I feel hot!
Yes?
What can I do for you?
Express delivery!
Are you a postman?
Yes. that's right.
Thank you.
Mom?
I'm sorry. I promise to pay by tomorrow.
There's always a tomorrow.
You're five days late.
I promise to pay you for sure tomorrow.
If you can't pay. then show some sincerity.
Like him.
Stop it.
He's fixing the shoji doors in my room for me.
That looks colorful.
I'll clean your bathtub later.
And the toilet bowl.
The reason why I asked you to come today is...
What are those photos?
Which one would you choose?
I want your honest opinion as a female.
Why?
The computer at the marriage consulting
service pumped those out for me.
They're supposed to be compatible to me.
What are you doing?
Listen carefully.
No matter how great the person may be,
if he lives in the same environment for long,
his energy level will gradually drop.
That is a serious problem.
It'll be a great loss to the world of physics.
Are you, by chance talking about yourself?
I've told you many times what a great physicist I am.
According to a certain literature,
sex is like a safe dose of vitamins.
Vitamins are essential to brain activity.
If I may say so myself, I think I'm pretty good.
I should be good at it.
At having sex?
I've diligently practiced alone till this age.
What it comes down to is, you want to have sex.
Your big penis is lonely?
Quiet!
I'm talking about physics, not my big penis.
Do you have a big penis?
How long have you been there?
I just heard the last part.
We were talking about Takamura Kotaro.
He's been practicing hard on his own.
She looks like the type that would bite into a block of cheese.
The left one seems like the type that would
crack a raw egg into the miso soup.
The center one looks like she would blend natto
and mentaiko together.
I'd definitely go for this one.
Why?
Putting this aside...
I wanted your help.
Is it another stupid case?
Please see for yourself if it's stupid or not.
Please come in.
Who is she?
She's Kurosaka Miyuki.
Isn't she pretty?
Yes, she is.
Glad you like her. It makes it easier.
Will you spend a night with her?
Sure.
That was fast.
Why?
Let's talk outside.
Please wait here.
As you like.
Why are you coming?
It's none of your business.
Do you like warabi mochi?
She's going to kill someone with her spiritual powers?
Yes, three of them.
I'll kill three people using my spiritual powers.
Her?
She asked to be confined by the police and kept
under surveillance.
Please keep me under surveillance from now.
If the murders take place while she's under our
surveillance, then she'll have a perfect alibi.
Is she going to be doing all kinds of weird things?
What are you thinking of, Sensei?
Please have a seat.
I'm fine, thank you.
I'll kill three people with my spiritual powers.
Candle... Chain...
Calm down, Sensei.
In other words, she'll be confined when the murder
takes place elsewhere with her spiritual powers.
That's the gist of it.
That's impossible.
I agree.
We're being paid with the taxpayers' money.
so we can't be bothered by this kind of nonsense.
You want me to confine her and tie her for free?
Where do you normally hang out at?
Nonsense is necessary in physics.
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity contradicted
Isaac Newton's theory of dynamics.
At first, everyone thought Einstein's theory was...
Will you do it?
But...
A night is a long time.
Your practice may come to good use.
It may come to good use.
Shall I say it again?
It may come...
I'm sure you'll be fine.
But if anything should happen, please call me.
Are you leaving?
We can't work on it unless something happens first.
We'll be digging out now.
I'll be going, too.
You're leaving, too?
You look happy.
I have to clean my landlady's room.
She's willing to wait on the rent if I do that.
Please have fun.
What is it?
Please don't go.
You'll be just fine. Nothing will happen.
That's not it.
A mistake could happen between her and me.
I don't like mistakes. There's no love.
I'll pay for your rent.
How about two...no. make that three months.
I'll deposit it into your account tomorrow.
I want it now in cash.
Where are we going?
To my private research lab.
You have your own lab?
This is my secret research lab.
What are you researching on?
I don't believe in spiritual or supernatural powers.
I believe everything can be explained scientifically.
That's nonsense.
Spiritual powers do exist.
But most people don't realize it, won't come
to terms with it, and won't acknowledge it.
Is ignorance bliss?
Or is it plain stupidity?
All right. If you are so insistent about it,
let's see your spiritual powers.
Are you telling me to kill you first?
What? I didn't mean that.
I just wanted a glimpse of it... Like a preview.
I understand.
Like a free trial course?
You can do that?
Take out your hand.
Grip it.
What are you doing?
I can physically recreate my mental images.
Using my spiritual powers.
I pictured ashes in your palm. Open it right now.
Spiritual powers do exist.
That should show you that my powers are real.
How did she do this?
That's enough.
Mr.Ueda, look carefully.
That's mere child's play.
You just had ashes on your fingers to begin with.
Take out your hand again.
Grip it.
Open it.
You had put the ashes on the palm of his hand.
to make it seem like it had transferred there.
It was just as I thought.
What are you trying to do?
What is your motive?
I told you that I'd kill three people using my
spiritual powers.
That's no possible!
What is it?
Let's not fight here.
It gets unsightly.
Stop, okay?
