Just for the sake of quickly pointing it out:
The room where Misato is doing her hax0ring...
...bears some kind of resemblance to the one from #21...
...where Naoko is doing some digging of her own. The latter is considerably less high-tech and flashy, and considerably more roomy –- but the two would seem to be related in some way. I dunno.
Naoko only finds more mysteries:
AKAGI (MONO):
All files concerning Rei Ayanami have been erased already?
It's blank.
What does this mean?
On the other hand, Misato finds answers.
It's not quite clear what she learns. At the very least, the "true intention behind Second Impact" (vague as that is), and she tells Shinji about the nature of humans and Angels. Strangely, there isn't so much as a nod towards Misato's "personal" interest in 2I -- insofar as Dad's participation, her witness and survival of the cataclysm, and so on –- and, judging from superficial appearances alone, it's as if the matter of "that boy", one that she doggedly pursued for an entire episode, has abruptly evaporated from her mind completely. (At least the
bridge bunnies bother to mention Kaworu in #25'!)
And thus, Exhibit A is actually over. I've attempted to point out some of the subtle visual cues that may be sounding an alert to a connection between Misato and Kaworu -– one comparable to that which Kaworu shares with Rei –- and how there may be things happening with Misato's character in #24 and #25' that are not being spoken aloud.
As promised, feel free to post now, but try to stay out of "Attack Dog Mode"
(THAT MEANS YOU, RAWHIDE) -- I mean, you can't really criticize an idea very accurately when you've only seen approximately a sixth of it.
Next up, I'll take a step back from Kaworu and spend a little time looking at the formulation of the character family formed by Misato, Dr. K, and Kaji.