E7 - Gentleman Thief
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SIGN Tokyo Asahi Shimbun Local News Section
Adachi Ryuuzou
[00:01] reporter
I'm from the Asahi Shimbun's
local news section.
[00:04] reporter
My name is Adachi.
[00:06] Kanemura
Good to meet you.
[00:08] Kanemura
I'm Kanemura, the president of the company.
[00:11] Kanemura
Please, have a seat.
[00:12] Kanemura
The employees have all gone out
for lunch, so I'm afraid
[00:15] Kanemura
I can't offer much in the way of hospitality...
[00:17] reporter
Please, don't trouble yourself.
[00:21] reporter
Would it be all right if I...
[00:23] Kanemura
Of course.
[00:28] reporter
Well, to get straight to the point,
[00:30] reporter
if I could ask your opinion on the issue
of the treatment of workers.
[00:35] reporter
Recently, incidents involving certain
higher-ups at large companies
[00:40] reporter
have been triggers to expose supposed
wrongdoing at those companies,
[00:43] reporter
and these incidents continue to occur...
[00:45] Kanemura
I can only call it outrageous.
[00:48] Kanemura
Companies only exist to make
the world a better place.
[00:53] Kanemura
To say they're committing crimes is...
[00:55] Kanemura
Mistaking the result for
the cause is just as terrible.
[00:58] reporter
Quite the inspiring answer!
[01:00] reporter
If all companies were run by
people who thought this way
[01:03] reporter
crimes like this would never happen.
[01:09] reporter
Excuse me.
[01:10] reporter
Might I borrow your restroom?
[01:16] employee A
Hello. Editorial department.
[01:18] employee A
Yes. I see...
[01:21] employee A
Then send it our way.
[01:24] employee B
This printing technique is amazing.
[01:26] Satou
Yes. It's almost frightening.
[01:31] Takuboku
What is that?
[01:33] Satou
A print from the Uchida print shop.
[01:35] Satou
Well-made, isn't it?
[01:38] Takuboku
That's very impressive.
[01:40] employee A
Adachi?
[01:42] employee A
From our local news department?
[01:45] Kanemura
That's right.
[01:46] Kanemura
He's a completely disrespectful man.
[01:48] Kanemura
He got up to use the restroom
and left, just like that.
[01:51] employee A
But...
[01:52] employee A
our local news department doesn't
have anyone named Adachi...
[01:55] Man B
President! President!
[01:56] Man B
It's gone!
[01:58] Man B
The bag with the wages in it...
[02:02] Kanemaru
What did you say?
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN Maichou Shimbun
The Gentleman Thief
[03:36] Yoshii
It was over much too quickly.
SIGN Poem 7
Gentleman Thief
[03:38] Nomura
Just goes to show, the sun sees everything.
[03:42] Akutagawa
Ill-gotten gains never remain long.
[03:44] Nomura
He was here?
[03:45] Sakutarou
But where do you think
it went? The 5,000 yen...
[03:49] Yoshii
With 5,000 yen, you could live
comfortably your whole life.
[03:53] Kyousuke
There are those...
[03:54] Kyousuke
who manage to play around their
whole lives even without money.
[03:59] Nomura
You two still haven't made up?
[04:02] Kyousuke
I see no reason to do so.
[04:07] Takuboku
Hello, everyone!
[04:08] Akutagawa
Speak rumors of someone,
and from the shadows...
[04:11] Takuboku
Oh! Kyousuke-san's here, too.
[04:15] Yoshii
They managed to catch him.
The gentleman thief.
[04:18] Takuboku
What? They caught him?
[04:20] Nomura
Oh, come on. He said he was from
your paper's local news section.
[04:26] Takuboku
True, but...
[04:27] Takuboku
my health has been poor, so...
[04:29] Takuboku
I didn't go to work yesterday or today.
[04:32] Yoshii
Are you sure you should be here, then?
[04:37] Takuboku
Yes.
[04:38] Takuboku
After all, milk is very nutritious.
