42 - A Perfect Murder and Murderer (Part 2)
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[00:00] [SONG] Text
The
[00:01] Rampo
The bright red envelope is the key.
[00:01] [SONG] Text
"bright
red
envelope" is
the
key.
[00:03] Rampo
So, where did the perpetrator get
the envelope and the manuscript?
[00:10] Rampo
The answer's simple.
[00:13] Rampo
He killed and stole it...
[00:15] Rampo
From the author himself.
[01:48] Minoura
Hey, rival. What are you doing?
[01:51] Poe
Speed reading the manuscript.
[01:53] Poe
There might be something in
here that could help Rampo-kun.
[01:57] Officer
Minoura-san, what exactly is this
case of the mystery writer murder
[02:01] Officer
that everyone's talking about?
[02:03] Minoura
What, you don't know?
SIGN Zuikaro
[02:05] Minoura
The body was discovered
by the manager of the inn.
[02:15] Owner
What is that?
[02:21] Minoura
The doll was carrying human ears.
[02:26] Minoura
The author was an exceptionally
talented detective novel writer.
[02:28] Minoura
He was found murdered at the inn where
he'd been staying long-term to work.
[02:42] Minoura
The biggest mystery of this case is
that the conditions around the murder
[02:45] Minoura
resembled the murder depicted in the novel.
[02:48] Minoura
That's the gist of the infamous
Killing of Kindaichi.
[02:50] Officer
Gross...
[02:52] Poe
And I thought that I might find out
[02:55] Poe
who'd stolen the manuscript if
I read the last chapter, but...
[03:00] Poe
The murderer was an old acquaintance of the
victim's, motivated by years of pent-up anger.
[03:05] Poe
It's exactly as Rampo-kun had deduced.
SIGN It was at that moment, when my colleague uttered those words,
that I became certain that a perfect murder does indeed exist.
End
[03:09] Poe
The word "End" on the last page is smudged.
[03:13] Poe
Are these water droplets?
[03:16] Poe
No, looking at it more carefully,
it's not handwritten. It's a copy.
[03:22] Poe
Why?
[03:27] Minoura
Well?
SIGN CAW CAW CAW CAW
[03:34] Poe
What the hell?!
SIGN Beep
[03:38] Poe
It's my cell phone.
[03:40] Minoura
Why were you so surprised, then?
[03:42] Poe
I don't receive calls very often.
[03:46] Poe
What's this?!
[03:48] Mushitaro
The evidence destroyer and the
murderer are the same person?
[03:51] Mushitaro
Don't you think that's a stretch?
[03:54] Mushitaro
The manuscript could have been obtained
by someone other than the murderer.
[03:58] Rampo
I have evidence.
[04:02] Rampo
This manuscript.
[04:05] ---
End
[04:05] Mushitaro
Why does he have the manuscript?!
[04:07] Rampo
Looks like you recognize it, huh?
[04:11] Rampo
It was folded up like this and hidden away,
[04:14] Rampo
at the gift shop on the second
floor of the observation deck.
[04:17] Rampo
I checked inside the envelope
as soon as I got it.
[04:21] Rampo
And for some reason, just the
last page was a photocopy.
[04:24] Rampo
Was it so they could keep the original?
[04:26] Rampo
No, in that case, they would
have copied all the pages.
[04:29] Rampo
That's when I realized...
[04:31] Rampo
Maybe they printed it out in a hurry,
right before it was handed off.
[04:36] Rampo
So I checked a stationery shop nearby.
[04:39] Rampo
And just as I expected,
it was the same paper.
[04:42] Rampo
In other words, the attacker was in a hurry
to swap out the original with the copy.
[04:45] Rampo
Why?
[04:47] Rampo
If the content was an issue,
they could have just thrown out that page.
[04:50] Rampo
They didn't do that because there was a
specific reason to hand over all the pages.
[04:56] Rampo
If that's the case, the last page of the
manuscript wouldn't have been thrown out.
[05:00] Rampo
But they couldn't risk being searched,
so they hid it somewhere.
