Conspiracy IV: Recapture the Driver!

is the thirteenth episode of Kamen Rider Geats. It features the debuts of Niramu and Samas, as well as Geats Raising Form and Command Form Cannon Mode. 
==Synopsis==
Everyone's Desire Drivers were stolen by a mysterious girl in a red hat. In actuality, this was the signal for the third round of the Desire Grand Prix to begin. The next round is a game of "Musical Chairs" where each player bets on a seat. Of the five remaining players, one of the Drivers has been stolen and used by the Jyamato, so the remaining players must compete for the last four. The one left standing without a Driver before the "stage boss" is defeated will be eliminated. 
With each of their fates intertwined... who will lady luck smile upon on?
==Plot==
Tsumuri recaps the return of Keiwa to the DGP in her video diary, while Ace asks Girori why the Game Master wants to eliminate him. Lying, he tells Ace he doesn’t know as he is just the concierge. Ace thinks that the Game Master is ungrateful as he has saved the world countless times and wants to know what the reason is. 
Tsumuri observes this and once Ace leaves, she asks as well what reason Girori has for eliminating Ace at the lounge. He explains that he is suspicious of him digging into the secrets of the DGP little by little with each wish, he wants to rein in that curiosity and put the fox on a leash. Win agrees, as eliminating Ace would wipe away his memories and make him no longer a threat to the DGP. Tsumuri objects to this plan, feeling it is overstepping their bounds of authority, Girori says it is for ensuring the longevity of the DGP, ordering Win to take Ace out of the game for certain this time in the coming third round… by any means necessary.
At the mysterious greenhouse, the gardener, Archimedel, gets another call from Girori and is annoyed enough that he has to answer the phone. Girori berates him for giving the Jyamato Desire Drivers in the previous round and Archimedel explained that the Jyamato learned to use them on their own. Some of them are simply smarter than anticipated, but when Girori demands that he stop his strange experiments on the Jyamato, he rebukes that the objective is to make fights with the Riders more fun and interesting. Girori tells him to not act on his own again and angrily hangs up, but Archimedel ignores this as the Jyamato are “tired of always losing” and laughs.
Somewhere in Tokyo at a plaza, Ace is busy doing a fashion photo shoot and when he gets a break, a mysterious woman appears and says that she will support him any way she can. 
At the Yamamoto Soba Shop, Mr. Fukuoka has decided to offer Keiwa a job as a waiter, as he needs the extra help. Sara thanked him for helping her brother and is served lunch by Keiwa, who also shows gratitude for the opportunity and promises to do his best. Mr. Fukuoka says that Keiwa can work at the shop until he can find a proper job to support his sister. As a customer comes in, a strange girl with a red hat passes by outside and when Keiwa investigates, his ID Core falls to the ground and he picks it up. 
At Kurama Mansion, Neon is staring at her father and after a moment of feeling uncomfortable, Kousei asks her what is wrong. She asks him if he knows anything about the Desire Grand Prix, but he says that is of no concern for her. She then asks him why he allowed her to participate in the DGP again, which he replies simply that is what she wished for. 
Neon demands a straight answer but Kousei says some things are better left unsaid. Irritated, she decides to take matters into her own hands and tells her father that he can keep his secrets from her and storms off. She once again tries to escape from home but doesn’t make it very far as John and Ben stop her. She sees the girl with the red hat passing by and her ID Core drops to the ground when she tries to get close to the girl, only for her to vanish. 
Michinaga is out for a jog in the park and suddenly crosses paths with the girl in the red hat, causing him to drop his ID Core. 
Back at the plaza, after the mysterious woman has finished her talk with Ace, the girl in the red hat suddenly passes by him and his Core ID drops. Knowing something isn’t right, Ace approaches the girl and takes back his Desire Driver, which the girl had stolen from him. After lecturing her about stealing, the Jyamato begin attacking nearby and after transforming to protect the girl and fight them, Win appears to as Punkjack to try to kill Ace while he is still fighting the Jyamato. 
