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Resolved to act, Near books passage to Japan, sending Commander Rester ahead to New York to arrange the trip and accompany him, since he has never set foot on a plane. The Task Force, for its part, engineers a comeback for Misa so that Mogi, under the alias Mochi, can tap into the various Kira broadcasts. Near then rings them to announce he has already landed, rattling Light, and asks him to relay to Kiyomi Takada that agents have come to seize Kira. With only four of his people left after Mello's fury, Near expects an arrogant Kira to give himself away, vowing to outplay him; Light privately takes up the dare.

Working with Lego figures, Near sorts the case into two killers, branding Light the one he dubs L-Kira and pinning a second, unknown notebook user as X-Kira, certain the pair can trade messages only through Takada. On a monitored date, Light slips Takada notes urging her to stay composed, tells her the agents have moved, and asks her to take up the role of the next Kira; stunned, she nearly bolts from her seat before agreeing. Takada then instructs Mikami to mail her five blank notebook pages and shift his real killings to a decoy book to throw off suspicion. When Kira's Kingdom yields to a program built around Takada, Light spots that one of her four guards, the ex-CIA officer Hal Lidner, belongs to the agency hunting him, while Near pares X-Kira down to Mikami.

Over a tense hotel dinner, a wine-soaked Misa boasts of her engagement to Light and warns Takada that he will in the end catch Kira and have her executed; Takada hides her alarm, privately sneering while still picturing herself as the goddess of a new world, then cuts the evening short. Reporting back, Lidner leads Near to judge that each of the two women would do whatever Light asks of them. Later, aboard a train, Gevanni watches Mikami notice a man harassing a woman, draw out his notebook, and set down the name; the offender dies as the agent gives chase. The installment first aired in Japan on May 29, 2007, and in English on June 8, 2008.