[05:05] Mushitaro
And so you found the hidden manuscript?
[05:08] Rampo
As soon as I found it, I became certain the
the same person was behind both incidents.
[05:13] Rampo
By the way...
[05:15] Rampo
What's your name?
[05:16] Mushitaro
Oguri Mushitaro.
[05:18] Rampo
Thanks.
[05:20] Rampo
Now I have all the information I need.
[05:23] Rampo
You're the one behind both of the incidents,
[05:26] Rampo
Oguri Mushitaro-kun.
SIGN Episode 42
A Perfect Murder
and Murderer (Part 2)
[05:35] Rampo
Well, well...
[05:36] Driver
There are three types of cargo that I hate:
[05:38] Driver
Cargo that talks too much.
[05:40] Driver
Cargo that brings trouble.
[05:42] Driver
And cargo that doesn't pay.
[05:45] Driver
Anything to say for yourself?
[05:46] Rampo
I've got nothing to say.
[05:48] Rampo
He does, though.
[05:50] Mushitaro
Put the gun away, getaway driver.
[05:52] Mushitaro
Don't give the detectives any excuses.
[05:54] Mushitaro
There is no direct evidence that
will lead to our impeachment.
[05:57] Mushitaro
He's never stood a chance to begin with.
[05:59] Mushitaro
Unless you threaten him
in plain sight, that is.
[06:02] Driver
He has no use for excuses when
he's got a gun pointed at his head.
[06:04] Driver
Get out of the car.
[06:06] Driver
I don't want to get my seat dirty.
[06:08] Rampo
Guns are fascinating, aren't they?
[06:10] Rampo
For some reason, the moment you
have one, you turn into an idiot.
[06:13] Rampo
Sorry, but this situation was
what I was going for all along.
[06:18] Cop A
Drop the gun!
[06:20] Poe
Rampo-kun!
[06:22] Poe
I kept a call going with Poe-kun's phone.
SIGN E. Poe
SIGN Disconnect
SIGN Talk
SIGN Mute
[06:30] Minoura
Such an anticlimactic end to
the criminals of the century.
[06:34] Minoura
I'll put you two in the same cell.
[06:35] Minoura
You can hold a review session or something.
[06:36] Driver
Try.
[06:38] Driver
I am an official diplomat, and this
car has foreign service plates.
[06:43] Driver
We have immunity from criminal law here.
[06:46] Driver
You can't arrest us.
[06:49] Poe
Still, an ongoing murder attempt should
strip you of your privileges as a diplomat.
[06:55] Driver
It's not loaded.
[06:57] Driver
I can invoke what you lot call
an impossibility defense.
[06:59] Driver
I was also granted the right
to carry this pistol.
[07:02] Driver
There's no illegality in my using it.
[07:03] Rampo
So the gun was an empty threat.
[07:05] Rampo
Fyodor taught you that trick.
[07:13] Rampo
You're free to go.
[07:14] Minoura
Hey!
[07:15] Mushitaro
So long, Rampo-kun.
[07:17] Mushitaro
Say hi to your coworker in prison for me.
[07:43] Mushitaro
There's foreign text showing on the phone.
[07:46] Mushitaro
This phone is...
[07:48] Rampo
Mushitaro-kun, you win.
[07:51] Rampo
I've known all along:
ordinary people can't defeat Gifted.
[07:56] Rampo
Nevertheless, I'll defeat you...
[07:59] Rampo
because my coworkers think I'm invincible.
[08:06] Mushitaro
Impossible...
[08:07] Mushitaro
A special ability!
[08:12] Mushitaro
I was certain he wasn't a Gifted...
[08:17] Mushitaro
So dark...
[08:18] Mushitaro
What just happened?
[08:20] Mushitaro
I can't see anything.
[08:22] Mushitaro
I can't breathe!
[08:24] Mushitaro
Something's choking me!
[08:27] Mushitaro
No...
[08:28] Mushitaro
It's...
[08:30] Yokomizo
How could you kill me?!
