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| image              = Volume 34.jpg
 
| image              = Volume 34.jpg
 
| releasedate        = September 18, 2001
 
| releasedate        = September 18, 2001
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| chapters            = 340-350
 
| isbn                = 4-09-126164-7
 
| isbn                = 4-09-126164-7
 
| publisher          = [[Shogakukan]]
 
| publisher          = [[Shogakukan]]
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== Escalator Message Case ==
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=== Escalator Message Case ===
 
{{ref anime|271-272|The Secret Rushed Omission}}
 
{{ref anime|271-272|The Secret Rushed Omission}}
  
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=== File 340 - Time to Pick the Apple ===
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Megure tells Jodie he has just phoned Chujo's detective agency to ask his employees if they'd ever been informed about who Chujo was suspecting to be embezzling Kisugi's company's money. They told Megure they had absolutely no idea, since Kisugi had insisted on the investigation to be kept strictly confidential. Furthermore, all data about Chujo's investigations are on his computer and nobody knows the password, and it's not OX△□ at all. Though, Megure sent people there to try and crack the password. Then, the four signs indeed refer to the killer's identity. Jodie and Sonoko say the murderer might be a quizz lover or champion, since Japanese people answer quizzes using "O" or "X" instead of "Yes" or "No". Megure once again keeps them away from the crime scene, saying they're now completely free to leave and go back home.
 
  
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Megure tells Jodie (which is ironic given that he just told her and other irrelevant people to stay out of the case) that he has just phoned Chujo's detective agency to see whether his employees knew anything about the case at hand; they said that they did not because Kisugi had insisted on keeping his investigation confidential. Furthermore, all data about Chujo's investigations are on his computer and nobody knows the password, and it is not any permutation of the four symbols in the dying message. Then they must refer to the killer's identity. Jodie and Sonoko say the murderer might be a quiz lover, because Japanese people answer quizzes by using symbols instead of "Yes" or "No". Megure again thinks that such deductions are nonsense and tries once more to keep Jodie and Sonoko away from the crime scene. <br><br>
 
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Conan steps in and says that Chiba should be a suspect. His rationale is that the first kanji in Chiba’s surname is "千", and a cross remains if the diagonal line on the top is covered, and something resembling a triangle remains if parts of the cross is covered. Similarly, he argues that Takagi should be a suspect because the first kanji of his surname is "高", which looks like a circle if the top and the sides are ignored. Sonoko retorts that what remains bears more similarity to a square, but Conan says that to save time, many Japanese simplify such “boxes” into circles (thus omitting strokes). Sonoko reprimands Conan and says that they cannot possibly be the culprit, but Conan ignores her and eyes Megure, who, by thinking about "omission", "save time" and "cover", figures out that the embezzler must be Bunta Kuniyoshi (the native form of this name is "国吉 文太"). Conan smirks in satisfaction, and Megure explains to Sonoko and Jodie that the square refers to "国" with the strokes inside the "square" omitted in order to save time and that the other symbols represent the lower halves of the other kanjis. The upper halves are missing (this has the same effect as covering the upper halves) because they are on the documents that Kuniyoshi stole; therefore the fact that the square is slightly larger than the other symbols makes sense (this deduction also means that the enigmatic dying message is not what Chujo intended to write). <br><br>
  
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Conan steps in saying Inspector Chiba is probably the murderer, since the "Chi" character ideogram in his name looks like an addition cross topped with a diagonal line going towards the left. And when Conan hides the line, it shows a cross, and when he hides the southmost and rightmost lines of the cross, it shows a triangle. Conan finds it strange, and Megure thinks about something having to do with "hiding a part". Conan says Takagi could also be the killer since the "Taka" ideogram character looks like a circle or square topped with a goal symbol, another circle or square, and finally a horizontal line with a perpendicular small line amidst. When Conan hides some parts of the ideogram, only a square or circle is shown. Sonoko says though she doesn't see any circles in the ideogram, and Conan answers many people in Japan write a circle instead of a square to save time when quickly writing a name with a square in it. He gives Agasa's name as an example : the "A" ideogram in "Agasa" usually contains a square, but Agasa always writes it as a circle. The professor would always tell Conan that, when people are in a hurry, they have no other choice but to make abbreviations. Megure instantly realises something while Sonoko tells Conan she swears Takagi and Chiba are innocent since she called them and they came after the murder...
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Jodie wonders where Ran has been, since it is quite late already. Sonoko thinks she is probably phoning Shinichi to ask him what the cross means. Ran turns up blushing, saying that she is now aware of the meaning of the cross, and that whether Shinichi knows it or not is irrelevant, because he will not answer to such a question anyway. Noticing that Conan is gone, they all wonder where he is. <br><br>
  
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Megure grabs the list and scans the names one after the other, and deduces the murderer is called '''Bunta Kuniyoshi'''. Conan smirks in satisfaction, and Sonoko and Jodie ask for an explanation, and Megure tells them that if they hide the upper halves of the "Bun" "Ta" and "Yoshi" characters, then it shows, from right to left, a triangle, cross and circle, the same order as on the envelope. Though, Sonoko finds quite far-fetched that a triangle was used for the "ta" character, but the inspector replies that, actuallyn when using prints it sure is far-fetched, but when writing it by hand, people tend to consider the small horizontal line at the bottom of the character as a full and long line they often confusingly fix to the two circumflex-like vertical lines just above, which gives a triangle most of the time. People usually do this, as Conan said, to make things quicker and easier. Sonoko still doesn't get it why Chujo would have only written the halves of his murderer's name's characters, and Megure replies actually he did write the name fully, but he did it while the killer was stealing the documents that were inside the envelope, then the only possible thing, in the dark, is that Chujo wrote the upper halves of the name on the document being stolen, instead of the envelope, and only the remaining parts were accordingly found on the top edge of the envelope. Since the killer ran away with the documents, then it's clear why the message seems so enigmatic. As for the square, Chujo actually wrote it inadvertently on the escalator's step, and left only a small mark on the left edge of the envelope, which is why it wasn't found at first. And the square is bigger than the other symbols because it is actually the full character for "Kuni", which wasn't split into halves then. In fact, Chujo was dying and he needed to be quick not to show his killer that he was writing a message, which accounts for why he only wrote the square, and not the character inside the square, hoping people would understand.
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In the meantime, the police rush upstairs to the company in search of Kuniyoshi. Upon finding him, Megure asks whether they can ask a few questions, and Kuniyoshi agrees to that. Megure tells Kuniyoshi about the police's findings, and the latter thinks that it is irresponsible for the police to label him as a murderer just because of what the dying message says. He points out that it is possible for the true killer to use Chujo's blood and finger to write that message so as to mislead the police. He further says that if they want to hold him responsible, then they have to show him the stolen documents. He adds that if he were the killer, he would have run away from the mall and burnt the papers instead of coming back to work. Megure is not able to give a response to Kuniyoshi’s self-defense, but Conan and Takagi come in with a reconstructed version of the upper half of the dying message. It turns out that the paper shredder in the office was spotted by them and together they have managed to put together the shredded pieces back into the dying message. Kuniyoshi starts getting upset, but this is only about to get worse for him: Megure informs him that it is only a matter of time before the police can reassemble the pieces of the other stolen documents and find his fingerprints on them. <br><br>
  
