"Rogue Noir" <Rogue@Noir.com> wrote in message news:<yUq6b.11811$U%4.570@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>...
> I've been puzzled by this scene where Asuka is in this bathtub with dirty
> water and she seems pretty depressed..  then a shadow of a man shows up at
> the right..  who is that man?  I'm guessing Kaji..  Note that this isn't in
> Misato's bathroom.
In the Director's Cut of ep24, it is made clear that what caused Asuka
to be in in the basically suicidal state we see her in in this scene,
was finding out (from Shinji) that Kaji is dead.  Apparently Asuka
really was in love with Kaji, and the news of his death (on top of
everything else that has happened to her) puts her into a tailspin of
despair that damn near kills her.  She's in that bathtub somewhere in
the ruins of Tokyo 3 because she pretty much has sought a hole in
which to crawl away and die.  The NERV security guys find her and take
her to hospital, but she is so far gone that she ends up in a coma,
which is her status at the start of EoE...