What's wrong?
I'm afraid of sunset.
When I was 15 years old, I suffered from a fire.
It was an arson attack.
A suspect hasn't been arrested yet.
I also saw that my uncle became a fireball and died.
Akemi's uncle Munakata Shotarou
That flame that you saw at that time made you have a fear of orange color...
As a matter of fact, I have an incident that I want you to investigate.
Isn't it that arson attack?
My friend was murdered in the summer 2 years ago.
2 years ago
Yuko-sensei is reading a book.
Piano teacher Oono Yuko
A suspect hasn't been arrested yet.
That incident will go unsolved.
Hello?
Are you Himura Hideo?
Go to Room 806 of Orange Tachibana immediately.
Who the hell are you?
What's wrong?
I don't know what's going on.
He wanted Himura Hideo to...
What does he want me to do?
He wants you to go to Orange Tachibana immediately.
That was all.
I see.
Sensei, you shouldn't go.
This must be a crank call.
Tokie, this must be a challenge to me from him.
I can't help playing with him.
Don't worry, I'll protect him.
You seem to be a little unreliable, but please do.
All right!
We'll just go to a neighboring condo.
We'll be back as soon as possible.
In the following morning after I accepted the investigation of Cape Twilight murder incident,
I got a mysterious call to ask me to go to a condo where people involved in that incident live.
It seems that it must have something to do with that incident.
Who knows that you accepted the investigation of that incident?
As far as I know, it's you and a client.
That means...
If a caller uses a voice changer, it can be a man or a woman.
But...
Anyway, let's go.
I see, this is a ghost condo.
It's a poorly secured condo.
My pet owl is missing~
An owl in a ghost condo.
The stage is set
Almost all are vacant.
If you get scared, you can go home.
Damn, you!
I won't leave you alone.
I made a promise with Tokie.
Ah, this is Room 806.
It seems to be able to go inside without asking.
Hey, don't you see letters written in blood?
I don't see such things.
But...
Somebody was here until shortly before.
I smell a lingering scent. This is a perfume.
You're like K9.
I smelled a same perfume in the elevator.
And,
A man whom we passed on the road smelled same.
That's right. You too are like K9.
I like cat better.
We have no time to waste. Let's chase that man.
Instead...
We should take care of him first.
Damn, it! No!
Don't scare me!
It's 6:22 a.m.
It's going to be a long day.
Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa
Episode 6, A study in Vermilion
His ID is unknown.
Since he has been dead for 5 to 6 hours,
the estimate time of death is the midnight.
No noticeable external injuries.
He was strangulated from behind, no chance to resist.
Why was he in a bath tub?
He must have been murdered at a different location and carried here.
And according to his death spots, he was murdered in the neighborhood.
That's it from Crime Lab for now.
Ah, is that owl still missing?
It seems so.
Ah, Sensei.
There's a trace of a lock pick in a keyhole.
Since this room is surrounded by vacant rooms,
we can't draw testimony about noise from anybody.
So, this condo is a very convenient place for a suspect.
A mysterious phone call in the predawn hours.
A mysterious unidentified dead body.
And a mysterious scented man who would be here.
So many mysteries!
Sensei, don't you have something or someone in your mind?
I have a person in my mind for now.
Morning, Akemi.
Why did you come so early today?
I somehow work up at dawn.
I can't wake up on time. I have no time to do a makeup.
Komachi, we don't seem to fit in fine with them.
I know.
Hey, is he...?
Who is Kijima Akemi?
I am...
I'm Ono from Kyoto Prefectural Police.
Can you come with us to cooperate with the investigation?
What?
Himura asked me to bring you.
I have a message from Himura-sensei!
He has to cancel a lecture today.
Please come with us.
All right.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
So, did your student ask you to investigate that Cape Twilight murder incident?
Why did she ask you?
Did she know that Sensei cooperates with the investigation?
Well, unless there's a big mouth detective, nobody knows that.
