E5 - The Case of the Hand Collector

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SIGN    Investigation Division 1
[00:03] Toto
    A joint investigation?
[00:05] Amamiya
    One of the serial murders
    causing a stir in Aichi Prefecture
[00:08] Amamiya
    apparently happened here.
[00:10] Amamiya
    Eagle Eye Kawasemi is coming.
[00:12] Toto
    Eagle Eye Kawasemi?!
[00:14] Toto
    With the top serial murder
    clearance rate in the country?
[00:16] Toto
    The super-skilled detective?
[00:18] Toto
    The guy they say might become
    superintendent general in his twenties?
[00:21] Toto
    The Kawasemi Omito?!
SIGN    Aim to be police
    superintendent general!
[00:26] Toto
    Oh crap! That's right!
[00:27] Toto
    Amamiya-senpai is also gunning
    to be superintendent general!
[00:31] Amamiya
    The detective overseeing
     the joint operation...
[00:34] Amamiya
    will be you, Isshiki.
[00:35] Toto
    What? Me?
[00:37] Amamiya
    Like I'd ever lend Kawasemi
    any of my best men!
[00:40] Toto
    That was backhandedly brutal!
[00:47] Amamiya
    He's here.
[00:48] Toto
    Huh?
[00:59] Kawasemi
    Your button is about to fall off!
[01:02] Kawasemi
    Trim your nails!
[01:04] Kawasemi
    Your necktie is sloppy!
[01:06] Kawasemi
    Your glasses are covered in fingerprints!
[01:08] Kawasemi
    You missed spots shaving!
[01:08] detective E
    Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
[01:17] Kawasemi
    Chaos...
[01:19] Kawasemi
    is the enemy of our work.
[01:21] Toto
    He's terrifyingly impressive.
[01:23] Amamiya
    Not one drop of water
    gets past his eagle-eyed checks.
[01:25] Amamiya
    He uses those tweezers
    as deftly as threading a needle.
[01:28] Amamiya
    And because he orders
    his superiors around the same way,
[01:30] Amamiya
    he's hard to peg for abuse of power.
    An unusual sort of scum.
[01:34] Toto
    Senpai, do you know Kawasemi-san personally?
[01:37] Amamiya
    When I was a newbie, we were
    at the same small, local station.
[01:40] Amamiya
    Our paths split after that, though.
[01:47] Kawasemi
    I despise anything pointless.
[01:50] Kawasemi
    My many years of experience are telling me
[01:52] Kawasemi
    something I'll share quite frankly.
[01:54] Toto
    I-I'm about to get the eagle-eyed check!
[01:58] Kawasemi
    You are so unsuited to be
    a detective that it's tragic.
[02:01] Kawasemi
    Zero aptitude.
[02:02] Toto
    Is that like "zero sugar"?
SIGN    Ron Kamonohashi's
SIGN    Forbidden
    Deductions
SIGN    #05 The Case of the Hand Collector
[03:43] Kawasemi
    You seem well, Amamiya.
[03:47] Kawasemi
    You have some dust on your shoulder.
[03:51] Amamiya
    Just try touching me, scum.
[03:53] Amamiya
    I'll slit your throat.
[03:56] Toto
    What's with this atmosphere?
[04:00] Kawasemi
    You haven't changed at all.
[04:04] Kawasemi
    Yamane.
[04:05] Yamane
    Sir?
[04:06] Toto
    How long have you been there?
[04:07] Yamane
    A fresh set of tweezers for you.
[04:09] Yamane
    And with regards to the case,
[04:12] Yamane
    I've compiled files on similar
    cases from all over.
[04:15] Yamane
    The red are local to the city,
    the blue are domestic,
[04:17] Yamane
    and the yellow are from overseas.
[04:20] Amamiya
    Your partner?
[04:21] Kawasemi
    Yes. I am the greatest detective in history,
    and he is my right-hand man.
[04:25] Yamane
    Oh, hardly. I'm just glad to get
     to work with you, Kawasemi-san.
[04:30] Toto
    So he's able to please
    the incredibly exacting Kawasemi-san?
