In the final 23 days of L's life, he meets one
final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of
humanity with a virus . The virus has an infection rate that has one hundred
times the infection rate of the Ebola virus. He takes a boy he names Near, the
sole survivor of its use in a village in Thailand, and an elementary school
student named Maki Nikaido under his wing.
Dr. Nikaido later received a sample of the deadly virus
which destroyed that village in Thailand. His assistant, Dr. Kimiko Kujo,
reveals herself to be the leader of the organization that created the virus.
Dr. Nikaido, who has created an antidote to that virus, refuses to give it her.
She later kills him, and she is convinced that his daughter Maki has the
antidote formula.
Under the pursuit of Dr. Kimiko Kujo and her assistants,
Maki runs and escapes. She eventually found L's headquarters. However, the
group manages to track Maki down, forcing L, accompanied by Maki and Near, to
run away with a high-tech crepe truck. They also received the help of FBI agent
Hideaki Suruga during the escape.
They escape to Nikaido's research partner's lab, because
they needed his help to recreate the antidote. Using Near, L manages to acquire
the antidote just as the terrorists are about to take an infected Maki to the
US to spread the virus. L stops the plane and gives all the infected
passengers, including the terrorist, the antidote. Maki then tries to kill Kujo
for revenge, but L stops her. The film concludes with L leaving Near and giving
him Near's "real name".