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- Tenma desperately tries to search for Eva before Roberto can reach her. However, when Robrto enters her hotel room, Eva is already gone. Meanwhile, Lunge returns to Düsseldorf and questions Vardemann about his father's past and links to Franz Bonaparta whom he believes was with the Czechoslovakian Secret Police. After Lunge leaves, Tenma accosts Vardemann in his car, but Vardemann confesses he knows nothing about the plot against Eva. While out Vardemann's house is ransacked, presumably for his father's notebook containing notes about Bonaparta and the Red Rose Mansion. Vardemann gives the notebook to Tenma and visits his wife and new baby girl in hospital. (en)
- While searching for Peter Capek in Frankfurt, Tenma is chased by police and is hit by a van. He awakes to find that he has a sprained ankle and was treated by a dentist named Milan Kolasch. Kolasch tells Tenma that Peter Capek was responsible for the riots that broke out in the Turkish Quarter of the city and the deaths of the loved ones of different nationalities who now live with Kolasch. Kolasch feels responsible because he brought Capek, his former childhood friend, to Frankfurt. Kolasch plans to kill Capek at a convention and Tenma tries to prevent him going. However, Kolasch fails in his attempt and is shot dead by police. Nina arrives in Frankfurt where she recognizes Peter Capek in a television news report of the assassination attempt. (en)
- Instead of meeting Johan, Tenma heads to the Turkish portion of Frankfurt to warn the residents of the neo-Nazi plot. Meanwhile, Nina confronts Baby while he is having dinner, but he refuses to disclose the location of the planned main fire. Numerous small fires are started, however they are relatively easy to extinguish. Nina finds and rescues Dieter, and Heckel who says the main fire will most likely be set near the wharves. At the river, Nina and Dieter find a neo-Nazi in a chemical warehouse, ready to start a blaze, but Dieter manages to extinguish the fuse by using a valuable carpet Heckel stole from a Turkish store. Later, as Tenma leaves to find Johan, Nina reveals that Johan is not one person because he has a split personality. (en)
- While investigating in East Germany, Tenma discovers that Johan was adopted by the Lieberts from an orphanage called 511 Kinderheim which is now abandoned. He contacts Hartmann, a former district official with the Ministry, who explains that the orphanage was an extremely harsh environment for the children, ruled by fear and violence. There, Tenma also encounters a boy under Hartmann's care named Dieter. When Tenma discovers Dieter's body is covered with bruises, he confronts Hartmann and takes Dieter to the hospital. Tenma then goes to another orphanage where the director Elna Tyce tells him that 511 Kinderheim was an East German experimental laboratory. (en)
- Braun begins to observe Johan and investigate his origins, while Dr. Reichwein asks Gillen to question his criminal patient Peter Jurgens about Johan. Meanwhile, Braun discovers that the real Johan Liebert died at the age of two. When Dr. Gillen shows a photo of Johan to Jurgens, it triggers painful memories and he promptly commits suicide with Dr. Gillen's pen. At night, Johan visits Braun and manipulates him into a state of deep regret. Johan then offers Braun a bottle of whiskey on the rooftop of a building. Later, Dr. Reichwein is informed that Richard Braun is dead. (en)
- With the help of Maurer, a local newspaper journalist, Dr. Tenma is able to track down the Fortners on the day of the twins' twentieth birthday. The Fortners refuse to talk about the missing twin boy, but reveal that Nina has left to meet the "mysterious stranger" at Heidelberg Castle. Dr. Tenma drives to the castle where he saves Nina from a hired thug and takes her back home, trying to explain that she is Anna Liebert. Meanwhile, the thug, tied up with Tenma's necktie, fearfully meets his employer. (en)
- Nina is confused by her recent memories. After confirming Suk's safety, Grimmer and Tenma agree to deliver the tape and research materials to Ranke. However, when they visit Suk's mother, they discover the research materials gone, and Johan Liebert has recorded a message on the tape for Tenma. Meanwhile, Inspector Lunge decides to take a "holiday" in Prague, and questions an associate, Commissioner Nepela on the recent developments and asks Nepela to translate a copy of picture book "the Nameless Monster". Lunge also questions Suk's colleagues about the recent events, and researches the author Franz Bonaparta and his aliases, Emile Scherbe and Klaus Poppe. (en)