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Sonoko acknowledges several people only write a square to refer to "Kuni", and Jodie praises "Jules Maigret's incredible investigating qualities". The police rush upstairs to the company in order to arrest Bunta Kuniyoshi. Jodie wonders where Ran has been, since it's quite late now. Sonoko thinks she's probably phoning Shinichi to ask him what "X" means, and then she and Jodie believe a love scene is probably occurring while at the phone. Ran turns up quite angry and blushing, asking what "I'll give you my precious X" means. She adds she is now aware of the meaning of X thanks to Takagi, and she tells Sonoko that whether Shinichi knows it as well or not isn't a problem, because he won't answer to such a question anyway. Sonoko says it's very unlikely he knows what it means, given he's a boy and he's got only a few elements. They all wonder where Conan has been now, as to him. Meanwhile, at the company's project development section, the police ask for Bunta Kuniyoshi to follow them for a few questions in a room nextdoors. He agrees, and Conan spots a paper shredder in the office and suddenly thinks about something. Megure tells Kuniyoshi about his findings, and the latter thinks it's rather too simplistic to make a murderer out of him. It's well possible the true killer used Chujo's own blood and finger to write that message to have Kuniyoshi accused of the crime, and then it wouldn't be a true dying message. He says if they want to hold him responsible, then they have to show him the documents that were stolen from Chujo, and prove he stole them indeed. He adds a killer and robber would have run away from the mall and burned the papers, instead of peacefully coming back to his office in the mall, to work. Conan shows up with Takagi and says they've found the papers in the shredder : Kuniyoshi tried to dispose of them doing so, but actually a shredder doesn't necessarily mixes up the shreds of paper, and actually the blood is still on it, and it's even easier to reassemble than a puzzle. They show the blood marks on the paper shreds, and say it perfectly matches the envelope's ones. If the police search carefully and take some time, they'll find all the remaining documents' shreds inside the shredder - provided he only used one - along with his fingerprints on it, and also on the gloves he discarded in the bathroom - once again provided he is indeed the one who shredded the papers.
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Knowing that the police have indisputable evidence of his crimes, Kuniyoshi finally admits that he is guilty. He says that he started diverting money from the company's account so that his family could live slightly more comfortably, and since he was unable to stop others eventually noticed. The case thus is solved and Conan rejoins Jodie and the girls, asking them to tell him what the cross means. Sonoko tells him to ask Ran, which he does, but at an unfortunate moment: Ran just finished writing a message ending with crosses to Shinichi, and she is blushing. So Conan’s untimely question startles her and she answers in panic that she cannot let him know (this also delays the sending of the message). Conan, confused, asks whether it means "cannot", and Ran, unwilling to let Conan know the truth, echoes his words and says that "cannot" is indeed its meaning. After this exchange, Conan and company leave the mall and while Jodie parts with them, she, in a delightful tone, again tells them to be careful of that stalker she was mentioning earlier. Jodie watches them go farther and farther and thinks "is it almost time to pick the apple?". <br><br>
  
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Kuniyoshi admits he killed Chujo, saying he now gets it why his university comrades would always write his name using these four symbols. He said he started to divert money so as his family could live a little more comfortably, but afterwards it worked so well that he came to like it, and did more and more of it, and is now trapped into it, just like a mouse which ate too much and which can't go out anymore now. The police take Kuniyoshi away, and Conan joins Ran and co, asking them to tell him now what X means. Sonoko tells him to ask Ran about it : she's sending a message to Shinichi, and has eventually found the meaning. Conan asks her while she's over the moon, thinking about what and how she'll write to her friend. Ran blushes and feels overembarrassed as Conan startles her, and she answers she definitely can't tell him, it's impossible : this is the meaning, impossibility... '''Ran, Sonoko, and Conan eventually go back home and Jodie tells them to watch their step and mistrust stalkers. She then looks at them leaving, inwardly wondering if it's almost time to pick the apple...''' During the night, Conan can't get to sleep due to Kogoro's noisy snoring, and he has a look at Shinichi's phone which received Ran's text message, saying "Today we've been once again caught up in a murder case ! Really, I like wonder if we're not being jinxed or something, after all. The kind of case you love. I'll tell you more about it soon. Hurry up and return ! XXX". Reading this, Conan asks himself if Ran actually means he's an "impossible impossible impossible" boy ?
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During the night, Conan is awakened by the loud snores of Kogoro. As he checks his phone he finds that Ran has sent a message to Shinichi's phone. Conan reads it and becomes slightly disappointed at the fact that there are three crosses in the end; he erroneously thinks that Ran is implying that he “cannot” (do something) (i.e. that he is not able, that he is not competent). <br><br>
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'''In a dark room only lit up by a computer's screen, next to a glass of alcohol, a smirking woman in babydoll is typing a mail to Gin, saying "Can you tell me please Gin, do you believe in heaven ? You must say coldly..."It's not like you to be so silly." Until we lift our glasses filled with rotten sherry, please find the answer. I can't wait... XXX". The woman then inwardly says X (Chu) means a kiss, it's feminine...expression of affection... Though, she thinks it could also be an evil stamp of hatred, and, saying so, she grabs a dart in an ashtray, kisses it, and slings it violently at a dartboard where three pictures are pinned at, and some others below, looking at it with a dark interest. The woman is revealed to be Vermouth/Chris Vineyard, who adds that X is where the fatal silver arrow shoots, it marks the target spot. The dart indeed hit the bulls-eye right at the center of the dartboard, right at the center of a huge X crossing out the picture of Shiho Miyano in her adult form and lab coat, right in the middle, and right into her head. Next to that picture, there are also two others featuring a happy and smiling Ran, nicknamed "Angel", and a clever-looking and hard-thinking Conan, nicknamed "Cool Guy".'''
 