Then, why did she ask you?
2 years ago...
Ah, I just remembered.
My colleague, Ogata was in charge of that incident.
As I recall, it's called, "Cape Twilight murder incident".
That sounds like a title of a novel.
What kind of incident was that?
Haven't I told you that?
It was a queer-beer incident.
At the base of a cliff of Cape Twilight,
A piano teacher was found dead.
By results of the observation, she was murdered twice.
Murdered twice?
What do you mean?
I remember that incident.
She received a mortal wound and a wound caused by a falling stone from a cliff.
Several people who went to a cottage with a victim arose as suspects in the course of investigations.
But nobody had a conclusive alibi and a motive.
That's an outline of the incident.
What a coincidence!
You mean that people who were at a cottage...
One of them is my client and some of them live in this condo.
If so, who is that dead man?
Excuse me. We brought Kijima Akemi.
As soon as I accepted your request, a roller coaster began to move.
I thought that you knew something related to this incident.
Would you identify the dead?
Yes.
Hello!
Sorry to give you such an important role.
Himura, didn't you tell me that I wouldn't look like a stranger at a university?
I totally looked like a stranger!
Really?
Are you ready?
He is my uncle.
Are you all right?
Is he a person involved in Cape Twilight murder incident, isn't he?
Yes.
Does anybody know that you asked me to investigate that incident other than you?
Masaaki who lives in this condo and I mentioned you about him on the phone yesterday.
Now, there's one more possible person who called me last night.
In other words, Person A involved in Cape Twilight murder incident was murdered in a condo,
where Person B also involved in Cape Twilight murder incident lives.
And that happened on the next morning after Person C also involved in Cape Twilight murder incident,
asked Himura to investigate the incident.
It's the course of story, isn't it?
Let's interview Person B.
How's Akemi doing?
She is resting.
She must be very shocked.
She lived with uncle Yohei for a while.
Akemi's cousin Munakata Masaaki
Excuse me, but please let me reconfirm.
Akemi and you are cousins.
After her parents died, she lived with your family for a while.
And Yamauchi Yohei who was found dead this morning,
He is my uncle. He is my mother's younger brother.
When he was pinched for money,
he lived with us too.
Did you tell anybody that I was asked to investigate Cape Twilight murder incident?
Yes. I did to people involved in that incident.
My mother, a junior fellow Mutobe, and Yohei.
Now, there're more possible people who called me last night.
Masaaki,
Is there anybody who can prove that you were here at the time when Yohei was murdered?
Nobody.
This happened again.
I knew that you suspected me.
It's the same as 2 years ago.
The police always suspect people without cause.
Suspecting people is our job.
What do you want to ask me?
You just told us that Yohei was pinched for money.
Did he tell you something about that?
Not really. He told me that he started a second hand clothing store and maintained a decent living.
So, didn't he come here last night?
No.
We drifted away from each other after that incident happened 2 years ago.
That's why I don't know why he came to this condo.
What? Can't I see my son?
Well, it's not a good time...
Ah, it's my mother.
Do the police suspect my son again?
A family member was murdered.
Akemi's aunt Munakata Machi
Can you give us time to mourn?
Madam, it's definitely not the case.
The police are very polite just for beginning.
A detective 2 years ago was just like you.
He asked us all sorts of things about the incident every day.
To be frank, we're fed up.
That detective is Ogata.
He was desperate for early resolution for your family.
So, please don't misunderstand him.
What? Are you blaming me?
I'm sorry.
Please sit down.
Don't worry, mother. Please calm down.
Ah, it's the same smell.
Alice.
I can't...
Hey!
Right?
What are you doing?
Ah, you have the same smell.
What about it?
Are you saying that I have the same smell that a suspect does?
That's right.
I'm amazed!
I'm a professional perfumer.
I blended this perfume by myself.
But it's the same smell.
A man whom we passed on the road smelled same.
