38 - The Lone Swordsman and the Famous Detective

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SIGN    This
    is
     the
     story
SIGN    of
    one
    man's
     struggles
SIGN    and
    his
    growth
    —
SIGN    and
     of
     parenting
SIGN    Military Cliques
    Keep Dying
    Breaking News:
    Diet Launches
    Investigation
    
SIGN    The Truth Behind
    The Blood-Stained
    Peace Treaty
SIGN    Purges Killings
    Result in
    Political Maneuvering
SIGN    Divine Punishment
    in Modern Times
    Are War Hawks
    in Decline?
SIGN    Gen'ichiro
[00:37] Fukuchi
    It's me.
[00:38] Fukuchi
    Are you prepared to join
    the military police?
[00:41] Fukuchi
    We're the only ones who can
    make use of your powers.
[00:44] Fukuchi
    Get over here.
[00:45] Fukuzawa
    From now on, I work alone.
[02:22] Woman A
    Oh, God...
[02:23] Man B
    Did they jump?
[02:24] Man C
    No, apparently it was a murder.
[02:27] Man C
    Shoved out a window.
[02:40] Secretary
    Come in.
[02:44] Fukuzawa
    My condolences.
[02:46] Fukuzawa
    He was a good man.
[02:48] Secretary
    Thank you for coming, Fukuzawa-san.
[02:52] Fukuzawa
    By the way, what are these documents?
[02:55] Secretary
    I'm organizing.
[02:57] Fukuzawa
    Why?
[02:58] Secretary
    I suspect that the murderer was intent on
    either stealing or destroying these documents.
[03:06] Secretary
    In order to confirm that,
[03:08] Secretary
    I'm arranging all the documents
    according to any potential patterns.
[03:12] Secretary
    This entire room is a catalog for
    determining the attacker's motivations.
[03:20] Fukuzawa
    I'm told that he was pushed
    out of this window.
[03:23] Secretary
    The president took me in as a
    secretary. I'm indebted to him.
[03:28] Secretary
    Solving the nature of the crime would
    be the best farewell gift I can offer.
[03:34] Secretary
    But, fortunately, the assassin
    has already been captured.
[03:39] Secretary
    After murdering the president, he was
    apprehended by guards on the first floor,
[03:43] Secretary
    and is now being held next door.
[03:45] Fukuzawa
    What?
[03:46] Fukuzawa
    The ten fingerprints recovered from the back of
    the president's clothes apparently matched his.
[03:52] Fukuzawa
    He's still next door?
[03:54] Secretary
    He seems to have given up.
[03:56] Secretary
    He's very quiet.
[03:58] Fukuzawa
    I'd like to see the assassin.
[04:01] Secretary
    Be my guest.
[04:02] Secretary
    But please don't touch the documents.
[04:27] Fukuzawa
    He's quite an accomplished assassin.
[04:29] Fukuzawa
    Reddish hair and dual pistols.
[04:32] Fukuzawa
    Which means he must be the child
    assassin so famous in the underground.
[04:37] Fukuzawa
    But, if this boy truly is Oda Sakunosuke,
[04:40] Fukuzawa
    how could he be captured
    by mere security guards?
[04:43] Secretary
    As you can see, that man is
    maintaining his silence.
[04:47] Secretary
    The municipal police should
    be taking him soon.
[04:50] Fukuzawa
    As for you—
[04:51] Rampo
    Hey, there!
SIGN    Episode 38
SIGN    The Lone Swordsman and the Famous Detective
SIGN    m 0 0 l 120 0 120 250 0 230
    
[04:58] Rampo
    It's damn windy today, huh?
[05:02] Rampo
    So, anyway...
[05:04] Rampo
    Is there any chance we can
    relocate this company?
[05:07] Rampo
    The hills are a pain and the
    directions are so complicated.
[05:10] Secretary
    Excuse me?
[05:11] Rampo
    Also, I'm getting hungry.
[05:13] Rampo
    D'you have any food?
