Set's Alessi, Part 2

Trapped in a bathroom and drowning under Alessi's grip, the child-sized Polnareff escapes by flinging his own filth into the assassin's face, buying a moment of disgust. He then learns the horrific fate of the woman who sheltered him: Sethan has reduced her to a fetus with only minutes to live. Sethan's touch shrinks Polnareff further, down to a three-year-old, as he snatches the tiny woman and flees deeper into the house.

Boxed into a bedroom with no exit, Polnareff listens to Alessi hacking through the door and hatches a scheme. When the assassin bursts in and checks three obvious hiding spots, all prove to be decoys. The boy has actually submerged himself in an aquarium, a balloon concealing his head and a mirror hiding his body. He strikes first, slashing Alessi's face and sending him crashing out a window, where the blinded man lands right at Jotaro's feet.

Playing the harmless bystander, Alessi waits for Polnareff's warning to distract Jotaro, then deploys Sethan and turns the teenager into a child. Worse, Jotaro has only just awakened Star Platinum and is left with no Stand at all. Even so, the shrunken delinquent is tough enough to flatten Alessi with his bare fists and knock him cold. By the time the assassin wakes, both victims have returned to adulthood, and a combined assault launches him into the sky.

Polnareff later crosses paths with the recovered woman but keeps his true identity to himself before rejoining the group. Using another spirit photograph, Joseph pins down the location of DIO's lair in Cairo. The episode leans on horror-comedy homages, notably nodding to the 1980 film The Shining when Alessi splits the door with his axe; in the English dub he even echoes that film's famous line.