- Grimmer binds the elderly couple as they prepare to repel any attacks. Tenma encounters Lunge who grudgingly apologizes for his previous accusations against the doctor. He asks Tenma take the waitress Else to the Hotel Versteck after she fled from Roberto. As Nina and Dr. Gillen rush to Ruhenheim, Lunge begins his assault at the Bergbach Hotel. Back at the Hotel Versteck, they come under heavy gunfire, the Henichs are wounded and the elderly couple are killed. Grimmer steps out to the streets to reason with the unknown assailants, however Else is shot dead just as she reaches him and he is shot as well. Grimmer's anger overwhelms him and he charges into the gunmen's building. Meanwhile, Nina and Dr. Gillen reach a path that leads to Ruhenheim and meet survivors who Dr. Gillen tells to call the authorities as Nina runs into the town. Grimmer is able to kill four of the assailants before Tenma arrives and he tells Tenma that he used his own anger instead of becoming the Magnificent Steiner to defeat his attackers. Before succumbing to his fatal injuries, Grimmer gives Tenma the letter Inspector Lunge found at the Red Rose Mansion and he finally experiences the emotion of sadness. Wim and Bonaparta arrive and mourn Grimmer's death. (en)
- Nina recalls her and Johan's adoption by the Lieberts and their emigration to the West, and how on the night a visitor came, Johan shot the Lieberts and told her to shoot him. Tenma arrives at the burned out mansion, just as firefighter discovers a grave with the bones of up to forty-six people at the base of a rose bush. General Wolf's men take Tenma to see the dying general who tells the story of how he found the nameless twins, their only possession being the book "Monster Without a Name" from which he gave the boy the name Johan, possibly awakening something inside him. Nina, Dieter and Lipsky visit the ruins, but they take Dieter's suggestion to create new, happy memories. After Nina and Dieter leave, Lunge arrives at Lipsky's apartment and asserts that Lipsky is the son of Franz Bonaparta. (en)
- At Baby's mansion, Nina finds Ayse dead and then discovers that her captor, Goedelitz and all his men have been murdered. Meanwhile, General Wolf's men take away Tenma and Dieter who was captured earlier. On the way, Tenma enables Dieter to return to Frankfurt to warn the Turkish community of the plot. Tenma meets Wolf who accepts his role in the origins of Johan whom he found cold and starving to death with his sister near the Czechoslovakian border. He then says that Johan has killed everyone who was close to him, including Goedelitz and his men. He shows Tenma a message from Johan challenging him to meet at some warehouse ruins, then asks Tenma to kill Johan. Back in Frankfurt, Dieter and Heckel are captured by neo-Nazis. (en)
- Nina confronts Johan who presents her with a story of the brainwashing which happened at the Red Rose Mansion and the occasion when over 40 people were poisoned except Franz Bonaparta who survived. Suddenly, Nina realizes that she was the one who witnessed the deaths, not Johan, and it was she who ran home to find Johan dressed as her. The shock of this revelation nearly drives her take her own life, but she is saved by Tenma. She realizes that Johan took her experiences and made them his own. Capek then arrives and tells Tenma that he is going after Franz Bonaparta, however Capek is gunned down shortly afterwards by two members of his organization for the paranoid killing of his own guard earlier. Later, Johan visits one of his hired hitmen and shoots him, before leaving stating that the true end is where he must be. (en)
- Some children die while participating in a dangerous game of dare suggested by Johan to determine if they were "chosen". Dieter manages to convince a seriously injured boy who survived the game not to commit the stunt again. Schuwald announces a large donation of antique books to the University of Munich and a ceremony to commemorate the donation is planned. At the library, Johan passes out after he looks at the picture book "Obluda" by Emil Scherbe about a monster with no name. Tenma prepares to kill Johan at the book donation ceremony. (en)
- Lunge tells Grimmer that something terrible may already be happening in Ruhenheim, a quiet town that appears to be filled with unhappy people. When the Henichs go to see Conrad, they find his murdered body. After being beaten up by the bullies again, Wim is offered a gun to kill them, while the elderly couple living at the hotel also offer his drunken father a gun. As Nina recovers in a hospital, she tells Tenma that Johan is orchestrating an event that will lead to his suicide, but will also involve the massacre of innocents. Tenma travels to Prague and meets Lipsky and asserts that his father Bonaparta, whose real name is Klaus Poppe, and Johan are probably in a town called Ruhenheim. Meanwhile, access to Ruhenheim is cut off because of heavy rain. Gunshots are heard and Lunge is suspicious of the elderly couple living in the hotel. (en)
