Remember last week when I said my prediction for how the mysteries would be split off across the remaining episodes was “inaccurate” and “terribly dated”? As it turns out, I was wrong, and my prediction still appears to be accurate for the time being. I made the call too early, and for that, I apologize. But that’s the fun part about me writing these as the episodes initially air and then releasing them later – you guys get to look at my statements and be like “lmao, that’s wrong, actually”, and I can be like “yeah, I know, I’ve watched the entire series at this point”. Okay, enough goofing around, time for me to hit the pedal to the metal and actually write this review or something.
The episode begins with us finding out that Takao is being sued for medical malpractice by the mother of one of the patients from one of the smaller mysteries back in Episode 1. Due to me not covering this mystery in depth, I’ll just give you guys the diagnosis from that mystery: hypervitaminosis A. In case it isn’t obvious what this is just based on the name, this occurs when a patient has too much vitamin A in their system. Yeah, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
But, of course, due to this lawsuit, the hospital is considering disbanding the Department of Investigative Pathology, which would be no good. Of course, to try and prevent this, Takao decides that she needs to investigate any lead she can involving the case, including what the mother is giving her child during his recovery process and how the child is currently holding up. However, all of the avenues that are being investigated end up turning up as dead ends…until an important piece of information comes up regarding what the patient’s mother is bringing in for her son to have, and Takao goes full mind palace and realizes what’s going on, and reveals the truth at a meeting that’s intended to determine the fate of Takao’s department.
And what I will say is that while I understand how Takao got to the conclusion that she did, I don’t understand why the culprit did what they did, considering that we had no hints to them having what Takao ended up diagnosing them with until Takao just straight up said “oh yeah, you have this.” While it does explain why both of these cases even occurred in the first place, to me, it feels like it was just pulled out of nowhere to try and explain away something that would have no explanation otherwise.
(Hey, future Sara here! I wrote this writeup back when the series was airing, but now that I’m actually scheduling it to post, I realized something. The whole point of the thing that Takao diagnosed the culprit with feels like it should come out of nowhere, because people trying to manipulate others in some shape, way, or form like this would have to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and because of that, I have a better understanding of why the culprit took their actions. I’m keeping the above paragraph as it’s an accurate reflection of how I thought back when the series was airing, but I figured that showing how my thinking has changed over time would be a good move.)
Hell, there’s even a funny statement that I want to make, but said statement would also spoil the culprit, which is not something I do with mystery shows. But it sucks because I can’t really think of enough that I can really say about the episode that wouldn’t inherently spoil it.
The title for the next episode does confirm that we will be getting a multi part mystery, but I’m just going to call it now and say that I flipped the two episode mystery and the three episode mystery. After all, I’m like 99.9% certain that the only reason we’re getting part number identifiers in the next episode is because it’s a two episode mystery. While you can go “OBJECTION! THE FIRST MYSTERY!”, that was a double episode premiere, instead of being split across multiple weeks, so not having the part numbers makes sense for the first mystery.
And if somehow this STILL ends up being a three episode mystery like my initial prediction, I’m…I don’t know what I’m going to do, to be honest. But I’m positive that I’m not jumping the gun with my call this time, I swear! I just didn’t expect the path that this episode took! Anyway, I love releasing reviews later than when their original episodes air, so that I can skip delays. See you next week, regardless of the situation that happens with the show as it airs.
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