Glare

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Summary

L and the task force have been watching surveillance video tapes in the late hours of the night, when L requests to see the video tape of Raye Penber boarding the train up to where he gets off and dies. He notices when entering, Raye is carrying an envelope, but not when he leaves. Additionally, when dying, he appears to be struggling to look into the train as if someone was there. L has concluded that Kira may have been on this train, despite how bold it would be. Meanwhile, Ryuk questions why Light is currently scheduling deaths for criminals months in advance. This is because if he were to get into an accident, people would suspect something if criminals stopped dying. Finally, L receives a call regarding the death of Raye Penber's fiancee, Naomi Misora. He recognizes her from "the Los Angles BB murder case," to which he remembers working with her in the past.

Although it's assumed she committed suicide through depression, L insists she was better than this and must have been killed by Kira under the assumption that she foundout something they didn't know. Because of this new development, L tells the task force he wishes to focus on investigating the people Raye Penber was investigating; The Kitamura family, and the Yagami family... He plans to have both homes bugged with microphones and surveillance cameras. While this goes into discussion, Light prepares for further planning by deleting all evidence on his computer, and modifying his wallet so he can carry various clippings of the Death Notes paper with him wherever he goes. Meanwhile, there is controversy among the task force for installing surveillance devices among the households, especially since L is only 5% sure that one of these two families has Kira in them. However, despite that, preparation will begin the next day...

As Light comes home from school, he notices no one is home. And as he goes to his room, he notices something strange about the door. When Ryuk greets him, Light ignores him completely, then gets his jacket and goes back out to take a walk. Upon leaving his room, he places a small piece of paper within the door. Finally, Light speaks to Ryuk while walking around outside, telling him there's a chance someone has been in his room and bugged the area. Although the paper was in his door like he had it, he tells Ryuk that was a fake setup to hide the other security purposes - His door handle is slightly tilted so that he'll know if someone has opened it, and a pencil lead is placed in the door hinge which would break if opened normally. He thinks someone was in his room outside of his family since the paper was still in place, and the other two securities weren't. After buying something from a book store, Light makes a deal with Ryuk - If he wants to be able to eat apples without being caught on camera, he'll have to find out where all the surveillance cameras are located.

As nightfall comes, Light can be seen sitting on his bed, reading dirty magazines, obviously to drive away the fact that he could be hiding something else in his room. Even though Mr. Yagami finds this unbelievable but possible, L thinks it's too suspicious and continues watching. When Ryuk has found a few cameras already, Light knows now that he's being watched, so it's best he remains as normal as possible while he's at home. When dinnertime comes around, L prepares a plan he devised when meeting up with the task force, a television announcement which states that the ICPO is sending 1,500 investigators to Japan to work on the case of Kira's murders. Light realizes this is already another attempt for L to get a response out of him, so he speaks out loud that it's obviouslyvery stupid to announce it and that it's probably just a trap for Kira. After dinner, Light gets a bag of chips and goes to his room to study.

Ryuk, by now, is very tired and has finished checking all the cameras, so he explains what he knows. There are 64 cameras in the room, which Light thinks is to put pressure on him in short time. However, he knows he's a lot better than this and that L won't be putting any pressure on him with all of the surveillance, especially since he's already scheduled deaths for the next three weeks. He believes since L is watching him right now, he'll be able to look completely innocent since these criminals are dying without him ever watching the news to find out their identities. Additionally, Light hid a miniature TV in his bag of chips ahead of time, so he can eat this snack and write names inside the bag, while showing no suspicion whatsoever. The witness to his alibi is L himself, it's the perfect crime...

A few minutes later, Watari reports to L that a couple of criminals have just died of heart attacks, leaving L to believe it's possible no one in the Yagami household could have done this. Even so, he finds them to be just a little too innocent, and wishes to continue the surveillance. The next day, Light throws out the trash, which includes the mini TV hidden in the potato chip bag which costs him $400*, as Ryuk pointed out. Now that Light is fully aware of L's presence, he's going to have to be careful about his next move... But how long will it be before L comes up with a move tooexplicable for him to elude...?

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*Although in the English dub Ryuk points out that the mini-LCD TV costs $400 (dollars being American currency), the subtitles stated this was 39,800 yen in Japanese. However, as according to Google's currency calculator, 39,800 yen translates into 381.1646 (or 381) dollars of American currency. This could be a mistake, so please let me know if I'm incorrect.