. When Tōma hears an explosion, he goes to confront Sherry, who has defeated the Anti-Skills led by one of his school teachers, Aiho Yomikawa, and leaves Hyōka to wait for Kuroko to return. As he tries to fight Sherry's Golem Ellis, Hyōka arrives but her face is cracked, and Tōma ends up seeing a prism-like object in her head. When she flees, Sherry decides to pursue her, while Tōma gets a call from Komoe, who explains that Hyōka's is an artificial being created from the AIM diffusion fields. Meanwhile, Hyōka manages to regenerate her face, but Sherry, who knows Hyōka is not human, insults her by calling her a monster and is about to crush her, but Tōma appears and saves her.
Tōma continues to keep his memory loss a secret and inadvertently upsets Index when he meets with his two friends, Motoharu Tsuchimikado and Pierce Aogami, who both inadvertently insult her. Forced to buy them all lunch, they go to a fast food restaurant, where Index gets into an argument with a girl dressed like a miko, who says that she is a magician and leaves before Index can get any answers concerning which magical organization the girl belongs to. On the way home, Index chases after a kitten she names Sphinx and is separated from Tōma. She then runs into Stiyl, who needs Tōma to rescue Aisa Himegami, a girl codenamed "Deep Blood", from Aureolus Izzard, an alchemist leading a secret science-worshiping cult at the Misawa Cram School after three years in hiding. When Tōma refuses, Stiyl coerces him with threats that Necessarius will take Index away. When they arrive at the cram school, Tōma is surprised to learn that "Deep Blood" is the girl he met earlier and finds a dead corpse in a suit of armor.

The veteran pilots and Yuhata Midorikawa, another cadet, inquire with Nagate about his fight with the Gauna but decide to let it for another day after realizing that he is still in recuperation. Later at night, Nagate learns that a festival known as the Gravity Festival is being held and leaves to check it out. There is also fighting competition between guardian pilots being held and despite Kunato's best efforts, he is defeated by Akai, who remains the reigning champion. Yuhata meanwhile hacks into the records of Nagate's battle against the Gauna and concludes that Akai made use of that information to improve his skills. Back at the festival, Nagate meets Shizuka and they hang out together and Izana, who was looking for him, gets flustered upon seeing them together, injuring herself when an angered Kunato bumps into her. Nagate confronts Kunato for not helping Izana and he is injured once more while fighting him. Meanwhile, Captain Kobayashi learns that the Gauna 487 had reappeared and is approaching Sidonia. Kobayashi assigns Akai's squad to deal with it. While recovering, Nagate and Izana are invited by Akai and his friends for a ride inside Sidonia's sea area before they sortie to fight the Gauna. The next day, the cadets watch Akai and his fellow squad members Momose Hinata, Aoki Kashiwade, and Izumo Midorikawa depart to confront the enemy, but the operation ends in failure as all pilots are killed by it.
With the rest of the Immortal Assembly dead, Kobayashi announces that Sidonia will set course for the Lem Star System, pursuing the Gauna's mothership who threatens the colonists of planet Lem VII. Meanwhile, Yure remembers about Kunato's words, when he reveals that he created Tsumugi by impregnating Placental Shizuka with human DNA, unaware that it is seemingly pregnant again. Elsewhere, Yuhata discovers that Nagate is visiting Tsumugi and meets him and Izana just when they appear to meet her again and she ends becoming friends with her as well. Sometime later, just when Tsumugi is about to sort for a joint exercise, she glimses a large Gauna approaching Sidonia, which remained undetected by assimilating the colonists' ship and departs to attack it by herself. However, the Gauna create a massive structure to trap her and a platoon of 96 Guardian Pilots, including Nagate, depart to assist her.

Michael Bublé performs "Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Additionally, Bublé appears in the opening monologue and in the "Michael Bublé's Christmas Duets" sketch.

Rachel Dratch and Amy Poehler appear in the "Boston Teens" cold open.

Horatio Sanz, Chris Kattan and Tracy Morgan make cameo appearances to reprise "Christmas is Number One" with host Jimmy Fallon. Additionally, Sanz and Kattan appear in the "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" sketch.

Jude Law, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey appear on Weekend Update.

Will Arnett cameos during the goodnights.

The train platforms at the previous Anaheim train station in 2007.

Jack White performs "Love Interruption" and "Sixteen Saltines".

Ruby Amanfu performs backing vocals during Jack White's first performance.

Jimmy Fallon and Jon Hamm appear in the opening monologue. Additionally, Hamm appears during Weekend Update.

Future cast member Mike O'Brien appears during the cold-open as one of Mitt Romney's sons.

