Art Museum Owner Murder Case

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Episode 8 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Art Museum Owner Murder Case
Japanese title:	美術館オーナー殺人事件 (Bijutsukan Ōnā Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 26, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 4: File 1-3 (030-032)
English version
English title:	The Art Museum Murder Case
Dubbed episode:	Episode 8
English airdate:	June 3, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Detective Boys
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri
Next Conan's Hint:	Disposable Camera
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Ryo Yasumura
Episode director:	Keitaro Motonaga
Animation director:	Satoshi Ishino
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Tamio Oki as Ochiai Yuji Fujishiro as Kubota Kazuya Ichijo as Iijima Hajime Koseki as Manaka Isshin Chiba as Guard A Takumi Yamazaki as Guard B
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima

Case

Situation

Murder
	Location: Beika Art Museum Victim: Manaka Cause of death: Slashed Suspects: Art Museum staff especially Kubota Manaka, the new owner of the Beika Art Museum, is found dead in one of the exhibit rooms. The murder scene is a tableau of Divine Punishment, a painting depicting a righteous knight who battled the devil and imprisoned it.

People

Ochiai
	Art Museum director

Kubota
	Art Museum staff Primary suspect

Iijima
	Art Museum staff

Manaka
	Victim (slashed) Art Museum owner

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • The security camera recorded Manaka as he seemingly waited for someone. Suddenly, with agility and precision, the relic knight behind him struck him with its sword. While it prepared to strike again, the owner barely managed to grab a painting tag, write something down and throw the pen away. The knight slashed and a final thrust ended his life.
  • Inspectors Megure and Kogoro found a museum staff's name, Kubota, written in the crumpled paper in Manaka's hand.
  • Conan also found the pen on the floor;
  • The bloodied suit of armor was discovered in Kubota's locker.
  • Conan noticed that the pen had its point retracted, the crumpled paper had inkless pen marks on it, and that the artwork tags were in the room, but the pieces weren't. Certainly, Kubota, who didn't seem to have a penchant for the arts, wouldn't have thought to protect those from being damaged.

• Conclusion

Manaka was scheduled to have a meeting with Ochiai, the art museum director. Little did the owner know that the director already staged his death. Ochiai dressed himself with the suit of armor, strategically placed the tag with Kubota's name written on it and the pen with which Manaka apparently used to write the note, then murdered Manaka medieval style.

But the little eye of justice had tricks of his own. Conan pulled an "innocent" act of wanting the directions to the toilet be written by Ochiai. And before the director knew it, he drew the inkless pen from his pocket.

• Motive

In the hopes of getting the art museum to stay opened, the previous owner who got bankrupt sold the museum to Manaka. Manaka, however, was consumed by his own greed and planned to convert the building into a casino.

Ochiai was not going to let it happen as he considered the artworks as his own. He killed Manaka to prevent the inevitable.

And as for Kubota, Ochiai thought it just right to punish the person who had been selling art relics and pieces secretly.

See also

• Season 1