Chekhov MacGuffin

There are crimped blanks which don't have wads at all. There are also theatrical productions where the actor commits suicide with a gun on stage where safe blanks are used point blank. Perspective tricks like aiming behind the head are probably used (I would know if I didn't hit a paywall for a useful looking theatrical firearms video), but even then you wouldn't want anything else flying out of the gun while it is close to your head. You can find info by googling wadless blanks and crimped blank cartridges. Also, not all blanks with wads kill at close range, only if they malfunction. It was with Sstimson if you want to search DCTP, but I explained that it's probable that Akai and Hidemi undertook the plan with the idea that Hidemi would really kill Akai if it looked like it would go wrong which explains her line to Akai about inconveniencing him. It's possible Gin could have given Kir a gun she didn't have the proper size blanks for, or ordered her to empty the full clip into him. It was a camera on a collar Kir was wearing facing forward. Based on the on screen image, it wasn't very distorted so it would be hard to pull off a perspective trick.

Only if Kir used real bullets. There are "fake" bullets called blanks which have a shell and gunpowder, but no bullet. They make a bang and a cartridge drops to the ground, but the only thing that comes out of the front of the gun is hot air. Blanks are often used in guns for starting races. The basic summary of the plan to fake Akai Shuuichi's death is that Mizunashi Rena will meet Akai and will pretend to shoot him. To make it look realistic, blank cartridges and blood packets with small detonators will be used. Akai will pretend to die and fall down in the truck. When Rena is fiddling with the small bomb, Akai places Kusuda Rikumichi's body in his place. He exits the truck when Kir leaves. Meanwhile Jodie Starling will have the one of Conan's two cellphones that has Rikumichi's fingerprints on it. She will think they are Akai's and when she goes to validate the identity of the body with the police, it will match Rikumichi's fingerprints and she will be fooled into thinking Akai died. -copied from the wiki-

I guess he means Wandering Red Butterfly.

It's the way to make stuff display properly. Most of it is extremely simple, but some is more difficult.For instance, to properly display the first three entries of Heiji's anime appearences. <onlyinclude>{{Appearances|episodes|Heiji Hattori| [[Diplomat Murder Case|'''Episode 48''': Diplomat Murder Case (Part 1)]] [[Diplomat Murder Case|'''Episode 49''': Diplomat Murder Case (Part 2)]] [[Holmes Freak Murder Case|'''Episode 57''': Holmes Freak Murder Case (Part 1)]] }}</onlyinclude>

That's the first I've heard of this. I assume you mean it comes from taking the first kana of "Sherlock" and "Holmes"? Hell's Angel makes more sense English-wise. Haibara's Japanese translation of the nickname was literally "the angel which fell into hell".(V41-11 pg 12) Gosho's English is iffy, so it is better to use the Japanese sense. Basically instead of implying evilness, the nickname implies Elena is an angel, basically a good person, who fell into hell, The Black Organization. Her behavior on the tapes, all around nice, friendly, and loving, corroborates this. She probably earned the nickname because her goodness seemed out of place among the criminality and darkness or the rest of the Organization.Also copied from my speculation section about the Miyanos (For the most up to date version see this link.)

I liked it because the detective boys had a chance to be competent (at the end with the cellphone code at least), Conan didn't dominate the whole episode, and they dished out a great Okiya is Akai clue after no Okiya for a long time. The lack of earthquake scene was a little sad, but understandable in light of recent events. Also I liked the criminals in this episode.

That's probably a good way to do it, keeping in mind that it's possible he may have been added where he shouldn't be or accidentally skipped in some episodes. As for wiki syntax, go to another character's page where it has been filled out and copy it. It would be nice if listings in the cast appearances automatically updated the anime appearances pages.

I'd probably start a new section for it entirely after the <1 year ago section (even though it did happen <1 year ago). My reasoning is that we should organize the dates into a BC (Before Conan) and AC (Anno Conani) split to make it easy on people looking for a timeline of things before and after Shinichi shrunk. http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Timeline#Current_Timeline

That's because no one has filled out the list of all the episodes he has appeared in yet.

It's probably one of these two (results found by searching the wiki with the words "kidnapped treasure") Meiji Restoration Mystery Tour (Episode 518-519) Solitary Island of the Princess and the Dragon King's Palace (Episode 291-293)

Agasa Hiroshi comes from Agatha Christie and 博士 (professor) which is written the same way as Agasa's first name "Hiroshi" (博士). (So his name written with title looks like "professor Professor Agasa")Unless you are trying to say Moriarty and Agasa are both professors so Agasa must be bad or related to the boss... which is something even worse than Kogoro would usually come up with.

No I haven't. The biochemistry agenda is probably immortality and deaging. Pisco implied this in his chat with Shiho. The computer agenda I don't know, but I have recently come to like the idea of simulating a human brain - something like virtually uploading yourself. The extreme difficulty of such a program and heavy AI requirements explain why extremely skilled programmers would be needed, as well as game programmers who do more in AI than other types, and why someone like Itakura wouldn't like it. Both computer and biochem have the same purpose from two different directions, immortality/preserving the mind forever. I might change my mind though on the computer agenda, ask me again in six months.Also McMuffin, seriously? *facepalms*

It think it's a good way of doing it, I just mentally add their votes together in my head. Voted Mitsuhiko and Kid. I don't really like Kid, so maybe Haibara would murder him with biting sarcasm. If I were more serious, I would vote Araide.

