Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Ep 6

Summary:

Ever since Mari heard about the fires in Sangenjaya, she can't help but worry about her mother and her beloved daughter, Hina.
Desperate to see if if they are alright, she tries calling them, but fails - and it didn't help that the news wasn't reporting anything about it. They then try at Mari's office where she tries the phone over there, where it failed to connect as well. Then when things couldn't get worse, she collapse leaving Mirai and Yuuki panicking, unsure what to do - especially when they hear someone coming with something heavy that could be used as a weapon. Not wanting to take a risk to see who it could possibly be, the two of them cover Mari under a blanket and hide behind one of the fallen cabinets, with Mirai holding a golf club ready to use if needed to.
A girl (or it is a lady ^_^*) enters the room with a bag and a metal baseball bat, and notices the blanket that Mari was hidden under. Unsure whether she should lift the blanket or whack it with her bat, she raises the bat cautiously, only to be startled by Mirai who thought she was going to hit her and ends up swinging the bat wildly and stumbling into the wall after tripping onto a box.
Mirai and Yuuki take this chance to try and wake up Mari again - only to their surprise, the girl with the bat knew Mari.
In the mean time, while Mari was unconscious: she dreamed about returning home, happy to see Hina and her mother safe...only then when suddenly a burst of flames engulfed the house, surrounding both her daughter and mother, Hina screaming for her in terror - only to then to be engulfed by the flames.
Mari wakes up from a voice - and sees that it was actually her co-worker, Aya taking care of her - with the children no where in sight, Aya tells her that they went off but didn't say where they were going.
Worried that Yuuki and Mirai decided to go alone since they both want her to get back home faster so that she can see her daughter, she heads out to find them though she isn't fully recovered yet just after an usually strong aftershock occurred.
She finally finds the two of them with a motorbike, talking about how it would be able to get Mari home faster...only to fall (since it's quite heavy) down to Mirai's side. Once more the children grab the handles and try to pull it up, only to be helped by Mari who tells them that they should return the back since they wouldn't be able to travel all together if she rides it.


Impression:

The episode was very slow paced, but we got Mari's past out of it - which explained why she didn't want to leave the kids behind (or at least that what it looked like to me).
Another thing I liked in particular - Mirai's character has gotten better, the less pouting and negative energy - the better!
I can't help but worry slightly about how Mirai got whacked in the shoulder several times AND got hit on the head making her bleed - I'm not sure how this will affect them in the next few episodes.

I'm unsure what's going to happen next, but other than the fact I found the episode quite boring, I can't really complain since it gave us more background to Mari's character.