I gotta be honest – the combination of jackhammer dialogue, pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo, and not exactly professional subtitles has me stretched to the limit watching this episode of Singular Point.  I feel like I get the gist of what’s happening here but I’m not going to be surprised if I watch a better release and find out I got some stuff wrong.  One thing’s for sure, the production committee is getting their money’s worth from Pero’s seiyuu Kuno Misaki.

Mei is in Dubai, that I’m sure of.  She’s there to meet with Professor Li of course.  Li finally has a voice – that of Kouda Kaho.  And the theoretically impossible material she’s marketing – the “Architype” – is surely at the center of this series’ kaiju mystery.  It’s little wonder Li would want to seek out Mei’s input, since her specialty is the non-existent and scientifically impossible.  Mei is also wrestling with a riddle from Yun, which Pero could clue solve for her but is apparently under orders from his creator not to.

Another key new figure here is Kai Takahiro (Suzumura Kenichi), a “self-employed investigative reporter” who’s skeptical of the official explanations of the radon phenomenon.  The fact that Kai specifically asks whether other kaiju – “quadrupeds, bipeds” – might be out there suggests he knows a lot more than he’s letting on.  His investigation takes him to the forested spot where the remains of hundreds of radon have been laid out.  There he crosses paths with Yun and Haberu, doing some investigating of their own.  Satou-san from the observatory shows up too.  All of these men share a suspicion that something big and terrible is brewing, though Satou isn’t ready to cross the lines and actually help the others figure out what.

Apparently at least a few of the radons are coming back to life, which seems, you know, bad.  Yun is convinced there’s some sort of controlled evolution at play here, though just who or what is doing the controlling is unclear.  Also unclear is what’s going on at the massive secret base we see for the first time here, which I’m assuming is a different secret base than the one where the bones are (and the alarm was coming from), under the observatory.  Kai and the Outaki boys take their search into the trees, following footprints to a secluded river in the woods, on the trail of something bigger than any radon we’ve seen…

Of the title character there’s still no head nor scale, but the kaiju family continues to expand.  I’m still betting that was Manda we saw at the end of Episode 3 and the pre-open here, and as for the beast confronting the soldier in the woods, that was surely Anguirus.  He’s one of the earliest of Godzilla’s stable-mates, turning up in the second film in the series, 1955’s Godzilla Raids Again.  In the context that this is a world that doesn’t know Godzilla exists, franchise tradition would dictate this his first appearance gets teased out til about Episode 6 or 7.