41 - A Perfect Murder and Murderer (Part 1)

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SIGN    Death
[00:01] Mushitaro
    Death: a convulsion.
[00:04] Mushitaro
    Murder: an idol of the powerless.
[00:10] Mushitaro
    I am the angel of murder.
[00:12] Mushitaro
    The king of crime.
[00:14] Mushitaro
    Rest in peace!
[02:01] Rampo
    Listen.
[02:02] Rampo
    I'll get you out of here.
[02:10] Rampo
    Are you listening to me, Kunikida?
[02:13] Kunikida
    Don't mind me, Rampo-san.
[02:16] Kunikida
    It's only right for a
    suspect to be detained.
[02:19] Rampo
    You're suspected of murder.
[02:22] Rampo
    The girl set off the
    grenades with her own hands.
[02:25] Rampo
    That's your claim.
[02:28] Rampo
    But there are no witnesses, and all
    evidence was destroyed by the enemy.
[02:33] Rampo
    They even went to the trouble
[02:34] Rampo
    of making sure the grenades matched
    the model used by the Agency.
[02:38] Rampo
    You've been framed.
[02:40] Rampo
    Part of an operation by the Rats.
[02:42] Rampo
    Or rather, a way to harass us
    that happened to be convenient.
[02:46] Kunikida
    I...
[02:48] Rampo
    Will you accept the charge out of guilt?
[02:52] Rampo
    I don't care about your inner conflict.
[02:55] Rampo
    I'm making sure you're found innocent.
[02:57] Rampo
    The Rats must have someone who
    specializes in destroying evidence.
[03:01] Rampo
    We'll capture him.
[03:04] Rampo
    I won't let anyone object.
[03:06] Rampo
    Not the Agency or the boss.
[03:09] Kunikida
    Rampo-san...
[03:10] Kunikida
    Why go to such lengths?
[03:13] Rampo
    If I'd seen through demon Fyodor's trap,
SIGN    A Perfect Murder
    and Murderer (Part 1)
SIGN    Episode 41
[03:19] Rampo
    the girl wouldn't have died.
[03:26] [SONG] Text
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[03:27] Poe
    Challenging.
[03:30] Poe
    Anything that torments the grand intellect
    of one such as myself, Poe, is to be feared.
[03:36] Poe
    Still, I shall be the first to solve
    this mystery of the far east!
[03:53] Rampo
    Poe-kun!
[03:54] Rampo
    What a coincidence.
[03:55] Poe
    R-Rampo-kun?
[03:57] Rampo
    Whatcha doing here?
[03:59] Rampo
    Oh.
[04:00] Rampo
    Waiting for someone?
[04:02] Poe
    He figured me out!
[04:04] Poe
    I won something in an auction.
[04:07] Poe
    I'm here to retrieve it.
[04:08] Poe
    And what brings you here, Rampo-kun?
[04:11] Poe
    Also...
[04:13] Poe
    Why are you dressed like that?
[04:15] Rampo
    Finally, someone notices it.
[04:18] Rampo
    I went against the boss's orders
    in the cannibalism incident.
[04:23] Rampo
    He had me work as the mascot
    of the company, so I ran away.
[04:27] Rampo
    Anyway, good seeing you here!
[04:30] Rampo
    Give me a hand!
[04:32] Poe
    R-Rampo-kun!
[04:33] Poe
    I'm supposed to be meeting someone!
[04:36] Poe
    Karl bit me!
[04:39] Poe
    I see.
[04:41] Poe
    So this enemy "evidence destroyer" will
    be showing up at this observation deck.
[04:47] Rampo
    Yup.
[04:48] Poe
    Then wouldn't it be better
    if you helped me spot them?
[04:51] Rampo
    He knows who I am.
[04:53] Rampo
    The evidence destroyer is Fyodor's
    ally and right-hand man.
[04:57] Rampo
    An expert in information manipulation.
[05:00] Poe
    I have prior arrangements...
[05:03] Poe
    But I have a hard time
    saying no to Rampo-kun.
