Stella Maris

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Stella Maris (マリス・ステラ) is the 6th episode of season 1 of the Japanese TV series Miss Sherlock, released on 25 may 2018, starring Yuko Takeuchi as "Sherlock" and Shihori Kanjiya as Wato Tachibana. 52 min.

A politician's son receives a severed ear and finger in the mail from an unknown sender and Sherlock and Wato are assigned to help figure out who sent them and why. The body parts are found to belong to two members of the police force, but they are adorned with accessories that were not theirs. These instead were once owned by a young woman who was the victim of a hit-and-run five years prior. The perpetrator, politician Koichi Takayama, used his influence to cover up the incident. When the victim's father, Yoshiyuki Takai, learned the truth, he killed the detective and forensic scientist involved and sent their severed body parts to Takayama as a warning; the packages were mistakenly thought to have been addressed to his son instead due to Takai slightly miswriting the katakana in his name. Sherlock and Wato go to Takayama's house to confront him about the hit-and-run, but as they chase him down, they find his son lying in the road mortally wounded. Yoshiyuki Takai reveals himself as the assailant and slits his own throat before he can be arrested. Not long afterward, Arisa Shiina begins to divulge more information about Stella Maris while evidence found in Takai's house also links him to the organization, which Sherlock begins to suspect is actually a person named Akira Moriwaki.

References to the original Sherlock Holmes stories

The story is inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story The Cardboard Box (1893).
Wato tells Sherlock she has uncommon knowledge and not knowing basic things (like in STUD 211), and Sherlock answered the famous sentence about the brain attic (like in STUD 219).
"Devil's foot" is a reference to the miniaturized bomb in episode 1, but also the title of the Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story of the same name The Devil's Foot).
Miss Sherlock and Wato live at 221. The original Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson lived at 221B, Baker Street, London (STUD (182).