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So, this is basically coming from the M15 thread and a bit of debate over action vs story. Hollywood has been making videos for over a century now, and in that time they have made more than a few timeless classics and just other fantastic movies that may be a bit dated, but still get the message across in a meaningful and impactful way. Now the problem is that is ISN'T just Hollywood doing this, so it is unfair to limit this thread to the realm of American cinema, so we shall discuss all forms of great and classic cinema, be it from Europe, Asia, India... Doesn't matter. Now, "classic" in terms of cinema can be broken down into two main categories, and several sub categories (I won't get into the sub categories unless it comes up in the normal discourse). The main two are "Classic works of cinema" and "Modern Classics." Both have one big thing in common, which is that you can watch them time and time again and they don't get old, no matter when you watch them (in other words, if the movie came out in the 1960's, watching it in 2011 doesn't change your experience of the movie). The reason why I have to include both is because a lot of people don't consider movies that came out in the 90s and 2000s to be classics (hell people often extend that into the 80s too), but there ARE some. So lets get this started! I'd feel inclined to start with a nice easy one... The Shawshank Redemption. The story of an innocent man who is sent to prison for double murder, and his adventures in prison. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), the title character, must make the best of his time in prison. It has more than a few powerful messages that it conveys masterfully. It is a fantastic movie, and one which I cannot recommend enough. Especially since it was made in 1994, it is fairly modern, though it is set in 1940s. Here is the theatrical trailer: "Get busy living, or get busy dying" Open spoiler for side notes

Shinichi-> Kyuu Conan-> Anti-APTX4869 Ran-> Kim-chan Kogoro-> Balthazar Ayumi-> mabel Mitsuhiko-> Hano Genta-> Justal Ai-> AiLoveConan Yusaku-> MM Yukiko-> Anonymous Eri-> Aerya Agasa-> Monsi Sonoko-> Faye Heiji-> AJ Kazuha-> Shiraz Makoto-> Kobayashi-> Nobody Okiya-> Detective Kudo Araide-> Eisuke-> conanshinichi Megure-> Detective Rohit Takagi-> KtPT Sato-> Misaki Shiratori-> Yumi-> jovan Chiba-> CarpetCrawler Kiyonaga->Maurice Tome-> xXEdogawa-kunXx Naeko-> Phantomlady1101 Jodie-> Sayomi James-> Black Demon Akai-> Metantei Holmes Kir-> BK201 Anokata-> DetectiveRJB Gin- Mohorovicic Vodka-> dw5chaosfan Vermouth-> Tsukiko Sera-> Ayame Tantei Kanna Natsumi Kaitou Kid-> KKLT Ginzo-> MKK Aoko-> IdentityUnknown Hakuba-> Wakarimashita Akako-> Akako Koizumi Keiko-> Wildheart888 Criminal-> Parkur Yoko-> True-Tears Fusae-> Southpaw Minerva-> Chekhov Uehara-> yungching Chianti-> Shinichi Natake So let's hear your opinions everyone as to who is who. Girls should be girls and Boys should be boys. It should fit you to that character as well not just random. P.S Those haters of me shall leave this as soon as possible. I erased some because I didn't know that there was a limit.

Inspired by Genghis' ingenious creation, I figured I would make some meme pictures featuring Master Troll, Gosho Aoyama... I've also included a small version of the image for anyone that wants to create their own. Use Impact font when you put in the text, and go crazy, everyone!! <3 Would love to see what you guys come up with. Who can make the best one?

Looks like a good chunk of pages in this thread are filled with spam, though. /wondering how folks around here would react if we were to have posts in the Chatroom board to not go towards your post count

Basically the idea is that different people write inherently different. Some things are easy to tell, like which hand and level of grammatical prowess. But other things are harder. If the sample is big enough you can learn various things about the person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology You can probably only find basic things on line, unless you have access to the literature on studies of handwriting. But it would be interesting to see what the users here come up with.

To reiterate what you said... we are in the minority. I grew up on quite frankly action light movies, you know horrible actionless movies like Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Shawshank Redemption, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and To Kill A Mockingbird. Not to mention the various Sherlock Holmes series and movies. The lack of action really killed those movies, all they had was drama, suspense and were really boring... </sarcasm> Really though... action doesn't make a movie good or exciting. A good, engaging story should be all that is needed. Throw in some suspense, nicely placed and written drama with great atmosphere, and you have yourself an amazing movie that will stand the test of time.

