Durarara!! Episode 06

Title: Tōhonseisō (東奔西走) - Active Interest

Japanese Date Aired: 11 February 2010

English Date Aired: 30 July 2011

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Narrated by Kyohei Kadota

Synopsis


Kyohei, Saburo, Erika, and Walker are in Saburo's van chasing kidnappers. Erika remarks that this is the most fun they've had since they joined the Dollars. They cut off the kidnappers and apprehend them. 8 hours previously, three kidnappers arrive at a building they were told of by an information broker and decide it's a good place to look for illegal immigrants. They debate taking teenage girls but don't want the Headless Rider to show up again. Instead, they enter the room of a man singing to opera music. He sees the kidnappers and assures them he's Japanese. When they clearly don't believe him, he tries to escape out the window but gets stuck. The kidnappers take him to their car and try to drug him, but one of them is bumped by the struggling immigrant and accidentally spills the bottle all over himself. Meanwhile, Erika, Walker, and Saburo walk to a room where Kyohei is tiling walls. He receives a text from Kazutano saying he broke a plate, but Erika thinks he may have messed up his kanji and meant to say he'd been kidnapped. Mikado, Masaomi, and Anri are eating at Russia Sushi and discussing Mika Harima's disappearance. Mikado tries to assure Anri that he doesn't think Mika was kidnapped and eaten by a gang, but this only serves to scare Anri more. Simon assures them his sushi is not made with human meat, even on half price day, so Mikado and Masaomi rush him outside with the alibi that his banner fell down. The kidnappers' van almost runs over Shizuo and Tom because the kidnappers, affected by the fumes of the spilled sedative, are having trouble staying awake. Kazutano, seeing his phone in the sleeping kidnapper's pocket, suggests they throw him away, as the drug that is making the others sleepy is on him. The kidnappers comply. Kadota's crew arrives at Kazutano's place and discover that he was kidnapped. Saburo is deeply affected, and Kyohei decides they will find Kazutano for his sake. Hashim, a young boy who witnessed the kidnapping, describes the kidnappers' van and gives them the license plate number. Kyohei calls Shinra Kishitani to tell Celty to rescue the foreigner. Shinra passes the license plate number along to Celty, informing her that the kidnappers are just henchmen for some bigger organization.



Elsewhere, a woman informs a subordinate that she wants more subjects. When he objects, she threatens to make him a subject. She picks up a photo of herself and Seiji Yagiri, then thinks about a woman's head in a jar. Celty looks at the paper Shinra gave her, only to discover he accidentally gave her his shopping list. She calls him, but Shinra doesn't notice his phone going off.

Kadota's crew can't find Kazutano. Kyohei remembers Kazutano selling tickets and how he got Saburo front row tickets to see his favorite artist, unaware that he's begun speaking aloud. Erika and Walker ask him what he's talking about, and who to, then suggest they try calling Kazutano's cell. Izaya Orihara picks up, saying he just happened to be walking by when the phone in the pocket of a man sleeping on the side of the street rang. He informs them of his location and is forced to run when Shizuo throws an elephant statue at him and gives chase. Kadota's crew discovers the kidnapper where Izaya had found him and tries to wake him up (Erika and Walker offer to torture him) to no avail. Kyohei calls them on the sleeping kidnapper's cell, pretending to be the third kidnapper, and asks them where their meeting place is. When the man wakes up, he sees Kadota's crew and asks who they are. They inform him that they are the Dollars before Saburo knocks him unconscious. In a flashback, Kyohei thinks about the day he joined the Dollars. He received an anonymous email with a url and a password, so he joined because the Dollars had no rules and were, in his opinion, a little weird. No one has ever seen, met, or even knows the identity of the leader, and Kyohei likes that he isn't taking orders from anyone. However, he is curious as to who the leader is and suspects Izaya.

Eating sushi on a park bench, Izaya watches Celty pass by and remarks to himself that she's getting further away. Shinra, at the grocery store, realizes he gave Celty the wrong sheet of paper. At the designated meeting place, the kidnappers see a car coming and think it's their bosses, but they are surprised to see Kadota's crew pour out of the van. They catch up to the kidnappers at the same time Celty does. The kidnappers drop off Kazutano, but Saburo chases them in his van. Celty decides her job is done.

Kadota's crew keeps one of the kidnappers they apprehended, wanting information on their bosses. They hold him in their van, where Erika and Walker give him a stack of manga to allow him to choose what type of torture he would prefer. Kyohei warns them not to use gasoline in the car again, which alarms the captive kidnapper. As Kyohei waits outside, Kazutano and Saburo arrive in time for the 'morning ritual,' where everyone drinks milk. The kidnapper inside the van can be heard screaming and volunteers the information. He shows Kadota's crew the way to his employers at Yagiri Pharmaceuticals. Kyohei finds this hard to believe, but he concedes that in Ikebukuro, there's usually a lot more to everything than one would think. Seiji Yagiri calls the woman from earlier, and she tells him he can take all the money he wants. Seiji thanks her, calling her 'Sis.' The girl with Seiji smiles.

Chatroom

Taro Tanaka says a classmate of his has gone missing. Kanra informs them of recent rumors he heard about illegal immigrants going missing, and once they're taken, they're never heard from again. Setton thinks Kanra likes rumors too much, but Kanra ignores this and says the Dollars are rumored to have taken and eaten the foreigners.

Adapted From
The events in this book are adapted from the first light novel.

Referbacks

 * To Anri telling Mikado and Masaomi about Mika having gone missing

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * 1) Saburo Togusa
 * 2) Kyohei Kadota
 * 3) Erika Karisawa
 * 4) Walker Yumasaki
 * 5) Hashim
 * 6) Kazutano
 * 7) Simon Brezhnev
 * 8) Dennis
 * 9) Mikado Ryūgamine
 * 10) Anri Sonohara
 * 11) Masaomi Kida
 * 12) Tom Tanaka
 * 13) Shizuo Heiwajima
 * 14) Shinra Kishitani
 * 15) Celty Sturluson
 * 16) Namie Yagiri
 * 17) Ruri Hijiribe
 * 18) Izaya Orihara

Unanswered Questions
 * Who is the woman Seiji calls 'Sis?'

Quotes

 * Kyohei Kadota: We're just glad we got our friend back safe and sound. It's as simple as that.


 * Shizuo: Iiiiizaaayaaa!!! Stay out of Ikebukuro!


 * Kazutano: You see me? I Japaneese. I look just like you right? But, people say I looka foreign. I so sad. Why are you people picking on me?
 * Kazutano: Lookie! I Janpaneese! Why don't you understand?
 * Kidnapper 1: Just give it a break.
 * Fat Kidnapper: So you're saying your birth certificate says you're Japanese?
 * Kazutano: That is right you see? My birth certificate was burned up by firey air raids!
 * Fat Kidnapper: C'mon old man! You're not that old!