Though Mikami has written all the investigators’ names in the Death Note, a minute passes and everyone is still alive. Near seizes the Death Note, and all is at last revealed.
According to their agreement, Near, along with the SPK, meets Light and the task force at a warehouse for the final showdown. To everyone’s shock, Near reveals that Kira’s follower, Mikami, is at the warehouse and is writing everyone’s name in the Death Note.
Aizawa figures out what’s going on and tells Near, who already knows about the notes. Near instructs Aizawa to continue watching Light, and then puts in motion a plan to separate Misa from Light.
Light pretends to investigate Kiyomi, but while the task force members listen through wiretaps, Light passes notes to Kiyomi asking her to help Kira with his mission to change the world. She agrees.
Star newscaster Kiyomi Takada becomes Kira’s spokesperson to the world, and she just so happens to have been Light’s girlfriend in college. Aizawa’s suspicions about Light grow.
Near contacts the Japanese task force and determines that Kira is among their members. He asks for insider information, and Aizawa, beginning to doubt Light, gives it to him. Near suspects that the new L is really Light Yagami and that Light is Kira
Mello busts into SPK headquarters to retrieve a photograph of himself to make sure he won’t be killed by Kira. In exchange for Near giving him the picture, Mello drops an important hint about the Death Notes: some of the rules are fake.
Light tries to discover where Mello and his Mafia associates are hiding and uses Misa’s eyes to find the Death Note’s current owner. By writing the owner’s name in the Death Note, he stealthily manipulates him into revealing the group’s whereabouts.
Light, acting as L, reveals to Near that his sister Sayu has been kidnapped by someone wanting to trade her for the Death Note. Near finds out that the trade will happen in Los Angeles and promises to help, while secretly planning to steal the Death Note and capture Kira.
A new investigator steps forward—Near, a central figure in the SPK, an organization that is trying to catch Kira without relying on L. Near is aware of the existence of the Death Notes and wants to get his hands on one.
Light has removed everyone in his way and is closer to achieving his perfect world. At the investigative team’s request, he secretly becomes the new L. The world is heading toward a dark age under Kira’s rule.
Light, his memory recovered, orders Misa to begin killing as Kira. The Shinigami Rem realizes that everything is going according to Light’s plan, and that L will arrest Misa as Kira—unless Rem acts quickly.
Higuchi is captured and tells the investigators about the Death Note. L deduces that there must be more than two notebooks and declares the case still open. Light, who is sitting next to L, touches the notebook…
Higuchi of the Yotsuba Group attempts to kill Matsuda of the task force, and is surprised when he doesn’t die. To discover his real name, Higuchi makes a deal with Rem for the Shinigami eyes.
Misa succeeds in narrowing down the Kira suspects in the Yotsuba Group to one: Higuchi. L devises a plan to lure Higuchi to Sakura TV, where a Kira special is airing, featuring a witness with a hidden identity.
The Yotsuba Group hires Eraldo Coil to uncover L’s identity. They also decide to use Misa Amane as spokesperson in their television ads. During the interview, Misa comes in contact with Rem, who reveals the past she’d forgotten!
L’s team discovers that the Yotsuba Group meet in secret to discuss the elimination of individuals who are troublesome to their company, and concludes that Kira must be one of the eight executives. Can Light posing as L ferret out the right one?
Matsuda, the task force member assigned to watch Misa, is eager to distinguish himself, and while on a job with Misa, he decides to do a little snooping on his own at the Yotsuba Group’s Tokyo headquarters.
Though L is still suspicious, Light and Misa, their memories of being Kira wiped clean, return to headquarters, where Light notices a strange connection between the recent Kira killings and the Yotsuba Group.
After fifty days of confinement the killings continue, and Misa and Light are released. But L has devised a plan to ensure no more murders occur, and has Light’s father, Soichiro, take the two for a ride that may be their last.
Misa is in confinement, though her memories of the Death Note have been completely wiped away. When Light is confined as well, the murders stop and suspicion of Light grows stronger. Then suddenly, the killings resume!
Light and Misa show each other their Death Notes, and Light asks Misa to have her Shinigami Rem get rid of L. But Misa asks something of Light in return—to fall in love with her!
Light goes to Aoyama to discover the identity of the second Kira before L becomes more suspicious. But Misa Amane, the new Kira, uses her unusual gift to find Light before he finds her.
