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- "Thankfully nobody was hurt." I guess I didn't expect that Kamen Rider would delve into the consequences of a dream meteor destroying an entire building like that, but it does make me giggle to hear them explicitly reassuring the kids at home like this. Reminds me of Power Rangers and its Abandoned Warehouse District.

- As expected, there seems to be some tension between Baku and Fujimi over Odaka/Nox. And not resolved by the end of the episode either; I have to wonder if Fujimi will refuse to accept Odaka's ties to the case until he sees his snazzy new (anti-)villain form for himself. Or otherwise sees irrefutable evidence of Odaka's heel turn.

- ...TBH I thought that was a picture of an actual James Bond actor, in the poster on Baku's wall. I had to go back and pause to get a second look and confirm it wasn't.

- At first I thought that the whole revelation of CODE/Capsems being bad was just getting brushed under the rug, but after seeing the consequences of Baku finishing off the giant meteor man monster, that doesn't seem to be the case. At least not entirely.

I wasn't just kidding when I thought that Zero would be immune to twist villainy based on being so closely tied to Zeztz, even serving as his motorcycle. But he's just looking more and more sus, between his lack of concern at Baku's seeming death ("Mission complete. Humanity's extinction was prevented.") and his death threats towards Minami if she snitches on him. And now it seems like, at the very least, the conflict between Zero/CODE and Nox is much more grey than it would've seemed at first.

Right now I'm predicting that CODE will ultimately serve as the main villainous force with Zeztz and Nox teaming up against it, albeit with Zero himself potentially turning to/staying on the side of good. Or if he is evil, then Zeztz and friends will manage to break Zero's connection to the CODE Zeroider.