[08:32] Mushitaro
Yokomizo?!
[08:34] Mushitaro
What the hell is going on?
[08:37] Mushitaro
This is the inn...
[08:39] Mushitaro
where Yokomizo was murdered.
[08:42] Mushitaro
But how?
[08:44] Mushitaro
No, first...
[08:46] Yokomizo
I despise you!
[08:47] Yokomizo
I despise you so!
[08:50] Mushitaro
No!
[08:52] Mushitaro
This isn't it, Yokomizo!
[08:55] Rampo
Correct.
[09:01] Rampo
This isn't reality.
[09:03] Rampo
Reality looks like this.
[09:07] Mushitaro
I see.
[09:09] Mushitaro
This is the doing of the Guild's Gifted.
[09:11] Mushitaro
We're inside Poe's novel.
[09:14] Rampo
That's right.
[09:16] Rampo
I sent out a message instructing him
to reproduce the scene of the murder.
[09:21] Mushitaro
I see.
[09:22] Mushitaro
So that's what that text was.
[09:24] Rampo
"This isn't it, Yokomizo," you said.
[09:28] Rampo
You seem to be well-acquainted
with the victim.
[09:32] Mushitaro
Do you really think you've caught
me with such a measly trap?
[09:35] Mushitaro
As I said before, what you need is evidence.
[09:38] Mushitaro
All your suspicions and
deductions mean nothing.
[09:42] Mushitaro
On top of that,
you've made a critical mistake.
[09:47] Rampo
A mistake?
[09:48] Mushitaro
Yup.
[09:48] Mushitaro
I looked up his profile.
[09:50] Mushitaro
The Gifted author's special ability
[09:52] Mushitaro
is one which allows him to drag one
into his own mystery scenario.
[09:56] Mushitaro
You can't get out until
the mystery is solved.
[09:59] Mushitaro
But this mystery is the scene
of the Killing of Kindaichi.
[10:02] Mushitaro
Which means, if I declare the facts,
[10:05] Mushitaro
I can immediately return to
my car in the real world.
[10:08] Mushitaro
In other words, I can't be
captured in this space.
[10:13] Rampo
You're right.
[10:14] Rampo
But you won't leave.
[10:17] Rampo
Once you finish hearing me speak,
[10:21] Rampo
you'll turn yourself in.
[10:26] [SONG] Text
The
"Killing
of
Kindaichi"
[10:26] Rampo
The Killing of Kindaichi doesn't work
[10:27] [SONG] Text
doesn't
work
if
the
author
[10:28] Rampo
if the author reveals the gimmick
to anyone other than the murderer.
[10:29] [SONG] Text
reveals
the
gimmick
to
anyone
[10:30] [SONG] Text
other
than
the
murderer.
[10:33] Rampo
In other words, the murderer
had to have been unique.
[10:37] Rampo
Which is why, at one point, I'd deduced
that the motive was a personal grudge.
[10:42] Rampo
But this is worse.
[10:44] Rampo
To leave your escape as an afterthought to
the murder is practically self-destruction.
[10:49] Rampo
There are only two motivations one could
have for driving a person to self-destruction.
[10:53] Rampo
Insanity and duty.
[10:56] (Flashback) Mushitaro
Take your pick, Yokomizo.
[10:58] (Flashback) Mushitaro
Stabbing, poisoning, strangling or beating.
[11:02] (Flashback) Mushitaro
How do you want it done?
[11:04] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I'd have to say stabbing.
[11:06] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Poisoning would require the reader
to have a knowledge of chemistry.
[11:10] (Flashback) Yokomizo
It wouldn't be fair.
[11:11] (Flashback) Mushitaro
You filthy hack.
[11:14] (Flashback) Mushitaro
No one's talking about your new novel.
[11:17] (Flashback) Mushitaro
I'm talking about how I'm killing you.
[11:19] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Oh. Sheesh.
[11:20] (Flashback) Yokomizo
No, but seriously, give me some murder ideas.
[11:24] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I'm not going to make
my deadline this month.
