episode 1 9 and 12 are stealing plutonium from a processing facility in amamori nine manages to steal the plutonium while 12 comes in the facility with a bike and he throws a grenade inside hence causing Havoc as the soldiers are afraid of shooting them to avoid damaging the plutonium 9 and 12 make it out of the facility with the plutonium without any damage 6 months later 12 and nine are walking along a school and 12 seems to be in good spirits as he moves around excitingly nine tells him to no
t do anything that might attract people's attention a few minutes later 12 sees Lisa by a pool surrounded by bullies Lisa seems to be forced into jumping into the water with her uniform on 12 thinks the girls surrounding her are bullying her even though she says she's just feeling hot Lisa and the girls are surprised to see 12 jumping into the pool playfully splashing the water on everyone even the other girls Lisa is amazed at 12's smile and Nine's eyes as she sees him up on a balcony as he res
erves them later on 12 and 9 are both introduced to their new classrooms and to the students Lisa is a bit surprised to notice that 12 is in the same class with her someplace else a man by the name shibasaki is playing shogi and aside is his colleague who suddenly shows him a strange video of two masked Boys the boys in the video introducing themselves nine and 12 who go by the group named Sphinx announces that Tokyo would be enveloped by Darkness after 300 p.m. shibasaki and his colleague take
it as a joke later at night nine awakens from a vivid nightmare of himself and 12 running away from an institution when there were kids they leave behind a strange girl who is running along with them as they watch her disappears shocked by The Dream he tries to calm down and wipes his face with some water he ends up waking up 12 12 notices that nine couldn't sleep because of the nightmare he seems to have had for a while now 12 then proceeds to say that Lisa is probably the reason for his nightm
are since her eyes res led the other kids who were from the institution with them nine says they were weak and that's why they died and about themselves they were also weak and that's why they couldn't save their friends the next day 9 and 12's classes are going on a field trip to the Tokyo Metropolitan government office later on at exactly 3:00 p.m. a blackout occurs due to a crane smashing into the power lines during this period of time 9 and 12 are seen behaving suspiciously as they Place som
e toys supposedly containing bombs inside the office and some corners of the whole building 12 is caught in the act by a confused Lisa who fails to understand what he's doing 12 gives her one of the stuffed toys and instructs her to hold on to it until he tells her to let it go running off to meet nine the two discusses about Lisa who they did not expect to crush into their plan 12 calls Lisa as they talk on the phone nine takes the phone and tells her she has two choices to die in the building
as the stuffed toy explodes or to agree to become an accompl to this she replies that she doesn't want to die hearing that 12 immediately jumps on his motorcycle and races over while nine instructs Lisa on what to do 12 then meets Lisa at her a broken sight that is just exploded by the stuffed toy he gave her he picks her up from the spot and they both Escape episode 2 reporters are covering about the bombing that had happened and says the reporting are investigating the matter in the evening Li
sa arrives at her house and finds her mother worried about her she looks so worried and mad at the same time stating that Lisa is planning on leaving her just like her father left her since Lisa had not been responding to her texts Lisa's mother starts to hurt Lisa through rough holding and shaking her Lisa responds by running to her room and locking the door behind her while her mother is still yelling at her someplace else an emergency response meeting is held to discuss about the recent bombi
ng of the Tokyo Metropolitan government office they find out that the terrorists used mostly ther bombs and one TNT bomb in the attack the professionalism in the bombs field says that on the TNT bomb there is the three letters V they say that it's most likely linked to the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant robbery that happened 6 months ago 9 and 12 are preparing a bomb for their second attack 12 manages to fix the bike they will use to deliver a bomb to the police station they decide to play a ga
me of rock paper scissors nine ends up being the one to visit the police station dressed as a noodle delivery man carrying the bomb and disguised as the one to deliver the order as he walks around the police station since they have given him the access inside he's set to set the bomb he installs a couple of cameras in the station so that he can be bailed to see everything inside even when he's out there after delivering the noodles they do a video together as the Sphinx and the video goes viral
after posting it the police are running a few tabs to follow about what the two are about to do in the video 9 and 12 tells a riddle that says what first walks on two legs then on four legs and finally on three legs they later advice the police to solve it so they can find out where the bomb is placed the police are running up and down finding Clues to the riddle as they talk in a meeting the head of the department translates a riddle to do with edius linking him to the tag name Sphinx that 12 a