[05:06] Rampo
    The only info we have on the evidence
    destroyer is the photo I gave you.
[05:12] Poe
    He looks like he wouldn't have many friends.
[05:15] Rampo
    You're not one to talk.
[05:18] Poe
    Though...
[05:19] Poe
    What made you suspect he will show up here?
[05:23] Rampo
    A Gifted that we captured fessed up.
[05:26] Rampo
    Then again...
[05:28] Rampo
    He seemed like a skeevy little grunt.
[05:31] Rampo
    It might have been bogus.
[05:34] Poe
    The time's passed.
[05:36] Poe
    He hasn't shown up.
[05:39] Rampo
    I'm bored.
[05:40] Rampo
    Poe-kun, say something funny.
[05:42] Poe
    That's a tall order!
[05:44] Poe
    Oh, how about I tell you about the
    mystery I've been working on?
[05:50] Poe
    The talk of the town is...
[05:52] Rampo
    No!
[05:52] Rampo
    Mystery?!
[05:54] Rampo
    I'd rather play with the
    kids in the neighborhood.
[05:57] Poe
    Oh, no.
[05:58] Poe
    This author has in fact been murdered.
[06:01] Poe
    In the exact same way he
    described in his novel, in fact.
[06:07] Poe
    The first three chapters of the
    novel were published in a magazine.
[06:11] Poe
    He died right after the manuscript
    for the fourth and final chapter,
[06:15] Poe
    the resolution, was finished.
[06:18] Poe
    And, after the crime, the murderer stole
    the fourth chapter from the scene.
[06:23] Poe
    Why?
[06:24] Rampo
    Because the truth and trick behind the
    murder was written in the fourth chapter.
[06:31] Poe
    The victim was a mystery novelist
     using the pen name "Kindaichi."
[06:34] Poe
    He was a well-known, talented author,
    so his death set the public astir.
[06:38] Poe
    The entire industry pored over
     the first three chapters,
[06:41] Poe
    but alas, they all failed
     to solve the mystery.
[06:43] Poe
    I'm working on it myself,
    but it's quite the—
[06:47] Poe
    Rampo-kun?!
[06:49] Rampo
    You don't have anything better to do, huh?
[06:50] Poe
    Weren't you supposed to
    wait on another floor?
[06:53] Rampo
    I'm pissed that he hasn't shown up,
    so I came up with a way to blow off steam.
[06:56] Rampo
    I'm going to guess who murdered
    the author right here.
[07:00] Poe
    S-Stop it!
[07:02] Rampo
    We'll know who did it by
    tomorrow, either way.
[07:04] Poe
    Tomorrow?
[07:05] Poe
    How?
[07:06] Rampo
    The murderer had two motives:
    revenge and money.
[07:10] Rampo
    The murderer was told what
    happens in the fourth chapter,
[07:13] Rampo
    which means they were pretty
    close to the victim.
[07:17] Rampo
    That's what triggered his murderous intent.
[07:19] Rampo
    So why did he kill him right after
    he finished writing the manuscript?
[07:23] Rampo
    Because he'd been waiting for him to.
[07:25] Rampo
    The more public interest
    there is in the murder,
SIGN    The Killing of Kindaichi
[07:28] ---
    Chapter Four
[07:28] Rampo
    the more valuable the manuscript becomes.
[07:30] Rampo
    And he was planning on selling it.
[07:32] Poe
    He wasn't necessarily
    going to sell it, was he?
[07:34] Rampo
    Of course he would.
[07:35] Rampo
    In fact, he already has.
[07:37] Poe
    To whom?
[07:37] Rampo
    You.
[07:40] Rampo
    Your excellent assistant told me.
[07:43] Rampo
    It's dangerous and a hassle to bring a small
    animal to a crowded area on a weekend.
[07:46] Rampo
    You had to bring him here
    anyway for your rendezvous.
[07:50] Rampo
    In other words, you don't know each other.
