The Men in Black, about to Mug the Monster.
While searching for a runaway cat, Rin and Mimi encounter a young man named Kouki Maeno who feels his memories are wrong—and who is being pursued by The Men in Black. The trail leads back to a pharmaceutical company that has been secretly experimenting on humans.
Tropes:
- Air-Vent Passageway: Rin and Kouki crawl through the ventilation to get into the restricted sections of the Aoyama lab. Unfortunately, when they hit a set of laser tripwires, Rin's (ahem) assets turn out to be too big to slip past.
- Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: A variation: we're led to believe Kouki killed himself at the end of the episode, but then he turns up back at Asougi Consultants with his head bandaged.
- Brick Joke: At the start of the episode, Rin and Mimi have been contracted to find a runaway cat, basically busywork to keep the lights on. When Kouki returns to their office at the end of the episode, he has the cat.
- Dramatic Chase Opening: The first thing that happens after the opening credits is a scene of Rin being pursued through a stairwell and across rooftops by Laura. It's completely unconnected to the rest of the episode and serves little more than to establish Rin's immortality.
- Happily Failed Suicide: Kouki seems to have changed his mind at the last instant and jerked the gun aside so the bullet only grazed his head. He returns to Rin and Mimi having decided he's the only one who can live his life.
- Leave Behind a Pistol: After they escape the lab, Rin gives Kouki a gun she took from one of the guards and tells him it's up to him what he does with it. She goes back to the car and we hear a gunshot... but then Kouki rejoins Rin at their office with his head bandaged—and he found the cat they were looking for at the start of the episode.
- Mugging the Monster: A group of Aoyama suits pursuing Kouki find out the hard way that the slim green-haired woman with glasses they carelessly threw out of their way is an immortal with a thousand years of fighting experience: she effortlessly subdues them with a bit of Waif-Fu.
- Tomato in the Mirror: "Our" Kouki is a clone of the original, who died in the experiments and had his memories transplanted into the clone.