  
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In a dark room only lit up by a computer's screen, next to a glass of alcohol, a smirking woman in babydoll is writing to Gin, saying "Can you tell me please Gin, do you believe in heaven? You must (i.e. I am sure that you will) say coldly: "It's not like you to be so silly (i.e. asking such a silly question is not something you would normally do). Until we lift our glasses filled with rotten sherry, please find the answer (i.e. please find the answer before we lift the glasses filled with rotten sherry). I can't wait... XXX". The woman then says to herself that a cross means a kiss and that it is a female's way of expressing affection, although it can also be an evil stamp of hatred. While saying so, she grabs a dart in an ashtray, kisses it, and slings it violently at a dartboard to which three pictures are pinned. The dart hit the center of the dartboard; as a picture of Shiho Miyano in lab coat is there, the dart also manages to pierce through the middle of her forehand. The two pictures below Shiho’s feature a happy Ran with “Angel” written in cursive and a thinking Conan with “Cool guy” written in cursive respectively. The woman, who at this moment is revealed to be Chris Vineyard, stares at the darboard and adds that the cross is "where the fatal silver arrow shoots" and "marks the target spot".
 
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== Flying Neighbor Case ==
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* Ran is baffled, who is the mysterious man that she has seen, before?
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{{ref anime|277-278|English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective}}
 
{{ref anime|277-278|English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective}}
  
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Conan eventually tells Agasa about Mouri's cases' police files having been recently stolen and then sent back by post to the headquarters. '''The Organisation may be behind that theft, they may be aware that Shinichi is secretly helping Kogoro to solve cases, they could know he was shrunken by APTX, since Kogoro's fame all started when Shinichi went missing.''' Yet, who would believe a seven-year-old anesthetises Kogoro and speaks with a voice-changing bowtie ? Conan may well only be a boy genius, and it's not 100% sure the Organisation stole the documents. Though, someone is discreetly investigating Kogoro, and Conan has something very important to ask to Agasa, the latter saying he's nothing but a search-machine for Shinichi, and not even a confidant. Conan answers he just didn't want Ai to know it (Vol. 33), since this would scare her once again, she would once again refuse to go out, and Conan promised her he would protect her and take things in hand if they were to worsen (Vol. 29). He doesn't want her to be frightened for nothing, but says they must keep it silent to her for now, since Ai isn't as strong as she wants others to believe she is. Conan is however unaware that Ai is eavesdropping their conversation, and inwardly calls him a moron. '''Conan still wonders what's the point for that thief carefully sending the documents back to the police instead of just getting rid of them.''' Is it to trap them or have them understand he/she knows what they're doing ? Or is it maybe a stratagem to scare someone in particular, Shinichi most probably, though it's a rather odd way to scare someone. Conan realises in surprise that Heiji is just next to them, having been secretly called by Agasa in order to be Shinichi's confidant, since at the moment the latter is racking his mind with the Organisation matters. Agasa still wonders how they can catch such an elusive enemy, Heiji replying that if Conan came to tell him the truth and ask him something very important, this means either he's found out a paramount clue, or he just wants to retaliate now.
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Conan eventually tells Agasa about Mouri's cases' police files having been recently stolen and then sent back by post to the headquarters. '''The Organization may be behind that theft, they may be aware that Shinichi is secretly helping Kogoro to solve cases, they could know he was shrunken by APTX, since Kogoro's fame all started when Shinichi went missing.''' Yet, who would believe a seven-year-old anesthetises Kogoro and speaks with a voice-changing bowtie ? Conan may well only be a boy genius, and it's not 100% sure the Organization stole the documents. Though, someone is discreetly investigating Kogoro, and Conan has something very important to ask to Agasa, the latter saying he's nothing but a search-machine for Shinichi, and not even a confidant. Conan answers he just didn't want Ai to know it (Vol. 33), since this would scare her once again, she would once again refuse to go out, and Conan promised her he would protect her and take things in hand if they were to worsen (Vol. 29). He doesn't want her to be frightened for nothing, but says they must keep it silent to her for now, since Ai isn't as strong as she wants others to believe she is. Conan is however unaware that Ai is eavesdropping their conversation, and inwardly calls him a moron. '''Conan still wonders what's the point for that thief carefully sending the documents back to the police instead of just getting rid of them.''' Is it to trap them or have them understand the thief knows what they're doing ? Or is it maybe a stratagem to scare someone in particular, Shinichi most probably, though it's a rather odd way to scare someone. Conan realises in surprise that Heiji is just next to them, having been secretly called by Agasa in order to be Shinichi's confidant, since at the moment the latter is racking his mind with the Organization matters. Agasa still wonders how they can catch such an elusive enemy, Heiji replying that if Conan came to tell him the truth and ask him something very important, this means either he's found out a paramount clue, or he just wants to retaliate now.
  
 
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Conan acknowledges he's right and tells them again about the Haido City Hotel Case (Vol. 24), during which they spotted Pisco, an Organisation member who was tasked to kill Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a corrupt politician. Shinichi had called Megure telling him to bring and question seven suspects in a private room, since they were all given a purple handkerchief at a certain moment. Given Conan had found a purple handkerchief on the crime scene, it may well have belonged to Pisco, who could be one of them. '''Yet, Pisco was completely unaware of it, then how come is it that he had a purple handkerchief on him when he was questioned ? The only answer is that he had an accomplice among the six other suspects, one who was questioned before him and told him afterwards about it, giving him his/her handkerchief. The six suspects are all very mediatised VIPs, but only one of them hasn't given some sign of life since then : Chris Vineyard, the famous American actress, daughter of world-famous actress Sharon Vineyard, and moreover a very beautiful and sly woman.''' Conan has investigated her so far, and she's the fishiest suspect, though he can't believe it for some reasons. Conan needs Agasa's help to browse a recent website created by Chris's fans to encourage her comeback on the stage, and he wants Agasa to pretend to be one of them, and to get as much information as possible on the actress. Conan can't do it since it would be strange that a schoolboy spends his time in Internet cafés searching for information on several websites. Conan says this information could be useful in good time. '''Heiji thinks that Conan is suspecting someone in particular in his entourage, which could be Chris Vineyard in disguise. Agasa thinks Conan is investigating Jodie Saintemilion''', and tells Heiji - despite Conan's refusal - that Jodie is Ran's new English teacher, originating from America. But Conan doesn't want such a hot-blooded guy as Heiji to know it since he would spoil everything by investigating her overtly and awkwardly. Heiji indeed suggests they both go to her place to investigate discreetly. Conan believes Heiji is completely unaware of the BO's dangerousness. '''Ai is startled by the "Chris Vineyard"'s name.'''
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Conan acknowledges he's right and tells them again about the Haido City Hotel Case (Vol. 24), during which they spotted Pisco, an Organization member who was tasked to kill Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a corrupt politician. Shinichi had called Megure telling him to bring and question seven suspects in a private room, since they were all given a purple handkerchief at a certain moment. Given Conan had found a purple handkerchief on the crime scene, it may well have belonged to Pisco, who could be one of them. '''Yet, Pisco was completely unaware of it, then how come is it that he had a purple handkerchief on him when he was questioned ? The only answer is that he had an accomplice among the six other suspects, one who was questioned before him and told him afterwards about it, giving him their own handkerchief. The six suspects are all very mediatised VIPs, but only one of them hasn't given some sign of life since then : Chris Vineyard, the famous American actress, daughter of world-famous actress Sharon Vineyard, and moreover a very beautiful and sly woman.''' Conan has investigated her so far, and she's the fishiest suspect, though he can't believe it for some reasons. Conan needs Agasa's help to browse a recent website created by Chris's fans to encourage her comeback on the stage, and he wants Agasa to pretend to be one of them, and to get as much information as possible on the actress. Conan can't do it since it would be strange that a schoolboy spends his time in Internet cafés searching for information on several websites. Conan says this information could be useful in good time. '''Heiji thinks that Conan is suspecting someone in particular in his entourage, which could be Chris Vineyard in disguise. Agasa thinks Conan is investigating Jodie Saintemilion''', and tells Heiji - despite Conan's refusal - that Jodie is Ran's new English teacher, originating from America. But Conan doesn't want such a hot-blooded guy as Heiji to know it since he would spoil everything by investigating her overtly and awkwardly. Heiji indeed suggests they both go to her place to investigate discreetly. Conan believes Heiji is completely unaware of the BO's dangerousness. '''Ai is startled by the "Chris Vineyard"'s name.'''
  
