Put money in a bag,
and take a train from Kyoto station to Minami-Uji station leaving at 11:10 a.m. tomorrow.
Take a seat on the left side and look for a red mark outside.
When you find it, drop a bag from a window.
Don't miss a mark.
A red mark...
If I see policemen, it's over.
January 27, 3:45 p.m. (A day before)
Anonymous Call
Hello?
Are you Shima Erika?
Who is calling?
I want to talk to you about your husband.
You haven't been able to contact him since the day before yesterday, have you?
If something to do with his business, please call his office instead.
Listen carefully!
We kidnapped Shima Yukio.
Prepare 30,000,000 yen with used money by tomorrow morning.
If you contact to the police,
We understand that you don't want to save him and he'll die.
Are you listening?
Answer me.
I'm listening.
I'll call you again for the ransom drop-off.
Stay home until I call you.
If my husband is with you, please let me talk to him!
Erika, I was wrong.
January 27, 4:17 p.m. (A day before)
Hello.
Kido...
Is Shima home?
Well...
I've been calling him since the day before yesterday.
In fact, there's a great offer for him to play the main role in the movie.
I have to give a reply to them immediately.
Are you sick?
Ah...Well...He is...
I'm talking about you.
You look pale.
I'm fine, thank you.
You act funny. Is anything wrong?
Mrs., we should call 911.
Wait! A kidnapper told me not to call 911.
If you put his safety first in everything, we should call 911.
Don't!
Please don't do that!
Is it the police station?
Mrs., I'll be with you until the police come.
Please leave now!
If something should happen to him, it's your responsibility!
Mrs...
A red roof, a red sign or a red car...
What kind of red mark is it?
I don't think that a kidnapper waves a red flag.
Everybody, pay attention not only outside but inside a train too.
January 27, 4:29 p.m. (A day before)
What?
Erika, I was wrong.
I now know.
Honey?
Is he dead?
Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa
Episode 3, A ransom for Associate Professor
January 27, 5:28 p.m. (A day before)
Don't worry, our kidnapping specialist will do their best.
Isn't Sensei's field work a murder scene?
I asked them to come here.
Wow, that's a residence of Associate Professor.
He lives high as Associate Professor.
That's his most successful character.
Look. It's called, "Hard Rain".
Hard Rain...
Nabeshima, why are they here?
It's a famous actor, Shima Yukio to have been kidnapped.
If we make any mistakes, we'll be faced a barrage of criticism from the public.
But,
Not say the rest.
Better safe than sorry.
She is very nervous since her husband was kidnapped.
The initial investigation is very important for a kidnapping.
So, please stay here and be quiet.
Roger.
I'm talking to you most.
Ah...Roger.
I ask once again.
Did you go to a business trip to Kyusyu the morning before last?
How about your husband at that time?
Since I was in a hurry, I didn't see him.
Well...We sleep separately.
I understood.
You may have various issues in a long marriage life.
I have a similar issue.
You got a call from a kidnapper just after having come back from a trip, right?
Yes, it was when I was still at the station.
It was a perfect timing as if a kidnapper knew her schedule.
I thought so too.
By the way, what kind of drama does he play a main role?
It's a love story. He as Associate Professor is very popular among girls.
It's unrealistic.
We'll prepare a ransom.
Of course, we can't prepare such amount of money.
We'll mix fake money with real one.
What would you do if a kidnapper find that out and go into frenzy?
My husband is in danger!
The first priority is to ensure the safety of your husband.
Arresting a kidnapper is the second priority.
If you say so, shouldn't we obey the demand of a kidnapper?
If it's a kidnapper, try to talk as long as possible.
Hello?
Ah, Eri? You're already home.
Udagawa...
I'm sorry but I'm having a minor emergency.
Really, I see.
I just want to know how your business trip was.
I'll call you later. Yes.
It was from my boss.
I'm bored. Can I go home?
Don't be childish.
Oh, it may be a kidnapper.
I don't think so.
It's a courier service.
It's an anonymous package.