Umeki Ryuichi...
What?
Who is that?
The man I hate... that deserves to die.
I'm going to strangle him to death now.
Can you see this?
Can you see this belt?
Do you?
Is she all right?
I just killed Umeki Ryuichi.
If you think I'm lying...
Search the bottom of the cliff up ahead.
Bottom of the cliff?
You'll see that I'm telling the truth.
Do you have a driver's license?
Yes, I do.
I'm a paper driver though.
You want me to drive?
We can't leave her alone.
Let's decide by jan-ken-pon.
How childish.
He should talk.
All right.
How many times?
Isn't once enough?
That isn't fair.
You must be lousy at it.
I'm going to display "stone" and it's up to you
to believe it or not.
I'm going to display "paper" then.
He's honest.
He went out to look.
I see.
Is it going to be true or not?
I can't wait to find out.
I see.
Why do I have to come here?
I don't see anything.
Is this the truth?
Excuse me.
Oh, brother.
I guess I'll search more.
There's nothing, after all.
That big liar!
She's going to get it later!
She said something about a belt, didn't she?
Is that her hobby?
Watch your step.
I just told you to be careful.
Where's Mr.Yabe?
He doesn't like windy places.
It's obvious that he's wearing a wig.
Are you all right?
I heard you fainted again.
The truth was here.
He was strangled to death.
Looks like he was thrown off the cliff after he was killed.
What is his name?
He had a driver's license on him.
His name is Umeki Ryuichi.
Do you know him?
That's the name of the man she claimed to have killed.
His estimated time of death was an hour ago,
about 10:00 p.m.
10:00?
Can you see this?
That's just about the time she was pretending to
strangle him to death.
Did she kill him using her spiritual powers?
I don't believe that.
Did you really kill him?
That's not possible, is it?
There was a butterfly.
A pretty butterfly.
What're you talking about?
We found the weapon used to kill him.
A butterfly design. It looks expensive.
Butterfly?
As in Miyako?
No! Look at the belt.
Can you see this belt?
She used a belt to kill him?
Check for fingerprints.
Quickly!
How did she strangle him?
I wonder, too.
I got it!
That's just a part of the weapon.
What do you mean?
She used a very long belt to strangle him
from your room.
I'd say a belt about 5,000 meters long.
The rest of the belt should be around!
That must be it!
What? It matched?
The fingerprints on the belt and the hair in the
victim's hand matched Kurosaka Miyuki's?
What's going on here?
You're under arrest for the murder of Umeki Ryuichi.
Did you say I'm under arrest?
Just come!
Wait a minute!
Do you have proof that I killed him?
Your fingerprints were on the belt used to kill
the victim. Moreover, the hair in his hand
turned out to be yours, too.
Hair?
This hair!
Isn't that good enough proof to arrest you?
No. I was in this room.
They are my witnesses.
How could I have possibly killed him?
When did I kill him?
What is his estimated time of death?
Well, that's...
You used your spiritual powers to...
I thought you didn't believe in it.
Well, that's...
Can you prove that I used my spiritual
powers to kill him?
Are you sure you kept an eye on her?
Of course.
Show me your tongue.
Turn it over.
Darn. There's only one.
How many did you think I have?
Don't you have a very long belt?
No. Come out with it!
Don't you have one? Aren't you hiding it?
One thing is clear.
I can kill all the people I want with my spiritual
powers, but until science can explain it and the law
will acknowledge it, I won't be found guilty.
I heard that the court can't pass judgement on
someone who curse a person to death.
That's ridiculous.
What is it?
Will you come with me?
Come.
Where are you going?
What's on your mind?
Something bothers me.
What is it?
Didn't we leave her for a short time?
I'll display "stone."
It's up to you whether you believe it or not.
I'll display "paper."
Don't tell me she killed him during that time.
That's the only time we left her alone.
It takes at most two minutes to go from that room to that
parking lot. Which means, the round trip is...
Four minutes.
You think she can go to the cliff, strangle him to death,
and come back in four minutes?
That's impossible.
Even if it's scientifically inexplainable...
If she used some kind of trick for it...
This is the place where she killed Umeki and pushed him
over the cliff.
Just coming here took five minutes.
Did she use teleportation?
As in Honda Minako's song?
That's "Temptation."
Teleportation, huh.
So you know about it!
Would it be something like this?
That's impossible.
Isn't there any clue?
I forgot about this.
What? Tomorrow?
I have a calligraphy exhibition in Tokyo.
That's so sudden.
Is it a bad time for you?
That's not it.
Then I'd like to see you.
I've never seen one of those modern condominiums.
The villagers say it must be very impressive.
I see. Can I stay a night?
Sure.
If you really can't make it, then it's all right.
I can find a place to stay.
Sorry. It should be OK.
I'll come get you at Tokyo Station then.
Don't get lost now.
You have a bad sense of direction.
I'll try to be careful.
Good night.
How scary...
Tomorrow, huh...
What a problem.
Watch out!
Are you all right?
Watch it!
Do trucks pass at this hour?
There's a huge refuse center up ahead.
