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Recap / Kamen Rider Drive Ep 8 What Is The Secret That Dwells In The Heart

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Written by Keiichi Hasegawa
Directed by Kyohei Yamaguchi

Chaser Bat fired his arrow, but as it is about to hit Kiriko, he mentally navigated it to miss his target, leaved them unharmed in the end. Furious of his actions earlier, he yelled under his anger for somehow remember Kiriko. In the Drive Pit, Shinnosuke awakened after 15 hours of losing consciousness. While Kiriko leaves, Shinnosuke wondered the reason behind her stoic personality which he suddenly realise it was because of him restricting Kiriko to come along in his visit to Hayase.

Midnight Shadow Shift Car was tailing Kusaka when suddenly Roidmude 033/Scooper fired him to prevent Drive's interference. As Shinnosuke returned to the Special Investigation Unit's base, he was shocked to discover Kenta taking photographs of the office. Jun revealed that he purposely let him doing it since they had low budgets recently. Kiriko reported Midnight Shadow had lost sight of him. At Touto Times office, Kenta revealed Kusaka's earliest work, the explosion of the Font-R factory. Ever since that, he became obsessed with fame. Kenta admitted that he was trying to search Kamen Rider so that he can save his friend, Kusaka, whom was under influence of Scooper.

He also believed the whole event was his fault since he had given up the Kaishima Building case a year ago and no matter how much photos they took, they would be accused for fraud. Kyu contacted them and revealed several infos. All of the collapse buildings belonged to politicians that affiliated with Kaishima City Construction. All were destroyed in the order they were built and the final target is an international sport stadium. While Shinnosuke drove them to the place, Chase stopped them. Shinnosuke ordered Kiriko to take his place while he fought Chase. As Mr. Belt arrived, Shinnosuke and Chase transformed to fight, using Drive Type Wild and Chaser Tune Chaser Spider.

Arriving at the stadium, Kenta apologized to Kusaka but he refused and had Scooper terminated them before he revealed Kusaka as his victim as well. Rinna appeared in the battle and gave Drive a new gun, Door-Ju. The fight continues but as Chaser sees Kiriko's illusion, he retreated. Arriving at the sport stadium, Drive first overwhelmed him with Tridoron Type Wild and finished him as Type Speed via Full Throttle Rider Shooting. Before Kusaka was brought to custody, he redeemed his actions and along with Kenta decided to uncover Kamen Riders' mystery for their next article project. Kiriko finally able to meet Hayase in person which Shinnosuke promised to Hayase but never fulfilled it. Hayase finally figured out that he didn't wanted Kiriko to find out Shinnosuke's secret. Mashin Chaser began questioning himself of the Kamen Rider and his true identity.


  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Once Takasugi confronts Kusaka, he kneels down and pleads that he stop setting up his scoops and to forgive him for abandoning him after their story on Kaishima City Construction got hushed.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Drive saves Kiriko, Takasugi and Kusaka at the very last moment from being killed by Scooper.
  • Declaration of Protection: Kiriko swears that she will protect Takasugi from the Scooper Roidmude. Of course, there's no subtext behind it - she's an police officer, after all.
  • Heel Realization: Kusaka has one after being nearly killed by his ex-accomplice, the Scooper Roidmude.
  • How Do I Shot Web?: Played with. Shinnosuke has no problem shooting with the Door Gun. Reloading, on the other hand...
  • Sequel Episode: Turns out Kusaka wrote an article about the Font-R case from episodes 5 and 6, which in turn got him involved with the Roidmude.
  • Shooting Superman: Kiriko shoots Scooper with a normal gun, with predictable results. Thankfully, the Door Gun packs far more firepower.
  • Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Kusaka got this mindset about journalism, in that people actually prefer exiting headlines over the truth.
  • Waking Up Elsewhere: After his beating at the hands of Mashin Chaser in the previous episode, Shinnosuke wakes up in the Drive Pit fifteen hours later.
  • Wham Line: At the end of the episode:
    Mashin Chaser: Kamen Rider... What is he? More importantly... What am I?
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Scooper gains enough power to stabilize his evolved form, he tries to finish off Kusaka.

The Roidmude Count: 96
The Answer: spoiler: Takasugi's desire to make amends with Kusaka.

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