With the help of Takayama's student, Mai Takano, Andō finds out more about Ryūji's past as well as the mysterious ⚾️ young woman, Sadako Yamamura. Searching for the truth about why Ryūji and Yōichi died from the virus while Reiko did ⚾️ not leads him to her boss Yoshino. Yoshino lets Andō in on a secret: he has the wife's diary. She ⚾️ and Ryūji had been researching the cursed videotape. While Reiko had broken the curse, Ryūji died a week after watching ⚾️ the tape. Reiko believed that creating a copy would break the curse, but Yōichi died a week after watching the ⚾️ tape, just as his father had. Yoshino shows Andō both the tape and the diary.

When Andō tells Mai Takano what ⚾️ he has done, she is shocked and cannot understand why, since she felt from the start that it was the ⚾️ video that killed Takayama and his family. As they are talking, Yoshino calls Andō. He admits that he wishes that ⚾️ he had never been involved in Reiko's business. Andō believes that Yoshino had watched the video, but he denies it, ⚾️ saying that he was too scared to. However, Yoshino still dies.

Andō decides to destroy the videotapes and make sure that ⚾️ he will be the video's last victim. He then confides in Mai about his son's death, and they end up ⚾️ sleeping together. Andō asks Mai if she will be there with him when he dies, but Mai tells him that ⚾️ she is too scared. He understands and decides to try to find out more about the virus that killed Takayama ⚾️ and his son. He discovers that the virus that killed Yoshino was different from the one that killed the father ⚾️ and son. Andō asks for tests to be run on him.

Spiral was released theatrically in Japan on January 31, 1998 ⚾️ where it was distributed by Toho. In the Philippines, the film was given a limited release as The Spiral on ⚾️ February 25, 2004.[3]