Scoop Picture Murder Case

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Episode 106 (Int. Episode 112)
Information
Title:	Scoop Picture Murder Case
Japanese title:	スクープ写真殺人事件 (Sukūpu Shashin Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	June 22, 1998
Broadcast rating:	19.8%
Filler case:	#41
Season:	3
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Snapshots of Death
Dubbed episode:	Episode 112
English airdate:	May 12, 2009 (DVD)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Juzo Megure
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Highway bus
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Yoshio Suzuki
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Hiroshi Takahashi as Ryuuichi Yanase Nobuaki Fukuda as Atsushi Nakai Wataru Takagi as Director, Next Conan's Hint Isshin Chiba as Presenter Hiroshi Naka as Driver
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Scoop Picture Murder Case (スクープ写真殺人事件 ,Sukūpu Shashin Satsujin Jiken) is the 106th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Juzo Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Button Speaker

Case

Situation

In Angel City Hotel, the photographer named Ryuuichi Yanase wins the 35th Yomikiri Photography Award in the award ceremony and he also receives a brand new watch. He was nominated by the crime news department. Yanase's award winning photographs of various incidents are also shown as a slideshow.

After the award ceremony, Kogoro gives his business card to Yanase and Yanase is glad to meet the famous detective in person. In return Yanase also gives his business card to Kogoro. He says he captured those wonderful pictures by pure luck and coincidence. Until suddenly, a man named Atsushi Nakai introduces and gives his business card to Kogoro revealing him to be a newspaper reporter.

It is obvious that Yanase and Nakai do not get along, as Yanase does not like Nakai at all whenever he's near him. Nakai then takes out some unknown white powder from his pocket and blows it at Yanase’s face. Yanase startled tells Nakai to leave him alone and hastily leaves. Conan checks the white powder and sees that it is (Calcium Oxide: CaO) burnt lime.

At the Mouri Detective Agency, the phone rings and Conan answers it. It's Nakai and he wants to talk to Kogoro Mouri because he believes that his life is in danger. Conan tries to wake Kogoro up while he's sleeping but he can’t get him to wake up. Conan having no choice uses the voice changing bowtie to mimic Kogoro's voice while talking to Nakai on the phone.

When Conan gets back on the phone, he asks Nakai why his life is in danger and who is threatening him. Nakai claims that someone is after his life and wants Kogoro to investigate and protect him. Suddenly, the culprit hits Nakai with an ashtray and hangs up the phone. Conan takes Nakai's business card from Kogoro's inside coat pocket and takes a ride on a taxi. Meanwhile in Nakai's apartment, the culprit turns the water on in the kitchen sink and leaves.

Conan arrives at the apartment just in time to witness Nakai crashing through his window and falling to his death while engulfed in flames.

Accident?
	Location: Atsushi Nakai's apartment Victim: Atsushi Nakai Age: 38 years old Cause of death: Burning and fell from apartment Suspects: Ryuuichi Yanase Yanase takes photo from fell burning Nakai.

While he's falling, Conan sees Yanase taking pictures of the incident from the highway. The next day, all the newspapers have pictures of Nakai when he's on fire falling to his death taken by Yanase. He tells the news reporters that it was just coincidence and pure luck that he happened to be at the right place at the right time.

Ran is reading the newest article about Yanase and she thinks he certainly has exceptional luck as a crime scene photographer. But whatever he claims, it's too much of a coincidence. Then Kogoro returns, he reveals that Nakai died from blunt force trauma to the head, but the coroner came to the conclusion that he accidentally killed himself because he was drunk.

He accidentally set his apartment on fire, lost his balance, fell, and hit his head on the pavement. The police believe and most likely will rule his death as an unfortunate accident. Conan asks about the cause of fire and Kogoro doesn't know the details but it apparently started in the kitchen sink.

