The Wordless Witness

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Episode 1026 (Int. Episode 1083)
Information
Title:	The Wordless Witness
Japanese title:	言えない目撃者 (Ienai Mokugekisha)
Original airdate:	November 13, 2021
Broadcast rating:	6.3%
Filler case:	#358
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Yoko Okino Terumi Hoshino Yuki Takeno Kaoru Kusano
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Sneakers
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Tatsuro Inamoto
Storyboard:	Yuzo Sato
Episode director:	Tazumi Mukaiyama
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Kousei Takahashi Yusuke Shimizu Eiichi Tokura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	Mouse
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Aki Kanada as Himena Shinozaki Megumi Urawa as Mrs. Komori Takanori Hoshino as Shinobu Kageyama Yusuke Kobayashi as Hikaru Komori Yoshiko Kamei as Shino Tachibana Shinji Nagano as Drunk man A Yusuke Suzuki as Drunk man B
Music
Opening song:	YURA YURA
Closing song:	Veronica

The Wordless Witness (言えない目撃者 ,Ienai Mokugekisha) is the 1026th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Yoko Okino (TV/poster) Terumi Hoshino (poster) Yuki Takeno (poster) Kaoru Kusano (poster)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt

Case

Situation

A random attacker is targeting women. Two victims survived, but Himena Shinozaki is not lucky.

Murder
	Location: In front of Hikaru Komori's apartment Victim: Himena Shinozaki Age: 26 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Mysterious man

Someone named Hikaru, who lived near the crime scene, witnesses the murder.

The next day, the police are investigating the crime scene when Kogoro, Conan, and Ran appears. Conan notices that someone is looking from a house nearby. A woman tells him that it is Komori residence, where Hikaru and his mother live. Hikaru is known as shut-in, currently unemployed, and a Yoko Okino's big fan. Kogoro and Conan try to question Hikaru, but he only text his mother that he did not see anything. Conan deduces that Hikaru might actually see something or the culprit might saw Hikaru.

Later, Conan notice that one of Hikaru's shoes is dirtier than other shoes. His mother then realizes that some Yoko Okino sneakers is missing.

Kogoro, Conan, and Ran decide to go home. When there is a news coverage about Yoko Okino Dome Tour, Conan realizes what actually happened.

People

Himena Shinozaki
	Victim (bludgeoned) 26 years old Domestic helper

Mysterious man
	Suspicious man in sunglasses spying on Hikaru Serial murderer?

Hikaru Komori
	Witness Unemployed Yoko's big fan

Shino Tachibana
	Komori's neighbour

Mrs. Komori
	Hikaru's mother Housewife

Woman A
	Victim (bludgeoned - injured) First victim

Woman B
	Victim (bludgeoned - injured) Second victim

Man A
	Drunkard Finds the body

Man B
	Drunkard Finds the body

Man C
	TV announcer

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The one who witnessed the murder is the real Hikaru's friend, Shinobu Kageyama. He was swapping places with Hikaru who went to the Yoko Okino Dome Tour. That night, Hikaru had returned home However, he was mistaken by the culprit as the one who witnessed the murder. He was beaten and knocked unconscious by the culprit and was brought to the culprit's house. The culprit is Shino Tachibana.

Real Hikaru Komori
	Victim (bludgeoned - injured) Unemployed Yoko's big fan

Attemped Murder
	Location: Shino Tachibana's house Victim: Hikaru Komori Culprit: Shino Tachibana

Shino tells Hikaru that it is his fault since he witnessed her murder Himena last night from his room. Hikaru then understood what Shinobu meant by "I've got nothing to do with this anymore". He then gives up and prepares to lose his life as his feels like he’s been abandoned. However, before Shino could kill Hikaru, Conan and Shinobu manage to save him. The reason Shino attacked those women remains unknown although it is implied that the her reason was that the younger generation in her eyes was infecting the world and she wanted to fix that.

In the aftermath, Ran shows a picture of Hikaru and Shinobu establishing a start-up company together. Meanwhile, Kogoro is searching online for a double of himself. He intends to take it easy while his double is working. He also says he'll use him to make money and laughs. Conan chuckles as he hears Kogoro's nonsense.

Trivia

• None of the one-shot characters introduced had their names shown through introduction boxes. Their names are known through dialogues. Moreover, Shino Tachibana's name is only known through end credit.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Vietnamese	Nhân chứng không thể nói

See also

• Season 31