Writer:	Matt Greenfield, Hideaki Anno, Akio Satsukawa
Director:	Hideaki Anno, Matt Greenfield, Hiroyuki Ishidô, Amanda Winn Lee
Star:	Tristan MacAvery (Gendou Ikari (I)),  Sue Ulu (Ritsuko Akagi),  Spike Spencer (Shinji Ikari),  Matt Greenfield (Makoto Hyuga (I)),  Jason Lee (V) (Shigeru Aoba (I)),  Joe Pisano (Touji Suzuhara (I)),  Kendra Benham (Maya Ibuki (I)),  Kurt Stoll (Kensuke Aida),  Allison Keith (Misato Katsuragi),  Amanda Winn Lee (Rei Ayanami),  Guil Lunde (Kouzou Fuyutsuki (I))
Recurring Role:	Laura Chapman (Additional Voice),  Laura Chapman (Eva Tech),  Holly Vee (Control Operator),  Larry Koteff (Additional Voice),  Holly Vee (Additional Voice),  Doug Smith (Additional Voice),  Dan Rockwell (Additional Voice),  Lorraine Reyes (Additional Voice),  Andy Orjuela (Additional Voice)
Guest Star:	Janice Williams (Additional Voice),  Guil Lunde (Additional Voice)

Japanese Title: 「鳴らない、電話」 ("Naranai Denwa") - "The Phone That Never Rings" (edit) The Fourth Angel Shamshel

The Fourth Angel bears the name of "Shamshel," the angel of daytime. Its appearance calls to mind an insect, and it is composed of two parts, the disck-shaped head and the abdominal area stretching behind it. A pair of arms stretches out to either sid and eight segmented legs cal also be seen on its abdominal area.

The most distinctive characteristic of this Angel is that it has the ability to metamorphose according to its target and situation. It has its aerial mode, where it folds its arms in and aligns its head and abdominal area in a straight line. From that mode, it goes into semi-combat mode, where its arms are extended. And then there is the combat mode where it raises its body perpendicular to the ground and titls its head down 90 degrees to the front. Broadly speaking, it metamorphoses into these three forms.

It has the ability to fly, but it is fundamentally los speed, low altitude fight. Additionally, the patters on its head are not eyes but appear to be mimesis. Consdiering how it accurately attacks Unit-01, which is directly below it. It is hard to think that they are optic organs. In its semi-combat and combat modes, a whip-like part extends from the tips of its arms, which it uses to attack. These whip-like parts have the power to pierce Unit-01's abdominal region. They can also be used to pull such stunts as grabbing Unit-01
s leg and throwing it.

In the second battle, it is defeated, but it retains its original shape and is ultimately seized by NERV as research material. More information. (edit)

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Episode Three is set up to be part one of two with Episode Four. This episode depicts Shinji, who tends to be rather introverted, being bewildered by his new surroundings and yet taking the first step towards communicating with others. In Episode Three, New Tokyo-3 No. 1 Middle School that Shinji attends is one of the places where action takes place and his classmates, Tōji Suzuhara, Kensuke Aida, and the class representative, Hikari Horaki, appear.

Tōji, who consciously behaves like a man, and Kensuke, who has his own world of his hobby concerning all things military and who also knows how to get on in the world very contrasting characters compared to Shinji. The names of these two characters are taken from the main characters in Ryu Murakami’s The Fascism of Love and Illusions, which provides no small amount of inspiration for Director Anno.

Many truths are revealed in this episode, such as Unit-01’s capabilities and weapons, the defense system of New Tokyo-3, and the truth about the Second Impact. Also, pay attention to the morning variety show voice that can be heard from off the screen in the morning scene at the beginning. The story of how a giant meteor strike caused the Second Impact that the old instructor is telling during class is not the whole truth. The following information is brought up in Episode Seven. Also, Misato’s dialogue reveals that the Angel that appeared in this episode is the Fourth Angel. This is the second Angel that has appeared during the series. So did the Second Angel appear 15 years ago and the First Angel appear even before that, or what? The mysteries increase.

As opposed to Unit-01’s first battle being at night, Unit-01’s second battle develops under the blue sky. There are also many memorable images here, such as the cut that has the silhouette view of Unit-01 frozen in place where it had delivered the finishing blow to the Angel, or the special effects movie-like scene compositions, like the cut where the Fourth Angel flies right by a lighthouse and the cut with the birdhouse standing in front of the fallen Unit01.

In this episode, Risuko talks about the “hedgehog’s dilemma,” which is a psychology tern that originates from Schopenhauer’s fable, and it expresses the complications and ambivalence that arise as people seek the psychological distance to maintain between each other. This is where the English episode title “Hedgehog’s Dilemma” for Episode Four “Rain, Escape, and Afterwards” comes from. In addition, what Misato says in the same scene allows us to see what her thoughts on communicating are at this time, so that is also very interesting. (edit)