The guy who got stabbed could be the rooster man thus explaining how he knew he wasn't attacked by the rooster man.
The monkey is the 9th chinese zodiac, maybe he knew the culprit.

the culprit wasn’t wearing gloves when stole sonoko’s bag and I assume the culprit is the guy with eyeglasses judging his barehands and why didn’t wear gloves? How the police didn’t bother to check sonoko’s bag if it’s still has the culprit’s fingerprints ?

Man takagi’s face sure was different in 2010

Feels like ran is the start of the episode

How Cosmically convenient that the dying man could just tell the person who'd understated his dying message was the little kid.

Rooster Festival