Chekhov MacGuffin

There are only two pictures because it is much earlier than normal for spoilers and this spoiler originated from a different-than-usual source. We are five/six days off the file release date. More spoilers will come in a few days from the usual people.

The position of the 4 headlights might be useful to narrow it down

The red one is Sato's RX-7 shown above. The other one... No idea. I think it's Takagi's...

Can't argue with the trolling there. The only real fakeness I see with Ran is how she never seems to ever get discouraged by Shinichi running off again and again with explanation. It would be much better for her character if she showed some wear, tear, and doubt from that. Other than that I don't see much else. Tsundere action girl is a pretty standard Japanese character archetype, as is the cute little determined girl. It would be nice to see some variation in the behavior from both of them because it does get old after a while. I think I can lob this criticism at all the regularly appearing DC girls and most of the guys teen and younger, maybe with Sonoko as the female exception. She can keep being awesome.

I could levy exactly the same criticism at, say, Ayumi. Purposefully picked her here. >: DMy point is that many of these traits are not unique to Ran. If you are an equal opportunity disliker, that's good, but don't expect people not notice if you try to claim another character is exempt from the same criteria somehow.

They're also applicable to a bunch of characters, not just Ran. Most people are pretty static in DC after all.

I'm predicting this is how its going to go too. Char Aznable went undercover after the main Gundam arc. Discussion-wise, I wanted to point out that it is not impossible for there to be a situation where we can have the full return of Akai.

There is the possibility to consider that this arc could end with Kir getting kicked though. If Kir escapes the Org (or dies) for any reason Akai is free to do as he pleases. I don't see any indications either way, so I'm not sure how everything will work out.

People like Gin are freaky, but Vermouth takes the creepy cake and puts scary icing and sinister sprinkles on it. Anyone that can completely disguise so they are indistinguishable from someone close to you or even you yourself is virtually the same as taking over someone else's body. Add to that she is totally cool with threatening a random civilian's family so they will murder someone because it suits her plan. You could never be sure you were talking to your real friend, or Vermouth could murder someone while disguised as you and ruin your reputation forever. Vermouth could easily hold a person's whole life hostage. Kaito Kid falls under the same creep-factor as Vermouth, but he isn't as good at it, and doesn't have bad intentions.

That certainly covers all the facts and plays in to Amuro's other behavior and apparent knowledge well. He must have gained some respect for Kogoro though when Kogoro added info that even SA didn't include in the original deduction. I definitely think you have a great line of thought here. I really need to spend some time thinking about the full implications because this is pretty good.

The test this time might be to see if Sera KNOWS Akai, not the usual death test. Scar Akai might be deciding whether or not to make Sera a target to lure out the real Akai if he thinks she might might be related to Akai. It thought he was just mocking Chianti. That's an interesting interpretation. I'll have to think about it. Sounds right to me She was probably intentionally lied to, so Bourbon's real mission, investigating Akai's death, could not be leaked in case she was a traitor. He had the cellphone number so he knew something about Kogoro in advance. I'm still split on whether Amuro arranged to be at the restaurant when Kogoro was there or it was all a coincidence. I think Okiya was joking, either about how they missed him (the real Akai disguised as Okiya), or their prey was "Akai" and they nearly killed their own guy, so Okiya was just being ironic. He had to have heard Conan use the voice changer. He knews the robber's plan (because he knew when to take his tape off!), so he would know that voice Conan used wasn't the robbers. Also all the hostages had their heads turned and were listening to Conan talk to the robbers and explain how he figured them out. My current guess is that Vermouth's promise could have been involved, but yes, shooting the kidnapper would be a great and relatively unsuspicious way to resolve the hostage crisis. I detailed the reasoning in the Scar Akai is Bourbon document in my signature.