English Dub Review: Case File nº221: Kabukicho “Now Hiring Physics”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

The detectives are distraught over Irene’s totally-real-not-fake death at the hands of Jack the Ripper, with even Sherlock taking time out to grieve. The irregulars help Watson get his mind off of things by getting their ball out of a creepy building, but it’s there he meets what seems to be the ghost of Irene telling him that Moriarty is actually Jack, which is only made more suspicious when Moriarty starts asking to hold onto the egg drive. Watson confronts him on it, he becomes the laughing stock of the bar because he said he got it from Irene’s ghost, though Moriarty does remain a suspicious character, so Watson trails him, only for Sherlock to stop him and dismiss it himself, even going as far as to say that Watson himself might be Jack and tells him to get lost. Fuyuto uses this opportunity to get on his good side about getting the drive, but this was only a way to find Jack and make name for himself. Sherlock and Moriarty then stop and reveal this was their plan all along.

Mycroft pays a visit on behalf of the mayor, as well as asking to hold onto the real drive as they figure out how to crack it. Sherlock also takes an interest in Watson’s case regarding the transmitter he found in a corpse (the mayor’s daughter) that he was working on and forced him into hiding.

OUR TAKE

After an extended break, Kabukicho Sherlock continues on the arc hot off the death of Irene (which is definitely real and totally not a big fake out waiting to be revealed, obviously). In fact, after so much has happened in just the last episode, I actually found myself a little lost since I hadn’t really re-watched the ninth episode since it came out. I guess it might have been better the end on Episode 8 before things really got underway. I do remember the general outline regarding why the egg drive is important and how Jack got involved, as well as Irene’s supposed death obviously, but the wait has certainly messed with my sense of time here.

Regardless, it does look like the mind games are afoot even between the detectives themselves, as Watson has been given the run around my Sherlock, Moriarty, and quite possibly Irene. At the very least, we seem to be in the middle of revealing that Watson was isolated and misled about Moriarty in order to coax out Fuyuto, who looks to be more desperate to make a name for himself as a detective than ever by finding Jack the Ripper. Whether or not this has to do with now having Maki as a girlfriend is up for debate, but his ego and thirst for fame and success has always been present. Though I guess that does take him off the list of suspects for who Jack might really be, since he only wants the drive BECAUSE Jack wants it, not for the same reasons.

As for why I am adamant about Irene not being dead, well…for one, her supposed time of death was off-screen. For such an important character as her, they would show her final gasps in graphic detail if they could. Second, everyone who knows about her death is laying on SUPER thick, even Sherlock, not to mention the small hints that small meetings with her are more than likely happening right when Sherlock has been forcing Watson out of the room. And thirdly, the ghost, since we’ve never established spirits before and it looks like that was all just bait for Watson to do stuff they wanted. With all that in mind, we might be seeing the conclusion of this next week, as the title for the next episode is “Jack the Ripper”. And we’re only about halfway through the series, so who knows what we’ve got next to see!