 
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The boys eventually come up to Jodie's flat's door, Heiji wondering how a mere English teacher can afford to live in such a huge and luxurious building, and Conan replying it's because she was born in a very wealthy family. Conan tells Heiji not to act recklessly, but Heiji seems to have no idea what to tell Jodie in order to account for their coming, and Conan can't believe it. They start having a row and Heiji inadvertently presses the door's ring. Conan has to tell Jodie on the intercom that he "came to pay her a liitle visit", and she's very happy about it, and asks him to wait a little moment. Meanwhile, they meet Jodie's neighbour Takai's friends who are leaving his place, all drunk. They seem to blame Takai for being so rude and nasty when he's drunk. After a very long wait, Conan and Heiji are eventually welcomed by Jodie, only dressed in a sexy robe, apologising for the wait, since she was having a bath when they rang. Conan explains he has brought a friend to introduce him to her, and she asks them to wait in the lounge while she gets herself ready. The boys say they need to go to the bathroom, '''and actually start checking out something in the bath and floor sink. Jodie overhears what they are doing behind the door, and smirks in satisfaction.''' Afterwards, she decides to take them to a restaurant since she has nothing at home to prepare a meal for them with. Heiji gets infuriated at her beacuse she tells him he looks like a foreigner who doesn't speak very good Japanese, but Conan tries to cool down the situation saying Kansai people are often very tanned and speak a very thick Japanese, such as Southern-American English for instance. Jodie is then told Heiji is also one of Mouri's friends. In front of Jodie's building, they notice Chika Shimoda, Takai's girlfriend who had left the latter's flat and locked it with two other men, is taking snaps of the building, towards the top. Heiji comments on it being rather odd, and suddenly, a phone falls down from upwards, followed by Takai's body, which crashes on the ground.
 
The boys eventually come up to Jodie's flat's door, Heiji wondering how a mere English teacher can afford to live in such a huge and luxurious building, and Conan replying it's because she was born in a very wealthy family. Conan tells Heiji not to act recklessly, but Heiji seems to have no idea what to tell Jodie in order to account for their coming, and Conan can't believe it. They start having a row and Heiji inadvertently presses the door's ring. Conan has to tell Jodie on the intercom that he "came to pay her a liitle visit", and she's very happy about it, and asks him to wait a little moment. Meanwhile, they meet Jodie's neighbour Takai's friends who are leaving his place, all drunk. They seem to blame Takai for being so rude and nasty when he's drunk. After a very long wait, Conan and Heiji are eventually welcomed by Jodie, only dressed in a sexy robe, apologising for the wait, since she was having a bath when they rang. Conan explains he has brought a friend to introduce him to her, and she asks them to wait in the lounge while she gets herself ready. The boys say they need to go to the bathroom, '''and actually start checking out something in the bath and floor sink. Jodie overhears what they are doing behind the door, and smirks in satisfaction.''' Afterwards, she decides to take them to a restaurant since she has nothing at home to prepare a meal for them with. Heiji gets infuriated at her beacuse she tells him he looks like a foreigner who doesn't speak very good Japanese, but Conan tries to cool down the situation saying Kansai people are often very tanned and speak a very thick Japanese, such as Southern-American English for instance. Jodie is then told Heiji is also one of Mouri's friends. In front of Jodie's building, they notice Chika Shimoda, Takai's girlfriend who had left the latter's flat and locked it with two other men, is taking snaps of the building, towards the top. Heiji comments on it being rather odd, and suddenly, a phone falls down from upwards, followed by Takai's body, which crashes on the ground.
  
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The four people but Shimoda look at the corpse in a cold-blooded behaviour, saying the person died instantly. Jodie recognises her neighbour Takai and Shimoda starts crying in despair. She tells them Takai was drunk and sleeping on his bed when they all left, she would never have imagined he wanted to commit suicide. Jodie says he could have been pushed in the void from his flat by a kind of burglar just as well, but Shimoda says it's impossible : there was none in the apartment when they all left, and she locked the flat because Takai was too drunk to do it properly. Besides, there's only one key, and it's impossible to hear the doorbell from the bedroom. Then, it's nothing but a suicide. Though, Conan and Heiji tell her it's not necessarily the case, because Takai was speaking with a certain Kawakami on the phone just before dying, and one minute ago he had also received a text message from a certain Nakamichi. What's more, Shimoda was behaving strangely when taking pictures of the building in the dark, these are many peculiar reasons why the hypothesis of suicide can't be absolutely established for the moment. And a person who wants to kill themselves doesn't necessarily has a phone in hand. Heiji asks Shimoda to call her friends Michiya Nakamichi and Noboru Kawakami, and tell them to come along, while they'll also call the police for Shimoda to give a clearer explanation to them. Shimoda tells Megure she actually left Takai's flat to drive Nakamichi and Kawakami back home since they were far too drunk to drive carefully. She told Takai she would come back right after, which is why she locked the flat with his key. Afterwards, she drove back to Takai's, but before going upstairs, she took a few snaps of the building to show her friends where her new boyfriend was living. It is the first time she has come here, while Nakamichi and Kawakami already know the place. She intended to go back to Takai's flat right after, but never expected him to kill himself.
 
