00:43

Wells enters Gibson's apartment, surprised to see how messy it is, almost as though he actually lived there.

"I thought you were just visiting the country." Wells wondered, "This looks a lot like you're home."

"Hey, you know what it's like, if you can take away a rich man's money." Gibson replied, "You can afford a second home in another country."

Wells thought about it. If he were to say how wrong it was of Gibson to do this, he'd be a hypocrit, so all he said was: "Fair enough."

"Here." Gibson had opened a file on his laptop, "Here's all the info on that person you wanted him to check. And from what I can tell, there's nothing."

Wells said something, but it wasn't in English, so Gibson can only guess that he used a swearword: "I think you've spent too much time here in Japan."

"I'm sorry, Wells apologized, "It's just that... Smith told me he had something, but when you said there's nothing..."

"Indeed." Gibson interrupted, "No record of where it came from, any place on Earth or somewhere else in the universe, nothing on what school it went to, what it did before joining the Special Police..."

"It's like it didn't even exist before joining SPD." Wells thought out loud.

"Of course, this is only a priliminary search." Gibson was convinced, "I'm sure Smith will cook up something good."

Wells then realized he didn't know this yet: "No he won't. I found his body earlier tonight."

Gibson appeared shocked: "What?"

"He's dead." Wells told him, "He must've been getting close, or else he would still be alive."

Gibson felt otherwise: "If you hadn't asked him to do this, he may..."

"He may not be alive still either, nor would you be." Wells interrupted, "If I searched myself, the mole would have figured me out already, killed me, and then there would be no stopping it from doing whatever it wants to do."

Gibson went quiet after that, but Wells knew what to say: "Look, if we don't investigate this any further, Smith would've died for nothing. You understand?"

"And what made you decide to do this?" Gibson asked.

Wells paused, but began telling him the story anyway.

00:59

The policemen that were on the street earlier, got contacted by their bosses: "This is HQ, can you hear me?"

One of the policemen answered his radio: "We hear you."

"What's your status?" he was asked.

"So far, there's been the occasional jaywalkers, but nothing too serious." he replied, "But no sign of the suspect."

"Nothing else?" HQ asked.

"Some kids pulling a prank with reflecting light, but I don't think that SPD would be helped with that."

"Anything can help." HQ replied, "We've been told that he's very creative and resourceful."

This got the policeman to think about what the prank was about. It had light reflecting on them, but the kid in question was nowhere in sight. Why go through all that trouble, even for a kid?

"Well, there was this one joke someone pulled on us with reflecting light." the policeman answered, "I'm not sure if this is of any help, but..."

"Neither am I." HQ replied, "But we've been told to tell the Special Police everything. Even the stupidest details."

01:07

At Dekabase, Doggy heard all of the ideas that everyone had as to where Wells may be hiding.

"Could he not be at home?" Sen asked.

"He knows that's the first place we'd look." Lisa answered, "We know better than to waste out time looking for him there."

"Yes, and he knows that this is what we might think." Sen added.

"What are you saying?" Lisa asked, "That he's just at home?"

"Of course." Shun realized, "He knows how SPD's think, so he also knows we'd never look for him there."

"It's worth the try." Marie said.

"Alright!" Ban sounded enthusiast again, "We finally have a lead!"

"It's still risky." Hoji thought out loud, "What if we are wasting our time?"

"I don't know." Tetsu said, "When was the last time Sen was wrong about such things?"

"You're right about that." Hoji decided, "Then it's worth to look."

"Alright, Partner!" Ban exclaimed.

This was one time too many for Hoji: "How many times do I have to tell you..."

"It looks like we already have our volunteers to find him." Gyoku said.

"How about we go along?" Yujiro asked Nao.

"Sure, why not." Nao replied, flatly.

"Alright, counting myself, that makes five." Gyoku said.

"You mean counting everybody." Lisa said.

"No, 'cause I'm not coming along." Shun said.

"Neither will I." Marie added.

"And why is that?" Bunta asked them.

"We're the ones who recruited him, or even trained him." Shun reasoned, "We know him better than you, and suppose searching his home will come out empty..."

"We'd still use you here to come up with other places." Gyoku finished for them.

"In that case, it may be best if I stay too." Sen added.

"Me too." Tetsu added.

"Then it's just seven, myself included." Bunta realized.

"Then let's go." Lisa ordered and the other six followed.

Once they left the room, Tetsu asked the two androids: "How's the virus?"

"We would have eradicated it already..." Flora answered, "But with this rookie here trying to help us..."

She was referring to Shelly, who then got angry: "What? Am I slowing you down?"

"Shelly, Swan could use your help in the infirmary." Doggy told her.

"Alright, I'm going already." Shelly moaned as she too left the room.

That's when Sen felt he could speak freely: "That was close."

"What was?" Fauna asked them.

"We had to lure everyone else out of the room, so we can speak what's really on our minds." Sen answered.

"Clever." Flora complimented him.

"So now what? You didn't really think that Wells would hide in his own home?" Tetsu asked.

"No." Sen answered.

"Like Lisa said, he's too smart to even think of doing that." Shun said.

"Didn't feel right to lie to Banban like that, though." Marie sounded sad.

"Think of it this way." Shun assured her, "He always dashes forward on everything. In this case, he's making the mistake of dashing to the wrong target."

"That's not the worst part." Doggy decided to tell everyone, "The universe's Ultimate Court has just approved for Wells' deletion."

"They what?" Tetsu was surprised.

"It's best if we keep that to ourselves for the time being." Marie told everyone.

"In the meantime, what do we do?" Doggy asked.

"All we can do right now is stall everyone else." Sen thought out loud.

"Can't we do an investigation of our own?" Tetsu asked.

"We could, if we knew who to look for." Doggy answered, "Wells did report his findings to me, but not enough details. He didn't even tell me he was asking people from outside the agency to help him."

"If you ask me, he's very much like that mole." Sen figured, "They both exchange info with outsiders, they're both somewhat immature with what they do,... it's no wonder that he was an easy one for the mole to frame."

"Well, he's not making it much easier for us to find out anything." Flora remarked, "His virus has destroyed much of our files on every employee."

"Swan was right about that one." Shun remarked, "Wells wouldn't deliberately create a virus that would destroy so much, so he must have made it in a hurry."

"Or he's deliberately made it so it would destroy everything." Sen added, "It still doesn't prove anything."

That's when Swan entered the room: "This is really getting out of hand here."

"What's the matter?" Doggy asked her.

"Everyone who's shot insists on going to catch Wells, just for shooting them." Swan answered, "Even Yaako has a hard time keeping them restrained."

"Well, I sent Shelly to help you." Doggy answered.

"Good." Swan sighed, "But Doggy, there's something else."

"What is it?" he asked her.

"Everyone who was shot..." Swan explained, "... was either hurt by debris from the walls when Wells hit them, or were hit on their bullet-proof vests, or anywhere else that wasn't lethal. It's like Wells wanted to miss them."

Doggy sighed: "Unfortunately, that won't be enough to convince anyone that he's not the mole."

"So we're, as Wells would put it, back to square one." Marie whined.

"Looks like it." Sen couldn't help but agree.