Chekhov MacGuffin

There are two episodes I can think of, both AOs The Day Kogoro Mouri Ceased Being a Detective (540-541) The 14th Round of the Matsue Tamatsukuri Linked Verse Contest (255-256)

This is all pretty interesting because over on the German Forums, Shiina received the most suspicion after the latest file because of the fact he opened the tea opposite of everyone else and drank the tea with his left hand. There's a few things, Detective Kudo and Miwako Smiles, that I hope you will clear up for me. Why did the maid send the letter to Hattori? Did she know who the culprits were at the time? Did she know at the time when she sent the letter that Hattori was going to pay a visit to the main house the night the murders happened? Who sprinkled poison on the doorknob? What was the goal of the person doing this? Depending on your answer, would you also explain how the slippers were switched? If Housekeeper Yonehara sprinkled the poison on the doorknob, why did she also use the Jastrow illusion trick to poison Ikurou? If so why did she point out Ikurou took the far cake piece? How did the maid know Serika was going to use the dictionary in the Mac room, or was there another source of poison? What did Hattori and Conan notice at the end?

As you said right after, once Sherry betrayed once, the boss can't count on her not to sabotage something in revenge. That's why they decided to kill her in the first place.The Black Organization may be trying to replace Sherry and there is blackmail/other stuff we haven't heard about going on in the background (and we haven't heard about any pharma/biochem cases yet), but it is hard to find a genius scientist (one who will work for a sketchy Org especially!), and more work still for that person to come in, read all of Sherry and her parents' notes, understand the strategies, figure out what is going on, and pick up where she left off. In real life, if the main head of a lab dies (or even someone important) without leaving someone else who can take their place, it usually takes half a year to years even for the lab to really gets back up to full speed. Assuming the BO is rushing, they are probably still way behind on their research. Maybe they could make more of the same APTX because Sherry already had the recipe down but refining APTX is probably out of the question until they can train someone intelligent to understand things as deeply as Sherry did which as I mentioned will take time. Also, any new options you want to see on the polls or a different first question? I was thinking a new question along the line of "Do you think there are/were other biochemistry projects besides APTX? 4969?" and enabling Multivote on the final question.

Yep. specifically, I'm implicating the Secretary for both the murders of Ikurou and Serika, but the housekeeper for sending the note to Heiji. I detailed my third version of the solution already.

Interesting. You're implicating the housekeeper, and I'm blaming the secretary. We can have a deduction showdown, East versus West! Since you're Kudo, I'll take Heiji. :wink:

It's spring/summer right now because the characters follow the real life seasons. That said, we are approaching the fated file 800. BO have appeared on the dot for 500, 600, and 700. I think we have a pretty good chance for the end of the Bourbon arc at file 800 because we have all the necessary stuff (Ran's suspicion driven by Sera, Bourbon's plot). 800 will be due this fall/winter most likely counting breaks and such, also matching up with BO appearances in the cold season.

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Nope that was beef stew, well the onions for it. (Anime ep 571-572, Battle of the Haunted Warehouse's Treasure)

A new member I can drag into my Okiya is Akai moshpit... Join us, and you will gain power beyond you wildest dreams ... and delicious beef stew!

Some of these have been resolved already. This was Vermouth. The reason why her face was not shown was because she was in disguise as Sharon at the time (1 year ago). Sharon hadn't officially been revealed to be Vermouth until the end of the Vermouth arc. I think it was a cute hint for the readers from Gosho. The boss wouldn't let a spy in the Organization if he knew about it. Also if you are suggesting Gin's black and black mix lines mean he got Vermouth pregnant, maybe that's the cause behind the "cat noises" (i.e. baby noises mistaken for cat noises) one year ago? It doesn't have to be recent. Although I would think the news would report that Sharon Vineyard looked pregnant, unless she took a hiatus for 6 months or so. Also you owe me a new keyboard because I imagined Gin trying to feed a baby and then getting spit up on. Gin would be the worst father ever. Maybe he just orders Vodka to take care of the kid.

Taking thread creation credit for a Chiba based episode from CarpetCrawler. ... Anyway. I thought it was cute. Chiba is more of a goodie two shoes than Takagi even. Shiratori getting jealous over Chiba and Kobayashi's conversation was amusing. The Subaru part at the beginning made me laugh. Great potential AiCon moment missed with her refusal to move into the Detective Agency. She could have accepted and started making plans for when Conan should collect her boxes - just kidding. Does she not like Conan anymore or is Ai just afraid Conan will be a perv? In any case, it's yet another failure on Ai's part to get Subaru kicked out. She should just set the Kudo house on fire at this point.

The Black Org and the Magic Kaito Org are supposed to be completely different. Also, there is no magic in Detective Conan because that would break a fundamental rule of golden age style detective stories (which DC is): no supernatural explanations. Also, if the boss wanted someone to shrink for testing, why would Haibara tell Shinichi that she thought the Org would kill him before Shiho could see him (which is why Haibara marked him as dead on the Org report)?Also taking over the world is a bit... extreme. None of the members have shown any aspirations towards world domination. Taking over the underworld is a possibility maybe, but I don't even think the Org is going that far. I think the Org's only current main goal is its biochem/computer research goal whatever that is.

Quick reminder to revote/cast your vote because the solution is the next file. (Don't forget there is a week break)

Would the cautious boss of the Black Org really spend his money on a gold plated mansion? Also, the crow symbolism is just too obvious. Gosho usually aims for a lot more subtle references.

First chapter of the prototype - Kaito and Aoko kiss and potentially are legally married. DC - still waiting 785 chapters later for any lip locking. Definitely Magic Kaito flavored. Nakamori being totally different was amusing. I wonder if "Detective Aoko Holmes" was split into Aoko Nakamori and Hakuba Suguru for the Magic Kaito release? It's funny to think they could have been the same character at one point.

Even if he likes to do things on his own agenda, he still has the potential to be pure antagonist, i.e. no secret sympathies like Vermouth to grey the character.