nd nine uses he then suggests that it means man or human and they generat some coordinates and visits the site to inspect if the bomb is there on the other side 12 meets up with Lisa Lisa asks him if he's keeping tabs on her as he walks out on her she follows him and he tells her that he will kill her if she messes up something because she's just an accomplice and not one of them shibasaki calls the head of the police department and tells them that the riddle has two versions he explains to the
head of department and translating the riddle he says the bomb is at rangi police station nine activates the bomb and it destroys the station all police units are alerted about the incident and head to the station the head of the police department tells shibasaki to return to his past post as a detective after he realized that he solved the riddle on his own shibasaki Smiles episode 3 hamura seems to be pissed after learning that his new boss is shibazaki he asks how an archives guy can just com
e to take the position of being his boss as they talk shibazaki and mukasa walks in with shibasaki's files he asks for his desk and they show him as he starts settling hamura walks out in Rage the head of the police department kohashi hosts a meeting as they look at the footage of the security cameras who were in the police station which was bombed and they conclude that the culprits are making a challenge to the police after the meeting kohashi and shibasaki meets at a park and kohashi explains
to shibasaki that they seem to have found one of the thieves behind the plutonium from the nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in aori he says the thief was an employee who had only worked there for a few months he says his name is yajima he adds that yo Mima is a fake name and he also shows shibasaki a sketch of the thief afterwards shibasaki goes back to the police station to talk with Kawai who's in custody and suspected to have caused the blackout in Tokyo Kawai tells them he got an email fr
om an anonymous asking him if he can manage to cut the Cawa power line and make it look like an accident the anonymous promises him that he receives 2 million yen as they discuss the matter with other police officers one of the police guys reports to them that another video of sphinx has been posted online they listen to the riddle and they are asked what's the building next to the house of The God Who solved the riddle the police are warned that if they don't get the riddle by 10:00 a.m. the bo
mb will explode shibazaki starts running up and down finding a solution to the riddle Lisa seems to have had enough of her mother's drams she packs her things and runs the next day shibazaki is allowed to go online explaining the meaning of the riddle as he explains the other police manages to disarm the bombs 12 and N admits that he's good shibazaki goes on and threatens the Sphinx that he will never forgive them episode 4 Lisa wanders in the streets as she has no place to live at the moment on
the other side the police department are having a meeting about the terrorists they learned that they had bought gunpowder from a well-known company they find out that they also used an account that seems to be of someone else and the place where they picked the gunpowder remains Anonymous as they picked up the items at places where there were no surveillance cameras later on nine manages to hacks into the Metropolitan Police Department database and as he searches inside for something 12 goes o
ut following Lisa as he's keeping track of her since he doesn't want her to find herself in a situation where she can reveal the after meeting her he expresses his concern that her running away from home will surely ruin their mission nine uploads anther video he titles it time shock bomb he and 12 reveal another riddle that says at the place where the king who solved the riddle received a scary prophecy whose name would you carve on its entrance 9 and 12 States how bad things will turn to be if
the police cheats says a hidden bomb will explode shibasaki finds a website created by 9 and 12 it asks for a password and he enters the password as it relates with the temple at Deli as shibazaki is still working on the password hamuda tells him that they have found out the Sphinx is height out he tells them that they should go he remains to seek for the password 12 meets Lisa and tells her to go back home but she says she has no home to go to police officers arrives at the apartment only to f
ind no bomb shibasaki manages to solve the password as it turns to be his surname the timer still continues to run and the bomb goes off he learns that the bomb went off because the police cheated according to the rules of the game seconds later police investigation reports of the attacks are leaked online the police are Furious as it shows that the Sphinx has been ahead of them all along 12 saves Lisa from two security guards while on their way to Nine's location Lisa asks 12 if he's going to d
estroy the world but he laughs she joins laughing and she then comments she hadn't laughed like that in a really long time after arriving at their Hideout nine disapproves of Lisa staying with them as 12 tries to negotiate with nine Lisa collapses episode 5 Lisa wakes up and 9 and 12's residence while the two debate on giving her shelter they then catch her playing around with their devices and she faints again after learning she nearly blew up the building with one of their newly made bombs 9 a
nd 12 later placed the same bomb inside a passenger train Upon returning home they find Lisa attempting to cook and then criticize her food 12 later comments to nine that the food had value despite its taste because the food they used to have didn't taste like anything 9 and 12 send another video with another riddle saying where did the punishment take place for Fez 5D 889 the angel who planted a grape vine they advised that an explosion will occur after 800 p.m. if the riddle isn't solved by th