Conan went back to Nakai's apartment and investigates. Last night, the phone call for Kogoro came at 10:30 pm. By the time he rushed to the apartment by taxi ride, it was 10:50. Judging by the progress of the fire, Conan can safely conclude that the fire started as soon as the phone went dead. Yanase was taking pictures from the bridge of the apartment.

Without a car, it would be impossible to get up there. Suddenly, Conan notices the entrance for the highway bus. Conan goes to the road bridge and sees through the window which is directly across from Nakai's apartment. It is the perfect spot to take pictures. Yanase couldn't have gotten to the road bridge purely by luck. What's more, it takes no more than three minutes to get to the highway from the crime scene. Conan finds traces of white powder on his sleeve and it is revealed to be Calcium oxide (CaO) (quicklime or burnt lime). The lime could be the connected to the fire that started in the kitchen sink.

Later, Conan buys a magazine article about the incident and Nakai's death. At the playground, he looks at the picture of Nakai crashing through the window. He notices something and went to Professor Agasa's house for his help. Conan wants Agasa to analyze the picture and he points to the mirror in the background of Nakai crashing through the window. Agasa puts the magazine article on the scanner and imports the picture of Nakai crashing through the window onto his computer screen.

He zooms in to the kitchen reflected in the mirror. When he zooms in to the kitchen sink, it's so pixelated and it's not clear enough. Agasa fixes it and he finally made the picture more sharp and clear. There's a broken watch on the kitchen counter and Conan has no doubt that it was murder and now he knows who did it. Agasa mentions that Yanase will be on tv tomorrow and he was advertising it in a commercial. Yanase is going to invite Kogoro as his first guest to his show. Conan realized this a good chance and comes up with an idea to expose Yanase as the murderer.

The next day at Nichiuri TV, Yanase thanks Kogoro for coming to his show as his first guest. When they shake hands, a pink paper slip falls out of Yanase's pocket. The pink paper is actually a police notification and it's because last time when he saw the smoke, he subconsciously increased speed and got caught by the surveillance camera. Conan went to the phone and called Inspector Megure. Kogoro is getting ready for the show and Conan tells him that there's dirt on his collar and that he's going to brush it off when he actually puts the button speaker on him.

People

Ryuuichi Yanase
	33 years old Photographer Photo contest winner

Atsushi Nakai
	Victim (burned) 38 years old Newspaper reporter

Man #1
100px	Taxi driver

Man #2
100px	Master of ceremonies

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

At the start of the show, Yanase introduces himself and shows his guest, Kogoro Mouri the famous detective to the tv viewers. Conan knocks out Kogoro with his stun gun wristwatch and uses the voice changing bowtie to mimic Kogoro's voice. He deduces that the culprit who murdered Nakai was Ryuuichi Yanase.

First, at the time of the incident, he was taking photos from the highway, Yanase asks how did he set the fire at Nakai's apartment. Conan deduces that it only take three minutes to get from where he was taking pictures to the crime scene, if he used the staircase for highway bus passengers. He took advantage of that, went to Nakai's room and attacked him, knocking him unconscious. He set up some kind of a time device, returned to the highway, and waited for the fire to start so he could begin taking pictures.

The time device wasn't found at the crime scene and it was burned to ashes. The cause of the fire is lime which is a caustic lime, this is what Yanase used as a time device. Caustic lime is different from the slaked lime used to draw lines on athletic fields in the sense that when water is added, the exothermic reaction can reach up to 300 degrees. Then he conveniently used hot sake as a fuel, When bags of lime at a construction sites were dampened by rain water, it reacted and sometimes even caused a fire. He filled the sink with caustic lime and newspaper then he added water, allowing it to react.

Conan deduced that with the added newspaper, it cause start the fire to ignite even quicker. He also believed that the pictures Yanase won the award for was also taken in a similar fashion. Nakai found out about it and threatened Yanase by blowing caustic lime in his face revealing he knew about his treachery. The very pictures he took provided the conclusive evidence of his guilt. Suddenly, Agasa appeared and showed the enhanced picture of the kitchen sink on his computer.

