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Bitto posted...

Windibank is like my least favorite character with a speaking role lol

I've seen worse, but I wasn't a fan of him being the ethical affable pawnbroker to contrast McGilded's predatory loans. And the suicidal joke was an odd one. Turns out he's only a one scene character though!

Before all that, we have dinner with the Sholmeses. Herlock and Iris propose a spinoff game where the three of them (including Susato) run around committing crimes and Ryunosuke gets them off the hook using his law skills. I mean, I'd play it! Susato piques my interest when she lets slip that she knows the full title of Iris's unpublished manuscript, this is very suspicious but she simply says she's not ready to reveal the truth and that's enough for Iris. Dammit.

Iris talks about her parents, and her dad is the victim from the first case :O She doesn't seem to know he's dead, though. John H Wilson's name must not have registered with me at all at the time, whoops. In my defence Wilson is a little far from Watson, two whole letters! I like this talk with Iris, it gives her some much needed grounding and layers Sholmes a bit more as well. Poor girl. What on earth could have made her father abandon her to travel halfway across the world and teach at a university? Whatever it is, could he not have taken his daughter with him or had Sholmes go instead? Maybe he was escaping the reaper, much like Natsume.

Gina sneaks off at night and Windibank's becomes a crime scene sooner than I expected. Herlock is shot (!), two shadowy folks get away, and Windibank is found dead in a locked room with Gina unconscious next to him holding a gun. For a moment I wondered if they were killing off Sholmes but they aren't that brazen. Morning comes and Gina will be the next defendant, and Iris is our new assistant for now. Cool! I re-examine everything we looked at yesterday and I'm pleased to get different dialogue for it all. The highlight is the photo of The Woman on the desk, which turns out to be Herlock in a dress. He looks stunning, according to Ryunosuke.

Gregson is at the scene and gives an understandable explanation as to why he's so subservient to Iris. Gina refuses to let us defend her but gives us a cat photo which also functions as a ticket from Magnus, and Herlock remains in surgery. Susato, meanwhile, has a meeting with Lord Stronghart, and I'm pleased she's off doing things on her own. Her dad is ill, and she's gonna head back to Japan in the morning. Oh. Well, it may be because of her father, but this is a shakeup to the routine. What if the second game has us play as Ryunosuke in London and Susato in Japan? I doubt it'll happen, but that would be neat. She'd better reveal how she knows about the Baskervilles before leaving.

Back at the prison, Susato guilts Gina into telling us the truth, and we get a long and really cool retelling of the omnibus murder two months ago from her perspective. We don't learn everything, but Gina was in fact there and the music disk (which Herlock has a replica of) is vitally important. McGilded indeed orchestrated everything after committing the murder himself, up to and including bribing Beppo!! Juror #5 will be fuming if he ever finds out! I'm not sure how the timeline works here, it seems Magnus and Gina chat for some time after the murder but I thought Fairplay and Furst noticed the body quickly. And the cubbyhole Gina was in was filled with items before the evidence was tampered with, did Magnus fill the box to hide her presence and then decide to empty it again later on? Weird. He threatens Gina into getting her to assist him. McGilded is a really good sinister villain, if he's not secretly alive I think I might be a little disappointed!

I've been sympathetic to Gina's situation from the start but also a little annoyed by her regardless, but this scene is her best yet. She signs the paperwork (I feel a little bad about guilting her into doing so), and that's where things end for today. This case perked up in a hurry, I suppose it is a finale after all.