The Frankfurt police are busy with the investigation of the shooting at the convention centre but are not sure who is the target of the killer. Meanwhile, Inspector Weisbach from Nordrhein-Westfalen State Police is also in the police station with his colleague to escort a serial murder criminal from Frankfurt back to his locality for investigations. Reinhard Dinger, a taxi driver had committed a number of murders over the years where the victims were mostly those who had boarded his taxi. On the train, Weisbach reaches for his cigarette and is reminded by Dinger that he should not smoke in this carriage. Weisbach keeps his cigarette but mocks Dinger that if he was so morally upright, he would not have killed so many people. This is actually Weisbach's last assignment since he will be retiring tomorrow. Weisbach says that Dinger should regret killing others but the latter says that those people deserved to die since they were human scum. They included a man who spat at him, a couple had sex in the backseat under his watchful eyes, a youngster who was drunk and used vulgarities, a prostitute who tried to offer her services so as to offset the taxi fare and an old lady with thick makeup who spoke ill of others.
However, Weisbach refuses to accept his reasoning since one of the victims who worked in Bilker Investment Bank was a morally upright man and did not fit Dinger's definition of human scum. Besides, that victim was in the midst of exposing a scandal involving a conglomerate before he died. When asked about it, Dinger admits that he did not feel good about killing that guy too and he did not have a choice. Weisbach asks if Dinger was told to kill that guy but he refuses to explain further.
Dinger says that he has always believed in behaving in a moral manner and someone just helped him to see the light to removing human scum from society based on his beliefs. Many years ago, Dinger saw a man kick his dog who passed motion in a park. When Dinger tried to stop that man, the latter refused to listen. As such, Dinger lost control and beat that person up until he was restrained by the police. Fortunately, a little boy who was at the park spoke up for Dinger and said that he was just defending himself since that dog owner was the one who started the fight. Dinger then offered to send that boy and his twin sister home but that boy said that they did not have a home. As such, Dinger brought them to his apartment and noticed that they were wearing pyjamas under their coats which suggested that they ran away from a hospital. In addition, the boy's head was covered in bandages. That night, while watching the news, Dinger was cursing the scum of the world as usual where the boy told Dinger that he was right and remarked that the world didn't need such people. From that moment onwards, Dinger felt liberated and began killing people whom he felt that didn't deserve to live.
Weisbach finally sends Dinger to the local prison but is bothered by what he had said on the train. As such, he turns back to look for Dinger and asks him when he had met the twins and how they looked like. To his horror, Weisbach realises that Dinger could have met the Liebert twins who ran away from the hospital 11 years ago when he was in charge of their parents' murder case then.
Meanwhile, Gillen is interviewing a serial murder criminal in Frankfurt who preyed on 13 young girls and sucked their blood as he thinks of himself as a vampire who is after a virgin's blood. However, one of his victims was not a virgin since she had a child 4 years ago and Gilen asked why he targetted her despite not fitting his desired pool of victims. The criminal says that he met a real vampire at a park in Griesheim who wrote that girl's name on the sand in the playground so he took it as an order to kill that person even though he had no wish to do initially.
Subsequently, at another prison in Hamburg, Gillen is interviewing another murder criminal who went all the way to Frankfurt to kill a man who was involved in selling kids to childless families even though that criminal usually operated in his locality under the orders of a person whom he said to be an alien. That criminal said that he met the alien personally at a park in Griesheim who wrote the victim's name on the sand.
Weisbach is packing up his belongings when he sees Gillen who has come to interview Dinger for a research paper. However, Dinger does not wish to tell Gillen more about the murder of Fritz Overt, the employee of Bilker Investment Bank. Weisbach asks Gillen about his questioning of Dinger and reveals what he had heard from Dinger with relation to the Liebert twins. This sparks Gillen's interest and they go to meet Dinger together.
Dinger finally says that he killed Overt after a man wrote Overt's name on the sand in a Griesheim park. Despite Overt being an upright man, Dinger believes that the man who ordered him must have thought of Overt as human scum so he decided to go ahead with the killing.
Gillen tells Weisbach that the three criminals had all committed murder at the orders of the same person who should be Johan. Given that Nina and Tenma are already in Frankfurt, Johan must be trying to do something there...
Even though I had thought that this episode was kind of unrelated to the main plot, everything points back to Johan again. That's the beauty of Monster where many developments which seem to be of no relevance turn out to be pieces of the puzzle and they should fit in nicely when the answer is revealed. Just what is the reason for killing those 3 people mentioned in this story? I can only guess that Johan wanted Overt to die so that he could not expose the scandal of that conglomerate which should belong to Petr Capek. As for the human trafficker, Johan must have something against him in the past e.g. Johan could have been sold by that man to a place where he suffered. I just can't see the link between that unwed mother and Johan though.
Anyway, there are only 11 episodes left to the conclusion and we still have lots of unknown mysteries. I really hope that everything can wrap up nicely by the end.
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