[04:34] Toto
    That's amazing.
[04:36] Amamiya
    Kawasemi.
[04:37] Amamiya
    I'll lend you the man who
    caught your eagle eye for this job,
[04:40] Amamiya
    Isshiki Totomaru here.
[04:42] Toto
    H-Hello.
[04:44] Kawasemi
    Are you doing this to spite me?
[04:45] Amamiya
    I'd call it making a snide remark.
[04:48] Toto
    This is a living hell.
[04:50] Kawasemi
    How strange.
[04:52] Kawasemi
    I can't even see him.
[04:53] Toto
    He's erased my very existence?!
[04:56] Kawasemi
    We're off to the scene, Yamane.
[04:57] Yamane
    Yes, sir.
[04:58] Yamane
    I've bought a bento you can eat in the car.
[05:01] Toto
    U-Um...
[05:02] Amamiya
    Do you now understand what a kind boss I am?
[05:05] Toto
    I really do! You actually see me!
SIGN    Tokyo Central Art Museum
[05:12] Kawasemi
    What's the situation, Yamane?
[05:14] Yamane
    The truck belongs to a company
    from Aichi Prefecture, sir.
[05:18] Yamane
    The driver was told the cargo
    was works of art such as statues.
[05:23] Kawasemi
    And one of the statues turned out
    to be a dead body, is that right?
[05:27] Toto
    A dead body?
[05:32] Toto
    His...
[05:34] Toto
    His hands are gone!
[05:35] Toto
    Who would kill in such a cruel manner?
[05:38] Kawasemi
    So it's the same MO?
[05:39] Toto
    Huh? By "the same," you mean...
[05:42] Kawasemi
    Let's investigate the body, Yamane.
[05:43] Toto
    Right, he can't see me!
[05:46] Toto
    I mean, to Eagle Eye Kawasemi,
    I'm probably nothing more than a hindrance...
[05:51] Toto
    But after seeing such a grisly corpse,
[05:53] Toto
    I can't stand silently by and just watch!
[05:55] Toto
    Except... what am I supposed to do?
[05:57] Ron
    You called, Toto?
[06:01] Ron
    It's me!
[06:02] Toto
    Who are you?!
[06:04] Toto
    Someone with "Kamo" in his name?
[06:05] Ron
    Yes! I've come to save you.
[06:08] Toto
    No one asked for your help.
[06:10] Ron
    But you're at a loss, aren't you?
[06:12] Ron
    Your lips flap when you think to yourself,
    so you're easy to read.
[06:16] Ron
    Hey there! Haven't seen your face
     around here before.
[06:21] Ron
    I am a consultant in all matters
    involving hands.
[06:28] Ron
    I am the hand puppet master,
    Tekemono Kamomi!
[06:31] Toto
    A crazy bomb just went off!
SIGN    Consultant in All Things Hands
SIGN    Tekemono Kamomi
[06:35] Kawasemi
    A consultant?
[06:37] Kawasemi
    Did Amamiya arrange this? How unnecessary.
[06:40] Kawasemi
    I cannot have this investigation
    hindered by some lackluster civilian.
[06:44] Kawasemi
    Kindly take your leave.
[06:45] Ron
    Don't worry. I'm not lackluster, you see.
[06:49] Kawasemi
    Is that so?
[06:50] Ron
    You look like you have something to say.
    Please, by all means.
[06:58] Kawasemi
    A platypus's bill is commonly thought
    to be hard like a bird's beak,
[07:01] Kawasemi
    but it's actually soft like rubber!
[07:04] Kamokyun
    Ow!
[07:08] Kawasemi
    Th-The feel of rubber!
[07:09] Ron
    I insisted on it, of course.
    It's a charming feature of the platypus.
[07:15] Kawasemi
    I will allow you to accompany me,
    but do not get in the way.
[07:19] Toto
    Was that a hint of acknowledgment?
[07:21] Ron
    That detective is quite outstanding.
[07:23] Toto
    He's absolutely incredible!
[07:25] Toto
    He has the top serial murder
    clearance rate in the nation.
