Flight SE333

After the Mafia names the notebook as the price of Sayu's freedom, the Japanese Task Force splits across separate flights, with Soichiro sharing the final one alongside Hideki Ide. At Narita Airport, Ide watches Zakk Irius steer Soichiro toward gate eighteen and alerts Light, who is already waiting in Los Angeles, while Shuichi Aizawa sits quietly aboard as Soichiro boards. Once airborne, Irius passes Soichiro an earpiece carrying Mello's terms for swapping the book for the girl, and the agonized father turns the choice over for the rest of the journey.

The captain, Kyle Block, subdues his co-pilot and steers the aircraft off course, assuring alarmed ground controllers that there is no hijacking, only a detour to drop a single passenger, and threatening to down the plane if anyone interferes. Television coverage of the strange diversion reaches Light through Matsuda, and with Aizawa reporting calm in the cabin, Light is stunned that the Mafia could turn a pilot of fifteen years, which drives him to enlist Near and the SPK's American reach.

Mello directs Soichiro to disembark on landing and arrange a media blackout, then sends proof of Sayu before the jet sets down in the desert. Satellite feeds show Soichiro walking away alone as the plane lifts off once more for its true destination. The anime reworks the setup so that the flight is one Light never knew existed, scheduled so late that no other agent is booked aboard, leaving him alarmed when Aizawa reports that Irius has directed Soichiro onto it.