Fullmetal Alchemist - Season 1

First aired: 10/4/2003 51 episodes

Two young brothers are raised as alchemists, but when they are severely injured trying to perform a forbidden act, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them; the fabled philosopher's stone.

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Episodes

1. Those Who Challenge the Sun

Aired: 10/4/2003

When Edward and Alphonse meet a so-called religious leader who can invoke miracles, they believe he's carrying the philosopher's stone.

2. Body of the Sanctioned

Aired: 10/11/2003

Edward and Alphonse struggle over whether they should reveal the truth behind Cornello's miracles -- and possibly ruin the townspeople's lives.

3. Mother

Aired: 10/18/2003

A young Ed and Al are determined to bring back their dead mother, who was their pillar of strength during dreary times of war.

4. A Forger's Love

Aired: 10/25/2003

While on their way to seek out an important man from their childhood, Ed and Al come across a town haunted by a ghostly woman.

5. The Man with the Mechanical Arm

Aired: 11/1/2003

Ed and Al hop aboard a train to Central City and quickly find themselves defending the passengers -- including Gen. Hakuro -- from terrorists.

6. The Alchemy Exam

Aired: 11/8/2003

Once in Central City, Ed and Al move into the vast mansion of sewing-life alchemist Shou Tucker and begin to prepare for the Alchemy Exam.

7. Night of the Chimera's Cry

Aired: 11/15/2003

Now an official State Alchemist, Ed takes a closer look at Tucker's chimera experiments and begins to realize there's something very wrong going on.

8. The Philosopher's Stone

Aired: 11/22/2003

A disenchanted Ed resigns from his position as State Alchemist, and when Winry arrives in town, she may be the serial killer's next victim.

9. Be Thou for the People

Aired: 11/29/2003

Ed and Al go on assignment to inspect a small mining colony and discover its inhabitants are being heavily taxed by a tyrant and his Alchemist.

10. The Phantom Thief

Aired: 12/6/2003

While trying to avoid their meeting with Mustang, Ed and Al end up in a small town and become embroiled in a manhunt for a female Robin Hood.

11. The Other Brothers Elric (1)

Aired: 12/13/2003

Ed and Al head to Xenotime in hopes of finding the Philosopher's Stone, but they find only two boys creating a strange red water.

12. The Other Brothers Elric (2)

Aired: 12/20/2003

Ed and Al uncover a conspiracy involving the Tringham Brothers' father, his involvement with the red water and the disease that's stricken Xenotime.

13. Fullmetal vs. Flame

Aired: 12/27/2003

Ed reports back to Mustang in East City, where discussion of Doctor Marcoh and the Philosopher's Stone leads to a duel between Ed and the colonel.

14. Destruction's Right Hand

Aired: 1/10/2004

While the shape-shifting Envy disguises himself as Cornello, Ed and Al find Marcoh and learn about the Stone's involvement in the Ishbal Rebellion.

15. The Ishbal Massacre

Aired: 1/17/2004

As the Strong Arm Alchemist defends them from the surrounding chaos, Marcoh reveals to the Elrics the vast atrocities of the Ishbal Massacre.

16. That Which Is Lost

Aired: 1/24/2004

As Marcoh faces a deadly encounter with Lust, Armstrong and the Elrics flee to Resembool. Ed is sent into a rage when they lose Al in the process.

17. House of the Waiting Family

Aired: 1/31/2004

While resting and receiving repairs back in Resembool, Ed visits his mother's grave and Al reveals his concerns about his fading memories.

18. Marcoh's Notes

Aired: 2/7/2004

Ed and Al are forced to go in search of another source for Marcoh's book after Lust, Gluttony and Scar burn the First Branch Library to the ground.

19. The Truth Behind Truths

Aired: 2/14/2004

Ed and Al are horrified when they learn what the key ingredient in making a Philosopher's Stone is, but they forge ahead to explore an abandoned lab.

20. Soul of the Guardian

Aired: 2/21/2004

Several malfunctions in their armor impede Ed and Al as they face off against some tortured souls bound to empty suits.

21. The Red Glow

Aired: 2/28/2004

Barry sets off a series of explosions that inadvertently free Greed and the other prisoners. Tucker returns from the dead in a surprising new form.

22. Created Human

Aired: 3/6/2004

As Envy, in the form of Basque Grand, gathers the human ingredients to form the Stone, Maes Hughes sets out to rescue the Elrics from Laboratory 5.

23. Fullmetal Heart

Aired: 3/13/2004

Edward upsets Winry with his refusal to talk, and Alphonse decides to confront Edward with his questions about artificial souls.

24. Bonding Memories

Aired: 3/20/2004

Alphonse runs off and comes face to face with Scar, who's been hiding out among the mercenary-plagued refugees of Ishbal.

25. Words of Farewell

Aired: 3/27/2004

When Ed and Al take Winry on a quest to tail Scar and learn more about the Stone, they discover a connection between Lab 5 and the war in Ishbal.