[07:28] Toto
    People call him Eagle Eye Kawasemi because
    he sees through everything in an instant!
[07:32] Ron
    Wh-What?
[07:35] Ron
    That tweezer-wielding bastard!
[07:38] Toto
    His poor face!
[07:40] Ron
    He's not beating me!
[07:41] Ron
    Toto, no matter what,
    we're catching the culprit first!
[07:45] Toto
    Sorry to rain on your parade,
     but that's not happening.
[07:48] Toto
    Thing is, Kawasemi-san's not
     letting me in on anything.
[07:51] Ron
    Not a problem.
[07:52] Toto
    What?
[07:53] Ron
    I have something that belongs
    to Kawasemi-kun.
[07:56] Toto
    That's Yamane-san!
[07:58] Yamane
    If you'd just asked, I would have told you.
[08:02] Yamane
    This case follows the same MO
     as three other murders in Aichi Prefecture.
[08:08] Yamane
    The perpetrator kills his victims
    with a single stab to the heart.
[08:12] Yamane
    And then, for some reason, he severs
    their hands and takes them with him.
[08:17] Toto
    How creepy.
[08:19] Yamane
    Because of his bizarre MO,
    we've been calling him...
[08:22] Yamane
    the Hand Collector.
[08:23] Kamokyun
    The Hand Collector!
[08:24] Eripyon
    What a cool name!
[08:26] Toto
    I'm shocked how annoying that is.
[08:28] Ron
    An unusual killer that even
    Eagle Eye Kawasemi can't capture...
[08:32] Ron
    The Hand Collector, huh?
[08:34] Ron
    How terrifying.
    It could turn you pale with fright.
[08:37] Toto
    Don't say that while you
    look pleased as punch!
[08:39] Yamane
    Kawasemi-san is amazing.
[08:41] Yamane
    He narrowed the list down
     to just a few suspects.
[08:46] Yamane
    Then, last night, while informally
    questioning one of them,
[08:50] Yamane
    we realized he had nothing
    to refute our suspicions.
[08:55] Yamane
    That man has to be the Hand Collector.
[08:58] Kamokyun
    Wow!
[08:59] Yamane
    But...
[09:03] Yamane
    he put up a huge fight and fled
     into an abandoned factory.
[09:09] Yamane
    There were only two ways
    in and out of the building.
[09:13] Yamane
    Kawasemi-san and I split up to try
    to catch him in a pincer maneuver.
[09:18] Yamane
    I found the culprit first. I was able
    to subdue and handcuff him, but...
[09:25] Kawasemi
    He managed to shake Yamane off.
[09:29] Kawasemi
    I rushed there, and the culprit
     came barreling at me.
[09:31] Kawasemi
    Though it's unthinkable, I let him escape.
[09:36] Kawasemi
    That is why I must be
    the one to close this case.
[09:43] Toto
    B-But if you know what
    the culprit looks like,
[09:46] Toto
    it won't be long before
    you apprehend him, right?
[09:47] Kawasemi
    About that...
[09:49] Kawasemi
    I don't know how,
[09:51] Kawasemi
    but the man we believed to be
    the Hand Collector last night...
[09:56] Kawasemi
    is now the handless corpse
    sitting before you.
[09:59] Toto
    What?
SIGN    Tokyo Central Art Museum
[10:09] Toto
    The victim was the Hand Collector?
[10:13] Ron
    In other words, the real Hand Collector
[10:15] Ron
    is still out there somewhere.
[10:18] Toto
    Hey!
[10:21] Ron
    Excuse me.
[10:24] Ron
    You're dressed lightly for this time of year.
[10:27] Ron
    So you were killed in a heated room.
[10:29] Ron
    Or you're a half-hearted exhibitionist.
[10:31] Toto
    Of course he's not!
[10:33] Ron
    What's this?
[10:34] Ron
    This tattoo...
[10:35] Ron
    A tree branch?
[10:37] Ron
    No. This is...
[10:40] Ron
    Oh, I know! It's kelp!
[10:42] Yamane
    It's a bird.
[10:44] Yamane
    I remember seeing it when I handcuffed him.