May I open it?
Inspector, can you check a post mark?
What?
This is sent from Kyoto yesterday.
So that means that there's no possibility that she performed her own work in this incident.
What? Did you suspect me?
Nothing of the sort.
I'm sure that these belong to my husband.
Send this to Crime Lab.
Yes.
Put money in a bag,
and take a train from Kyoto station to Minami-Uji station leaving at 11:10 a.m. tomorrow.
Take a seat on the left side and look for a red mark outside.
When you find it, drop a bag from a window.
Don't miss a mark.
If I see policemen, it's over.
Take a train and look for a red mark...
What does that mean?
What should I do?
I can pretend to be you and carry ransom money.
As I said, if a kidnapper finds that out...
Please calm down. Then, I ask you to do that.
Don't worry. We'll be beside you.
Remember that a kidnapper says if there are policemen, it's over?
I'll go alone.
Then, we can't do the investigation.
I'll go with you.
Your face says that you're a policeman.
I can't help...
Then, I'll those men to come with me.
What?
They don't look like policemen.
They're not... We're not...
Hey, it's her order. I count on you.
Roger.
Present
The next station is Minami-Uji.
Hey, we're heading to the final destination.
I may have missed a red mark.
It's impossible for all of us to miss a red mark.
Hey, would a kidnapper be aware of policemen?
A kidnapper has already made a plan based on the police intervention.
What?
A kidnapper sent husband's hair for letting us know that a kidnapping is real.
However, if having expected the police intervention, a kidnapper shouldn't have specified a train timetable.
Why does a kidnapper want to give the police spare time?
Or a kidnapper should have contacted us at the last minute and lead us around by the nose.
Then, what's the purpose of this instruction?
I have no idea.
But I'm sure that this will end in failure.
I'm very confused.
Hey, gather here!
Yes.
We'll reorganize the investigation for preparing for the next contact by a kidnapper.
Would you like to eat a curry?
What?
I have a nostalgic feel. I remember when I was a university student.
When you say so, that's the evidence of getting older.
Who is he?
Is he his friend?
No way! Does Himura-sensei have a friend?
Wait, isn't he a cute guy?
I...think...
Who is he?
He looks like NEET. NEET=young people Not in Education, Employment or Training
Eat a scallion too.
He totally doesn't look like Associate Professor.
But they seem to have the same smell.
The smell? Are you talking about a pheromone?
I don't mean that.
Let's toss up for it, and a loser has to ask them that.
Okay!
Please!
By the way, what was that all about?
I don't think that a kidnapper is serious about getting ransom money.
A red mark sounds too vague.
Even though we find a red mark, how far does a train go forward while we're opening a window?
How wide does a train window open?
In the first place, how far can a lady throw a bag?
This instruction is too sloppy.
If so, what's the purpose?
I see a possibility that Shima Yukio fakes a kidnapping.
He creates a huge fuss for attention...
That may be it.
Or a kidnapper may be a person close to him.
In the worst case, he's already been killed.
Anyway, this incident is elusive.
It's time to start my class.
Hey, can I attend your class?
Definitely NO!
Human being holds the potentialities of the deviation possibility naturally.
Therefore,
Therefore, if a control system for controlling the potentialities of the deviation possibility is failed...
Excuse me. Are you a detective?
Why did you think so?
I was told not to look like a detective recently.
I heard your conversation with Himura-sensei.
Are you?
No. He is my best friend from University.
I'm a writer of mystery novels.
Then, what you were talking earlier is...
That's right, it's a story of my novel.
You two, quiet!
Welcome home.
Ah, yes yes...
Something tells me that I'm being tested for something.
Please come inside.
What's this?
It's a scorpion.
There're a few unusual things in this room.
Is this some kind of secret code?
What do you think?
More like common ground of these unusual things than a secret code.
How did you know that?
This is a mystery in Alice's novel.
I'll absolutely solve this mystery.
You should pay attention to the order.
Hey, don't give him a clue.
It's short of one thing.