[07:52] Rampo
    Also, you mentioned an auction.
[07:54] Rampo
    The best place to sell the controversial
    fourth chapter would be an underground auction.
[07:58] Rampo
    Want me to continue?
[08:04] Poe
    I wanted to solve the crime myself!
[08:07] Poe
    But if the police bought the manuscript,
     the truth would come out in the news.
[08:11] Rampo
    It's a proper piece of evidence.
[08:13] Rampo
    Give it to the police, and they'll
    give you a letter of appreciation.
[08:16] Poe
    That's what I'll do!
[08:17] Poe
    I only spent 20 million on it, after all.
[08:22] Poe
    Why that face?
[08:24] Poe
    Master Architect is the
    third-highest rank in the Guild.
[08:27] Poe
    I'll have forgotten I paid
    such an amount by tomorrow.
[08:30] Rampo
    Are you mental?!
[08:32] Poe
    I got to see your rare exasperated face,
     so it was well worth the money!
[08:36] Poe
    Now, I shall have to finish the transaction.
[08:39] Poe
    I was told it would be given to me by
    someone with a bright red envelope.
[08:43] Rampo
    There's a bright red envelope over there.
[08:47] Poe
    When did that get there?
[09:06] Poe
    That man's face just now...
[09:10] Poe
    It's the evidence destroyer!
[09:12] Rampo
    Well, damn.
[09:14] Rampo
    Turns out this is a good mystery.
[09:21] Poe
    Dead on impact.
[09:23] Poe
    Could this be a suicide?
[09:25] Poe
    Or was he silenced by the Rats?
[09:32] Minoura
    Municipal Police!
[09:33] Minoura
    Don't touch the body!
[09:35] Minoura
    Huh? It's you two.
[09:38] Officer
    Rampo-kun?
[09:39] Rampo
    Minoura-san!
[09:42] Minoura
    Let go!
[09:44] Minoura
    Get off me!
[09:45] Rampo
    You're the best!
[09:47] Rampo
    Now I win!
[09:49] Officer
    P-Please help Minoura-san!
[09:53] Poe
    Why did Rampo-kun suddenly
    become so excited?
[09:56] Officer
    Um...
[09:56] Poe
    Because the police arrived so quickly.
[09:59] Poe
    The police arrived just as
    we rushed to the ground.
[10:03] Poe
    Why?
[10:04] Rampo
    Because the perpetrator called them.
[10:07] Rampo
    Ahead of time.
[10:08] Rampo
    To have the municipal police close the area,
    so I wouldn't touch the body.
[10:13] Poe
    So it wasn't a suicide, but something
    the Rats did to silence him?
[10:18] Rampo
    Neither.
[10:19] Rampo
    Look at this.
[10:21] Poe
    The victim's shoe.
[10:23] Rampo
    It came off as he was falling.
[10:25] Rampo
    He had it on when we
    saw him through the window.
[10:29] Poe
    You made that observation
    in that split second?
[10:32] Rampo
    Judging by how worn the sole is,
     he must have been wearing it for quite a while.
[10:36] Rampo
    It wouldn't have come off so easily.
[10:38] Rampo
    So why did it come off mid-air?
[10:41] Poe
    I see!
[10:42] Minoura
    Hey, explain.
[10:44] Poe
    This shoe wasn't one that the victim
    had been wearing for a long time.
[10:48] Poe
    He was forced to put it on
    just prior to being pushed.
[10:51] Poe
    Because Rampo-kun already knows
    what the footprint looks like.
[10:56] Rampo
    I went to their hideout
    in the abandoned mines
[10:58] Rampo
    to look for leads on the evidence destroyer.
[11:00] Rampo
    Needless to say, I took note of all
    of the footprints on the ground.
[11:04] Poe
    What about this shoe?
[11:06] Rampo
    I saw it, too, of course.
[11:07] Poe
    So that face was a forgery
    connected to a fishing line?
[11:10] Rampo
    Yup.
