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A daylight chase down a main road has The Crawler tailing a motorcycle thief while Pop☆Step Leaps alongside and argues for handing it to the police. He refuses, planning to shadow the man until law enforcement arrives, and gets a stretched leg to the chest for his trouble, sliding out of control toward a truck. A flying blond scoops him up, dumps him on the pavement, and knocks the rider out with one uppercut. Floating above with criminal and bike in hand, the hero laughs at himself, is scandalized to learn the college student cannot name him, introduces himself as Captain Celebrity of the United States, and autographs the boy's All Might hoodie without permission, insisting his signature outvalues the merchandise. Koichi disagrees on principle. Later, a news segment covers the hero's relocation to Japan, and Knuckleduster supplies the part the broadcast skipped: a nickname, Captain Catastrophe, earned through a pile of scandals and lawsuits he seems to have crossed an ocean to outrun.

A Trigger-fueled Kaiju villain, one of Kuin Hachisuka's field tests, starts wrecking the city, though she writes him off as too conspicuous to yield useful data. Amid the evacuation, a little girl screams that Masahiko was left at home. Captain Celebrity declines to move because his press and support staff are not set and the police have not filed the request, so The Crawler goes alone. Once the countdown, the commentator, and the music through his earpiece are ready, the hero fights spectacularly and rescues everyone in sight. Koichi finds Masahiko: a puppy on a leash. He carries the dog clear, nearly gets flattened by a tail, and is scooped up again into a park full of cameras. Pop notes the hero saved a hundred people. The girl thanks "The Cruller" for rescuing her dog, which Captain Celebrity magnanimously permits him to take credit for, before asking him to keep his costume away from the branding.

Another night, at a condemned building, the two work together in the loosest sense: Koichi hauls a large man on his back through the street while the hero princess-carries and flirts with a young woman, because the optics are better. He catches falling debris one-handed, poses for photographs, and then demolishes the tower with spotlights and a singing cheer squad. Pop finds herself inspired for her idol work; Koichi finds himself envious and annoyed, and worse, spots Makoto Tsukauchi among the cheerleaders. Captain Celebrity intercepts her with his real name, Christopher Skyline, and a lunch invitation she accepts as business. Knuckleduster observes that nearly every suit filed against the man came from young women he was involved with, the largest from the wife who almost ended his career.

Koichi and Pop trail Makoto to the meeting and are spotted. At a restaurant on a high floor, Christopher ignores news of a bank robbery in favor of suggesting somewhere more secluded, then freezes as Makoto takes a call from Pamela. She connected with his wife online a week ago, is gathering evidence for the lawsuit, and would love to hear more about that secluded spot. He flees to the robbery, drops the dolphin-faced gunman instantly, skips the cameras, and begs Koichi to come with him, staging awkward photographs to prove to his wife he has reformed. Makoto sees the opening and pitches a rebrand, which materializes as a televised spectacle of chanting delinquent schoolboys and matching cheerleaders. Days later, Koichi's father calls: his mother is already on a train to Tokyo. He scrambles to clean, warns Pop that Shoko is a monster who hates lies, and lists what he has told her, including a girlfriend. Pop flees scarlet. Shoko sweeps the Penthouse for evidence, pronounces her son's life proper, and then asks about the girlfriend.

Captain Celebrity debuts, rescuing The Crawler from a truck and defeating the Longleg thief, then signing Koichi's All Might hoodie.

Knuckleduster reveals the hero's Captain Catastrophe reputation and the lawsuits that drove him to Japan.

Kuin Hachisuka doses a Kaiju villain with Trigger, and Captain Celebrity defeats it while Koichi rescues Masahiko, who turns out to be a dog.

Makoto Tsukauchi joins the hero's cheer squad, contacts his wife Pamela, and uses the leverage to propose rebranding his image.

Koichi's mother Shoko arrives at the Penthouse and asks about the girlfriend he invented.

Chapters 14 and 15 of Vigilantes plus the first pages of Chapter 16 form the basis, placing the episode in the Senpai arc under Kekka Alright and Speed.

Numerous sequences are lengthened for television: the thief chase, the rescue from the truck, the news broadcast, the Kaiju rampage and the fight against it, the bank takedown, the cheer squad's song, and the rebrand broadcast. The Marukane Department Store damage is shown rather than merely mentioned, and law enforcement is seen cordoning off the unstable building.

Details shift throughout. Koichi's spinout is staged across the road from where the manga put it, he slides up into the ruined building via a broken window rather than sliding down to a door, and he has already grabbed the dog when the rubble falls rather than snatching it at the last second. Kuin comments on the Kaiju while leaving a convenience store with a lollipop instead of moving through the fleeing crowd. Makoto waits on her campus rather than a city street, and is stopped from chasing the vigilantes by Captain Celebrity himself. Cut are the hero's request that Koichi brag online, a bystander's monster-movie remark, a bedroom shot in the montage, Koichi's jab about Pop's miniskirt, Makoto's stated reasoning for the rebrand, and Jube and Ichimoku's presence in the rebrand crowd.