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[Sound of second hand]
Ah...!
What is this?
No, you're saying you were sleeping!
Mitani Watch Store Owner Tokino Mitani
Too noisy...
That's why... That's why I just got up.
I'm off today.
Don't be stupid!
I'm not going to cheat on you as soon as my alone.
Hey, Nao... Naomi!
Too troublesome...
[Sigh]
Answer the damn phone!
Director. Investigation Division Nano Prefecture Yoshiyuki Saji
Good morning.
Did you hear me...?
- Did you have an affair? - That's not it.
I just fell asleep early yesterday because I was so tired
and I didn't notice my wife's phone call.
Sleeping is too week as an alibi.
Hey... Hey, can't you prove my alibi?
You're good at it, aren't you? That kind of thing. I'll pay you.
I accept alibi break,
but I do not accept alibi making.
[Click tongue] It's the same thing...
[Sigh]
It's bad... it's bad...
Your wife is hard-headed, isn't she?
[Phone ringing]
Hey, Naomi! Listen to me.
Nano Prefecture Police Department
[Cough]
Ah, no, no. Yes, this is him speaking.
Yes?
I understand. I'll be there.
They are calling you on your day off, must be a serious case, right?
Saji-san!
Ah...
- Thank you for your hard work. - Thank you for your hard work.
Sorry for calling you on your day off.
- No... - I wish you'd taken your day off.
Criminal Detective Tokai Yuma
[Click tongue]
Coroner. Forensic Division Hideto Higuchi
So what about the victim?
The victim is a resident of this house, Kawaya Toshiko, 35 years old.
She teaches piano lesson via private lessons
and she teaches here.
The first to discover is as student who came for the 10:00 am lesson
Head of the investigation Division Makimura Takumi
When he rang the bell and no one answered the door,
he got suspicious and found the body here.
- Cause of death? - Assessing the situation,
it seems that the suspect knocked the victim's head in this corner of the piano,
and then strangled her with a curtain tassel and killed her.
This piano is not easy to move.
I'm sure that the crime happened in here.
Oh, I see.
In other words, the culprit is ... the student.
Indeed, Junior. That's a brilliant deduction!
Here are the list of students.
Thank you.
Then Tokai-kun, you deal with the students.
Wait a minute. There are more than 50 people...
The first move is important. Hurry up.
As for me, I'll start with this neighborhood.
[Click tongue]
This is terrible...
Today around 10:00 am, Kawaya Toshiko, 35, a private piano instructor,
was found dead in her home in Kurobu-cho, Nano.
The Nano Prefectural Police Investigation Headquarters is investigating
the possibility of a murder case.
I wonder if that's the case...
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The shape of the wound on the back of the head
Beautiful Sister's Alibi
exactly matched the shape of the corner of the piano.
There is no doubt that she was killed on site because of the reaction
of the wound at the back of her head.
You were right, Junior. That's amazing!
No, of course.
Estimated time of death?
From 9:00 am to noon of that day before body was found.
Time of Death
AM.
Ah, It seemed on that day, she was closed for lessons.
It is believed that the body was found late, yesterday.
- Tokai-kun. - Yes.
- What about the students? - I've dealt with it from beginning to end.
But there's no new information that came out.
Everyone said she was a good teacher.
I don't think there's any point in pushing for it more.
Wasn't the suspect a student in your deduction?
What about it?
The lesson room on the site was soundproofed
and there were no people in the surrounding area who heard screams or fighting.
There is no clue.
Tokino!
What are you doing in here?
I am here for the official wristwatch cleaning service.
Official cleaning?
You're always helpful, Tokino-chan.
Chief of Police Nano Prefecture Watanuki Tetsuharu
- Thank you very much. - You save us, Tokino-chan.
You're always helpful, Tokino-chan.
Wait, wait, wait, wait... Wait!
We don't have time to do that!
There are still a lot of students that you haven't questioned. Huh?
Yes, yes, yes. Later...
Umm... We have a visitor
- Tokino-chan, my watch... - Karen-kun!
