Formation!

Formation: Team Hawk stands complete and sets out, four members united under Sasuke's singular purpose — find Itachi, kill Itachi. The episode launches the hunt proper, the team's dynamics established, their search for the elder Uchiha beginning. Meanwhile the Akatsuki's own movements stir, Itachi and the organization aware that Sasuke is coming. The collision course is set: a younger brother's assembled revenge converging on an older brother who has been waiting. Hawk takes flight toward the confrontation the whole arc has built.