A brilliant but bored student finds a notebook that can kill anyone whose name he writes in it. (imdb)

While the world's criminals continue to drop dead, L meets by computer with representatives from various nations. He requests that a task force be set up in Japan. (imdb)

L continues to expand his investigations and suspects the police force while Light starts to use another trait of the book to prove wrong the theories of L. In the meantime, Ryuk offers Light a deal. (imdb)

After testing the power limits of the Death Note on six convicts, Light manipulates the circumstances of a psychotic bank robber's death to reveal the name of his stalker, FBI man Ray Pember, which includes putting the presence of Ryuk to purposeful use. (imdb)

After further tests with the Death Note, Light targets Agent Pember to remove him and all other FBI agents from the investigation. Unbeknownst to Light, it leaves behind Pember's fiancée, also an agent, who wasn't part of the investigation but now has reason to join it. (imdb)

Light meets a woman at the Police Department with an urgent message for the Kira task force. (imdb)

Light uses the Death Note to try to get rid of the woman who could get him captured and is shocked when it doesn't work. (imdb)

Light, entirely aware of L's surveillance equipment in his home, begins a very careful game to throw off suspicion. (imdb)

L makes a direct move against his top suspect when Light enters To-Oh University. (imdb)

L challenges Light to a tennis match and tests his deductive abilities; an urgent call has them rushing to the hospital. (imdb)

Video tapes reportedly from Kira air on Sakura TV, although L suspects that this is the work of another Kira. (imdb)

Light is invited into the Task Force to help respond to the second Kira, and Rem tells Misa how she came by her Death Note. (imdb)

Light goes to Aoyama to discover the identity of the second Kira before L becomes more suspicious, but Misa Amane, the new Kira, uses her unusual gift to find Light before he finds her. (imdb)

Light and Misa show each other their Death Notes, and Light asks Misa to have her shinigami Rem get rid of L, which Misa will do in order to have Light fall in love with her. (imdb)

After Light establishes a mole within the Yotsuba Group, L separates himself from the rest of the task force and recruits Misa. (imdb)