E6 - The Case of the Live Broadcast Murder

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[00:02] Toto
    Ron! Are you in?
SIGN    Shooting Star Viewing
[00:07] Ron
    Hey, Toto.
[00:09] Ron
    Do you have a case?
[00:11] Toto
    The hell is with your eyes, Ron?!
[00:12] Toto
    Seriously, your eyes... What happened?
[00:16] Ron
    I've gotten addicted to that modern marvel.
[00:21] Ron
    It's packed with people and scenery
    and dreams. What a magnificent slab it is.
[00:25] Toto
    You can just call it a TV!
SIGN    Psychic Abilities: Fact or Fiction?
[00:27] Ron
    Daba, doobie-doo, daba-doobie-doo, baya!
[00:28] show v.o.
    Psychic Abilities: Fact or Fiction?
[00:31] Ron
    Daba, doobie-doo, daba-doobie-doo, baya!
SIGN    Ron Kamonohashi's
SIGN    Forbidden
    Deductions
SIGN    Psychic Abilities:
    Fact or Fiction?
SIGN    #06 The Case of the Live Broadcast Murder
[02:09] Ono
    Let's start the live broadcast of
    Psychic Abilities: Fact or Fiction?
[02:13] Ono
    I'm Ono Yako, your host.
[02:16] Ono
    On our show, a psychic and a
     neurosurgeon go head to head
[02:20] Ono
    in an attempt to verify psychic powers.
[02:23] Ono
    The one demonstrating their power
SIGN    Psychic
    Torage Dankichi
[02:25] Ono
    is a psychic you all know, Torage-san!
[02:29] Ono
    And up against him is the genius
    neurosurgeon with miraculous hands...
SIGN    Neurosurgeon
    Usaki Mofu
[02:33] Ono
    Oh.
[02:35] Ono
    Mofu-sensei, the show has started!
[02:36] Mofu
    What? Already?
[02:39] Ono
    Please look toward the camera.
[02:42] Toto
    Is she severely injured?!
[02:45] Ron
    She's got more bandages again.
[02:46] Toto
    Huh?
[02:47] Mofu
    Oh, I'm so sorry.
[02:49] Ono
    Doctor, what happened to your face?
[02:51] Mofu
    I was cutting an apple
    and the knife sprang back at me.
[02:54] Mofu
    Sorry, I'm really bad at wrapping bandages.
[02:58] Ron
    Mofu-sensei is odd,
    so she's lots of fun to watch.
[03:01] Toto
    Is she really a genius surgeon?
[03:04] Ron
    Her procedures are accurate to 0.001mm.
    She's a globally preeminent super doctor.
[03:10] Mofu
    Ouch!
[03:11] Mofu
    I was adjusting my mic
    and it clipped to my chin!
[03:14] Mofu
    Ow!
[03:17] Toto
    How clumsy can you be?!
[03:20] Ono
    Well, Torage-san, what sort
    of power will you show us today?
[03:23] Torage
    The time has finally come to demonstrate
    what I'm truly capable of.
[03:27] Torage
    Today, I will show you I can
    control a mind using only writing.
[03:30] audience
    What? Huh?
[03:32] Ron
    That sounds intriguing!
[03:33] Ron
    You can do this, Torage!
[03:35] Toto
    Ron, you believe in psychic stuff?
[03:37] Ron
    Not at all.
[03:39] Toto
    Huh? Then why are you cheering him on?
[03:41] Ron
    Because if psychic powers were real,
    solving cases would be more fun.
[03:46] Ron
    I'd love to crack even more
     complicated mysteries.
[03:50] Ron
    You seem like the gullible type
    who'd just shout, "That's amazing!"
[03:54] Toto
    I'm not that easily taken in.
    You don't give me enough credit.
[03:57] Torage
    If you can resist my psychic influence,
[04:01] Torage
    I will reward you with 100,000 yen.
[04:04] Torage
    Any volunteers?
[04:05] audience
    Over here!