Stiyl explains that the Amakusa Catholics will not kill Orsola until they can prove her to be a heretic. As Saiji leaves to free his comrades, Stiyl tells Tōma and Index to go home, since they have no further stake in this matter. Tōma, however, goes by himself to where Orsola is being held and tortured by Agnese, who reveals that her battle nuns deceived Necessarius to assist them. He is later joined by Stiyl, who reveals the crucifix necklace Tōma gave to Orsola means she is under protection of the Church of England, followed by Index and the Amakusa Catholics. While Tōma is put in charge in protecting Orsola, the others fend off the battle nuns, with Index utilizing Sheol Fear, the power to deafen and paralyze some of the battle nuns. However, Lucia brings another force of battle nuns, who willingly stab their ears to protect themselves from Sheol Fear.
Agnese explains they are on a fleet of magic ships called the Queen's Fleet, where she and her battle nuns are being punished. She agrees to let Tōma and Orsola escape in exchange for rescuing Lucia and Angelene, who are at risk of having their brains restructured to prevent them from casting a spell that would allow them to escape. As Agnese goes to the fleet's flagship to confront bishop Biagio Busoni, the fleet's commander, Tōma and Orsola manage to find and rescue Lucia and Angelene, who say that Agnese is in danger of being used for a spell that would destroy her brain. Just then, the other ships start shooting at them, causing them to fall into the sea, but they are rescued by Index and the Amakusa Catholics using a magical submersible boat. After learning that the spell Biagio intends to use Agnese for has the power to destroy cities and erase their culture, the Amakusa Catholics agree to help Tōma and co. rescue Agnese. They launch an attack on the fleet, where Tōma and his group face up against the battle nuns. But when the other ships try to sink the ship where both Tōma's group and the battle nuns are, Angelene gets injured saving one of the nuns.

The typical Ozeta Dukla kit, as worn in 1996–03.

Location of Laurel in the State of Mississippi

Stiyl explains the dead knight was from the 13 Knights of the Roman Catholic Church and that a magical barrier is concealing all magical occurrences inside the school from the public. Tōma and Stiyl are forced to separate when the students, under the control of a spell, cast an imitation of a Gregorian choir to attack. When Stiyl destroys the spell's source, he finds Aureolus while Tōma runs into Aisa, who reveals that she came to Aureolus willingly because the Misawa Cram School is able to repel vampires, who are otherwise ordinary people. Aureolus had agreed to help her with her powers if she used her blood to lure vampires to the Misawa Cram School in order to save someone important to him. When Aureolus finds them, Aisa confronts him about his objectives and threatens to leave if he continues to kill people. However, Aureolus seals Tōma and Stiyl's memories, and the two awaken outside the school without any recollection of their mission until Tōma uses his Imagine Breaker to nullify the spell. Meanwhile, Index has followed Stiyl's mana trail to the school, but is put to sleep and captured by Aureolus. The remaining 13 Knights attack the school with a true version of a Gregorian choir, but it is restored by Aureolus's true power, Ars Magna. Tōma finds Sphinx outside with Index's habit and realizes that Index is now inside the school.
After Tōma convinces Stiyl and Kaori that they were tricked by Necessarius about Index's condition and that destroying the magic responsible for Index's pain will allow her to live a normal life, Tōma is able to disable her John's Pen mode with help from Stiyl and Kaori. However, St. George's Sanctuary remains in effect and Tōma is rendered unconscious when a feather from the spell touches his head. At the hospital, Index discovers that Necessarius will leave her alone for now since Stiyl and Kaori are now questioning why the Church lied about her condition and that Tōma's memories have been erased since the spell destroyed his brain cells. At first, Tōma says that he is unable to recognize Index when she goes to see him, but brushes it off as a joke and explains that he canceled the spell with his right hand's ability, now called Imagine Breaker, before she leaves. What Index does not know is that Tōma really was unable to remember anything but did not want to burden Index with his condition, though feeling that his memories still remain in his heart. Two weeks later, Stiyl meets Aleister Crowley, the ruler of Academy City, and to keep the status quo of non-interference between science and magic, Aleister lends Tōma to Stiyl for an assignment to rescue "Deep Blood", someone capable of killing vampires, from a magician in Academy City.
Mikoto is being stalked by Mitsuki Unabara, the Tokiwadai Middle School principal's grandson, ever since the last week of summer vacation. When she sees Tōma passing by with his friends, she pretends to go on a date with Tōma. After an embarrassing mix-up with hot dogs, Tōma learns that less than ten of the Sisters remain at Academy City while the rest went overseas for treatment. Mikoto later goes to a restaurant to get food while Tōma converses with Unabara outside. Tōma sees an identical Unabara running into the restaurant, injured and warning Mikoto about an approaching danger, which means Tōma was talking to an impostor, who hits him from behind. As Tōma flees, Index reveals by phone that the impostor duplicated Unabara's appearance by using Aztecan sorcery, wielding an obsidian spearhead replicating the lance of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli. When Tōma is forced to fight him at a construction site, the impostor reveals that his mission was to become close to Tōma's friends to prevent the formation of the Kamijō Forces, in which Tōma would ultimately lead a group of mages and espers who fear will destroy the truce between them. The impostor, who had fallen in love with Mikoto, decided to protect her by killing Tōma. However, after being defeated and severely injured by falling steel beams, the impostor asks Tōma to promise him to protect Mikoto since Tōma and his friends will continue to be targeted. Unknown to both of them, Mikoto is listening nearby and is embarrassed to hear Tōma's answer.

Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Accelerator returns to the diner only to find that Last Order has been kidnapped by Amai. Accelerator manages to track down Amai and knocks him out before he can escape with Last Order. However, the virus in Last Order activates earlier than expected and Yoshikawa is still en route with Last Order's incubator. To stop the virus, Accelerator uses his powers and a clean copy of Last Order's data to remove the virus. However, nearing the end of the process, Amai awakens and shoots Accelerator in the head. Accelerator is unable to fully stop the bullet, having chosen to finish removing the virus instead of protecting himself, and collapses afterward. Amai tries to finish him off but is shot by Yoshikawa, who has arrived to put Last Order into her incubator. After discussing their roles as researchers and her dream of wanting to become a teacher, she and Amai shoot each other. When Yoshikawa awakens in the hospital, she learns from Heaven Canceler, who is none other than Tōma's frog-faced doctor, that Accelerator saved her but suffers from brain damage from the shot he took while saving Last Order and needs rehabilitation.
Despite a chain of bad luck with his female companions during the festival, Tōma gets lucky on the last day when he wins a lottery for a one week trip to Chioggia, Italy. After he and Index arrive at Chioggia, Tōma tries to find Index after she gets lost, but is found by Orsola who manages to find Index. Later, Orsola explains to them that she and the Amakusa Catholics came to help move and pack her belongings to London. After helping them, Tōma and Index are about to go to their hotel when two assassins try to kill Orsola, but their attempts are thwarted by Tōma and Index. One of the assassins escapes by summoning a sailing ship made of ice in the canal where Tōma and Orsola accidentally board it. As they hide from their pursuers inside the ship, both of them realize the assassins were from the Catholic Church and there is a fleet of ice ships heading towards the Adriatic Sea. When someone tries to enter the room in which they are hiding, Tōma prepares himself and is surprised to find out it is Agnese.

Wellington's traditional home kit - first used 2009–10

Drake performs "Headlines" and "Make Me Proud" and appears in the SNL Digital Short and Weekend Update.

Nicki Minaj joins Drake for his second performance.

Foster the People performs "Pumped Up Kicks" and "Houdini".

Hugh Jackman appears as Daniel Radcliffe in The Best of Both Worlds with Hugh Jackman, alongside Andy Samberg's impersonation of Jackman.

Stiller reprises his role as Derek Zoolander from the movie Zoolander during Weekend Update.

Kenny G plays soprano sax during Foster the People's performance of "Houdini".

Future cast member Mike O'Brien appears as Max Weinberg during the "Bruce Springsteen: Just the Stories" sketch.

The home FK Laugaricio kit and the older FK AS kit, worn in 2003–08.

Tōma, Stiyl and Tsuchimikado chase Oriana through a bus station filled with booby traps, but she manages to escape and uses a counter magic called Shorthand to avoid being traced. Despite Tōma's objections, Stiyl and Tsuchimikado undergo a painful magical spell in order to locate Shorthand, which happens to be right in the center of a middle school ball toss competition. With the competitors in danger of being hurt by the spell if they touch it, Tōma and Tsuchimikado infiltrate the match as contestants in order to find it, only to find the opposing team is Mikoto's school. Tōma tries to protect Mikoto from one of the basket poles which he believes has Shorthand, only for Seiri to end up touching the real one, getting hit by magic and falling unconscious before Tōma destroys the spell. As Seiri is taken to the hospital, Tōma vows to make Oriana pay for what she did.

