While Light walks with Penber's fiancée, he knows he has no choice but to kill her. He tells her that he can help her start the investigation by telling him exactly how the incident happened. He uses a page of the Death Note to supposedly record details of the hijacking of the bus, when in fact he is writing her name and cause of death (suicide). Meanwhile, L and the group get news that Watari will be joining them.
Light waits for 40 seconds for the woman to die, but she continues acting normally, saying that Kira will be captured. This gets him confused as to why isn't she doing what he had wrote down; at the same time, he's confused why Ryuk can't stop laughing at her name. This hits him with a revelation: Shoko Maki was an alias. Light realizes that since she believes Penber was killed because he showed his ID to Kira, she would keep her true identity a secret.
At the hotel, Watari introduces himself. He has brought fake police I.Ds for the team to use, as well as special belts that allow them to contact Watari by pressing the buckle. This will allow them to keep in touch with L about future meeting times.
Light continues to make conversation with the woman as they walk to police headquarters. Upon learning that she worked with L in the past, Light seizes the opportunity to tell her that he is part of the Kira investigation and it would be great help if she joined as well. Tactfully he tells her that he would need to see some I.D. if she agrees to this. She gives him her driver's license, and he writes her name above the cause of death. One of the police officers walking back to the station just misses them. Just before the Death Note takes effect, Light lets the woman know he is Kira, and Naomi Misora wanders off to kill herself.
Tropes used in this episode:
- Bastardly Speech: Light gives a very convincing one to Naomi about how awesome working together on the taskforce is going to be.
- Black Comedy: 1) watching Light panic when Naomi doesn't die. 2) Light's Evil Gloating is sick and twisted, but funny.
- The Charmer: Light resorts to using this method of manipulation out of desperation.
- Death by Secret Identity
- Dropped A Bridge On Her
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Naomi has this as her death starts.
- Evil Gloating: Light after writing Naomi's name down.Naomi: If you don't mind me asking, why do you keep checking your watch?Light: Oh... this? It's because I'm Kira.
- The Hyena: Ryuk just can't stop laughing at Penber's fiancée's secret identity.
- Laughing Mad: Ryuk does it when Naomi says she's really determined in catching Kira, not caring about what happens to her.
- Kick the Dog: Light killing Naomi Misora. He even twists the knife by offering his cell phone to call Soichiro, knowing full well there's nothing she can do.
- Manipulative Bastard: Light.
- Mundane Solution: At first, Light begins to panic while staying with Naomi, since if his father calls and his phone goes off, he'll have to give it to her. After a second of panic, he realizes he can just turn his phone off.
- Never Found the Body: Just a plain suicide seems too simple for Light as he explicitly stipulates suicide in a way that the body will not be found.
- Noodle Implements: Light's execution gives his victim 2 days to think of a plan to commit suicide in a way that will prevent them from being found and then do it. How that could be accomplished is left to the imagination.
- Oh, Crap!: Naomi after learning Light is Kira.
- Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Death: It's right there in the episode name.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Then goodbye, Naomi Misora."
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Light writes that Naomi will find a hidden place to end her own life.
- Secret Identity: This is how the investigation team will be able to defend themselves from Kira. Also, "Shoko Maki". And, naturally, Light is Kira and worried about his identity being exposed.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: Light monologues this to Ryuk when he started to pressure him on having Shinigami eyes.
- Snow Means Death: As soon as Naomi gives out her real name to Light and her death commences, snow falls.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: "My father's phone might be available now, do you want to talk to him?" You can even hear Brad Swaile have
a mocking tone to his voice as he says it. - Stalker without a Crush: Light takes to following Naomi around as he tries to figure out how to kill her before she passes her information on.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Aizawa opens up his umbrella when it begins to snow and so just misses seeing Light and Naomi Misora together.
- Vasquez Always Dies: Naomi is literally killed off for being too competent.
- Villainous Breakdown: Light has a mild one in his Inner Monologue-you can hear his rising panic when "Shoko Maki" doesn't die because she used an alias.
