Psycho Pass Re-Edit: Episode 3 [True Worth]

This episode begins once again…WITH MORE MAKISHIMA. Seriously, though, this episode allows an introspective view on Makishima that has made me love him even more. Makishima’s monologue this week features his view point on Mido, the murderer he has helped kill famous internet personas to impersonate them. Makishima explains that his weak nature is what makes the whole thing worth it, a weak person given strength is someone who can be truly measured. Before my perception of Makishima was that he wanted to test people, but I didn’t quite understand why it was he grew bored of each of his favorites. Suddenly with this narration it all makes sense. Makishima is an antisocial person whose greatest desire is to be social and belong- he wants to fix the anomaly that the Sybil System has caused him. Obviously we’ll get more into this later but this insight is vital.

Makishima’s motivation is very clear: he wants to give people power and see how they use it. Depending on the answer they find, he throws them away. In a lot of ways this is the reason I find Makishima so captivating as a villain. His reasoning is true, simple murder and carnage aren’t enough of an answer- there must be something behind the mask. We quickly see the murderer behind the avatars cases is thrown away by Makishima once the police are onto him, as Makishima asserts he has no personality of his own and no true desires beyond the blank slate he is. Mido dies as punishment for his crimes and Makishima and his associate move on to other ‘favorites’.

Possibly the most important addition this episode is we see the background of Kogami’s partner once again. In his head we see a flashback towards the time before Sasayama died, how Kogami was the last one to talk to him. . .and we even catch a glimpse. . .and a name mentioned by Sasayama before he died….the name

is Makishima.

Kogami recognizes the murderous traits of the Mido murders, they remind him of a murder he saw first hand. A person with the desire to kill but not the means, this is someone he has followed. This is the person he has been hunting. His unfinished business. We see clearly in the re-edit Kogami’s burning desire to destroy the person behind his partners death.

We cut to an all girls school, where a girl has gone missing. . . and focus on a very pretty and popular girl who is the president of the art club: Rikako Ouryou. We see her be kind. .. . comfort her schoolmate. . . .

and then we see the schoolmate turn up dead.

and then we see Rikako sitting, drawing, and talking to her teacher- Makishima Sensei.

Next week, we delve even further into the new psychological details given by Psycho Pass the Re-Edit.

Oki