[11:13] Rampo
    They smashed the victim's face in
    and put on a mask used in films,
[11:18] Rampo
    then they attached the
    fishing line to the mask
[11:22] Rampo
    and adjusted its length so it
    would get caught on his way down.
[11:32] Rampo
    Once he hit the ground,
[11:34] Rampo
    you wouldn't know his face had
    been smashed in ahead of time.
[11:37] Poe
    So...
[11:38] Rampo
    The evidence destroyer himself shoved
    the victim down to cover his tracks.
[11:42] Rampo
    So...
[11:43] Rampo
    I just need to use this to determine
    his whereabouts, and it's over.
[11:48] Mushitaro
    What is he, a freak?
[11:50] Mushitaro
    I went to the auction to fund my escape
    and throw the Detective Agency off.
[11:56] Mushitaro
    He blew my elegant scheme with
    the wear on a single shoe!
[11:58] Mushitaro
    Just forging that face was a ton of work.
[12:02] Mushitaro
    This situation...
[12:06] Mushitaro
    is exactly as I planned!
[12:15] Mushitaro
    Behold!
[12:18] Mushitaro
    Even the demon of the north
    feared my special ability.
[12:21] Mushitaro
    Know defeat, detective!
[12:23] Mushitaro
    Your insights are inadequate!
[12:25] Mushitaro
    Special Ability: The Perfect Crime!
SIGN    The Perfect Crime
[12:47] Poe
    And it's finally time!
[12:49] Poe
    Time for the Super Deduction ability
    to instantly reveal the truth of the matter!
[12:53] Mushitaro
    Are you that detective's fan or something?
[12:55] Poe
    I am his rival!
[13:10] Rampo
    I don't know...
[13:13] Poe
    What did you just say?
[13:19] Rampo
    I can't figure it out at all.
[13:24] Mushitaro
    Silly detectives!
[13:26] Mushitaro
    Wretched hyenas! You'll never catch me.
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[13:31] Mushitaro
    For my special ability is the ability
    to erase the evidence of any crime.
SIGN    Special 
    Ability: 
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[13:36] Mushitaro
    The gates of Heaven are closed,
    never to be opened again.
[13:41] Mushitaro
    I am the ultimate detective killer!
[13:44] Mushitaro
    His coworker's innocence
    will never be proven.
[13:48] Mushitaro
    And...
[13:50] Mushitaro
    He'll never be able to speak of why
    Fyodor let me capture him.
SIGN    Two months ago
[14:23] (Flashback) Fyodor
    Greetings, Mushitaro-san.
[14:26] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    And who are you?
[14:28] (Flashback) Fyodor
    I'm the man who is going to free you.
[14:31] (Flashback) Fyodor
    A crime organization locked you up
[14:34] (Flashback) Fyodor
    to make money off your fantastic ability
    to erase all evidence of a crime.
[14:41] (Flashback) Fyodor
    Until today.
[14:43] (Flashback) Fyodor
    The cost for your freedom is rather modest.
[14:46] (Flashback) Fyodor
    We'd like you to cooperate
    with our operation, just once.
[14:50] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    Between a tyrant and a demon,
    I'd rather make a pact with the demon.
[14:53] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    That's just how I am.
[14:56] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    I'll accept your offer,
[14:59] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    but I have a few conditions.
[15:02] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    First, I will never appear in public.
[15:06] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    I'm only going to use my special ability.
[15:09] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    Second, prepare a desk for my work.
[15:12] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    Even better if you can supply books
    on mysticism and ancient alchemy.
[15:16] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    Third, my meals will be served
    on silver or porcelain dishware.
[15:20] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    Also, my clothes are always to be starched.
[15:23] (Flashback) Fyodor
    That's fine.
[15:24] (Flashback) Fyodor
    Anything else?
[15:26] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    Yes.
[15:27] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    This is the most important condition.
[15:29] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    After the operation, I'll need to flee
    overseas to evade the organization,
[15:35] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    but that must happen a
    week after the operation.
[15:38] (Flashback) Fyodor
    A week after?