[10:47] Yamane
    That's definitely the guy from last night.
[10:50] Ron
    I see.
[10:54] Ron
    Well, this is a problem!
[10:56] Toto
    What is it?
[10:57] Ron
    I can't get these puppets off!
[10:59] Toto
    Can we stay on track?!
[11:00] Kawasemi
    Dear, dear. It seems this was a huge waste.
[11:04] Kawasemi
    I don't have the time to play
    with you. Go home.
[11:07] Ron
    Kawasemi-kun, I'm disappointed in you!
[11:09] Toto
    You're the one getting told to go home!
[11:15] Toto
    What did you even come here for?
[11:18] Ron
    Can't you pull any harder?
[11:19] Toto
    Shut up!
[11:29] Yamane
    Ow, ow, ow...
[11:31] Toto
    I'm so sorry!
[11:35] Kawasemi
    Can't you behave properly?
[11:37] Toto
    Y-Yes, sir.
[11:39] Ron
    Impressive, Detective Isshiki!
    It's just as you deduced.
[11:42] Toto
    What?
[11:43] Ron
    That's made everything clear.
[11:45] Ron
    Kawasemi-kun is lying.
[11:49] Ron
    I'll say just one thing.
[11:51] Ron
    It won't be Eagle Eye Kawasemi
    who catches the Hand Collector.
[11:56] Ron
    It'll be the pure, naïve fool,
    Detective Isshiki!
[12:00] Kawasemi
    You think I'm lying, do you?
[12:02] Kawasemi
    On what grounds?
[12:03] Toto
    Huh? Well...
[12:05] Ron
    Kawasemi-kun, you easily dodged
    Detective Isshiki charging at you just now.
[12:10] Ron
    With such exceptional reflexes
    and physical agility,
[12:14] Ron
    there's no way a handcuffed culprit
     would ever get past you.
[12:21] Kawasemi
    Then you rushed at me on purpose just now?
[12:24] Kawasemi
    I've heard one of Amamiya's new subordinates
[12:27] Kawasemi
    has been brilliantly cracking cases lately.
[12:31] Kawasemi
    I don't suppose...
[12:34] Ron
    So you admit you lied, correct?
[12:40] Kawasemi
    Yes.
[12:43] Kawasemi
    Yamane handcuffed the culprit
     and allowed him to get away.
[12:47] Kawasemi
    I wasn't present for it.
[12:50] Kawasemi
    I was watching the factory's
    other exit, you see?
[12:53] Ron
    Why the lie?
[12:55] Kawasemi
    That day, Yamane was missing
     a button on his sleeve.
[12:59] Toto
    Huh?
[13:01] Kawasemi
    I knew immediately from his expression.
[13:04] Kawasemi
    Though Yamane is an outstanding subordinate,
[13:06] Kawasemi
    these grotesque serial murders
    have unnerved him.
[13:10] Kawasemi
    And as I could have predicted,
    Yamane made a mistake in the final play.
[13:16] Kawasemi
    But I was aware of my
    subordinate's mental state
[13:19] Kawasemi
    and failed to give him appropriate
    guidance. It was on me.
[13:23] Toto
    So you covered for him
    and said you let the culprit get away.
[13:28] Toto
    I thought he was cold,
    but he cares about his assistant.
[13:32] Yamane
    I'm sorry! This is all my fault!
[13:35] Yamane
    I even made Kawasemi-san lie for me!
[13:39] Kamokyun
    What's this, Yamane-kyun?
[13:41] Kamokyun
    You're missing a button on your sleeve again.
[13:44] Yamane
    What?
[13:47] Yamane
    It can't be! I-It's gone!
[13:51] Kawasemi
    Yamane.
[13:52] Yamane
    I'll find it immediately!
[13:53] Yamane
    It must've come off
     when Isshiki-san ran into me...
[13:56] Yamane
    Where is it? Where is it?!
[13:59] Kamokyun
    It's over here.
[14:03] Kamokyun
    It's perfect for a new eye!
[14:05] Toto
    Hey! Don't upcycle it without permission!
[14:09] Yamane
    I'm so glad.
