<Tr> <Th> 27 </Th> <Td> "Abduction" "Yūkai" (誘拐) </Td> <Td> April 17, 2007 </Td> <Td> April 27, 2008 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="4"> Orphanage caretaker Roger Ruvie informs L's true successors, Mello and Near, that L has died . Relinquishing the opportunity to succeed L, Mello leaves the orphanage to pursue Kira on his own, backed by the American Mafia . Near allies himself with the President of the United States . Along with Steve Mason of the FBI, he forms an organization whose goal is to catch Kira, the Special Provision for Kira (SPK). Mello eventually abducts the director of the NPA and demands the Death Note under Light's task force's possession as ransom . As soon as Light discovers this, he kills the director . Mello then decides to kidnap Light's sister, Sayu . While scrambling to find a way to rescue Sayu, the investigation team receives a phone call from Near, who reveals that he knows of L's death and that someone has attempted to replace him . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 28 </Th> <Td> "Impatience" "Shōsō" (焦燥) </Td> <Td> April 24, 2007 </Td> <Td> May 4, 2008 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="4"> Near suggests that he and Light cooperate to rescue Sayu . Soichiro takes the Death Note to the exchange point chosen by the kidnappers in Los Angeles, but Mello's men hijack the plane he is on and drop him off in the middle of the desert . Light monitors his father via satellite, until he enters an underground facility . There, Soichiro exchanges the Death Note for Sayu . Most of the SPK members die soon after Mello grabs hold of the Death Note . Near then proposes to Light that the two cooperate completely in the future and shares his suspicions that Mello is behind these deaths and is playing a game to see who can catch Kira faster . Meanwhile, in the shinigami realm, a shinigami named Sidoh tells another, Armonia Justin, that he lost his Death Note . Justin informs him that it was stolen by Ryuk and dropped in the human world . He advises Sidoh to go retrieve it . </Td> </Tr>

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