All-Round Appraiser Q: The Eyes of Mona Lisa Page #3

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From the tan lines,

you'd worn it since you got it.

It's important to you.

But you're not wearing it now.

Did you pay your own way here?

I'll write a good story and get it out of hock.

Let's eat.

Hello, Riko Rinda.

I'm Misa Ryusenji. How do you do.

I asked at the hotel.

We're the only two Japanese who qualified.

How do you do.

'Tokyo University of the Arts

Lecturer and Researcher.'

'National Museum of Ethnology,

Research Associate.'

'All-round Appraiser Q'?

Yes.

That's really something.

I was almost fooled this time.

You've taken the test before?

I qualified as an Acting Curator

for the Raphael Exhibition.

This is Richard Bret.

He'll be instructing us in Japan.

Congratulations.

I'm told you are a genius.

I have great hopes.

The Mona Lisa adventure begins.

Do you speak French?

The lectures are in French.

We'll have 20 days of instruction

before the final test.

It's important material.

We're the only ones allowed in.

No interpreters.

I'm not an interpreter.

I'm Ogasawara, a journalist.

I'm covering this story.

There's no press in the lectures.

No?

Where did you study art, Ms Rinda?

Independently.

And that's how you could tell

the real Mona Lisa?

You certainly are 'all-round'.

The lectures will be here.

That's where we're going.

Out in Karuizawa.

We stay there?

Have a good trip back to Japan.

We'll see you in Japan, Ms Rinda. Good luck.

Right.

I don't like her.

"First day of lectures"

We will first train your instincts.

We will use a da Vinci drawing...

...to be shown with the Mona Lisa.

There it is.

This is how we prepare at the Louvre.

Only one of these drawings is genuine.

What's he saying?

We're supposed to work together

and find the real one.

First, you choose two of them

that you think are fake.

All right.

Rely more on your intuition.

Choose based on your instincts.

The top one, second from the left...

...and the fourth row, top.

Misa...

...choose an imitation from those two.

Now from your two I choose one

that I think is fake.

Then we repeat.

One of us chooses two drawings,

and the other eliminates one.

The fakes are removed,

until we arrive at the real one.

Now I choose two that I think are imitations.

Use your intuition.

Pick one you think is fake.

There are two left.

Misa, choose the real one.

Let's see which is the real one.

Show us the back.

That's a fake?

And the other...

That's genuine.

Instant judgment is important...

...in spotting a counterfeit.

It's almost a physical sensation.

With repeated practice...

...you will become more accurate.

Let's try it once again.

Hey, you!

Yes?

What are you doing?

Sight-seeing.

No pictures here, please.

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