"so Hakuba what would you do if you had Kid and a shooter cornered and only had one pair of handcuffs?"
"I'd go after the shooter of course"
"ok if he was alone?"
"I'd arrest him and then 'conveniently' forget that he knows where my keys are, what about you Kudo-san?"
"hm I'd probably be a bit slow at getting the cuffs out maybe forgetting where I put them long enough for him to make his escape"
and then all the other officers though about it and ultimately decided that they would let him go as well though one officer actually had a better way of letting the thief go without giving it away that he was letting the thief go
"as for me if I didn't do either of those options I'd probably be chasing after him and then suddenly trip giving him enough time to make his escape like when I was a rookie and I let a murder suspect get away because I tripped over my own two feet, fortunately the murder suspect was caught easily enough and his innocence was later proven"
"slick way of letting him go"
"though there is another way for him to escape you guys, the same way he has at every heist"
the officers all recognize the voice coming from a rookie officer and do the age old dog pile on the thief which naturally doesn't work and once again he gets away
"so Kudo-san what brought up the question anyways?"
"two things Hattori and I talked about it occasionally and he said that if he ever had Kid cornered he might forget long enough where his cuffs were to let the Kid escape and as for the second thing well let's just say that he's in deep with the guys we're after and leave it at that for now"
fortunately Hakuba gets the hint and keeps his mouth shut though he does figure out it's the Black Organization somehow involved with Kid and also wonders just why the thief was involved with them in the first place. A few hours later they left the place to talk in private
"ok so how's Kid involved with the Black Organization?"
"apparently he's stealing to keep the Black Organization from getting a gem but that's all I know however I also think he's after them because they murdered the first Kid"
"how do you know the first Kid was murdered? He could've simply retired"
"hm little hints and clues I've gotten from my father"
"ok I'll go with it for now"
well the next day Hakuba and Shinichi were handling another case however this time it was much harder and more personal since they were victims of a bombing and suddenly Kid showed up claiming that he did it and Hakuba and Shinichi glared at him since they knew he was the petenshi
"so I think that's yet another charge of satsujin and also attempted satsujin on this imposter"
"yep now come on we have a scene to investigate"
and so they do only to be grabbed by the real Kid and pushed into a corner
"look don't bring attention to me right now and just listen, I know this is going to sound odd but I want to work with you two however that means telling you guys everything about me and me knowing everything about you, well what I don't know already and then working together to bring down both the imposter and the Black Organization, sound fair?"
"agreed, Hakuba?"
"I'm up for it, of course you do realize that this means that if my suspicions have been correct this whole time I have leverage on you"
"of course however that doesn't mean a thing compared to taking these guys down"
"agreed see you tonight here"
"works for me"
and so Kid leaves and they get back to investigating and their investigations eventually are forced to be stopped but hey that's only because they found the culprit so they didn't have to investigate any more. Hours later
ok more Japanese
petenshi-imposter
satsujin-murder