During their time in Universe 10, it’s little unnerving to watch everyone act so coy and play everything so close to their chests through their exchanges with Gowasu and Zamasu. There’s a lot more tact and secrecy than Dragon Ballis used to operating with (and Goku doesn’t exactly understand what’s going on here), but it helps establish the high stakes and tension in this situation right from the episode’s opening minutes.

This is very much the calm right before the storm. Even for those viewers that don’t get excited over these more methodical, slower installments, there are still big events that go down in the final minutes that catapult the story forward in a drastic way.

It doesn’t take Beerus, Whis, and Supreme Kai long to determine that Zamasu does intend to assassinate Gowasu. “The killing intent is strong on his spirit,” Whis adds as he elaborates on their investigation. Goku voices hesitation over how he didn’t sense anything on Zamasu’s spirit, but Whis reiterates that he and Beerus are more attune to sensing these things thanks to their God of Destruction and Celestial status.

Since Supreme Kai also wasn’t able to detect anything, they worry that the same is true of Gowasu and that his life hangs in the balance unless they take action. Now that they all know that Zamasu plans to execute his mentor, it’s finally time to wait for the right moment and method to stop him.

It’s pretty satisfying that throughout this vigilant stakeout, Goku is eager to just launch an attack and not take any chances. This strategy isn’t exactly Goku’s forte and he’s kind of like dead weight while these deities do all the heavy lifting here. Instead of just storming Zamasu with Kamehamehas a-blazing, Whis reinforces the unique moral quandary that they’re in here. Zamasu is about to be Universe 10’s Supreme Kai and they can’t just murder him. That means that a lot of this entry turns into the crew watching over Zamasu and Gowasu with intense detail until they get the proof that they need.