Damn Australian ISP offpeak quota forces me to wait ~24hrs to get my weekly Gundam....

Anyway, I thought this episode was done pretty well. As for capturing Kyrios with the carbon webbing, I think Sergei had every reason to believe it was sufficient. Firstly, the carbon webbing was quite effective in restricting movement. He then heard the pilot scream, and pass out. Having seen what happened to Soma during the flight test, he would expect Allelujah to be out for quite a while, and with the suit locked up with a harness, it should have been good to go. Then they sent all their troops to hinder any other Gundams while they rush the captured one off. If they had an entire escort, they would have just made a bunch of cannon fodder for Tieria. The escort idea would have been ideal if they didn't know enemy numbers, or didn't know where they'd attack/ambush etc. Kyrios's power output must have been 0.0. Even if they said it was like 5x, or 20x a normal Flag's output or whatever, the harness should have held. Just Gundam Godliness here. But again, all he had to do was get his left arm free. The scissor blade made short work of the cargo ship.

They were also shocked by Virtue's power anyway. When Sergei saw how powerful it's propulsion system was alone, he commanded Soma to cut something off. It wasn't some offensive move to disable the Gundam for capture. He knew they wouldn't take the whole thing back, so he just wanted something...anything... Then BAM! New gundam appeared. Lean & mean. Takes out 6 suits. Didn't see that coming. Shit. Retreat and recalculate. Any hanging around meant total annihilation.

I'm happy to see Tieria, Hallelujah and Soma take the spotlight this ep. I personnaly enjoyed watching Hallelujah's ruthlessness.

Also, some food for thought, a wiki link for the term Nadleeh. (no Gundam specific spoilers as far as I can see.)