Wato who becomes to live with Sherlock prepares their breakfast with the help of Kimiē Hatano, their house owner. However, Sherlock who plays the cello refuses it flatly and hands Wato a list of what she should or should not do in 221B. Wato is confused but Sherlock tells her she should go out not if she cannot accept it. Then Mariko Maibara, a friend of Kimiē visits Sherlock and tells her that a mustache was drawn on a picture called "Sachiko-zō" (a portrait of Sachiko) paited by Saneatsu Kishida that she lends to an art exhibition. Her deceased husband who collected antiques bought it 20 years ago to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary.
The man who drew a moustache on the picture is unconscious because he was hit by a truck while trying to escape from the pursuers. Sherlock thinks it's not him who plotted it because he had nothing that identifies him. It proves that he had no will of priding himself on what he did to the world. And Sherlock finds a number 53 on his hand and it is the same number that is given to the picture at the exhibition. Mariko visits the exhibition held at Gables Museum with Sherlock and Wato to make a complainant about the security. The picture is going to be restored and Sherlock and Wato learn that an art dealer called Eisuke Yanagisawa offered Maiko to buy it but was refused. At a Japanese style cafe, Sherlock talks about it while eating Wato's anmitsu (*) but doesn't eat what she ordered. Then Wato visits Mariko Irikawa to care for herself psychologically after returning from Syria and talks about the change in her living environment.
Sherlock (Yūko Takeuchi, left) puts her hand over the mouth of Tatsuya Shinoda (Tomoya Nakamura) who tries to complain his boss about following her instructions
After that the body of Eisuke was found under a building. Gentarō Reimon, Tatsuya Shibata and Sherlock inspect of the scene and the eyewitness says there was nobody when Eisuke jumped down. And there is a sleep inducing drug in Eisuke's office in the building. Sherlock declares that it's not a suicide but somebody killed it by making him put to sleep with the drug and puts his body on the top of the building. It is proved by a white paint on his back and Sherlock finds a piece that seems to have been dropped by a murderer there. And a book on Stradivariusis found on Eisuke's desk. Gentarō tells Tatsuya to follow Sherlock's instructions and he himself undergoes a clinical survey.
Around the ｍuseum, Tatsuya searches a pierced earring as per Sherlock's instructions. It is the one that a man who drew a mustache on the portrait of Sachiko put on and a custom-made one. The man is identified as Kijima who works as part-timer at a transport company of art articles. Then Sherlock and Wato meet Morioka, the president of Takakura Resort who asked Eisuke to tell Mariko about buying the picture. But Morioka has an alibi when Eisuke was killed. He is also an art collector and shows them a picture of a dancing girl in the 18th century. After returning to 221B, Wato tells her roommate that it is really romantic that Saneatsu painted the portrait just before his death and he loved her so much. But Sherlock says she is too simple-minded and has no ambience of the presence of a male.
Sherlock finds some pieces of manila copal at the atelier of Michihiko Kuwabata (Kazuya Kojima, right)
The piece Sherlock found on the top of the building is that of mania copal. And she finds some pieced of manila copal pieces in the atelier of Michihiko Kuwabata, a painter who restores the portrait of Sachiko and paints some pictures for money. He says he lost the chance of having personal exhibition and went to a convenience store to go shopping when Eisuke was killed. Sherlock talks with Wato that Kijima, Michihiko and Eisuke made a deal with each other behind the scenes while having dinner. At that moment, a tall gays man enters their room. He is a connoisseur called Mickey and says that the real job of appropriationist is restoring arts. It reminds Wato of something.
On the following day, Wato visits the atelier of Michihiko and the portrait of Sachiko he restored is a fake. However, Mickey says it's a real thing. Michihiko is angry and packs it but Sherlock realises something. She and Wato visit Mariko and check the act of sale. Michihiko takes the picture to Morioka and asks him to support his activity because he was once betrayed by Eisuke. After a short while, Sherlock and Wato appear there and Sherlock points out what Takakura really wants is not the picture but its frame. It is made by Stradivarius and the one Takakura's picture was mounted before. But as time went by, the picture and the frame became separated.
Sherlock tells Wato (Shihori Kanjiya, left) about her reasoning
Takakura happened to see the frame at the exhibition and made Kijima draw a mustache on the portrait of Sachiko to make it restore by Michihiko. Then he allows Michihiko hold a personal exhibition in exchange for obtaining the frame for his picture of a dancing girl. But Sherlock tells Michihiko that Takakura never supports him and says,
"I think you should have an eye for people".
At last the picture of Sachiko and the frame are returned to Mariko. When sherlock plays "Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007" on the cello, kimiē tells her that Mariko decided to lend the picture for the exhibition again. This time it is not the stuff but Mariko herself who protects the picture from danger. Wato visits Mariko Ishikawa again and tells her about it.
(*) It is mitsumame topped with bean jam. Mitsumame is a kind of Japanese dessert that is an assortment of agar jelly, beans, mochi, dumplings and sliced fruits. It is usually eaten with black syrup.
