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Originally Posted by king12354
How does the paper indicate Oreki was right? It just said that the counterfeiter got arrested which may or may not be related to that theory.
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He surmised that they'd called in the high school student in an attempt to trace where he might've gotten his bogus Benjamin (I'm sorry, 10,000 yen bill . . . which is about a C-note, so there.) Conveniently, the following day's newspaper shows they made an arrest in the bogus Benjamin counterfeiting case in the news at the beginning of the episode.
Since we are being shown this scene at the end of the episode, we are supposed to make the connection that Houtarou and Eru's theory from the afternoon before turned out to be 100% correct, even though they started out with Houtarou trying to come up with an arbitrary theory for an equally arbitrary scenario to show Eru that she can't always rely on his deductive skills.
Anyway, in this episode, we learn that Chitanda's affection for Houtarou only continues to grow. To the extent that she invites him to go visit her uncle's grave with her. She then proceeds to call him "amazing," regarding his deductive skills; and "modest," when he tries to push her away and fob it off on luck.
Only this episode, she isn't buying it. She tells him that, yeah, sure, luck might be involved . . . but there is a certain talent required to piece together seemingly disparate clues into a coherent theory. Even if he claims he doesn't know where he gets his theories since, as Chitanda points out, Oreki isn't the world's most introspective guy.
Oreki then decides to try to show Chitanda that someone can come up with some sort of B.S. theory for just about anything, hoping that she'll learn that she can't depend on him to solve everything. Conveniently, the P.A. supplies them with just the perfect scenario.
Interestingly, Oreki brings up his life's motto . . . and then dismisses it in the next thought. Showing Chitanda that there's a difference between actual talent, and lucky B.S. (and getting her to stop bothering him) is a goal worth expending energy for. If you think he keeps this in mind for the entire episode then . . . well, you've not watched this series very much.
This episode gives Chitanda something to do, besides be a moeblob. Here, we see her fill in for Satoshi "Database Man" very well, with her ability to recall and fill in details that Oreki can't be assed to remember. She also plays Mayaka perfectly. Her "Really? Try taking this seriously, you slacker," expressions are gold; as is her ability to point out things that Oreki misses. This proves key late in the episode.
Together (well, 70% Oreki, 30% Chitanda,) they come up with a working theory. Chitanda gets all
dere-dere and points out to Oreki that the whole exercise started because he had something to prove. However, both of them have completely lost track of what that was. Oreki remembers the next morning . . . when it turns out their deductions were absolutely correct.
And, thus, the ship-tease between Oreki and Chitanda continues. This is another "not much happens" episode, and doesn't even have Satoshi or Mayaka in it . . . or anyone outside of Houtarou and Eru. Yet, for such a sparse episode, it was very enjoyable.
Eight bogus Benjamins out of ten.