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The story begins with snow falling around Dr. Bernard Goodman's laboratory. Inside, Tony, Sarah, Getalong, Pterry and Flint are decorating the place in time for christmas. Flint doesn't understand why they are doing this, leading Tony to question why Flint is helping if he doesn't know why he is doing it in the first place. Sarah explains they are decorating for Christmas. Flint begins to ask questions on if decorations and christmas are tasty (thinking they are types of food), only for the twins to ignore him. When Pterry mentions Santa, Flint needs Santa explaining to him. This leads Flint to question on if Presents are tasty, which the others just confirm they are sarcastically, which only makes Flint excited.

As the others are doing this, Dr. Barnard Goodman is flirting with Jillian Grey via computer screen, asking her if she'd spend Christmas with them. She says that she would like to meet Genshi and the others at least once, when a alert comes in, causing her to cut the channel for the moment. When she returns moments later, a alter has been sent to the Time Bureau about the location of a Time Shifter.

Jillian explains this new Time Shifter is called Elfin, he is a monster who can make toys and is fond of children. He was spotted in 17th century France. As Flint and the others leave for the new assignment, Dr. Bernard warns them not to take too long as everything is ready for their Christmas party. They head out for 1651, France.

They arrive on 24th of December, 1651 in France. It doesn't take long to spot Elfin's powers at work, with kids bouncing on snow and statues moving. They begin their search for Elfin.

A girl is praying in front of a statue of Mother Mary in the hope she herself will be reunited with her own mother. Behind her, Elfin is handing out gifts. When Flint sees Elfin, he mistakes him for Santa. The kids copy Flint's mistake and refer to Elfin as "Santa" also. Elfin hands Flint the sack of toys, to which Pterry explains that Flint is given the sack to hand out to the presents to the children. Flint selflessly refuses to give up the toys, meanwhile Elfin approaches the girl by the statue.

Elfin hands the girl a stick, which he turns into a doll to cheer her up. He also turns a stone into a broach, some leaves into a toy rocking horse and a glove into a toy chicken. The girl asks Elfin is he is a messenger of God, to which the girl believes he is because of her powers.

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English dub Changes

This episode was often showed out of order from its original placement in the series in the English dub, often being labelled as episode 39.

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Notes

  • This is clearly a Christmas themed episode.
  • English word "Present" is mentioned by the cast several times in the episode.
  • Jillian mentions she hasn't met Flint in person.
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