Episode Title:
Into the Spell of Shimmering Light
Episode Description:
After watching a video that supposedly kills people, a teenager named Mafuyu throws herself in front of a train but survives. Her twin sister Manatsu informs psychiatrist Dr. Sumida about the video but Sumida does not believe her, instead believing Mafuyu attempted suicide. Takao secretly interviews Mafuyu who remembers hearing a growling animal. Sumida forces Takao to leave, having previously banned Takao from the psychiatric ward. Takao locates the video and finds it filled with disturbing subliminal images but notices the video contains no sound, despite Mafuyu's claim she heard an animal. Manatsu is then brought to the hospital after falling down stairs when she watched the video again. Learning of Manatsu's case, Takao solves the mystery and demonstrates to Sumida that flashing lights causes both girls to unconsciously walk forward several steps before collapsing. With the twins being genetically identical, Takao diagnoses both girls with epilepsy, which causes involuntary movement, memory loss and hallucinations, explaining the animal heard by Mafuyu and why both girls were hurt falling off of something. With the mystery solved Takao refers the girls to a neurologist. Sumida grudgingly compliments Takao and she reveals to Yu that she used to be Sumida's resident. During one case, she realized Sumida misdiagnosed a patient, so she changed the patient's medications without authorization, leading Sumida to ban her from the psychiatric ward. Afterwards, Mazuru thanks Yu for staying with Takao, since every other doctor who tried quit after a few days, with Yu mentioning that he greatly respects Takao's intelligence which has saved lives.
