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"Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch" Explained - Part 3½/3 （下）

>The 4th, 5th and 6th Twilights:

Gohda's, George's and Shannon's bodies were found in Natsuhi's room. The room was locked. Inside, Gohda's body was found by the door with a stake in his chest, George's body was found on the floor at the back with a stake in his stomach and Shannon's body was found on the drawer, with a hole on her forehead and a stake next to her.

! Red Truths !
[red]"Natsuhi's room was exactly the same, just like usual"[/red] (In this case, usual refers to the closed room scenarios prior.)
[red]"The door and the windows were locked from the inside"[/red]
[red]"There is no fraud or trick, there is no means of secret passage and no hidden place"[/red]
[red]"Natsuhi's own key was in George's pocket, and the inside of the room was closed off"[/red]
[red]"Only the five master keys were left, and 'Rosa' was holding all of them"[/red]
[red]"And let me say this, the parlor's the same"[/red]
[red]"The original key to the parlor is sealed in the servants' room. So unlocking it without the master key is impossible! The definition of a closed room is the same as always!"[/red]
[red]"After the master keys came into Rosa's control, never did any of them leave her hands! Except for the time when she lent it to Battler to unlock Natsuhi's room."[/red]

-Explanation:
This is a tough one, but thankfully Ryukishi comes to the rescue with the following quote from an interview:

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Interviewer: "Still, the locked room in Natsuhi’s chamber is a special case. If Shannon actually committed suicide, there is nobody who can get rid of the weapon. If you think of Genji finalizing that, then it just happens smoothly, but…hmm *laugh*."

R07: "Because we have come so far, I think I can give you an answer, though it is basically the same trick as with the well. Shannon died face down, slumped over the makeup cabinet. It’s a really simple trick. You tie the weapon to a heavy object with a string, then you throw the heavy object behind the cabinet. And then it’s the classic trick, when you commit suicide, the gun is pulled behind the cabinet towards the heavy object."

Interviewer: "So that’s how it went?!"

R07: "I thought, because you solved the riddle of the well as well, that you would get this trick without any problem. I especially wrote that she was "slumped over, face down, over the makeup cabinet". And while the other two in the room were actually pierced by the stakes, Shannon was not. That is why you can imagine her being the last to die in that room, because there was nobody left to insert the stake into the gunwound. There was never a full inspection of that special room, so that means that the weapon was left within it."
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With that said, the following can be concluded: Shannon killed both Gohda and George, locked the door from the inside, put the Key into George's pocket, and then committed suicide in the fashion described in the interview.

As for why Shannon/Yasu committed suicide, the best answer would be that she lost faith in Battler after his breakdown in the servants' room.
Note that Yasu's original plans involved her dying no matter what and that the trick for hiding the murder weapon was probably only there to give another clue to Battler.

>The Final Letter:

Battler finds a sealed letter inside the parlor. The doors and windows were all locked.

-Explanation:
It was Rosa who put the letter there. It was explicitly shown that she went back and checked all the windows before they left, giving her ample time to leave the letter there.

>The Final Scenes:

Genji leads Battler into Kinzo's study where he meets with Kinzo and Beatrice.

-Explanation:
We do know for sure that Kinzo is dead from the very beginning, so the entire scene is in the pseudo-realm. Since Battler is drunken at this point, it absolves his detective-privileges of objective observation.
The rest of the people on the island die when the bomb goes off.

END OF EPISODE 2