FLCL Progressive Episode 2

Hidomi dreams of decomposing bodies in an apocalyptic world. The bodies attack and eat each other. Hidomi appears as one of the zombies and she joins the fray but gets eaten in the process. As she lays there dying, a body shuffles toward her and she looks up to find that it is a zombified Ide. Hidomi wakes up and starts getting ready for school. On her way out, Jinyu tries to warn her yet again about a woman on a vespa.


In school, Haruko continues her antics and everyone seems to have gone gaga over her. Only Hidomi seems to be immune. Later, after class, Haruko persuades Hidomi to bring some notes to Ide, who is absent from class that day. After a while, Hidomi takes the piece of paper and makes her way to Ide's home.

 
It turns out Ide lives in a decrepit part of town. While there, she is propositioned by an old man, who is a regular customer at her mother's cafe. She is saved by one of Ide's friends who takes her to where Ide is. He explains that although Ide acts like he has no problem in school, in reality Ide is hard up and has to do hard manual labor to support himself.

After his work is done, Ide sidelines by selling some weird inventions. A couple of guys make fun of him and then start to beat him. At the sight of Ide being bloodied from the beatings, Hidomi faints. Ide notices her then and carries her back to his place, leaving his disgruntled friend behind.

 
Alone in his room, Ide attempts to ask Hidomi out to an art gallery while treating her nosebleed. Hidomi agrees much to Ide's delight. In his delight, he attempts to jump her but they are interrupted by Haruko hanging from a rooftop with a camera and a director's hat, calling "CUT!" She then proceeds to walk to the next room where she edits a porn scene into the movie she is making.

 
At that point, Jinyu appears outside Ide's window. With her car, which has turned into a robot, she grabs Hidomi. Haruko comes out and uses Ide as a weapon to attack Jinyu. While the two women fight, Jinyu reveals to Haruko that Jinyu is just a part of her. But Haruko barely listens to her as she continues to attack with Ide in tow. She hits Ide's forehead hard with her electric guitar and the monster from the first episode pops out to assault Jinyu.

 

Seeing Ide in danger triggers Hidomi and her headphones start to glow red. The red horn comes out of her forehead and she starts to float. There is an explosion and Haruko finds herself staring straight at a tiny raggedy doll.

 
Haruko tries to befriend  the doll but the doll just explodes, sending a shocked Haruko, with Ide, into the sky. The doll then zips by and knocks Haruko on the head. Then the doll disappears and Hidomi's red horn pops open, bleeding all over her face. Jinyu caught Hidomi and picked up an unconscious Ide. She put both of them inside her car, which transforms into a medical lab. Ide wakes up then and Hidomi gives her his assignment. At this, Ide laughs and Hidomi smiles.