- Written by Keiichi HasegawaDirected by Kyohei Yamaguchi
After Drive forcefully de-transformed from Freeze's snowstorm attack, Freeze decides to retreat, given that his strength is still incomplete. Chaser still fights Mach and the latter escapes after exchanging firepowers. At the Unit's office again, Mr. Belt gets into an argument again with Shinnosuke, as Jun broke their fight and brings Krim away to cool him down. While Kiriko calms down Shinnosuke, Jun brings Krim to his favourite scenery at the rooftop and calms him as well.
In the Unit's discussion, the team try to figure out how to counter the memory manipulation effects made by Freeze. Chase reveals that another method of Freeze's memory manipulation was by replacing his target's memories related to a certain keyword with forged ones. Genpachiro and the First Division officers were among the victims, with his inability to pronounce Roidmude being unintentional. Kyu also reveals that other than Iwao Fujiki, there are other 20 serial kidnappings that happened using the mail sent in by Mister X, which started to happen since 12 years ago, the same year of Eisuke Tomari's death.
Genpachiro tried to tell his employer Mitsuhide Nira that Makage is guilty for a lot of cases but as always, he turn on deaf's ears. Nira tried to report this to Makage since the Special Investigation Unit would eventually find the truth later on but Makage has no worries in his sight and even dismisses Nira, having no further use of him. Shinnosuke seeks Mr. Belt's help, wanting to remove Freeze's needles that injected to him so that they can create a cure to counter it. But even with Mad Doctor's help, Shinnosuke needs to be in the same condition he was injected with the needle, meaning that he has to be in his human state, which is incredibly dangerous without Drive's armor. Chase in the other hand deals with Heart to get an answer the meaning behind the Roidmude's Super Evolution. But for Heart to achieve it, he has to find a worthy opponent.
After the extraction of Freeze's needles ended, Genpachiro reveals that all of the abduction is truly Makage's work, as the victim's families had no memories of them. But even with that piece of evidence, only one clue left to find (the reason for Makage to kidnap Iwao). Rinna brings the finished antidote and sprays on Genpachiro, finally enabling him to pronounce Roidmude correctly for the first time. Shinnosuke deduces that Freeze is conducting a huge experiment and Nira arrives, as he delivers a list of unused buildings with large consumptions of electricity. Nira apologises to them for what he had done in the past, thus confirming the fact that 001 indeed manipulating the police officers. Chase visits Mr. Belt and advises to help Shinnosuke under the duty of a Kamen Rider. Shinnosuke first visits Toru and tries to help him get his memories back but fails until the dorayaki he bought sometime ago had helped him. When Jun reads Shinnosuke's prediction of the day, he realises that it was the same one back in the day where his father died: Super Unlucky.
Finding the location of an abandoned building with large electricity consumptions, Shinnosuke, Kiriko and Genpachiro storm in and finds all of the kidnapped victims in stasis. Freeze, Brain and Go appears as he reveals that this place is a hidden experiment facility. Ever since 12 years ago, Freeze tries to find the source of his humiliation so he kidnaps people that can withstand his memory manipulation ability like Shinnosuke. Also noted that the great nationwide pandemic that happened 10 years ago was a setup. Shinnosuke and his father was gifted but he wasn't capable of finding the reason why other humans like them can withstand his ability.
Toru soon appears and reveals that it was his father's dream that allows him to retain his memories. After Toru reunites with his father, Shinnosuke concludes that no matter how strong his ability is, they will never reach a person with a higher spirit, awakening Mr. Belt's senses and finally allows Shinnosuke to transform and fights Freeze. Chaser joins the battle as well and fights Deadheat Mach and Brain. While it seems that Drive Type Formula successfully kills Freeze, but his Core survives and creates a new body, which evolves him into Super Evolution State. In this new form, Freeze unleashes a powerful ice burst which takes out Shinnosuke who falls to the ground motionless. Approaching him, Kiriko and Genpachiro are horrified to find that both Shinnosuke and Mr. Belt have been killed.
- Affably Evil: 001 still speaks of Shinnosuke's father rather respectfully, despite learning there were other people who were immune to his memory alteration powers as well.
- Berserk Button: 001 once again pushes Shinnosuke's buttons, egging him on.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Heart and Chase fight, and Chase is pretty much thrown around by Heart like he was a ragdoll. This makes sense, as unlike Drive and Mach, Chase doesn't have access to the Dead Heat form. Later still, Freeze takes out Drive with a single attack after achieving his Ultimate Evolution.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: How Shinnosuke is able to knock Freeze around this time. Making use of Max Flare allows him to put up a much better fight against Freeze.
- Fantastic Racism: While he considers Shinnosuke's father to be a remarkable individual, 001 does not extend the same courtesy to the other people he kidnapped. For them, he displays the same disgust for humans that many of the other Roidmudes do.
- Heel–Face Turn: After antagonizing Shinnosuke and the Special Crimes Unit since his first appearance, Captain Nira passes on information that helps them uncover Freeze's plan. He even apologises for the way he'd been treating them.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: 001's failed attempt at mind-wiping Shinnosuke from the previous episode allows Rinna, Mr. Belt and Mad Doctor to analyse his powers and develop an antidote to restore affected memories.
- Human Popsicle: The fate of 001's kidnap victims while he tries to discover why they were immune to his memory alteration powers.
- Insistent Terminology: Despite now knowing 001's name is Freeze, everyone still refers to him as 001.
- My Death Is Only The Beginning: Freeze apparently needed to be killed by Drive before he could achieve his final evolution. Justified, as going through a humiliating defeat is the trigger of said evolution.
- No-Sell: When Drive fires on Freeze with the Door Gun, he ignores every shot before slapping the weapon away. Later during the fight, when Drive switches to Type Formula he launches Max Flare at Freeze, who bats Flare away as he advances.
- One-Winged Angel: Freeze's Ultimate Evolution screams this, as he is initially destroyed before regenerating into a much more powerful form.
- Palette Swap: Freeze's Ultimate Evolution pretty much looks like his evolved form, only coloured gold.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Freeze's response early in the episode when Chase and Mach's fight takes them to where he's facing Drive. He observes that the time is not yet right and walks away while everyone else is distracted.
- The Dog Bites Back: 001 curtly dismisses Captain Nira (even telling him to no longer show his face), and in response Nira delivers the information the heroes need to discover what 001's been doing with the kidnap victims. Then again, considering 001's methods this was probably deliberate.
- Wham Line: Metro Police Special Crimes Unit Officer Tomari Shinnosuke... Killed in Action.
- The Roidmude Count: 57The Answer: For 001, ultimate power. For Kamen Rider Drive, death.
