Current



Electric Current (現在, Genzai) is the fourth chapter in the Death Note manga. It is contained in Volume 1. The events in this chapter take place in episodes 2 and 3 of the anime, Confrontation (対決 Taiketsu) and Dealings (取引 Torihiki).

Plot
L sits in his hotel room and wonders how Kira knew about his assumptions that he was a student. He deduces that Kira has someway of obtaining information that only the task force knows. L decides to communicate with the FBI director.

Light and Ryuk are then at a department store where Light is shopping for supplies to construct a hiding place for the Death Note. He also suspects that L has become suspicious of the National Police Agency and that he will soon begin to investigate its members, including his father, Soichiro. Light also reveals to Ryuk that he can hack into his father’s computer without leaving a trail.

Meanwhile, members of the investigation are resigning because they are afraid Kira will kill them. L watches this incident from his hotel room and is finally sure that Kira needs to know what they’re victims look like in order to murder them.

Light reveals to Ryuk his new Death Note hiding place in a secret compartment under his drawer. If anyone tries to forcefully open the bottom, the drawer will catch on fire and destroy the notebook.

At the end of the chapter, L asks the director of the FBI to send his agents to investigate each person investigating the Kira case in the NPA.

Plot Points
Here are the major plot points that happen in this chapter:


 * L contacts the FBI for help with the Kira investigation.
 * Light hides the Death Note in a hidden compartment in the bottom of a desk drawer.
 * Light reveals to Ryuk his plan for getting L and the National Police Agency to fight against each other.
 * Three police officers working on the Kira case turn in their letters of resignation.
 * One of the names of this episode is Electric Current, and it receives this name because Light makes an electric circuit that could burn the Death Note in case he's discovered by someone else (previously, Sayu was very close of touching it).

Conception
The chapter title "Current" is about the hiding of the Death Note. Ohba said that he considered "Current," "Destruction," and "False Bottom." In the end he believed "Current" was the best choice.

Courant électrique (chapitre)