en using Clues from the riddle shibasaki concludes the newest bomb is on the shotto Shinjuku Line train he then explains his discovery of a connection between all of the bombings certain people connected to the bomb sites participated in a seminar run by the rising Peace Academy a nonprofit organization that promoted interaction between the Japanese government and the people as the day goes by there have been no reports of the bomb being recovered and 9 and 12 not wishing to kill people plan on
deactivating it using a cell phone unfortunately the phone's Network goes out all over the area preventing them deactivating it this forces them to try and deactivate it manually the chief of police later informed shibasaki that higher ranking agents have prevented them from removing the bomb while trying to pinpoint the Train's location nine is horrified when his computer is hacked into and realizes that he might know the hacker he then manages to find the train using a second computer and rush
es to the station throwing a smoke bomb to force commuters off the train and cover his tracks however one Still Remains and the bomb explodes as he enters the train to save her nine is UN hurt and as he drags the commuter out of the wreckage he receives a text message saying I found you shibazaki confronts the chief about the bombing but he informs him he had no knowledge of it they then spot a mysterious woman sitting nearby whom nine identifies as five episode 6 the police department has organ
ized another meeting to talk about the recent attacks the chief of the police department makes an announcement of the involvement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the investigation and the other officers are surprised about this on the other side nine has just had a nightmare that involves five he and 12 talks about five nine concludes that five is continuing a game which the three played together back then Lisa offers to help them out nine shows her pictures of the aftermath of the sub
way train bombing and says that this is what they were doing which leaves her shocked Kashi later explains to shibazaki about his meeting with the FBI agents which include five whose job is said to be a researcher from an American organization called the nuclear emergency support team 12 tells Lisa that he suffers from sinus theia a condition that makes him to see colors through sound and he tells her that her voice is as a pale yellow five sends a text containing a riddle to the public acting a
s Sphinx the riddle can only be decoded through a Caesar Cipher the answer turns out to be a set of coordinates that leads to haa Airport's international terminal one of the locations which 9 and 12 has set as targeted they will hit the police try to respond to the scene only to be told to stand by on orders from the superintendent General knowing that they will be caught by five while trying to enter the terminal NY reluctantly decides to bring Lisa along with them since she isn't known to be a
ssociated with him and 12 shibazaki and several officers decide to disobey orders and Converge on the terminal as well upon arriving at the terminal nine realizes that five plans to play a game of chess using the airport as the chessboard episode 7 it is announced that the serial bombers Sphinx have released a new crime announcement 9 and 12 decide to play along with five's chess game they think that the position of the last piece will tell them where the bomb is if they win the game they will f
ind the bombs location shibazaki and the officers arrive at the terminal they plan to split up and search the whole airport in blocks then they see the messages being given to 9 and 12 from five about the game when they go to the receptionist they learn that the police ordered airport employees to transmit these messages they realized that the latest Sphinx video is a fake created by the police they are actually communicating with Sphinx as they get closer to the bomb's potential location 12 sen
ds in Lisa to create a distraction at first Lisa hesitates but then she sets off flares that trigger a fire alarm nine then hacks into the camera system and brings the recordings back by 5 minutes this allows nine to rush to five's location without being detected five notices this and decides to run however 12 confronts five and holds her at gunpoint with a pistol he brought he demands to know why she is getting in the way of his and 12's plans five responds that she wants to settle something wi
th him she also reveals that she knows Lisa is an accomplice and is being held captive at the bomb's location hearing this nine becomes Furious airport police then arrive and fire at nine forcing him away while fleeing he briefly passes shibazaki who stops and wonders who the boy is but then continues moving nine groups with 12 and tells him that he cannot find the bomb then 12 receives a phone call from Lisa she describes that she is on a plane as she was threatened she also tells them the bomb
's whereabouts a plane that is on autopilot and headed for a terminal filled with numerous commuters nine and 12 are undecided because the bomb is on the plane realizing there is a way to save both Lisa and the commuters nine contacts shibazaki he convinces him that the latest bomb is not sphinxes and and instructs him to infiltrate the control tower and take control of the autopilot system then nine then calls Lisa and instructs her to do what he says Lisa uses the window of the plane to go out
