First appearance of Bakura!!

Outside the warehouse, Bakura senses the dark presence within and uses the Millennium Ring to remove the darkness. 

As Bakura enters the warehouse, he senses that Keith is being controlled by another person and uses the Millennium Ring to break the link between the two, but the shock of being set free leaves Keith confused and startled. As Keith's controller tries to take control once more, Keith suspects that the Millennium Puzzle is to blame and smashes it against the side of the arena, shattering it into its separate pieces.

Bakura knocks Keith away and he and Yugi collect up the pieces of the Puzzle, but Yugi is afraid that it may take him years to reassemble all the pieces. As Yugi remains determined to reassemble the Puzzle, no matter how long it may take him, Yami Bakura is still holding one of the pieces. Bakura recalls how in ancient times the pharaoh and six priests sacrificed themselves to seal all the evil within the seven Millennium Items. Bakura wants Yugi to collect all seven items so that the evil will be released again, but he wants to be able to explore the secrets of the Puzzle until that time arrives.

Using the power of the Ring, Yami Bakura transfers a small amount of his soul into the piece of the Puzzle and then hands it back to Yugi. As Yugi gathers up all of the pieces of the Puzzle, Bakura heads off for school, however as he leaves Yugi finds that the main piece of the Puzzle is trapped on the hook that attaches it to the arena. 

Yami Bakura reveals himself and claims he wants Yugi's god cards. So the duel begins and Yami Bakura just plays weak cards in attack mode until he has three cards in the grave.

Then, he plays Dark Necrophia, who is also destroyed. But with it's destruction comes a new field. A dark field which is taking over the arena and who's hidden powers are unknown to Yami...

While Yami looses more and more LP's by choosing the wrong monsters, Bakura gains. Yugi manages to destroy the spirit by playing a card that forces all equipped cards, including the spirit, to go to his Kuriboh, then he destroys Kuriboh.

But Yami Bakura plays a card that will add a letter of the word DEATH to his magic and trap card zone after every opponents turn. As the letters slowly pile up, how will Yami stop the word and prevent his immediate defeat?

Yami Bakura, playing magic cards on his monster zone as well due to another field effect, has summoned all but the letter H. Yami trusts in his deck and draws Osiris, tributes all his monsters and summons him. The resident spirit cannot effect him, so Yami Bakura will loose in one attack.

But Malik, who has found a way to control the regular Bakura as well, suggests sending out the regular Bakura. He does this and Rishid explains that if Yami attacks, Bakura will surely die from the impact.

Bakura falls to his knees in pain but Yami is stopped from helping him by the referee. If he goes over to Bakura, he will be disqualified. Yami struggles with what to do, when Yami Bakura tells Malik to leave him alone and takes control of Bakura again.

He explains to Yami that Bakura's body is important to him and he can't let it die. So Yami attacks, winning the duel, and the first semi-final comes to an end.

As Yugi and his friends run to help Bakura, the referee tells Yugi he is entitled to one of Bakura's cards, but Yugi doesn't want it. Yami Yugi realizes that he and Yami Bakura are sort of similar, in the fact that they both have to protect their hosts.

But Yugi points out one difference; the fact that Bakura isn't helping Yami Bakura, and that he does indeed want to help Yami Yugi.

After taking Bakura back to his room, the gang decide to ask Kaiba to land the ship so they can get him back to the hospital. Yugi notices Bakura's Millennium Ring is gone, but decides to worry about it later. Everyone leaves the room, except for Tea who wants to watch Bakura.

But as everyone leaves, Tea, under the control of Malik, holds up Bakura's Millennium Ring.

Duke attempts to talk to Serenity, but Tristan drags him away and tells the others they will go look for Bakura's millennium ring.

After Malik was forced to undergo the custom ritual, he created a Yami self, an being composed of the anger and hatred Malik had for the people who had done this to him.

One day, Malik managed to convince Ishizu to let him see the outside world, which was strictly forbidden to do. Ishizu and Rishid agree, so one morning, the two sneak outside.

They wander around the village taking in the sights when they run into Shadi, who warns them of great danger. They quickly return home and find Rishid on the ground, beaten. Malik's father tells Malik that what he has done was very wrong, and that it is his turn to be punished when the Yami takes control of his body. He takes the Millennium Rod and uses it to kill their father. Then, he is about to kill Rishid when he wakes up and the regular Malik returns, unaware of what just happened.

Ishizu tells Yugi that when he puts all the Millennium Items back he will have to let Yami go. Yugi is upset about this, but doesn't let his alter ego see his sadness.

Meanwhile, Malik takes over Tea once more and she returns Bakura's Millennium Ring to him, and he becomes possessed again. Yami Malik is about to kill Rishid again when Yami Bakura stops him.

They agree to Shadow Duel and the looser will remain trapped in the shadow realm...forever...

(One moment when loyalties to certain characters may conflict..)

Yami Malik uses a card that makes both players draw 2 cards, if one of the cards is a trap the player skips his battle phase..

Yami Bakura then plays a card making him able to discard the cards from his hand and draw a whole new hand, but if there aren't 2/3 or more monster cards in their hand, they skip there battle phase.. Yami Marik is disgusted that he couldn't attack and sets a card on the field..

A little later on, Yami Bakura activates combo "Dark Designator" and "Exchange" to take Yami Marik's God Of Ra..

Yami Marik then laughs about Ra's special abilities, and that Ra is no use to Yami Bakura, but Yami Bakura then says he'll find out anyway..

Yami Malik then explains something about his rod, and how the spirit will like to rule over Marik's body forever.. Marik then tells Yami Malik that he will do no such thing and that he disrespects the Ishtar family..

Yami Malik doesn't care and he activates a magic card from his hand "Vengeful Bog Spirit" as revenge from the trouble Yami Bakura gave him before.. Both players now can't summon and attack on the same turn, monsters must wait one turn before attacking..

With Yami Bakura having all three monsters on the field to summon Ra, he tries to summon Ra on the Duel Disk.. Yami Malik then says "Got Ya!" and activates a trap card (it is unknown at this moment), but the effect of the card absorbs all of the opponent's monsters on the field during a sacrifice and injects them not into Ra, but into Yami Malik's life points.. As Yami Malik's LP keeps getting higher and higher, it almost seems that Yami Bakura can't do a thing to stop him!

Malik's LP = 8550

Bakura's LP = 1900

Since Ra has 0 ATK points, it is useless to Bakura, he then switches on the defense instead of the attack..

Later on, Yami Malik's monster destroys Puppet Master and Yami Bakura sacrifices Ra to summon Hades The God Of Hell. But it seems that somehow Yami Bakura forgot that Yami Malik has in his hand Resurrection which Bakura "Exchanged" for Ra..

The tides are turning and Yami Malik announces he will win this duel very soon..

Yami Bakura is very awake to all of the moves Yami Malik will make.. Yami Bakura feels so hopeless.. And just then, things get worst.. Yami Malik then activates the Resurrection card from his hand which shocks Yami Bakura. He then uses Ra's special ability "ONE TURN KILL" (BTW, on a slight note, this episode IS named ONE TURN KILL in Japan airings).. It allows Malik to sacrifice all but 1 of his life points, and raise Ra's attack and defense strength by that sacrifice of points..

Yami Malik attacks and wipes out Yami Bakura, Bakura's body then fades and Malik picks up Bakura's ring..

(Curse you Malik!)