[7.6/10] The funny thing is that *Rick and Morty: The Anime* already heavily implied that Space Morty dies. And yet, when it happens, when we finally see it, the moment still has power. That's not easy, and the show deserves credit for it. We already watched an assassination attempt on Morty’s life several episodes back. It’s telling that the attempted slaying there was stopped by Elle, given her future-knowing abilities. Yet here, it’s Long-haired Rick who initially saves Space Morty, only for Alien Elle to be just a moment too late to stop it. Long-haired Rick comments on it, on whether she could have stopped this and chose not to. The difference in the moments seems stark, particularly when someone she claims to love’s life is snuffed out. But there is also power in the senselessness of it, in the way that what kills him is not a determined Galactic Federation operative, but rather a nameless footsoldier who wasn’t even supposed to be there, bitter at the Smith family for taking out his partner. (Hello *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* fans!) That's what’s particularly interesting about “When We Meet Again in Our Dreams”. What we get is largely a game of contrast and compare. Much as we saw Elle help save Space Beth and Bird Person in the main dimension, we see Rick attempt the same here, only with Alien Elle working with the rebels on the outside rather than assisting things from the inside. I’ll admit, a lot of it felt like pointless spectacle in places. Why did we need to see a very similar rescue twice? But when it became apparent that this was Space Morty’s last mission, it all came into focus. Seeing how things went differently, how one choice results in a loss of life while the other results in one being saved, tells the tale. The moment where Morty dies is poignant. The show’s right to do things in montage, and gives us glimpses of reactions, particularly Space Beth’s, without showing us the whole thing. It makes the event feel momentous. And I appreciate the way it fills in the pieces. The substance that made Elle is no longer mysterious, it is the product of Long-haired Rick (or somebody else) using something that entirely reverses entropy in his universal There is something poetic and weirdly logical about the creation of such a device resulting in “antimatter” in the form of a person who experiences time in a gestalt fashion. I don’t quite like the time reversal montage as much. (It gets a little tedious when it’s clear pretty quickly what the show is doing.) But I do appreciate Long-haired Rick being moved to take such drastic measures after the death of his grandson, and Alien Elle having labored under the loss of her love forever because she always knew it was coming. The show continues to play with ideas of determinism versus free will, and as Rick himself notes, the paradoxes are a bit out of control. But it works for me emotionally even if it doesn't necessarily all add up, which is a good place to be. Overall, this is one of the stand out episodes of the show, and at least some things are beginning to snap into place. I’ll take it!