[04:05] audience
    Me, me!
[04:07] Torage
    I'll take you in the white hoodie.
[04:10] subject
    All right! I'm gonna get
    that 100,000 yen!
[04:16] Torage
    I will say in advance that what's about
    to happen is not by power of suggestion.
[04:22] Torage
    What I write on this card
    will exert direct control of him.
[04:26] Torage
    The subject is wearing noise-canceling
    headphones prepared by the staff.
[04:31] Torage
    With those on, he can't hear a thing.
[04:34] Torage
    Nevertheless, the instant he reads this...
[04:42] subject
    My body's...
[04:44] subject
    Wait, huh? What?!
[04:45] audience
    Huh?!
[04:47] audience
    No way!
[04:48] Toto
    That's amazing!
[04:49] Ono
    He's doing exactly
    as the card says in English!
[04:52] Ono
    Everyone, a round of applause for Torage-san!
[04:57] Torage
    This is the next word.
[04:59] Torage
    He will heed it and obey
     regardless of his own will.
[05:05] subject
    Huh?
[05:06] subject
    S-Seriously?!
[05:07] Toto
    Amazing... Just amazing!
[05:10] Ono
    This time, the word "run"
    made him start running!
[05:12] Ono
    Is his mind really being controlled
    by what's written on these cards?!
[05:16] Ron
    Will Mofu-sensei pick up on it?
[05:19] Toto
    Huh?
[05:22] Mofu
    You're mocking neuroscience.
[05:24] Ono
    Usaki-sensei will now give her rebuttal!
[05:26] Mofu
    Was the subject really chosen at random?
[05:30] Toto
    What?
[05:31] Torage
    Of course. What gives you any doubt?
[05:35] Mofu
    Just like your fingerprints,
    you can't change the way you move.
[05:39] [SONG] text
     Match
[05:39] Mofu
    I ran the subject through a biological
    motion app that analyzes movement,
[05:44] Mofu
    and I've determined he's the same
     subject from your last demonstration.
[05:49] Mofu
    He's a plant in league with you, Torage-san!
[05:53] Ron
    So she did notice.
[05:54] Toto
    It was all staged?
[05:56] Mofu
    Here's the proof!
[05:57] Ono
    We can't see through the cracks!
[05:59] Mofu
    I mean, they always get run over by
    dump trucks when you drop them, you know?
[06:03] Ono
    I can't say I would...
[06:06] Torage
    Kindly refrain from false accusations.
[06:09] Torage
    If this next word reaches his brain,
    will you believe he wasn't planted?
[06:15] Mofu
    What?
[06:18] Ono
    The word he's written now
     can only mean one thing!
[06:23] Torage
    What do you think, Usaki-sensei?
    If the subject dies, will you believe me?
[06:28] Mofu
    There's no way this will take his life.
[06:30] Mofu
    Take that as my answer.
[06:32] Torage
    Oh dear. Well then...
[06:54] Torage
    He's dead.
[06:57] staff A
    Th-This is bad!
[06:58] staff B
    Stop the broadcast!
[06:59] staff C
    I've called an ambulance!
[07:01] staff D
    Cut to the screen we use for accidents!
SIGN    We'll be right back
[07:07] Toto
    It can't be...
[07:10] Ron
    This is a live broadcast. We've got
    no time to laze around here.
[07:13] Toto
    Yeah.
[07:21] forensics
    Oh, Isshiki-san.
[07:23] forensics
    We've just confirmed the death
    and secured the scene.
[07:27] Toto
    Good work.
[07:28] forensics
    Who's that with you?
[07:29] Toto
    Huh?
[07:30] Ron
    I'm Asasuki Kamoji.
SIGN    Torage
[07:32] Ron
    I'm a bandwagon Torage fan!
[07:34] Toto
    You're the worst person to let in here!
[07:37] Toto
    He's a specialist helping out
    with the investigation!
[07:40] Ron
    Excuse me.
[07:42] Ron
    Don't worry. I will avenge you.
