Chekhov MacGuffin

Very nice analysis. I don't think Sera knows much about Amuro except what she has been told, but is trying to investigate him as part of a potential chain of connections looking for the one that links to Akai. I don't think Sera knows Haibara originally eithr, but early in her investigation whatever it was that tipped her off that Conan was important to Akai also tipped her off that Haibara was important too. This would explain the interest and deep investigation into both of them. I think Sera was tipped of by the pictures Akai had of Conan and Haibara from when he was following them in the Vermouth arc, which were accidentally sent back home to the Akais when the FBI sent the rest of his stuff home.

I saw a lot of people asking about this, but since there is a break in Shounen Sunday next week I think file 802 will be on Jan 4th, not Dec 28. (The file this week is Dec 21st, it came out early)

There are. Head on over to the manga section to find they are both stickied. Thread locked.

Is there no way you could paste the text? I want to read it, but I'm a bit leery of downloads...

English is out! No more spoiler boxes! Huzzah! *Despoilers everyone's comments in celebration*

Sure, but it means you are assuming people are in disguise without evidence in order to make the facts suit your theory. Also only Sharon Vineyard would recognize Conan as young Shinichi unless Chris has been disguising as Sharon for 10 or so years.

The first clue was that Sharon was clutching her side in the exact same place where the serial killer was shot while talking to Yukiko on the phone at the end of the NY case. Sharon also mentioned there was an angel for her, referring to Ran. For Conan's part of the deduction, he suspected the serial killer may have been someone in disguise when he heard later that the serial killer’s blood and fingerprints on the stair rails were cleaned up, an action uncharacteristic for someone intending to commit suicide. Sharon was the only person Conan knew about in the local area with high disguise abilities, so suspicion naturally fell onto her. Conan's deduction was explicitly confirmed for the readers when Gin talked to Vermouth about when she disguised as a serial killer in New York to try to lure out Akai because she thought Akai would be off guard if he thought he was only dealing with a normal serial killer. Vermouth then said Akai managed to get the best of her anyway.

We know that's not the case though. Remember the serial killer was shot in the side? If you look at Yukiko talking to Sharon at the end of the case, she mentions there was an angel for her, while clutching her side where the serial killer was shot.

Be a cop.

He's probably thinking of Scar Akai.

"However, Sharon was the only one Shinichi had a connection with, and she is apparently dead. Sharon’s daughter Chris has never met Shinichi and is estranged from Sharon Vineyard so she alone doesn't have an adequate motive to protect Shinichi. Also, it wouldn’t make sense for Chris Vineyard, who isn’t a family friend like Sharon, to be able to recognize Shinichi as Conan; presumably Vermouth saw young Shinichi with Yukiko when she was Sharon."

Not me. :cool:

Shiho wasn't forced to work for the BO. She worked willingly the whole time up until Akemi died. She didn't try to escape or do anything to harm the BO, and when Akemi died even then she simply boycotted. She didn't try to contact authorities. Then she tried to commit suicide. Even now she still shows some residual loyalty; she hasn't betrayed the identities of the BO members to Conan (she knows some of them), or their sources of funding (she knows some of them), or much other info that would help Conan. She thinks Conan might do something stupid with the info sure, but she could have, say, explained the goal of her project to him without risking Conan running off and doing something stupid. Unfortunately, as many militias who kidnap children have proven, when you control a child's mind and development, you pretty much own the child's loyalty and they will be willing to practically die for you. It's lucky Shiho managed to break free from her BO mindset at all. That was probably her sister's influence.As for the parents, I don't know what their status it, but I doubt the BO conspired to kill them. I have an info sheet on them over at DCTP which you can find if you click in the link in my sig. Someone individually inside the BO might have killed them (like Vermouth), or they genuinely had an accident, or they committed suicide. Even a high ranking member like Pisco who was close with them thinks it was a accident, so it leads me to think it wasn't a BO wide-conspiracy.

You don't seem to be thinking about how this would work. Sure you can copy prints, but then you have some big bulky thing the print is on that is mostly useless. You could try to attach a rubber gel or something to your fingertips, but it doesn't produce fingerprint oil like real fingers. Most types of things you could attach on the fingers would make them look drumsticks. Finally hands take a lot of abuse. Unless you get a really durable band-aid, they tend to fall off right away. Anything that scratches or rubs the fake fingerprint even slightly too hard will destroy it. Maybe something like this would work one off for a very short time. On a movie set, no. You are missing some of Conan's logic. You should check the wiki.

Finally this guy shows up again. Also, I think Sera's little thought bubble pretty much indicates she got Conan as Shinichi figured out, and is trying put Ai together. Haibara calls Okiya, "Subaru-kun". Sounds like an improvement somehow despite the Okiya nearly pulling a gun and scaring her a bit. Amuro takes the day off and scar Akai appears in front of the Detective agency when Sera is around. Well now we know for sure Sera isn't scar Akai and Okiya isn't scar Akai. We have the obvious choice and a third party left... Sera is blushing when thinking about Amuro. She could be faking it, but the characters in Gundam they were based off of did have a pretty close relationship so... Somehow I don't think Akai would approve if he saw this conversation. And we can't forget Sera's someone who never laughed...