| Remote Island Syndrome Part 2 | |
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| Japanese title | Kotō Shōkōgun (Kōhen) (孤島症候群(後編)) |
| Season | 1 |
| Season One Broadcast No. |
08 |
| Season Two (Chronological) Broadcast No. |
11 |
| Air date | May 21, 2006 |
| Episode Guide | |
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| Previous (Season One) Mystérique Sign |
Next (Season One) Someday in the Rain |
| Previous (Season Two) Remote Island Syndrome Part 1 |
Next (Season Two) Endless Eight I |
Key events[]
- The SOS Brigade investigates the case.
- Haruhi and Kyon are stuck outside in a cave, where Haruhi thinks of a possible solution to the murder.
- Harauhi and Kyon figure out Keiichi, his servants, and Yutaka all staged the murder as a game to keep Haruhi occupied.
Summary[]
Haruhi starts to examine the villa owner, Keiichi Tamaru, but Arakawa tells her he shouldn't be moved and that he is dead. Koizumi notes this is a classic locked room mystery, with only Keeichi present. Kyon realizes the unlikelihood of this scenario, and suspects it was caused by Haruhi wishing for something like this to happen.
The SOS Brigade put Kyon's Sister and the distraught Mikuru Asahina in a locked room under Nagato's protection, telling Kyon's sister that Keeichi is sick, while Haruhi and Kyon attempt to solve the mystery. Asahina saw Yutaka Tamaru, Keiichi's younger brother, arguing with him on their first day on the island, and Haruhi overheard Yutaka making arrangements for a passport and traveler's checks on their second day, casting suspicion that he planned to murder Keiichi and escape overseas. Moreover, the maid Sonou Mori saw Yutaka take the boat out at 1 a.m.
Haruhi and Kyon head outside during the storm to confirm the boat is gone. Haruhi sees someone, and they pursue him along a cliffside. They slip and fall to a ledge with no way back to the villa. While drying off inside a cave, Haruhi tells Kyon that Keiichi was warm when she touched him, contradicting the theory that Yutaka killed him and fled at 1 a.m. However, it also makes no sense that he was killed shortly before they found him, since the guests were all awake and someone would have heard something. She deduces that Yutaka injured Keiichi in a fight and fled, but Keiichi only died the next morning when he stumbled to his feet and fell on the knife, driving it the rest of the way in. Kyon points out that if this were the case, they would have found Keiichi lying face down, when in fact he was face up. This leads Haruhi to a startling conclusion. However, she tells Kyon her idea doesn't make sense. Koizumi rescues them from the cave.
At the villa, Kyon's sister notices someone has already eaten their dinner plate; Mori says it was Arakawa. Haruhi says she is giving up her investigation and doesn't have what it takes to be a detective. Troubled by this change of heart, Kyon consults Koizumi. Koizumi suspects Haruhi concluded that the knife was shoved into Keiichi when they rammed open the door, and she is keeping quiet so that Kyon and Koizumi will not have the burden of having killed someone. Kyon proposes that he kill Koizumi to keep anyone else from knowing the truth.
However, in actuality Haruhi and Kyon deduced that Keiichi was never murdered at all after noticing the dinner plate, which had a knife and fork; of everyone at the villa, only Keiichi used these utensils. They also realized there would have been telltale blood and scratches on the door if Keiichi were killed by it being rammed open. Moreover, Koizumi greeted Arakawa in a familiar manner, but Arakawa later mentioned that he had only been working for the Tamarus for a week, suggesting that Koizumi, Arakawa, Mori, and Yutaka were all in on it. Haruhi and Kyon reveal to everyone their deductions with a dramatic fake murder of their own (Koizumi as the victim) and a dining room exposition, leaving Haruhi immensely pleased, as even Kyon praises her detective skills.
On the boat ride back, Koizumi confides to Kyon that the whole murder plot was devised by The Agency to entertain Haruhi so that her wish wouldn't cause a real murder to happen. However, Kyon is now convinced that Haruhi would never wish for someone to be murdered. Koizumi denies knowing about the person Kyon and Haruhi saw near the cave, and fears Haruhi may have created a being to assume responsibility for killing Keiichi when she thought Kyon and Koizumi had killed him.
