Assassin's Bullet

The Liberio battle winds down with one last exchange: Eren's hardened fist shatters the Armored Titan's jaw, but Reiner drags the beaten Jaw Titan clear before it can be devoured. Declaring the fight over, Eren leaves his Titan and departs with Mikasa for the airship, where Levi greets him with a kick and puts him in restraints.

On the ground, Gabi refuses to accept defeat. Rifle in hand, she sprints after the retreating aircraft with Falco begging her to stop. She pours out her rage over the deaths of Udo, Zofia, and the gate guards, insisting the island devils trampled the only home she has, and rejects Falco's point that Marley's Warriors once did the same to Paradis. When the veteran Lobov hesitates to fire on a child, she kills him, works out how his maneuvering gear functions, and rides its anchored wire toward the ship with Falco clinging on.

Rolling into the cabin, Gabi fires blindly into the celebrating soldiers. The bullet tears through Sasha, who dies murmuring about meat while Mikasa and Armin weep at her side. The captured children are hauled before Zeke, who sits regenerating beside Eren, and learn to their horror that the Beast Titan's holder has been collaborating with Paradis all along. Hange rebukes Eren for maneuvering the regiment into a rescue it never chose, Zeke insists the captured royal blood makes every sacrifice worthwhile, and Jean lays Sasha's death squarely at Eren's feet.

Reiner survives the battle but loses again to Eren, whose Titan cripples the Armored Titan's jaw. Floch leads the airship in a victory cheer for what he calls the New Eldian Empire's first triumph, six Scout fatalities notwithstanding. Gabi shoots Lobov dead, boards the ship with Falco, and mortally wounds Sasha.

Yelena is unmasked before Levi, and Pieck recalls encountering her years earlier among Marley's lost survey fleet as a devoted Zeke loyalist. Zeke confirms to the stunned Warrior candidates that events followed his design apart from a few miscalculations, the children among them. Sasha dies of her wound; Eren's unsettling laugh at her final word and Jean's accusation close the episode on a fractured note.

This is the 67th episode overall and the eighth of season 4, animated by MAPPA, scripted by Hiroshi Seko, and directed by Hidetoshi Takahashi, Lie Jun Yang, and Yōsuke Yamamoto. It covers the manga chapters Victors and Assassin's Bullet, airing in Japan on February 1, 2021.

The episode's information panel details Marley's standard five-shot bolt-action rifle, the weapon Gabi uses. Its epigraph quotes her furious justification to Falco: the internment zone is her home, and trampling it is something she cannot forgive.