So...Orielle...can appear/vanish at will, knows way too much (including the way in to the gate that only Amber knew from season one...further evidenced by no one having covered up after the passing years), and wears a power-ranger's outfit that screams the future and has a ray-gun version of the contractor-killing device (as in a more advanced version) that was used on Hei. Boy, outside of the fact that her voice actor isn't Ambers (easily explained by Orielle being physically much older), I'm about as convinced as possible that she is in fact Amber.
As for her cell phone, no contractor powers involved. She keyed a sequence into it that had it self-destruct. The dolls had just told her the CIA had located them, and it's an easy assumption she wanted to make sure it wasn't her phone being used to trace her.
Like others, I'm not sure how this all gets wrapped up in one episode, but unlike most of the others, I'm well aware that anime almost never wraps up well, so I'm long past the state where I expect any to do so (even one that I enjoy as much as this one).
As long as Hei dodges that swing coming at him and lays the beat-down on the wannabe shinagami in her drab office suit, I'll be fine with whatever rabbit they pull out of their hat next week. Btw, that look of panic on Hei's face at the end...gosh I don't think I've ever seen that look on him when he was in shinigami mode. He needs to make that bitch pay for rattling him and lowering his ice-man cred!
It looks like Shion isn't actually needed for this prophecy to come true, since the father confirmed that Suo's body is Shion's (making the running gag of everyone mistaking her for Shion a little more believable). Seems pretty much guaranteed that it will be Suo's meeting Yin that triggers whatever calamity is going to occur. But who knows. It's possible the father foreshadowed Shion making a copy of himself (and thus still being alive) by saying Shion had never made a copy of himself before (when he made Suo).
Also, assuming that was Yin's ghost at the meteor crash site when Shion made a copy of himself that became Suo...how exactly does that all fit together? The father definitely sounded like Shion shouldn't have been able to do what he did, which would mean Yin had a hand in it somehow. Assuming, once again, it was her ghost we see in the flashbacks.
It also seems like that glowing freak from the cocoon is Yin. Which begs the question of why. As in why would Section 3 take Yin out of the containment box and let her "hatch" for lack of a better word, when they are seeming to be trying to prevent this calamity from occurring. Obvious answer is Section 3 is EVIL. After all, if they were really serious about preventing it, they'd have just killed Yin. It's not like they haven't had ample opportunity.
Still think it was Genma who killed Youko. Guess we'll find out in the next episode. Strong insinuation he was working for the CIA.
Shion's father dying was fast, but considering how willing this show has been this season to kill people off, not entirely unexpected. He did his part for plot advancement by laying the seeds in Suo to accept she is a real individual and not just some copy. Have to say, I give him much higher props for being a parent over that lamebrain mother.
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