[07:46] Torage
    Who's he?
[07:47] Ron
    Oh, Torage-kun! I saw you on TV!
[07:50] Torage
    And you are?
[07:51] Ron
    I'm a bandwagon fan!
[07:53] Toto
    Nix the "bandwagon" bit! And get up!
[07:56] Torage
    What's a fan doing here?
[07:58] Toto
    I'm so sorry.
[07:59] Ron
    I wanted to ask you something, Torage-kun.
[08:02] Toto
    D-Don't say anything rude.
[08:04] Ron
    How'd you kill him?
[08:06] Toto
    That's majorly rude!
[08:08] Ron
    But you gotta ask, right?
[08:09] Toto
    No, you don't!
[08:11] Torage
    You're amusing.
[08:12] Torage
    I killed him with my psychic powers.
[08:17] Torage
    But under modern science and the law,
    I cannot be held accountable.
[08:22] Toto
    You admit that you killed him?
[08:24] Toto
    Except I can't arrest a guy
    for a psychically-induced death.
[08:28] Ron
    I knew it! You really are the best!
[08:32] Ron
    Can I have your autograph?
[08:33] Toto
    That's my notebook!
[08:35] Torage
    On that tiny paper?
[08:37] Ron
    Well, this is all so sudden.
[08:39] Ron
    Do you have a pen? The one you
    used on those cards would be fine.
[08:43] Torage
    What?
[08:45] Torage
    Once I've signed this, begone.
[08:51] Ron
    It's so thick I can't read it.
[08:52] Toto
    He's pissed at you!
[08:54] Torage
    If that neurosurgeon had
    only believed in psychic powers,
[08:58] Torage
    this demonstration would have
     been unnecessary.
[09:01] Torage
    If anyone's to be punished,
[09:02] Torage
    it should be her, don't you think?
[09:06] Toto
    No way...
SIGN    We'll be right back
[09:18] Shikata
    I'm Shikata, Usaki-sensei's
     assistant at the hospital.
[09:22] Shikata
    The doctor's beside herself right now.
[09:25] Toto
    I don't think what happened here
     was her fault.
[09:28] Mofu
    No...
[09:30] Mofu
    I'm a practitioner of medicine.
[09:32] Mofu
    I have to take responsibility for allowing
    someone to die right in front of me!
[09:38] Ron
    Mofu-sensei, has this incident
    made you believe in psychic powers?
[09:43] Mofu
    I don't know.
[09:45] Mofu
    I examined the body and
    the cause of death was poison.
[09:49] Toto
    Poison?
[09:50] Mofu
    I observed flaccid paralysis,
    and given the presentation of cyanosis,
[09:55] Mofu
    I believe it was a neurotoxin.
[09:58] Mofu
    Blowfish poison or snake venom, or...
[10:01] Mofu
    He went into cardiac arrest
    before the ambulance arrived,
[10:04] Mofu
    so it may have been
    the potent botulinum toxin.
[10:07] Ron
    My thoughts precisely.
[10:09] Ron
    I'd expect no less of you, Mofu-sensei.
[10:11] Ron
    I figured that speck
    on the back of the victim's neck
[10:14] Ron
    might be a mark left by a poisoned needle.
[10:17] Ron
    What do you think?
[10:18] Mofu
    I thought exactly the same thing!
[10:20] Ron
    Great minds, huh?
[10:21] Mofu
    Are you a medical doctor?
[10:23] Ron
    I'm a Torage fan.
[10:25] Toto
    You don't have to be that stupidly honest!
[10:28] Toto
    If there's a mark from a poisoned needle,
[10:30] Toto
    does that mean Torage used
    a blowgun or something to stab him?
[10:33] Mofu
    I'm afraid not.
[10:35] Mofu
    He didn't do anything that seemed suspicious.
[10:38] Mofu
    And from where he was standing,
     he couldn't have hit the subject.
[10:40] Mofu
    Moreover, there wasn't
    anyone behind the subject!
