Dimple has no proof that his family is alive, just a hunch, but the state Mob's in right now could spell doom for anyone within a five-mile radius. As he desperately talks down the white-hot mad teenager, Mob instantaneously figures out how to widen his esper antenna for possible culprits and tracks them down.
A meteor drops from the sky and smashes into the pavement several kilometers away, right in front of two Claw enforcers. No, this is no meteor. It's 100% Obsessed Mob, who commences to pound the answers he seeks out of their flesh. They were on their way to attack his house, but someone else got there first. Before passing out, they call for reinforcements; Sakurai and Koyama snatch him up just in time.
Mob takes over control of their car and rockets them to the hideout Mitsūra has readied for the former 7th Division of Claw, the Awakening Lab fivesome, Reigen and Teru. Claw has launched an offensive against almost everyone in this room; Reigen reassures Mob that his family is safe. The child, relieved, immediately passes out. Meanwhile the gang appoints Reigen as their leader, impressed by his real talk and persuasive abilities.
Cut to Tōichirō Suzuki, Claw's fearless leader, announcing a plan to take over the world at an all-hands meeting. He then broadcasts it live to the entire country. Shou, mortified and furious, watches with his lackeys... and Ritsu. Dimple and Reigen were right: the young Suzuki reveals that Mr and Mrs Kageyama are not only safe, but thoroughly enjoying themselves at an onsen retreat. He also announces that he gave Mob a good reason to fight Claw, to Ritsu's horror...
Joseph, a mercenary, meets with a small group of disgruntled Claw members and fellow mercenaries for a proper mutiny. Having just seen the organization's plan for disabling the country's armed forces and police departments, they aren't convinced. While the others attack the remaining Claw division heads, Joseph—who happens to be a government infiltrator—confronts Suzuki directly. Four out of Suzuki's strongest espers, his Ultimate Five, crush this man and his little revolt.
The next day, a bulletproof blind man who can teleport abducts Prime Minister Yabe on live TV. Reigen and company missed Suzuki's broadcast, but not this one. Teru rushes to the scene alone to challenge Shimazaki, the Ultimate Five member who abducted the hapless government official. He puts up a hell of a fight, but proves to be no match for this man. Shimazaki knocks him out and teleports away with Yabe.
Tropes appearing in this episode include:
- Angst Nuke: Subverted. Dimple manages to avert a possible World War III scenario... by lying to Mob about the bodies of his family. The child's rage and grief are intense enough at this point to endanger the entire city; Mob tearfully thanks Dimple for stopping him.
- Batman Gambit: Given what he saw as Mob's cowardice at the 7th Division's utter routing, Shou believes he won't fight Claw alongside him without provocation, so he spirits Mob's parents off to an onsen before bidding his lackeys torch the Kageyama home offscreen at the end of the previous episode.
- Deus Exit Machina: Mob passes out from nervous exhaustion after Reigen reassures him of his family's safety. He... won't awaken for a while.
- Electric Torture: The unnamed Claw mook dressed in punk attire who attacks Mob with Shock and Awe. Too bad the child is immune to this, too.
- Fade to Black: The end of the episode, framed by Koyama and Sakurai's worried voices and Hanazawa's closing eyes as he loses consciousness.
- Full-Contact Magic: Normally Mob is content to stand in a single spot and let his powers do the fighting for him, channeling them through either note a thought, a glance, a finger or two, or an outstretched palm. In the beginning of this episode, he picks a fight with two anonymous Claw echelon mooks and—acting on pure instinct—throws the weight of his ESP into literally punching one of them to sleep. It's a sign of just how much emotional control he's lost here.
- The Mole: Joseph. He sadly underestimated the strength of the opposition.
- Psychic Radar: Espers in this story can sense the presence of other nearby espers at a glance. Mob, under great emotional stress, figures out how to widen his antenna by several kilometers in order to find possible culprits for the torching of his home.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Downplayed, as Mob doesn't have any leads into who might have set fire to his quiet home life, and it fizzles out quickly once Reigen offers him some hope that his family is still alive.
- In an undirected explosion of Obsession / Tenacity, Mob... sprouts a new power, lays a nasty smackdown in public on two Claw members sent to attack his family and nearly sends Koyama and Sakurai through the windshield of their car when they attempt to calm him down.
- Sophisticated as Hell: Shimazaki, whose polite, feminine speech in the original Japanese contrasts sharply with his cavalier attitude and brutality.
- Sudden Video-Game Moment: Shou's recounting of the lie he told the Kageyamas to get them to leave their home is depicted as an 8-bit dialogue screen.