Characters[]
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- Kyon
- Mikuru Asahina
- Yuki Nagato
- Itsuki Koizumi
- Kyon's Sister
- Keiichi Tamaru
- Yutaka Tamaru
- Arakawa
- Sonou Mori
Differences from light novel[]
"Remote Island Syndrome" is one of the few Haruhi Suzumiya story arcs in which the TV series significantly departs from the light novels. The premise of the story and the facts of the murder mystery remain unchanged, but how the mystery unravels is dramatically reworked to give Haruhi and Kyon more active roles. In the original novelette (published in The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya), most of the deductions are made by Koizumi, even though he set up the whole scenario in order to give Haruhi an opportunity to play detective. Koizumi also provides the key evidence of Keiichi's body temperature.
In the TV episode, it is Haruhi who touches Keiichi and realizes his body was warm at the time of discovery. After confirming the cruiser is gone, she spots a shadowy figure. While pursuing the figure, she and Kyon fall onto a cliff ledge and take shelter in a cave, where their combined deductions lead them to the first and second false solutions. (In the novelette, they confirm the cruiser is gone and return without incident.) After returning to the house, the two of them figure out the true solution and set up a scene to catch out Keiichi.
The scenes in which Mikuru spots Keiichi and Yutaka arguing and Kyon and his sister find the remains of Keiichi's meal were also added. In the novelette, no motive for Yutaka committing murder is provided, and though it is mentioned that Keiichi ate with a fork and knife, it never develops into a piece of evidence.
Paranormal phenomena[]
It is warm inside the island's cave. While Kyon hypothesizes that this is due to either heat from the Earth of a nearby hot spring, it is too convenient that the cave where Haruhi wanted to dry off and wring out her clothes is warm to not suspect that the heat may be caused by her powers.
Koizumi denies responsibility for the mysterious figure Haruhi and Kyon saw by the cave, and since everyone else on the island was confirmed to have been in the villa when they left, this suggests that either someone from an opposing faction was spying on Haruhi, or Haruhi created the mysterious person herself.
Quotes[]
- Kyon: "Even if we fall, when I'm with her, I feel like my chances for survival are pretty good."
- Haruhi: "Yuki, it's me. Open the door."
- Nagato: "I was told to not open it for anyone."
- Haruhi: "It's okay now. Open up."
- Nagato: "But that would break the order to not open the door for anyone."
- Haruhi: "By 'anyone,' I meant 'anyone other than the SOS Brigade.' We're all colleagues, right?"
- Nagato: "That wasn't said. I was given an order to not open this door for anyone."
- Kyon's sister: "Yuki, you didn't say anything when I left the room."
- Nagato: "I was given no orders regarding the door opening from the inside."
- Haruhi: "If you add it all up, there's only one conclusion to come to, and that is there was never a murder to begin with! Mr. Keiichi was, is, and always has been alive!"
Trivia[]
- This episode was broadcast as episode 8 of Season 1, and episode 11 of Season 2.
- When Haruhi explains how she and Kyon solved the mystery, her and Koizumi's actions are based on the actions of the main characters from the Ace Attorney games. Namely, Haruhi is mimicking Phoenix Wright, Koizumi is mimicking Miles Edgeworth, and Mikuru is mimicking Maya Fey.
- The references to the Ace Attorney series in this episode ultimately inspired three Haruhi fangames in the Ace Attorney style, know as The Turnabout of Haruhi Suzumiya.
- At the end of the episode, Keiichi waves the knife, but it is still stuck in the notebook. This is only possible if he took the knife out of the notebook, removed the notebook, and stuck the knife back in.
- There is an error in the animation of Haruhi's legs, which was fixed for the Blu-ray release.
- Koizumi hypothesizes that the mysterious shadow was created by Haruhi to create an alternate culprit for Keiichi's death; this is probably because Kyon did not mention to him that Haruhi spotted the shadow well before she came to the conclusion that Kyon, Koizumi, and Arakawa had killed Keiichi.
- During the sequence where Kyon, Haruhi, and Kyon's sister pretend Kyon has murdered Koizumi, Kyon is rendered to resemble "The Criminal" in the Detective Conan manga and anime series.
- During Haruhi and Itsuki's theories of how Keiichi was murdered, live actors are used.
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