Summary:

The episode continues with the second part of the island adventure. Haruhi tries to check the owner’s body, but the butler pulls her aside and checks the body himself and declaring him dead. Itsuki starts explaining the situation as a closed circle. There are only so many people on the island and the murder was committed inside a locked room. Kyon’s first suspicions point to Haruhi’s abilities to make things happen at her desire. This time resulting in a murder on an isolated island. The other culprit would be the one person who’s missing; the owner’s brother.

The butler insists that the body not be disturbed until the police arrive, which is in a few days after the weather subsides. Haruhi
asked the butler about the relationship between the brothers. The butler says he doesn’t know because he and the maid were only recently employed by the owner. Kyon has a flashback of when the club docked off the ferry to meet the butler and the maid and tells himself that something doesn’t make sense. After some inquiries with the maid, it is explained that the missing brother left late last night and the boat is gone. Haruhi stares into the distance and claims to have seen something and drags Kyon with her.

As they walk on a narrow path, the ground breaks under from Haruhi and the two fall to another ledge. They find cover from the rain in a cave and discuss what they know about what happened and what could have happened. Haruhi explains that during the brief moment she was checking the body, she realized the body was still warm. If the other brother left last night, then the owner could not have been killed. Haruhi suspects that since the knife was stabbed through a notebook into the chest, the younger brother could have been the one who got the knife into the book, but ran off in the night fearing that the knife went through the book. In the disorientation, the owner must have locked the door in fear of the younger brother returning to finish the job. Then he tripped over himself and fell on his chest pushing the knife in. However, the body was found face up. Haruhi suddenly realized something, but held back from telling Kyon what she was thinking.

Back at the mansion, Kyon tells Itsuki the incomplete solution came up by Haruhi. Itsuki explains that most of the story is true except for the ending. The owner did indeed faint from the shock factor and was awoken by everyone checking up on him. He locks the door in the confusion, and while at the door, that is when Kyon, Itsuki, and the butler break through the door and the force of the door impales the knife into his chest killing him. Kyon suddenly gets up and says he must silence the truth from Itsuki. Kyon’s sister runs to the butler and informs him that Itsuki is dead with a knife in his chest. As they run off to investigate, two shadowy figures enter the dead owner’s room. Their voices represent Haruhi and Kyon. They speak about killing Itsuki and going to leave blame on the younger brother. In order to make it more bloody, they proclaim to stab the owner’s body a few more times. As Kyon is ready to begin stabbing, the owner quickly awakens to stop him, even though Kyon had no intention to. Itsuki appears and says their masquerade is up.

Then like all detective endings, the head detective sits in front of everyone and explains the deduction leading to the correct ending. Haruhi explains that the two brothers, the servants, and Itsuki were all in on the act. Haruhi first points out that the door could not have been the culprit because there was no damage to the door. The second inconsistency was the story about the time of employment. The butler said they only started working for this family recently. Back in the flash back, Itsuki greets them saying it’s been a long time. Another point was when running to the owner’s room. Haruhi saw Itsuki run straight to it, despite being his first time ever being at the house. The last point was when Kyon noticed a plate of eaten food. He points out that it was eaten by a fork and knife with only carrots left behind, leading to suspecting the owner of eating that plate of food.

Back on the ferry taking them home, Kyon and Itsuki share another conversation. While Kyon is talking, Itsuki stares at a mole on Kyon’s neck. Kyon asks about the suspicious shadow that Haruhi saw outside. Itsuki said he had no knowledge of it. Kyon then realizes that Haruhi had manifested a dangerous shadowy suspicious shadow on that island and it is still there.

Review:

This whole series was pretty weird from the start. I already had the feeling that all this was staged since this show was more comedy and light-hearted than it was with seriousness and thriller-like themes. It’s just a shame that these types of detective stuff are designed in a way to prevent the audience from realizing the truth until it is explained at the end. When I first saw it, everything flew right past me and I didn’t take any scenes seriously. On a second time around, apparently the show slows down the important scenes with the clues in hopes that the viewer actually does pick up some of the clues.

Overall, there was nothing really special about the episode. It’s very self-explanatory. Just entertaining to watch.