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But Bourbon isn't interested in Shinichi. He wants Akai and maybe Sherry. To have the motivation to get the files about Shinichi in the first place, he would have to connect Conan and Shinichi, which if he is scar Akai, hasn't come anywhere close to happening. Sherry did not report the results that several of her mice shrank to the greater organization because they have not been able to figure out how Shiho managed to escape the locked room. If Shiho had reported her data, the Organization would have known that shrinking was a possible side effect of APTX 4869 and would have figured out how she escaped and begun looking for a child. Furthermore, if Shiho had reported to the Organization that APTX 4869 had the possibility of leaving the victim alive, the Boss and/or Shiho's superiors would not have permitted the drug in situations where the victim, if surviving, could escape as in Shinichi's case or the time sensitive assassination of Nomiguchi Shigehiko. They still seem to regard Shinichi as dead. Prove they exist. It's a possibility, but there is no evidence of additional members hanging around who saw Conan. If we roll through the cases, the Akemi case doesn't matter because Conan was in the newspaper. There wouldn't be any in the bullet train case because they were aiming to blow the train up. Tequila's was probably a one person exchange because the prior exchanges (first case and Shinkansen) only involved Gin and Vodka who were together without additional help. For the mourning party, it was only mentioned that they had to drag Vermouth in to help; Gin didn't mention others. If there were others, they would have helped Pisco. Besides Vermouth, Pisco seemed to be on his own. The bus jack was a Vermouth only affair because she working in secret. There were none in the case part of the Itakura case because they would have reported Itakura's murder. The locker half of the Itakura case there were assistants to Vodka who reported a kid, but no further details and that detail was promptly was ignored afterwards when Gin discounted a kid being involved by stopping his locker search. Vermouth did bring Calvados, but no one else to the Shipyard showdown because she was acting outside of orders and had to use unconventional means (using his infatuation) to get Calvados there in the first place. In FBI and the Org, only Kir and Vermouth saw Conan for the first part. Any additional BO members hanging around would have noticed the shooting and alerted someone about Jodie. The second half of FBI vs. the Org, they saw Conan so I am ignoring that. In Clash, Rikumichi acted alone to take secret pictures and such, if he had a second person, they would have been watching his back and he would have had a heads up to the FBI surrounding him in the nurse's station. That person would have also alerted the BO directly about the loss of Rikumichi; Vodka said he lost touch with the guy, not got a report Rikumichi was discovered. Vodka did say he sent in a second guy, and we heard about FBI, but no suspicious kids. A lack of communication here means that Conan's presence was not announced to the parties who would need to know (Gin and Vodka.) And finally, scar Akai has seen Conan only in not directly BO related cases, so I'm not counting him. If you follow Conan's path, it's unlikely they would have crossed unintentionally. Conan was in the car at their arrival and stayed in the car up until the time they went to the old buildings's wine storage room. Conan then went to the main front desk and found out the wine storage in in the old building which implies the front desk is not in the old building or they would have said "this building". Meanwhile the BO went to the roof of the old building; presumably they don't have to go back to the new building's front desk to get to the roof of the old building, so they wouldn't have encountered Conan at this time. They got to the roof ahead of Conan so it's unlikely they crossed here. Conan then went to the roof where the BO didn't see him because he hid behind the door, then left to go back to wine storage room via the stairs behind him. Gin went down the chimney to shoot Pisco. Presumably Vodka stayed behind to help Gin out or left altogether to get clear of incoming firemen. He obviously didn't see Conan. Conan had already grabbed Haibara and retreated before Gin got down the chimney: flames were obscuring the far door at any rate. Gin went back up the chimney and Conan got Haibara to the car; I assume he wouldn't be so foolish as to load Haibara in right in front of the Porsche if anyone was in it.

Do you mean Okiya? If so, I have to disagree about him being Bourbon. Scar Akai on the other hand has very little exposure to Conan although enough to flag him as interesting. I doubt Sera is Bourbon either. How many operations have the not-Vermouth, not-Kir, not-dead-BO actually seen Conan in? Not many. The Conan was in the was in the newspaper for the Akemi case, so we will count that one even though it does make sense because Mouri was known to be on the case. The Shinkansen bombing is left unclear because the BO weren't around when Conan stopped the bomb and it is unknown if Conan went on the news because of it. Tequila died, so there was nobody to report Conan showed up. Vermouth and the soon to be dead Pisco were the only ones who saw Conan at the mourning party. Vermouth kept her Araide operation secret from much of the BO, so presumably no one but her knows about the busjack. The Itakura case was solved without the BO or news people around, so unless the news reports on Conan being there, no dice. Only Vermouth and the dead Calvados were savvy about Conan at the shipping yard showdown. The entire BO minus Kir saw Conan is FBI vs. Org. Only Rikumichi saw Conan in Clash and he died. Scar Akai has seen Conan only in not directly BO related cases, so I'm not counting him.

The DCTP AiCon thread was started a year and a half before the ShinRan thread and had a 925 post head start. Also, a good chunk of the DCTP Aicon thread is... how shall I put this nicely... content-lite and post-dense? I rarely posted there despite being an AiCon because of that.

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/417-the-secret-behind-vermouths-youth/page__view__findpost__p__105996

Ten bets Serika gets the axe in the next file. A bunch of people touched stuff or gave stuff to her. It's a setup! My guess is this is going to be a five or six part case. I wonder what Serika's maiden name is?

Clones don't have the same fingerprints. Neither do identical twins. Fingerprints are determined randomly while a baby is developing. With current 2011 tech, the only way to get the exact same fingerprints as someone else is to get a surgeon to graft that person's fingers onto your hands which leaves scars, or graft the fingerprint skin itself onto your fingers, which also leaves scars.

General Hospital Murder Case - EP 83 Found by searching for "hospital leg" in the Wiki and finding it in Season 4.