Ah.. That shook me.
He seems to be an acquaintance of the victim Kawaya Toshiko.
- I'll talk to you. - I'll talk to you.
[Click tongue]
My name is Shibata Kazuyuki, and I runs a massage shop.
Thank you very much.
Relaxation...
- So... what is it? - Yes, umm...
In fact, the victim, Kawaya Toshiko-san, was a regular customer of our shop
Manager of Sato Luxury Shop Shibata Kazuyuki
and she came in the morning the day before yesterday.
- The day before yesterday? It's the day she was killed. - What time was it?
She was given an hour-long massage
between 10:00 and 11:00 am., when the shop opened.
It takes 10 minutes by car from the shop to the scene of the crime.
Did Kawaya-san went to the shop by car?
No, I think it was a bicycle.
Then it will take 20 minutes.
Since the estimated time of death is from 9 a.m. to noon,
Time of Death
AM.
the suspect must've committed the crime from 11:20 to noon.
Time of the Crime?
AM.
Did Kawaya-san
say anything about inviting someone to her home?
- Nothing in particular. - Then... - Then...
Did she ever had trouble with someone?
Ah...
Ah... She has an older sister named Junko-san
and she has a dispute with her younger sister. - What kind of dispute?
It is about the land and the house they inherited from their parents.
Kawaya-san wants to sell it, but her older sister is against it.
Her older sister is attached t to the house and still lives there.
- Thank you for your cooperation. - Hey!
Tokino, I'm going out for a moment. This investigation will likely progress.
Wait please! Your watch is still...
Tokai-san, just... Oh...
Kawaya
[Doorbell chime]
Yes?
Nano Prefectural Police Department.
I'm here because of your sister Toshiko Kawaya.
Please wait.
Hey!
You're supposed to be questioning the students.
It's not like you're trying to take credit yourself.
Geez...
In the first place, this investigation is... [Door opening sound]
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.
Come in.
I saw my sister on the news.
Why didn't you contact the police?
I was going to call the police.
Where were you between 9:00 am. and noon the day before yesterday?
Sister of the Victim Kawaya Junko
From 9:00 am. to noon...
I would have slept at home at that time.
Sleeping? At that time?
I work for a club.
So I always come home late at night
and sleep around 4 in the morning and get up around noon.
Did you wake up around noon that day?
That's the day...
When I woke up, it was midnight.
Midnight?
Did you get up at midnight after going to bed at four in the morning?
You've been asleep for 20 hours, right? - No, no
It's impossible to sleep like that.
- You're lying, aren't you? - It's not a lie.
So who can prove that you were asleep at that time?
I don't know...
I heard you were having dispute with your sister about this house.
Yes...
I'll ask again.
Where and what did you do between 9:00 am. and noon
the day before yesterday? Please tell me the truth.
I think I... may have killed my sister.
"Maybe"? What does that mean?
That is almost a confession, isn't it?
It's still too early to decide.
I've never heard such a story. And...
That such a beautiful woman can't kill anyone. Are you trying to say that?
Wrong! I did not say that!
I'm telling you that we need to get to the bottom of this.
I'll leave that to you.
Then I'll report it to the headquarter.
The one who asked about it... is me.
Ah!
I don't need to question the students anymore, do I?
[Click tongue]
Ah... I kept you waiting.
I'm done cleaning it.
Thank you. I'm sorry that I brought you here.
- I'll take you home. - That helps a lot.
Well, I heard that she confessed to you just now.
You heard it?
Right. I understood it when I heard about it....
- The suspect is probably her. - Eh?
Well, it may still be difficult to arrest,
but it's only a matter of time.
She confessed but you can't arrest yet...?
Does she have an alibi?
It is kind of strange...
"Maybe"? What does that mean?
Actually, I'm... I'm suffering from sleepwalking.
On that day, I had a sleepwalking attack and I moved around.
And I thought I'd been sleeping for 20 hours.
Ha?
So you think you killed my sister?
It's a leap too far.
I was covered with blood.
Blood?
On the sleeves of my pajama...
