Writer:	Jared Hedges
Director:	Colleen Clinkenbeard
Star:	Colleen Clinkenbeard (Riza Hawkeye),  Travis Willingham (Lt. Col. Roy Mustang),  Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse Elric),  Vic Mignogna (Edward Elric)
Recurring Role:	Chuck Huber (Shou Tucker),  Sonny Strait (Maes Hughes),  Lauren Goode (Gracia Hughes)
Guest Star:	Brina Palencia (Nina Tucker)

This is a flashback episode. (edit)

Ed: Listen she's not dead, she just fell asleep!
Al: I don't know... if you think of it like alchemy, making a life's expensive. You'd have to give something up!
Ed: Child birth is not alchemy, you dope! (edit) (Ed and Al are discussing the physical examination)
Ed: We could always stuff Alexander in there and pretend you're a talking dog.
Al: I don't think that's very funny... (edit) (Alexander jumps on Ed)
Nina: You know that's bad Alexander!
Shou Tucker: Oh my, I'm so sorry.
Ed: No prob... just don't say... "roll over". (edit) Al: How did you use alchemy without a Transmutation Circle?
Ed: I don't know! I just used my head!
Gracia: Arguhhhh! I can feel it's head now! (edit) Gracia falls to the ground.
Gracia: It's here.
Hughes: The tea?
Gracia: The baby! (edit)

On the page that Mustang is reading about Shou Tucker, the word process is spelled 'precess'. (edit) Ed and Al experience the birth of the Hughes's baby when Gracia Hughes goes into labor earlier then expected. (edit) Ed celebrates his 12th birthday in this episode. (edit) The letter that Mustang is reading about Shou Tucker, "The Sewing Life Alchemist", mentions Britain and the "Scientific Revolution". (edit) This episode marks the first time that Ed uses alchemy without a transmutation circle. (Although he does in the first couple episodes, the events in this episode happen before the ones in those)
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Cultural Allusion: Japanese "honorifics" when dealing with two or more people:
As noted in "To Challenge the Sun", the use of "honorifics" comes again into play when Nina addresses the Elrics.

Normally, the politeness marker attributes to age; however, because Nina can't tell Ed and Al's ages, she simply addresses them using politeness markers attributed to size. Hence, she shows politeness by referring to Ed as "Little Big Brother" (the smaller of the Elrics, but older than her and deserving of respect), and Al as "Bigger Brother" (older than her, much taller than she or Ed, and deserving of respect). (edit) Central City: Flash
In the DC comic Flash, one of the cities protected by the Flash is named Central City. (edit) Ed reading a book: Japanese style of reading
In most Western countries, sentences are read from left to right. In Japan and other Eastern countries, however, sentences are read the opposite way, from right to left. This style of reading from right to left is carried over when Ed is quickly reading a book from the library; his eyes are scanning the page from right to left. (edit)