He is 180 cm tall,
brown hair and a light perm,
a shapely nose and thick lips.
He was wearing a light-blue down jacket and a checkered shirt inside.
That's Mutobe.
He is my junior fellow.
He often comes to see me.
He was at the cottage with us when Cape Twilight murder incident happened.
This is my original perfume that I gave all guests at a cottage 2 years ago.
Can you contact Mutobe?
Yes.
Yes?
May I ask you about Yamauchi Yohei?
Akemi?
I don't know anything.
You misunderstand it from the beginning.
What?
I've never given them specific orders.
They do everything without asking me.
You're a leader.
That's a poor excuse.
If there's a gun here,
I can make you shoot me without giving you an order.
That's it!
I'll turn you in the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.
You'll stay in a jail for your entire life.
Kagome kagome,
Stop it!
The bird in the cage,
When, oh when will it come out?
In the night of dawn,
The crane and turtle slipped,
Who is behind you now?
Shut up!
Masaaki's junior fellow Mutobe Shirou
I'm Mutobe.
Please accept my condolences.
You sound very plastic.
Nice to see you again.
Mutobe, he is Himura-sensei whom I told you on the phone yesterday.
Akemi have a respect for him and is ardently in love with him.
Did you really tell him so?
Shouldn't I have?
Nice to meet you.
I've met you before.
Really?
You can bet that this is the smell.
Mutobe, tell them everything you know.
Mutobe, did you pass them on the road?
Weren't you in Room 806 last night?
Were you, Mutobe?
Wait a second!
Wait, don't take our job away from us.
We'll interview him.
Mutobe, please sit down.
Please.
If you lie to us, it'll be harmful to you.
Were you in this condo at dawn?
Can you tell us why you were in this condo?
I'm not sure if you believe me.
Please tell us.
When I went back home last night,
there was a nameless letter.
"Go to Orange Tachibana at 1 a.m. tonight,
and climb stairs until you find an orange envelope.
The next instruction will be in it.
If you won't obey this order, I'll release the fact below"
This person somehow knew my deepest secret.
Secret?
I don't want to tell you now.
That's fine. Please keep going.
Since I had no choice, I came to this condo at 1 a.m. and climbed stairs.
And I found an orange envelope on the 13th floor.
"Take an elevator and go to Room 806.
Go inside and wait for your next instruction.
Do not leave your fingerprints.
If you won't have got anything by 6 a.m., go home"
While having checked this owl missing poster, I arrived at the 8th floor.
Nobody can't help checking this poster.
Sakashita, can you go to Room 306 and ask about an owl?
What? What should I ask him?
I thought that I may have been monitored from somewhere.
Since the front door was unlocked, I went inside.
And I'd patiently waited for a long time.
I heard nothing but the ticking of a clock.
But the time passed very slowly.
Since I got tense, I wasn't bothered by drowsiness.
And then, I was consumed by anxiety that a new envelope may have already been sat somewhere.
So, I started rummaging about in the room.
But I couldn’t find anything.
And I left a room and went home.
After all, I don't know what that person wanted to do,
or what that person wanted me to do.
That's all.
Well, Mutobe,
If I believe you, you'll be the primary suspect for the murder of Yamauchi Yohei.
Because you stayed while night with his dead body.
No way! When I checked a bathroom, there was nothing in a tub.
So, a suspect brought a dead body from somewhere over a few minutes when you left and we arrived there?
That's right. For example...
For example, from the next room.
Our Crime Lab has already examined that possibility.
There was no room that had evidence that somebody kept a dead body.
What's going on?
So, do you think that I'm lying?
It's too poor for a lie.
And we have no foundation to label him as a liar.
That's my honest opinion.
Somebody is trying to frame me.
306 Iwata
I talked to Iwata.
She has no idea about this poster,
and never have an owl as a pet.
Anyway, she looked like an owl.
Then, who posted that poster in the elevator?