Izana have her lost right arm and left leg replaced with prosthetic limbs while Tsumugi is put in a special chamber for regenerating. Nagate feels gloomy due to Tsumugi's condition, but some time later, he cheers up again when he learns that she is fully recuperated. Meanwhile, Sidonia arrives at the Lem Star System to confront the Gauna and fires its retro-thrusters to slow down just as Nagate and Izana are exploring some tunnels, almost being killed in the occasion, but succeed in allowing Tsumugi to take a look at the Residential Area through her probe, much to her joy. Back to the dorm, Nagate is informed that his room will be reserved for another cadet and he must move somewhere else. He then asks Izana to stay at her house for a while, much to her surprise.
The Gravitational Beam Emitter goes out of control, and a team of Guardians is assigned to check on the situation. As Ochiai, Kobayashi and Kunato evacuate, Yure attempts to shut the device down just when it self-destructs, annihilating all matter on the vicinity and almost killing her. Despite that, Kobayashi insists on development of the weapon in preparation for the imminent war with the Gauna. Afterwards, Nagate and some other pilots are introduced to a new weapon which they will test, and Samari shows concerns about it. Samari then invites Nagate to dine with him, and while hearing some words of comfort, expresses some will to spend the night with him, just to find out that he just passed out. In a later occasion, Izana has some trouble while donning her space suit and discovers that her body is changing. Later at night, Yuhata pays a visit to Nagate's house and reveals to him and Izana that she already knows about Tsumugi living with them, and asks them to keep it a secret from everyone else. In the occasion, Izana reveals her condition to Yuhata, who points out that her body is developing female features, possibly in response to her budding feelings for a male. Meanwhile, at Lem VII, the colonists are working on their settling on the planet when they are attacked by the Gauna.

The first away Ozeta Dukla kit, worn in 1994–95.

One Direction performs "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing" and appear in "The Manuel Ortiz Show" sketch.

Kate McKinnon's first episode as a cast member.

Robyn performs "Call Your Girlfriend" and "Dancing on My Own".

Darrell Hammond appears in the cold open as Donald Trump.

Matt Damon and Val Kilmer appear in the SNL Digital Short.

Alec Baldwin appears on Weekend Update.

As Tsuchimikado battles against the spectral being who is working with Vento to kill the unconscious residents of Academy City, Tōma calls Accelerator from Last Order's cellphone to update him on her status. Accelerator soon learns that Amata has managed to capture Last Order, though is keeping her alive for some reason. Aleister then uses Testament, with Last Order's authorization, to summon an angel to appear in the city to target those who use magic. As Tōma, Mikoto and Index head towards where the angel is, Index realizes the angel is actually Hyōka. As Mikoto holds off the Hound Dogs, Index explains the nature of Vento's Divine Punishment, which targets anyone who experiences a certain emotion towards her and how Hyōka isn't an ordinary angel. Tōma tells her to work with Mikoto to combine their knowledge of magic and science to figure out how to help her. Meanwhile, Accelerator breaks into the Hound Dog's headquarters and confronts Amata. As Tōma witnesses Hyōka's controlled state and feels helpless, since using his right hand would kill her, Vento appears before him again, threatening to kill them both, so Tōma stands to defend Hyōka.
Komoe sends Tōma, with Index tagging along, off to a beach resort until things calm down with the superiors of Academy City, due to his interference with the experiment. Tōma is anxious because his parents will be coming to see him for the first time since his memories were destroyed. Although relieved to see his father Tōya Kamijō, he is convinced that his cousin Otohime Tatsugami and his mother Shiina Kamijō respectively resemble Mikoto and Index, as if were some sort of prank. Moreover, he becomes confused to see that the townspeople have been changed to familiar faces or just unmatched personalities, yet he seems to be the only one who notices the difference. Tōma later encounters a strange blonde girl, who then holds a saw to his neck, questioning if he is a spell caster. Luckily, Kaori and Tsuchimikado arrive to explain that Tōma is not responsible for a spell known as Angel Fall. The blonde girl, calling herself Misha Kruezhev, a magician from Annihilatus of the Russian Orthodox Church, along with the two, conclude that Tōma is unaffected since he is at the center of this spell, which has changed the appearance of everyone, but the spell will end if the ritual site is destroyed or if the spell caster is defeated. It is revealed that Tsuchimikado is a member of Necessarius working as a spy, much to Tōma's surprise.