[05:14] Secretary
    Excuse me?
[05:16] Rampo
    Here we go again, looking
    down on me like some kid.
[05:19] Rampo
    Fine, never mind the food.
[05:21] Rampo
    Just give me the permit.
[05:23] Rampo
    Wait, have you lost it
    in all these documents?
[05:25] Rampo
    Dammit!
[05:27] Rampo
    You're the secretary! You'd better find it!
[05:29] Rampo
    I don't have the slightest interest
    in the fingerprints in this room.
[05:34] Secretary
    What is your problem?
[05:36] Secretary
    Regardless of the circumstances,
    this is the president's office.
[05:40] Secretary
    Unless you're authorized,
    you may not be here.
[05:42] Rampo
    I'm authorized, though.
[05:44] Rampo
    I'm here for an interview today.
[05:47] Rampo
    The president did say he would be
    interviewing an administration trainee...
[05:52] Rampo
    Anyway, I just came here for the working permit
    that I'm supposed to get at the interview.
[05:56] Rampo
    Once I have that, I can get some
    funding from the government.
[06:00] Rampo
    Mind if I move this useless paper?
[06:02] Secretary
    You may not!
[06:03] Secretary
    The very arrangements of these documents
[06:05] Secretary
    is a catalog for determining
    the attacker's motivations.
[06:09] Rampo
    Come on, that's such a blatant lie.
[06:12] Rampo
    Forget it.
[06:13] Rampo
    I'll find it myself.
[06:15] Rampo
    I'll be done in an instant.
[06:17] Fukuzawa
    Boy.
[06:18] Fukuzawa
    There's a mountain of documents here.
    How do you plan to find yours?
[06:22] Rampo
    The old man can speak!
[06:24] Rampo
    Unlike all your loose papers, mine's got a
    heavy stamp and it's printed on thick paper.
[06:30] Secretary
    Hey!
[06:32] Secretary
    No!
[06:42] Rampo
    Found it.
[06:47] Secretary
    How could you...
[06:49] Secretary
    Now I have to check every sheet
    and arrange it all over.
[06:53] Secretary
    And I still have to report on the
    missing documents within 48 hours.
[06:56] Rampo
    Why bother?
[06:58] Rampo
    They're all here.
[07:02] Rampo
    No documents have been stolen,
[07:05] Rampo
    and the assassin didn't kill the president.
[07:08] Rampo
    Like, you're the murderer anyway,
    aren't you, secretary?
[07:13] Rampo
    You arranging documents to keep people away
    so that you can come up with an alibi.
[07:19] Rampo
    I mean, it's suspicious
    if there were fingerprints
[07:22] Rampo
    on the president's clothes but
    nowhere else in the room.
[07:25] Rampo
    The obviously guilty secretary
[07:28] Rampo
    and the obviously innocent
    assassin are right here...
[07:32] Rampo
    And you're just standing there.
[07:34] Rampo
    Come on, mister, you're slacking on the job.
[07:38] Secretary
    Fukuzawa-san...
[07:40] Secretary
    Please kick that kid out of here.
[07:42] Secretary
    I can't have him making even
    more of a mess in here!
[07:47] Fukuzawa
    The assassin's fingerprints were found
    on the back of the victim's clothes.
[07:52] Fukuzawa
    From when he shoved him.
[07:55] Rampo
    There's no way even the best assassin
[07:57] Rampo
    could get close to the president
    without being noticed.
[08:00] Rampo
    The door is right in view of the desk.
[08:03] Rampo
    And, if the president resisted before
    he was forced out the window,
[08:08] Rampo
    the fingerprints would have indicated
    him being thrown out, not pushed out.
[08:14] Fukuzawa
    He may have happened to
    be looking out the window.
[08:18] Rampo
    On such a windy day?
[08:20] Rampo
    With the window open? By himself?
[08:23] Fukuzawa
    He's right.
[08:25] Fukuzawa
    Which means it must have
    been someone close to him.
