Dialing Back

**Dialing Back** is the third episode of *Kamen Rider Nexus*. It is the second part of the Kamen Rider Dial tribute arc. It features the return of Emmanuel Welch portrayed by Noah Carter and the debut of Neo DialArmor.

## Plot

Dial fights the monster and Dial suddenly begins to have feeling of pain. Corrupted Dial is about to defeat Dial but then abruptly reverts back to Claire and Eva steps in and stops Dial. Claire ends up running away. Eva tells the Barren Troopers to go after Claire. Eva tells Cedric, Mike, and Shari to come with her so she can explain. Meanwhile, Claire is cornered in an alley by Barren Troopers but is saved by Jinx and Jade who take out the Troopers. Claire faints. Jinx says that he wonders why Claire wouldn’t obey them or went on her own. Jade says that in order for them to control the corrupted rider, the user must in a peaceful state of mind in order to transform them. Jinx asks how they’re going to get Claire to join them willing and Jade says that she has an idea. Elsewhere, Neo wakes up in a cabin where he is confronted by Emmanuel Welch.  Emmanuel tells Neo that he found him unconscious in the woods. He says that Neo must’ve been attacked by a rogue Barren. Neo says that he did encounter a Barren. Emmanuel says that he may have been ambushed. Neo says that he needed to find Shari & Mike. Emmanuel tells Neo that he should come with him to the city, his brother can probably help him out. Meanwhile, Eva explains to Shari & Mike that Claire was a Barren who was a part of their program to help Barrens adapt back into humanity. Unfortunately, Claire ended up killing an innocent civilian after she lost control. They tried to track her down to help her, but they lost her. She then shows footage from one of the Barren’s body cams and it shows Neo fighting off the Barren Troopers and protecting Claire. Eva says that she figures that Shari & Mike know Neo since his rider suit resembles Nexus. Shari says that they need to find Neo and they can maybe find one of the portals to go through to figure out what’s going on. Elsewhere, Claire awakens, and Jinx & Jade confront her and pretend that they saved her. Jade tells Claire that she has a way to revert her back to a human. Jade shows off the Corrupted Dial watch and says that it’s the cure. Claire is hesitant but desperate and allows Jade to put the watch inside her. Claire transforms into Corrupted Dial and Jade tells her to go cause some chaos in the city and kill any rider she sees. Emmanuel and Neo are riding in Emmanuel’s car and Neo notices a picture of a young woman on Emmanuel’s windshield. Emmanuel tells Neo that the girl is Crystal, his old girlfriend. He says that she was a Barren and how he had to kill her because she was brainwashed. Neo says that he thought Barrens were evil and Emmanuel tells him that she was a sweet girl, caught in a terrible life. He says not all Barrens are bad. At least, those who didn’t choose to be a Barren. Going into the city, they notice Corrupted Dial terrorizing people. Neo gets out the car to fight it. Emmanuel gets his phone and calls Eva. Meanwhile, Eva receives the call and tells Mike and Cedric to go. Cedric gets another headache but tells Eva that he’ll be okay. Eva then gives Cedric a briefcase and tells him to give it to his brother. Meanwhile, Neo continues to battle the Corrupted Dial. Cedric & Mike arrive and transform into Dial & Nexus respectively. Dial tosses his brother the briefcase and the Signal Driver is inside. Emmanuel transforms to help. As they all fight, Dial begins to weaken as the Corrupted Dial gets stronger. Dial dimorphs and Corrupted Dial prepares to finish him off, but Signal protects him. Nexus suddenly notices that one of the blank Rider-watches begin to glow and it turns into a Dial Rider-watch. Nexus figures that it goes in the other slot on his belt, however, Neo gets it away from Nexus and uses for himself and transforms into Neo Dial Form. He defeats Corrupted Dial. Claire reverts to normal however, she has no memory of how she got the Dial powers. Later, Neo tells Shari that he still doesn’t trust Mike and Shari asks him to trust him until they figure out what’s going on. Neo begrudgingly agrees with her but says that if they gain a Rider-watch, Nexus can’t use it. Before they enter one of the portals, Eva provides Mike & Neo with motorcycles to use on their journey. Mike accidentally puts his rider-watch on the cycle, which causes it to transform into a personalized version of it. Neo does the same. Mike then has flashes of a pink and black Kamen Rider and the Rider saying, “Find them all and rule them all”. Meanwhile, Jinx finds the cracked corrupted Rider-watch in the bushes and then says that Jade will be pleased.

## Cast

* Mike Warner: Dallas Porter Jr.
* Neo: Matt Ingram
* Shari Ingram: Nydia Hassan
* Jade: Kim Chang
* Jinx: Elijah Carlson

## See Also

* 555・913・2003 - Counterpart in *Kamen Rider Zi-O*