Case 1 Decoyman

case#1:decoyman is the second case of the Transmitter story of The Silver Case. This chapter serves as an introduction to the members of the Heinous Crimes Unit, as well as other key plot points and characters such as most notably Kamui Uehara, an escaped serial killer who the characters attempt to track down over the course of the chapter. It also details the fate of the Republic unit.

Description

decoyman is the beginning to the story proper after the opening case, case#0:lunatics. In decoyman, the status quo for the rest of the story, with Akira working with the HC Unit, is established, as are various patterns that will be repeated (and eventually broken) in future cases. When first meeting the members of the Unit in this case, unique character profiles are given to introduce them.

decoyman centers around Kamui Uehara; as such, the first bits of information about what the Silver Case is are dropped in this chapter, although the player can find a more detailed explanation ahead of time by reading the booklet that comes with the game. Most of the case is spent investigating locations where Kamui has either supposedly struck or locations that he is said to be likely to strike. Despite Kamui being important to the entire game, the Kamui Case is tentatively solved by the conclusion of this chapter; in future chapters, the Unit investigates other cases while lingering ambiguities from decoyman hang in the background.

Summary

Monday, March 22, 1999, 05:48PM
Tetsugoro Kusabi and his associate Ryu Munakata are holding a secret meeting on the benches at the Harakiri Batting Center. Ryu warns Tetsu that Kamui Uehara is going to make a move soon, explaining that his teeth are hurting and believing that it may foretell Kamui due to a time when he had to have his wisdom teeth pulled shortly before the Silver Case. Tetsu remarks with disbelief, saying that Kamui is locked up and has likely reformed himself by now. At Munakata's urgings to believe his teeth, Kusabi concedes.

The scene jumps through location and time to a woman, Yuriko Sonoda, running down a hall. A document known as the All-Points Bulletin appears, giving information on who Kamui Uehara is. According to it: In March, 1979, Kamui was arrested while committing his crimes in the Silver Case. In August, 1984, Kamui was diagnosed with "extremely high-level mental disorders", and his trial was cancelled. In September of the same year, he was committed to the psych ward of IMM Hospital, where he began counseling.

Most recently, on the night of March 27, 1999, Kamui murdered his counselor, Sonoda, seemingly with a customized harpoon gun. At that point, a surveillance satellite in orbit began tracking Kamui Uehara as a point. Shortly thereafter, Republic was called upon and deployed to the woods where Kamui had fled to, but they failed their mission, with two of their members having been killed. Just past midnight, the satellite track on Kamui disappeared; it is assumed that he went underground. Now, Heinous Crimes Unit Special Agents Tetsugoro Kusabi and Sumio Kodai head to IMM Hospital to investigate the murder.

Sunday, March 28, 1999, 07:04AM