Episode 8: Circular

Amon and Mado agree to split up before confronting the two suspects. At Anteiku, Touka rebuffs Kaneki's offers of help and goes to check on Hinami, only to find the girl has slipped away chasing a scent. The two search separately, and Kaneki, following distant screams, comes upon Amon pursuing Touka. He plants himself in the investigator's path, lowers his hood to reveal his mask, and refuses to let him pass.

Kaneki tries to trade blows but is outmatched, and once Amon senses he is fighting in earnest, he draws his quinque and sends Kaneki flying. Amon presses him about whether ghouls ever weigh their victims' feelings, blaming them for his friend's death. Cornered and unable to win, Kaneki embraces the presence of Rize, bites Amon, and breaks his quinque, then begs him to flee rather than be killed. Amon escapes, unsettled that his enemy was weeping.

Touka discovers Hinami clutching a bag holding her mother's remains and comforts the grieving child until Mado arrives. He gloats over the failed trap, and an enraged Touka unleashes her kagune, tricking him into snaring his quinque around the pillars. Just as she gains the upper hand, Mado reveals a second weapon forged from Ryouko, forcing Hinami to watch in horror. He seizes Hinami and begins crushing her, but she severs his hand, discovering she has inherited both parents' kagune.

Hinami disables Mado, yet refuses to kill him, wanting no revenge. When he crawls toward her still bent on murder, Touka cuts his throat. He drags himself forward vowing vengeance on the one-eyed ghoul before collapsing. Touka pulls off his glove and freezes at the sight of his wedding ring. Nearby, Yomo brings a hunger-crazed Kaneki back to himself, and the group heads home, with Kaneki assuring Hinami that her mother wanted her to live. Amon later finds Mado's body and screams in anguish.

The episode adapts chapters 22 through 28. It closes the CCG's waterway operation and pushes both Kaneki and Amon toward recognizing the blurred line between the two species.