[15:40] (Flashback) Fyodor
    I could have that arranged the day after.
[15:42] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    There's something I have left unfinished.
[15:45] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    A promise of death and crime...
[15:47] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    There's a man who, a week after,
[15:53] (Flashback) Mushitaro
    I'd like to kill.
[16:08] Poe
    Rampo-kun hasn't said a single thing
    since he started staring at the body.
[16:13] Minoura
    Yeah.
[16:14] Minoura
    He'd normally be laughing out loud
     and pointing out the murderer.
[16:18] Poe
    His ability as a detective is
    the very backbone of his soul.
[16:23] Poe
    To have that broken...
    He may never walk again.
[16:30] Poe
    Rampo-kun, don't be so hard on yourself—
[16:34] Rampo
    Time to give up!
[16:36] Rampo
    Okay, I'm going back to the office.
[16:38] Rampo
    You can deal with this mess.
[16:40] Poe
    Rampo-kun...
[16:44] Mushitaro
    My victory is set in stone.
[16:47] Mushitaro
    The photo of me that the Agency has is from
    before I changed my face in the organization,
[16:51] Mushitaro
    which means that they'll never recognize me.
[16:55] Mushitaro
    Killing is as easy for
    me as bending a finger.
[16:59] Mushitaro
    Even when I killed him the other day...
[17:04] (Flashback) Yokomizo
    Mushi-kun, you know...
[17:06] (Flashback) Yokomizo
    I want to write the ultimate mystery.
[17:22] Mushitaro
    Kneel before me, detectives!
[17:24] Mushitaro
    I am the king of crime!
[17:26] Mushitaro
    None can force me to repent
    or admit to my crimes!
[17:31] Rampo
    Hey, there. Got a minute?
[17:34] Mushitaro
    The detective!
[17:35] Mushitaro
    Why is he here?
[17:37] Mushitaro
    Is he on to me?
[17:38] Mushitaro
    Impossible.
[17:39] Rampo
    Do you know where the taxi stop is?
[17:42] Mushitaro
    Taxi?
[17:44] Rampo
    I was going to take the
    taxi back to the office,
[17:48] Rampo
    but the main street's been blocked off
    by the police because of the incident.
[17:50] Rampo
    I thought I'd find a
    taxi on this back street,
[17:54] Rampo
    but you're the only person
    around that I can ask.
[17:57] Mushitaro
    Hasn't he realized who I am?
[18:01] Mushitaro
    It's true, the main road's closed.
[18:03] Mushitaro
    This is the only place to find a taxi.
[18:06] Mushitaro
    What a comical situation.
[18:08] Mushitaro
    The detective, on his way home
    after giving up on a case,
[18:10] Mushitaro
    strikes up a conversation with the perpetrator!
[18:14] Mushitaro
    Sorry, but I can't think of any nearby taxi stops.
[18:18] Rampo
    Fine. I'll just wait here, then.
[18:19] Mushitaro
    You're waiting here?!
[18:21] Mushitaro
    I'm meeting my ride here!
[18:24] Mushitaro
    He's going to end up seeing my vehicle!
[18:27] Mushitaro
    A perfect crime must not leave
    a single loose thread.
[18:32] Mushitaro
    There's a station five minutes from here.
[18:34] Mushitaro
    I'll draw you a map.
[18:35] Rampo
    No!
[18:36] Rampo
    I don't wanna walk!
[18:38] Mushitaro
    Okay, let's do this. There's a bus station
    nearby that'll take you to the station.
[18:43] Mushitaro
    Take that, and—
[18:44] Rampo
    No buses! No trains! Too much work!
[18:47] Rampo
    Also, I don't know how to take trains.
[18:49] Mushitaro
    What are you, a grade school kid?!
[18:51] Rampo
    I know!
[18:53] Rampo
    I don't want to have to walk,
    so can you give me a piggyback ride?
[18:56] Mushitaro
    That's no request to make
    of another human being!