26. Her Reason

Aired: 4/3/2004

As Ed, Al and Winry arrive in Rush Valley to retrieve automail, Mustang figures that a high-ranking officer must be responsible for Hughes' death.

27. Teacher

Aired: 4/10/2004

Edward and Alphonse fear for their lives when they come face to face with Izumi Curtis, their former teacher, who brings them back to Dublith.

28. All is One, One is All

Aired: 4/17/2004

In order to teach them a life lesson and give them time to reflect, Izumi leaves Ed and Al on Yock Island -- the place where she first found them.

29. The Untainted Child

Aired: 4/24/2004

Edward and Alphonse discover that the young boy on Yock Island is, all at once, an alchemist, a homunculus and able to transmute his own body.

30. Assault on South Headquarters

Aired: 5/1/2004

As the military captures the mysterious Yock Island boy and imprisons him in South Headquarters, Yoki spots Scar among a group of Ishbalans.

31. Sin

Aired: 5/8/2004

Envy disguises herself as Bradley and plucks the homunculus child from Izumi. Meanwhile, the boy remembers his past after he eats Stone fragments.

32. Dante of the Deep Forest

Aired: 5/15/2004

Izumi drops in on Ed and Al's fight with Wrath, a new homunculus who seeks the rest of Edward's body in order to make himself human.

33. Al, Captured

Aired: 5/29/2004

When Martel takes over Al's armor and brings him to Greed's headquarters, it's up to Izumi and Edward to come to the rescue

34. Theory of Avarice

Aired: 6/5/2004

With Ed, Izumi and Sig in his custody, Lt. Col. Archer reinstates Shou Tucker as State Alchemist and orders his men to hunt down Greed.

35. Reunion of the Fallen

Aired: 6/12/2004

As Edward and Alphonse head out to the Ishbal camp with Winry, Lust is sitting down at a restaurant when a man from her past enters the room.

36. The Sinner Within

Aired: 6/19/2004

Ed and Alphonse hope to learn more about the Philosopher's Stone when they lend a hand to a group of Ishbalan refugees being shipped further south.

37. The Flame Alchemist, The Bachelor Lieutenant & The Mystery of Warehouse 13

Aired: 6/26/2004

While he investigates Mustang, Lt. Havoc orders his man Falman to find him a girlfriend. Later, Mustang must investigate the haunted Warehouse 13.

38. With the River's Flow

Aired: 7/3/2004

After an argument splits up Ed, Al and Winry, Al bumps into a familiar face, and Winry decides to investigate Hughes' murder with Sheska.

39. Secret of Ishbal

Aired: 7/10/2004

Kimblee is named State Alchemist and heads out with the troops to Liore, where Scar is gouging out the earth with a large stone.

40. The Scar

Aired: 7/17/2004

After Lust and Gluttony drop in on Edward's confrontation with Scar in Liore, the seventh and final homunculus is finally revealed.

41. Holy Mother

Aired: 7/24/2004

With the help of Rose, the Holy Mother, Scar instructs the inhabitants of Liore not to provoke violence as they lure the military into town.

42. His Name Is Unknown

Aired: 7/24/2004

With Ed busy aiding the people of Liore, Scar is the only one who can help Alphonse when his armor begins transforming into an explosive compound.

43. The Stray Dog

Aired: 7/31/2004

While the Elric Brothers flee Liore, Winry meets a complete stranger in Resembool who is later introduced to her as Ed and Al's father.

44. Hohenheim of Light

Aired: 8/7/2004

As the Elrics' father, Hohenhelm of Light, sets out to confront the leader of the Homunculi, Lyra and Rose find a secret stairway in an old church.

45. A Rotted Heart

Aired: 8/21/2004

A complex and entangled history reveals itself as Van Hohenheim of Light battles Dante, the leader of the Homunculi.

46. Human Transmutation

Aired: 8/28/2004

The brothers are in danger when they become separated. Ed returns to Dante's mansion to look for clues. Al meets with the deranged Shou Tucker.

47. Sealing the Homunculus

Aired: 9/4/2004

Wrath believes that Sloth is his real mother. Sloth battles Shou Tucker. Ed realizes that Al has been tricked by Tucker.

48. Goodbye

Aired: 9/11/2004

Armstrong declares an uprising against the Führer on the northern border while Ed, joined by Izumi, fights the remaining Homunculi in Central.

49. The Other Side of the Gate

Aired: 9/18/2004

King Bradley comes home to give his son a birthday gift. Edward meets with Russell in an abandoned church. Maria and Denny arrive to support Izumi.

50. Death

Aired: 9/25/2004

Edward Elric arrives in World War I after being pulled through the Gate. Roy Mustang confronts his enemy, Homunculus Pride.

51. Laws and Promises

Aired: 10/2/2004

Edward Elric realizes he must make the ultimate sacrifice if he wants to retrieve his brother from the Gate. Hawkeye breaks free from her captors.