What?
Virgo.
It's me.
What? Did you know the answer?
That's Himura-sensei.
You found the answer at one blow.
It's Zodiac, isn't it?
A vase in the entrance is Aquarius.
Fish is Pisces.
A sweater is Aries.
A wallet made by cow skin is Taurus.
Well done that you prepared everything that was from only this house.
A pair of wooden dolls means Gemini. It's excellent.
I've thought about this since last night.
But I couldn't find something for Virgo.
So, I used myself.
Anyway, I feel frustrated that you could solve this so soon.
Make use of this experience to the next.
Himura, I'm getting all mad at you.
Work harder.
I'll make a coffee.
Do you need help?
Somebody committed suicide here long time ago.
Please stop it!
Hey, look!
Himura-sensei, the associate professor kidnapping incident developed rapidly.
He was found dead.
I'll be there.
Let's go, Alice.
Now?
It's an out-of-season courage test.
The estimate time of death is 4 days ago.
From dawn to dusk of January 25.
Anyway, he was dead when she got a threatening call on January 27, right?
That's right.
But his wife was sure that she heard his voice on the phone.
A message from a dead man?
According to the damage of a dead body,
he was killed at a different location, left for a while and brought here.
According to his nails and clothes, there’s no sign of a struggle.
I don't know what a murder weapon is yet.
But he was beaten with a blunt object from behind.
A suspect took him by surprise.
Since he was off guard, a suspect may be somebody he knew.
My wife is a big fan of him.
I can't get his autograph anymore since he is dead.
Please continuously cooperate with our investigation.
Your husband was already dead on January 25.
So, please understand that he is dead not because the police was involved in this incident.
But I heard his voice!
Hey, what's wrong?
This is the perfect location as the crime scene.
What?
Because I wanted to kill somebody.
But actual crime scene isn't here.
We have to find out who killed him.
The purpose may have killed him from the beginning.
If a suspect isn't interested in money, a suspect must be a person who held grudges against him.
This seems to be an impulse crime.
I think that a suspect is most likely his relatives or friends.
Do you think that his wife killed him?
Then, was that threatening call fake?
It's impossible.
She can't carry his dead body here since she was on a business trip.
According to a postmark (Kyoto), she isn't the one who sent a threatening letter.
And,
What?
When she was in a train, she was scared of something.
It didn't look like dramatic.
I agree with you.
Anyway, let's talk to her.
All right.
I'll introduce them to you one more time.
They're Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa.
We place complete trust and ask to cooperate with criminal probe.
Thank you for your help.
Is Arisugawa Himura's assistant?
Yes, he is.
If I didn't ask her to go to a business trip, this may not have happened.
I'll extend every possible cooperate to this investigation.
Please arrest a suspect as soon as possible.
We feel same.
We'll arrest a suspect at any cost.
Well, may I ask a few questions?
Sensei...
Shima seems to be a keen collector.
And it has to be completed.
There is a suit of a lot of things here.
And there're a lot of collected works in a bookshelf.
As you see, he likes to buy and display such things.
Yes, but it's short of one thing.
What are you talking about?
Look at this chess set.
A knight is missing.
What does knight look like?
A horse head.
Ah, that's a knight!
So, he must have left elsewhere.
Let's find a knight.
Excuse me.
Do you have any more rooms?
No.
Don't you have a basement or an attic?
I've never heard that they have such spaces.
Does that have something to do with this incident?
I just remember a novel that zodiac was an important clue.
Is it a novel written by Arisugawa?
Yes, it was one of the masterpieces.
It's a bookshelf.
What?
Why did you glance away from a bookshelf?
When human being has a secret, they avoid looking at it for psychological reasons.
He did a little experiment.
Right?
That's you who are well known as an expert in the criminal mind!
He doesn't decorate anything in the middle of the uppermost shelf.
I guess that a knight was here, wasn't it?
That's sensei!
Not to split hairs, there's always nothing there.
What's that?
Is it a secret door?
What's this?