[08:28] Rampo
    It was someone close to him,
     yet the assassin's fingerprints turned up.
[08:32] Rampo
    So those prints were faked.
[08:34] Rampo
    I heard it's easy to fake fingerprints.
[08:37] Rampo
    You just need to make molds of the
    fingers using putty or something.
[08:40] Rampo
    Weren't you a police officer or
    something before, mister secretary?
[08:43] Rampo
    You mentioned the 48 hour
    investigation law earlier.
[08:46] Secretary
    This is ridiculous!
[08:47] Secretary
    How would I have taken
    the assassin's prints?!
[08:50] Secretary
    Fukuzawa-san!
[08:51] Secretary
    Just get this brat out of here!
[08:54] Rampo
    You were able to get the assassin's
    prints because you hired him.
[08:57] Secretary
    Shut up!
[08:58] Rampo
    Since you hired him, you could
    easily entrap a top-tier assassin.
[09:01] Rampo
    Even get security guards to catch him.
[09:04] Rampo
    I don't think the assassin over there
    even knew he was being entrapped.
[09:10] Rampo
    I'm sure he'd talk if he
    found out he's been fooled.
[09:13] Rampo
    Why don't you try asking him?
[09:19] Odasaku
    I have no intention of fighting you.
[09:21] Fukuzawa
    Don't add more crimes to your guilt.
[09:23] Fukuzawa
    You can get off with a lesser
    plea if you stop now.
[09:54] Fukuzawa
    What?!
[10:00] Fukuzawa
    No!
[10:07] Odasaku
    There is no forgiveness in this world.
[10:10] Odasaku
    Only revenge.
[10:13] Fukuzawa
    You...
[10:18] Fukuzawa
    Call an ambulance!
[10:19] Fukuzawa
    And contact the municipal police!
[10:21] Rampo
    I don't think we need to call the ambulance.
[10:24] Rampo
    The secretary's dead anyway.
[10:30] ---
    
[10:31] Rampo
    Miss, could I get another red bean soup?
[10:36] Fukuzawa
    Why don't you eat the rice cake?
[10:38] Rampo
    It's not sweet.
[10:41] Fukuzawa
    When did you realize the
    secretary was the murderer?
[10:44] Rampo
    From the beginning.
[10:45] Rampo
    He was wearing a coat, right?
[10:48] Rampo
    Who wears a coat when
    they're sorting documents?
[10:51] Rampo
    Your sleeves would get in the way.
[10:54] Rampo
    He was concealing tools for faking
    the assassin's fingerprints.
[10:59] Fukuzawa
    Boy...
[11:00] Rampo
    My name is Edogawa Rampo.
[11:03] Rampo
    Remember that.
[11:04] Fukuzawa
    What about school?
[11:05] Rampo
    I was at a police academy,
    living in the dorms.
[11:09] Rampo
    I had an argument
     with the dorm supervisor,
[11:10] Rampo
    so I exposed all of their
    past affairs and I got kicked out.
[11:17] Rampo
    Since then, I've been bouncing
    around from place to place.
[11:19] Rampo
    I was a live-in worker at a garrison,
[11:22] Rampo
    until I got thrown out for blabbing
    about the head chief's corruption.
[11:27] Fukuzawa
    Your parents?
[11:29] Rampo
    Dead.
[11:31] Rampo
    In an accident.
[11:33] Rampo
    That's why I came out to Yokohama.
[11:37] Fukuzawa
    Are you full now?
[11:39] Rampo
    Yeah, thanks.
[11:40] Fukuzawa
    Good.
[11:42] Fukuzawa
    Well done today.
[11:45] Rampo
    That's it?
[11:47] Rampo
    You're talking to a fourteen-year-old boy
    who's lost his parents, his job and his future.
[11:53] Rampo
    That's all you've got?
SIGN    Fukuzawa
    Yukichi
[11:59] Rampo
    What's that?
[12:00] Fukuzawa
    My contact information.
[12:02] Fukuzawa
    Security police.
