tbf they were headed that way anyway, until the Unit-04 incident got followed up on by trauma after trauma, and they didn't really have time to try to get freaky any more.
At least IIRC it's been ages since I've watched the series.
Unit 4 Was destroyed
"Ambivalence
Evangelion Unit-03 arrives from the United States. However, its activation experiment brings out NERV's worst nightmare when it turns out to have been infected by the Thirteenth Angel. The other EVAS are dispatched to battle the Angel-infected abomination... even at the risk of killing its helpless pilot. "
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