Writer:	Hideaki Anno
Director:	Shoichi Masuo

Japanese Title: 「涙」- ("Namida") - "Tears" (edit) In this episode, we learn all the names of the Angels appearing in the series until this point. The name of the 16th Angel is Armisael, the Angel of Womb, which is appropriate, since the Angel attached itself into Rei's womb. More information. (edit) Asuka is now totally messed up: her sync ratio is under 10% and she now has no sense of self-worth. (edit) Ritsuko's cat, That Child, died. (edit) Unit-00 is totally destroyed by the self-destruct mechanism, and is never rebuilt. (edit)

(Ritsuko showing Misato and Shinji all the spare Reis used for the dummy plug)
Ritsuko: Mankind found a God, and Man, in his folly, desired to him his toy. God punished Man for his arrogance. But still Man desired to control the God, and made a Man that was like a god himself, and that man, was Eva.
Shinji: What? Eva's are human?
Ritsuko: Yes, at the heart of every Eva lies a human soul, yet the only thing that can carry a soul, is Rei. These thing are empty husks; they have no right to live. The Room of Guf, is empty. (edit) Rei: Who is this? You? Myself and an EVA. No, I sense somebody other than myself. Who are you? An Angel? Are you one of the beings we call the Angels?
Rei (Angel): Don't you want to become one with me?
Rei: No. I am me. Not you.
Rei (Angel): Hmm, but you shall. It's too late. I will share part of my mind with you. Let me share with you these emotions. This is pain. Do you feel this pain?
Rei: This pain? No, it's different. Loneliness.
Rei (Angel): Yes. Loneliness.
Rei: Loneliness? I don't understand.
Rei (Angel): You don't want to be by yourself, correct? We are many but you are alone. You hate it don't you?
Rei: That is what it is to be lonely?
Rei (Angel): That is what your mind is. It is what fills your soul. You are that sorrow. (edit) Misato: (thinking) Another phone that will never ring... (edit)

Several scenes of animation with Misato and the NERV control operators is recycled for use in the next episode, The Beginning and the End/Knockin' on Heaven's Door. (edit) Before Shinji comes to her rescue, we see Rei crying and her tears falling on her legs, but this is impossible since her entry plug is still filled with LCL fluid. (edit)

The Chamber of Guf is a sort of storehouse of souls, when its empty, no more people will be born (since a body with no soul is a shell). This explains the decline in population/birth rate. Heaven's Chamber of Guf is a little different (it's referred to in The End of Evangelion). (edit)