First, the kitchen sink, Water came out of the faucet by lowering the lever. The lever had been lowered 1/4th of the way, in other words, at the time of the fire, water was running from the faucet as the timed device. Also, on Yanase's wrist, the watch which he received from the award ceremony was no where to be found on his person and there was his watch on Nakai's kitchen counter in the picture on Agasa's computer. Yanase took it off so it wouldn't get wet while he adjusted the water flow, and then he forgot to take it with him.

It had been scorched because it was so close to the fire, however Yanase counters this buoy saying that Nakai stole his watch from him. Suddenly, Inspector Megure appears by making a V sign which means victory, a gesture popularized by Winston Churchill. He was asked by Kogoro (actually Conan when he called him on the phone awhile ago) for the floppy disk which contained video data of a highway, taken by the surveillance camera used to catch speeders. The time was 10:20 pm on the night of the fire. In other words, it was just ten minutes before Kogoro received a phone call from Nakai.

Agasa then shows the image of Yanase driving a car. When Agasa zooms in, Yanase was wearing the watch at that moment, He was wearing it right before the time of the crime. The fact that the watch which was in Nakai's apartment is the very proof that he was at the scene of the crime. The photographer seeking to capture definite moments was captured at the definitive moment himself. Conan as Kogoro states that it seems Yanase had forgotten the most important part of being a photographer. The word "photograph" is composed of the characters, "reflect" and "truth". Yanase shocked and appalled by his actions surrenders and is arrested for murder.

Afterwards, Conan and the others are discussing what has happened when Conan remembers that he left Kogoro asleep. However, Kogoro is shown to be already awake and snooping into women’s dressing rooms earning himself a slap to the face much to Conan, Agasa, and Ran’s Chagrin.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Ryuuichi Yanase - Reynold Yates
• Atsushi Nakai - Artie Nelson

Trivia

• The software Professor Agasa uses to help Conan is called "Agasa Photoshob", in reference to Photoshop.
• The car Ryuuichi Yanase drives is a 1990 yellow Porsche 911 Carrera [964]. He has a Olympus M-1 film camera on the murder scene.
• Ran seems to be wearing the same red dress that she wore in Conan vs. Kaitou Kid, although it seems to start pink, and next scene be red, then pink again, before the end of the night.
• Professor Agasa has an Agasa face mouse pad. His computer also has a logo of his face on it.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	昼下がりの天使たち （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi (Mantenrō Vājon)	Early Afternoon Angels (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
4	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
5	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	時計じかけの摩天楼	Tokei Jikake no Mantenrō	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
7	爆破予告	Bakuha Yokoku	Bomb Warning	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
8	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	サスペンス～危機感	Sasupensu ~ Kikikan	Suspense ~ Impending Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	阿笠博士のテーマ	Agasa Hakase no Tēma	Professor Agasa's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
11	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
12	サスペンス～危機感	Sasupensu ~ Kikikan	Suspense ~ Impending Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	阿笠博士のテーマ	Agasa Hakase no Tēma	Professor Agasa's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	阿笠博士のテーマ	Agasa Hakase no Tēma	Professor Agasa's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
17	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
18	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
19	それいけコナン （超早ver.）	Soreike Konan (Chōhaya ver.)	Let's Go Conan (Very Fast ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	عدسة العنكبوت	The Lens of The Spider
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de les fotografies d'exclusives	Scoop pictures murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat de la fotografia instantània	Instant picture murder
French	Photos de meurtre	Murder Pictures
Galician	O asasinato da primicia fotográfica	Scoop picture murder
German	Mord mit Blitzlicht	Murder with Photo Flash
Italian	Il fotografo	The Photographer
Spanish (American dub)	El caso de la fotografía sensacionalista	Gutter picture case
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El asesinato de la foto instantánea	Instant picture murder
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมในภาพเด็ด	A murder case in a scoop picture
Vietnamese	Vụ án giết người liên quan đến bức ảnh giật gân	Scoop Picture Murder Case

See also

• Season 3