The girl in the red hat gets near Ace again and this causes him to lose his transformation with his Geats ID Core falling out and his Desire Driver to once again falls in her possession somehow. A Pawn Jyamato swipes Ace’s Driver to become a Jyamato Rider, who quickly beats up Ace. Win stops attacking since Ace is defenseless, as it would be no fun for a Rider to beat up a powerless human. He is too late to notice that the girl in the red hat is near him, causing him to lose his Driver and get de-powered. Win gets surrounded by Pawn Jyamato and he is forced to retreat along with Ace, with both being called to the temple for Round Three. Win wonders what the last move of his prey will be, with Ace simply smiling and giving a chuckle. 
With each player without their Desire Driver, Tsumuri says the “pre-game” requisite has been fulfilled and gives the details of the latest game: Musical Chairs. 
All of the players must survive the Jyamato and recover their Drivers, with only four of the five available to them since Ace lost his to the Jyamato Rider. They must avoid the girl in the red hat to avoid losing their Drivers again, the ones who defeat the Hide and Seek Jyamato and keep their Drivers can advance to the next round. Whomever is unable to recover a Driver shall be eliminated from the DGP. Upping the stakes is the rule that the more Drivers the Jyamato take to become Riders, the less spots there will be available to advance unless they somehow manage to recover them before the round ends. 
Sara is at a shrine, praying that Keiwa finds a higher paying job soon and then encounters the girl in the red hat walking up the steps nearby. 
Back in the Desire Temple, Win gloats at Ace that he cannot see him achieving victory or beating the Jyamato without the power of Geats and it was foolish to go against the administration of the DGP as they were the ones supporting him until now. Ace is treating his cuts and scrapes and says that he will see about that. Annoyed by his cocky attitude, Win asks what he is after to keep risking his life, with Ace firing back why is Win so eager to eliminate him and he will beat the game on his own if that is what he wants. 
Both Neon and Keiwa ask people about seeing the girl in the red hat, with the former using Neon TV to get the word out to a wider reach of people. Sara is at Yamamoto and watches the video, she remembers seeing the girl nearby at the shrine with her brother hearing her shouting about it and so she lets him know the location. 
Keiwa searches the shrine, running into Neon, who gets a clue from her followers that the girl is behind a grove on the temple grounds. The two see Jyamato climbing up the steps near the grove and follow carefully from a distance, witnessing the girl give the Jyamato their Drivers. Keiwa rushes in and after a struggle, manages to them back while Neon escorts the girl to safety. 
The two then run as fast as they can to escape as a floating holographic screen marks them as having retrieved their Drivers, with only two Desire Drivers remaining. Michinaga sees the scoreboard, feeling a sense of urgency to find the girl and fights off the Pawns without his Rider powers. Ace is also fending off the Jyamato without his Geats powers, with the Game Master observing from the monitor room, who smugly comments that Ace is just a man now without Geats and this is as far as he will go in the game. 
Win, Michinaga and Ace run into each other and fight the Jyamato in order to secure the last two Drivers,, but Keiwa and Neon arrive to help. Michinaga refuses their aid but Neon points out that he can always get another chance to play, but he should not be stubborn about needing help as if he dies then he won’t get another chance. Keiwa tries to get him to understand that there are some things he can’t do alone, but Michinaga refuses to listen. Ace says that despite his belief, Michinaga is unwilling to accept that certain things don’t pan out the way he wants and his own arrogance will be his downfall. People cannot survive without the support of others. 
A Jyamato Rider appears and Keiwa and Neon transform to fight, with the powerless players participating to fight the Pawns. A mysterious man is observing the game on a television with the woman who spoke with Ace from earlier, he orders her to send a Raise Buckle labeled “Jet” to the game area from her tablet. 
