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It’s also a recipe for a tense, twisty episode, and I really needed that right now. We get a lot more detail about the Second Secret Science Society, what their deal is, and how they’re going to stop Shiro.

I've always refered to them by name. Angry Man = Hajime Nakamura, Professor = Hideyuki Kagawa, Intern = Satoru Toujou. All usually refered by their surnames.

Nakamura is the only one with different motivation from them as he only wanted to get revenge, also is the one threatening his teammate Toujou (he's abrasive too to his teammates...really dark reflection of Ren!), and almost (ironically) went Yui on Room 401. Nakamura's different motivation of revenge is the one getting him killed because of the revenge motif, hence "he's not a hero". Kagawa instead is a dark reflection to Shinji that both wants to stop the Rider War, but Kagawa's an extremist.

If only there are more people like Kagawa, but not being a straw vulcan extremist, his talent can be used to save people from Mirror Monsters by creating mass Advent Decks for people, nope, not for them to fight, leave it blank with no need to contract monsters, just for people to use to Henshin and escape the Mirror World when pulled there.

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Intern -- Sato? I think his name was Sato. -- Sato is a great way to explore the Second Secret Science Society, and a great way for Shinji to feel vital again in this show.

His debut episode name in Japanese is a pun of the Tiger user, "Enter Tiger" is "Tiger Toujou" in Japanese (Sato-chan is what Sanako calls him, others usually goes by Toujou). Toujou is the one becoming the temporary MVP of Atori between strangers (instead of Ren with waiter background), but Shinji, you only wanted to live there right? Not doing waiter's job shouldn't be a problem if you still live. There goes Shinji's chance of stopping the war knowing the truth of SSSS. What makes this one different for Shinji compared to previous episode where you compained about him merely asking for SSSS help again? Now he's back to square one again, even more hopeless that he has no alternative (pun intended), no other way to stop the war, hesitating again over the morton's fork in his code, only can hold up his principles of no-sacrifice by protecting someone (who happens to be his best friend), which goes against a known way to stop the war, seemingly making the war possibly go longer, aside from the mystery if SSSS is right or not.

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Except, uh, Sato also murders Alternative (awesome name, awesome suit, I love how it drops all of the flourish of the Rider suits for as much of a Mad Science aesthetic as you can get from the Ryuki template and still look like a bug) when Alternative jumps Ryuki.

Alternative is not a Kamen Rider as Toujou stated in this episode (ironically being the one with bug motif), for the debate last time. I gotta hand it to Shinji's suspicions of being fishy when Toujou, someone he saw at SSSS, comes to Atori, and figures out that he may be the one hunting Yui (thank Okubo too for allowing him to leave, despite his annoyance to Shinji in previous episode), especially the way he leers at her. He thinks it can't be a total coincidence. Shinji also practically wins the fight with Alternative, he just attacks from back. Though his assumptions were still wrong, Nakamura is the one becoming Alternative, he was half-right that it's SSSS' plan attempt, and gets him to act. I want to know what Nakamura meant when he says Shinji is wrong/misled?

Alternative being a carbon copy, is a total opposite of Shiro's Riders in every aspect. Alternative's visor speaks with a female voice instead of a male one, its belt spins vertically instead of horizontally when it appears, and its Advent Cards are swiped across the visor instead of being inserted into them. Alternative's Advent Cards are also laid out lengthwise (name on the right, image in center, stats on left) instead of the regular heightwise (name on top, image in center, stats on bottom). It's sword can also fire blue flames which makes for long range attack.

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(Also, Ren runs through Ren’s Greatest Hits, riding on his motorcycle and taking Eri to the beach, and I can’t bring myself to talk about it more than that. If you all have strong feelings about Ren’s storyline right now, have at it.)

The end of Ren's arc here. His first and potentially last date for a while. Another thing I can say for Ren is... look at this bromance upgrade.

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Yeah, I don't want to be all Tiger Saved This Show, but, man, I'm struggling to think of what I'd've gotten out of this episode without those characters. The Kitaoka/Ore phone call? That was some choice comedy. It's fun to have a semi-flustered Kitaoka. That's a dude who knows how to get laughs. Also, man, Reiko's completely got his number, and I love it. I love how outmaneuvered he is. Give them a fast-talking spin-off, where they solve mirror crimes. Reiko Time: Ryuki, please and thank you.

Sad to see dwindling faith over the leads. Now it's probably seen what can be problematic for Shinji. Also for spin-off idea, like Kitaoka would actually agree to cooperate like that. He loves Reiko yeah but that'd lead into another thing other than that. Kitaoka still doesn't really realize what she's up to at the end to Asakura.