The four people but Shimoda look at the corpse in a cold-blooded behaviour, saying the person died instantly. Jodie recognises her neighbour Takai and Shimoda starts crying in despair. She tells them Takai was drunk and sleeping on his bed when they all left, she would never have imagined he wanted to commit suicide. Jodie says he could have been pushed in the void from his flat by a kind of burglar just as well, but Shimoda says it's impossible : there was none in the apartment when they all left, and she locked the flat because Takai was too drunk to do it properly. Besides, there's only one key, and it's impossible to hear the doorbell from the bedroom. Then, it's nothing but a suicide. Though, Conan and Heiji tell her it's not necessarily the case, because Takai was speaking with a certain Kawakami on the phone just before dying, and one minute ago he had also received a text message from a certain Nakamichi. What's more, Shimoda was behaving strangely when taking pictures of the building in the dark, these are many peculiar reasons why the hypothesis of suicide can't be absolutely established for the moment. And a person who wants to kill themselves doesn't necessarily has a phone in hand. Heiji asks Shimoda to call her friends Michiya Nakamichi and Noboru Kawakami, and tell them to come along, while they'll also call the police for Shimoda to give a clearer explanation to them. Shimoda tells Megure she actually left Takai's flat to drive Nakamichi and Kawakami back home since they were far too drunk to drive carefully. She told Takai she would come back right after, which is why she locked the flat with his key. Afterwards, she drove back to Takai's, but before going upstairs, she took a few snaps of the building to show her friends where her new boyfriend was living. It is the first time she has come here, while Nakamichi and Kawakami already know the place. She intended to go back to Takai's flat right after, but never expected him to kill himself.
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Jodie secretly looks at them as Heiji gets a phone call from an angry Kazuha, who can't believe he forgot their date at the mall. Conan tells Jodie he "doesn't know who Heiji is speaking with", and Heiji realises his mistake. He tries to promise Kazuha they'll do it some other day, but the reception is poor and they can barely hear each other. Heiji goes to the balcony to get better reception, telling Kazuha he's in Tokyo right now, and it's too late then. Doing so, he suddenly realises something very important. Kazuha says she doesn't understand a word he says, but is 100% sure they had planned a meeting, since she wrote it in her datebook. Upon hearing this, Heiji and Conan rush towards the other end of the balcony, and glance through a window at Takai's bedroom. '''They eventually find out the truth while Jodie secretly takes pictures of them.'''
 
Jodie secretly looks at them as Heiji gets a phone call from an angry Kazuha, who can't believe he forgot their date at the mall. Conan tells Jodie he "doesn't know who Heiji is speaking with", and Heiji realises his mistake. He tries to promise Kazuha they'll do it some other day, but the reception is poor and they can barely hear each other. Heiji goes to the balcony to get better reception, telling Kazuha he's in Tokyo right now, and it's too late then. Doing so, he suddenly realises something very important. Kazuha says she doesn't understand a word he says, but is 100% sure they had planned a meeting, since she wrote it in her datebook. Upon hearing this, Heiji and Conan rush towards the other end of the balcony, and glance through a window at Takai's bedroom. '''They eventually find out the truth while Jodie secretly takes pictures of them.'''
  
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=== File 343 - Who Are You? ===
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==== File 343 - Who Are You? ====
  
 
Heiji suggests a reconstitution of the events in which he would give the police a hand, which would help them to find out who the killer is. He adds that, for the experiment to be conclusive, they need someone to get drunk and play the victim. Jodie is the perfect actress, given neither policemen who are on duty, nor Heiji and Conan who are minors, are allowed to drink alcohol. '''Jodie agrees, provided Heiji gives her some of her favourite drink : Sherry... Conan is puzzled about it, while Heiji finds ludicrous the way Jodie is getting drunk with it.''' Heiji then asks the police to leave Takai's bedroom for a moment while they're preparing the place for the reconstitution. Once they're done yet, they come out saying they "put Jodie to sleep" in the bed and left Takagi's phone near the pillow, and try not to wake her up, just like Takai's friends did with the latter.
 
Heiji suggests a reconstitution of the events in which he would give the police a hand, which would help them to find out who the killer is. He adds that, for the experiment to be conclusive, they need someone to get drunk and play the victim. Jodie is the perfect actress, given neither policemen who are on duty, nor Heiji and Conan who are minors, are allowed to drink alcohol. '''Jodie agrees, provided Heiji gives her some of her favourite drink : Sherry... Conan is puzzled about it, while Heiji finds ludicrous the way Jodie is getting drunk with it.''' Heiji then asks the police to leave Takai's bedroom for a moment while they're preparing the place for the reconstitution. Once they're done yet, they come out saying they "put Jodie to sleep" in the bed and left Takagi's phone near the pillow, and try not to wake her up, just like Takai's friends did with the latter.
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== Soccer Supporter Case ==
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* Heiji and Shinichi begin to suspect that Chris Vinyard was the accomplice of Pisco and also a member of the organization...then they begin to suspect that Jodie is Chris Vinyard and decide to investigate...
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* At the end of the case Shinichi and Heiji come to the conclusion that Jodie is very suspicious and they should not let down their guard.
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* Kazuha angrily calls Heiji, because he was supposed to take her out on a dinner date!
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=== Soccer Supporter Case ===
 
{{ref anime|279-280|Hooligan's Labyrinth}}
 
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=== Characters introduced ===
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{{NewChar|name = [[Ryusuke Higo]]|image = Ryusuke Higo.jpg|description =  
 
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* Soccer player for Big Osaka}}
 
* Soccer player for Big Osaka}}
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* Famous American actress
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* [[Yukiko Kudo]]'s good friend}}
 
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=== File 344 - The Storm of Booing ===
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==== File 344 - The Storm of Booing ====
  
 
Agasa and the DBs have been to the derby between Tokyo Spirits and Noir Tokyo. The former won the match, and everyone is leaving the stadium towards the train station. On their way back, the DBs comment on the super-duper match they've just watched, and also on the supporters' constantly booing Ryusuke Higo from Big Osaka during a previous match against Noir some time ago. Ai says this is perfectly normal for a traitor, they have no place where to shelter at all. Higo "betrayed" his Noir team when he left them for Big Osaka, then it's probably well deserved. Conan says it's rather because Higo has still not scored any goals for five days now, since the tournament started. There's also a hearsay about Higo's possibly leaving once again his team to go and play in Spanish League. Ai says if this rumour were justified, then that would be the best he could do, running away from all this shame and suffering, to play in a faraway stadium where none will boo him anymore. Conan wonders what she is thinking to, while the DBs realise today at 5 PM there's actually a match in which Higo is playing. They watch it on a street TV, and notice Higo doesn't play properly, probably due to the thunder of booing in the audience. A passer-by, Kadotake Akano, says Higo deserves well his fate for having left his Noir Tokyo team, he adds traitors who fall down to hell never get over it. He then leaves laughing out loud, and Conan says Akano is a notorious superviolent hooligan who keeps picking up fights with supporters during and after matches, and he goes as far as encouraging the bullying, beating-up and sometimes killing of supporters he dislikes. His "Tokyo Hooligan" website prompted his blacklisting from several stadiums, fearing he might cause big trouble.
 