Where is that pajama?
I got scared and threw it away.
That's not all.
- I had a strange dreams. - Dreams?
Like I was flying through the sky, someone's stroking my face,
Like I am being held down and like I was trapped in a cave.
Those kind of dreams.
I think it's because of my sleepwalking attack.
Murder via sleepwalking attack.
- Is that possible? - I don't know.
It is certain that there is no alibi.
Hmmm... Alibi...
From what I explained, that the victim's younger sister,
Kawaya Junko, is likely to be the suspect.
[Laughs] That's great!
There is no doubt it. That's great!
But I've never heard of a homicide via sleepwalking attack.
[Click tongue]
Isn't it a lie that it was a sleepwalking attack in the first place?
Even if we arrest her now, she can still file for an insanity defense.
- That's it. - I see.
Then, the investigation after that will arrest Junko
as soon as sufficient evidence is found.
- Yes. - Hold on!
Chief. I'm really worried that she's been sleeping for 20 hours.
That is also a lie aimed for insanity defense, director.
- That's it for the meeting. - Yes.
You're so good, Junior.
It's not easy to let them confess
on the first interrogation. [Laugh]
[Sound of second hand]
[Door opening sound]
Isn't it strange that she slept for 20 hours?
You think so too?
Maybe she took some sleeping pills?
Someone is trying to make Junko-san the suspect.
Sleeping pills...
Huh? Eh, eh, eh... W... w... why? Eh?
How do you know about Junko-san?
Yuma-san said. She's the killer.
[Click tongue] That guy...
Does the police think she's the killer?
Ah...
You also don't think so, Saji-san?
We have no choice but to follow the investigation policy. That's what the police are all about.
And is that okay?
Eh?
She doesn't know what she did.
Even if she's not the suspect, she can't also deny the crime.
Saji-san, what would happen to her if she gave up?
What she needs is an alibi...
You can't find an alibi, can you?
[Sound of second hand]
[Time clock alarm ringing]
I know.
But you did that too, Grandpa, didn't you?
Looking for an alibi.
Junior, I investigated the road from Junko's home
to her sister's piano classrom
and no one saw a person resembling Junko.
What about the bloody pajama that were thrown away?
I'm searching for it with all my might, but I still...
I think it's already been incinerated...
Why can't I find the evidence?
I'll just have to make her confess when it comes to this.
It's junior's turn!
Saji-san, what would happen to her if she gave up?
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Hmmm...
Massage... 60 minutes 12,000 yen!?
Ha... Outrageous!
[Phone ringing]
Yes. Hello.
Ah, Tokino? Is the director at home?
I don't think he's back yet but...
I'm taking a bath right now...
A, a, a, a, a Bath!?
A, a, a, a Bath?
What happened to Saji-san?
No, uh... he was absent from the evening meeting.
He said he was going home because he wasn't feeling well.…
- Eh? - Maybe that old man
is investigating on his own.
Saji-san, didn't give up.
Wait, I'll look for him now [Sound rising from bathtub]
Ah! Good!
Good, good, good, good…! Good… Good… Nope.
It's pretty late anyway now. Bye.
Junior? Are you okay?
Ah... Ju... Junior... Um...
Your nose is bleeding.
Eh?
Ha... it's just a scratch.
Le Voile
Le Voile=The Veil
Ah... I'm sorry for coming to your workplace.
No. What's going on?
Um...
On the day of the incident, before you went to sleep, what were you doing?
I drank wine.
I always drink one glass before I go to sleep.
Is it just wine?
Yes... What is it?
Do you think that there must be something in it
like a sleeping pill?
Sleeping pill?
Who would do that...? The real suspect.
I believe you were framed by the real suspect.
Does that mean someone sneaked into my house?
Who has a duplicate key?
No one.
Can I go to your house and borrow
the wine after this?
What is it? Why did you call me in here.
Check this and see if there are any sleeping pills in it.
- Is it for the case? - Yes.
Wait a minute. This isn't part of the headquarters' instructions, is it?
I'll take the responsibility.
