What the heck, Maeda? You're supposed to be the hero of this story. After being turned you were supposed to step in and make things right... You know have a big reunion with the remaining Code Zero members, explain how you've survived so long.
But even after seeing the same thing happen to Misaki, it looks like he's stuck experiecing the same memories from his near death experience, in this case, the promise that he made to Misaki. Even if Kurusu confronted Maeda about what he did to Shirase, I doubt Maeda would know who he is...
But he had the sense to return Yamagami's lighter to his wife, and to tear off the stars from his uniform where Misaki died, so why attack Defrott and Aoi when they needed your help?
The fight between him and Defrott was a pretty good showing of strong vampires can be. Like we've seen their speed, and the only demonstration of real strength we've seen was Yamagami, a unranked vampire, moving that debris off of Maeda by himself. But they left craters in the walls while moved, that's insane. I've also looked back at the first episode, where Nakajima asks about Maeda's arm and Maeda says it works fine, that was a hint about his prosthetic right there. There's also the part where he says it's important to hold onto their humanity, which hurts looking back on it now. Also no one is mentioning the stigmata anymore which probably would be on a lot of the artificial vampires tongue's, along with Maeda's if Misaka is anything to go by.
The oldest out of the vampire kids is talking to someone behind everyone's back all of sudden is also something to note. And that was after the talk she had with Suwa about their humanity. The answer Suwa had about the difference between vampires and humans being if they're sick of being alive ties into Defrott thinking the only reason he's stayed sane for as long as he has is because of his acting.
The Ascra that turns humans into vampire is the same blood substitute that caused that vampire couple to go crazy. It's an addictive drug, and they became dependent on it. Also like drugs, I bet you can overdose on it, which is probably what happened to those S-Class vampires at that warehouse.
And voice changing is a vampire power I guess, which was probably thought up from stories of monsters mimicking the voices of their victim's loved ones to lure them to them. I should have realized something was wrong when Nakajima's superiors praised Rufus, I thought he just turned them from the blinds being shut, but he's finally making his big move. He has no use for Nakajima any more.
I wanted to know more about Tenmanya's and Defrott's past, so it was nice hearing about both theirs in this episode.
But I am very happy that Kurusu managed to make it to them, the only question is, will both he and her make it back alive?