Agasa and the DBs have been to the derby between Tokyo Spirits and Noir Tokyo. The former won the match, and everyone is leaving the stadium towards the train station. On their way back, the DBs comment on the super-duper match they've just watched, and also on the supporters' constantly booing Ryusuke Higo from Big Osaka during a previous match against Noir some time ago. Ai says this is perfectly normal for a traitor, they have no place where to shelter at all. Higo "betrayed" his Noir team when he left them for Big Osaka, then it's probably well deserved. Conan says it's rather because Higo has still not scored any goals for five days now, since the tournament started. There's also a hearsay about Higo's possibly leaving once again his team to go and play in Spanish League. Ai says if this rumour were justified, then that would be the best he could do, running away from all this shame and suffering, to play in a faraway stadium where none will boo him anymore. Conan wonders what she is thinking to, while the DBs realise today at 5 PM there's actually a match in which Higo is playing. They watch it on a street TV, and notice Higo doesn't play properly, probably due to the thunder of booing in the audience. A passer-by, Kadotake Akano, says Higo deserves well his fate for having left his Noir Tokyo team, he adds traitors who fall down to hell never get over it. He then leaves laughing out loud, and Conan says Akano is a notorious superviolent hooligan who keeps picking up fights with supporters during and after matches, and he goes as far as encouraging the bullying, beating-up and sometimes killing of supporters he dislikes. His "Tokyo Hooligan" website prompted his blacklisting from several stadiums, fearing he might cause big trouble.
  
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Conan secretly asks Agasa what information he's found so far about Chris Vineyard, and the professor says '''Chris's private life remains a complete mystery, while her mother Sharon's is known from everyone. The only time Chris appeared in public, except during filmings, was at her mother's funeral, last year.''' The event was so important it was even broadcast on Japanese TV. '''Tabloids' reporters harassed her with questions such as which school she attended, if she were on bad terms with her late mother, who her father was, was the man whom she allegedly had an affair with at the moment at the funeral too, etc. She only gave a "no comment" answer, and a reporter eventually asked her if this was because these truths could be detrimental to her if they were to be disclosed. She turned her back on her mother's coffin, and, smiling, she said " a secret makes a woman woman".''' Agasa remembers '''a very famous Japanese actress looking like Yukiko Kudo was seen among the cortege, but none seems to know who she was, since Chris's words had caught all and everyone's attention around.''' Conan stands wondering, and Agasa asks him '''if Chris Vineyard really belongs to the Black Organisation, to which Conan answers if it were to be the case, she would then be a very, very problematic enemy. Agasa thinks Shinichi is still trying to conceal something from him, and Conan just says actually as an actress she's used to lie and fake reality, then she could lead them to red herrings very easily.'''
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Conan secretly asks Agasa what information he's found so far about Chris Vineyard, and the professor says '''Chris's private life remains a complete mystery, while her mother Sharon's is known from everyone. The only time Chris appeared in public, except during filmings, was at her mother's funeral, last year.''' The event was so important it was even broadcast on Japanese TV. '''Tabloids' reporters harassed her with questions such as which school she attended, if she were on bad terms with her late mother, who her father was, was the man whom she allegedly had an affair with at the moment at the funeral too, etc. She only gave a "no comment" answer, and a reporter eventually asked her if this was because these truths could be detrimental to her if they were to be disclosed. She turned her back on her mother's coffin, and, smiling, she said " a secret makes a woman woman".''' Agasa remembers '''a very famous Japanese actress looking like Yukiko Kudo was seen among the cortege, but none seems to know who she was, since Chris's words had caught all and everyone's attention around.''' Conan stands wondering, and Agasa asks him '''if Chris Vineyard really belongs to the Black Organization, to which Conan answers if it were to be the case, she would then be a very, very problematic enemy. Agasa thinks Shinichi is still trying to conceal something from him, and Conan just says actually as an actress she's used to lie and fake reality, then she could lead them to red herrings very easily.'''
  
 
Conan suggests they all take the train now and go back home, while Ai is looking at Higo's match with some strange apprehension. The train is overcrowded with supporters from both teams, to the point they're all packed like sardines in a can. This is all because Genta wanted to take the first train to be quickly at home in order to watch Higo's match on his TV. Akano is also on the train, complaining aloud about the overcrowding. Mitsuhiko is listening to the match on his portable radio, and Ai puts her head and ear against his's in order to listen more carefully to the match results. Mitsuhiko blushes and tells her Higo's teammates now hesitate to pass the ball to him due to the audience's booing being unbearable now. Ai is saddened by this and asks him to tell her if there's any breaking news about him later on. Conan notices her state of mind, and suddenly the train brakes abruptly, and Conan sees Akano being stabbed to death by an unknown assailant. At Haido Station, the train is emptied at last due to most of the supporters leaving it for the subway, and Conan and co gaze awe-sricken at Akano's bloody corpse on the floor, next to a dagger.
 
Conan suggests they all take the train now and go back home, while Ai is looking at Higo's match with some strange apprehension. The train is overcrowded with supporters from both teams, to the point they're all packed like sardines in a can. This is all because Genta wanted to take the first train to be quickly at home in order to watch Higo's match on his TV. Akano is also on the train, complaining aloud about the overcrowding. Mitsuhiko is listening to the match on his portable radio, and Ai puts her head and ear against his's in order to listen more carefully to the match results. Mitsuhiko blushes and tells her Higo's teammates now hesitate to pass the ball to him due to the audience's booing being unbearable now. Ai is saddened by this and asks him to tell her if there's any breaking news about him later on. Conan notices her state of mind, and suddenly the train brakes abruptly, and Conan sees Akano being stabbed to death by an unknown assailant. At Haido Station, the train is emptied at last due to most of the supporters leaving it for the subway, and Conan and co gaze awe-sricken at Akano's bloody corpse on the floor, next to a dagger.
  
