Re: Episode 6

As Seidou Takizawa pummels Haise Sasaki, visions of Ken Kaneki begin bleeding into Haise's mind. Elsewhere in the venue, Ginshi Shirazu and Saiko Yonebayashi bring down Nutcracker, and Shirazu drives the killing blow through her chest. In her final moments she remembers her childhood and confesses that she only ever wanted to be beautiful, which leaves Shirazu shaken and pleading with her not to sound so human.

Big Madam takes on both Kuki Urie and Tooru Mutsuki; Urie nearly loses his mind and stabs Mutsuki amid his grief, but Mutsuki wraps his kagune around Urie to steady him. Confronted at last by Juuzou Suzuya, Big Madam cannot be killed by the young man she once tormented, and CCG investigators finish her off after Hanbee Abara wounds her. The stray ghoul Scarecrow blunders into the control room and accidentally trips the intercom, broadcasting Sasaki's screams across the whole building. Hinami Fueguchi and Saiko race to the auction floor, and Hinami throws herself at Takizawa to protect Sasaki. Finally admitting that he is Kaneki, Sasaki turns on Takizawa, and the two run each other through with their kagune before collapsing together.

The episode adapts the twenty-sixth through thirty-first chapters of Tokyo Ghoul:re, and its subtitle plays on the word return. In the anime Juuzou never calls Big Madam Father after her death, and the severity of Sasaki's injuries is dialed back. Nutcracker's childhood flashback has been read as a nod to the film Schindler's List.