During the morning assembly, Honda announces that Seiichi will be finished with the storyboards tomorrow, which, while being good news to the team, would still leave the studio with only five weeks to deliver the final episode, compared to the average two months spent on each of the previous episodes. Later on, Aoi receives an email containing some research about diesel trains from Midori, who had been hoping to help her with her workload. During a phone call between the two, Midori informs Aoi about Misa's situation at work...