Nice episode, nice to see things going along without foregoing little bits of drama. Argh, Saki is really not my type of character but a hard-coded little bit of my brain can't stop noticing how cutely she's animated. It's those
hand motions, dammit!
Spoiler for do we need spoiler tags in here:
I agree that the stabbing scene was kinda odd and I don't know why Saki wouldn't just go look for him. Okay, so it's cute to play games when you double-guess his thoughts and you think he doesn't want to look for you so you shouldn't look for him, but didn't it occur to her that the theatre would be dangerous? There was nobody at all in there! Maybe it's because she hasn't watched Dawn of the Dead, whatever...
First thing I thought was Dead Rising and that video of someone managing to get all the zombies to congregate at this particular location.
I'm less interested in the death of the detective dude though; I think he was fine with dying and all that since he seems to display a tendency to hate his life and be relatively flippant about his lack of direction - plus whatever else he knows about the game, anyway. I think he didn't care about dying. It's not like he got the money he wanted and it's not like he'd really have given two shits about "saving the country". Probably a Selector intercepted his message and redirected it to his wife, who obviously had problems anyway, and saved on actually having to do any killing.
I'd have thought Akira would react more to seeing someone dying in front of him considering he has no memories and this should be a shock, but I guess you can reason it away by saying his prior experiences are still imprinted in his brain, blah blah (alternatively: it's just anime, who cares)
What's more important is that gathering of NEETs at that location where the missile was going to drop, and the Akira Takizawa graffiti plus the photo. It could be anything at this point, I'm hoping we get more clues next episode as opposed to them hopping onto something else entirely.
Also, I don't know the film used in this episode, but it probably has more clues, especially pertaining to "the person she always liked".
I really wouldn't go as far as the moonphase dude and propose she's a Selector who liked "Akira" even before his memories were erased though.