That's exactly what they're supposed to be ! That's how we'll get movies that respect the spirit of the series, not some James Bond like crap.

Alas, it seems we are in the minority. Most people seem to expect action scenes in the movies and a movie with a 1h30-1h45 case would probably bore them to death. Why people who are desperate for action don't just go watch nekketsu is beyond me.

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Happy Halloween everyone!

I thought that I should write the next chapter...Sorry that I wrote it this late and sorry for the double-posting >_< Hope you like it "Rose, what is the meaning of this?" "I don't know, but we'll find out!" "So what are we going to do now?" "We're gonna dig this secret up to the light..." Iris sounded as decided as never... "We have to talk to somebody...I know! Ahou-kun can help us...We can have faith in him!" "I know, I was thinking the same...Let's talk to him" *In the meantime, Hano was just lurking around when he saw a pm from Rose and Iris* "Hey! Whats'up?" "Ahou-kun, we have very important things to talk to you" "*gulp* What's wrong?" Iris explained the situation to him... "Hmm...so what do you 2 think about this?" "I don't know..."Rose was hesitating "I don't want to make wrong theories"Iris was so firm when she said those words that Hano and Rose were surpeised..."I want to know th truth but I don't want to speculate before finding it" "Makes sense" Hano the stood silent for few moments "I know! We can talk to Chelsea! She told me that she learned few spells that actually works! "Okay, let's give it a try" *In the meantime, Koizumi Akako was bored and waiting for someone whom she could talk with when she saw a pm from Rose, Iris and Hano* "Chelsea, we need your help" "What happened?" Rose explained to her the whole story... "Hmm...I see...I'll do a teleportation spell so stay still a few seconds" "Okay" the three of them replyed The four of them closed their eyes, Miko-chan said some weird words and the four of them sudenlly felt a cold wind...Next second they found themselves floating in the air...When they opened their eyes, they couldn't said anything because they were to shocked "I-Iris?" asked Rose "Y-yes...could you be Rose?" "They are identical!!!!"screamed Hano "Well, well...I wasn't expecting these, but nice to meet you guys" "Yea! Nice to meet you guys!" and sudenlly Iris huged the three of them "Chelsea, Do you think you can do a spell and find where these 2 came from?" The 2 girls showed her the pendants "I'll try" After a few seconds, Miko sudenlly stoped... "If I try any spell on those 2 pendants, I'll die...They have a very powerfull spell put around them...Why don't you try and unite them?" The 2 girls unite the pendats and the leters RNF appeared "What could this be?" And then a bright light appered and swallowed them...The 2 girls found themselves traped in a place with a lot of images with castles and fire...Iris grabbed her head because she felt a sharp pain "Iris, what's wrong?" "I-I don't know...sudenlly...Aghhh" "I'm afraid that this pain is only the beginning" "THigs are gonna be a lot worse from now on" Two very known voice were heard...after a few moments, Kanaku and Edward appeared before the girls's eyes "Kanaku?" "Edward? What are you doing here? How do you got here? And why you two are wearing knight's costume?" "Because the two of us are your kngigts, Your Majesty" and the kneeled before them "What is going on here?" Iris was asking with a faint voice...then she colapsed because of the pain... Hope you guys like it Tell me please who are the next two characters I should put and either if you want to be in my story or not...I put to put 2 new characters from DCW every chapter Also I need 2 guys who want to be Kanaku and Edward... Waiting for answers and opinions Thanks again for reading it

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I'd like to thank everyone for copying their deductions over into this thread. I'm with everyone else that he's a strong Bourbon candidate. I like the idea of him owning a detective agency instead of coming up with work as needed. (Later edit: This turned out not to be the case though.) Amuro Tohru is Bourbon is Scar Akai See also the DCTP link. Also consider referencing the Bourbon is Scar Akai theory. Index Amuro is Bourbon is Scar Akai . . . Direct Evidence . . . Literary device arguments . . . Minor points - i.e. weak arguments Miscellaneous . . . Amuro is not Akai . . . Amuro is not a spy infiltrating the Black Organization - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Direct Evidence ∎ Amuro is a skilled detective, yet chooses unethical courses of action that are harmful to others. Amuro is