[12:04] Fukuzawa
    I'm basically a bodyguard.
[12:06] Fukuzawa
    Contact me if you're ever in trouble.
[12:09] Fukuzawa
    I'll help you free of charge,
    the first time or so.
[12:24] Fukuzawa
    Boy.
[12:30] Fukuzawa
    Yes?
[12:32] Rampo
    Help me, mister bodyguard.
[12:37] Rampo
    I don't have work or a place to stay.
[12:40] Rampo
    I'm going to die.
[12:44] Fukuzawa
    I'm headed to work.
[12:46] Fukuzawa
    Come with me.
[12:47] Fukuzawa
    A client is looking for manpower.
[12:50] Fukuzawa
    I'll broker a deal for you.
[12:52] Fukuzawa
    Does that work?
[12:54] Rampo
    Really?!
[13:02] Rampo
    A theater?
SIGN    Sekai Gekijou
SIGN    Sekai Gekijou
[13:03] Fukuzawa
    The manager has been
    lamenting a staff shortage.
[13:07] Fukuzawa
    If I can finish my job here,
    I'm sure she'd be open to hiring you.
SIGN    The Day Is a Dream
SIGN    m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
SIGN    The Night Is Real
SIGN    m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
[13:14] Fukuzawa
    What job?
[13:16] Manager
    We have some time until opening.
[13:18] Manager
    Check the scene for me.
[13:21] Fukuzawa
    Do you have some idea who the
    threats might be coming from?
[13:25] Manager
    The police will do the investigating.
[13:27] Manager
    Your job is to arrest the
    attacker when it happens.
[13:32] Fukuzawa
    Could you at least tell
    me what the threat is?
[13:35] Manager
    Here.
[13:37] Manager
    We received this several days ago.
[13:40] Manager
    "The angels shall bring true
    death upon the performers. V."
[13:46] Fukuzawa
    V?
[13:47] Rampo
    The performers, huh?
[13:50] Rampo
    So is it the actors who
    are going to be killed?
[13:53] Rampo
    I can't wait to see what happens.
[13:56] Manager
    Who is this child?
[13:58] Fukuzawa
    He's looking for work.
[14:00] Fukuzawa
    I heard you needed more people.
[14:04] Fukuzawa
    I'm hoping you can interview him
    once this situation is resolved.
[14:09] Manager
    Please send me a resume, then.
[14:11] Manager
    I'll evaluate him along
    with the other candidates.
[14:14] Rampo
    There are other people who signed up?
[14:17] Rampo
    There's no chance I'm getting hired, then.
[14:19] Manager
    I told you I'll evaluate you.
[14:21] Rampo
    Nope.
[14:22] Rampo
    This hag's already decided
    she's not hiring me.
[14:25] Manager
    Hag?!
[14:26] Rampo
    You could have just been honest with me.
[14:28] Rampo
    Why don't grown-ups ever say
    what they're really thinking?
[14:31] Rampo
    Same thing with how you're
    dealing with this guy.
[14:34] Rampo
    The reason you aren't introducing
    him to the municipal police
[14:37] Rampo
    is because you want him to
    keep an eye on the police.
[14:39] Rampo
    And have the police keep an eye on him.
[14:42] Rampo
    In other words, you don't trust anyone—
[14:44] Fukuzawa
    That's enough.
[14:47] Fukuzawa
    I don't care what your intentions are.
[14:50] Fukuzawa
    I'm simply going to do my
    best to prevent the crime.
[14:54] Fukuzawa
    I'd like to speak with the staff.
    Is that all right?
[14:59] Manager
    Do as you wish.
[15:03] Rampo
    Grown-ups are so quick to anger.
[15:09] Fukuzawa
    I'm not surprised you don't
    last long on any job.
SIGN    The Day Is a Dream
    The Night Is Real
SIGN    Murakami
    Tokio-sama
[15:14] Murakami
    Why do you speak to me
     right before the show?