Somebody did for some purpose.
That somebody must be a suspect who tried to frame Mutobe.
What's this for?
I don't believe him 100% yet.
I'll examine him more.
A person who murdered Yohei.
A person who sent a letter to Mutobe.
A person who made a call to us.
Were all of things done by the same person?
It's still full of mysteries.
But since I accepted a challenge,
I can't lose this battle.
Sensei, it's my personal business.
I think that this is homework from Ogata.
Ogata?
Ah, Komachi, don't you know Ogata?
Ogata was in charge of Cape Twilight murder incident,
and died last year after falling ill in the middle of the investigation.
We're fellow detectives and worked together.
We were called, "O & N team in Kyoto Prefectural Police".
He investigated everything even though it was an unrefined incident.
I'll solve Cape Twilight murder incident and this incident for his soul.
Sensei, please help us.
Nabeshima,
I'll do my best for detective Ogata.
I want him to prove Nabeshima and myself as a new O & N team.
How could I and you be O & N team?
Well...My family name is Ono.
Ah, I see.
I'm glad to hear that, Komachi.
Don't call me Komachi.
Nabeshima,
the arson attack occurred 6 years ago may be involved in the background of these 2 incidents.
When Kijima Akemi was living with Munakata family, their house was burned down by a fire.
An arsonist hasn't been arrested yet.
I've never heard of that incident before.
A murder incident of Yamauchi Yohei,
Cape Twilight murder incident of 2 years ago,
The arson attack of 6 years ago.
Probably, a suspect is one of those who involved in those incidents.
Mutobe, may I interview you more at the police station?
I have nothing to tell you more.
Sensei,
Do you want to ask something to him?
I leave this to you.
What? All right.
Yasoda, do me a favor?
Ah, before that...
I have something to show you.
Wow, is this boy or girl?
I'm not sure.
Is this your...
Yes...My baby!
Congratulations.
Thank you.
So, what do you want me to do?
I want you to take a look at something.
Seriously?! I was about to go home.
Please.
All right.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
This may not have anything to do with the incident...
May I ask a weird thing?
How do you think about Akemi?
How?
Well, you like her or something...
I just want to know the background of people involved in this incident.
If you have a special feeling to her,
you may want to protect her...
I love her.
I see, I knew that.
But I'm not protecting her right now.
Yes, of course.
But that doesn't mean that I want to take an immediate action to her.
I have no courage and a right to do that.
Why not?
Akemi has a very tough life. Since her parents died, she has one misfortune after another.
She needs a man whom she can rely on.
I can't do anything for her except crying with her.
Me too.
I try to extend a helping hand to a friend who is standing at the edge of a cliff.
But I can do nothing but watching him after all.
What?
Oh, shoot. I shared my story.
I have to go since Nabeshima is waiting for me.
Thank you.
Ah, Sakamata.
What are you doing?
You've been absent from school for a long time.
Don't ignore us.
As I recall, in the underground website, somebody said that a lot of wild cats disappeared from the neighborhood of Sakamata.
I saw that too.
Are you that phantom killer?
Are you talking about the incidents that 2 minors were killed?
Sakamata, did you do that?
No way!
That's right.
I killed them.
Senpai, I want to go to more major places since we came all the way to Kyoto.
Don't worry, a great spot is down the street.
What? Where are we?
It's a long day today.
Sensei, do you also think that a suspect is one of us?
Isn't it the expected circumstances?
You suspect me, don't you?
Everything is possible, right?
Don't say that.
Do you know anything about Yohei?
Even though you don't want to tell the police, you can do to us.
There's a cafe where you can drink coffee and play with a cat.
Let's go there.
A cat cafe?
We have a guest today.
I was surprised.
I didn't expect that Sensei took such a cute girlfriend here.
It's never happened before.
Well, please make yourself at home.
Don't worry, I didn't put a truth drug.
You can tell me when you're ready.