a detective and very skilled at intelligence gathering as Bourbon was stated to be. That said, unlike other detectives so far, Amuro is a calculating type who chooses avoidable courses of action (or non-action) that may result in harm to others that the "ethical detectives" in the series would have found unconscionable. • Amuro doesn't intervene when a suspect he knows to be innocent is half a step from destroying his exonerating evidence because it seems he was testing Kogoro. . . . . Although it appeared he messed up in his introductory case, Amuro likely threw case on purpose to test Kogoro/Conan (depending on how much he knows) which will be explained below. While other characters have tested detectives by throwing cases before (ex. Sera and Conan, Hattori and Conan), what makes this case different from the others is that Amuro was prepared to let the innocent suspect destroy the proof of his evidence had Kogoro (really Conan) not intervened at the last second. This kind of recklessness was not warranted because Kogoro had given no indication of understanding the case or noticing the clues, and Conan has not spoken up about the critical clue either. . . . . Amuro deliberately antagonizes the main suspect, Banba, who is drunk, by accusing him of being his fiancé's murderer. Banba into goaded into rushing him, so Amuro dodges and trips Banba. The condition of the bottom of Banba's shoes is important for the case, and Amuro asks Kogoro to hold Banba's legs. This whole interaction suggests that Amuro knew the bottom on Banba's shoes was important to the case, yet he seemed to overlook the now visible information on the bottom of the shoes that would have proved Banba's innocence. . . . . Later, Banba is about to be lead away and the clue destroyed by walking outside in the rain. Amuro's "..." (795.4) as Banba prepares to leave seems to indicate that he is waiting for Kogoro to intervene, yet Amuro does not try to stop Banba when Kogoro does nothing even as Banba is halfway out the door. After Kogoro begins his deduction, Amuro explains the genetic condition that the dead fiancé had in great detail without using any references perhaps indicating he may have known about it or suspected it beforehand. . . . . Assuming Amuro purposefully got his deduction wrong, that means Amuro didn't speak up even at the last minute when Banba was about to go outside and inadvertently destroy the critical clue showing his innocence. If you think about it, this kind of behavior isn't normal for good detectives in DC. Good detectives never want innocent suspects to be accused even if this means more trouble for the detective to prove it (unless they have told the police ahead of time they are doing a trick and are trying to get the real culprit to incriminate themselves). This shows that Amuro isn't like the normal DC detectives, but is calculating instead. • Amuro noticed that Conan was alone with a murderer and considered that Conan might have been kidnapped, yet said nothing about it until others realized Conan and the murder suspect were gone. . . . . Amuro's calculating behavior is further shown when he disregards Conan's safety in pursuit of a case connected to the murder at Mouri Detective Agency. Amuro had already deduced a particular suspect was the likely the culprit, and thus she was bad news. Later, he notices her and Conan's shoes are missing, and that Conan hasn't appeared in some time. It is impossible for him not to have guessed that Conan went with the likely murderer, but instead he fails to bring it up. Only later when the others draw the same conclusion does Amuro reveal his thoughts. This failure to care about Conan is obvious when contrasted to everyone panicking. ∎ Amuro went missing when Scar Akai appeared. Amuro had just learned about Sera before she was targeted by Scar Akai. He was absent from his job at the Poirot when Scar Akai appeared outside the detective agency in 801 where Sera was walking, likely to "test" her as he did with the FBI. Also 800 was Amuro's first time encountering Sera (recently) as far as we know. Scar Akai wouldn't be able to pinpoint Sera without knowing who she was associating with and where she hangs out, both of which Amuro learned in 800. ∎ Amuro matches Gin's description of his personality. Gin said Bourbon was irritating. (V67-8 pg 13-14). Amuro has a type of personality Gin would not like because Amuro acts cheerful and friendly. Amuro does not hide his emotions and is quite expressive. He is also manipulative. Amuro is also a good detective. ∎ Amuro is much richer than would be expected for his job. When Amuro offers Kogoro an unknown "tuition" per case Kogoro brings him on, the amount he offers is enough to