

I asked this question on [Movies & TV SE](https://movies.stackexchange.com/),
but was requested to ask here.

In the 29th episode of [**Death Note**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0877057/)
([ **Father**](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Father)), a third Shinigami ([
**Sidoh**](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Sidoh)) arrived at Los Angeles to
get his notebook back.

He needed the current owner ( _which was one of the Mello's subordinates,
**Jack Neylon_** ) to touch the Death Note in order to see him.

How did [Jack Neylon](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Neylon) become the
owner of the note if he didn't touch it?

And when Sidoh arrived, the Death Note was in the hands of Mello, but he
didn't see Sidoh. Why is that?


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Why didn't Mello see Shinigami after touching the Death Note in Episode 29?


The Death Note owned by Jack Neylon (his real name being Kal Snyder) was the
one Light Yagami picked up in the first episode of the Death Note Anime
Series, the one with some rules written on the inner side(s) of its cover.
This is the very Death Note Light had in his hand when Kyosuke Higuchi (the
person from Yotsuba) died of a heart attack. Since Higuchi was its previous
owner, the ownership passed back to Light. Also, the Shinigami in possession
of the Death Note before Higuchi was Rem.

So when, Light knew that Soichiro Yagami (his father) gave the Death Note to
someone from Mello's gang (who they called Y462), he gave up the ownership of
that Death Note. So the ownership now passed to Y462. Since this Y462 guy was
eventually killed by the leader of the gang, the ownership must have passed to
the next person who touched the Death Note, that logically being Kal Snyder.
It is never mentioned that Kal Snyder never touched the Death Note. He must
have. That is why he became its owner.

There are two logical ways in which the ownership of a Death Note can be
affected after the 'death' of the Shinigami who owned it.

Case I: Let's suppose that if the Shinigami who owned a Death Note 'dies', the
Shinigami who owned the Death Note previously, again becomes it's owner. In
this case Ryuk becomes the owner of the Death Note, not Sidoh, as it was Ryuk
who owned the Death Note before Rem. So in this case, Kal Snyder can see Ryuk,
not Sidoh.

Case II: Let's suppose that if the Shinigami who owned a Death Note 'dies',
the Death Note is no longer owned by a Shinigami. So, there is no Shinigami
associated with the Death Note from the point when Rem 'died' to the point
when Sidoh snatched the Death Note away from Mello. So in this case, Kal
Snyder could only see Sidoh when he snatched away the Death Note from Mello
and threw it at him. Not at any point before that.

By considering either of the above two cases to be true, we conclude that
though the Death Note originally belonged to Sidoh, he was not currently it's
owner. That is why Kal Snyder, or for that matter, anyone in contact with the
Death Note (such as Mello) couldn't see Sidoh before the Death Note was thrown
at Kal Snyder and touched by the respective person.


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