Date's Car

**Date's Car** is a vehicle and location in *AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES*.

Date's car, a modified Australian Ford Falcon, is Kaname Date's personal vehicle and means of transportation throughout Tokyo. As an Australian car, Date sits on the right seat while driving, while various passengers sit on the left seat.

## Item Dialogue (AITSF)

*WARNING!!*
*This article contains spoilers for* AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES *from this point on. Proceed with caution!*

* Rearview Mirror
* Wheel
* Dashboard
* Center Console
* Gearshift
* Glovebox
* Passenger Seat

### Rearview Mirror

* Default dialogue:
	1. *The rearview mirror.*
	*I can see the scenery.*
* Day 2: saikAI, during the second driving segment:
	1. *The rearview mirror.*
	 **Date:** Oh my god, there's a woman in the back seat!
	 **Iris:** What?! Where?!
	 **Date:** Haha, I'm just screwing with you.
	 **Iris:** Mr. Date! Hmph! You're a meanie...
	 **Date:** A meanie, huh?
	2. **Iris:** Meanie meanie bo-beanie.
	 **Date:** Banana fana fo-feanie...?
	 **Iris:** Fe fi mo-meanie!
	 **Date:** Meanie...
	 **Date:** I can't believe I remember that silly rhyme.
	 **Iris:** Hehehe... ♪
	3. *You can see the scenery through the rear window.*
* Day 2: saikAI, during the third driving segment:
	1. *The rearview mirror...*
	 **Date:** Look! A crazy grandma with a knife is running straight for us!
	 **Aiba:** Mm-hm.
	2. *You can see the scenery through the rear window.*
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (after finding Mizuki):
	1. *There's no one in the back seat.*
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the second driving segment (after noticing Aiba):
	1. *The rearview mirror.*
	 **Aiba:** (You tried to peek up that woman's skirt, didn't you?)
	 **Date:** No! How would I even do that from this angle?!
	2. *You can* only *see the scenery through the rear window.*
* Day 4: youdAI, during the second driving segment:
	1. *The rearview mirror.*
	 **Date:** Mirror, mirror, in the car... Who is the most handsome policeman by far?
	 **Date:** Why, that is Mr. Date, of course.
	 **Aiba:** (Date, this is starting to concern me.)
	 **Aiba:** (You really should get some sleep.)
	2. *I can see the scenery out the rearview mirror.*
* Day 3: gyoukAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The rearview mirror.*
	 **Date:** Look at that! A huge dog with a human face is chasing me!
	 **Aiba:** (You should grant it the right of way.)
	2. *You can see the scenery through the rear window.*
* Day 4: syuurAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The rearview mirror...*
	 **Aiba:** (Date, this reminds me of Egyptian mythology.)
	 **Aiba:** (Hathor, the mother of Ra. The mirror was one of her sacred symbols.)
	 **Date:** Wasn't she a cow or something?
	2. *You can see the scenery through the rear window.*
* Day 4: syuurAI, during the third driving segment:
	1. *The rearview mirror...*
	 **Date:** There's a soaking-wet merman in the back seat!
	 **Iris:** What?!
	 **Date:** I'm just kidding!
	 **Iris:** Don't joke around at a time like this!
	 **Iris:** You're gonna make me aggro!
	**If the player inspected the Rearview Mirror on Day 2: saikAI:**
	 **Date:** What?
	**If the player did not inspect the Rearview Mirror on Day 2: saikAI:**
	 **Date:** You keep saying that, I have no idea what that means...

### Wheel

* Default dialogue:
	1. *The steering wheel.*
* Day 2: saikAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *This car isn't domestic.*
	*It's made in Australia, so the steering wheel is on the right side.*
	*That's because they also drive on the left side of the road.*
	2. **Date:** (And Indians use the left too.)
	 **Aiba:** (What?)
	 **Date:** (Nothing, just thinking.)
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (after finding Mizuki):
	1. *The steering wheel.*
	 **Mizuki:** Hey, Date. What would happen if I...grabbed the wheel and spun it super hard?
	 **Date:** We would spend the rest of our very short time together thinking about how stupid that was.