[04:41] Takuboku
Yae-chan, one more milk.
[04:45] Takuboku
It's impressive the police
managed to catch him.
[04:49] Sakutarou
Yes.
[04:50] Sakutarou
They found something at the scene
where the money was stolen.
[04:53] Sakutarou
A very unusual brand of
cigarette called "Figaro."
[04:57] (Flashback) detective
Figaro, Figaro...
[04:59] Nomura
Seems a very persistent
detective went all over Tokyo
[05:03] Nomura
looking for a shop that
sold those cigarettes.
[05:05] (Flashback) detective
Figaro, Figaro, Figaro...
[05:08] (Flashback) detective
Do you have a moment?
[05:10] (Flashback) detective
I'm looking for a tobacconists
called "Marumi-ya."
[05:14] (Flashback) Older woman
Oh. Look.
[05:16] (Flashback) Older woman
You can see it right there.
[05:18] (Flashback) detective
Ah.
[05:20] (Flashback) detective
Thank you.
[05:34] Nomura
In the base of the brazier they found
in the room where the man was staying,
[05:37] Nomura
they discovered clothes, a false mustache,
and other things he'd used for the crime.
[05:42] Takuboku
And so, he was arrested.
[05:44] Nomura
Tracing cigarettes from Egypt
to discover the criminal...
[05:49] Nomura
Pretty classy move.
[05:50] Takuboku
It was.
[05:52] Yoshii
Even so, the culprit is still
stubbornly refusing to say anything
[05:56] Yoshii
about the stolen 5,000 yen.
[05:59] Nomura
The police are saying there's
nothing they can do,
[06:02] Nomura
so the president of the company
[06:04] Nomura
is offering a reward of 500 yen.
[06:06] Takuboku
500 yen?!
[06:08] Takuboku
That's a lot of money!
[06:10] Yoshii
Well, if it gets the 5,000 yen returned,
it's a small price to pay.
[06:14] Takuboku
Forget 5,000 yen, if I only had 500 yen...
[06:18] Takuboku
I could just about pay back
the money I owe all of you.
[06:24] Takuboku
Still, I'd like to try one of those
"Figaro" things just once.
[06:28] Takuboku
I wonder where the gentleman
thief bought them.
[06:32] Sakutarou
If I'm not mistaken... they said it was
at a shop called Marumi-ya
[06:35] Sakutarou
in the Hongo Kikuzaka-cho area.
[06:37] Takuboku
Really? That shop's close to where we live.
[06:40] Takuboku
Let's stop by on the way home.
What do you think, Kyousuke-san?
[06:43] Kyousuke
You're trying to make me buy you
things again, aren't you?
[06:47] Takuboku
There's no need to put it that way.
[06:49] Takuboku
Though, the truth is, I don't have any money.
[07:00] Takuboku
I'm in your debt!
[07:01] Takuboku
Once I get paid—
[07:02] Kyousuke
I'm giving that to you.
[07:04] Kyousuke
There's no need to repay it.
[07:10] Nomura
Why don't you two just make up already?
[07:14] Takuboku
Yeah. I'm not bothered by it anymore, but...
[07:19] Sakutarou
Kindaichi-san is still troubled
by what happened with Oen-san?
[07:22] Takuboku
That was an issue between me and Oen.
[07:27] Takuboku
No.
[07:28] Takuboku
Once everyone agreed,
it wasn't even an "issue" anymore.
[07:32] Takuboku
So why is Kyousuke-san so angry?
[07:36] Takuboku
It doesn't make any sense.
[07:39] Akutagawa
Stricken by the same illness...
[07:41] Akutagawa
they pity each other.
[07:42] Nomura
He was here?
[07:44] Yoshii
What are you talking about
illnesses and pity for?
[07:48] Akutagawa
I believe that Kindaichi-san is unwittingly
projecting his own feelings.
SIGN Gaiheikan
SIGN Gaiheikan
[08:15] Takuboku
Oh! Is something wrong?