Mrs., do you know about this secret room, don't you?
Though you knew that, you remained silent.
Why?
Because if we found this murder weapon, you'd be troubled, right?
Don't tell me...
The silence occasionally tells us the right answer.
Nabeshima, take her to the police station.
Send this murder weapon to Crime Lab.
Yes.
Mrs., we'll examine you at the police station.
Did you fool us all the time?
No, I didn't! When I came back, his body disappeared.
Somebody...Somebody carried his body and threatened me.
Please come with us.
I knew that they their marriage didn't work out,
but why Eri...
It must be an impulse crime.
I don't know if she really wanted to kill him.
She may have vented her frustration against him somehow.
Anyway, there's another suspect in this incident.
As she said, somebody carried his dead body and threatened her.
Who did that?
Udagawa, what did you do between January 25 and 27?
Wait a second! Are you suspecting me?
Another suspect knew Shima Erika's schedule.
All the staff of my office know that.
And since I don't have a driver's license, how could I carry his body?
Instead of suspecting me, you should talk to his manager.
That Kido.
I don't like him somehow.
He seems to read my thoughts.
Don't mention my name to him, please.
Yes, yes...
I see.
So, luminol reaction detected from a floor, isn't it?
Bloodstains left on the weapon correspond with Shima Yukio...
Please let me know if you have any more information from Shima Erika.
Excuse me.
Well...
I heard about you from the police.
Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa, right?
Ah, I'm Arisugawa.
What?
Do I look like an academic?
I'm sorry. I got the wrong idea.
Don't I look like a writer?
Please sit down.
I've told everything I know to the police.
So, it was you who called 911, right?
Yes. Shima's wife told me that he was kidnapped.
And I force to call 911.
Then, she became hysterical in panic, and made me go away.
But I've heard that Shima had already died at that time.
Yes.
By the way, did you often visit Shima?
Yes, he was seeking a new character other than Associate Professor.
I often gave him advices.
I want to tell you one thing.
I was at the office working between January 25 and 27 as usual.
Ah, don't worry.
We don't suspect you.
Right?
We didn't.
After all, it was the abduction for ransom, right?
And a suspect emulated the example of a famous movie "High and Low", right?
In the abduction for ransom, not even have a single case, a suspect successfully got money and escaped from the police so far.
None?
And yet, a suspect tried to get a lot of money by a kidnapping.
It's very unrealistic and brutal.
A suspect must be stupid, violent and greedy.
I understood what you think about a suspect.
But I have nothing to do with that incident.
Do you know that Shima has a secret room?
Yes.
A middle bookshelf is a door to a secret room.
Shima told me once before.
So what?
Nothing.
Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa, right?
Somebody carried his body and threatened me.
A message from a dead man?
This crime isn't beautiful.
What?
Excuse me.
Yes.
Is it necessary now?
Be at Shima residence at 7 p.m.?
I got it.
Well, what are we talking about?
The police told you something, didn't they?
By the way, there was a sudden change in the situation by this call.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Let's go. We have to be at Shima residence at 7 p.m.
All right.
Excuse me. Hey, wait!
Wait! What's going on?
I should say that there will be sudden change in the situation from now.
From now?
We're ready.
How's Shima Erika doing?
She isn't a person who can fool or kill somebody.
She answers our questions obediently.
She confessed everything to us.
There are the words that you must not say.
My husband always looked for those words that he wanted to use to me.
That morning,
he finally said what I never wanted to hear.
It sounded just like a famous line.
Being with you was great loss for me.
I took the wrong path when I met you.
Erika, I was wrong.
I now know.
I heard that disgusting line twice.
Erika, I was wrong.
I now know.
Do you have a person who threatened you in mind?
I don't think that she lied to me.
All right, everything will be clear very soon.
I've already tossed food.
Now, we can but wait.
Bite it!
Himura, you're right.
He is caught in a trap.
Well, you said that there was a sudden change in the situation.
What happened?
I'll describe you step by step.
Shima had already died four days before he was found.