[14:11] Yamane
    I found it this time....
[14:18] Ron
    Thank you for saying that.
[14:20] Toto
    Huh?
[14:21] Ron
    We only realize what's most important
[14:25] Ron
    after it's gone.
[14:28] Yamane
    What?
[14:33] Ron
    All right, take it away.
[14:35] Spitz
    Okay.
[14:36] ---
    Speaker
[14:37] Spitz
    How've you been, Tototo?
[14:39] Toto
    Wait, "Tototo"? Where've I heard that before?
[14:41] Spitz
    Hint: It's your new best friend!
[14:41] ---
    Speaker
[14:46] Toto
    That laugh! You're the tracking—
[14:49] Toto
    Spitz?
[14:50] Spitz
    B-B-Bingo!
[14:52] Spitz
    I've looked into all kinds of stuff.
[14:54] Spitz
    The body in the truck is Mushanokouji Minoru.
[14:57] Spitz
    Perpetual part-timer. Forty-eight years old.
[14:59] Spitz
    I'm at his place right now...
[15:03] Spitz
    and it's absolutely unreal.
SIGN    Hands
[15:06] Spitz
    If there were a world competition
    for hand obsession,
SIGN    Hands
[15:08] Spitz
    he'd represent Japan and be
    guaranteed a top place.
SIGN    Hand Heaven
[15:13] Spitz
    His precious collection
    is nicely refrigerated here, too.
[15:19] Spitz
    Three people's worth of hands.
[15:23] Spitz
    The man in the truck, Mushanokouji,
    is definitely the Hand Collector.
[15:28] Ron
    Thanks. That was a great help.
[15:30] Kawasemi
    What was all that?
[15:32] Toto
    Er, uh...
[15:35] Toto
    What's all this sticky stuff?
    B-Black sugar syrup?
[15:38] Ron
    Sorry. It went off by accident.
[15:40] Ron
    Let's go wash it off.
[15:41] Toto
    Why would you even need that function?!
[15:43] Toto
    Seriously! I'm all sticky now.
[15:44] Ron
    Come on, let's go.
[15:47] Ron
    Oh, Kawasemi-kun?
[15:51] Ron
    When we get back,
    Detective Isshiki says he'll solve the case.
[15:54] Kamokyun
    So just you wait, okay?
[15:58] Kawasemi
    He'll solve it?
[16:22] Kawasemi
    I hear you're going to solve the case.
[16:24] Kawasemi
    Very well. I'll humor the nonsensical
    ramblings of a rookie detective.
[16:28] Toto
    Okay.
[16:29] Toto
    As the information you just received
    from the Aichi police confirms,
[16:33] Toto
    Mushanokouji is without a doubt
     the Hand Collector serial killer.
[16:39] Kawasemi
    Yes, he is.
[16:41] Yamane
    Hold on!
[16:42] Yamane
    Mushanokouji's hands were taken too, right?
[16:47] Toto
    Meaning that was done to make us think
    there's another Hand Collector.
[16:51] Toto
    It's the work of a copycat.
[16:53] Kawasemi
    That's rather obvious.
[16:55] Kawasemi
    The real question is,
[16:57] Kawasemi
    why would they go to the trouble
    to imitate such a brutal murder?
[17:01] Toto
    Actually, they didn't murder anyone.
[17:04] Toto
    Mushanokouji...
[17:06] Toto
    killed himself.
[17:08] Kawasemi
    What?
[17:12] Toto
    Mushanokouji stabbed himself in the heart,
[17:15] Toto
    splattering blood on his jacket sleeves.
[17:18] Toto
    In order to make his death look like a murder,
[17:20] Toto
    someone removed and hid his jacket.
[17:23] Kawasemi
    You mean to say that's why
    he's dressed so lightly.
[17:26] Yamane
    Still, why would he kill himself?
[17:28] Toto
    Once he was cornered by you two,
[17:30] Toto
    the serial killer had no choice
    but to accept his fate.
[17:35] Kawasemi
    If that's true, he took his life
     in that abandoned factory.
[17:40] Kawasemi
    But we and Mushanokouji
    were the only people there.
