The Suspects Are a Passionate Couple

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Episode 822-823 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Suspects Are a Passionate Couple
Japanese title:	容疑者は熱愛カップル (Yōgi-sha wa Netsuai Kappuru?)
Original airdate:	June 18, 2016 (Part 1) June 25, 2016 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	5.9% 6.5%
Manga case:	#266
Season:	24
Manga source:	Volume 87: File 10 (925) ~ Volume 88: File 1 (927)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ai Haibara Ryusuke Higo Yoko Okino Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Ran Mouri Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Kazunobu Chiba Hyoue Kuroda
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Higo and Yoko (Part 1) Vacuum Bag (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Storyboard:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Episode director:	822 Yoshitaka Fujimoto 823 Toshio Kiuchi
Animation director:	822 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Yukiko Nakaya 823 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Chiemi Hironaka, Kenichi Otomo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi and Genta Kojima Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Takahiro Sakurai as Ryusuke Higo Miki Nagasawa as Yoko Okino Shōtaro Morikubo as Yasuto Konoe Mariya Ise as Reiko Banba Miyuki Kobori as Showbiz reporter Yusaku Yara as Akimichi Yamada
Music
Opening song:	Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru
Closing song:	Futari no Byōshin

The Suspects Are a Passionate Couple (容疑者は熱愛カップル ,Yōgi-sha wa Netsuai Kappuru) is the 822nd and 823rd episodes of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ai Haibara Ryusuke Higo Yoko Okino Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Ran Mouri Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Kazunobu Chiba Hyoue Kuroda (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

She is shocked when the two of them are dating.

Kogoro and Ai are shocked and enraged at the news of Ryusuke Higo and Yoko Okino apparently dating each other. Therefore, Ai "hires" Kogoro to conduct an investigation about their relationship. While searching on the internet, they find out that the couple were spotted at a restaurant in Haido City. Conan then mentions that there's a new restaurant in Haido City which belongs to a senior of Higo, which results in Ai and Kogoro forcing Conan to take them there to spy on the couple. Haibara even goes as far as deleting the song Dandy Lion from her phone, even though it's her favorite song.

Teiya Asuka, Higo's senior and the owner of the restaurant, has gone missing. The three employees, namely Yasuto Konoe (a waiter), Reiko Banba (a waitress and Asuka's girlfriend) and Akimichi Yamada (the restaurant's sommelier), have to go look for him. Konoe later receives a message from the owner, saying that he is in the storeroom and want to meet Higo and Yoko there. But when the couple arrives at the storeroom, they find Asuka dead, with his neck artery slit!

Murder
	Location: Restaurant "Aska" Victim: Teiya Asuka Age: 31 years old Time: 7:30-8:00 pm Cause of death: Slit wound on the throat Suspects: Akimichi Yamada, Reiko Banba, Yasuto Konoe, Ryusuke Higo and Yoko Okino After being told to meet Asuka in the storeroom, Higo and Yoko go there and find the former dead.

Inspector Megure suspects Yoko and Higo because they are first who found the body, and he states that the possibility is high that they are the murderers.

Part 2

Conan deduces that the culprit is one of the three employees of the restaurant.

People

Teiya Asuka
	Victim (throat slit) 31 years old Former football player Ryusuke's acquaintance

Akimichi Yamada
	43 years old Sommelier

Reiko Banba
	27 years old Waitress Konoe's ex-girlfriend Asuka's girlfriend

Yasuto Konoe
	28 years old Waiter Banba's ex-boyfriend

Resolution

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Inspector Megure reviews all of the suspects movements before the murder. Kogoro continues to try to blame Higo, so Conan tranquilizes him and reveals that the culprit is Akimichi Yamada. Yamada killed Asuka because Asuka had discovered that he was a fraud who wanted to expand the business with the extra money he'd accrued by buying cheap wine that he served as expensive vintage to the restaurant clients.

Yamada killed Asuka during the second search when he went down to the storage room, then used Higo's and Asuka's phones to send a message to lure Asuka to a secluded spot for the murder. Using a vacuum cleaner, a vacuum compression bag, Asuka's clothes, and the corkscrew from his sommelier's knife, Yamada then pretended that Asuka was apparently still alive at the time of the murder and his employees' search for him (thus establishing his alibi): By first sucking all air from the vacuum bag, then puncturing the bag with his knife, causing air to rush in and inflate the bag, creating an instant dummy beneath the blankets. To provide the evidence for that trick, Ai secures Higo's discarded phone and the vacuum bags from the kitchen's waste bin, which are riddled with Yamada's fingerprints.

Other hints to Yamada's faked profession as a sommelier were provided when

• Yamada did not sniff the cork of the wine bottle he had served Higo and Yoko, something a real sommelier always does in order to find out whether the wine has been spoiled by residues of the chemicals used in making the bottle corks,
• and the fact that the cigarettes found in the toilet were of the same brand, but smoked in two different ways, proving that they were consumed by two different people. Yamada thus attempted to conceal his habit of smoking (a taboo for a sommelier, since his profession heavily depends on an unspoiled sense of taste) by mixing his own cigarette stubs with the ones used by Konoe.

As it turns out in the aftermath, Higo and Yoko are not dating each other; the watch they were looking at on the cover of the tabloid article was a mutual gift for a retiring high school teacher of theirs, and they were meeting with Asuka (a fellow graduate from their high school) to ask him to write a personal dedication on the watch.

Ai is thanked by Higo for finding the evidence, and says he's tempted to have her take Takahiro Sanada's place on Big Osaka. The next day, Ai seems determined to prove herself a soccer player, and is enjoying Yoko's music again.

See also

• Dialect Version
• Season 24