[10:44] Mofu
    No matter how I rack my brain,
    I can't explain it!
[10:47] Toto
    You're right. It was a superhuman feat.
[10:50] Toto
    The only explanation is psychic powers.
[10:52] Ron
    Yay! Torage-san for the win! Fans rejoice!
[10:55] Toto
    You really are the worst, you know that?
[10:59] Shikata
    Mofu-sensei has a personal reason
     she can't be bested here.
[11:04] Shikata
    It's why she came after
    an all-night surgery and
[11:07] Shikata
    forced herself to participate
     in today's show.
[11:09] Ron
    Then let's solve this case quickly
    so she can get some sleep.
[11:15] Ron
    We'll figure out the trick and
    see the fake psychic off the stage.
[11:21] Toto
    Ron...
[11:22] Mofu
    The trick?
[11:24] Ron
    It wasn't psychic power.
[11:27] Shikata
    But you said you were a fan of Torage's...
[11:30] Ron
    Just a bandwagon fan.
[11:32] Ron
    The only thing I'm a true
     life-long fan of is the truth.
[11:37] Ron
    The pure, naïve Detective Isshiki
    will expose the trick here.
[11:44] Ron
    Just after the subject saw the cue card,
[11:47] Ron
    he closed his eyes and
    collapsed to the floor, right?
[11:51] Ron
    And after that, he didn't even twitch?
[11:53] Mofu
    No.
[11:55] Mofu
    When I was giving him CPR,
    he came to for just a moment.
[12:00] Mofu
    He was in distress,
[12:02] Mofu
    then his breathing stopped again.
[12:05] Toto
    There's no way Torage stabbed
[12:07] Toto
    the subject in the neck
    while the doctor was giving him CPR.
[12:11] Toto
    Forensics hasn't turned up
     any poisoned needles, either.
[12:15] Toto
    It looks like this really was
     caused psychically.
[12:18] Ron
    No. We've got all the pieces, Toto.
[12:21] Toto
    What?
[12:22] Ron
    The entirety of this trick...
[12:24] Ron
    is on TV.
[12:26] Mofu
    You've got hyperemia in your eyes.
    Have some eye drops.
[12:29] Ron
    You're so kind.
[12:31] Mofu
    Take good care of yourself.
[12:32] Ron
    Thank you.
SIGN    Studio 6
[12:37] Toto
    Thank you for gathering here.
[12:39] Toto
    I will now solve the mystery of how
    the subject died during the show.
[12:45] Toto
    And since the stage is still set,
    let's try reenacting the incident.
[12:50] staff A
    You want to reenact it?
[12:52] staff B
    Can you really do that?
[12:54] Toto
    Usaki-sensei, could I ask you
     to play the subject?
[12:57] Mofu
    Me?
[12:59] Toto
    I'll stand in for Torage-san.
[13:01] Toto
    To ensure this is accurate,
    I asked the staff for the same cue cards.
[13:06] Toto
    Torage-san, could I borrow the pen you used?
[13:09] Torage
    There's no need to go that far.
[13:11] Torage
    Why should I go along with this farce?
[13:14] Mofu
    Someone lost their life here!
[13:16] Mofu
    Please just lend us the pen!
[13:24] Mofu
    I'm so sorry!
[13:25] Toto
    Full-throttle clumsiness on display!
[13:30] Mofu
    Torage-san, we'll be borrowing this!
[13:32] Torage
    Tch.
[13:36] Toto
    Usaki-sensei will put on
    the noise-canceling headphones
[13:40] Toto
    and act out what's written here.
[13:42] Toto
    Basically, she'll do as the plant would.
[13:44] Torage
    Hey! Calling him a plant is unfair!
[13:47] Torage
    What idiot would die for a staged trick?!
[13:49] Toto
    P-Please, calm down!
    That's what we're testing right now.
[13:56] Toto
    Now then...
[13:58] Toto
    Please start with this word.
[14:02] Toto
    Very good.
