Cat's Eye Episode 50 Discussion

Aside from the very ending, which we'll get to, I really liked this episode. But first, since it's the 80s we're randomly treated to Ai's skateboarding skills:

So in this episode we get 2 intermingling plots. While Toshi attempts to recover the stolen(by jewel thieves, not Cat's Eye) broach he secretly bought for Hitomi, she goes undercover to swipe a different jewel held by the same thieves once owned by her father. Ai happens to witness Toshi buying Hitomi's gift, but thinks it's for Miss Asatani. Asatani's blush face when the jeweler makes the same error is adorable:

Ai tells Hitomi who becomes distraught. Ignoring that she should obviously know better by now being his school sweetheart and all, it's still a nice role reversal with Hitomi being the insecure one in the relationship for once:

Anywho, the main plot goes as you'd expect, but Toshi turns into action man. Swinging off cars:

Disguising himself for a sting as a bad Chinese stereotype:

And what have you. He even eats at NASADONALD, which I'm guessing must be WacDonald's rival since they were in a previous episode. :D His scene there and the one feigning injury with the Chief are both genuinely funny. Honestly he does about as good a job this episode as Hitomi does until Ai and Rui bail her out with Ai's windstorm invention. Yes, I forgot Ai was the Donatello of the group...although this came first so reverse that I guess. :D Anywho here's where my problem with the ending comes in: Hitomi nabs dad's jewel and all the others fly all over from the wind machine. Except the broach, which magically lands in Hitomi's pocket. Later she notices and after reading the inscription feels bad for doubting Toshi. Then...for some reason...they go to the local planetarium and she fixes it so the broach falls from the sky for him to give to her. Um...wtf? Toshi, being insane, just accepts that the stolen broach randomly wound up at the planetarium. Damnit show, did the broach really need to magically wind up in Hitomi's pocket? Can Toshi never look good? Why not just have the broach be recovered by Toshi and have Hitomi be genuinely surprised by it in the first place? It would have made for a far sweeter ending than what we got. Stupid, stupid decision. Good episode with a weak finish. Woulda been great had they stuck the landing, which makes it more frustrating, oh well.