[08:18] Kyousuke
I just... wanted to ask you something.
[08:22] Takuboku
What could it be?
[08:23] Takuboku
If it's something I can answer,
you can ask me anything.
[08:28] Kyousuke
Are you all right?
[08:30] Takuboku
Yes. It's just a cold.
[08:32] Takuboku
So...
[08:35] Kyousuke
Where did you get that two-sen copper coin?
[08:38] Takuboku
Two-sen copper coin?
[08:40] Kyousuke
You left it on my writing desk, didn't you?
[08:42] Takuboku
Oh!
[08:45] Takuboku
It was change from buying these.
[08:47] Kyousuke
Y-You bought that from Marumi-ya, right?
[08:51] Takuboku
Yes, I did...
[08:52] Takuboku
Why do you ask?
[08:53] Kyousuke
Well...
[08:54] Kyousuke
No real reason...
[08:56] Kyousuke
When you bought the cigarettes,
were there any other customers?
[09:01] Takuboku
I don't think there were, but...
[09:03] Takuboku
Oh, right! There wouldn't have been.
[09:06] Takuboku
The old woman was napping.
[09:09] Kyousuke
At that tobacconists,
aside from the old woman,
[09:12] Kyousuke
I wonder what kind of people work there.
[09:14] Takuboku
What exactly are we talking about here?
[09:17] Kyousuke
I have a bit of a situation...
[09:19] Kyousuke
Oh, right! Isn't there a young lady
at the counter sometimes?
[09:24] Takuboku
Oh! That's their only daughter.
[09:27] Takuboku
She's not bad-looking,
[09:29] Takuboku
but about six months ago,
she married into the family
[09:31] Takuboku
that runs the procurement shop.
[09:32] Kyousuke
The procurement shop?
[09:34] Takuboku
It's basically a dry goods store,
[09:37] Takbuoku
but they procure items for those
arrested and waiting for trial
[09:40] Takbuoku
and those convicted and imprisoned.
[09:42] Takuboku
Apparently, they make quite a lot of money,
[09:45] Takuboku
so with the bride's allowance, that
tobacconist is probably doing pretty well.
[09:50] Kyousuke
Prison... Procurement shop...
[09:53] Kyousuke
Allowance...
[09:57] Kyousuke
Thank you!
[10:03] Kyousuke
Hirai-kun! Are you there?
[10:05] Hirai
Yes.
[10:08] Hirai
What's going on? It's late.
[10:10] Kyousuke
I was hoping to borrow your intelligence.
[10:14] Kyousuke
Would you mind closing the door?
[10:18] Hirai
Of course.
[10:44] Takuboku
Who's there?!
[10:46] Kyousuke
It's me.
[10:49] Kyousuke
Kindaichi.
[10:51] Takuboku
Wh-What are you doing?
[10:57] Takuboku
I-Is that...
[10:59] Kyousuke
There's exactly 5,000 yen.
[11:01] Takbuoku
Five thousand?!
[11:04] Takuboku
Could it be...
[11:05] Takuboku
the gentleman thief's?
[11:07] Kyousuke
I think I understand how
you feel a little better.
[11:11] Kyousuke
The glow of victory...
[11:14] Kyousuke
I just can't get enough.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[11:52] (Flashback) Takuboku
Oh! Is something wrong?
[11:55] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I just... wanted to ask you something.
[11:58] (Flashback) Takuboku
What could it be?
[12:00] (Flashback) Takuboku
If it's something I can answer,
you can ask me anything.
[12:04] Kyousuke
But really, at the beginning,
[12:06] Kyousuke
I just thought that maybe
a coin meant for magic tricks
[12:09] Kyousuke
must have gotten mixed in somehow.
[12:11] Kyousuke
But once you told me
[12:12] Kyousuke
that the daughter had married
into the procurement shop,
[12:16] Kyousuke
suddenly the whole thing
seemed very intriguing.
[12:18] Takuboku
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand
what you're talking about.
[12:22] Takuboku
Could you tell me what happened, in order?