get Kogoro excited and accept Amuro as an apprentice without hesitation. This is strange because Amuro would not be expected to have much money because he is young, lacks a formal agency, and works part time at restaurants in one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in. Amuro also owns a nice car (RX-7), and maintenance, parking, and upkeep are not cheap. ∎ Amuro placed himself close to the Mouri Detective Agency. Scar Akai is known to be interested in the agency as well. Amuro has an interest in the Mouri Detective Agency shown by him taking a part time job at the Poirot and asking to be Kogoro's apprentice despite being a better detective than Kogoro which Ran points out. Amuro will be able to access the agency and track Kogoro and Conan's movements with relative ease. Bourbon should have an interest in Kogoro/Conan because Scar Akai has seen two Conan cases as well as saw fit to keep Kogoro's cellphone number with him. Kogoro's number was on Kir's phone, whom Bourbon should suspect to be a traitor if he believes Akai is not dead. Scar Akai thinks the Mouri Detective agency may be related to Akai. If we consider what Gin said about Bourbon is true, that he doesn't believe Akai is dead, that means Bourbon’s logic requires Kir to be a traitor who assisted somehow in making it seem like she killed Akai because trying to come up with a plausible way Akai could survive where Kir doesn't knowingly participate is practically impossible. Bourbon (as Scar Akai) has done investigation on Kir, he knew Kogoro's cellphone number somehow in order to text Kogoro the answer in the 13 red shirts case. I looked back through prior cases, and a few clients have phoned through Kogoro's cellphone as part of a case, but no new clients first contact Kogoro using it. That leads me to believe that Kogoro’s cellphone is likely a private number given out as needed, while his main business number is his landline. So where did Scar Akai get Kogoro’s number? The likely answer is from Kir’s cellphone, which Kogoro texted his bank routing number to after the Ding Dong Dash. Kir’s cellphone was left in Gin’s car when Kir changed clothes and we don’t know what happened to it after Kir was captured by the FBI. If Akai’s closest FBI friends don’t seem to know that Akai is still alive, then Bourbon needs to find other suspects. Kogoro was involved with Kir, is intelligent (according to the news), and was suspected of being involved with the FBI earlier although seemingly cleared by Akai’s intervention. So Bourbon starts looking for excuses to check on Kogoro. You could possibly add Conan to the equation as well if you consider Scar Akai observed Conan making a very good deduction and at least heard him using a voice changer during the Teito Bank heist. ∎ Amuro keeps a bug detector with him - only Organization members have been shown to do this. Amuro conveniently keeps a bug detector with him. The Black Org has been shown to keep those on hand (24-8/239), while normal detectives like Conan do not. ∎ Amuro's physical characteristics match those of Bourbon and Scar Akai. • Amuro Tohru is right-handed like scar Akai. • He is male as the codename Bourbon implies. The naming scheme is hard liquors for men and Kir used a male specific pronoun (kare) for him back in the red shirts case. • He is young enough to rival with Akai and be new to codename (29). • He has the right body size, height, and face shape to disguise as Scar Akai. Literary device arguments ∎ Amuro's name origin is a pun on the mortal enemy of Akai's name origin Amuro Tohru's name is a pun on Amuro Ray who is the mortal enemy/rival of Char Aznable. Furuya Tohru voiced Amuro. Akai is named after Char Aznable (The Red Comet) and his voice actor Shuuichi Ikeda. Bourbon hates Akai, so naming Bourbon after Amuro makes sense. As further proof, Amuro Tohru drives a white RX-7. Amuro Ray flew a white RX-78-2 Gundam. ∎ There was a Bourbon plot reminder in Amuro's introductory case. In chapter 793, one of the case suspects orders a bourbon on the rocks from Amuro. While the drink itself is unrelated to the case, nor has any relation to Amuro's identity, it may be a deliberate reminder to think about the Bourbon plot. Minor points - i.e. weak arguments • Amuro wears black. He changes into a black outfit when out of uniform (796). • Amuro mentions some Akai and Scar Akai themed clothing Amuro's hypothetical disguise suggestion in 795, a knit cap and long windbreaker, are articles of clothing Shuichi Akai and Scar Akai wear respectively. • Amuro's dark skin color may have been revealed when Scar Akai's duct tape was ripped off. If you look at the below picture, what we assumed may have been shadow may have been Scar