It took little convincing to get Tom on board with the plan and in no time Shingen had prepared everything. And so it was that Shizuo found himself on a plane to the United States of America not even knowing exactly to which of these States he was going to. Izaya took the long flight to chat with a few people and polish his English. As far as Izaya knew this was a leisure trip, a free one even, and as soon as he touched the ground he was making a run for it and having a blast on his own. All the talk about interventions and the like seemed like a waste of his precious time.
But Izaya's plan was foiled by Shingen again grabbing his ear and dragging him to the studio along with a muttering Shizuo who was more subdued than usual. Thing was, Shizuo was simply confused. He had no idea who Dr. Phil was and when he was ushered before a live audience he could not understand why the crowd began to shriek madly at the entrance of a fat moustached man with a balding head. And it seemed no one was about to explain it to him in a language he could understand. Then a black lady arrived and the crowd screamed so loudly that Shizuo was itching to go berserk and would have done so, too, were it not for the fact that the light suddenly flashed at him and nearly blinded him, thus stunning him completely.
Izaya sat on the cozy sofa and smiled his best smile. This might be fun after all.
"Hello y'all. We are here with two overseas folk in need of some guidance. Izaya Orihara-"
"I hate to interrupt but I do prefer the Japanese order better. So make that 'Orihara Izaya'."
"Izaya Orihara and Shizuo Heiwajima have known each other since their high school days where they developed a very negative relationship. That persists to this day with increasing episodes of violence, 'mkay? Clearly, things have got to change. We are calling this operation relationship rescue."
Izaya's eyebrow twitched just a bit.
"Like I said, that's 'Orihara Izaya'."
"Fucking louse."
Shizuo had no idea what was going on but there was never a shortage of opportunities for insulting Izaya or as Shizuo looked at it telling it like it was. Oprah opened her eyes so wide that Shizuo was afraid they'd drop from her head and said a bunch of things Shizuo could not even begin to understand.
"Let's take a look at a day in the life of these Japanese people."
And true enough massive screens popped out of nowhere and began to play footage of Shizuo's rampage and Izaya's troll ways. Complete with subtitles for the English speaking public. Izaya was impressed, Shingen must have hacked into quite a few surveillance cameras to get all this. And there was a dynamic soundtrack to go with the crazy demolishing mayhem as Shizuo hurled vending machines at Izaya. Shizuo mumbled something about stalkers.
Dr. Phil let the collective gasp from the audience fill the pregnant silence. Then he leant forward, widening his hands in a gesture of flabbergasted dismay.
"Tell me, how did things get to this point?"
Izaya shrugged.
"Shizu-chan has anger issues. Severe ones."
Shizuo recognized his own name and snapped, picked up the sofa with Izaya on and was about to throw it when Izaya dashed to the edge of the slightly lifted platform.
"Izaya! Don't go talking about me to this fatso!"
Izaya switched to Japanese and responded with,
"I'll tell Big Brother whatever I want! And you can't catch me."
Odds were Shizuo could not but Shingen sure could and did.
"Not again, let go of me old man!"
"You die now, flea! Kill, kill, kill, KILL-!"

A few minutes of 'We are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by' followed. After which the broadcast resumed with Shizuo in chains and Izaya looking exceedingly cross.
"Welcome back."
Dr. Phil did a recap on the case at hand and turned to Izaya.
"Let us start at the beginning, how did you first met?"
"It was shortly after the high school ceremony. A mutual friend introduced us and right away Shizu-chan brutally attacked me like the beastly creature he is. I have suffered much."
Izaya put on his most tortured look and got an 'aww' from all female public. Oprah opened her eyes in a rather distressing manner.
"And why did you react in such an irrational way?"
Dr. Phil asked Shizuo and Shingen translated.