[14:04] Toto
    Now, on to the next word.
[14:07] Toto
    Wonderful!
[14:08] Toto
    She's following along perfectly.
[14:10] Ono
    Well, of course she is.
    You're telling her what to do.
[14:13] staff C
    This is stupid. Is that detective okay?
[14:18] Toto
    Now, at last, the word in question.
[14:21] Toto
    I'll have Usaki-sensei stand
    right where the subject was.
[14:26] Toto
    I'll show her this the same way, too.
[14:35] Shikata
    Mofu-sensei!
[14:37] Toto
    Please, stay calm!
[14:39] Toto
    Usaki-sensei is not dead.
[14:42] Shikata
    Then what did you do?
[14:44] staff C
    Is there some trick to the cue card?
[14:46] Toto
    No, it's just regular, extra-thick paper.
[14:48] Toto
    But at the time of the incident,
    Torage-san set the card on the podium.
[14:52] Toto
    He then turned it upside down
    and showed it to the subject.
[14:56] Shikata
    He turned it upside down?
[15:05] Toto
    Like this.
[15:08] Ono
    "Sleep"?!
[15:10] staff C
    It says sleep!
[15:11] Shikata
    Turned upside down, "death" becomes "sleep"?!
[15:14] Mofu
    Which means that when he collapsed,
    the subject was still conscious?
[15:18] Toto
    That's right.
[15:20] Toto
    The subject was pretending to be asleep.
[15:23] Toto
    The headphones prevented him
     from hearing the commotion,
[15:26] Toto
    so he kept up the act even as
    Torage-san took his pulse.
[15:30] Toto
    So, when was the subject killed?
[15:34] Toto
    After the broadcast was suspended,
[15:36] Toto
    while standing among the crowd
[15:38] Toto
    and amid all the chaos,
    Torage-san injected him with poison!
[15:44] Mofu
    That means he showed signs
     of distress during CPR
[15:47] Mofu
    because the injected poison
    took time to circulate.
[15:51] Toto
    No psychic abilities were used.
[15:53] Toto
    Isn't that right, Torage-san?
[15:59] Torage
    These accusations are completely unfounded!
[16:01] Torage
    First and foremost, you haven't
    found a poisoned needle!
[16:04] Toto
    No, we retrieved it.
[16:06] Torage
    Wha—?!
[16:11] Toto
    When you were asked to sign my notebook,
[16:14] Toto
    why did you choose such a thick, unwieldy pen?
[16:17] Toto
    Because the poisoned needle was
    hidden inside the tip of your thinner pen!
[16:22] Shikata
    That's where he concealed it?
[16:25] Torage
    You're wrong! This death
    was the result of psychic powers!
[16:28] Torage
    If you don't believe me, I'll prove it to you!
[16:34] Torage
    Torage Psychic!
[16:43] Torage
    I'm lying. I give up.
[16:51] Torage
    He was just a plant,
    but he started threatening me!
[16:55] Torage
    He said he'd out my tricks
[16:57] Torage
    if I didn't fork over
    90 percent of my earnings.
[17:00] Torage
    Killing him was my only choice!
[17:03] Ron
    Stab yourself.
[17:06] Ron
    Anyone who dismisses the lives of others...
[17:09] Ron
    has no right to live in this world.
[17:12] Toto
    This is bad!
[17:13] Ron
    Stab yourself.
[17:18] Torage
    Stab... myself...
[17:27] Toto
    Stop!
[17:45] Mofu
    The poisoned needle!
[17:50] Ron
    Toto!
[17:52] Mofu
    Let me take a look!
[17:54] Toto
    It's too late!
[17:56] Toto
    The mark of the poisoned needle...
[17:58] Torage
    Mark of the poisoned needle?
[17:59] Torage
    I swapped the pen tip with the needle.
[18:02] Torage
    There's no way it'd leave an ink mark.
[18:04] Toto
    What?
[18:05] Toto
    Then this pen is...
[18:15] Toto
    Here it is!