City of Graz - Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg

Autumn arrives at Academy City and the city's students change into their winter uniforms. Accelerator, Last Order and Kikyō move out of the hospital into Aiho's apartment, while Misaka 10032 and three other Sisters begin rehabilitation in the city. Meanwhile as promised in their bet, Mikoto has Tōma do whatever she wants, dragging him to a mobile phone shop which is offering a Gekota phone strap for those who take out a couples plan. However, in order to qualify for the offer, they have to take a photo of themselves as a loving couple, which is ruined when a jealous Kuroko intervenes. Elsewhere, Last Order gets herself locked out of the apartment which leads to Misaka 10032 making fun of her situation. Last Order is jealous that she is the only Misaka clone which doesn't have goggles, so Last Order steals and run off with Misaka 10032's goggles, which she doesn't take too kindly.

Rihanna performs a medley of "Birthday Cake" and "Talk That Talk" and "Where Have You Been".

Manning's wife Abby McGrew appears in the opening monologue, along with Manning's New York Giants teammates Chris Snee, David Baas, David Diehl, and Shaun O'Hara.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Martin Scorsese appear on Weekend Update.

This episode was dedicated to the memory of Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, who died the previous day. A musical performance clip is shown after Weekend Update and featured a short clip of the group performing "Sure Shot" from season 20.

Academy City is hosting the Daihaisei Festival, a sports competition between the various schools of the city, during which visitors from outside the city are allowed entry. While Tōma's parents, Tōya Kamijō and Shiina Kamijō, as well as Misuzu Misaka, assumed to be Mikoto's older sister, get to know each other, Tōma and Mikoto decide to make a bet in which the loser does anything the winner wants. Meanwhile, Laura contacts Aleister Crowley to inform him that magicians have infiltrated Academy City in order to make a transaction with a magical weapon called the Stab Sword, which has the power to kill a Saint. Meanwhile, Tōma has several troubles with a hungry Index and awkward situations with the class representative, Seiri Fukiyose. Later, Tōma runs into Stiyl and Tsuchimikado, who tell him about the intruding magicians and asks him not to get Index involved. While getting scolded by Seiri after an awkward incident with Index and Komoe Tsukuyomi, Tōma runs into a woman named Oriana Thomson. When his Imagine Breaker reacts to her, he realizes she is one of the magicians in question and starts to follow her.
Aisa spills her thoughts, Index-tan confronts Tōma about 'his' blog, and Mikoto and the sisters announce the anime adaptation of A Certain Scientific Railgun.

Nagate spends the night at Izana's house when Tsumugi emerges from the floor, much to the pair's surprise. While preparations are made for Kunato's new weapon created using Gauna technology, the Gravitational Beam Emitter to be tested, Nagate looks for a new house and decides to search for a place close to Tsumugi's chambers, and from which she could easily visit him by sneaking her probe through the ventilation system, inviting Izana to move with him once he finds it. Afterwards, the test for the Gravitational Beam Emitter is considered a success, with the weapon easily piercing through a dwarf planet, but some tentacles from the weapon start spreading by the power cables, a fact that is seemingly overlooked.

Despite her abilities, Awaki finds herself at a disadvantage as Ritoku is using stolen military weapons including an exo-suit called 'Hard Taping' which gives him incredible speed and strength. After defeating her, Ritoku then confronts Accelerator, using a chaff grenade to interfere with his Misaka Network link. However, Accelerator manages to use a pistol to clear the air and land a shot on him, thanks to Awaki's assistance. After killing Ritoku, Accelerator decides to do some overtime and encounters a drunk Misuzu, who is searching for the Dangai University database center for a report. After sending her off in a taxi, where she exchanges numbers with Tōma, Accelerator is contacted by GROUP's mysterious head, who reveals that they have hired the Skill-Outs to kill Misuzu as she is the Parent-Student representative who are attempting to take their children out of Academy City before the impending war. When they cut off his powers after he refuses to help the Skill-Outs, Accelerator decides to head to Dangai University to rescue Misuzu despite spotting Tōma, who also goes there to save Misuzu after she called him to let him know of the situation. Thanks to Accelerator's unseen aid, Tōma is able to escape with Misuzu from the Skill-Outs, only to confront by one of them named Shiage Hamazura. Shiage is desperate to kill to Misuzu as the City's higher-ups will exterminate the Skill-Outs if they fail but Tōma berates Shiage's ideals of trampling over other lives and knocks him out. As Tōma is admitted into hospital, Mizusu admits she came to take Mikoto home, but feels safe knowing there are people like him to protect her. Accelerator later meets with the rest of GROUP who reveals the order on Misuzu's life has been canceled and the four of them decide to work together so they may one day take on the higher-ups. As each of the characters spend the night in their own ways, Hyōka and Index visit the injured Tōma.
Tōma stops and successfully destroys Sherry's golem with Imagine Breaker. When she summons another one, Tōma coordinates with the Anti-Skills to put her on the defensive. However, when Sherry suddenly decides to flee, Tōma realizes that her target is not Hyōka specifically but anyone valuable enough to trigger a war between Necessarius and Academy City, so Index is now Sherry's intended target. Hyōka, acknowledging how she came into being, chooses to save Index and escapes the underground mall without Tōma. Meanwhile, Index separates from Mikoto in order to pursue a runaway Sphinx and is attacked by Golem Ellis. Though Index is able to hold her own against Golem Ellis by interfering with its remote-controlled mechanism, the tables are turned against her when it is switched to automated control and she is about to be crushed until something unexpected happens.

