History NightmareFuel / LycorisRecoil

*** The way the stalkers find Saori using her social media credentials is also a disturbing parallel to real life kidnapping incidents.

** Majima and his men massacre an entire police station in order to send a message to DA. DA covers it up as a yakuza attack, meaning they have several innocent men arrested for a crime they did not commit. Furthermore, Makina writes out "I CHALLENGE YOU, LYCORIS!" in the police station in red. It's all too likely he used blood to do it.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Film/TheDarkKnight "When the chips are down, these, ah, these "civilized people"? They'll eat each other."]]'']]

** The above is followed up by Himegama attacking Takina and knocking her through a broken window, leaving her dangling from a girder. Chisato tries to rescue her, but even though she pins Himegama, Shinji starts shooting at Takina, forcing Chisato to shoot him with a live round. Her [[TheScream scream]] afterwards is just heartbreaking, even though Shinji survives.

** Fuki, when ordered to retreat from Enkuboku Tower, wants to go back for Chisato. This is scary because Sakura has been grievously wounded by Majima and Fuki is willing to let her die because it's part of the job. Fortunately, Takina talks her out of it by going after Chisato in her stead, letting Fuki evacuate Sakura.

** There's something just utterly ''terrifying'' and twisted about the control Shinji has over Chisato. While he can't force Chisato to kill him, her every interaction with him over those five or so minutes of combat demonstrate the utterly ''broken doll'' Shinji describes Chisato as; she doesn't resist when he tells her to give him his gun, she doesn't stop him from unloading the rubber bullets and replacing the gun with live ammo, and she only regains any will to fight back when he puts the gun back in Chisato's hand and forces her to put the gun to his head. He's spent years literally ''grooming Chisato'' to become a killer, and is so convinced in his philosophy about enforcing someone's natural talents that he's utterly convinced himself that Chisato will only find true happiness as a harbinger of death. Worse, despite how terrible he is to her, Chisato is unwilling to let Shinji die, even if it would be at the hands of her best friend (thus obviating her ''personal'' 'no killing' principles) - she briefly ''fights Takina'' as the latter is doing everything in her power to save Chisato's life because of the screwed-up, abusive relationship she has with Shinji.

** There's something just utterly ''terrifying'' and twisted about the control Shinji has over Chisato. While he can't force Chisato to kill him, her every interaction with him over those five or so minutes of combat demonstrate the utterly ''broken doll'' Shinji describes Chisato as; she doesn't resist when he tells her to give him his gun, she doesn't stop him from unloading the rubber bullets and replacing the gun with live ammo, and she only regains any will to fight back when he puts the gun back in Chisato's hand and forces her to put the gun to his head. He's spent years literally ''grooming Chisato'' to become a killer, and is so convinced in his philosophy about enforcing someone's natural talents that he's utterly convinced himself that Chisato will only find true happiness as a harbinger of death. Worse, despite how terrible he is to her, Chisato is unwilling to let Shinji die, even if it would be at the hands of her best friend (thus obviating her 'no killing' principles) - she briefly ''fights Takina'' as the latter is doing everything in her power to save Chisato's life because of her screwed-up, abusive relationship she has with Shinji.

** Even after falling from Enkuboku Tower, Majima survives and is still causing trouble in Tokyo. One shudders to think of what kind of damage he could cause in the future. Additionally, over half of the firearms he scattered across Tokyo are still unaccounted for, waiting for someone to pick them up and cause some havoc.

** Majima reveals to the public the existence of the Lycoris agents by luring them into Enkuboku tower and broadcasting the carnage they cause to all of Tokyo. This is immediately followed by an armed civilian shooting a Lycoris, who [[TakingYouWithMe shoots him dead as she falls]]. Majima then reveals that ''3,000 people a year'' go missing in Tokyo and implies a that a lot of them are due to the Lycoris agents murdering them, whether they were criminals or [[HeKnowsTooMuch witnesses]].

** Mika confronts Shinji and Himegama and delivers the latter a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, including firing several rubber bullets into her gut with a KSG shotgun, because she sabotaged Chisato's heart. [[PapaWolf Do not piss Mika off!]]

** Fuki, when ordered to retreat from Enkuboku Tower, wants to go back for Chisato. This is scary because Sakura has been grievously wounded by Majima and Fuki is willing to let her die because it's part of the job. Fortunately, Takina talks her out of it by going after Chisato in her stead.

** Even after falling from Enkuboku Tower, Majima survives and is still causing trouble in Tokyo. One shudders to think of what kind of damage he could cause in the future.

