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So yeah, as you said, we meet two of the other major villains, in the form of Brachiosaurus and Scream. While we don’t see who they are here, the credits show Bando with a gothic lolita girl, a Catholic schoolboy and a guy jacked like Ahnuld. I’ll let you guess who is who.

As for the plot, I can’t say it particularly stuck with me like the next one in both anime and manga did. Yes, we’re skipping part of the manga to get to the next episode, so I’ll recap what you’re missing.

Shotaro and co get hired by a rich family to find the cat that belonged to their late matriarch. Investigating, they discover that there’s been a litany of disappearing cats throughout the city, and use Mick as bait to find where they’re going. The answer turns out to be a Caracal Dopant on the sewers, actually a middle-aged woman going through a bad breakup. After saving her, Team W takes her to an offsite hospital (with Terui explaining that security at the main building was compromised and Murder was killed in his cell). And for the denouement, Shotaro figures out the rich family were more interested in the diamond hanging from grandma’s cat’s collar, since they’re baffled that she’d leave an expensive jewel to a mangy animal in her will. Even after Shotaro explains that she left it to the cat because all her heirs saw it more as a cash source than a sentimental item, they still demand the diamond. To resolve the story, Akiko throws the diamond into the trash and gives the cat to the former Caracal to help her recover.

Extra note: Tokime’s costume change is an original thing for the anime, done to get around foreign networks who wouldn’t let her old outfit past the censors.