### Dashboard

* Default dialogue:
	1. *The dashboard.*
* Day 2: saikAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The dashboard.*
	*The dash has a ton of stuff built in.*
	*It has the speedometer, tachometer, and other meters and gauges.*
	2. **Date:** (This ride is pretty rad, huh?)
	 **Aiba:** (It is indeed "rad.")
* Day 2: saikAI, during the second driving segment:
	1. *The dashboard.*
	 **Iris:** Y'know, I'm feeling kind of *bored*...
	 **Date:** Seriously?
* Day 2: saikAI, during the third driving segment:
	1. *The dash.*
	 **Aiba:** Dashboard.
	 **Date:** Dash, bored...
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (after finding Mizuki):
	1. *The dashboard.*
	 **Mizuki:** Hey, Date. Why do they call it a "dashboard"?
	 **Date:** Because it makes the car go faster.
	2. **Mizuki:** Uh-huh. And why do they call it a tachometer?
	 **Date:** It measures how many tacos worth of revolutions the wheels spin. Because a tortilla is round.
	 **Date:** Obviously.
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the second driving segment (after noticing Aiba):
	1. *The dashboard.*
	 **Aiba:** (A country in Southeast Asia that speaks mostly Bengali.)
	 **Date:** That's "Bangladesh."
* Day 4: youdAI, during the second driving segment:
	1. *The dashboard.*
	 **Date:** These are tasty when they're golden-brown.
	 **Aiba:** (I believe you're referring to "hash browns.")
* Day 3: gyoukAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The dashboard.*
	 **Date:** A zweihander...
	 **Aiba:** (That's a "broadsword.")
* Day 4: syuurAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The dash.*
	 **Aiba:** (When you crash, the first thing you hit is the dash.)
	 **Date:** Interesting...
	2. *The dash.*
* Day 4: syuurAI, during the third driving segment:
	1. *The dashboard.*
	 **Iris:** Dangan.
	 **Date:** Ronpa.

### Center Console

* Default dialogue:
	1. *The center console.*
* Day 2: saikAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The center console.*
	*It's got AC and radio controls in it.*
	2. *This is an older car, but it has a state-of-the-art computer installed in it.*
	*Aiba can even remotely control it.*

### Gearshift

* Default dialogue:
	1. *The gearshift.*
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the second driving segment (after noticing Aiba):
	1. *The gearshift.*
	2. *It might look like it, but it's definitely not a hammer.*
* Day 4: youdAI, during the second driving segment:
	1. *The gearshift.*
	2. *I like manuals more than automatic.*
* Day 3: gyoukAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. **Aiba:** (This shift lever is filthy.)
	 **Aiba:** (Would you like me to wipe it off?)
	 **Date:** No, it's perfectly clean!
	 **Date:** How would you even wipe it anyway?
* Day 4: syuurAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The gearshift...*
	 **Aiba:** (Date, can I move the shifter around?)
	 **Date:** No, don't!
	 **Date:** Resist the urge!
* Day 4: syuurAI, during the third driving segment:
	1. *The gearshift.*
	 **Iris:** The gear pusher.
	 **Date:** It's a gear "shifter."