[12:25] Kyousuke
Oh, how rude of me.
[12:27] Kyousuke
I wondered if the gentleman thief
might be using this two-sen copper coin
[12:32] Kyousuke
to communicate with someone
from inside his prison cell.
[12:37] Kyousuke
Just for argument's sake...
[12:39] Kyousuke
If, because of his sudden arrest,
[12:41] Kyousuke
he had been unable to tell his partner
where the 5,000 yen was hidden...
[12:45] Kyousuke
What would he do?
[12:53] Kyousuke
With the gentleman thief in a cell,
[12:55] Kyousuke
if he wanted to communicate
with the outside,
[12:57] Kyousuke
the procurement shop
would be the perfect way.
[13:01] Kyousuke
If that were the case,
[13:02] Kyousuke
and some error had occurred in
their method of correspondence,
[13:05] Kyousuke
then this two-sen copper coin could have,
through the bride's allowance,
[13:10] Kyousuke
been sent to the tobacconist's shop,
just by chance. It isn't impossible.
[13:15] Takuboku
Quite the convenient deductions.
[13:18] Takuboku
No. Not even deductions.
More like imaginings.
[13:21] Kyousuke
You're free to say what you like,
but the reality you can see here.
[13:26] Kyousuke
Now, then...
[13:27] Kyousuke
Still, I knew I wouldn't be able
to solve the code, so...
[13:32] Takuboku
You turned to Hirai for help.
[13:35] Kyousuke
Yes.
[13:37] (Flashback) Hirai
I see.
[13:39] (Flashback) Hirai
Kindaichi-sensei, you think
that this is a code
[13:43] (Flashback) Hirai
that leads to the 5,000 yen, correct?
[13:46] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Yes.
[13:47] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I know it seems absurd, but...
[13:49] (Flashback) Hirai
Not at all! I would never think that.
[13:52] (Flashback) Hirai
First, about this...
[13:54] (Flashback) Hirai
I have heard of prisoners
using small saws to break out.
[13:59] (Flashback) Hirai
If something like a saw were used to
carve out two copper coins to make a vessel,
[14:06] (Flashback) Hirai
it and its contents could
easily pass though the bars
[14:08] (Flashback) Hirai
of even the strongest of prisons.
[14:10] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I-I see!
[14:13] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Then...
[14:14] (Flashback) Kyousuke
this coded message I found
inside the two-sen copper coin...
[14:16] (Flashback) Hirai
It's a very simple code, don't you think?
[14:19] (Flashback) Hirai
If it were me, I'd have used
a more complicated code.
[14:22] (Flashback) Kyousuke
What? You don't mean...
[14:24] (Flashback) Kyousuke
You've already solved it?
[14:25] (Flashback) Hirai
Yes.
[14:28] (Flashback) Hirai
This paper was found in
a hollow two-sen copper coin.
[14:33] (Flashback) Hirai
So...
[14:34] (Flashback) Hirai
if you read it by skipping two characters...
[14:38] (Flashback) Hirai
Shinyuu-do.
[14:41] (Flashback) Hirai
Prop paper money.
[14:44] (Flashback) Hirai
Go retrieve.
[14:47] (Flashback) Hirai
Name of recipient...
[14:49] (Flashback) Hirai
Tagane Hajime.
[14:52] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Prop paper money?
[14:55] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Does this seem like a prank?
[14:57] (Flashback) Hirai
No!
[14:58] (Flashback) Hirai
The gentleman thief must have
considered worst case scenarios
[15:02] (Flashback) Hirai
and prepared the safest
place he could think of!
[15:07] (Flashback) Hirai
This Shinyuu-do...
[15:09] (Flashback) Hirai
It must be a shop that theaters use
to make their props.
[15:13] (Flashback) Hirai
The gentleman thief must have
used the name "Tagane Hajime"
[15:17] (Flashback) Hirai
to place an order for play money
there in advance.
[15:21] (Flashback) Kyousuke
But why would he do that?