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Conan rushes out of the train towards a station manager, asking the latter to stop all trains immediately, and to tell his colleagues to control the tickets of every supporter leaving the station, since somebody was murdered by one of them in one of the train's carriages. Especially, they should keep aside those who bought their tickets before 5 PM, and he asks him to do it very quickly, or else the killer will escape. The police is called and Megure rapidly turns up. They recognise Akano, the infamous violent hooligan. It seems that the dagger found next to him, and which was used to kill him, is quite rare, with handmade embed patterns. Takagi called all resellers in Japan but they one and all told him it's something which was made in a foreign country, therefore it'll take a great deal of time to find the owner. Given the train was overcrowded, there are no witnesses of the crime at all. People started to realise there was a corpse only when all supporters left the train towards the subway stations. Nobody seemed fishy since they were all dressed in the same way, whether it was Tokyo Spirits or Noir Tokyo. The station manager tells Megure his colleagues kept aside three supporters, just as Conan had suggested him to do. Conan explains it's impossible to commit such a murder, among the crowd, and in a train, without having thought about it way beforehand. The murderer was probably stalking Akano, and bought a ticket in advance, which means before the end of the match, probably just before its beginning, so as not to be compelled to queue at the machines at the end, and in order then to follow Akano into his train car without any problems. He/She just needed to stand not far away from him, and stab him just before they arrived at Haido Station, when the train would brake abruptly, and people would be jostled, and would then one and all leave towards the subway. The murderer just had to slip among them, and pretend being a mere traveller. The culprit is probably a supporter, because otherwise people would have remembered his/her clothing. Moroever, there aren't so many people who buy their tickets in advance, then no wonder they're just three, most people just follow the crowd and buy their tickets at the same time, queueing, etc. And the match precisely ended at around 5 PM. However, Megure points at the fact he/she may have changed clothes in the station before leaving, or he/she could even just have gone to take another train in the opposite direction, or somewhere else. Conan says both suppositions are impossible : the restroom is located outside the station, then just after the "barrier" set up by the train station employees. And if the murderer had been to another platform, he/she would have been quickly spotted, since he/she would be the only one probably to wear a football shirt. And he/she couldn't of course change clothes on the platform, it would have seemed too much suspicious. The safest way to change clothes without being noticed at all was to go to the restroom located outside the station, and escape amidst the supporting crowd. He/she knew Haido Station is an important hub where many people get in/off the subways/trains.
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Conan rushes out of the train towards a station manager, asking the latter to stop all trains immediately, and to tell his colleagues to control the tickets of every supporter leaving the station, since somebody was murdered by one of them in one of the train's carriages. Especially, they should keep aside those who bought their tickets before 5 PM, and he asks him to do it very quickly, or else the killer will escape. The police is called and Megure rapidly turns up. They recognise Akano, the infamous violent hooligan. It seems that the dagger found next to him, and which was used to kill him, is quite rare, with handmade embed patterns. Takagi called all resellers in Japan but they one and all told him it's something which was made in a foreign country, therefore it'll take a great deal of time to find the owner. Given the train was overcrowded, there are no witnesses of the crime at all. People started to realise there was a corpse only when all supporters left the train towards the subway stations. Nobody seemed fishy since they were all dressed in the same way, whether it was Tokyo Spirits or Noir Tokyo. The station manager tells Megure his colleagues kept aside three supporters, just as Conan had suggested him to do. Conan explains it's impossible to commit such a murder, among the crowd, and in a train, without having thought about it way beforehand. The murderer was probably stalking Akano, and bought a ticket in advance, which means before the end of the match, probably just before its beginning, so as not to be compelled to queue at the machines at the end, and in order then to follow Akano into his train car without any problems. They just needed to stand not far away from him, and stab him just before they arrived at Haido Station, when the train would brake abruptly, and people would be jostled, and would then one and all leave towards the subway. They just had to slip among them and pretend being a mere traveller. The culprit is probably a supporter, because otherwise people would have remembered their clothing. Moroever, there aren't so many people who buy their tickets in advance, then no wonder they're just three, most people just follow the crowd and buy their tickets at the same time, queueing, etc. And the match precisely ended at around 5 PM. However, Megure points at the fact they may have changed clothes in the station before leaving, or they could even just have gone to take another train in the opposite direction, or somewhere else. Conan says both suppositions are impossible : the restroom is located outside the station, then just after the "barrier" set up by the train station employees. And if the murderer had been to another platform, they would have been quickly spotted, since they probably would be the only one to wear a football shirt. And they couldn't of course change clothes on the platform, it would have seemed too much suspicious. The safest way to change clothes without being noticed at all was to go to the restroom located outside the station, and escape amidst the supporting crowd. They also knew that Haido Station is an important hub where many people get in/off the subways/trains.
  
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The police are amazed, as usual, and Takagi asks Conan how come did he think to all this in a heartbeat right after the murder ? Conan tries to protect hismelf claiming Agasa is the one who thought to everything and sent him to tell those things to the managers. Conan tells the police Agasa wanted them to question the three supporters kept aside. All three indeed bought their tickets beforehand in order to avoid queueing at the machines. Yet, they say it doesn't mean they're the murderers. Though, it's strange all of them got into a crowded train, since with their tickets already in hand at the end of the derby, they could just have caught the first carriage, instead of getting into an overcrowded one like all those who queued. Hazue Kira, a Noir supporter, explains she was in the central bleachers where supporters of both teams are mingled, and she got in a little fight with some Spirits supporters and wasted time, forcing her to take the next crowded train. Mitsuaki Funato, a Spirits supporter, had a phone call from his boss towards the end of the match, because he had lied to his boss about his absence so as to come here discreetly and skip work, and got severely told off by the latter, and the blaming was so long that it lasted until late after the match, and Funato even missed the goal of the "ace wingers" (Naoki and Hideo). Etsutoshi Aoba, a Noir supporter, got so shocked of the match's result, that he stood gaping in a blackout state for a long time even after the derby, and also wasted time. They can't remember in which carriage they got on, yet Conan is pretty sure they were all into overcrowded ones. First, Kira's left hand's ring left a mark on her right elbow because she was tightly holding her handbag's strap and zipper due to the place being crowded and therefore very suitable to stealing property, for a very long time. Then, Ooba crossed his arms for a long time during the fare, and left marks of his left wrist's watch on his right arm, due to him not wanting to be accused of having wandering hands. Lastly, Funato tightly held his leather bag between his hands and still has marks of it on all of his fingers, for the same reason as Kira, to avoid pickpocketing. Conan is almost sure it was like that, because the train was very, very crowded, and people could easily stand in the same position for a very long time, with crossed arms or without grabbing hold to bars or handles in the train, and without even being able to sit down. The three acknowledge this is all true, and Conan says this is what Agasa told him to say... Megure tells the suspects to try and remember as much as possible in which train car they were. Conan looks at the suspects' football shirts : Aoba wears Higo's "9" shirt, Kira wears a black Noir shirt, and Funato wears a black and white striped Spirits shirt, and Conan finds something's not quite right on them.
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The police are amazed, as usual, and Takagi asks Conan how come did he think to all this in a heartbeat right after the murder? Conan tries to protect hismelf claiming Agasa is the one who thought to everything and sent him to tell those things to the managers. Conan tells the police Agasa wanted them to question the three supporters kept aside. All three indeed bought their tickets beforehand in order to avoid queueing at the machines. Yet, they say it doesn't mean they're the murderers. Though, it's strange all of them got into a crowded train, since with their tickets already in hand at the end of the derby, they could just have caught the first carriage, instead of getting into an overcrowded one like all those who queued. Hazue Kira, a Noir supporter, explains she was in the central bleachers where supporters of both teams are mingled, and she got in a little fight with some Spirits supporters and wasted time, forcing her to take the next crowded train. Mitsuaki Funato, a Spirits supporter, had a phone call from his boss towards the end of the match, because he had lied to his boss about his absence so as to come here discreetly and skip work, and got severely told off by the latter, and the blaming was so long that it lasted until late after the match, and Funato even missed the goal of the "ace wingers" (Naoki and Hideo). Etsutoshi Aoba, a Noir supporter, got so shocked of the match's result, that he stood gaping in a blackout state for a long time even after the derby, and also wasted time. They can't remember in which carriage they got on, yet Conan is pretty sure they were all into overcrowded ones. First, Kira's left hand's ring left a mark on her right elbow because she was tightly holding her handbag's strap and zipper due to the place being crowded and therefore very suitable to stealing property, for a very long time. Then, Ooba crossed his arms for a long time during the fare, and left marks of his left wrist's watch on his right arm, due to him not wanting to be accused of having wandering hands. Lastly, Funato tightly held his leather bag between his hands and still has marks of it on all of his fingers, for the same reason as Kira, to avoid pickpocketing. Conan is almost sure it was like that, because the train was very, very crowded, and people could easily stand in the same position for a very long time, with crossed arms or without grabbing hold to bars or handles in the train, and without even being able to sit down. The three acknowledge this is all true, and Conan says this is what Agasa told him to say... Megure tells the suspects to try and remember as much as possible in which train car they were. Conan looks at the suspects' football shirts : Aoba wears Higo's "9" shirt, Kira wears a black Noir shirt, and Funato wears a black and white striped Spirits shirt, and Conan finds something's not quite right on them.
  