Ace tries to fight the Jyamato Rider to regain his Desire Driver, but gets beaten down. Keiwa comes to his aid and urges him to run away, but the Command Twin Buckle suddenly flies into Ace’s hand. The Game Master is shocked, as the item Ace is holding is “not in rotation yet”, wondering how he got it. Ace asks Keiwa to borrow his Driver for a bit, offering all his Buckles in exchange so he can retake his stolen Driver. 
Keiwa agrees to the trade and Ace uses his borrowed Desire Driver to activate the new Buckle, which gives him just a new mask and a weapon called the Raising Sword, which has a second Command Buckle stuck to it. During the battle, Win tells Michinaga that there is a way to get a Driver…. 
During Ace’s fight, the sword announces that it has charged up, allowing him to detach it from the sword and equip it to the Desire Driver. He becomes Geats Command Form Cannon Mode, using his shoulder cannons, jet boosters and sword to overwhelm the Jyamato Rider. He then finishes it off with the Command Twin Victory Rider Shooting attack. But when Ace gives Keiwa back his Driver along with his collection of Raise Buckles as promised (with Twin Command as a thank you bonus), Michinaga steals Ace’s Desire Driver just as he goes to retrieve it. With that, only two Drivers remain as Win gloats. 
Girori calls the mysterious man, demanding an explanation about the Twin Command Buckle, only to be called out by him for overstepping his authority and directly interfering with the DGP game. Girori tries to dodge the subject and then angrily tells him to stay out of his way. The man is not pleased with this response but then shrugs it off. 
In the forest, the girl in the red hat gives two Pawn Jyamato the stolen Desire Drivers, with them becoming Jyamato Riders. The DGP detects the activation of the Drivers and Tsumuri notes that if things remain as they are when the round ends: Ace and Win will be eliminated from the game. Ace simply smiles, seemingly unconcerned about his current situation. 
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===Guest Cast===
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===Suit Actors===
*Kamen Rider Geats: 
*Kamen Rider Tycoon: 
*Kamen Rider Na-Go: 
*Kamen Rider PunkJack: 
==Forms and Collectibles Used==
===Raise Buckles===
*Buckle Used: 
**Geats
***Magnum, Command Jet, Command Cannon
**Tycoon
***Ninja
**Na-Go
***Beat
**PunkJack
***Monster
*Form Used:
**Geats
***Magnum Form (Upper half), Raising Form, Command Form Cannon Mode
**Tycoon
***Ninja Form (Upper half)
**Na-Go
***Beat Form (Upper half)
**PunkJack
***Monster Form (Upper half)
==Errors==
*In one shot where Ace picks up his ID Core, it's mirrored. 
==Notes==
*As part of Super Hero Time, this episode aired alongside episode 39, .
* Closing Screen DGP Rule: 
*Count at episode end
**Raise Buckles in Tycoon's possession: Ninja, Feverslot (x2), Magnum, Command Jet
**Raise Buckles in Na-Go's possession: Beat, Feverslot
**Raise Buckles in Buffa's possession: Zombie, Feverslot
**Raise Buckles in PunkJack's possession: Monster, Feverslot
*Eliminations: N/A
*Riders Remaining: 5/32 (Geats, Tycoon, Na-Go, Buffa, PunkJack)
*The opening theme blurs out Ittetsu Tanba/Kamen Rider Keilow to signify his retirement in the previous episode, while Keiwa Sakurai/Kamen Rider Tycoon is added.
*This episode also features the debut of the Raising Sword.
*Due to losing his Desire Driver at the beginning of the episode, Michinaga Azuma does not transform in this episode. Even though he reclaims a new Driver from a defeated Jyamato Rider, the opening shows him transformed from a scene in the previous episode.
==External links==
*TV Asahi's official episode guide for 謀略Ⅳ：ドライバーを奪還せよ！
*KR Official's official episode guide for 謀略Ⅳ：ドライバーを奪還せよ！
*JAE's official episode guide for 謀略Ⅳ：ドライバーを奪還せよ！
Category:New Form Episode