I've been having the same nightmare over and over,
since the arson attack occurred.
Himura told me that that arson attack made you have a fear of orange color…
My nightmare starts from the scene of the fire.
A raging blaze, the burning sound and Shotarou who was burning to death.
But my dream has still far to go.
Beside Shotarou,
there's Yohei who spreads gasoline on Shotarou.
I don't know why I have such a horrible dream.
Did you tell somebody about that dream?
I can't!
I don't want to make somebody be an arsonist only by my dream.
I may be insane.
You in your dream are innocent.
In my dream, I often kill people.
What?
Just like you, I've been having the same nightmare over and over.
I kill people brutally.
I have a distinct feel of murdering people on my hands.
And I always wake up after that.
Even though I awake from a dream, I feel that my hands get dirty with blood.
Sensei.
What's wrong?
I'm sure that you also have such a dream, right?
What?
Ah...Yes.
Akemi, you're not alone in having such a weird dream.
Thank you for telling us about that.
When this incident is solved, you won't have that nightmare anymore.
So, don't worry.
A great detective responds to the clients’ expectations all through the ages.
That's how it is.
Since a great detective says so, you can count on him.
Did you remember detective Ogata?
He had a sweet tooth.
Didn't he offer you a parfait like this when he examined you?
Mutobe, I want to believe you.
But since you flushed a threatening letter down the toilet, I don't know what to do.
As I said, I have nothing to tell you more.
I see.
You can go home now.
What?
But tell me one thing before leaving.
What was your secret that was on a threatening letter?
I can't help feeling that that secret has something to do with this incident.
For example, it has something to do with Cape Twilight murder incident of 2 years ago.
Or the arson attack of 6 years ago.
The arson attack it is?
Nabeshima, you're bingo!
Sorry.
In the letter, it said that I was a suspect of the arson attack.
Of course, it's utterly unfounded. Please believe me!
If so, you didn't have to obey that letter, did you?
Why didn't you ignore that letter?
Well...A photos was attached.
A photo?
As a matter of fact, I played with fire in the vacant lot or construction site a lot at night at that time.
I always felt frustrated.
I knew that I shouldn’t have done that, but...
Of course, I'd never caused a big fire and,
I've never thought that I wanted to burn Akemi's uncle's house.
But there was my photo that I was watching a fire in the vacant lot.
It wasn't you who set fire to Munakata residence.
But since there's a picture of you watching a fire, you thought that you'd suspect by the police, right?
That's right.
His story seems so unreal.
Why does a suspect send a photo to him 6 years after?
I think that it's a poor lie.
But he has no reason to tell such a poor lie.
Hey, Himura!
I found this.
And I've already done DNA analysis. Bingo!
As I expected.
What?
Whose hair is this and where did you find this?
You'll be surprised.
How did he do that?
Nobody can't help checking this poster.
When I checked a bathroom, there was nothing in a tub.
Go to Room 806 of Orange Tachibana
This crime...
I got it!
I know a trick!
Sakashita.
Himura, I know a trick.
Wait, don't tell us yet!
It does not necessarily be the right answer.
Do you want to hear?
Not yet!
You guys look like having a fun.
Komachi, don't you know yet?
Shut up! I'm thinking.
As you might guess.
Sakashita.
Yes.
We're going to do an experiment at Orange Tachibana.
Can you prepare for that?
Certainly!
Himura, can we call it even?
Of course not!
What are you talking about?
Ah, nothing!
See you soon.
What's going on?
Mutobe,
Let's do the same thing once again.
As a special lesson, would you give my student a permission to participate in the investigation?
All right. So, what do you do?
Mutobe, don't you remember anything more about Room 806 where you sneaked into at night?
Nothing really...
Well, let's start an experiment!
We're going to follow the same traffic line that Mutobe did last night.
First, Mutobe climbed stairs without knowing where the next instruction was.
Damn, it! My legs are already tired.
