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Originally Posted by Jimmy C
The impression I get from the episode was that opposition to the Dam Project was weak and defused early. As a result, hate and resentment didn't build up to the point of driving the dam construction workers beserk. So no murder.
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Yeah that's for sure, but what I am interested in finding out is why was the opposition weak here? Was it because in normal worlds the Tokyo groups stirs up trouble between the two groups, perhaps in order to gain time? We haven't seen any hard evidence which supports that so far, and my initial response was that they wouldn't even interfere, because it could endanger their secrecy, plus they are kidnapping the minister's son anyway so why bother with it.
If I am not far from the truth, we gonna find out soon anyway, but I really like to speculate about that. Actually that's the reason why I liked the first Higurashi series more, as it gives you so much to speculate about, while I didn't particularly enjoyed quite some episodes in the Kai series (like yeah let's unite Voltron throughout 3 episodes, in order to gain Satoko's freedom from her vile scheming Uncle! Plus all of Takano's past didn't really left me with much to think about. I actually felt an urge to skip those parts)
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Originally Posted by Jimmy C
It's actually more than that from what I've heard. But we don't know if it will be mentioned in the next episode, so let's not talk about it now. You can find some of the details in other discussions here. The common theme within Reina and Satoko's backgrounds should be enough of a clue.
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Well, that seems like the most logical cause (at least for me), but because that's not twisted and complicated enough (and it would leave K1 fanboys out at the beginning of the season especially), I wouldn't be surprised if the reason why he's not here is something else. I'm avoiding spoilers like a plague, so as I said I may be totally off about everything
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I'd speculate that, without Miyo around, Mifumi spent the last of his resources to establish the clinic as a cover for limited personal research after his backers walked out on him. It looks like he didn't manage much progress before dying and his research died with him.
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I agree, your theory actually sounds more reasonable.