Arriving at home from helping with the repairs, Nagate and Izana are surprised upon knowing that Yuhata had moved to their house. Some time later, Izana meets her grandmother who takes her for a walk wearing dresses, but when Yure is called back to work, she decides to sneak back home, embarrassed with her clothes, but meeting with Nagate in the occasion. Upon meeting with Sasaki, Yure reveals to her what really happened during the Gravitational Beam Emitter test and asks for her help. Afterwards, Nagate is threatened by Yure to take Izana to one of the top sights of Sidonia. Izana happily accepts his invitation, believing that he intends to take her to a real date, much to Yuhata's distress.

A Certain Magical Index-tan the Movie: The Miracle of Endymion... Happened or maybe not
Kuroko Shirai goes out shopping with Mikoto, only to be interrupted her partner, Kazari Uiharu, who reports about robbers stealing an aerospace travel case. Kuroko subdues the thieves but is then attacked and wounded by their leader, another teleporter named Awaki Musujime. She reveals to Kuroko about Tree Diagram's destruction and how various factions are gathering of its remnants, the contents of the travel case being one of them. Kuroko manages to escape, but becomes concerned over what Awaki had told her, particularly concerning how Mikoto had been trying to stop them for reasons she had kept from her, namely being that if Tree Diagram were rebuilt, the Level 6 Shift experiment would start over again. As Mikoto goes out that night to confront Awaki, Kuroko decides to follow her and overhears their conversation before Awaki escapes. As Kuroko decides to take matters into her own hands, Misaka 10032 decides to take action.

Indian Wars
* Northwest Indian War
First Barbary War

The away FK Laugaricio kit and the older FK AS kit, worn in 2003–08.

Tōma refuses to hand Index over to Kaori, who reveals that she is also a member of Necessarius and a dear friend to Index. Kaori never intended to hurt Index when attempting to secure her the day before, unaware that Index's magical garb was previous damaged by Tōma. While eighty-five percent of Index's memory contains the entire Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the remaining fifteen percent needs to be annually erased to avoid any strain with any unnecessary memories, and there is only three days left before the limit is reached. Even though Index would not be able to recall him, Tōma asks Kaori why she does not explain everything to Index. Stiyl and Kaori had tried everything to restore Index's memories, but it became unbearable to see her smile with each successive failure. Tōma criticizes that Index's feelings were not taken into account each time, questioning why Kaori was hiding this from her. After Tōma is severely injured by Kaori, he wakes up three days later in Komoe's apartment in the care of Index. When Stiyl and Kaori arrive, Index tries to protect Tōma by promising to do as they ask.
The magician introduces himself as Stiyl Magnus and explains that his partner Kaori Kanzaki unintentionally hurt Index as her magical garb was supposed to stop the blow. His mission was actually to protect Index, who possesses photographic memory of the 103,000 grimoires implanted in her mind called the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Angered by Stiyl's ill treatment of Index, Tōma attacks him, to which Stiyl responds by using fire magic and is surprised when Tōma nullifies the spell. To stop Tōma, Stiyl summons a fire creature known as Innocentius. When Tōma finds himself unable to negate the creature, Index activates John's Pen, her self-protection system personality, to reveal that Innocentius' power comes from runes placed around the building. Tōma defeats Stiyl and Innocentius by setting off sprinklers to wash away the runes. However, because of Index's wounds and Tōma's inability to use magic, he brings Index to the only non-esper he knows, that being his teacher Komoe Tsukuyomi.

Usher performs "Scream" and "Climax" and appears in the SNL Digital Short and the "2012 Funkytown Debate" sketch.

Ferrell's mother, Betty Kay Ferrell, appears in the opening monologue.

Ana Gasteyer appears in the "LGBT Prom" sketch, reprising her role as Bobbi Mohan-Culp.

Will Forte appears in the "ESPN Classic" sketch and the "25th Anniversary Celebration" sketch, reprising his roles as Greg Stink and Hamilton respectively.

Justin Bieber, Jorma Taccone, Julian Casablancas, Jon Hamm, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Portman, Michael Bolton, and Akiva Schaffer appear in the 100th SNL Digital Short.