[15:23] Hirai
It must be that he secretly carried
the real money he stole there
[15:29] Hirai
and switched it out with
the play money he'd ordered.
[15:33] Hirai
That way,
[15:34] Hirai
until the person who ordered it arrived,
SIGN Tagane Hajime
[15:36] Hirai
the 5,000 yen, the money of the land,
[15:38] Hirai
would be treated as simply a prop
and left there in storage.
[15:42] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Which is why
[15:43] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I'm dressed as the one who made the order
and am going to retrieve it.
[15:49] Kyousuke
And so...
[15:51] Kyousuke
I went out early this morning
[15:52] Kyousuke
and managed to lay hold
of the 5,000 yen, just like that.
[15:56] Kyousuke
Hirai-kun said it was great
material for his story,
[15:59] Kyousuke
and holed himself up in his room, writing.
[16:06] Takuboku
Well done! Wonderful!
[16:09] Kyousuke
Not really.
[16:10] Kyousuke
After all, it was Hirai-kun
who broke the code.
[16:13] Takuboku
Even so,
[16:15] Takuboku
your powers of observation, noticing
something odd about the two-sen copper coin,
[16:19] Takuboku
and your imagination, using that to
discover the hiding place of the 5,000 yen.
[16:24] Takuboku
If not for those... this mystery
would never have been solved!
[16:28] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[16:31] Takuboku
Won't you forgive me?
[16:37] Takuboku
A lot has happened, but...
[16:40] Takuboku
Losing a good friend,
one as gifted as you...
[16:44] Takuboku
I just can't bear it.
[16:46] Kyousuke
D-Don't say that!
[16:48] Kyousuke
I've been being stubborn, too...
[16:53] Kyouosuke
I feel the same.
[16:59] Takuboku
So, what do you plan to do
with this 5,000 yen?
[17:02] Kyousuke
I'll take it to the police
and claim the 500 yen reward.
[17:08] Takuboku
You can't do that.
[17:10] Kyousuke
What?
[17:10] Takuboku
The gentleman thief laid his life
on the line to protect this money.
[17:15] Takuboku
If he learned it was taken,
he's sure to come for revenge.
[17:19] Kyousuke
What? He wouldn't...
[17:21] Takuboku
Besides which, with that level of disguise,
[17:24] Takuboku
if the gentleman thief's accomplices
ask around Shinyuu-do,
[17:28] Takuboku
it's possible they'll realize the one who
snatched the money was you, Kyousuke-san...
[17:32] Kyousuke
I didn't "snatch" anything...
[17:33] Takuboku
You don't need to convince me.
[17:35] Takuboku
I'm saying that's what
the gentleman thief will be thinking.
[17:39] Kyousuke
What do I do?
[17:41] Takuboku
Still, it is 5,000 yen here...
[17:44] Takuboku
Killing one or two people over it...
[17:47] Kyousuke
I-Ishikawa-kun!
[17:49] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, you may have
meant it a just a little trick, but...
[17:53] Takuboku
money makes people do crazy things.
[17:59] Kyousuke
Huh?
[18:00] Kyousuke
Th-That's me!
[18:02] Kyousuke
Why?
[18:05] Kyousuke
Huh?
[18:13] Takuboku
So sorry!
[18:14] Takuboku
They're pretty well-made, aren't they?
[18:20] Kyousuke
These are... What's going on?
[18:22] Takuboku
The name of the recipient
was "Tagane Hajime," right?
[18:27] Takuboku
If you write that in kanji...
[18:30] Takuboku
and switch the first
two characters around...
[18:34] Kyousuke
Kindaichi...
[18:36] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, you were being so stubborn...
[18:38] Takuboku
I just wanted to play a little trick on you.
[18:41] Takuboku
I'm so glad you had fun!
[18:44] Kyousuke
Then... what happened to
the gentleman thief's 5,000 yen?
[18:47] Takuboku
How would I know that?
[18:54] Takuboku
"Without realizing...
