Light is trying his absolute best to look like a grieving son after his dad's permanent logout, but Near isn't buying a single second of the performance. Sitting in his skyscraper command room surrounded by a small army of custom-painted finger puppets, Near pings the Japanese task force line just to drop a massive truth bomb on the entire lobby. He casually points out that Light's five-year admin run has been a total disaster and that the new L is almost certainly the literal hacker they've been looking for all along. Here is how Episode 30 turns a high-level federal investigation into a total public call-out stream: The Finger Puppet Roast: Near sets up a custom set of toys representing the entire task force and uses them to stage a highly passive-aggressive drama session, essentially telling the police squad they are being completely carried by a toxic smurf. The Moderator Mutiny: Listening to Near's 200 IQ breakdown, Aizawa begins noticing massive holes in Light's original alibi, realizing that their golden-boy commander has been running background malicious scripts right under their noses for half a decade. The Mafia Clean-Up Operation: Desperate to remove the last wild card on the map, Light uses his admin privileges to command a corrupt US president to send a tactical strike team to wipe out Mello's remaining hideouts, trying to delete his rival's account before Near can dox him first. The Chocolate-Munching Escape: Mello manages to slip out of the server explosion by the absolute skin of his teeth, sporting a massive new facial scar that raises his edge lord aesthetic rating to absolute maximum. The Corporate Brain-Drain: Realizing that the official police network is getting way too hot to handle, Light starts quietly looking for a brand new external server proxy, setting his sights on a fanatical, hyper-loyal cult follower named Teru Mikami to handle his manual daily data entry. TL;DR: Near uses a bunch of children's toys to completely expose Light's…