- Lotte has a chance encounter with Nina and discovers that they are both researching Schuwald and strike up a friendship. Later, Lotte realizes that Nina looks like Johan. Tenma prepares to kill Johan at a forest sanctuary, but is unable to carry it through after meeting an old soldier who does not want bloodshed in the forest. (en)
- Lunge initially suspects that Tenma set the fire and planned to assassinate Schuwald. But after Karl asks Lunge to search for Johan, who had not been seen since the fire, and Lunge visits Johan's former apartment - he begins to believe that Johan is real. Schuwald asks Karl to deliver a message to someone in Dresden. Nina leaves the hospital and undergoes psychological analysis with Dr. Reichwein and Dr. Gillen to recover her memories which involve 3 frogs and a bridge. She leaves to find Tenma, and Dieter insists on leaving with her. In Dresden, Tenma meets Karl who tells him that the twins' mother is alive and living in Prague. (en)
- Inspector Lunge questions Junkers about his involvement in the homicides and he becomes hysterical when Lunge asks who hired him. Dr. Tenma convinces Junkers to overcome his fear and confess his involvement, however, that night, Junkers finds his police guard dead, and he flees. Soon after, Dr. Tenma also finds the dead guard, poisoned by candy in the same manner as the hospital officials from nine years ago. He follows Junkers into a nearby construction site, and finds him with Johan Liebert, whose life Dr. Tenma saved. Junkers explains that Johan hired him and his associates, whom he has since killed, and is preparing to execute Junkers. Johan reveals that his real name is not Liebert, and admits that he was the one who poisoned the hospital officials and the policeman. Johan, calmly executes Junkers and walks away, leaving Dr. Tenma distraught at Johan's lack of respect for human life. Later, Dr. Tenma explains everything to Inspector Lunge who finds Dr. Tenma's involvement in these events suspicious. (en)
- Dr. Tenma is able to save Johan's life, but Mayor Roedecker dies during surgery under Dr. Boyer. He and Dr. Oppenheim scold Dr. Tenma stating that the doctors had to scramble to cover for him at the last minute resulting in Mayor Roedecker's death. Dr. Oppenheim has forwarded his report to the director. As a news report states that flowers were left at City Hall and a decision for a new mayor is taking place, Director Heinemann stated in a press conference that Mayor Roedecker died of a cerebral infarction and that they did their best to save his life. Later at a hospital banquet while apologizing to Director Heinemann, Dr. Tenma is shocked when Dr. Boyer is revealed to be the new Head of Neurosurgery. Despite forgiving Tenma, Director Heinemann allows him to keep his job and states that he won't accept his papers for the next health summit nor recommend him in the event of a transfer. To make matters worse as Tenma leaves, Eva Heinemann callously breaks off their engagement, dropping her ring at his feet. Dr. Tenma confesses at the bedside of the apparently unconscious Johan that he wishes Director Heinemann was dead. Meanwhile, Detective Egon Weisbach tries to get Anna Liebert to remember her name and the events of the night her parents died. Director Heinemann suggests to Dr. Boyer and Dr. Oppenheim providing photographs of the Liebert twins to the media, in order to play on public sympathy and garner attention for the hospital. He casually offers the other doctors candy donated to the sick children and orders Oppenheim to reassign Boyer as Johan's attending physician. There was a brief argument between Tenma and Boyer about his photographic action as Boyer states to Tenma that he served his purpose with the boy. Some nights later, a nurse discovers Dr. Oppenheim and Dr. Boyer dead in their offices while Eva finds her father dead in his study. (en)
- Detective Benjamin Weisbach was one of the first investigators in the murder of the Liebert parents. On his last day before retirement, he escorts a convicted serial murderer named Rheinhard Dinger and questions him about why he committed the murders and Dinger dates it back to when he sheltered young twins and the boy encouraged his violent tendencies which Weisbach recognizes as the Liebert twins. At the same prison, Dr. Gillen is interviewing several murderers about why they also killed people who did not fit their usual modus operandi. They two meet and both realize that these criminals committed their atypical murders at the request of a young man who fits the description of Johan. (en)
- Dr. Reichwein arranges for Tenma to live in a safe-house while he and Dr. Gillen attempt to figure out their next steps. However, Tenma leaves the safe-house and leaves Dieter with Dr. Reichwein while he tries to track down Johan, and purchases a sniper rifle. (en)
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