9 and 12 appear on a car to rescue Lisa who jumps from the plane on to 12 meanwhile shibazaki enters the control room and forces one of the operators to divert the plane away from the terminal at gunpoint however the plane explodes without injuring anyone shibazaki spots a mass nine who signals him in thanks before leaving five manages to escape and it is revealed that she has Lisa's school ID looking at it she smiles and says that she won't let her get away again episode 8 in the aftermath of
the thwarted terminal bombing attempt the media believes the foiled attack to be the handiwork of the notorious serial terrorist known as Sphinx on that very day the officers who had accompanied shibazaki to haa airport are severely reprimanded by their Superior who promptly removes them from the case and imposes a 3-month suspension however shibazaki defiantly informs the boss that he should not dismiss them as he himself is intimately involved in orchestrating the entire sequence of events out
raged by shibasaki's insubordination the boss takes drastic measures handing him a permanent suspension for not only breaking protocol by engaging in a physical altercation at the airport but also for interfering with the ongoing investigation consequently shibazaki resigns from his post Rel relinquishing his badge and departing from the office premises seeking Solace shibazaki pays an unexpected visit to his daughter who is currently pursuing her studies in the field of physics at a local Unive
rsity understandably surprised by her father's unannounced arrival she is perplexed when shibazaki inquires whether an average individual could successfully construct an atomic bomb utilizing plutonium although taken AB back by the peculiar inquiry she responds affirmatively explaining that with the appropriate tools and knowledge such a feat is indeed possible sensing her daughter's growing curiosity regarding the motivation behind his question shibazaki swiftly deflects the conversation remark
ing that he is merely pondering the taste of the barley tea she has graciously prepared meanwhile capitalizing on Lisa's stolen identification The elusive five manages to track her down at 9 and 12's Hideout while they are away in a malicious Act of retaliation five arranges for a package containing a bomb to be delivered to Lisa's location fortunately Lisa manages to escape the premises before the explosive device detonates completely obliterating the entire Upper Floor of the building seeking
Refuge Lisa is joined by 9 and 12 and together they flee to an abandoned video arcade that had been previously arranged by 9 and 12 as an alternate Safe Haven once there nine ominously implies that the destruction of their initial headquarters was Lisa's fault a notion she sadly confirms concurrently shibazaki embarked s on his own independent investigation leading him to the National Archives of Japan where he uncovers information regarding an operation dubbed the Athena project implemented a d
ecade ago by the prestigious Rising Peace Academy the Project's aim was to identify and educate gifted children although shibazaki is unable to unearth further details undeterred he seeks out akiro Fuji Waka a prominent politician and interrogates him about the Athena project when Fuji Waka proves evasive shibazaki resorts to threatening to expose his son's illegal activities prompting Fu jiwaka to divulge that the project involved Gathering orphan children with the exceptionally gifted ones bei
ng singled out for participation after this Revelation shibazaki departs only to be joined by another suspended officer hamura who pledges his assistance in following up on numerous leads shifting Focus back to Lisa she inadvertently overhears 9 and 12 engaged in a heated argument regarding her fate dist ressed by their discussion she impulsively flees only to be apprehended by FES henchmen upon regaining Consciousness Lisa finds herself in five's office where five initially adopts a friendly de
meanor even going so far as to paint Lisa's Nails however this facade quickly dissipates and five unleashes her true hostile nature callously informing Lisa that she holds no regard for the lives of nine and 12 subsequently as 12 prepares to embark on a mission to locate and rescue Lisa he he receives a menacing text message from five revealing that Lisa has been taken hostage undeterred by Nine's warnings that it is an obvious trap 12 resolves to venture in an attempt to secure Lisa's release d
espite Nine's objections episode 9 nine leaves their Hideout and heads to retrieve the plutonium he and 12 have hidden meanwhile shibazaki and hamira visit Mr Aoki the former welfare minister to find out more about the Athena project to their surprise a tells them everything about it and its connection to the members of rising Peace Academy he reveals five was the only child to have survived by the end of the experiments within the settlement a place where orphan children were secretly taken to
for the purpose of artificially producing Savant syndrome in humans however Aoki mentions that two children presumably 9 and 12 managed to escape Aoki tells shibazaki the Mastermind behind the Athena project was in fact doctor shunzo mamya the politician and reason for shibasaki's demotion at the same time while nine is busy in his preparations for the bomb 12 reaches the amusement park where Lisa is being held captive as he comes onto the ferris wheel he finds Lisa with many bombs strapped to h