Please.
Well, I don't hate it, but that's the way it is.
Direct, where and what were you doing yesterday?
As I told you, I was sick...
That's funny.
I asked my mom earlier where Junko works.
And she said that the director came to the club late last night.
Director, your behavior of ignoring the investigation policy is becoming a problem.
I don't have to tell the detective about this,
so I'm taking you off of this case.
[Telephone ringing]
I'm sorry. No sleeping pills were detected.
I see.
What's the matter?
…Nothing.
Well...
That's just the way it is.
I think we should question her tomorrow.
- Understood. - I will make her confess.
Yes!
[Door opening sound] Welcome.
Saji-san?
What are you doing here at this time?
- I was taken off the case. - Eh...?
I give up.
Wait a minute.
"Searching for Alibi"
My grandfather hasn't taught me how to find an alibi.
So I don't know if I can do it...
Could you tell what you've investigated so far?
Do you want to know why the investigation was narrowed down to the sister, Junko-san?
Yes!
After that...
I went to to talk to Shibata at the massage parlor.
The reason Junko-san surfaced on the investigation ,
was because of Shibata's testimony.
Yes.
Kawaya-san came here from 10:00 to 11:00 am, right?
Kawaya Toshiko had the massage
As usual, she was able to receive the one-hour massage...
I took the first 30 minutes. I was also the one in charge
The newbie took over Shibata
of the remaining 20 minutes, then Tagawa took over
for the remaining 10 minutes.
Shibata came back
How was Kawaya-san...?
I felt that she was sound asleep and well rested.
Did you see Kawaya-san on her way home?
Ah no...
I was massaging another guest in another private room.
What happened after Kawaya-san left?
After 11:00 am., there was a customer named Moroi-san,
Shibata had another customer
and I was doing the massage for that person.
Shibata-san must've had an alibi, right?
Ah. I heard it from the customer herself.
I got a massage from Shibata for an hour.
I always request for him.
Shibata-san is handsome, isn't he?
Huh... I guess he's popular.
He can't get his head up because he has a wife.
Because his wife is rich,
It looks like his wife gave the money to open his shop.
He has a rich wife and can't get his head up.
For example, what if
Shibata-san became deeply close to Toshiko Kawaya
and was forced to break up with his wife and marry her...
Shibata can't afford to lose his wife,
now he has a motive to kill Toshiko-san.
Yes...
But however... Shibata definitely has an alibi.
Please continue.
After that, I went to Junko's workplace.
Before Junko-san went to bed, the only thing she had was wine,
but there was no sleeping pill in the wine.
It's impossible to put sleeping pills in wine in the first place.
Junko's house was of course locked
and there was no sign of being broken in.
Junko-san says no one has a duplicate key.
Duplicate key…
That's all I know.
Can you find Junko-san's alibi now?
Watch repair sure does stiffen the shoulder, right?
- Eh? - Will you give money for it?
Hmmm... That feels good.
This is bad... I'm going to sleep...
I doesn't matter.
There are a lot of customers who came here just to rest.
- Is that right? - Yes.
The massage of the head and the face is an extra charge.
That's right. We will take off the swelling and you will have a small face.
Hmmm...
[Laugh]
Uh... Uh...
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.
You're late. It's been more than an hour.
I've added a lot of options.
Options!? [Laugh]
You thought it was your pocket money. It's my money!
You just wanted to get a massage, didn't you?
- Come on, let's go! - Hey!
Hey!
So what did you know?
It is true that Shibata-san was handsome and his skill was so good.
Ha!
- Just kidding. - I knew that.
[Time clock alarm ringing]
[Sound of second hand]
There are a lot of customers who came here just to rest.
Shibata definitely has an alibi.
- ...the crime from 11:20 to noon. - After 11:00 am., there was a...
I think it's because of my sleepwalking...
I... may have killed my sister...
I was able to turn back time.
I found Junko-san's alibi.
I also found the suspect.
I found Junko-san's alibi.
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I also found the suspect.
Eh?
I also think that
Junko-san was given a sleeping pill, too.
