From my reading of the selected Golgo 13 stories that Viz put out over the last couple of years, the character of Golgo 13 can be used to tell a variety of types of stories. I’m not sure how many of the more real world politics based stories we will get in this series, or those where Golgo 13 is more a force of nature, who only makes his presence known in the story at the time of the hit. What we are getting are the stories where Golgo 13 does something amazing, and other characters react in awe to his amazingness.
Which is not to say these anime episodes have been completely absent of real world politics, in this episode the Securities and Exchange Commission hire Golgo to kill a Wall Street trader, but like the previous episode the focus is on the mechanics of the hit, rather than the reasons behind it.
Golgo accidentally leaves a clue to his involvement in hit and the bulk of the episode involves a NYC detective trying to break Golgo and prove he was the assassin. It’s simple stuff, with a predictable outcome, but it works well as a single episode story.
The animation is functional, the staging of the hit being the highlight. The strength is in the writing which effectively creates mini TV size thrillers even when the entire script is pretty much exposition as this one is. By which I mean it’s mostly characters discussing how the hit would have been carried out and how impossible it would have been for the hit to have been carried out by the man in the position that the hit appeared to be carried from.