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i knew that nick name Kaji gave Fukami would…

i knew that nick name Kaji gave Fukami would come back to bite him... feel bad for Fukami cause he really didn't do anything wrong. Kaji is the one all up in his feelings, cause he is scared of relationships & how Fukami makes him feel. & after sleeping with him in this ep & realizing it is more then a hook-up he lashed out at Fukami & in the next ep he is gonna drive the stake in deeper. as there 6 more eps to go i am guessing it's him trying to make Fukami forgive his stupidity. he needs to work for it, that's for sure, but Fukami himself wasn't really looking for love & his treatment of Kaji now doesn't mean he has fallen in-love, he might just be cordial to the guy he is f*cking - like a friends with benefits situation. but Kaji misread & lashed out idk.. time will tell

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Analyzing the evidence

In 1997, knife brother gives a reasonable rendering of what he was guilty of and what not. However, his conversation with brother indicated he was hired to get rid of the two and would be paid 40k upon completion. He received 10k up front. There is another witness who says he saw the girl with blue shoes. The only thing confirmed is that the two missing persons were seen heading for an illegal clinic in the building. The samples were tested and the cigarettes were knife brother’s but the blood samples were all from the chickens. No human blood discovered. Ran gets the I told you so look from He. There now is a skip to 2015. They are looking through the building and He keeps pointing out things from the unresolved case. Ran is getting annoyed not seeing any connection. For once He is the one thinking there is a connection between the two cases that needs investigated. He shows Ran the keepsake tin of knife brother. What is very weird and interesting is that all the items inside are in the same condition they were in 1997. This puzzles them but Ran is ready to leave and get his class schedules completed. He wants him to finish going through the building first and Ran reluctantly agrees. They find the old apartment of the man that saw blue shoe lady. What is odd here is that he was very invested in his detective stories and all his books were left behind. There is a blood covered witness watching them from behind the wall which seems to be the missing boy. He looks terrified but not making his presence known. Then a return to 1997. Ran wants in the criminal division and He wants out of it. Ran manages to get a referral from He for a spot.😂 He takes Ran to a night market to get less cop like clothes. What is sweet is he gets replacement items for the local he accidentally cut with glass from fallen pane. They go to meet an informant and she turns out to be a pretty girl in the massage industry. I think Ran wished he were in his old clothes for this interview.😂 She is very flirty but does have a nickname for the missing girl. She also is pleasantly surprised when Ran returns her lost family photo. They are referred to a foot massage place called Muse. The raid was a bit of a cluster with Ran getting to sample the foot water.😂 They did learn her real name was Xu Meng and they found family photos including a clear photo of her and her dad. The apartment had been deserted a while with spoiled food as evidence. A wall was removed for mysterious reasons and the episode ends with a shower of red paint. Things are taking an interesting turn.

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Captive audience

There is a brief stint in 2015 where they start the hunt for the missing boy. It then goes back to 1997. He and Ran definitely have different approaches to their work. He gives all the local miscreants posters of the missing father and daughter and makes them do the legwork. He even commandeers a ‘class’ and the captive audience are shown the posters and asked if seen or not. There are children chanting about 18th floor and 18 heads. Turns out there was a posting of rhyme on village board. The locals were treating it like a chain letter and spreading the verse rather than risk bad luck. Ran returns to the window where he noted the cigarette butts and sees many more. While trying to collect samples, he knocks out a window pane and almost takes out a local. He runs to her rescue and they have an interesting exchange in her apartment. He is very funny focusing everywhere except for the drying undergarments in her bathroom.😂Pagers are making timely communication difficult. The old man that took the poster to call is being followed by the missing thug brother who thought the old couple had witnessed what he’d done. Just when they are about to get knifed, Officer He shows up. While this is happening Ran does something new…he looks up rather than down and sees the rooftop but no access. He finally gets a criminal team there and on the rooftop they find out that the 18 heads refer to some slaughtered chickens. Ran stays behind because he considers the possibility of human blood being hid by chicken blood. Nobody takes him seriously. When samples are submitted at least He did not negate them, but he did change the request to Ran’s name. At the end of episode when the brothers reunite, knife brother is told to take them out and the picture is of father and daughter. Now we know something did happen and who we just don’t have the evidence to prove it because nobody believes Ran’s samples have any value to the investigation.

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