[11:26] (Flashback) Mushitaro
Here we go again.
[11:28] (Flashback) Mushitaro
Mystery novels are just insider games that
happen to be bound by external rules.
[11:33] (Flashback) Mushitaro
Dying messages, gimmicks, enclosed spaces...
[11:36] (Flashback) Mushitaro
They're completely detached from reality.
[11:38] (Flashback) Mushitaro
If you want puzzles, go solve some
math equations or something.
[11:41] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Your distaste for mystery novels hasn't
changed since we were in school.
[11:46] (Flashback) Mushitaro
It's your fault I hate them.
[11:49] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I get what you're saying, though.
[11:51] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Meta-mysteries, anti-mysteries...
[11:54] (Flashback) Yokomizo
No matter how unique a mystery
you put out into the world,
[11:57] (Flashback) Yokomizo
the next moment, it's just shoved
into one category or another.
[12:01] (Flashback) Yokomizo
The ultimate mystery can't exist.
[12:06] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Nah. Anyway.
[12:08] (Flashback) Yokomizo
It's been a long time since
I've gotten to talk shop with you.
[12:11] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I couldn't help but spill the beans.
[12:13] (Flashback) Mushitaro
You always change the subject
at the end of a debate.
[12:17] (Flashback) Mushitaro
No wonder you've never had
friends, even at school.
[12:24] (Flashback) Yokomizo
You don't have friends, either.
[12:27] Mushitaro
That's right.
[12:29] Mushitaro
I killed him.
[12:31] Mushitaro
I choked him to death with these hands.
[12:34] Mushitaro
With bloodlust and madness.
[12:37] Mushitaro
So, now what?
[12:39] Mushitaro
The suspect has confessed to his crime.
[12:41] Mushitaro
There's nothing you can...
[12:43] Rampo
You never killed him.
[12:46] Rampo
In the final chapter, the motive was
described to be a personal grudge.
[12:50] Rampo
That doesn't make sense, does it?
[12:52] Rampo
If you were the one who'd killed him,
[12:54] Rampo
not only would you have copied the
plot gimmick, but the motive, as well.
[12:58] Rampo
It's too perfect.
[13:00] Rampo
It would practically be a script.
[13:03] Rampo
The "Killing of Kindaichi" was a comedy that
he both wrote and starred in himself.
[13:08] Rampo
In other words, he killed himself.
[13:12] Rampo
What a stupid way it turned out to be.
[13:14] Rampo
But it was highly effective.
[13:16] Rampo
Even people who don't read mystery novels
[13:18] Rampo
became obsessed with the case
and worked to solve it.
[13:21] Rampo
The ultimate, uncategorizable,
one-of-a-kind mystery.
[13:26] Rampo
That's what this is.
[13:27] [SONG] Text
"A mystery that leaks into the real world"
[13:28] Rampo
A mystery that leaks into the real world.
[13:33] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I hate having regrets.
[13:36] (Flashback) Yokomizo
That's why I've always done things my way.
[13:39] (Flashback) Yokomizo
So far, I'm satisfied with my life.
[13:42] (Flashback) Yokomizo
But now I find that I'm on limited time.
[13:47] (Flashback) Mushitaro
Is your stomach really that messed up?
[13:50] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I have a malignant tumor in my gut.
[13:52] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I have a year at best, I was told.
[13:55] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Before that, I'm going to complete
the ultimate mystery novel.
[13:59] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I've already finished my preparations.
[14:01] (Flashback) Yokomizo
All except the key piece.
[14:04] (Flashback) Mushitaro
And what key is that?
[14:07] (Flashback) Yokomizo
The murderer.
[14:10] (Flashback) Yokomizo
It would all be for nothing if it gets out
that I'd done this myself prematurely.
[14:13] (Flashback) Yokomizo
To avoid that, I need a real-life murderer
who has actual motives and intent.
[14:21] (Flashback) Yokomizo
I want you to be that person.
[14:33] Mushitaro
Bingo!
[14:35] Mushitaro
You nailed it, detective!
