Ep. 11

Summary

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The group discovers that the large CRT television in Yugo's shop acts as the Phone Microwave's essential “lifter,” explaining why D-Mails only work while it is switched on. Kurisu proposes a more ambitious device: compressing a person's memories and sending them into the brain of their past self, effectively allowing consciousness to leap backward. Okabe prefers this approach to more D-Mails because the traveler could respond to unexpected consequences. While shopping for components with Mayuri, he encounters Moeka and then Suzuha, who claims Kurisu will work for SERN in the future. Kurisu denies any connection and reveals the painful collapse of her relationship with her scientist father, who resented being surpassed by his daughter. Okabe receives another anonymous threat, this time showing a severed doll's head, and rushes back out of fear that Mayuri is in danger. Daru then discovers that the laboratory's system has been connected to SERN's network without permission. The combination of surveillance, Suzuha's accusation, and the unauthorized link suggests that the lab is no longer experimenting unseen. Someone already knows what they have built, even as Kurisu moves closer to completing the time-leap machine.