At this point the theory of Magata being pregnant before she was locked down on the Island is looking very likely as during Souhei’s revelation of the answer to everything, we get a brief glimpse of a pregnant woman. But lord only knows what the Ostriches are supposed to symbolize. What I really wonder is just how Souhei came to any conclusion at all with the lacking amount of information he was given. In particular if he does come to the conclusion that Magata was pregnant going in then I just have to question how he could possibly know that when her relationship to the director was made privy only to us, the viewers. Naturally however Souhei doesn’t share his miraculous insight as Moe cuts him off saying she will figure it out on her own. We do have three more episodes to go after all.
While Moe says she will figure it out I feel her earlier words captured my feelings on this mystery. Namely when she said, “I stopped caring about the case” and that is my exact mindset. I don’t like giving up on a puzzle but I feel the show is not handing us all the pieces needed to solve it. Two murders have happened, one inside a locked room and another on the rooftop. However we have no idea on the layout of the faculty, or the character of the facility personnel or the timeframe of the murders. The how of this mystery is missing far too much information to come to any conclusions about what happened, whereas the Who of this mystery seems blatantly obvious. I truly cannot see anyone else other than Magata being the murderer for no one else had screentime significant enough to make being the culprit justifiable. Some are saying Magata’s kid is the culprit but I find that lacking when it comes to motive and the big question of how she is able to move about the facility like a ninja despite spending her entire life in a locked small area.
No, my suspect remains Magata and from what this episode is suggesting, Magatas older sister is Magata herself. The two big hints to this is Magata comparing herself to the loneliness of seven and her sister being featured in Souhei’s revelation. What adds to this is that she is not present in any of Magata’s flashbacks and the camera’s reluctance to show Magata’s face when in the sealed area. So my current theory is this, Magata had a child in the sealed area secretly and raised her up to take on her role and impersonate her. Then under the guise of being “Magata’s older Sister” she left the island with the director. Hence why Magata has always retained a youthful appearance. The director killed the child and when he brought Magata to the island she killed him. There are numerous holes in this theory such as how did she get the things need. To raise a child without tipping off the guards or what would have happened if she had a boy or if her daughter didn’t look like her? And namely just how did the director manage to kill the girl inside a locked room? But like I said, I have past the point of caring. Subete has been a rather big disappointment and while its reveal might save it somewhat, the series would remain a slow show that plays its cards too early and then drags its feet to the finish.
I don’t like the idea of her being such criminal mastermind at such a young age, but she did schemed her parents’ murder, and I totally agree that Perfect Insider simply can’t have a culprit other than Shiki herself.
That said, if she indeed had a child and the corpse is her daughter, I think that Shiki killed her, not the director. Maybe he was a accomplice, like with her parents’ murder, but everything was Shiki’s idea. Maybe she didn’t planned to kill him but did it because of all those clues that the anime didn’t gave to us. Also, Shiki’s daughter looking like her was highly probable giving that the child’s father was her uncle. She could be even more diabolical and maybe has chopped off the child’s limbs when she was just a baby.
Just my thought on general about the series. While this is billed as a mystery series, I would say the series is more like a character study with mystery elements peppered on top; so that’s why I enjoyed the interactions between those 3 main characters and I have a sense that it’s building towards something that explore the internal conflict of those characters, instead of just the normal “whodunit” set-up. So I withstand any comment about its pieces of puzzle here until I finish watching the ending; but I enjoyed the ride so far.
OR this is all in Moe’s head and this is a “fuck you” twist ending. 🙂
One thing is that I think someone could’ve been under the cart and got out. The smell is so bad that people don’t want to get near it. I’m probably wrong, because I think they checked under it, but if it was left unattended long enough, then someone could sneak out.