[18:58] Rampo
    I've made the newbie at the
    office do it a few times.
[19:01] Mushitaro
    Have I gotten involved with
    someone I shouldn't have?
[19:16] Driver
    I've arrived, Mushitaro-sama.
[19:18] Mushitaro
    He's already here.
[19:21] Mushitaro
    Sorry, but I have business with this man.
[19:24] Mushitaro
    Pardon me, um...
[19:27] Mushitaro
    Rampo.
[19:28] Mushitaro
    Well, Rampo-kun, I wish you luck.
[19:38] Mushitaro
    He's seen my car.
[19:41] Mushitaro
    Well, whatever.
[19:43] Mushitaro
    It shouldn't be a problem—
[19:44] Rampo
    Driver! To the Detective Agency!
[19:46] Mushitaro
    Wh-Wh-Wh...
[19:47] Rampo
    You good?
[19:48] Mushitaro
    What are you doing?!
[19:49] Mushitaro
    This vehicle is here for me!
[19:51] Rampo
    It's hot, huh?
[19:52] Rampo
    Turn on the AC, please.
[19:54] Mushitaro
    Are you listening?
[19:55] Rampo
    I have a good idea.
[19:56] Rampo
    I'll pay you back if you let me
     take the car with you.
[20:00] Rampo
    I could hook you up with work
     if you ever need it, for example.
[20:03] Mushitaro
    No!
[20:05] Mushitaro
    Great. Thanks.
[20:08] Mushitaro
    What do you want me to do?!
[20:10] Mushitaro
    It's not like I want him here, either!
[20:11] Mushitaro
    Alas...
[20:12] Mushitaro
    I can't let this lucky detective
    get any closer to the truth
[20:15] Mushitaro
    than he already has
    just by stumbling across me!
[20:18] Mushitaro
    Please take him to the station.
[20:20] Mushitaro
    Let's have him take a taxi from there.
[20:22] Rampo
    Yay!
[20:27] Mushitaro
    Say, what do you do there?
[20:30] Rampo
    I'm a detective.
[20:34] Mushitaro
    I see.
[20:35] Mushitaro
    That's a gruesome situation.
[20:38] Mushitaro
    Such a foreign world as
    far as I'm concerned.
[20:40] Rampo
    I have just one lead on the murderer.
[20:43] Rampo
    He swapped shoes with the victim, so his
    shoes are too small for him right now.
[20:49] Rampo
    I know why this case is so hard.
[20:52] Rampo
    The murderer is Gifted, with an
    ability of the reality-altering sort.
[20:56] Mushitaro
    He's already figured out that much?!
[20:58] Rampo
    My ability as a detective
    boils down to technique.
[21:01] Rampo
    Because it isn't a power,
[21:02] Rampo
    I don't stand a chance against a
    reality-altering special ability.
[21:05] Mushitaro
    Exactly.
[21:07] Rampo
    Although, I managed to
    figure it out this time.
[21:10] Mushitaro
    No!
[21:11] Mushitaro
    Impossible!
[21:13] Rampo
    Are you interested?
[21:14] Mushitaro
    That would make for some
    great entertainment.
[21:17] Mushitaro
    To think I'd get to hear how a
    detective I just met solved a crime...
[21:22] Rampo
    All right. I'll tell you just this once,
     as thanks for the ride.
[21:25] Rampo
    The bright red envelope is the key.
[21:28] Rampo
    The evidence destroyer wanted
    me to believe he was dead.
[21:31] Rampo
    That's when he took notice
    of my friend, Poe-kun.
[21:35] Rampo
    Poe arranged to buy the manuscript and,
[21:38] Rampo
    the instant we took it, the evidence
    destroyer pushed a double off the building.
[21:44] Rampo
    All for the purpose of
    showcasing that one moment.
[21:49] Rampo
    So, where did the perpetrator get
    the envelope and the manuscript?
[21:56] Rampo
    The answer's simple.
[21:58] Rampo
    He killed and stole it...
[22:01] Rampo
    From the author himself.
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