Q periodically looked up from his little notebook to see the other detectives entering the room, who ranged from a little girl to grown men. The mean age was lower than he expected, and the variety of characters... well he wasn't exactly surprised. Great minds did tend to be eccentric after all, and his little notebook of chess notation proved that he was no exception. One of two things could happen with this group: their diverse talents and mindsets would be pooled together to bring Kira to swift justice, or their minds would wrestle in a cacophony of dissonance bringing the investigation to a crashing halt. However, Q's time for speculation was cut short as the Tokyo police chief walked in, announcing the oh-so-obvious purpose of the meeting.

Q did as he was instructed and pulled out the paperwork regarding the Kira killings. As he thought about the names and causes of death, his right hand hovered in front of him over the table, as if he was preparing to pick up a chess piece. "Well, allow me to be the first to state the obvious. Since we have a copycat killer the probability should be high that we are dealing with somebody with either a history of violence or some kind of mental disorder. That is how these things tend to play out. With that said, I also think the probability is high that this is an exception to the rule. The ability to commit murder like this is truly bizarre, thus I don't think statistics that measure typical behaviors will apply here." Here, the motions of his hand changed. Was he dropping Go pieces now? "Since the case is so bizarre, I think we ought to divert our attention away from how the murders are being carried out and towards whom he is killing. Kira may be able to hide his methods, but he cannot hide his results, and in those results there will be a pattern, and a pattern beyond 'he's killing bad guys.' So, have we found any patterns?"