Well crap.
Because of a kid's vision from the future, he thinks that Kamen Rider BLACK is the enemy because he sees him strangling his father! Meanwhile, one monster wants vengeance for the death of his fellow monster. Can he get his desired revenge with Gorgom's latest plan?
The opening scene of this episode is really well done, it gives you an impression that in one point of the episode, BLACK will become evil and will strangle the kid's father. What's more is that the minutes after this scene further establishes the fact that the kid's psychic visions are really accurate. With that in mind, his first meeting with Kotaro makes him want to kill the man to prevent the death of his father! His attempts to kill Kotaro are really, really stupid. I mean, he is underestimating the man he is dealing with! In his vision, we clearly saw that Kotaro transformed into Kamen Rider and the kid's attempts of killing him are some moves that can't kill a Kamen Rider.
Thankfully, Kotaro found the kid and kinda discovered why he is doing it. Kinda discovered since the kid just ran away from Kotaro and try to save his dad again, this time from the MOTW. As for his father, we learned that he is working on some solar cannon, which he wants to use for peace but Gorgom wants it to destroy the city. What's interesting about it is that the solar cannon project is a rejected project, which makes sense especially on the places the kid's father wants to use it, on place where there's barely any sunlight!
Since Kotaro is following the kid who is using his accurate psychic powers to find his father, Kotaro ends up fighting Birugenia and the MOTW. This episode marked the first appearance of Birugenia's true form, which is Birugenia wearing make-up. For a true form of a Creation King candidate, the true form kinda looks really cheap. It's not that really intimidating or scary, but the way he used this new appearance to show us that he is in command is one thing that I like about this form. For once I am not seeing a man wearing pink armor, but a warrior who is wants to kill Kotaro so that he can become the next Creation King.
More on Birugenia, I just love that he continues his attitude that the three Gorgom Priests are useless without him, and this episode shows us that. Aside from bringing the MOTW who wants to avenge his comrade, he still watches the execution of Gorgom's latest plan from afar and sees if he can contribute something. In the case, he made sure that Kamen Rider can't do a thing in battle because he has the kid in this episode as his hostage. It's a nice plan and we saw Kamen Rider getting hit badly by the MOTW. After the MOTW is done beating Kamen Rider, he leaves with the kid and Birugenia. Since the beating is now over, it's time for Kotaro to look for the kid and ends up falling into one of Gorgom's traps.
This trap is a Mirror World wherein the three Gorgom Priests are quite powerful and that Kamen Rider is having a really hard time fighting the MOTW. What's great about this world is how they shot it; it's darker than our world and shows us how powerless Kamen Rider is in this world... that is until he summons Road Sector to destroy the Mirror World for him. Well that was fast. Anyway, Kamen Rider continues the fight in our world but he is having vision problems thanks to the MOTW's attack. But thanks to the kid's psychic powers and his super hearing, he managed to defeat the MOTW.
What I described above is one part of the episode that bothered me, after we saw how accurate the kid's psychic powers are and how Kamen Rider used it to his advantage, he used the Power Stripes to clean his body so that he can perform the finishers. I mean, he should just use that move earlier and not rely on the kid's psychic abilities! Oh well, at least he defeated the MOTW and Kamen Rider saved the day. In short, the vision the kid had earlier was there so that this episode will have a misunderstanding plot. Seriously, it really feels like it was made so that the episode will feature misunderstandings.
