Night Road Murder Case

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Episode 66 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Night Road Murder Case
Japanese title:	暗闇の道殺人事件 (Kurayami no Michi Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	July 7, 1997
Broadcast rating:	18%
Filler case:	#26
Season:	3
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Moonless Murder
Dubbed episode:	Episode 68
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Jun Omura Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Cigarettes
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Yutaka Yamada
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Next Conan's Hint Takaya Hashi as Jun Omura Gou Aoba as Yoshiro Ikuta Fumiya Yazaki as Masami Kusaka Shigeru Sakano as Yoichi Shimizu Mitsuru Miyamoto as Kouji Takeno Seiji Sasaki as Hidenori Nakamura Isshin Chiba as Forensics officer
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Hikari to Kage no Roman

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Jun Omura Shinichi Kudo (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan ate at the restaurant until they met an old friend, Jun Omura.

Murder

Location: Street Victim: Yoshiro Ikuta Age: 20 Years old Cause of death: Blunt head trauma Suspects: Masami Kusaka, Yoichi Shimizu, Kouji Takeno, and Hidenori Nakamura How can blood from one victim, murdered on the street, wind up on the wall of an abandoned building, the railing of a rooftop, and broken glass of an upper apartment window? This is the question Conan must answer if he is to catch a crafty killer entrenched in a seemingly innocent mountain-climbing fraternity, which hides a deadly secret.

Accident? (Past)
	Location: Snow Mountain Victim: Keiko Togawa Cause of death: Frozen to death Suspects: Yoshiro Ikuta, Masami Kusaka, Yoichi Shimizu, Kouji Takeno, and Hidenori Nakamura Ikuta left Keiko, whose foot was injured, and walked down the mountain. Ikuta survived. When they finally reached Keiko, she had already frozen to death. Takeno was Keiko's boyfriend.

People

Yoshiro Ikuta
	Victim (bludgeoned) 20 years old Beika University student, Second Year

Masami Kusaka
	20 years old Beika University student, Second Year

Yoichi Shimizu
	20 years old Beika University student, Second Year

Kouji Takeno
	20 years old Beika University student, Second Year

Hidenori Nakamura
	21 years old Beika University student, Second Year

Keiko Togawa
	Deceased (froze) Kouji's girlfriend

Resolution

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Kouji Takeno was the killer. His reason was that both he and Ikuta were in love with the same woman, Keiko Togawa, but she died in a hiking incident where the group had to leave her in the mountains to search for help and couldn't return in time to save her from freezing to death. Later, Takeno found out that Ikuta messed up with the group in purpose to have the unfortunate Keiko dead since she rejected his affections in favor of Takeno's; Ikuta was actually bragging about it while drunkenly rambling to the also drunk Kusaka.

The weapon of choice was actually Takeno's socks, which are very resistent special socks used by sportsmen and specially by hikers. He easily filled them with lots of small rocks he got from an aquarium, since they wouldn't break; once he built a very hard and heavy "weapon", which would easily kill a person if used to hit them, Takeno put the used some fishing rope to tie everything up, and then launch it towards Ikuta, who was merely standing in the street while smoking.

Ikuta was a heavy smoker, so Takeno could easily see his lit cigarette and pinpoint his improvised "sock full of rocks" towards him; the blood in the different buildings came from the "sack" bouncing on them due to the full strength of the impact. The proof came when some strands of wool coming from the socks were found in the aquarium: Takeno returned the rocks to their original place but the tiny strands remained, and Takeno had not changed his socks, which had Ikuta's blood on them.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Yoshiro Ikuta - Zachery Byers
• Masami Kusaka - Shane Vanderburg
• Yoichi Shimizu - Buford Pulmer
• Kouji Takeno - Torman Lloyd
• Hidenori Nakamura - Ned Armstrong
• Keiko Togawa - Pamela Harding

• In the Funimation Dub Kouji and Keiko had secretly eloped three weeks prior to the mountain trip, and he had taken a life insurance policy on her. When Yoshiro caught wind of his plan, Kouji had to cut him in. They worked together to kill Keiko for the money, however, when Kouji came to her, she was still alive, and he was the one that killed her, taking the chance as he was the first one in the group to reach her. His reason for killing Yoshiro in the dub was because Yoshiro was bragging about the plan while he was drunk.

Trivia

• This is Jun Omura's 2nd episode since Kogoro's Class Reunion Murder Case.
• This is the first time that someone froze to death in a backstory.
• Apparently minors, including 17 year old teenagers can purchase beer, sake, and alcohol, even though they are still too young to drink it in Japan, unlike in America. It may have just been a plot point so that Conan can notice things, but still... If you are too young to drink it, you should be too young to purchase it for anyone too.
• Mountain Club members are suspects.
• This is the second episode that Conan is having Inspector Megure and other police officers perform the trick that he (using Kogoro's voice) is explaining in much detail.
  • However it is Detective Takagi's first time to help Megure with the trick.
• It is also the first episode that Takagi is standing in the location that the deceased victim was standing, when they died.
• Detective Takagi's first close-shave as a stand-in victim for the trick's visual effect.
• This is the first episode to take place on Tanabata Holiday.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
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	脅迫 （パート２）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)	Threat (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	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
7	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
8	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
10	捜査開始	Sōsa Kaishi	The Investigation Begins	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	少年探偵団のテーマ	Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma	The Detective Boys' Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
16	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
17	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Vōkaru・Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Vocal ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
18	光と影のロマン	Hikari to Kage no Roman	Romance of Light and Shadow	Hikari to Kage no Roman
19	蘭・愛のテーマ （ギターver.）	Ran・Ai no Tēma (Gitā ver.)	Ran's Love Theme (Guitar ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	سلاح الجريمة الغامض	The Mysterious Crime Weapon
Basque	Kale iluneko hilketa	Murder in a dark street
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat del carrer fosc	Dark street murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Assassinat en la foscor	Murder in darkness
French	Meurtre dans l'obscurité	Murder in Darkness
Galician	Asasinato nunha rúa escura	Murder in a dark street
German	Mord im Dunkeln	Murder in the Darkness
Italian	Un conto in sospeso	A Pending Event
Spanish (American dub)	Asesinato en un callejón oscuro	Murder in the dark alley
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Asesinato en la oscuridad	Murder in darkness
Thailand	คดีฆาตกรรมกลางถนนยามวิกาล	A murder case in the middle of a road at night
Vietnamese	Vụ án giết người trong con đường tối	Night Road Murder Case

See also

• Season 3