That's the beauty of youth.
We arrived at the 13th floor.
I found an orange envelope here.
It said that I had to take the elevator to the 8th floor.
Then, let's go.
I'm tired. This is a penalty game.
Nabeshima, let's go!
All right.
I asked Sakashita to make the same scene as yesterday.
Sensei, what is this experiment for?
Don't you notice something?
This isn't the same room as few minutes ago.
What is different?
The view is different.
Before we left for climbing stairs, I couldn't see that sign clearly from this room.
That's right! I saw a sign outside a window last night.
I remember that.
I wanted to be the first person to mention that.
I'm not competing against anybody.
A few minutes ago, that sign was hidden behind the building and we couldn't see it.
But now, we can see it.
So, that means...
We're in Room 906 where the upper room of Room 806 is.
What?
Crime Lab found your hair in this room.
A hair found in Room 906 is matched up precisely with DNA of Mutobe Shirou
You were in Room 906 last night.
What was the weirdest thing in the threatening letter?
Kijima.
Well, a suspect made him climb stairs to the 13th floor.
A suspect didn't let him go to Room 806 directly.
Do you know why?
A suspect wanted to create the temporal illusion in the elevator.
Well done.
Wait a second!
I'm sure that I pushed 8.
How's going, everybody?
Do you want me to tell you the right answer?
Wait! I'm still thinking.
I got it.
Because Sakashita pushed a button on the 9th floor, the elevator stopped there.
But since there's no elevator indicator outside,
how did suspect on the 9th floor know when Mutobe took the elevator from the 13th floor?
Say a suspect heard the sound of the elevator, there're too many uncertain conditions.
A suspect should have wanted to avoid the risk of bumping into Mutobe.
I see. Then...
There's one more reason why a suspect made Mutobe climb up to the 13th floor.
A suspect was waiting for him on the 14th floor.
I got it!
Let me explain it.
A suspect was holding the elevator on the 14th floor that he pushed 9 in advance.
Mutobe took that elevator and got out of the 9th floor without being aware of it.
It's a common mistake at a department store.
But 9 on the inside panel didn't light up in both times.
If a suspect pushed 9 in advance, I should have been able to notice it.
That's right.
If a suspect fixed a panel..?
What? Is she bingo?
Let's check the elevator.
All right.
This is an easy trap. Because this elevator is an old type, it's possible to do this.
That was why 9 on a panel didn't light up.
A suspect pushed 9 on the 14th floor,
and waited for you to get in the elevator on the 13th floor.
If only one floor up, a suspect could hear footsteps coming towards the elevator.
Yes, I heard it clearly.
But a suspect couldn't fix the elevator indicator to show the wrong floor number, right?
No, but a suspect could prevent the number from showing.
Ah, an owl poster!
It's a very fragile plan.
But it's tried and trusted that this poster can turn our mind or interest to owl for 15 seconds,
when the elevator travels from the 13th floor to 9th floor.
All room plates on the 9th floor were replaced.
It's an elaborate plan.
A suspect fooled us.
Yes.
You don't have to be mortified.
Mutobe, you're cleared of the charge.
She saved you.
I didn't do anything.
Akemi, thank you.
Wait a second.
How can you explain about a perfume?
Certainly, I smelled Mutobe's perfume in Room 806.
A suspect didn't mind to do an elaborate means to blame a crime on me.
A suspect must have used the same perfume as a trick.
Everybody who went to cottage at Cape Twilight has a same perfume.
Anyway, we have to go back where we started.
Who killed Yamauchi?
Who lead Mutobe by the nose?
And who gave me a challenge?
Nothing has been settled.
A murder incident of Yamauchi Yohei,
Cape Twilight murder incident,
The arson attack of 6 years ago.
How are these incidents intertwined?
A point in common is,
all are related to orange color!
It's a writer attitude.
We seem have no choice but to go there.
That's right. Let's go to Cape Twilight.