I just heard this song on the radio and I thought the title was appropriate for what just happened.  This episode felt like a game of roulette where the main protagonists found out some details about their major roles in the conflict.  Of course, no one knows everything, and none of them realize Izaya has done a fair amount of work manipulating from the background.  The key here is how they find out about each other or their affiliated groups.

Could you turn the creepiness down a notch or two?

I will tell you, if you hurt someone, the best thing you can possibly do is to go up to them and tell them directly.  Yes, the truth hurts, but when you reach out by yourself, you have a unique opportunity to explain your actions and perform damage control.  You may never have the same kind of friendship or relationship you once shared, but at least you took responsibility for your actions, and many people will respect you for it.

The absolute worst thing you can do is allow the person you hurt find out about your actions from a friend of a friend, or similar circumstance.  You’ve already added degrees of separation between yourself and your damaged friend.  Not only that, but he or she will form their own opinions of what happened and why, and in almost every case they will come to a very negative conclusion.  When the two of you inevitably collide, I wish you good luck in making any headway with the conversation.  Maybe you’ll somehow pull a positive resolution out of your ass, but you’ll probably end up hating each other.  Bottom line?  Honesty is the best policy.

I... I... I can't believe it's not butter!

Durarara pretty well covers the start of the worst-case scenario.  Mikado, Anri, and Kida were all friends before this night.  However, Anri learns Kida runs the Yellow Scarves from a few of her Slasher buddies.  She doesn’t believe it, so she goes to find out for herself.  Sure enough, he’s sitting on the throne.  Finding out one of your best friends is actually your enemy isn’t a terribly original plot point, but Anri isn’t the typical protagonist.  The experience shatters her, and she has to fight off the soothing voice of Saika in her head while she waits for rescue.

Unfortunately, the rescue just makes everything worse.  The Scarves suspected Celty worked for the Dollars.  Anri then reveals herself as the Slasher.  Guess who they think the Slasher works for now.  On the other hand, this brings Kida to a startling realization: he doesn’t have as much control over his gang as he thought.  He doesn’t want to jump to any conclusions, but the gang has already decided the guilty party and wants to fight.  Similarly, Mikado finally realizes he has no control over his group and fragments of the “enemy” groups work for the Dollars.  Anri could very well lose her grip as well.  If the three want to avert the crisis, they will have to work away from their organizations and in tandem.  However, the massive violation of trust might prevent it.

I have no clever quote. This is just awesome.

Of course, other parties can play a role in this.  Kida goes to Dotachin and his crew for advice, and it looks like he will receive a healthy dose in the next episode.  Then, we once again have the enigmatic Simon.  It looks like he’s absolutely everywhere, and he even manages to interfere in an attack by the Scarves.  I could be mistaken, but I think he narrates this episode.  I’ve said it before and I know I’ll keep saying it, but he knows too much.  I’m just waiting for the big reveal at this point.

Give me this pipe or I'll shove it through your ears.

Trust is something many of us give with great reluctance.  We have to know a person for some time before we feel like we can open up to them.  However, trust is a double-edged sword.  When we reveal these aspects of our lives, we open ourselves to attack.  It’s so easy to betray someone.  It is fitting that this episode, entitled Distrust, revolves around a person who cannot trust anyone.  His name?  Baremoto.

I don't need you! I don't need anybody!

After the events of the last episode, Joe wants to become a singer.  I think this is a career choice right up his alley.  You can tell he is more prone to emotional outbursts than the rest of his companions in the cell, but it isn’t necessarily bad.  You must put emotion into your singing to make it real.  A person who sings about something he doesn’t believe in himself comes off as fake.  In addition, Joe wants his fame to catch his sister’s attention.  However, I think he can do more.  A popular singer can become a strong voice for social change.  He already has a wealth of experience to draw from in his song writing from both positive and negative experiences.  He can use music to convey the problems facing the young, the abandoned, and the impoverished.  Perhaps this is a bit big and idealistic, but sometimes all it takes is one person in the right place to start a change.

Well, I believe in your dream, Joe!

Baremoto trusts no one and believes only in himself.  This stems from his childhood, where he saw vile men taking advantage of his mother.  In one way, he is correct in his appraisal.  Truly terrible people exist in this world who are capable of equally terrible actions.  You wouldn’t want to be mixed up with someone of that nature.  At the same time, Baremoto misses the point of his mother’s sacrifice.  She derives no pride from living a life of prostitution.  However, you have a strange sense of admiration for his mother, who literally did everything she could to ensure her son’s safety and survival.  If she believed only in herself as Baremoto does, he would have died long ago.  In addition, you can draw a striking parallel between his mother and himself.  He knows the cigarettes are his and he knows he started the fire.  Baremoto essentially sells himself to Ishihara to escape punishment in a form of mental prostitution.

He's seeing exactly what you think, and it'd scar you too.

I think you can define Inspector Ishihara as a control freak with a superiority complex.  He craves power and he gets it by holding control over the kids in the detention facility.  You can see where a guy like Bro would pose a problem.  When Ishihara beats him, Bro simply looks at him with defiance in his eyes.  It is a silent look saying, “You can batter me, but you can never break my spirit.”  It drives him straight into a rage.  His terrible traits make us hate him as a character, perhaps even think of him as a monster.  Yet, just like the boys, I wonder how he got this way.  No one is simply born this way, so what happened in his youth to make him flip out when he loses control?  It runs counter-intuitive to a series about character who have to deal with someone like him, but I hope they resolve it just the same.

You dare challenge the all-powerful Inspector Ishihara!?

Finally, we have Bro.  He acts like a big brother now, but if Ishihara’s words are true, he killed his parents.  It surprised me to see them put this plot into motion so early.  Whatever the circumstances of the crime, we can see Bro wants to become a better person.  He’s acted as a pillar of strength to the boys, to the extent that Mario still believes in him despite the claims.  When Bro runs into the fire, it really drives home his character.  Generally, a person running into a fire embarks on a suicide mission.  So many things can go wrong.  You can receive heavy burns, suffocate, or even the building itself might crush you with its quickly diminishing structural integrity.  He knows it and volunteers to sacrifice himself anyway, even if his inmates hate him and even if they already died.  I really don’t care what he did in the past right now, I look at him as a hero.  Next week, we’ll see if his heroics bear any fruit.

He ran into the fire...