Liam Neeson appears on Weekend Update with Andy Samberg as Nicolas Cage.

El Petiso (nickname); El Cordobés (nickname); La Máquina (nickname)

(Logo of the Miss Teen USA Organization.)

Tōma and Stiyl find Aureolus at his office, along with Aisa and Index, who is still asleep. It is revealed that Aureolus was Index's partner three years ago, though devastated that her memory needed to be erased. He intends to use Ars Magna along with Aisa's powers to save Index by turning her into a vampire, which will overcome Index's one-year life expectancy. However, Aureolus, distraught when he realizes that Tōma had already succeeded this by using his Imagine Breaker, uses Ars Magna against Aisa, Stiyl and Tōma. Nonetheless, this reality-distorting magic finds itself useless against Tōma's Imagine Breaker. When Tōma realizes that Ars Magna cannot alter reality, but rather makes Aureolus's thoughts come into it, he manipulates Aureolus into changing him into a dragon to end the fight. Tōma winds up in the hospital again to have his right arm reattached after the battle, and Stiyl visits him, explaining that Aureolus lost his memory and powers. He disappears when Index and Aisa come to visit, and Index reveals the Church will now take care of Aisa. When Aisa learns why Tōma saved her life, she smiles at him.
Accelerator stops and redirects Misaka's attacks back at her using vector transformation, controlling elements like kinetic momentum, heat or electrical charge by touch. When Tōma returns from the bookstore, he finds Misaka's dead body in the dark alley and calls the police department, but the body has gone missing when trying to find it. A confused Tōma continues to search the alley, soon relieved to find Misaka alive but horrified to see her carrying a body bag containing the body he had seen in the alley. Dozens of identical girls resembling Misaka then appear, revealing that they are all part of a confidential experiment and are mass-produced military-use somatic cell clones of Mikoto Misaka called the Sisters, in which the one he has already encountered, currently carrying the body bag, is named Misaka 10032. Tōma plans to go see Mikoto at her dormitory to learn the truth behind the Sisters, considering how Mikoto treated Misaka earlier. However, he ends up waiting alongside Kuroko, who is Mikoto's roommate, but is forced to hide under Mikoto's bed when the dorm supervisor comes by for inspection. Tōma finds and reads a report about Tree Diagram's calculated methods for how Accelerator, the most powerful Level 5 esper in Academy City, can evolve to Level 6 by fighting the Sisters at special battlefields where he will gain experience from combat and finds a map with several red X marks on it. Now aware of the truth, Tōma goes to confront Mikoto.

Nagate, Izana and Yuhata take a trip together to a little-known inn, and Nagate is astonished when he recognizes Captain Kobayashi as the place's innkeeper. Yuhata reveals that she obtained information about Ochiai's forbidden research that led to his condemnation, and takes the others to investigate. The trio end up trapped inside the installation, and, while attempting to find a way out, take an elevator to a highly classified area, including a doorway to MSCF 5, a high-security isolation ward. There, they are surrounded and sedated by security. Nagate wakes up by himself and meets Yure, who reveals that the legends of Ochiai creating a Gauna/Human hybrid being are indeed true, and is shown the corpse of the hybrid, which scientists have been able to use to manufacture artificial kabi with which to destroy Gauna, thus reducing reliance on the limited number of Kabizahi. Yure continues to explain that both the Guana-Human hybrid and the Kabizashi emit a radiation which attracts the Gauna to the Sidonia. Captain Kobayashi appears and reveals that Nagate will be the test pilot for the new weapons system. Meanwhile, Kunato also reads about Ochiai's experiments and comes across a mysterious door, access to which is forbidden even to the members of his family. Nagate is sent back to the inn with Izana and Yuhata, who awaken with no memories of what happened; he feigns ignorance as well. Some time later, a colonization ship carrying pacifists, who claim that the Gauna only attack because of the Kabizashi and will not attack unarmed humans, departs to settle on a nearby planet. Nagate is brought to Toha Heavy Industries, where both the new weapon, a long-ranged projectile launcher, and a new Guardian propulsion system are being developed. It is revealed that the simulator they are developing to make tests on both prototypes is the same one he used to train with his grandfather. When the Sidonia discovers Gauna 541 moving to intercept the colonization ship, Nagate offers to use the prototypes to go after the Gauna and defend the ship, a supposedly impossible feat as the equipment does not have automatic stabilization and is completely untested. However, Nagate states that he has used it in his grandfather's old simulator, and Kobayashi approves his request to launch the sortie. Despite missing his first shot and losing control of his frame from the massive recoil, Nagate successfully re-stabilizes and destroys the Gauna with a second shot, moments before it reaches the colonization ship. After the mission, Nagate is called to the ERD and cheers up when Placenta Shizuka uses a pen to write his name, before he is summoned by the Captain. En route to the briefing, Nagate meets Izana, who tells him that she has just been instated as a pilot, and, knowing the low survival rates, especially among new pilots, is distressed as she believes her time with Nagate is soon to end. Nagate attempts to reason with Izana, who, upset upon guessing that he was visiting Placenta Shizuka again, runs away, nearly falling to her death after slipping, although he saves her just in time. Meanwhile at the command center, a massive Gauna pod, 8,000 times the size of the Sidonia, is detected rapidly approaching the ship.

