Gambit Roulette: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Death Note]]'' is essentially Gambit Roulette: the series. The most impressive is the plan that [[Wham! Episode|changes the course of the entire series]]—Light arranging {{spoiler|L's death}} while coming off completely above suspicion—which involves an extended [[Memory Gambit]], at the end of which every element needed to be exactly in the place they were in order to work.

** Including such utterly unpredictable details as a cop Light didn't even know prior to the [[Memory Gambit]] missing when he shot at the temporary owner of the Death Note. The plan required Light to kill Higuchi while holding the Death Note, so that he could reclaim ownership of it and make the memory restoration permanent. Had the bullet been just an inch to the left, Higuchi would've died too soon and whoever picked up the Death Note first (most likely the cop who shot him) would become its official owner. And Light's memory of being Kira would be gone forever.