[15:17] Murakami
    Do you know what an actor is
    going through prior to a show?
[15:21] Murakami
    We dive into another world.
[15:23] Murakami
    As though we are different people.
[15:32] Murakami
    I've trained for nearly a year for this.
[15:35] Murakami
    If they mess with me,
    they'll be the dead ones.
[15:38] Fukuzawa
    I'll respect your work.
[15:41] Fukuzawa
    But you are the ones who
    may end up murdered.
[15:44] Fukuzawa
    Do you ever end up on your
    own during the performance?
[15:47] Murakami
    Yeah.
[15:48] Murakami
    We're defenseless when we're up there.
[15:51] Murakami
    I'm on my own for minutes.
[15:54] Fukuzawa
    Where?
[15:55] Murakami
    On the stage.
[15:57] Murakami
    I'm the lead actor, believe it or not.
[16:00] Rampo
    Huh.
[16:00] Rampo
    You're the lead actor?
[16:02] Rampo
    Murakami... Tokio?
[16:04] Rampo
    Never heard of you.
[16:05] Murakami
    Who is that brat?
[16:07] Rampo
    Hey, what's this play about?
[16:10] Murakami
    You've received the script, haven't you?
[16:12] Rampo
    That script's boring.
[16:14] Rampo
    I gave up after the first page.
[16:16] Fukuzawa
    Boy...
[16:18] Murakami
    I see.
[16:21] Murakami
    If you think it's boring, it must be boring.
[16:28] Murakami
    That's for the audience
    to decide, after all.
[16:41] Woman C
    Have you met Murakami?
[16:43] Woman C
    This play's practically a one-man show.
[16:47] Woman C
    He's been meeting a lot with the
    stagewright, Kurahashi-san.
[16:51] Man D
    No one actually thinks there's
    going to be a murder.
[16:55] Man D
    But if someone's going to get hit,
    it'd probably be Murakami-kun.
[16:58] Man D
    He's got a lot of women
    chasing after him, too.
[17:01] Man D
    I only have a minor role.
[17:03] Man D
    I'm not even worth threatening.
[17:06] Man D
    Maybe I'll become a taxi driver or
    something once this performance is over.
[17:13] Women E
    You know what that is?
[17:14] Fukuzawa
    Hm?
[17:15] Women E
    It's an affair.
[17:17] Women E
    It's a tiny association.
[17:18] Women E
    Maybe they slept with a newcomer.
[17:20] Women E
    Or they broke up and quit the group.
[17:24] Women E
    I'm sure there's a person
    or two they want to kill.
[17:33] Rampo
    They have potato chips!
[17:35] Rampo
    And the chocolates I missed out on!
SIGN    Behind
    the
    Serial
     Murders
     of
    Military
    Cliques
SIGN    m 0 0 l 100 0 100 300 0 300
SIGN    Diet launches
     investigation
SIGN    Faceless
     Assassin
    Punishes
    War Hawks
SIGN    m 0 0 l 200 0 200 370 0 370
[17:40] Rampo
    I'm getting hungry, mister.
[17:43] Rampo
    Hey, mister, are you listening?
[17:49] Rampo
    I'm starving.
[17:51] Rampo
    And I'm not getting that job.
[17:53] Rampo
    Whatever.
[17:55] Rampo
    Someone's going to die soon and
     this theater's going to get shut down.
[17:59] Fukuzawa
    I won't let the murder happen.
[18:02] Fukuzawa
    That's why I was called here.
[18:05] Fukuzawa
    Neither the theater nor the municipal
    police are taking the threat seriously.
[18:09] Fukuzawa
    Regardless of the motivation
    behind the threat...
[18:13] Rampo
    It's not a threat.
[18:15] Rampo
    It's not a threat. It's a warning.
[18:18] Rampo
    A threat always offers two options.
[18:21] Rampo
    "Do ABC, or I will do XYZ."
[18:24] Rampo
    That's a threat.
[18:26] Rampo
    But right now, all we have is a warning
    saying "we're going to kill a performer."
