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A hollow-eyed Sayu is wheeled along by her mother while Soichiro watches, sunk in grief over what has befallen his family and his surrender of the notebook to Mello's crew. The death god Sidoh presses Ryuk about his own missing notebook and is curtly told to track it down himself. Matsuda and Aizawa return from England reporting that Mello emerged from a facility that raised gifted children to succeed L, the sharpest among them being Near, presumed to head the SPK, and they bring childhood sketches of both. Light, having forced the thief to mail him the mafia's address, burns the letter, unaware that Sidoh reads it and departs for Los Angeles.

To find the notebook's holder, Light has Misa scan photographs of known mafia associates for the one face showing no lifespan, identifying him and writing his name to compel the address. At the hideout, Sidoh makes the owner touch the notebook, and the terrified mobsters all follow so they can see him; he reveals that the final two rules are fakes, leading Mello to suspect the notebook once belonged to Kira. Light surrenders Rem's notebook while pressing Gelus's against his skin to hold onto his memories. Speaking as Kira through Misa's altered voice, the team is told most of the mafia will die at one minute before midnight on November 10, their cue to recover the stolen notebook. Blaming himself for the original loss, Soichiro accepts the eye deal with Ryuk.

When the appointed deaths strike, the investigators storm the facility and seize the notebook as Ryuk holds Sidoh back. Cornering Mello, Soichiro reads his true name aloud, Mihael Keehl, having already written the first name, but he hesitates to finish and is gunned down by the henchman Jose. Mello detonates a blast to cover his escape, wounding the team. In the hospital Soichiro tells Light he knows his son is innocent because he can see his lifespan, and urges him to kill Mello, the only one who knows the renegade's face. He dies before he can act. Light later returns his old notebook to Sidoh, keeping only one, and Ryuk observes that notebook users end in misery, while Soichiro, who never wrote a name, passed away at peace believing his son was not Kira. The episode aired in Japan on May 1, 2007, and in English on May 11, 2008.