[14:37] Mushitaro
I am indeed the role of
the unhinged murderer!
[14:41] Mushitaro
Of course I agreed!
[14:42] Mushitaro
I'd get to kill the man I despised!
[14:48] Mushitaro
On top of that, I get the money
for selling the manuscript.
[14:52] Mushitaro
Why would I ever refuse?!
[14:54] Mushitaro
I killed him!
[14:57] Rampo
Then why did you hide this
page of the manuscript?
[15:02] Rampo
Some of the words are smudged,
including the word "End."
[15:05] [SONG] ---
End
[15:06] Rampo
That must have occurred after
the manuscript was completed.
[15:09] Rampo
So, who made the smudges, and when?
[15:13] Rampo
The stain happened during
the crime or right after.
[15:16] Rampo
The smudges marked the page in the
reverse order in which it was completed.
[15:18] Rampo
That is, it was with the
final page placed on top.
[15:23] Rampo
When you think of it that way,
everything makes sense.
[15:25] Mushitaro
Stop.
[15:27] Mushitaro
The source of water at the scene of the crime,
[15:31] Mushitaro
and the reason the attacker frantically tried
to replace the original with a copy...
[15:35] Mushitaro
When you put it all together,
there can only be one explanation.
[15:47] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Thank you... Mushi-kun...
[15:51] (Flashback) Yokomizo
For taking this on...
[15:55] (Flashback) Yokomizo
You truly... are my only...
[16:05] Rampo
Tears.
[16:09] Rampo
The perpetrator was crying
as he strangled the victim.
[16:12] Rampo
So if it wasn't motivated
by a personal grudge,
[16:15] Rampo
all the assumptions about the
gimmick get turned over.
[16:18] Rampo
If the victim was an accomplice to the crime,
[16:20] Rampo
the very act of solving
the crime is pointless.
[16:23] Rampo
It isn't even a mystery,
let alone the ultimate one.
[16:27] Rampo
You realized as much just before
you delivered the manuscript.
[16:31] Rampo
That's why you replaced it with a photocopy.
[16:33] Rampo
To fulfill your friend's final wish.
[16:37] Yokomizo
You have no proof.
[16:39] Rampo
You're right.
[16:40] Rampo
Forensics could have determined
that they were tears,
[16:43] Rampo
but they couldn't determine whose they were.
[16:46] Rampo
Still, it's enough to publicize the
truth behind this manuscript.
[16:52] Rampo
"It might have been a suicide.
It might have been a farce."
[16:55] Rampo
"It might be pointless to try to solve it."
[16:58] Rampo
As soon the readers start to think that way,
[17:01] Rampo
the value of taking on
the challenge plummets,
[17:03] Rampo
and your friend's final wish will be muddied.
[17:09] Rampo
The Detective Agency was
once defeated by Fyodor.
[17:13] Rampo
We won't be defeated again.
[17:14] Rampo
I won't let you hurt anyone in the Agency.
[17:17] Mushitaro
What is this?
[17:18] Rampo
To that end, I memorized and assimilated...
[17:22] Rampo
the demon himself!
[17:25] Rampo
If you don't turn yourself in,
I'll go public with that hypothesis.
[17:28] Rampo
This isn't detective work.
[17:30] Rampo
It's a demonic mind control
invading your mind.
[17:34] Rampo
My new weapon for killing Detective killers!
[17:47] Mushitaro
No...
[17:50] Mushitaro
I can't allow that.
[17:53] Mushitaro
Please don't make it public.
[17:56] Mushitaro
I despise Yokomizo.
[17:59] Mushitaro
It's not possible that I don't.
[18:04] Mushitaro
I'll turn myself in.
[18:10] Minoura
Yeah.
[18:11] Minoura
I see.
[18:12] Minoura
All right.
[18:15] Minoura
We have evidence that grenades
[18:17] Minoura
of the type used by the Detective Agency
were stolen in transport.
[18:21] Minoura
That makes it likely that they were
used in the murder of the girl.
[18:24] Rampo
He released his special ability.
