No caps, since I deleted the episodes after I watched them and didnt really think I'd actually write a review, but after watching these 2 episodes, the stories are actually getting better (and more interesting) and the crimes are getting harder to solve (in particular, ep03).
Episode 2:
The story of the psychic (i almost wrote SIDEKICK at first haha). We already knew it was going to be about a psychic, which was shown at the end of episode 1. It was at this time where I thought the dramas would tell you what the crime was and all that and we're just seeing the flashback. i was actually wrong. This time, they mentioned it about the psychic, even placing the word "Majikku" (MAGIC) as the password in the beginning and the story went on. So a psychic and Shinichi were invited to this one TV to show this guys ESP powers, but of course as a detective, he believed they were all tricks. The psychic tries to show his powers by "strangling" the host of the show.. he ends up doing so, the guy falls to the ground and all of a sudden goes through cardiac arrest and dies.
The psychic claims it was him who did it, why someone would actually admit it was themselves, who knows, but Shinichi knows its fake because really, ESP isn't really. Four people in suspicion of the murder were the 2 AD's, the assistant and the hair/makeup lady. They all had their own motives to kill the guy, and Shinichi was the witness to all of them (He's beginning to come off as a creeper to be honest haha). The AD's were treated like crap, so was the hair/makeup lady and the assistant was sexually harassed. The cause of death wasn't by strangulation but by an injection of a poison (what they use for the death penalty). Who had the chance to do it was Shinichi's job to prove.
Psychic guy still claims it was him, and by strangulation. Shinichi asks him to use his ESP powers again, since he claimed to have them, on Ran. When he went to do so, Ran passed out and it appears he has done the same thing he did to the host. Ran's father, Kogoro, freaks out and tries to give her CPR. Ran opens her eyes calling her dad a pervert and then everyone's all *GASPS*.
Shinichi proves that the psychic had false powers and that all the ESP-like stuff that happened was all a trick... a trick on the psychic - DOKKIRI. Shinichi explains what had happened and tells everyone that the real murderer is actually the hair/makeup lady. It appears she had a lot of anger towards the host so she injected the guy when he was faking his strangulation and then hid the injection pen (which looks really cool btw) in the psychics pocket to try to frame him.
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Episode 3:
I got REALLY confused with this story line, but that made me pay attention even more. This story involves Ran's mother (Eri) this time, who is a lawyer (I believe), although this time she wasn't the one doing the prosecuting, but acting as a witness in the defenses behalf. The court case involves a hostess who stole 3 million (cant remember the amount) yen from the Mama's safe. During the time of the crime, the hostess claims she was at a love hotel and came across Eri. Eri says she saw the hostess there as well, but even though Eri is defending this girl, she keeps making wild remarks that she was at a love hotel with an old guy. Eri was getting furious with the hostesses remarks and points her hand at her as if she were making a gun and says she'll kill her with her finger gun. She "pulls the trigger" and a bullet hits the hostess in the head.
This is in no way possible as everyone is checked on their way in, so they believe that the weapon would have been small and concealed and in the disguise of something else. They do a strip search on Eri since she is the prime suspect and can't find anything. The DA says that she must be concealing the weapon in her hair, which was twisted up. When she unravels her hair, a small gold tube falls out. On further investigation, it turns out to be her lipstick.
Eri claims she is guilty and is waiting for them to prove it. Shinichi goes and investigates and watches the video that was going as proof that Eri saw the hostess at a love hotel. Eri was at the love hotel and with some guy, but it was hard to tell in the video who it was. When they go back into the court room to talk to Eri, Shinichi says she is guilty, Ran cries and doesn't believe it, and then Eri claims she didnt do it. Shinichi proves she didn't shoot the guy, but the DA did. The DA had a tube that looked exactly like Eri's lipstick, except it detracts into a small canon type of gun. After the shot had happened, Eri dropped to the ground and picked up what she thought was her lipstick, but it was the gun which was still hot. She gave out a coded message to Shinichi and the pistol before she was taken away for her search. The DA tossed the pistol trying to get rid of it and making it seem like Eri had shot the girl. It turns out the DA was actually having a relationship with the hostess, but had his heart broken and the revenge was killing her. It also turns out that the guy in the video with Eri was Kogoro who was very drunk haha.
The way the story went was really confusing because Eri claimed she did kill her, but then denied it later on. And the coded message that she sent to Shinichi in order to show she has the murder weapon was confusing, but a really cool idea to put into the story. I also like the fact that the murderer turned out to be the DA, because you wouldnt have ever suspected him. I originally thought the murderer was the Mama since she didn't like the hostess and because she stole money from her. She was in the courtroom as well, but they didn't focus on her after her 2 lines in the beginning of the trial.
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