1. Okay, thank you. I was filling in the blanks with an assumption, and not realizing it. And yes, he does seem to let insanity do anything and everything.

3. A previously unknown (to me) fact. Cool. Or not, since misuse of ellipses can be really annoying. I imagine that Gosho Aoyama gives Ohkubo a run for his money with the ellipses, though. I don't think I've ever seen him actually end a sentence with a simple period.