Akai's real skin color that was revealed when the tape disrupted the mask/coloring (whatever Amuro used to change his skin color). Miscellaneous Amuro is not Akai • Amuro's handedness differs from Akai's. I think that Amuro is right handed, while Akai seems to be left-handed. • Conan does not recognize Amuro or treat him like they have met ever Assuming Conan helped with the plan to fake Akai's death (likely because of the cellphones) it is strange that Conan shows no recognition of Amuro if Amuro is Akai. Even if Akai had hidden his role from Conan, you would think something would have tipped off Conan by now. • Amuro tests Kogoro which the real Akai would not need to do because Akai knows Conan runs the show. If Amuro was Akai, then there would be no need to test Kogoro's intelligence because Akai knows about Conan's gadgets and intelligence already. Some of Amuro's decisions would also seem uncharacteristic for Akai. Not mentioning something to Ran or Kogoro about Conan disappearing at the same time as a murderer is one. Akai has had to directly or indirectly bail Conan out twice for getting in over his head (Vermouth and Org vs FBI), so trusting Conan to be safe wouldn't be expected. Another would be coming very close to having an innocent suspect accused, assuming Amuro threw the exploding car case on purpose. • Akai doesn't have a good motive for becoming Mouri's apprentice. The motive for becoming Mouri's apprentice is also unclear if Amuro is Akai. Couldn't he move in nearby or stick with working part time in Poirot without becoming an apprentice? Why not start working directly at the Poirot instead of going through another restaurant? Why leave Haibara out of the picture? • It would be really hard for Amuro to alter his skin color to Akai's and vice versa. Amuro/Akai would have to use a relatively long term, even-coloring, abuse-tolerating disguise that darkens his skin color. Tanning is one method, but it is difficult to get a tan with complete coverage. (in the folds of the ears, on the scalp.) How dark is Amuro's skin anyway? A skin stain to darken skin on the hands, face, and neck is possible, but difficult and would likely require a professional to apply which leaves a witness. A mask would work for the face and neck (who would make these masks though?), but waitering involves hand abuse and spilled liquids and there is no such thing as a latex mask for hands. Amuro is not a spy infiltrating the Black Organization If Amuro is a spy, it will be difficult to account for his actions so far, some of which have been dangerous without good reason. If Amuro is a spy he is highly unethical and/or works for someone no good. . . . . If Amuro is infiltrating as Bourbon, it is strange for a spy to be sidetracked by hating and/or hunting down Akai. I doubt something like that would be sanctioned by any intelligence agency Amuro might belong to, nor would they tolerate Amuro getting off course on it as it seems completely unnecessary to Amuro's infiltration mission. If the hating Akai thing is an act (it would have to be a good one) or Amuro was a spy for a less than reputable group, like a rival Organization, his behavior might be overlooked. . . . . In contrast to Kir only doing bad things she is forced to do, Amuro makes negative decisions without prompting. If Amuro intentionally threw his introductory case to test Mouri as described above in the direct evidence section, that's a strike against him. The suspect was halfway out the door with the critical clue and Amuro didn't stop him. Amuro also recklessly disregards Conan's safety in pursuit of a case connected to the murder at Mouri Detective Agency, also described above in the direct evidence section. . . . . If Amuro is Scar Akai, he probably isn't a double agent for a lawful agency because disguising as Scar Akai is threatening Hidemi's safety for no reason that appears to be relevant to continued infiltration. Even if Amuro didn't know about Hidemi, he deliberately endangered civilians by wandering around in crowded public places dressed as Akai whom the Black Org really wants to kill. In the red shirts case, Chianti and Korn were stationed so that they would fire into crowds because of Scar Akai's actions. This rules out pretty much all the intelligence agencies, assuming Amuro is not a half-rogue agent. . . . . So far Gosho hasn't hinted at any intelligence agencies or other organizations. In the Vermouth arc the FBI was both hinted at by Jodie ("'The Bureau' is short for the FBI") and then appeared directly with Akai. The Kir arc's CIA appeared in clues related to "The Company", the pun on NOC, and a CIA stock phrase Hidemi used. Nothing similar has happened in the Bourbon arc so far.

