When Akai shot at Gin from 700 yards away. It's very impressive being able to aim the cheek in Gin's own sniper rifle sights.
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I don't think he was aiming for his cheek...
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You think he wanted his eye? I believe he scratched him on purpose - I'm sure he didn't want to kill Gin.
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The only reason it was the cheek instead of the eye because Gin lurched out of the way. If Shuichi didn't want to kill him, then why take such a risk? Gin would've died had he just been an instant late in his reaction.
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I'm not convinced... if Akai really wanted to get this over with, he could have killed Gin easily instead of drawing attention. Because the BO didn't expect him at all, they were concentrated on Kogoro.
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He could've sniped them all easily... and then DC would be pretty much over. That's why Gosho had that scene play out the way he did. Maximum badass factor while preserving the status quo.
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
“Education never ends... it is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow
"I have decided to stick to love... hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr)
When Akai shot at Gin from 700 yards away. It's very impressive being able to aim the cheek in Gin's own sniper rifle sights.
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I don't think he was aiming for his cheek...
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You think he wanted his eye? I believe he scratched him on purpose - I'm sure he didn't want to kill Gin.
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The only reason it was the cheek instead of the eye because Gin lurched out of the way. If Shuichi didn't want to kill him, then why take such a risk? Gin would've died had he just been an instant late in his reaction.
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I'm not convinced... if Akai really wanted to get this over with, he could have killed Gin easily instead of drawing attention. Because the BO didn't expect him at all, they were concentrated on Kogoro.
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He could've sniped them all easily... and then DC would be pretty much over. That's why Gosho had that scene play out the way he did. Maximum badass factor while preserving the status quo.
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He realized that Gin was holding the listening device and therefore made it his priority so that Kogoro can be on the clear. The rest is as you said, just like how Gosho forshadowed before, Akai was planning on killing Gin ('making him "cry tears" of blood' is a subtle reference to Akai wanting to headshot Gin). I think it was more of a revenge for what Gin did to Akemi, but as for the others, they would lose their leads to finding out more about BO if they killed them(otherwise, Jodie would've slayed Vermouth during their confrontation).
DC's Awesome Qoutes:
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Bourbon:''A child's curiosity and a detective's spirit of inquiry do have much in common'' Vermouth:''A secret makes a woman, woman'' Mary/Gin:''It's like encountering a demon in the darkness...'' Akai Shuichi:''Fear of death is worse than death itself'' Shinichi Kudo:''following the smell of blood to arrive upon a crime scene, using every one of your senses to hunt the culprit, then once you've seized hold of him, sinking your sharp teeth(your evidence) until your opponent gives up the ghost, That's a detective''
Kor wrote:Any reason why you are holding a discussion purely in spoiler tags about an incident that happened a decade ago?
No idea.
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
“Education never ends... it is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow
"I have decided to stick to love... hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr)