The Dark Mountain Route

Chronology
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Episode 859 (Int. Episode 914)
Information
Title:	The Dark Mountain Route
Japanese title:	暗闇の山岳ルート (Kurayami no Sangaku Rūto)
Original airdate:	May 13, 2017
Broadcast rating:	7.6%
Filler case:	#277
Season:	22
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Hiroshi Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Research Balloon
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Koshiro Mikami
Storyboard:	Yasuyuki Honda
Episode director:	Yoko Fukushima Makiko Hayase (asst.)
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Yui Ushinohama, Miho Tanaka (asst.), Chie Morishita (asst.), Yumiko Ishii (asst.), and Hiroaki Takagi (asst.)
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Nobuyuki Iwai Kumiko Shishido (design works)
ExpandVoice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Chafurin as Juzo Megure Mamiko Noto as Takemi Yamakura Minako Kotobuki as Eiko Ikeguchi Go Shinomiya as Taro Hayashida Takashi Kondo as Tokunori Ashizuka Tatsuhiro Kikuchi as Forensics officer
Music
Opening song:	Ikusen no Meikyū de Ikusen no Nazo o Toite
Closing song:	YESTERDAY LOVE

The Dark Mountain Route (暗闇の山岳ルート ,Kurayami no Sangaku Rūto) is the 859th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Hiroshi Agasa

Ai Haibara

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Accident (Past)

Location: Mountain

Victim: Motoki

Time: 3 years ago (Night)

Cause of death: Falling

Suspects: Takemi Yamakura, Eiko Ikeguchi, Taro Hayashida, and Tokunori Ashizuka

Murder

Location: Mountain

Victim: Takemi Yamakura

Age: 26 years old

Time: 3:00-5:05 A.M

Cause of death: Stab wound

Suspects: Eiko Ikeguchi, Taro Hayashida, and Tokunori Ashizuka

People

Takemi Yamakura
	Victim (stabbed) 26 years old Mountain climber

Eiko Ikeguchi
	23 years old Mountain climber

Taro Hayashida
	28 years old Mountain climber Weather station employee

Tokunori Ashizuka
	33 years old Mountain climber

Motoki
	Deceased (fell) Tokunori's childhood friend

Forensics officer
	Tokyo MPD Forensics member

Police officer
	Tokyo MPD Police officer

Resolution

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The culprit is Eiko Ikeguchi. First, she stole Hayashida's weather balloon to get the crime scene by floating down via weather balloons. She used five of the six balloons. After the crime, she climbed up the mountain, she because she was rushing she ended up injuring her palm. And there are marks of the balloon and she also smelled of kerosene. Her motive was that Motoki was trying to find Takemi in the mountains by climbing down the cliff, without knowing that she was taking pictures below the mountain. Which inadvertently caused Motoki to fall from the cliff to his death. Eiko also confessed that she wanted to frame Hayashida, because he was jealous about the two of them and he knew that Motoki and Eiko were secretly dating. As a result he did not tell Motoki about the cliff and how dangerous it was to climb down from a certain area, he knew this but kept this to himself most likely hoping that he would at least hurt himself.

Trivia

Weather balloons

• Taro Hayashida uses research balloons, balloons that are used for scientific purposes. Usually unmanned, theses balloons are filled with gases lighter than air so they can go high in the sky. Most of them are used in meteorology, atmospheric research, astronomy, and military research and only a few balloons like these are launched per year by particulars.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La ruta de muntanya fatídica	The fateful mountain route
French (Subbed)	Un obscur itinéraire alpin	A dark mountain route
Thai	เส้นทางภูเขาแห่งความมืด	The Mountain Route of Darkness
Vietnamese	Con đường núi tăm tối

See also

• Season 22