    This one's the poisoned needle pen!
[18:27] Toto
    Honestly, Ron. I seriously
    thought I was a dead man.
[18:34] Ron
    I'm sorry. I regret what I've done.
[18:36] Toto
    You say that now, but later, I know you'll
     ask me for the next case like always.
[18:42] Ron
    It was a mistake for me
    to start sleuthing again.
[18:45] Toto
    Huh? He's not talking back.
[18:48] Ron
    If that had gone any further,
     there'd be no undoing what I wrought.
[18:52] Ron
    I have no right to be a detective.
[19:00] Toto
    He's really down on himself.
[19:02] Toto
    Like back when I first met him.
[19:04] Toto
    Not that I don't understand why.
[19:07] Toto
    Maybe it's time to give up
    this dangerous approach.
[19:11] Mofu
    Oh, Isshiki-san!
[19:15] Mofu
    My bandages are caught on the handrail!
[19:18] Toto
    That takes skill!
[19:20] Mofu
    Thank you so much for what you did today.
[19:23] Toto
    Don't mention it.
[19:25] Mofu
    So many patients
    are going to live because of you.
[19:30] Mofu
    A long time ago, I had a patient
    who believed in psychic treatments,
[19:33] Mofu
    refused surgery,
    and passed away because of it.
[19:36] Toto
    That's why you were trying so hard...
[19:39] Mofu
    Your brilliant deductions
     will save lots of lives!
[19:45] Toto
    Yeah, you're right...
[19:48] Toto
    I feel reenergized! Thank you, Mofu-sensei!
[19:51] Mofu
    Not at all.
[19:53] Toto
    I'll be on my way.
[19:57] Toto
    Oh, and I'm sorry for giving you
    a scare at the end there.
[20:01] Toto
    He's got a weird habit of
    pressuring murderers into things.
[20:06] Mofu
    Pressuring them...?
[20:08] Toto
    Well, I'll see you later!
[20:12] Mofu
    That was more than just pressuring...
[20:21] Toto
    Ron!
[20:25] Toto
    You can't quit over something like that!
[20:28] Ron
    "Something like that"?
[20:30] Ron
    I nearly killed you.
[20:34] Toto
    It was just an accident.
[20:36] Ron
    If anything like it happened again
    and you died...
[20:41] Ron
    I'd despair of myself and wouldn't
    be able to carry on.
[20:44] Toto
    I swear, don't write me off
     as a goner so readily.
[20:48] Toto
    Next time, I'll stop you.
[20:50] Toto
    So I want you to have some faith
    in Kamonohashi Ron, too!
[20:55] Toto
    You love sleuthing above all else.
[20:57] Toto
    You've devoted your life
    to being a detective.
[20:59] Toto
    Why did you shut yourself away
    for five years?
[21:02] Toto
    It's because you care about people's lives!
[21:05] Ron
    Toto...
[21:06] Toto
    People's lives are at the core
    of your guiding principles and all you do.
[21:10] Toto
    That's just the kind of guy you are.
[21:13] Ron
    But...
[21:15] Toto
    Oh, right.
SIGN    Shooting Star Viewing
[21:20] Ron
    An invitation?
[21:29] Ron
    A gathering at an observatory on a remote
    island to watch the Leonid meteor shower?
[21:34] Ron
    What is this?
[21:35] Toto
    It arrived this morning.
[21:36] Toto
    I don't know the sender very well,
[21:39] Toto
    but times like this call for a change of pace.
[21:42] Toto
    Until you can believe in yourself,
    I'll stick with you! Okay?
[21:48] Ron
    You're right.
[21:50] Ron
    It might be good to get away from mysteries.
SIGN    Shooting Star Viewing
[21:58] Ron
    And this remote island...
[22:00] Ron
    Nandan Island is famous
    for its black sugar syrup!
[22:03] Toto
    That's what really matters to you?!
[22:06] Ron
    Today, at least, it would be nice
    to have some sweet dreams.