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Very much a set of episodes in which they frontload all of the background details and main detective work so they can focus on the child in the latter half. And depending on what you think of lying to her like that with the inevitability of her learning anyway... yeah. I'm admittedly surprised they didn't go for the "I know you're not my dad" route like Die suggested since that would've been a solid way out.

It was still an enjoyable enough twofer though, especially when it came to trying to figure out the Dopant abilities. Everyone slowly piecing together that the shooter is in the water and not invisible.

My memory was vague so I didn't remember the finer details so there being two Alomalocaris Dopants caught me off guard. I had completely forgotten that detail and it allows the two-parter to still happen despite Shotaro managing to get the drop on the "attacker" at the end of the first part.

Nazca though! I always did enjoy the smarmy yet sophisticated Kirihiko and I'm reminded of why exactly in this episode. Just the way he gets pushed back and his "That attack was ridiculous... wait, that's exactly why he did it!" epiphany that just sends him over the moon. Also Nazca is still probably my favorite of the Sonozaki Dopant suits.

Also mostly on the technical side of this rewatch, but I've noticed that the OST editing for this series is odd in certain places. Certain songs are cut weird and end up abruptly repeating or cutting to a further part in the song. Also as much as I enjoy cleaned up subs from OZC, man can they get really wordy at times to the point where I get overwhelmed by how much text is on screen.