### Glovebox

* Default dialogue:
	1. *The glovebox.*
* Day 2: saikAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The glovebox.*
	 **Iris:** Hey, you got any guns in here?
	 **Iris:** I bet you dooo...
	 **Date:** No, not in there.
	 **Iris:** So you do have a gun!
* Day 2: saikAI, during the second driving segment:
	1. *The glovebox.*
	 **Iris:** You know how stuff always gets beat up when you put it in here?
	 **Iris:** Don't you wish they could make these things a little nicer?
* Day 2: saikAI, during the third driving segment:
	1. *The glovebox.*
	 **Aiba:** Do you hide your risque reading material in there, Date?
	 **Date:** Not at all! Why would I hide them *there*?
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (before finding Mizuki):
	1. **Date:** Did I put anything in there...?
	 **Aiba:** (You could have put a gold brick in there and it wouldn't slow us down this much.)
	 **Aiba:** (Have you checked the back seat?)
	 **Date:** Oh, right.
	 **Date:** But I can't just turn around and look while I'm driving...
	 **Aiba:** (Just check the rearview mirror!)
	2. *The mirror...*
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (after finding Mizuki):
	1. *The glovebox...*
	 **Mizuki:** Is this where you keep your weird stuff?
	 **Date:** No. But don't look!
	*Damn, is it that obvious?*
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the second driving segment (after noticing Aiba):
	1. *The glovebox.*
	 **Aiba:** (That is where the passenger vomits if they are feeling carsick.)
	 **Date:** It most certainly is not!
* Day 4: youdAI, during the second driving segment:
	1. *The glovebox.*
	 **Date:** Boxing gloves.
	 **Aiba:** (A boxer puts his boxing gloves in the glove box...)
	*Okay, that's pushing it.*
* Day 3: gyoukAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The glovebox.*
	 **Aiba:** (Date, last night when you were asleep...)
	 **Aiba:** (I snuck out and put something inside the glovebox.)
	 **Date:** What...?
	 **Aiba:** (Flour in a plastic bag.)
	 **Date:** Why would you do that?! I'm a cop!
* Day 4: syuurAI, during the first driving segment:
	1. *The glovebox.*
	 **Aiba:** (This box is where you keep your doves.)
	 **Date:** It's not a "dove" box!
* Day 4: syuurAI, during the third driving segment:
	1. *The glovebox.*
	 **Iris:** Um, Date...?
	 **Iris:** Have you got anything weird in here?
	 **Date:** Weird?
	 **Iris:** Yeah, in these plastic baggies...
	 **Date:** That's flour!
	2. *There* shouldn't *be anything suspicious in there.*

### Passenger Seat

* Default dialogue:
	1. *The passenger seat.*
* Day 2: saikAI, during the third driving segment:
	1. *It's the passenger seat.*
	*It's empty.*
* Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (before finding Mizuki):
	1. *The passenger seat.*
	*No one is sitting in it.*

## Trivia

*WARNING!!*
*This article contains spoilers for* AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES *from this point on. Proceed with caution!*

* Date's car is a **Ford Falcon**. It's commonly believed that the actual model of Date's car is a Ford Falcon '89, since the name matches the two codenames attributed to Hayato Yagyu: the names Falco and Inmate #89. However, the car model itself matches closer to a Ford XA Falcon GT-HO, released in '72.
* During the second investigation segment in the chapter Day 2: Saturday –saikAI–, if you examine the Rearview Mirror twice, Date and Iris play The Name Game using the word "meanie." The Name Game originates from the 1964 song "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis, and has since become a common rhyme played by schoolchildren. As Date states that he can't believe he still remembers this song, it's possible that he used to play the Name Game with Iris herself 6 years ago, during the time he was dating Hitomi and before he got amnesia.
* There are two variations of the item dialogue for the Rearview Mirror at the third driving segment of Day 4: syuurAI. If you inspected the Rearview Mirror on the second driving segment of Day 2: saikAI, Date responds to Iris's "You're gonna make me aggro!" with "What?" However, if you didn't inspect it, then Date responds with "You keep saying that, I have no idea what that means..." This variation in text, however, is curious for two reasons:
	1. The two variations are actually flipped. The second line, where Date says "You keep saying that," is meant to be a continuation of his first interaction with Iris at the Rearview Mirror, while the "What?" is a surprised reaction to hearing the phrase for the first time. However, the lines were flipped, either on purpose or accidentally, resulting in the context for both being inverted.
	2. Iris's line "You're gonna make me aggro!" is based on her catchphrase commonly used throughout the game and within the Lemniscate YouTube series, which is originally ぷんすかぽんこら (*Punsukaponkora*) in Japanese. The phrase ぷんすかぽんこら is used in the original Japanese text when investigating the Rearview Mirror in Day 2: saikAI, which correlates to Date recognizing the phrase again in Day 4: syuurAI, but in the localization this specific usage of the phrase ぷんすかぽんこら in saikAI is changed to "Mr. Date! Hmph! You're a meanie...", as lead-up to the joke about The Name Game, as written above.

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## References

1. ↑ Wikipedia page for Ford Falcon XA
2. ↑ To-Witter Archives 2019 (Tesa): September 25th - Kotaro Uchikoshi, the game's director and writer, made note of Date's car on a Twitter comment, and his wording implies that the chosen model of the car holds special significance, giving credence to the car being a Ford Falcon model of some kind.
3. ↑ Shirley Ellis – The Name Game on YouTube
4. ↑ Video of varying dialogue by @somniumfiIes
5. ↑ The original text localized into The Name Game by @somniumfiIes