er body the bombs immediately activate and the ride begins to run 12 Comforts her and begins disarming the bombs one by one though both seem to realize that he can't possibly diffuse them all in time 12 continues while revealing his feelings for Lisa moved to tears she nevertheless tells 12 to escape and save himself reminding him that nine needs him 12 can't bring himself to leave and within 2 minutes remaining on the timer five calls 12 and incites him to give her the location of the plutonium
in exchange for stopping the bombs on Lisa five reveals she knows 9 and 12 had stolen a prototype of an atomic bomb rather than plutonium from aamori with the time almost up 12 is torn between whom to be loyal to Lisa or 9 at the last few seconds remaining however 12 reluctantly discloses the location of the Prototype at school in locker D12 five stops the timer and along with it cuts the power to the ferris wheel effectively trapping 12 and Lisa in midair the five immediately mobilizes the Met
ropolitan Police Department to the school where nine has just arrived to retrieve the bomb catching a glimpse of them in advance he manages to take the Prototype from the locker and begin to escape from the school unseen however he is soon seen in five suffering from a seemingly worsening headache immediately orders nine to be taken down five then suddenly faints due to her headache while nine continues to run away from the police episode 10 nine does something unexpected he goes to the police p
uts on his Sphinx mask and turns himself in but he refuses to speak to anyone except shibazaki later nine finally agrees to make a demand he wants a press conference at a specific specific location at 0 p.m. if they don't allow this he threatens to detonate the Prototype atomic bomb he has shibazaki visits shunzo mamia who confesses that he created the Athena project as part of a plan to boost Japanese national pride after Japan's defeat in World Warman 2 meanwhile five who is in the hospital be
cause the Athena experiments made her very sick finds out nine surrendered and desperately tries to get to him when 12 hears from Lisa that nine surrendered he feels ashamed for betraying nine and wants to forget about sphinx but Lisa convinces him to help nine just like he helped her five's men chase after the police truck carrying nine to the press conference but it turns out to be a decoy truck furious five goes after nine herself 12 tries to interfere but five disables his motorcycle before
stopping the real truck with nine in a shocking moment five kills Clarence when he tries to stop and kill her she then confronts nine and confesses she always wanted to beat him but never could knowing she is dying five tells nine she loves him and begs him to live for both of them before killing herself by blowing up the gasoline from her car suddenly a pre-recorded message from nine is broadcast across Japan because his press conference plan failed the countdown for the atomic bomb to detonate
has started declaring this the final Sphinx message nine removes his mask and says goodbye to civilians episode 11 everyone panics and tries to evacuate after Nine's message about detonating an atomic bomb Lisa finds 12 severely injured and he collapses after greeting her since Sphinx hasn't actually killed anyone before shibazaki thinks the bomb threat is just a message from them he calls his daughter Haruka to ask if an atomic bomb can explode without causing casualties she says yes if it exp
lodes high up in the stratosphere a high altitude nuclear detonation hamuro realizes Sphinx must be using a balloon to lift the bomb up into the air police find security footage of a balloon carrying a box into the sky they figure out Sphinx's plan is to disable all of Japan's Electronics with an electromagnetic pulse from the High Altitude Atomic blast basically paralyzing the whole country this would also disable aircraft which are full of citizens evacuating from Tokyo fighter jets try to int
ercept the bomb balloon but fail nine goes up a skyscraper to watch the countdown on his phone as all the passenger planes are grounded 12 wakes up and Lisa asks if nine really planed to destroy the world 12 says he and nine were always alone before never needed by anyone but he's glad he met Lisa seconds later they witnessed the atomic bomb detonating high up followed by an aurora of radiation lighting up the sky before complete darkness blankets the city the next day Tokyo's buildings and stre
ets are abandoned nine goes to the settlement and makes makeshift Graves for the children who died in the Athena experiments including five 12 and Lisa join him nine forgives 12 and they spend the day playing together with a ball and listening to music that night shibazaki approaches and says if they turn themselves in the crimes of the Athena project will be exposed for the world to see but then Us helicopters arrive and try to capture nine and 12 at gunpoint nine claims he has another atomic b
omb at a nuclear power plant ignoring shibasaki's orders the soldiers shoot and kill 12 to cover up us involvement enraged nine negotiates with shibazaki eventually handing over the Detonator before suffering the same headache symptoms five had and dying with his last words he tells shibazaki to remember Sphinx one year later the Athena project atrocities are exposed to the world putting Japan's government under intense scrutiny Lisa and shibazaki have become familiar with each other regularly v
isiting the graves of 9 12 5 and the other experimented children one day Lisa tells shibazaki the meaning of V that nine had shared
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