Accelerator uses Index's presence as a distraction to force a driver to get him and Index away from the Hound Dogs. Before Amata can go after them, Vento appears and takes care of his men as he pursues after Accelerator. Meanwhile, as Tōma and Last Order search for Accelerator, they escape from the Hound Dogs chasing after her by hiding in a restaurant where everyone is also unconscious. Accelerator leaves Index in the care of Heaven Canceller, who informs him about Last Order's situation. In an attempt to take out the Hound Dogs hunting him, he lures them into a railway factory and kills them off one by one. As Tōma and Last Order continue to hide, they are confronted by Vento, whose image has caused several people, including Aiho and Kazari, to fall unconscious. Tōma defends the unconscious patrons of the restaurant from Vento's attacks and tells Last Order to run as Vento is after him but she soon starts coughing up blood and is forced to flee. Accelerator finally kills the last Hound Dog soldier hunting him but his actions have been witness by an Anti-Skill patrol unit, putting him as a wanted murder suspect. Meanwhile, Tsuchimikado is investigating Vento's actions, and comes across a white spectral being.
In Russia, Sasha Kruezhev tries to learn the side effects of her body after Archangel Gabriel possessed her but is harassed by her superior Vassilisa. As Accelerator walks Last Order back home, she trips and scrapes her knees so he goes to buy her some bandages. However, he is soon attacked by a group of armed soldiers called the Hound Dogs led by his old mentor, Amata Kihara. While Accelerator easily deals with his men, Amata, who had helped Accelerator learn his powers, knows all the tricks to negate his ability and brutally beats him up. When the Hound Dogs attempt to kidnap Last Order, Accelerator manages to muster up enough strength to blow her away to safety, before Index, who wanted to return a tissue package to him appears on the scene. Meanwhile, Tōma goes looking for Index after she went off but witnesses a group of Anti-Skill officers mysteriously falling unconscious before running into Last Order, who asks for his help. At the same time, a magician from God's Right Seat named Vento of the Front has entered Academy City and contacts Aleister that she has neutralized the Anti-Skill and Judgment forces, killed three of his Board of Directors and is planning to kill him and everyone else in Academy City. Unfazed by her threats, Aleister orders Amata to deploy "FUSE=Kazakiri" and capture Last Order to eliminate Vento.
Tōma gives Index-tan some payback, Accelerator celebrates his voice actor awards, and the Misaka sisters play some 'imouto' games.
As Oriana and Tōma continue to battle, Stiyl recovers and summons Innocentius to help him. Refusing to give up, Oriana uses her full powers to defeat Stiyl and all of her spells on Tōma. As he is about to lose conscious, Tōma remember his promises to his friends and recuperate himself to finally defeat Oriana. However, Lidvia contacts them and reveals that she and the Croce di Pietro are outside the city and there is nothing they can do to stop her from activating the spell. Luckily, the night parade, which is the festival's fireworks event, has started which blocks out the stars and prevents the cross from activating. As Tōma is checked into the hospital, he is visited by Index, Kuroko and Mikoto, which the latter informs he has lost their bet. Meanwhile, Lidvia escapes by a private jet but is tracked down by Laura via Stiyl's rune cards and has her ejected out of the plane. Despite Laura offering to save her if she surrenders, Lidvia refuses and chooses to fall to her death while protecting the Croce di Pietro. At the same time, Aleister decides to take action personally due to these recent events. The next morning, Aisa is visited by Index and later, to her joy, Tōma.

Sleigh Bells perform "Comeback Kid" and "End of the Line".

Paul Simon appears in the opening monologue.

Amy Poehler appears during the Bronx Beat sketch , Weekend Update, and "The Obama Show" sketch .

Justin Timberlake appears during the Bronx Beat sketch and the "Blue Ivy" sketch .

Bill O'Reilly and Kate Upton appear during "What Up with That".