*** This also reveals the purpose of the [[CapeBusters [=LilyBell=] agents]]: they are meant to hunt down and kill Lycoris agents if they either go rogue or threaten TheMasquerade of peace in Tokyo. Plus it suggests the possibility of a hierarchal system in which there's another team that takes out [=LilyBell=] agents if ''they'' happen to step out of line and so forth.

** The end of the episode has Yoshimatsu's assistant, Himegama, knock Chisato out by administering a sedative during a physical check-up. She then brings her to an operating room where she starts tampering with Chisato's artificial heart. The very end of it has Takina rushing to help her partner, but who knows what kind of damage Himegama could do before she arrives? The fact that we never see Kitamura during any of this makes this even more disturbing, with the implication that she too was drugged the same way before Himegawa dealt with Chisato.

*** This also reveals the purpose of the [[CapeBusters [=LilyBell=] agents]]: they are meant to hunt down and kill Lycoris agents if they either go rogue or threaten TheMasquerade of peace in Tokyo.

** Majima also was CrazyPrepared enough to put explosive charges into the bags of all his subordinates. He detonates them after the Lycoris agents ambush him, taking several of them out. While the viewer doesn't see the full results of the explosions, they know most (if not all) of those girls are dead, with some likely being crushed by falling debris.[[note]]If you listen carefully to the Lycoris' last moments, specifically the last two in the English dub, they actually let out their screams rather than grunting like in the Japanese dub before they're heavily implied to be crushed.[[/note]]

** The whole premise of the episode is disturbing once you reach the end. Someone at the Alan Institute wants to force Chisato into a situation where she has to kill someone, so they hired Silent Jin to kill a random drug addict who was more-or-less already dead, abducting and disguising him as an elderly businessman and puppeteering him in ways that make Chisato connect to "Mr. Matsushita". The question on the viewer's mind is: Why would someone want Chisato to kill so badly that they'd go to such lengthy measures?
** The end of the episode shows Majima is now actively hunting Lycoris agents. His first victim? He hits her with a car and then has his men gun her down. He's effectively targeting and murdering ''children'', albeit ones trained to be assassins.

** Majima's fight with Chisato is fairly nightmarish, starting with him hitting her with his car (although she appears to avoid the worst of it). Then, when she tries to escape, he realizes she's using rubber rounds and thus cannot kill him. Even though he takes a round to the head, he continues to fight by spitting his own blood into Chisato's eyes. It's not just a small amount, but virtually ''a whole pint of it''. Oh, and he absolutely beats ''the shit'' out of her with his bare fists, before attempting to execute her. If anyone had any doubts that Majima is AxCrazy, those doubts should be blown out of the water by now.

** Just when you think Takina can get the new artificial heart from Shinji, he reveals that he has already had it transplanted into his own chest. In order to get it, he has to die, and much to Chisato's horror, [[DeathSeeker he's fully willing to let her kill him]].

** At the end of the episode, Majima escapes from his bonds and strands Chisato in the Enkuboku Tower with him alone, while Takina is screaming for Chisato as she and the other Lycoris agents are forced to ride an elevator down with no way to stop it.

** Just when you think Takina can get the new artificial heart from Shinji, he reveals that he has already had it transplanted into his own chest. In order to get it, he has to die, and much to Chisato's horror, he's fully willing to let her kill him.

** Back at DA, the [=LilyBell=] agents arrive with their leader arresting Kusunoki and her staff, telling her that he will have every single Lycoris agent in Enkuboku tower executed in order to restore order in Tokyo.

** Immediately afterward, as Shinji and Himegama leave the Skytree, Takina desperately tries to kill them, even threatening to rip the heart out of Shinji's chest with her bare hands after she runs out of ammo.

** Back at DA, the [=LilyBell=] agents arrive with their leader arresting Kusunoki and her staff, telling her that he will have every single Lycoris agent in Enkuboku tower executed.

** The above is followed up by Himegama attacking Takina and knocking her through a broken window, leaving her dangling from a girder. Chisato tries to rescue her, but even though she pins Himegama, Shinji starts shooting at Takina, forcing Chisato to shoot him with a live round. Her [[TheScream scream]] afterwards is just heartbreaking, even though Shinji survives.

*** Majima then sets off a series of explosives disguised as Roomba cleaning drones on the Lycoris agents in Enkuboku tower, including Fuki, Sakura, and Erika. Sakura is later revealed to be severely injured, and the surviving agents in the tower are in a firefight with Majima's men. The viewer then realizes that if Takina hadn't gone AWOL when she did, she would've been taken out like the others were.

** Back at DA, the [=LilyBell=] agents arrive with their leader arresting Kusunoki and her staff, telling her that he will have every single Lycoris agent executed.