The Final Screening Murder Case

Chronology
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Episode 138-139 (Int. Episode 148-149)
Information
Title:	The Final Screening Murder Case
Japanese title:	最後の上映殺人事件 (Saigo no Jouei Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 8, 1999 (Part 1) March 15, 1999 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	21.1% 21.3%
Manga case:	#64
Season:	4
Manga source:	Volume 23: Files 1-3 (222-224)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Juzo Megure Hiroshi Agasa Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Hiroshi Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Above the movie theater (Part 1) Mirror (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama (chief)
Organizer:	138: Koichi Sasaki 139: Hiroshi Matsuzono
Storyboard:	138: Koichi Sasaki 139: Hiroshi Matsuzono
Episode director:	138: Koichi Sasaki 139: Nana Harada
Animation director:	138: Masayuki Hiraoka 139: Hirobi Muranaka
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Eiji Maruyama as Akio Muramatsu Yusaku Yara as Minoru Furuhashi Yuki Kaida as Yuriko Tomosato Akio Suyama as Toshiyuki Ide Nobutaka Masutomi as Seiji Haruta Ai Kobayashi as Fairy Emera (Episode 138) Hiroshi Naka as Professor Serizawa (Episode 138) Nao Takamori as Woman (Episode 138) Tomoharu Kobayashi as Investigator A (Episode 139) Shuji Murakoshi as Investigator B (Episode 139)
Music
Opening song:	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
Closing song:	Still for your love

The Final Screening Murder Case (最後の上映殺人事件 ,Saigo no Jouei Satsujin Jiken) is the 138th and 139th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Kazunobu Chiba
	Detective from Tokyo MPD

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Juzo Megure Hiroshi Agasa Wataru Takagi Tomomi Sakaguchi (in the movie)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Detective Boys Badge

Case

Situation

Part 1

The Detective Boys attend the final opening day of a theatre as it is about to be demolished. They plan to watch three films of Gomera, a parody of Godzilla. During the second film, the man who bought and planned the demolishing of the theatre is found hanged.

Murder
	Location: Kineka 7 movie theatre Victim: Seiji Haruta Age: 43 years old Cause of death: Hanging Suspects: Toshiyuki Ide, Yuriko Tomosato, Akio Muramatsu, and Minoru Furuhashi When the movie playing scene, Seiji is dead by hanging as the pendulum clock.

The four suspects are the theatre clerk, a photographer, theatre manager, and projector technician. The episode ends with Mitsuhiko proclaiming he saw the theatre clerk looking at herself in the mirror.

Part 2

The clerk went to fix her contact lenses. Takagi comes in explaining that the Victim owed a large sum of money. Agasa comes by to pick up the children, but Ayumi, Haibara, and Conan were still inside with the girls going to the bathroom while Conan walked around. Conan comes to an conclusion while looking in the bathroom mirror after Haibara parted some words, he runs into the theater and finds a clue in the pile of cigarettes' where Haruta was sitting as well as a footprint. Conan goes to Agasa and explains what he has discovered, though it is never said to the viewer. When Conan goes to whisper to Agasa the kids come in saying how rude he is (how about how rude they are for eavesdropping?) Tagaki tells Megure about what Haruta's neighbors had to say, that he was in a bad mood because of his debts and that he was arguing with the bank. Its revealed that the theater hasn't been sold yet. As the suspects keep saying that it was a suicide, the lights go dark and Agasa appears in the window, having repeated the 'trick the murderer has conspired today'.

People

Toshiyuki Ide
	21 years old College student

Yuriko Tomosato
	23 years old Concession manager

Akio Muramatsu
	62 years old Theater owner

Seiji Haruta
	Victim (hanged) 43 years old Real-estate agent

Minoru Furuhashi
	39 years old Projectionist

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The culprit is Minoru Furuhashi. He used the projector to create his alibi. First, he asked Yuriko to buy tea for him so she wouldn’t be there at the time of the murder. Then, he adjusted the air conditioner so that the corpse would be swinging as if he had just died.

After that, he began the mirror illusion trick. He used mirrors so that the light coming from the left window, which was where he hung the victim, would instead be projected from the right window. In this way, he could hang the corpse and play the movie from the other window. Moreover, he wouldn't need to cut the film and be in the projection room while the shadow appeared. After setting that mirror illusion, he went down to the theater, killed Seiji, and hung him in front of the left window while the movie was playing from the other window. Then, he went back to the projection room and removed the mirrors so that the light will flash through the left window and since the corpse is blocking the window, a shadow of it will be casted on the theater screen.

That way, even when the shadow appeared, he and Yuriko would be in the same room together and would sustain his alibi. The evidence is in Toshiyuki‘s camera. Toshiyuki captured the scene in which the shadow appeared. From there, they realized that the focus is wrong. That's because when Minoru moved the mirror back to the original window, the reflections will cause the scene to blur. All theater's projection machines fit the screen perfectly. Since they are supposed to fit the screen, it takes a lot of time for him to fix the focus and make it perfect in both ways, but no matter how hard he tried, there was no way for it to happen. He wasn't able to avoid the shaky part either. Yuriko went to the bathroom because there wasn’t any mirror in the projection room.

Minoru confessed to the crime. He killed Seiji because he was causing trouble in the theater to the point that the number of customers was decreasing. He is soon arrested and asks Agasa to show the final film for the kids. The Detective Boys watched the last part of the movie. Akio, the owner, decides not to sell the theater.

Trivia

• Tomoharu Kobayashi and Shuji Murakoshi of comedy duo Most Dangerous Duo voiced two investigators in Episode 139.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
2	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
4	恋のトランプゲーム占い	Koi no Toranpu Gēmu Uranai	Love's Fortune-Telling Card Game	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
5	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
7	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
8	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
9	真相究明	Shinsō Kyūmei	Investigating the Truth	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
10	ターゲット サスペンスＢ	Tāgetto Sasupensu B	Target Suspense B	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
11	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	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
6	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
10	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	何かが起きる…	Nanika ga Okiru...	Something Happened...	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	西の名探偵 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Nishi no Meitantei (Mantenrō Vājon)	The Great Detective of the West (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
13	殺意	Satsui	Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
14	それいけコナン （哀愁ヴァージョン）	Soreike Konan (Aishū Vājon)	Let's Go Conan (Sorrow Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love
16	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	العرض الأخير	The Last Screening
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de l'última sessió	Last screening murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'última sessió	The last screening
French	La Dernière séance	The last screening
Galician	A derradeira sesión	The last screening
German	Schattenspiele	Shadow Play
Italian	L'ultimo spettacolo	The last screening
Spanish (American dub)	La última función	The last screening
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El asesinato en la última sesión	Murder in the last screening
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมการฉายภาพยนตร์ครั้งสุดท้าย	The final film screening murder case
Vietnamese	Vụ án mạng ở buổi chiếu phim cuối cùng	The Final Screening Murder Case

See also

• Season 4