Short Summary:

Characters Introduced:
Lust
Gluttony

Full Summary: There is one act in alchemy that is absolutely forbidden, and that is attempting to transmute a human. Cornello has figured out that Edward and Alphonse did just that, losing their bodies because of it. When Rose is told this, she immediately thinks of what Ed told her earlier, of the legend of the boy with wings of wax who flew too close to the sun.

Zooming to a flashback, Alphonse explains that the brothers had indeed performed human transmutation when they were younger, in an attempt to bring their dead mother back to life. That was the sole reason they had tried to learn alchemy - just to see their mother's smiling face one more time. But the transmutation failed, Ed had lost his leg, and Al had lost consciousness after he lost his entire body. When he woke up, his soul was attatched to a suit of armor and Ed had lost his right arm in order to attatch it. Back in the present, Ed explains to Rose that this is what happens when two people attempt to bring back a human from the dead and asks her if she really has the guts to try. When Cornello asks why they want the stone, the brothers just reply that they want to return their bodies to how they were before.

Alphonse calmly asks Cornello once more to give them the stone, but Cornello merely transmutes his staff into, of all things, a machine gun and, saying that he'll send them back to God, shoots the entire round of bullets at them. However, Ed has transmuted a wall from the ground below to protect them, saying that even if they go up to God, they'll be sent back because God hates them. The brothers then attempt to escape with Rose. When Cornello laughs and says that the only exit will only open if he commands it to, Ed just transmutes a door of his own in the wall. As the brothers make their escape, Cornello tells the disciples to chase after them, calling them heretics who want to ruin their religion. However, said disciples become unnerved when Ed transmutes his metal arm into a long blade. And of course, Alphonse manages to escape unharmed himself as well due to his metal body. As the brothers pass by Cornello's broadcasting room, however, Ed gets an idea...

Alphonse "borrows" the bell from the bell tower and, while discussing manners of equivalent exchange with Rose, hooks it up to some wires. When Rose asks about what happened with their mother's transmutation, Al just states that what they created could not have been called human. A quick flashback shows Ed stating that it wasn't their theories that were incorrect, but they themselves. Back in the present, Al explains that they each want the other to be back to how they were before, and although they know it's risky, this is the road they have chosen. And that is why Rose can't follow the same path as them.

Back in Cornello's office, the minister enters to find Ed sitting on his desk. Cornello (foolishly) tells the young alchemist that he thinks of the citizens of Lior as nothing except his stupid pawns who don't deserve pity. But then, Ed laughs and shows the minister the switch to the microphone that is at his feet - it's turned on. And said microphone is connected to the wire that Al hooked up to the bell earlier, which causes the sound to be amplified throughout Lior. And, of course, said switch has been turned on since the beginning of the conversation.

Cornello tries to kill Ed by transmuting his staff into the machine gun again, but he's too slow and Ed transmutes his arm into a blade, cutting off the end of the gun. Cornello says that as long as he has the Philosopher's Stone, he won't lose. However, as he tries to transmute his staff-gun again, a rebound occurs and his arm becomes combined with the gun, creating much pain for the minister. As Ed tries to get to the stone, said stone breaks and falls to the ground uselessly.

Ed then freaks out. He's come all the way to Lior, had to deal with all of this... and the stone is a fake. As he pines his loss, Cornello decides to stab him with a metal portion of his arm. Before he can do that, however, Ed takes out his anger on the minister. He's come all the way to Lior, had to deal with Cornello and his plots, and all he gets in return is a fake stone. As a sign of how angry he is, Ed raises a giant statue (similar to those of Leto) from the ground with his alchemy and has it punch the ground, just close enough to Cornello as to make the minister faint but not close enough to actually do any damage.

Later, Ed tells Al that the stone was, in fact, fake, and the two of them express their disappointment in not being able to fix the other's body yet. The two of them start to leave, but Rose sits behind them, her life shattered. Cornello promised that he could bring back the dead. Without that, what is she supposed to do with her life? Ed responds that she has to decide that on her own. She's got to stand up and move forward. She's got a fine pair of legs, after all.

Later, the citizens of Lior are outside of Cornello's place, demanding to see him about the broadcast. Cornello hides inside, trying to figure out how to get himself out of this, when he finds himself face to face with a slender lady with long black hair, and a round, bald person, apparently the ones who gave him the "Philosopher's Stone". And apparently, the lady knew it was defective but wouldn't ever give him a real one anyway. When Cornello reminds her that she had told him that he could rule the country with the stone, the lady merely questions whether a loser like him could even hope to become king.

The round man then asks the lady if he can eat Cornello, but the lady tells him (referring to him as Gluttony) that if he ate the minister, his stomach would get upset. Cornello takes great offense to this and attacks, but the lady extends her fingernail like a spear and stabs him in the head, effectively killing him. The lady then says that a person called "Father" will be mad at them, and regardless of earlier warnings, Gluttony eats Cornello's corpse.