Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa

The pool of blood that spread in front of me...

A man showed an ecstatic look and smiled.

The pool of blood that spread in front of me.

A man showed an ecstatic look and smiled.

Okay, Okay...

Who calls at this time of night?

Hello?

He is here.

Himura-sensei, you got a call from the police.

A man uses his study as a pretext for hunting people.

Please believe me.

I didn't kill her.

I was just napping on a sofa.

I'm not pleased that you sent a text message said, "You're bored, aren't you?".

Weren't you?

I was concentrating on writing a new novel.

Listen, there's no notion of free time to a writer.

Sorry for having called you at this time of night.

Inspector is waiting for you inside.

Sakashita-kun, it was too bad that you had to give up your relax time at home and come here.

That's right.

What?

Your shirt is very clean and well-creased because you changed a shirt recently.

You took a shower but left some beard unshaven.

Because you were in a hurry.

Excuse me.

Isn't he creepy?

Hello!

A guest staying in this room is Nick Hallelujah.

His occupation is a magician, but if I call him so, he wouldn't be happy.

Well...What's that?

He is a spiritual artist.

It's called, "Magical power of the soul".

He says that he can float on air.

He had a magic show in this hotel today.

A victim is Kaneko Julia who was his assistant.

She was his girlfriend.

So, why do you need me?

Listen, Himura-chan,

If we believe what that magician said,

this is the perfect locked room murder.

After a show was finished, Nick had drinks with all the parties concerned.

He was supposed to see her after that.

But she didn't show up.

So, Nick fell asleep on a sofa.

And at 11:07 p.m.

When having woken up by a call from his manager, he found her dead body.

What? Julia!

Julia!

Hey, Julia!

A murder weapon is a knife with Nick's finger prints on.

He usually uses it for his show.

A victim was stabbed at a window and died here.

The estimated time of death was around 11 p.m.

Both a window and a door were locked from the inside.

At any rate, he is the only the person who could kill her.

But Nick persists in denying.

What do you think, Sensei?

Does he lose consciousness when he drinks a lot or use drugs?

According to his manager, when Nick is drunk, he sleeps everywhere.

If being too drunk, he damages a property or becomes violent.

He becomes more and more suspicious.

But we only have circumstantial evidence.

There's no crucial evidence.

In other words, if he tells the truth,

she and a suspect came into this room while Nick was napping,

a suspect killed her and left here in 10 minutes.

That sounds like a magic.

A magic has to have a trick.

This is Himura, Criminologist whom we trust and ask for investigative cooperation.

I don't care who you are.

Please prove my innocent.

All I care is to find out the truth.

I'm telling the truth.

I didn't kill her.

I've heard that you float on air in your show.

Do you use a strong wire or something?

What? That’s "Magical power of the soul".

Nick is shocked right now.

So, please ask him only the things related to the incident.

All right.

By the way, this is a very nice room.

What? Did you look out a window after having come back?

Did you listen to what I just said?

Because a curtain is open.

Did you?

I don't remember since I was very drunk.

The important thing is to find out how a suspect came into this room, killed Julia and left!

Then, I'll ask you...

Did anybody have a room key other than you?

I gave a spare key to Julia.

If so, while you were sleeping, Julia and a suspect came into this room together and...

What?

Who is he?

Please don't pay attention to him.

Even though you were very drunk, you should have been able to wake up when you hears something, right?

Actually, you woke up when a phone rang.

That's right.

Talking about a call, why did you call him such time, Yoshinaga?

It's my routine that I check his schedule for the next day every night.

By the way, where is your room?

It's in front of this room.

If so, didn't you hear anything?

No. I was at a bar alone.

I called him from there.

Is a bar on top floor of that building?

Drinks must be very expensive there, right?

Yes.

This sofa looks very expensive too.

This is very comfortable.

Did anybody sit down before I did?

Nobody!

Alice.

What?

You should try.

All right.

Well, a trick of this locked room murder is...

It's "Magical power of the soul".

A thin white wire that you call Magical power of the soul.

A suspect uses a same wire to drag her.

She's already dead behind a curtain when Nick came back.

While he was napping, somebody dragged her from behind a curtain to this room.

A suspect used a special wire.

A suspect put a wire through her belt,

and by using this chair as the fulcrum point, pulled a wire.

A chair moved over a little.

When a suspect collected a wire, there's no evidence left.

But if a suspect did such a thing in a hallway, somebody would see...

No. If a suspect did that in the room in front of this room.

Yoshinaga...

When you saw Julia entering Nick's room,

you sneaked into his room quickly too.

Or you told her to wait for Nick together in his room.

Anyway, you killed Julia right after that.

You opened a curtain before having left this room.

And as soon as having seen Nick fell asleep on a sofa,

You went back to your room and did imitative deception.

This is the deliberate crime that only you who knew Nick's pattern of behavior could commit.

That's the truth.

Why did you do that?

Nabeshima, if you examine him, you'll figure out that she was dating both men at once.

Sakashita,

Yes.

If you date two ladies at once, don't buy anything for yourself at a store where you bought a present for her.

I'm going home.

Excuse us.

You're not smart.

You thought that this was the perfect crime, right?

But you staged too much.

It was incredibly foolish that you woke him up with a phone call and made him find her body.

That manager couldn't wait for Nick to discover her dead body by himself.

Did you remember? When we were kids, when I went into mischief,

I couldn't wait to see their reaction.

Yoshinaga may have wanted to hear Nick crying out...

What? Julia!

Julia!

This crime isn't beautiful.

The back shot of a man who solved the incident looked lonely.

Because he couldn't see his ideal crime.

That man is a Criminologist

Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa

Episode 1, Screaming Castle murder incident

Room 106

The chemistry between crime and society

Department of sociology Associate professor

Himura Hideo

In Japan, we call him "Kirisaki Jack".

It's the serial murders.

A suspect hasn't been captured even though it happened more than 100 years ago.

There're various theories about a suspect.

Rough hair

We'll discuss about the historic background and the analysis of criminal sociology of Jack the Ripper.

Please read a text book.

His hair isn't that messy.

No? I think it looked just like him.

I don't know.

I keep saying that if he tries a sweptback hair, he'll be cool.

Can you draw that?

Does he look cool?

I think so.

Do you put a soy sauce in a curry dish?

Then, it tastes like a curry in a local soba noodle shop.

I see.

We're your students.

You sat down the fourth row in the left from the middle, right?

What? Did we disturb you?

I can get the picture of students who sit down where and their characters.

You kept writing something, right?

I have a question.

It's about the phantom assaults happening in this town.

Ah, it's very scary.

A suspect hasn't been arrested yet, right?

I'm scarier when you told us about Jack the Ripper.

What do you think about a profile of criminal?

Please sit down.

Since those two victims are about the same age as I, I don't feel at ease.

I may be too sensitive.

I think that everybody feel the same.

I can't go out at night until a phantom killer is arrested.

5 victims and each crime scene of Jack the Ripper have in common, right?