[18:27] Rampo
Kunikida will be released.
[18:29] Poe
Rampo-kun.
[18:31] Poe
About the dummy corpse...
[18:34] Poe
There wasn't any biological activity
detected in the wound on his face.
[18:37] Rampo
Oh.
[18:38] Rampo
He just threw a corpse that Fyodor gave him.
[18:42] Rampo
I doubt he's ever killed anyone
other than the mystery novelist.
[18:47] Poe
Rampo-kun?
[18:53] Rampo
I don't want to bother throwing it out.
[18:55] Rampo
You can have it.
[18:57] Mushitaro
What's this?
[18:59] Mushitaro
An employee ID?
[19:01] Rampo
That company is a front for an
anti-government organization.
[19:05] Rampo
A Gifted Special Ops Division
agent working undercover there
[19:08] Rampo
is about to have their cover blown.
[19:11] Rampo
Go help them.
[19:13] Mushitaro
Why are you asking me?
[19:15] Rampo
That agent is also in charge
of hiring at the Division.
[19:20] Rampo
I couldn't care less what
happens to the agent,
[19:24] Rampo
but if they learn about your powerful ability,
they'll be obliged to hire you.
[19:29] Rampo
Go show them what you can do.
[19:31] Mushitaro
Rampo-kun...
[19:33] Mushitaro
Are you...
[19:34] Rampo
I promised, didn't I?
[19:36] Rampo
That I'd help you find work
if you ever needed it.
[19:41] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Mushi-kun, I bet you'd laugh at me
[19:45] (Flashback) Yokomizo
for trying to master mystery novels,
even if it means sacrificing myself.
[19:50] (Flashback) Yokomizo
But when you start going down that path,
[19:53] (Flashback) Yokomizo
you realize there really is nothing
whose value is immutable.
[19:57] Minoura
Huh? Where'd my lighter go?
[19:59] (Flashback) Yokomizo
In which case, it's up to you to choose.
[20:02] (Flashback) Yokomizo
Choose what you consider
valuable in your life.
[20:06] (Flashback) Yokomizo
After all, the greatest luxury
afforded to a human being
[20:10] (Flashback) Yokomizo
is the right to make the
world itself their choice.
[20:23] Cop A
What the...
[20:25] Cop A
An accident?
[20:31] Cop A
Is it an accident?
[20:32] Nikolai
It's a murder.
[20:34] Cop A
Who's the victim?
[20:35] Nikolai
You.
[20:42] Mushitaro
A gun just appeared out of thin air!
[20:49] Nikolai
Now, then...
[20:50] Nikolai
It's quiz time!
[20:56] Nikolai
Who might I be?
[21:00] Nikolai
What?
[21:01] Nikolai
My name's Nikolai, you say?
[21:03] Nikolai
That's right!
[21:06] Nikolai
Okay, next question!
[21:08] Nikolai
Why am I here?
[21:11] Nikolai
Hint: Cleanup duty.
[21:14] Nikolai
Oops, I gave away the answer!
[21:16] Mushitaro
Cleanup duty?
[21:17] Nikolai
That's right.
[21:19] Nikolai
My duty is to get rid of those
who know of our next project.
[21:24] Nikolai
A quiz is no fun if someone gives
away the answer, after all.
[21:30] Mushitaro
"Our"?
[21:32] Nikolai
So you're with Fyodor!
[21:34] Mushitaro
Indeed!
[21:35] Mushitaro
We are the Decay of the Angels!
[21:38] Mushitaro
Terrorists lurking in this land!
[21:41] Mushitaro
The five angels, here to tell
of the end of the gods' world!
[21:48] Mushitaro
Rampo-kun!
[21:49] Mushitaro
Listen up!
[21:50] Mushitaro
The Detective Agency is about
to get a huge job offer!
[21:52] Mushitaro
Don't accept it!
[21:54] Mushitaro
If you do, it'll be the end of the Agency!
[21:56] Mushitaro
You hear me?
[21:57] Mushitaro
Don't you dare accept—
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