A man lived on the seventh floor of an apartment building and was lonely. One day, he noticed the figure of a woman dancing in a swaying motion in an apartment across from his building. The curtain was drawn, so he could see only her silhouette. Every day he looked out his window, he would see her dancing. Finally, the lonely man fell in love with the dancing woman and decided to pay her a visit. He bought a bouquet of fresh flowers and went to her building, climbing the steps to her floor. He knocked on the door but no one answered. He knocked again; still no answer. He could have sworn he had just seen her dancing in the window. Worried that something had happened to her, he kicked the door open. He was heart broken by what he saw. The woman was hanging from the ceiling in front of the window, her body swaying from side to side as if she was dancing. _____________________________________________________________________ A young girl is left home alone with only her dog to protect her. When night approaches, she locks all the doors and tries to do the same with all the windows, but one won't lock. She decides to leave it unlocked and goes to sleep. Her dog takes its customary place under her bed. In the deep of night she awakens to a dripping sound coming from the bathroom. The girl is too scared to go check so she reaches her hand under the bed. She feels a reassuring lick from her dog and falls back to sleep. She reawakens to the dripping sound, reaches her hand down to the dog, where she feels the reassuring lick, and falls back to sleep. Once more she awakens to the dripping sound. She reaches her hand down and feels the lick of her dog. Now curious about the dripping sound, she gets up and slowly walks towards the bathroom, the dripping sound getting louder as she approaches. She reaches the bathroom and turns on the light. She is greeted by a horrific sight; hanging from the shower nozzle is her dog with his throat cut wide open and its blood dripping into the bathtub. Something on the bathroom mirror catches her eye she turns around. Written on the bathroom mirror, in her dog's blood, are the words "HUMANS CAN LICK TOO." _____________________________________________________________________ A recent study by the National Psychiatric Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded that no activity can account for the phenomenon known as nightmares. Whereas many dreams come from unconscious desires, most nightmares seem to come from an outside source independent of the individual. In fact, when subjects are asked to recall nightmares they are almost always found in the same memory section as actual physical memories, not the section where normal dreams are replayed. So, in other words, those aliens and creatures you see at night in your "dreams"? They're real. _____________________________________________________________________ In America, there was a mass murder. Policemen went to investigate. Trying not to tread on the bodies, the police took pictures of each one. One policeman saw something on the opposite wall but he couldn't read it. He walks over to it and sees the numbers *7734” in calculator form, written in blood. When taking pictures of this he turned his camera upside-down and told an approaching police officer. When he pointed with the hand that the camera was in, he accidentally took a picture of the upside-down numbers. The policeman was about to delete the picture when he realized something. The numbers were now a word. The word was “hELL.” _____________________________________________________________________ In the winter of 1944, with overtaxed supply lines in the Ardennes, a medic in the German army had completely run out of plasma, bandages and antiseptic. During one particularly bad round of mortar fire, his encampment was a bloodbath. Those who survived claimed to have heard, above the screams and barked commands of their Lieutenant, someone cackling with almost girlish glee. The medic had made his rounds during the fire, in almost complete darkness as he had so many times before, but never had he been this short on supplies. No matter. He would do his duty. He had always prided himself on his resourcefulness. The bombardment moved to other ends of the line, and most men dropped off to sleep in the dark, still hours of the morning - New Year's Day, 1945. The men awoke at first light with screams. They discovered that their bandages were not typical bandages at all, but hunks and strips of human flesh. Several men had been given fresh blood transfusions, yet there had been no blood supplies available. Each treated man was almost completely covered, head-to-toe, with the maroon stain of blood. The medic was found, sitting on an ammunition tin, staring off into space. When one man approached him, and tapped him on the shoulder, his tunic fell off to reveal that large patches of his skin, muscle, and sinew had been stripped from his torso and his body was almost completely dried of blood. In one hand was a scalpel, and in the other, a blood transfusion vial. None of the men treated for wounds that night, in that camp, saw the end of January 1945. _____________________________________________________________________ Look behind you. What do you see? Invariably, there will be a wall somewhere in your view. Now stare deeply into the space on the wall that lines up best with your eyes. Nothing will happen, but make sure you are clear on where this particular spot is. That spot contains all the negativity in your mind. Whenever you are on your computer, reading scary stories or whatever you do, sometimes you will get spooked. What do you do when this happens? You check behind you, that's what you do. As you read this now, a feeling of dread will come over you. Check the spot. Nothing again, huh? That's because right now, all the evil is locked safely in your mind. Some people, upon learning of this "negative spot" resolve to remove the spot in an attempt to remove the negative energy. This is a grave mistake. You must never let harm come to this spot. If you do, you will have released the energy. Now when you sit at your computer at night, you will feel chills even in the summer time. The feeling of dread that only presented itself when you were genuinely scared will now hang in the air constantly. Within a week you and