There is no doubt that Junko-san has taken sleeping pills
in the bottle of wine, because she didn't eat anything
other than wine before she went to sleep.
But how did someone get into Junko-san's house?
Junko-san said she hasn't given a duplicate key to anyone.
Saji-san, you've forgotten
that there is only one person that can enter into Junko-san's home.
Huh?
Her sister Toshiko-san.
Since Junko-san's house was originally Toshiko-san's house as well,
Toshiko-san would naturally have a key.
If she has a key, it's easy to replace it
with another wine while she's asleep.
Toshiko-san is the victim. Why is it Toshiko-san?
Because Toshiko-san was an accomplice of the suspect.
Accomplice?
The suspect betrayed and killed Toshiko-san,
after using her as an accomplice.
It might be better to say that the suspect originally
intended to used Toshiko-san as an accomplice before killing her.
But here's one question.
Why did the suspect give Junko-san sleeping pills?
There is also a possibility that Junko-san will not sleep for the day.
Because if she went outside and an alibi is formed it would mean trouble.
Isn't the amount of sleeping pill a bit too high?
20 hours of sleep is a bit excessive, right?
It's excessive just to make sure you're sleeping at the time of the crime.
Was there some other purpose?
Another purpose...?
Please try to remember. The dream that Junko-san dreamt.
Like I was flying through the sky, someone's stroking my face,
Like I am being held down and like I was trapped in a cave.
Those kind of dreams.
The dream of flying through the sky is the dream the Junko-san dreamt
was actually the one where she is being carried by the suspect while she sleeps.
And the dream of being stroked on the face,
as a woman myself
would associate to putting on make up.
When you apply cream on your face, you touch it as if you were stroking through the face.
In other words, Junko-san was taken out of the house
and put on makeup... Is that what you're talking about?
Yes. And the dream of her body being held down,
what does that associate with?
Hmm...
- Massage!? - Yes.
Junko-san's dream shows that
she was carried out of her house while she was sleeping,
put on make up and had a massage.
The reason why she was given too much sleeping pills
is to avoid waking her up if such thing is done to her.
And only one person that can do all this
The massage shop manager Shibata-san.
But why did Shibata-san do that?
Of course, to make an alibi!
Could you spare us a little time?
- Eh...? - It will be over soon.
Let me check the inside of the store a little bit.
If you'll excuse me.
Um.. Will this be over soon? I have some errands to do after this.
Of course.
By the way,
between 10:00 to 11:00 am. on the day of the incident,
was it really Toshiko-san?
What are you talking about?
Could you listen to my hypothesis while he is looking into it?
Let's reconstruct the incident.
The night before the incident...
while Junko-san is at the club working,
you used Toshiko-san's key to break into her house
and replace the wine with a wine with sleeping pills on it.
- Ha? - It's just my hypothesis.
After that Junko-san went home and drank a glass of wine.
She went into a deep sleep.
Then you carried Junko-san who fell asleep out,
Put her in the car and head to Toshiko-san's house,
and put on the same make up as Toshiko-san.
Because they are sisters, the face would be similar,
It will not be difficult to imitate to some extent
since Toshiko-san herself will wave her arms.
That's impossible. If I were to do that,
I would think Toshiko-san would be too strange.
You and Toshiko-san had a deep relationship…
How deep?
Shibata-san offers Toshiko-san
a plan to make his wife dead.
You want to marry me, so why don't you kill my wife?
I'll make an alibi for that.
You let your sleeping sister wear makeup just like you
and make her look like she's getting a massage at my shop.
In the meantime, you kill my wife
Maybe he tricked Toshiko-san by saying that.
Then you'll be with me, right?
Yes...
After that, you left Junko-san in the car
and went to the piano room
and killed Toshiko-san there.
Making sure she wasn't killed by the piano
you used the tassel on the curtain to kill her.
I think that was the first half of the 9:00 am. range.
The estimated time of death
is between 9:00 am to noon,
so it is not strange.
Then you
took Junko-san, who was sleeping, to this store before opening.
