The level of this episode dropped significantly from the first and the ratings show for it. Going from a 13.9% rating to a 10.8%.
The episode starts with Nakura-sensei teaching his class, at the end of lecture all these girls rush the podium to ask him what his favorite foods are and stuff as if if he's the most popular guy in class. This really had no use in the episode, Why they had a need to show all the girls fangirling him, who knows? It's really cute how Mia always asks questions to her professors, you can really see how much she wants to be a forensics doctor.
So the first investigation of the episode is of an elder man in his 90's who is presumed to have died from choking on mochi. Tamami goes to the scene like a real boss she is and tries to take over the examination. When she confirmed the death, Chika gave out a "victory" fist pump behind Tamami's back, but of course she knew it. What I don't like about Chika is the attitude she gives to Tamami, the whole fake being nice thing with the know-it-all tone. It was hilarious though to see her reaction when Tamami told her she had a kid and is married.
They were sent to the next crime scene of a girl who had fell from one of the top floors of her apartment complex (guest starring Ichikawa Yui). It seemed like an aparant suicide, especially when they found cut marks on her wrist and found a psychiatrist medical card in her room. They also find her cell phone inside her room. She made 3 calls the night she died and they were to Nakura-sensei.
Chika went to the university to pick up Nakura-sensei for questioning. During interrogation, you can tell how angry and hurt Chika was and of course Nakura-sensei had the same attitude he always exhibits, which is pretty emotionless.
They continue their investigation and visit the psychiatrist that was listed on the medical card found in the apartment. They question the doctor and get interrupted by her son, who has kind of an attitude problem.
Chika is annoyed at her boss at the police station. She's not able to get permission to have an autopsy on the body despite what the mother wants because the police believe it to be a suicide. Upset, she heads off to the calligraphy place and sees Kousuke there again and interacts with him. I've noticed she comes here after she has a fight and needs to release some stress.
Kurokawa-san has a talk with the Nakura-sensei to see if there was any possibility for an autopsy, but he doesn't even try. Like a boss, Tamami interrupts and tries to push for one. As she was about to call the police station for permission, Takeda-sensei butted in and mentioned something along the lines like "I can be scarier" or something like that and talked to the police instead, but he was so calm about it, no raised tone or anything. After the call, he started getting the shakes again and Nakura-sensei just happened to be passing by to see it.
They were permitted to an autopsy. When the police chief let Chika know, she went super crazy, snapping her chopsticks in half with one hand and throwing them into the garbage. That sounds funny the way its written, but it wasn't supposed to be comedic.
During the autopsy, they discovered an injection mark on her skin which was tested to be an anesthesia that only doctors permit. They also found out she was 3 months pregnant at the time of death. Nakura-sensei is then brought back to the police station for questioning, but this time for a possible arrest. There is a benefit of the doubt that he would do such a thing, so Chika and Tamami (and Mia who always randomly tags along) head back to the crime scene and discover cigarette ashes in a planter in her room.
Chika doesn't smoke and neither does Nakura-sensei, so whoever it was, should be the culprit. Going through the room, Mia unknowingly witnessed a clue as to who the culprit is. They head back to the psychiatrist to question her about whether she prescribed something to Saori. While handing the medical records to Tamami, she drops the folder revealing a scar on her wrist. The medical records are clean and they head back out. The doctor's son arrives at the facility in his fancy car that almost ran over Mia. She looks through the window of his car showing a drink and a cigarette in his cup holder/ashtray. Mia remembers she's seen one of those drinks from Saori's room and Tamami and Chika make a dash for the interior of the car grabbing the cigarette. While they accuse him as the culprit, the mother says its her.
Through a small "weight" test, Tamami knew she couldnt be the one to throw Saori's body over the balcony. The son confesses it was him and of course he's the father of the baby.
Comments:
The episode was pretty boring, there wasn't anything really exciting about it. In the first episode, having the double investigation is what made it exciting. While the outcome is predictable, the way the deaths occured weren't. With this episode, there wasn't anything that kept you guessing, you kind of already knew who the culprit was and a motive. What's really sad is, even though i'm not a fan of hers, Ichikawa Yui only had like one line and it was at the end during a flashback scene. I'm just wondering when they'll start getting to the part about Takeda-sensei's alcohol problem.
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