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?!