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*** Who doesn't?

** And last but by ''NO'' means least, there the fact that, in the dub I saw anyway, Light made a MASSIVE mistake during his communcation with Penber - one thaty cannot be attributed to misspeaking or error and should have painted the words "I AM BLUFFING" in hundred foot tall, blazing, green letters - which Penber spectaculaely fails to notice. At one point Light says, and I quote:

** The only problem? Naomi ''isn't'' Penber's girlfriend, she's his ''fiancee'' and the intonation was not ironic, he genuinely meant it as his girlfriend. (For that matter, Light assuming that a female loved one automatically means a girlfriend is kinda dumb in and of itself, when it could be a wife, sister, mother, daughter, etc). This should have been a MASSIVE clue that Light didn't really know about her or their relationship, but Penber ignores it like a champ! I mean, I'd hardly expect the guy to be infallible, considering he was assigned to such an important and dangerous case, I'd hope for a bit of competence!

*** Light looked Penber up in the FBI database. Presumably he found out all he could about his family and concluded that a girlfriend was the most likely candidate, which isn't that unreasonable. We know Penber has no wife and we can reasonably assume he doesn't have a daughter, and a grown man is more likely to be close to, and protective of, a girlfriend than a sister or mother. Besides which, a fiancee ''is'' a girlfriend, and will be until they either get married or break up. If Light had been talking about a girlfriend and they were ''already'' married, it would be a different story.