pofa wrote:
This may have been explained at some point, but I wonder why Jodie checked the fingerprints of the body in the car against the ones on Conan's cell phone rather than running them through the FBI database (wouldn't Akai's prints be in there)?
I guess if Chekhov's theory is true, Gosho might not have wanted those prints run against Akai's in the database.
Or is there some reason why Jodie wouldn't have been able to access the database or why Akai's prints wouldn't have been there?
She didn't have access to the body and its fingerprints to check against a file since it was in police custody. I'm going to guess the police would notice if someone had dusted the print on the phone already, which she wouldn't do because she is pretending Akai is unrelated to the FBI and was some random person she met in this situation. The phone makes for a convenient source of prints and a better story than another object which has Akai's right hand fingerprints on it. She had no reason to suspect the print on the phone was a fake.
She suspected at first Shuu did a switch.
sstimson wrote:
Chekhov, Did I need to start a why is Akai alive and Akemi Dead?
I feel like I'm being followed... How is Akemi relevant to this again? In any case, Akemi is certainly dead. She died in Conan's arms right up close where Conan can see, smell, hear, and touch her. This is worlds apart from fooling someone over a camera in the dark. Also she was at the shipyard and outside when shot. Most importantly, there is
no evidence of any tricks what-so-ever in Akemi's death. In Akai's death, we have the disappearing bloodtrails, the unnatural actions, and Okiya/Scar Akai. Assuming something without evidence leads to false conclusions at a fairly high rate.
sstimson wrote:
in real life you can not use blanks that way without real chance of death if not serious injury.
The important word here is "chance", not "guaranteed" death. This doesn't mean the pair wouldn't gamble on those chances. The only thing that is certain is that Gin would have killed Kir if she didn't follow through with shooting Akai and the FBI and CIA would have lost their best source of Org Intel. The above plan to fake Akai's death wasn't foolproof, Gin could have given Kir a gun that she didn't have the right caliber blanks for, or demanded she shoot him with the full clip, or something like that. Akai, Kir, and Conan took the risk anyway.
Also consider that Kir probably would have killed Akai
for real if the plan wasn't looking like it would work out. The reason I think this is because Conan
probably heard the news about one body being found in the matching truck,
examined at Jodie's reaction, and then checked the serial number of the phone to see if it had been changed. While hearing the news about the incident and checking Jodie's reaction would be enough to verify that the plan partially worked, Conan would only need to check the serial number to make sure the police kept it as evidence: i.e. the phone fingerprint matched the body fingerprint. If it didn't match, his original phone would have been returned and would equal a "plan failed, Akai really died".
