Lights father; Soichiro Yagami is a police officer with the NPA. Light devises a plan to cleanse the world of evil and to become the god of the new world. Meanwhile Soichiro and the other officers are discussing the Kira investigation with the assistance of L at the ICPO Meeting. L puts out a public message challenging Kira to kill him, using a criminal set for death row in his place called; Lind L. Taylor. Kira kills the criminal thinking it is L.