Young Kindaichi's Casebook - Season 3

Touno Eiji is supposed to be dead, killed in a fiery wreck following the serial killings at Nagano's Lake (Episode 4), however Yousuke Itsuki sees an article which shows him still alive and working with Shimon Madarame who claims to have resurrected rare extinct butterflies and plans to display them at Kanazawa.

Officer Inokawa checks everyone's alibis for the time Ruri's body was placed on the butterfly grave and only Miyama has no alibi, so he is taken in for questioning. Yamano Katsunori sees a Black Butterfly and tells the fearful story of a woman whose husband was killed by the village head's son who then took her as his wife.

Miyama arrives at the balneary first and finds Ageha bleeding from cuts on her legs and there is another message from the killer. They discover through her blood type that 25 year old Ageha cannot be the daughter of both Shimon and Midori.

Hajime explains that the killer cleverly delayed the discovery of Ruri's body to create an alibi, and used the scents which attract and repel the Black Butterflies to cover his movements. He then accuses Masayuki Onodera of being the murderer Undying Butterfly.

Following a day of shooting for a film, Reika Hayami and her manager Yasuyuki Yasuoga are kidnapped by someone calling himself the Puppet Clown. The kidnapper demands a huge ransom from the film director Youko Kafuraki and the ransom note also specifies that Hajime Kindaichi must deliver the money.

Hajime goes from location to location following the instructions from the Puppet Clown, injuring himself in the process. However as he crosses a rope suspension bridge he falls and loses all the money and is rescued by Kenmochi who had been following him.

Reika is who has been badly beaten is found alive and taken to a hospital. After she regains consciousness, she relates the story of the kidnapping by the Puppet Clown who appears to have mysophobia, and the murder of Yasuoga. Suspecting that something is suspicious about Youko Kafuraki's company and the relationships between the staff, Hajime asks his friend Itsuki to investigate.

Hajime explains his theory to the assembled group of Youko Kafuraki's staff. He believes that Yasuoga was the accomplice of the Puppet Clown who then decided to kill him. The Puppet Clown created an alibi by confusing Reika over the date on which Yasuoga was killed and Hajime accuses Yasuoga's wife Manami of being the Puppet Clown.

Fashion model Masumi Takamori, is blackmailed by an old acquaintance, Hiroshi, who threatens to expose her drug-taking past. She accidentally kills him with a vase, but as Masumi buys a suitcase to dispose of the body, she encounters Hajime, a former classmate.

Hajime deduces the killer is in their midst, after finding fish in a tank dead, he assumes that the killer dropped in the empty capsule which contained the poison. The fashion competition goes ahead, and Kimasawa promises to make Yuke the company director when she retires.

Hajime explains the mystery of how Inukai was poisoned to Masumi, but she feigns innocence. Masumi receives one last instruction from Burial Francs, but it is a trap and she is grabbed by Burial Francs.

Hajime finally figures out the identity of Burial Francs and sets a trap at the hospital treating Kimasawa to catch the elusive culprit when they try to kill Kimasawa. He explains the killer switched her room key with Kiriyama's so she could lock the room from the outside and he exposes Naoko Torimaru as Burial Francs.

Hajime's friend Ryuta Saki has a crush on Sayaka Kamitsu and they go on a double date with Hajime and Myuki. Back at the school, a guard and a teacher find a broken plaster sculpture and the teacher Nakatsukawa unconscious from a blow by another plaster statue in the Art Lab.

Hajime and Miyuki are invited by their senior Satsuki Munakata to her home in the remote Majin Village and they take his cousin Fumi. On the way Hajime tells Fumi about the first time they visited Satsuki to help dig for historical artefacts.

Yamato is found dead in the sealed Magamitori cave, strangled by the fake necklace which had been stolen along with the blade and mirror. Satsuki explains the Magamitori curse predicts the death of three people and tells how Kichieman's eldest daughter, eldest son and his wife all died.

Kyouko Munakata asks Hajime to pass a letter to her daughter Satsuki and says she will take care of the Magamitori curse. That night Hajime and Miyuki see the Magamitori who leaps through a window and with Kyouko Munakata and apparently throws her over a cliff into the river leaving the replica dagger behind.

Hajime reveals that the next page on the calendar from which Soga tore the pages from was the month of March, which in ancient Japanese revealed Yaoi Muranishi as the killer. He then reveals the location of the artifacts through an arrangement of mirrors in the mansion and finds them hidden beneath a stone statue.

Hajime, Miyuki and four school friends take a low-cost trip to a vacant island named Graveyard Island. Soon after arrival they find a cave filled with human skulls and bones, then they meet a group of college students in camouflage playing a survival game.

The group begin to fear the unseen Ghost Soldier and move their camp to an open area and set traps in the jungle around the camp. During the night one of the sound traps is triggered and Hajime and Miyuki see a skeletal Japanese soldier.

Hajime deduces the murderer is Tatsuyuki Hiyama who killed Yonemura's team and captured Yonemura to appear as a Ghost Soldier. However, the killer did not realize that Yonemura scratched a dying message while he was tied up, which was a type of Morse code that referred to an event in a village 2 years ago.

Tired after working at an amusement park, Hajime Kindaichi is on a train home when he is accused of murdering the loan broker Ekuma Tadao on the train and arrested. Hajime claims he is innocent and Akechi promises that he will seize the real killer. Now in jail, Hajime's fate depends on the detective skills of Inspector Akechi.

Because Hajime has spent all his money, he and Miyuki decide to take a part-time job during the summer vacation at the Otemon summer training camp for medical students. Later, while Hajime is in Otemon Hospital waiting for a gastric medical examination he sees a boy named Kuniaki Ebisawa in a coma.

Hajime and the other students are perplexed at the vision of Morimura being hung when Makio Shiina runs up to them saying he saw a ghost outside his window. Hostel manager Tenzo Tsukahara prevents them from disturbing Morimura to check if he is alive.

Shiina's body hangs high in the church, but the ladder which has disappeared and they are unable to bring it down. Dr. Kawasaki asks Hajime to try to solve the murders, but after Hajime's analysis of the available information, only Kawasaki has no alibi.

With Kato now dead, Hajime analyses the clues and returns to the church where the very much alive Shiina is preparing to burn down the building. Hajime explains how Shiina faked his hanging, and that he feels guilty for betraying his friend Ebisawa.

Koshiro Kirisawa, the famous ikebana artist and head of Mugetsu School of Flower Arrangement, is stabbed and killed in the hotel where Inspector Kenmochi is staying. Kenmochi believes he witnessed the murder in an external stairwell by a woman around 2am, and one of the hotel staff also reports seeing her.

Kenmochi presents Hajime with another case. A computer teacher named Nanako Segawa is found dead in a park. Yuri Mishima, a student from the computer school is arrested for the murder, but Hajime thinks that this is an exchange murder, and there is a mastermind behind the killing.