When Shima Erika got a threatening call, he'd already died.
You've already told me that.
But she heard his voice on the phone.
She remembers correctly what he said.
What did he say?
The important thing is how Shima who was supposed to be dead at that time could talk.
For example, a suspect recorded his lines from his drama.
That's right!
A suspect recorded his voice.
But it wasn't from his drama.
It was in his house.
A suspect could record lines that Shima told his wife in his house.
Do you know how?
Well...
A suspect used a bugging device.
If I think that way, everything in this incident makes sense.
She doesn't know who carried his body and threatened her.
But a suspect knows everything.
How come?
Because a suspect was bugging a crime scene.
I see.
Bus since it was a bugging without a video,
a suspect made a big mistake.
What kind of big mistake?
A suspect couldn't know what a murder weapon was only with the sound.
That was why even though having been able to carry his dead body,
a suspect couldn't hide a murder weapon.
Kido, when you met us here, you mixed up Arisugawa and me, right?
And when we pointed that out, you looked unexpected.
Yes.
Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa, right?
Ah, I'm Arisugawa.
What?
It's strange that you thought he who didn't wear a tie was an academic,
and I who was talking about the investigation situation on the phone was a writer.
You've already known our voice when we met for the first time, right?
And you mixed up our voice and faces somehow.
Well...It's...
Were you bugging our conversation?
In retrospect, we had a conversation that was possible for you to mix us up.
Is Arisugawa Himura's assistant?
Yes, you can say so.
Is it a novel written by Arisugawa?
Yes, it was one of the masterpieces.
A suspect did a little experiment.
That's you who are well known as an expert in the criminal mind!
Since Alice was accounted an expert in the criminal mind,
it's natural that you thought that he was criminologist.
Even so, it's not good evidence that I bugged conversation.
I have evidence.
We traced the fact that you turned on a bugging device at 7 p.m. last night.
When he starts bugging, we can trace it.
Himura, you're right.
Don't tell me... a call that you got yesterday...
Yes, it was a fake call.
You were caught in a trap.
Be at Shima residence at 7 p.m.?
The police will come here with a warrant of arrest soon.
You have an amazing memory.
I can remember what I said yesterday.
You're interested in only what other people say.
But you don't care what you say.
It was more than enough for me to know what happened only with the sound.
Shima's cold voice,
A smashing sound,
Shima's groan,
Silence,
And she opened a secret room.
I saw what Erika was doing quite clearly.
I made a spare key to change a battery of a bugging device.
If she left a murder weapon on the floor, I could save her.
It's not only bugging,
breaking and entering, act of intimidation and abandonment of a corpse,
you're a fine criminal.
Did you say that you could save her?
Yes, I know that sounds strange.
But it's my true thought.
If so, why did you threaten her and ask for the ransom money like a movie?
I wanted her to be my puppet.
Her voice, her breathing...
I could do nothing but listen to her until then.
But I manipulated her feelings or movements. It was fantastic.
Ah, not only her,
but also the police was made a fool by me.
I was pleased with just imagining that she and the police made a frantic search for a red mark.
What do you think, Sensei?
Can you write a novel based on this incident?
Sorry. I make it a rule not to write a non-fiction story.
Look! Somebody plants a bug in those houses and enjoys listening.
Just imagine that and see this view.
Are you...still happy?
At the request of him, I gave permission for him to see you.
He is Himura Hideo, Criminologist.
I finally can meet you.
A few days ago, a girl who was a minor, ran away from home and a member of Shangri-La Crusade was killed by somebody in Ikebukuro.
A murderer hasn't been arrested yet.
The police think that a suspect must be a person who carries a grudge against Shangri-La Crusade.
Please stay back.
I'm scared.
I have a daughter about her age.
We should stop this crime now.
Toddler-aged people are getting involved in troubles.
It shouldn't be your ideal world.
Moroboshi, please order them to break up the organization,
or tell us where their hide-out is
That's the only way to stop a tragic cycle.
You have the same smell than I do.