your loved ones will have a string of bad luck. Within a month your computer will begin to act erratic and eventually break down. On the anniversary of the spot's destruction, you will dream of your most horrible fears. The dream will seem to go on forever, and when you wake up you will notice your vision has darkened. Every year on the same day, the dream will repeat itself, and your vision will grow darker and darker. After you go totally blind, don't ever turn your back on that wall again. That is, if you can still tell where it is. _____________________________________________________________________ A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that, on the way to his room, there was a door with no number which was locked, no one was allowed in there, and it was VERY important that no one should look inside the room, under any circumstances. So, he followed the instructions of the woman at the front desk, going straight to his room, and going to bed. The next night, his curiosity about the room with no number on the door would not leave him alone. He walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough, it was locked. He bent down, and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling his eye. What he saw was a hotel bedroom, like his, and in the corner was a woman whose skin was pale as snow. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. He stared in confusion for a while. He almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity, but decided against it. This choice saved his life. He crept away from the door, and walked back to his room. The next day, he returned to the door and looked through the wide keyhole. This time, all he saw was redness. He couldn’t make anything out besides a distinct red color, unmoving. Perhaps the inhabitants of the room knew he was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red. At this point he decided to consult the woman at the front desk for more information. She sighed and asked, "Did you look through the keyhole?" The man nodded. "Well, I might as well tell you," she said. "A long time ago, a man murdered his wife in that room, and her ghost haunts it to this day. She was rather unusual. Very, very pale, and her right eye was pure red...” _____________________________________________________________________ A few years ago, there was a hunter named Dustin. He was travelling through some dense forests in northern Washington. It was getting dark, and having lost his bearings, he decided to head in one direction until he was clear of the increasingly oppressive foliage. After what seemed like hours, he came across a cabin in a small clearing. Realizing how dark it had grown, he decided to see if he could stay there for the night. He approached, and found the door ajar. Nobody was inside. The hunter flopped down on the single bed, deciding to explain himself to the owner in the morning. While he was laying in bed, he couldn't sleep because of the numerous portraits around the room. They were all incredibly detailed and almost all had scathing expressions. Without exception, they appeared to be staring down at him, their features twisted into looks of utmost hatred and malice. The next morning, Dustin awoke, blinking in unexpected sunlight. Curious, he turned to look at the portraits in the light, but he found that there were no portraits; just windows... _____________________________________________________________________ There was a man who just got a new apartment, with a nice bedroom. This bedroom was completely ordinary, except for one thing; the shelf. This shelf did not look strange, no, no, no. There was something else about it, items had a tendency to just, appear, on it For instance; one day he dropped his toothbrush in the toilet, the next night he found a new one on that shelf. Another day he misplaced his car keys, the next day he found them on that shelf, on Valentine's Day he found a bouquet of flowers. As weeks passed, so did the value of the items. Once, he even found a solid gold watch! One day he got up and could barely contain himself, he was so anxious to see what was on this magnificent shelf. All he could find was a note, it said “Now it's your turn.” _____________________________________________________________________ In rural southern Illinois, a toy company began selling “realistic” baby dolls to expectant mothers. But apparently, after the mother had her child, the toy baby would start crying. After a while, the "rocking motion" advertised to calm it down wouldn't work, and you couldn't get it to stop without shaking it. Eventually, when it started crying, the parent would have to beat it, and the beatings and thrashings would have to get harder and harder to get it to be quiet. The only thing that seemed to shut the baby doll up permanently was to bash its head against the wall to destroy whatever mechanism triggered the crying. On more than one occasion though, neighbors called the authorities to report child abuse, and when the police arrived they found the bloody remains of infants smeared across the walls and the floor. In most cases the mother couldn't understand why the police were there, she just “got rid of the stupid doll” as she rocked a baby-shaped bundle in her arms. _____________________________________________________________________ In France, a young ambient musician by the name of Charles undertook an interesting new project. He was going to record the sound of himself sleeping, and release it under the name “La Nuit” (The Night). Charles lived alone in a rural area, which would remove things like car alarms, traffic, and such from being recorded. He planned his project for many months, acquiring the sensitive equipment to capture all outside noises as well as his own during sleep. Finally, on the 27th of September, he decided to execute his plan. He set up all his equipment, and fell asleep at midnight. The next day Charles reviewed the recording. For the first hour, the recording played his own tossings and turnings as well as some distant dog barks and a few car alarms (So much for his plan to distance himself from cars). These continued throughout the 2nd hour as well, until Charles heard something that horrified him. For at exactly 3 hours and 24 minutes in, the recording played the sound of his bedroom door opening.

