Rider troll.
Gorgom's latest plan is to fake car accidents to gather the victims in those accidents so that they can turn these victims into the ultimate terrorist group that will begin a war that will endanger mankind's existence. But before we talk about that, the episode begins with one question, “Where is Nobuhiko?"
If there is one thing that bothered me with this episode is that this episode didn't answer the question that it asked at the beginning of the episode. Instead we have Kotaro look for clues on the possible whereabouts of his brother while at the same time, investigate the current Gorgom plot. So yeah, at the end of the episode, Kotaro still has no idea where is Nobuhiko. Kotaro's senior finally returns in this episode, what's more, Professor Kuromatsu also returns in this episode as he is the head of the current Gorgom plan to turn car accident victims into terrorist!
I love the plan in this episode, aside that this is a cheap and easy way to gather soldiers for a militia without doing a lot of screening, the fact that Professor Kuromatsu is the one responsible for the accident and the one who will patch them up is really brilliant. Since Kuromatsu healed these victims, they own their lives to him and will do anything just to repay their debt to the man who saved their lives.
Since Kotaro is also investigating in this one and lucky enough, he saw one of the fake ambulances that gather these victims, he tries to follow it only to be attacked by the Lizard Mutant. His fight with the Lizard Mutant is fun to watch and gives Kotaro this idea that following the ambulance is not the best method to thwart Gorgom's plot. This is when Kotaro's senior has a purpose in this episode, as he and Kotaro faked out a car accident just to attract the attention of the fake ambulance! This simple plan gave Kotaro a free ride on that ambulance and at the same time, have the opportunity to end one Gorgom plot!
Inside the ambulance, Kotaro was briefed about joining a militia, which he agreed to join for obvious reasons. Ah yes, one of the basic skills of being a Kamen Rider, the ability to fool your enemies. Fast forward a bit and we see Kotaro and the other victims train to be part of the militia, which accordingly, has a lot of benefits. The training scene looks really harsh but even that's the case, these men continue on training without rest. Now I understand what Professor Kuromatsu did to these men, he slightly modified their bodies so that they can last long in battle.
Even though they are slightly modified, they can't last long in battle as they surrendered at one point during the training. Kotaro challenging their instructor if he has the guts to kill him is one amazing sight to see. I am not sure if he is showing us his faith on the heart of the human being or he is just being awesome that he can show then that he can survive one gun shot.
Professor Kuromatsu arrives just to tell them that he is the one who patched them up and that they should continue their training just for them to repay the kindness that he offered. But thanks to Kotaro, his plan was slightly changed by ordering them to kill Kotaro. This is when we saw the flaw in Kuromatsu's plan, if there is one thing that he forgot to do when he slightly modified their bodies is that he forgot to brainwash them into killing machines who swore loyalty to Professor Kuromatsu and to some extent, to Gorgom. Because of this slight flaw and Kotaro telling them the truth, these men didn't kill Kotaro at the end.
Lizard Mutant comes in and Kotaro transforms into Kamen Rider BLACK! Compared to their first fight, this fight is more entertaining as we saw BLACK slightly losing at one point. When he finally figured out the strength of his opponent and chop it off in the process, it only regenerated much to his surprise. Come on, you are fighting a Lizard Mutant for crying out loud! Lizards can regenerate their lost tails! Because of this, BLACK calls the Battle Hopper to aid him in combat before finishing him with a Rider Kick!
