Episode 250 of One Piece reaches the heartbreak of Franky's past. Tom takes the blame to spare his apprentices, but Franky's rage over Spandam dooms him too, ending with the young cyborg crushed beneath the very Sea Train he helped build.
Tom's Workers are arrested for the strike on the judicial ship. When Franky declares that a vessel turned into a weapon is no longer one of his ships, the words enrage Tom, who strikes Franky for the first time and insists he must take pride in everything he creates. Tom then offers to accept punishment for his old crime if Franky and Iceburg are spared from Enies Lobby. But Franky's fury boils over, he disfigures Spandam's face with a pistol, and he ends up wanted regardless. Trying to halt the departing train barehanded, he is run over.
In the present, Zoro stays lost on the rooftops while Luffy remains wedged in a wall and Kokoro watches the Galley-La fire burn. The flashback resumes with a harpoon lodged in Tom, who tells Iceburg not to blame Franky. Spandam and his CP5 agents seize all three and parade them through town as the supposed attackers. When Franky disowns his raid ships, Tom breaks his cuffs, punches the cyborg, and lectures him that a builder must never deny his own creations, then savagely beats Spandam before the marines gun him down.

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Tom confesses to the raid and asks pardon for it, but Jorge rules he will still hang for building Gold Roger's ship. Tom accepts proudly, glad to have given Water 7 hope, and passes out from tranquilizers. When Spandam tries to take Iceburg and Franky too, Jorge insists only Tom goes, and Kokoro's tearful protest pushes Franky to smash Spandam's face with a stolen gun. Shot and fleeing, Franky tries to stop Puffing Tom and is run down. In the present, Lucci reveals the chief on the line is Spandam himself. The episode debuts Enies Lobby.
Episode 250, "The End of the Legendary Man! The Day the Sea Train Cried," reveals Tom's final moments as he takes the blame to protect Iceburg and Franky. Franky's own rage over Spandam then dooms him too, ending with the young cyborg run over by the departing Sea Train.
In episode 250, Tom confesses to the strike on the judicial ship to protect Franky and Iceburg, but Judge Jorge rules that he must still be executed for having built the ship once used by the pirate Gold Roger.
Franky attacks Spandam after Spandam tries to take Iceburg and Franky into custody along with Tom. Pushed by Kokoro's tearful protest, Franky steals a gun and disfigures Spandam's face before being shot and run over trying to stop the departing Sea Train.
Episode 250 marks the debut of Enies Lobby, the government stronghold where CP9 intends to take Robin, Franky, and Usopp.
In the present-day scenes of episode 250, Rob Lucci reveals that the chief overseeing the operation is Spandam himself.
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