Tagawa-san hasn't come to work yet,
So you don't have to worry of him seeing it.
When the newbie came to work,
he probably pretended to have already started massaging.
And at 10:30 am, you let the newbie
massage Junko-san for 20 minutes who was sleeping at that time.
Tagawa-san said this.
"she felt that she was sound asleep,"
and well rested.
But no matter how much they look alike, don't you think they're a different person?
Massage is basically done with your face down.
Because only the profile is shown,
I think that it is possible enough to make Junko-san
appear to be her sister Toshiko-san.
He didn't put the add-on option for that.
I see. So there's an option for that.
Yes.
...So you don't really need to do that? Huh!?
And for the last ten minutes,
Shibata-san took over the newbie again.
At this time, You hid Junko-san's body under the massage bed
and pretended to send out Toshiko-san.
Thank you very much.
Under the bed there's a plenty of space to hide...
There was no receptionist at the massage shop.
This is what I found out when I went there.
After that, Shibata-san continued his work
to prove his alibi.
Junko-san's dream of being trapped in a dark cave is probably
that one at that time.
Those kind of dreams.
At night, when you closed the shop,
you removed Junko's makeup, put on her pajama
and put her back home.
When you killed Toshiko-san, you put blood
on her pajama.
By doing that, you tried to make her think that she had a sleepwalking attack
The purpose for this is to make Junko-san behave
like a criminal mentally.
I guess you heard about her
sleepwalking attack from her sister, Toshiko-san.
There are 2 step in his plan to commit the crime.
The first step
is to commit a crime at the time when Junko-san is sleeping,
to lose her alibi and made her suspect.
The second step uses Junko-san sleeping
to estimate Toshiko-san's death,
and make an alibi for yourself.
For that reason, he delayed the discovery of her body as much as possible.
Then, he chose the day when Toshiko took a day off where she doesn't have a student for a lesson
and committed the crime on that day.
That's ridiculous.
It's all speculation.
Yes... That's right...
Oh!
Hey! Hey!
I got it. A fingerprint.
I think you'll soon know if this fingerprint
belongs to Junko-san.
[Sigh]
I had no choice but to do this...
[Sigh]
You can't turn back the time because you regretted it.
Fantastic… Ah…!
- How was it? - He confessed. Case closed.
The fingerprint match was the deciding factor.
Good...
The motive was
for him to break up with his wife and marry Toshiko.
Everything was as the director said.
Is that right?
However, it's a problem that you conducted an investigation without permission
despite the fact that you were off the case at all.
No...
If we continued our investigation, we would have made a false accusations.
The problem is rather us.
Yeah It's a big problem!
-...Eh? - Eh.
"Us"?
Director... Who the hell are you?
You always get to the truth in just one day like this.
How do you do it?
That is...
The difference of experience.
Yes that's right. If Junior would gain experience, too.
Huh?
He said that like he is a veteran detective,
but he just got demoted,
he was government employee with little on-site experience.
Thank you as always.
[Inhaling air sound]
Um... can I ask one question?
Yes? What is it?
I've been curious about it for a long time...
Why did you think Junko-san wasn't the suspect?
No... no, it's because...
Ah! Is it because she's beautiful?
That's not true.
Hmm... Whatever...
By the way, there was a phone call from your wife.
[Hitting sound]
That if anything happens, call her right away.
You have a good wife.
By the way, I don't accept alibi making.
It's because they looked similar.
Eh?
When my wife was young.
She was so kind to me back then.
What....
You sure do love your wife, Saji-san.
Shut up!
Saji-san.
[Laugh]
- There was a murder on the road. - Business trip alibi break!
Preview for next time
Murder on the CLOCK TOWER
Alibi in the Mountain Cottage
There were clear footprints on the ground.
Footprints on the Snow
Who the hell is the killer?
Seven
Suspects
A boy without an alibi
By any chance.
- Am I being suspected? - I can't imagine you killing people.
Time set on CLOCK TOWER
I was able to turn back time, I broke the criminal's alibi.
is a trick