[17:45] Kawasemi
    It can't be. That means the person who
     took Mushanokouji's hands was...
[17:49] Toto
    That's right.
[17:51] Toto
    It was the first person to find
    Mushanokouji after he killed himself.
[17:58] Toto
    Yamane-san, that would be you!
[18:00] Yamane
    Wha?!
[18:01] Yamane
    I-It couldn't possibly be me!
[18:05] Toto
    You cornered Mushanokouji
    in the abandoned factory at night.
[18:09] Toto
    I'm sure it was pitch black in there.
[18:11] Toto
    It would've been impossible to see anything.
[18:13] Toto
    The culprit's tattoo is in
    a hard-to-spot place on his wrist
[18:17] Toto
    and it's difficult to make out,
[18:19] Toto
    so how did you instantly know it was a bird?
[18:25] Kawasemi
    Yamane...
[18:26] Yamane
    He's wrong! It wasn't me!
[18:28] Toto
    Still trying to gloss over everything?
[18:31] Toto
    You really can't tell Kawasemi-san, can you?
[18:34] Toto
    That you lost your handcuffs.
[18:40] Toto
    Earlier, when Yamane-san
     lost his button, he panicked
[18:45] Toto
    and said, "I found it this time."
[18:48] Toto
    In other words, he's already
    lost something important to him.
[18:53] Toto
    Something which, for example,
    might compromise police integrity.
[18:58] Toto
    The reason you were so on edge that day
[19:00] Toto
    is because you'd lost your cuffs, wasn't it?
[19:05] Toto
    That day, when you found the Hand Collector
    had killed himself, you had an idea.
[19:11] Toto
    To make it seem like he'd fled after you
     handcuffed him, you hid his body.
[19:16] Toto
    Then you severed his hands.
[19:21] Toto
    So when the body was found
     handless afterward,
[19:25] Toto
    it would look like the Hand Collector
    had taken the cuffs along with his hands.
[19:31] Toto
    No one would know you'd lost them.
[19:33] Kawasemi
    Impossible!
[19:34] Kawasemi
    My best subordinate would never—
[19:36] Toto
    That's exactly the problem!
[19:38] Toto
    It's obvious how much you value Yamane-san.
[19:43] Toto
    But the pressure of that...
[19:45] Toto
    It meant Yamane-san couldn't allow
    himself to be any less than your ideal.
[19:59] Yamane
    I'm sorry, Kawasemi-san!
[20:02] Yamane
    I've left a black mark on your career!
[20:16] Yamane
    The responsibility was
    too much for me to bear!
[20:19] Yamane
    I couldn't meet your expectations!
[20:45] Kawasemi
    Yamane.
[20:48] Kawasemi
    It will be difficult to reinstate you
    as a police officer.
[20:54] Kawasemi
    However...
[20:56] Kawasemi
    As long as you have the will,
[20:59] Kawasemi
    I'll be waiting for my partner to return.
[21:22] Kawasemi
    There's no need for both members
    of a team to be police officers, is there?
[21:27] Kawasemi
    Like how you two solved this mystery.
[21:32] Kawasemi
    Don't underestimate my eyes.
[21:35] Kawasemi
    Just as I was able to focus on investigating
    because Yamane was with me,
[21:40] Kawasemi
    this puppet master needs you to harness
[21:43] Kawasemi
    his full ability, doesn't he?
[21:48] Ron
    Impressive, Eagle Eye—
[21:49] Toto
    No, no! That's not the issue here!
[21:52] Toto
    This guy makes all kinds of messes,
[21:54] Toto
    so I have to keep an eye on him
     or he's worthless!
[21:56] Ron
    How am I worthless?
[21:59] Toto; background
    Hey, that's right. You didn't try
    to pressure the culprit today.
[22:00] Kawasemi
    So this is Isshiki Totomaru.
[22:03] Ron; background
    He wasn't a murderer.
    Yamane-kun didn't kill anyone, right?
[22:04] Kawasemi
    You've got a good man there...
[22:06] Kawasemi
    Amamiya.
[22:07] Toto
    That's how it works?!