Wager

Light secures Rem's agreement to kill L, yet holds her back until he personally gives the word, unwilling to commit before the following day. Needing a private line to Misa, he refuses to hand over his own number for fear of a police trace and instead takes one of the spare phones she carries, insisting that only he will place the call. When Misa lingers and presses for affection, Light quiets her with a kiss that startles Ryuk and sends her off in a daze.

L warns the rest of the investigation that should he die within the coming days, the culprit can only be Light, the lone suspect to have met him recently. He then turns up on campus, breaks into the date Light is sharing with Kiyomi Takada, and repeats the same reasoning to his face. The two break for cake, but the outing sours when Misa arrives fresh from a shoot and reads L's true name with her purchased eyes.

Light spots his chance to learn the detective's identity, but L bursts into laughter and, joined by a swarm of students, declares himself an admirer of Misa's modeling. In the crush he gropes her and blames a stranger. Once an agent hauls Misa off, Light excuses himself to phone her, only to find that L has lifted her handset. The detective then reveals that Misa has been seized on DNA evidence tied to the Sakura TV recordings, with her agent's narcotics serving as the official pretext.

Misa is locked in an underground cell, blindfolded by a metal plate, bound in restraint material, and fixed upright on a cot under Rem's gaze. Because of the intercepted call, L names Light his foremost suspect to Soichiro. Days into the ordeal, Misa begs for death without confessing, her pleas actually meant for Rem rather than her captors. When she tries to bite through her tongue, Watari gags her, and Rem concludes that only giving up the notebook will calm her.

Forfeiting the book erases every memory of Kira, the gods of death, and the notebook itself, along with the lethal eyes. Misa resists until Rem promises that her bond with Light as her boyfriend will survive, and she goes limp with a single tear. Rem gently brushes back a strand of her hair, a tender gesture L quietly notices. Afterward Rem recounts the whole affair to Light and Ryuk, reminding Light that she will end him if Misa is not freed. Light claims a plan is already in place and bids Ryuk farewell.

Rendered in Japanese as Kake, the episode debuted in Japan on January 23, 2007, and reached English audiences the following February. It falls between the chapters named Friend and Decision and marks the first appearance of Yoshi. The hour closes on Light's private admission that he was careless in leaving the Sakura TV evidence intact, framing his struggle with L as a contest only now truly beginning.