Ghost Note

In Seattle, Washington, high school senior student Light Turner stumbles upon the Death Note, a mysterious and ancient notebook that can supernaturally kill any person whose name is written in it. He then meets Ryuk—a Japanese death god who conducts the killings—and is convinced by him to begin using it; Light writes down the name of his school bully Kenny Doyle and watches him die in a freak accident. That night, he uses the Death Note again, this time targeting his mother's murderer Anthony Skomal. The next morning, his father James, who is a police detective, informs him of Skomal's gruesome death. At school, Light befriends fellow student Mia Sutton and shows her the notebook's power by meticulously engineering the death of an armed felon during a televised hostage situation. The two start dating and work together to rid the world of criminals and terrorists, with Light adopting the Japanese pseudonym "Kira" to mislead law enforcement away from his continent. Enigmatic international detective L begins investigating Kira's identity in Tokyo and deduces that he is from Seattle, and indirectly concludes that he cannot kill without knowing his victims' names and faces. Working with James and the Seattle Police Department, L has the Federal Bureau of Investigation track Light and other suspects. Light rejects Mia's request to kill the agents, but soon learns of their bizarre mass suicide, which he blames on Ryuk. James threatens Kira on television and returns unharmed, convincing L that Light is Kira. Later, after seeing L's face unmasked, Light uses the Death Note to force L's assistant Watari to go to Montauk, New York, where L's true name is hidden at a secret orphanage; he plans to control Watari for 48 hours, burn his page to avoid killing him, and then kill L. Meanwhile, L brings a police team to search Light's house, but Mia sneaks the notebook out before it can be found. Light and Mia attend their school's dance event, using it to ditch L and the police. Watari contacts Light, but is killed by security guards before he can reveal L's name, owing to Light's failure to find and burn his page. Distraught, Light returns to Mia and discovers that she caused the agents' suicide and, because only one victim can be saved, withheld Watari's page; Mia tells Light that she has written his name in the Death Note and is set to kill him at midnight, citing his supposed lack of conviction in Kira's cause, though she subsequently offers to burn his page if he surrenders the notebook to her. Light yields, telling her to meet him at the Seattle Great Wheel for the transfer. Enraged at Watari's death, L embarks on a personal manhunt against Light, whom James has ordered the police to protect. Following a lengthy chase, L corners Light at gunpoint before being knocked unconscious by a nearby Kira supporter. Rendezvousing with Mia, Light takes her to the top of the Great Wheel and tells her that they should leave the notebook and run away to build a new life together. Unrelenting, she wrests it from him, but quickly realizes that he has written her name in it, with her death being contingent on her taking it from him. Ryuk destroys the structure, killing Mia and plunging Light into the water below. L arrives on scene and sees Light's page land in a burning barrel. Prior to confronting Mia, Light had used the Death Note to arrange for a criminally-charged doctor to rescue him and put him into a medically induced coma, while having another criminal recover the notebook and continue Kira's killings before returning it to him, shortly thereafter killing both individuals via forced suicide. Having been ordered off the case for his apparent misconduct, L defiantly raids Mia's house and finds the page with the agents' names. In a hysterical fit, he considers writing down a name (implied to be Light's) to avenge Watari. At the hospital, James, now aware of the truth, questions Light, who insists that his actions were the "lesser of two evils." Ryuk then peeks around the corner, remarking that "humans are so interesting" while laughing maniacally at Light.