The Gatekeeper of Hell, Pet Shop, Part 1

With only a couple of days left before Holly succumbs, the group still cannot locate DIO's lair. On a blistering Cairo day, Polnareff tries to rest in the shade and blunders into a turf dispute with a beggar, since the city's beggars guard their territory fiercely and he looked like a needy foreigner. That beggar, it turns out, has an arrangement with Avdol, who pays him to track down DIO's hideout. Shedding his rags to reveal a suit and a luxury car, the man drives off to search, and Polnareff notices Iggy has slipped away once more.

Wandering the streets, Iggy happens upon the very building they seek. When two dogs snarl at him, he cows them into hunting easier prey, and they crawl under a door chasing a bird's shadow, only for their severed heads to come flying out on an ice spike as their bodies are dragged inside. A watchful falcon appears, then conjures a massive icicle to crush the returning beggar. Iggy grasps that the bird is a Stand user defending the mansion, and that the falcon, Pet Shop, wields the Stand Horus.

Pet Shop fixes on Iggy, who feigns indifference, wanting no part of a human quarrel. When a young boy crawls under the gate searching for his missing dogs and comes under attack, Iggy cannot bring himself to let the animal-loving child die and rushes to help him escape. Turning to face Pet Shop, Iggy is caught off guard as the falcon freezes the ground and rains down icicles, driving him into a sewer.

The pursuing falcon fires on Iggy, but the target proves to be a sand double, and the real Iggy has The Fool claw the bird. Wounded, Pet Shop unleashes the full force of Horus and transforms the sewer into a frozen world. The damp, icy conditions leave Iggy badly outmatched, and when his paw is locked in place, he can no longer dodge the falcon's next strike.

In the manga, Iggy shields himself from the first icicle with The Fool's ordinary form, while the anime shapes the Stand into a protective dome instead. Commentary emphasized how frightening Pet Shop becomes precisely because he never speaks, his menace conveyed through relentless pursuit and animal cries.

To capture the falcon convincingly, action director Kenta Mimuro visited a zoo to study how birds of prey move, and computer-generated screeches stood in for a voice, sharpening the sense of dread the creature inspires.