(1) I never understood how Haibara managed to get that disc thing (called an M.D. or something in the Manga Vol 24, I cannot be sure now) full of APTX information without triggering the Night Baron virus thing again. Thoughts? Also : did she initially lie about the disc being burnt just so she can be allowed to run away & die, alone?
(2) I have an even more crack!fic idea about Boss & Cat: It's not that he is the size of a 7-year-old & holding a cat, walking near Vermouth on her phone call, but that he literally *is* the size of a toddler! Hence him only using text-messaging instead of calling via voice modulators.
(1) I think it's because of the difference in the disc. In her intro case, she had accidentally sent her sister BO file discs that likely had Night Baron programmed into it if it doesn't detect BO dataservers. In the Reunion case, she accessed BO data servers directly, and then copied the APTX4869 data into Agasa's game disc, so basically, the disc was clean without Night Baron virus and therefore nothing got triggered when she opened up Agasa's disc. As for why she lied, it was probably because she didn’t wanna promise him that any good would come out of the disc she successfully retrieved until she knows for sure that she can actually accomplish the creation of a functional antidote.
(2) Yeah,... I have written about this before as well,... I don't think there is any benefit from a meta standpoint for the Boss to be baby, since he will literally be incapable of exuding any type of physical threat, since he will not only be dependent on a caretaker that helps him move but also be limited in communication (underdeveloped vocal cords and all). The Cat's cry being referred to in the recent chapter (File 1141) through the baby's cry angle served as a transition to that subject matter, but I could also see Gosho intentionally highlighting that similarity for future narrative purposes.
The idea of the cat's cry potentially being a baby's makes for a perfect painting of that the boss could be a parent/caretaker of a baby... meaning, Gosho could be preparing future suspects/misleads where they appear to have either a cat or a baby. One example of someone who might reappear ominously is the old lady who was strolling around with the baby in the Azusa-Conan kidnapping case (File 1126-1128).