They're continuously taking trash up there.
The university has been complaining about it.
Continuously?
My cell phone...
I can visualize my grandma's face.
Toketa (I solved it).
It's not toketa (melted), but kudaketa (smashed).
I figured out her trick.
Where's Mr.Yabe?
He left.
He said to give him a call when you've solved the riddle.
How can he leave when he told us to keep an eye on her?
I'll wake him up!
Yabe Kenzo, who loves justice, can't come to the phone right now.
It is a citizen's duty to cooperate with the police.
Please leave a message after the tone.
It's slipping. It's crooked. It's falling off.
That was mean.
That should give him a nightmare.
Let's go home.
Are you sure?
Why shouldn't we?
Why should we be up when the police is asleep?
That doesn't sound fair, don't you think?
It's not like a scientist to leave the questions open.
Shall we get started?
Do I have a choice?
I'll stay as a scientist.
Only because I'm a scientist.
A physicist.
Stop mumbling.
My father, who was a magician, often said...
There is no such thing as spiritual powers.
There is always a trick behind every mysterious
phenomenon that you see.
During his lifetime, my father exposed many
frauds who claimed to have supernatural powers.
Are you going to expose me as a fraud now?
That's right.
I'm looking forward to hearing your explanation.
That time, you stood right before us and
started your strangling performance.
Right around here.
I just killed Umeki Ryuichi.
But he was still alive then.
You stood in this spot to make us confirm the time.
You led us to look at the clock behind you.
Misdirection...a common trick used by magicians.
When did I kill him?
Right after Mr.Ueda and I left this room.
You snuck out of the room and headed for the path
outside on this floor.
That would take less than a minute to get to.
That's where you killed Umeki, whom you called out.
Then you pushed his body over on the truck below.
Then you returned to this room, before I did.
He went out to look.
You knew that the trucks passed here on a regular
schedule to unload trash at the refuse center.
Why were the trucks parked there anyway?
Weren't there vending machines in that spot?
The drivers would stop their trucks there to get drinks.
Then the truck left with Umeki's body on top.
In this manner.
You had that all calculated.
The truck passed the cliff where Ueda was, and headed
for the next cliff.
The curved road where the murder took place.
When the truck turned at that curve...
The law of inertia.
That's basic physics.
You gave an ambiguous testimony on the location
of the body, to bide time for the truck to pass him by.
Please search the bottom of the cliff up ahead.
If you had designated the cliff with the curved road,
your trick wouldn't have worked.
That explains it all. Am I wrong?
That's incredible. I'm impressed.
Was that it? I thought so.
Give me a break!
What're you laughing about?
That's so farfetched.
how could I have called Umeki out here?
You're the ones who brought me to this secret research lab.
I haven't made any calls to the outside.
Isn't that right?
Let's say that I did call Umeki out here.
What is the possibility that the truck would be parked?
What if there wasn't any truck out there?
Besides, wouldn't you hear the body fall?
Yes, I told him to check the bottom of the cliff.
And you both happened to leave the room together.
There was the possibility that one of you would stay.
I have more to add to it.
What's the possibility that the truck would transport
the body to that curve point?
What if the body fell off before that point?
There's a possibility that the body may not have fallen
off at that curve point, too.
If one of those things happened, your theory
wouldn't hold.
You used the coincidences all to your advantage.
Am I wrong?
I agree with you.
Why do you strongly deny spiritual powers?
That's because...
There are a lot of inexplainable things.
You should accept reality for what it is.
Accept the unknown as the unknown.
That would be more rewarding for you.
Will you get serious!
Killing a person using your spiritual powers...
is supposed to be considered rewarding?
Spiritual powers do not exist in this world!
You leave me no choice.
If you still don't get it, then...
I'll show you what my real powers are like.
Spiritual powers do not exist!
You leave me no choice.
I guess I'll have to show you my real powers.
I have a knife here.
We can't see it!
Because it's not there.
The blade is about 20 cm long.
What are you doing?
Are you going to kill me?
I just killed a man.
Killed?
The time is 5:00.
Remember that.
His name is Takeshita Fumio
You're kidding, right?
I heard the sound of water.
The murmuring of the river flow.
You'll soon see that I'm telling the truth.
Thanks for coming.
Is that the victim?
What does he look like?
Get me something nice to look at.
I see Matsuzaka Keiko.
The victim is Takeshita Fumio, age 41.
He was an insurance salesman.
He was stabbed with a knife.
And had bled to death.
Change your ring to something else.
This is Ueda calling.
What kind of message was that?
I had a nightmare from it.
She claims to have killed another man.
Is it that woman again?
She had apparently killed him with a knife.
His name is Takeshita Fumio.
What?
She killed him about 5:00 this morning.
What is his estimated time of death?
5:00 a.m.
She said she used a knife with
a 20 cm long blade.
A 20 cm long blade?
There's no doubt about it.
What?
20 cm blade... 5:00 a.m. Takeshita Fumio.
That man is lying before me, all cut up.
Is he dead?
Are you serious?
So you've go the truth.