787-789 are likely going to be the only chapters to be tied up with the Kogoro case. (Note: this case is totally a fake Kogoro lookalike, fake Akai lookalike hint drop) Assuming Gosho will start on the 00, that leaves 790-799, which may break down into three three parters or a three parter and a six parter, and a singlet for 799 (a singlet has happened before two major showdown arcs now - 594 and 699). I think we are likely to get at least one more Sera case because we still need clues about what specifically tipped Sera off that Shinichi, Conan, and Haibara are important. We are also going to need a pretty heavy Ran's suspicion themed case in order to build the proper "Save Sera from Bourbon while keeping Ran from suspecting!" double header that has been hinted at for a while now. (Shiragami, Sports bar, Sera's questions) The Sera and suspicion may be combined into one case with the suspicion spilling over into the next case. I think Gosho needs to drop a reminder about Scar Akai before 800 hits because his last appearance was ~100 chaps before 800 which will equate to about 2.5 years of not appearing - then again after this long, maybe it's better to wait until the main plot. We still don't know why he hates Akai yet. Gosho has yet to drop any hints in that direction which is a bit aggravating. It would be nice if there was one scar Akai case before the main fall, but with Sera and suspicion there may not be room before 800 hits unless Gosho somehow decides that three plots in a row is a good thing. Perhaps we will have a minor Okiya appearance shoved in to clarify how he feels about Sera and just to remind the readers who everyone is before the big 00.

But Bourbon isn't interested in Shinichi. He wants Akai and maybe Sherry. To have the motivation to get the files about Shinichi in the first place, he would have to connect Conan and Shinichi, which if he is scar Akai, hasn't come anywhere close to happening. Sherry did not report the results that several of her mice shrank to the greater organization because they have not been able to figure out how Shiho managed to escape the locked room. If Shiho had reported her data, the Organization would have known that shrinking was a possible side effect of APTX 4869 and would have figured out how she escaped and begun looking for a child. Furthermore, if Shiho had reported to the Organization that APTX 4869 had the possibility of leaving the victim alive, the Boss and/or Shiho's superiors would not have permitted the drug in situations where the victim, if surviving, could escape as in Shinichi's case or the time sensitive assassination of Nomiguchi Shigehiko. They still seem to regard Shinichi as dead. Prove they exist. It's a possibility, but there is no evidence of additional members hanging around who saw Conan. If we roll through the cases, the Akemi case doesn't matter because Conan was in the newspaper. There wouldn't be any in the bullet train case because they were aiming to blow the train up. Tequila's was probably a one person exchange because the prior exchanges (first case and Shinkansen) only involved Gin and Vodka who were together without additional help. For the mourning party, it was only mentioned that they had to drag Vermouth in to help; Gin didn't mention others. If there were others, they would have helped Pisco. Besides Vermouth, Pisco seemed to be on his own. The bus jack was a Vermouth only affair because she working in secret. There were none in the case part of the Itakura case because they would have reported Itakura's murder. The locker half of the Itakura case there were assistants to Vodka who reported a kid, but no further details and that detail was promptly was ignored afterwards when Gin discounted a kid being involved by stopping his locker search. Vermouth did bring Calvados, but no one else to the Shipyard showdown because she was acting outside of orders and had to use unconventional means (using his infatuation) to get Calvados there in the first place. In FBI and the Org, only Kir and Vermouth saw Conan for the first part. Any additional BO members hanging around would have noticed the shooting and alerted someone about Jodie. The second half of FBI vs. the Org, they saw Conan so I am ignoring that. In Clash, Rikumichi acted alone to take secret pictures and such, if he had a second person, they would have been watching his back and he would have had a heads up to the FBI surrounding him in the nurse's station. That person would have also alerted the BO directly about the loss of Rikumichi; Vodka said he lost touch with the guy, not got a report Rikumichi was discovered. Vodka did say he sent in a second guy, and we heard about FBI, but no suspicious kids. A lack of communication here means that Conan's presence was not announced to the parties who would need to know (Gin and Vodka.) And finally, scar Akai has seen Conan only in not directly BO related cases, so I'm not counting him. If you follow Conan's path, it's unlikely they would have crossed unintentionally. Conan was in the car at their arrival and stayed in the car up until the time they went to the old buildings's wine storage room. Conan then went to the main front desk and found out the wine storage in in the old building which implies the front desk is not in the old building or they would have said "this building". Meanwhile the BO went to the roof of the old building; presumably they don't have to go back to the new building's front desk to get to the roof of the old building, so they wouldn't have encountered Conan at this time. They got to the roof ahead of Conan so it's unlikely they crossed here. Conan then went to the roof where the BO didn't see him because he hid behind the door, then left to go back to wine storage room via the stairs behind him. Gin went down the chimney to shoot Pisco. Presumably Vodka stayed behind to help Gin out or left altogether to get clear of incoming firemen. He obviously didn't see Conan. Conan had already grabbed Haibara and retreated before Gin got down the chimney: flames were obscuring the far door at any rate. Gin went back up the chimney and Conan got Haibara to the car; I assume he wouldn't be so foolish as to load Haibara in right in front of the Porsche if anyone was in it.