[18:55] Takuboku
I was lying about my feelings
[18:58] Takuboku
back then, I couldn't even grow a beard."
[19:03] Takuboku
Well, then.
[19:04] Takuboku
Now we've managed to make up,
want to head to the milk hall?
[19:16] Takuboku
What's this?
[19:17] Takuboku
Looks like the bat-man has been killed.
[19:20] Kyousuke
Bat-man? You mean that illusionist,
Kagami or something?
[19:24] Takuboku
He seems to have fallen while flying, but...
[19:28] Takuboku
It says they found a letter of complaint
[19:31] Takuboku
against his employer,
Sonobe, in Kagami's room...
[19:34] Kyousuke
Sonobe, isn't that...
[19:36] Kyousuke
the man with that huge
entertainment business
[19:38] Kyousuke
that's been doing so well lately?
[19:40] Kyousuke
There were a lot of bad rumors
going around about him...
[19:44] Takuboku
Now, Sonobe's evil deeds will be
revealed one after another,
[19:48] Takuboku
and everyone will go crazy about it...
[19:51] Kyousuke
What do you mean?
[19:54] Takuboku
The homicide which revealed
the Arakawa mine pollution issue...
[19:59] Takuboku
The murder of a young woman
[20:00] Takuboku
which revealed the bribery scandal
with Uchimoto steamships...
[20:03] Takuboku
And this time, too...
[20:05] Takuboku
Something keeps nagging at me.
[20:07] Kyousuke
What keeps nagging at you?
[20:10] Takuboku
In each of these cases,
there was an accusatory letter.
[20:14] Takuboku
It's almost as if exposing these problems
is the purpose of these incidents.
[20:19] Kyousuke
But the murderer in the Arakawa mines
case hasn't been caught yet, right?
[20:24] Kyousuke
You can't lump it in with the other cases...
[20:27] Kyousuke
You can't mean...
[20:28] Kyousuke
the culprit in that case
is causing other cases?
[20:32] Takuboku
Yes.
[20:33] Takuboku
For now, we'll call him...
[20:35] Takuboku
Accuser X.
[20:42] Nomura
Hey there, you two!
[20:48] Nomura
Once you take a prank to this level,
you can only call it brilliant. Right?
[20:53] Takuboku
With the hopes that Kyousuke-san
will one day be able to grow a beard!
[20:57] Kyousuke
Stop that!
[20:59] Sakutarou
How much did it cost to make these?
[21:02] Takuboku
Just about 500 yen.
[21:03] Sakutarou
Five hundred yen?!
[21:05] Nomura
Hold on...
[21:06] Nomura
Wasn't the reward
for finding the 5,000 yen...
[21:10] Sakutarou
Five hundred yen...
[21:13] Takuboku
Yae-chan! Another milk!
[21:16] Akutagawa
With this, we are truly...
[21:17] Nomura
He was here?
[21:19] Akutagawa
...in a grove.
[21:22] plant shop clerk
Thanks for your business!
[21:26] Kyousuke
What did you buy?
[21:28] Takuboku
It's a wild pansy.
[21:30] Takuboku
Beautiful, isn't it?
[21:31] Takuboku
Oh, right. Would you mind?
[21:35] Takuboku
A letter arrived from Oen.
[21:38] Takuboku
It seems Oen's husband
is an exceedingly good man.
[21:41] Takuboku
He's taken over Oen's
parents' debts for them.
[21:46] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun...
[21:48] Kyousuke
Could it be that you...
[21:51] Takuboku
If things were going to turn out this way
[21:52] Takuboku
maybe I should have asked
for a slightly higher price.
[21:59] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun.
[22:01] Kyousuke
I won't fall for that again.
[23:38] Sakutarou
Ishikawa-kun seems quite ill, doesn't he?
[23:40] Sakutarou
Do you think he's all right?
[23:41] Yoshii
Shall we visit him together?
SIGN Next Time: "Young Man"
[23:43] Yoshii
Let's go see this unusually
weakened state of his.
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
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