The Untargeted Town

is the twenty-fourth episode of Ultraman Max.
==Synopsis==
A strange phenomenon occurs where people suddenly go berserk and lose consciousness, happening frequently. Detective Shinohara and others rush to the scene upon receiving a report of employees at a factory suddenly going berserk again. 
There, Shinohara casually witnesses a suspicious figure reflected in the shards of a mirror he happened to pick up.
==Plot==
The police have to break up several fights, whose participants seemed to go suddenly insane. Afterwards, the fighters lose their memories of the time. DASH discovers that similar incidents happened in Kitegawa decades ago, to smokers.
CT scans reveal that the frontal lobes of the victim's brains were modified by some external force, causing loss of reason. After picking up a phone call, one man turns violent in front of Kaito and Mizuki. The police deduce that all victims used a phone with the same antenna.
DASH investigates the antenna, which they believe to be of alien origin, uniquely made to effect the brain. They find workers working on testing the reception, and even pick up a monster signal, which vanishes. The workers notice a strange signal: someone is sending a high output signal to those antennae to target humans.
Kaito notices a strange man and follows him. He finds a phone and picks it up, but doubles in pain. The man appears before him, and reveals he knows his identity as Ultraman Max. He tells him he is an alien, and when asked what he wants, says he cannot want anything, and will not target the town or earth.
A man called Ken recognizes the mysterious man as Metronian and greets him. however, he is thrown when Kaito and Mizuki arrive, and runs. Kaito follows. Ken reveals to Mizuki that an alien used to live in the town, who was nearly killed in a fight with Ultraseven. The alien was healed and Ken kept his location a secret.
DASH discovers that forty years earlier Alien Metron had hidden red crystals inside cigarettes to make men insane. The alien is still at large, and Elly searches for his location.
Kaito follows the man, who leads him into a warehouse and greets him politely. The man reveals his true form: Alien Metron. Kaito orders him away. The man packs earthen souvenirs as he prepares to leave.
Metron explains he is going to leave because he believes humans will degenerate themselves without his interference. Max loses a game of Rock, Paper, Scissor, and Metron grows giant. A spaceship arrives. Metron waves farewell and the spaceship departs into the sunset.
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==Appearances==
===Ultras===
*Ultraman Max
===Kaiju===
*Alien Metron
==Home Media==
*Ultraman Max Volume 7 features episodes 23-26.
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==Trivia==
*This episode is a sequel to the episode 8 of Ultraseven titled "The Marked Town". Addressing the inconsistency with the overall continuity, the writer of the episode, Yuji Kobayashi, tweeted about it, explaining that this particular episode was an exception due to Ultraman Max existing in its own universe.https://web.archive.org/web/20051222005600/http://blog.livedoor.jp/scenarioland/
*In this episode, there is an organization called P.S.R.I (Police Science Research Institute), whose logo and name reference the SRI from the series Operation: Mystery. 
*The researcher played by Masami Horiuchi is named Yojiro Matsunaga. According to Horiuchi, he appears to be the younger brother of Yoichiro Matsunaga from Ultraman Nexus. 
* The hiding place of Alien Metron is the Kaiju warehouse of Tsuburaya Productions. Seabozu, Alien Mefilas, Alien Zarab, Miclas, and Alien Godola make appearances in suit form, while Alien Baltan appears in the form of a doll.
*In the vacant lot scene in front of the apartment where Alien Metron is hiding, Gavadon is painted on a clay pipe. There are also graffiti on the wall with the words: "Say my name."
*This episode was later featured in Ultraman Retsuden episode 50 "Resurrection of Metron! The Untargeted City!!"
*This episode aired in the United States on TOKU on March 14, 2017.
==References==
Category:Ultraman Max Episodes
Category:Episodes
Category:Ultraman Max