[18:29] Rampo
    So, it's not a threat so
    much as a declaration.
[18:34] Rampo
    The attacker hasn't made any
    demands of the theater to begin with.
[18:38] Fukuzawa
    When did you realize that?
[18:40] Rampo
    When I heard what the letter said.
[18:46] (Flashback) Fukuzawa
    When did you realize the
    secretary was the murderer?
[18:49] (Flashback) Rampo
    From the beginning.
[18:52] Fukuzawa
    This boy must see truth.
[18:57] Fukuzawa
    Why didn't you say anything, if you knew?
[19:00] Rampo
    I didn't think you'd misinterpreted
    the warning as a threat.
[19:06] Fukuzawa
    Do you believe everyone else
     notices all the things you notice?
[19:15] (Flashback) Rampo
    No documents have been stolen,
[19:17] (Flashback) Rampo
    and the assassin didn't kill the president.
[19:22] (Flashback) Rampo
    The reason you aren't introducing
    him to the municipal police
[19:25] (Flashback) Rampo
    is because you want him to
    keep an eye on the police.
[19:28] Fukuzawa
    This boy doesn't understand that
    nobody else knows anything.
[19:35] Fukuzawa
    He's convinced that everyone
    else already knows the truth
[19:39] Fukuzawa
    and is simply hiding the
    fact that they know.
[19:44] Fukuzawa
    Boy, what can you gather of me,
     from what you see?
[19:48] Fukuzawa
    You said you have nowhere
     to stay tonight.
[19:50] Rampo
    I don't.
[19:52] Fukuzawa
    You can stay the night at my place.
[19:55] Rampo
    Your place?
[19:56] Fukuzawa
    Yeah.
[19:57] Fukuzawa
    So, tell me.
[19:59] Fukuzawa
    Tell me anything you notice about me.
[20:02] Rampo
    Grown-ups sure do love their quid pro quos.
[20:06] Rampo
    I've only just met you,
    so there isn't much I can tell...
[20:10] Rampo
    You're in your early thirties.
[20:12] Rampo
    You're a bodyguard.
[20:14] Rampo
    A master of martial arts.
[20:16] Rampo
    Single.
[20:17] Rampo
    No coworkers.
[20:18] Rampo
    Right-handed.
[20:19] Rampo
    You chose a seat by the
    wall at the restaurant,
[20:22] Rampo
    so you must be a swordsman, as well.
[20:24] Rampo
    I guess that the reason you don't
     use your katana for work anymore
[20:27] Rampo
    is because you're ashamed of your last job.
[20:30] Rampo
    What's a job that involves swordplay
    and that you'd be ashamed of?
[20:34] Rampo
    Come to think of it, there was some buzz
    about an incident a few years ago...
[20:38] Rampo
    Pro-war bureaucrats and overseas
    military cliques were found dead
[20:43] Rampo
    one after another during the
    peace treaty debates.
[20:47] Rampo
    And you were grimacing a bit as you looked
    at the newspaper headline in the shop earlier.
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[20:53] Rampo
    Are you—
[20:54] Fukuzawa
    Silence!
[21:04] Fukuzawa
    I'm sorry.
[21:05] Fukuzawa
    Are you all right?
[21:11] Rampo
    Yeah.
[21:12] Rampo
    I'm fine.
[21:14] Fukuzawa
    This boy's the real deal.
[21:20] Fukuzawa
    Boy, help me with this job.
[21:23] Fukuzawa
    If we manage to do well,
    I'll introduce you to more work.
[21:28] Fukuzawa
    Well?
[21:29] Rampo
    Okay.
[21:31] Rampo
    I'll help.
[21:35] Announcement
    The doors will now open.
[21:37] Announcement
    Please make your way to the theater.
[21:53] Fukuzawa
    What the hell am I doing?
[21:56] Fukuzawa
    I already decided that I'd work alone.
[22:05] Fukuzawa
    Let's go.
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