I think it's probably supposed to be taken literally as in the previous scene he had actually caught the killer.
The changes
I've been playing way too much rayman origins
this means radish sprout according to the site
the second 一 is はじめ、I'm not sure if that changes the meaning there
...I suppose I was looked on as his successor though I was still in high school.
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