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Ai is nowhere to be found, Mitsuhiko last saw her when she told him she was going to the restroom. Mitsuhiko laments that he's lost his radio due to the crowd movement, he hopes someone found it and brought it to the lost property's. Ai is actually watching Higo's match at the station's giant screen, and is shocked to see Higo's missed his goal, as if "the sky had abandoned him". Ai is joined by Conan and is startled when the latter tells her she's indeed just like Higo, leaving the Organisation to go to another "better team", "betraying them" in a way. And just like Ai, Higo had a really good reason to leave them. Higo's father had had a secret child with his mistress : Rikuo Endo. Rikuo and Higo though got on very well, and decided to go and play together in first division in Noir Tokyo. Few people know that story actually, and they keep it secret. Shinichi was told that story by Higo and Endo themselves, he met them by chance some years ago, when he was in first-level secondary school, while he was playing a football match at school. They had come among the audience to see the match, and they told Shinichi he had the potential to join Noir Tokyo like they were about to do, his half-brother and himself. Though, this was all a trap, because two years after the brothers' arrival, Endo was told he lacked the necessary potential to stay with them and become a great player, whereas Higo had it actually. Endo figured out he was taken on for the sole ground of being Higo's brother and then being the only one able to attract him into their team, since they knew Higo was a great player, but Endo wasn't. Higo got it as well and soon left the team just like his brother did, and joined this latter in their new Big Osaka team, because he wanted to play there together with his brother. Endo became instructor there, and Higo player. It's exactly the same thing with Ai and her sister Akemi actually - the teams standing for the Organisation and the "life outside the Organisation".
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Ai is nowhere to be found, Mitsuhiko last saw her when she told him she was going to the restroom. Mitsuhiko laments that he's lost his radio due to the crowd movement, he hopes someone found it and brought it to the lost property's. Ai is actually watching Higo's match at the station's giant screen, and is shocked to see Higo's missed his goal, as if "the sky had abandoned him". Ai is joined by Conan and is startled when the latter tells her she's indeed just like Higo, leaving the Organization to go to another "better team", "betraying them" in a way. And just like Ai, Higo had a really good reason to leave them. Higo's father had had a secret child with his mistress : Rikuo Endo. Rikuo and Higo though got on very well, and decided to go and play together in first division in Noir Tokyo. Few people know that story actually, and they keep it secret. Shinichi was told that story by Higo and Endo themselves, he met them by chance some years ago, when he was in first-level secondary school, while he was playing a football match at school. They had come among the audience to see the match, and they told Shinichi he had the potential to join Noir Tokyo like they were about to do, his half-brother and himself. Though, this was all a trap, because two years after the brothers' arrival, Endo was told he lacked the necessary potential to stay with them and become a great player, whereas Higo had it actually. Endo figured out he was taken on for the sole ground of being Higo's brother and then being the only one able to attract him into their team, since they knew Higo was a great player, but Endo wasn't. Higo got it as well and soon left the team just like his brother did, and joined this latter in their new Big Osaka team, because he wanted to play there together with his brother. Endo became instructor there, and Higo player. It's exactly the same thing with Ai and her sister Akemi actually - the teams standing for the Organization and the "life outside the Organization".
  
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Suddenly, their attention goes back to the screen as Higo gets knocked down by a player, but the referee doesn't seem to bat an eyelid, and the supporters rejoice when seeing him badly hurt, and keep on booing. Ai's mood turns darker when listening to the anchor saying "Higo doesn't seem to have any ally in this world, though it's a shame because he's so talented..." She leaves while Conan's attention is completely monopolised by the match, and he suddenly discovers something, looking at his derby ticket. He then inwardly declares he knows who the murderer is and that this latter has lied and still has the evidence of his doing on him/her. Ai goes straight away to the staircase leading to the platform just in front of where the DBs and Agasa are, and she seems to be preparing to take a train going in the opposite direction and leaving Tokyo...
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Suddenly, their attention goes back to the screen as Higo gets knocked down by another player, but the referee doesn't seem to bat an eyelid, and the supporters rejoice when seeing him badly hurt, and keep on booing. Ai's mood turns darker when listening to the anchor saying "Higo doesn't seem to have any ally in this world, though it's a shame because he's so talented..." She leaves while Conan's attention is completely monopolised by the match, and he suddenly discovers something, looking at his derby ticket. He then inwardly declares he knows who the murderer is and that the latter has lied and that he still has the evidence of their doing. Ai goes straight away to the staircase leading to the platform just in front of where the DBs and Agasa are, and she seems to be preparing to take a train going in the opposite direction and leaving Tokyo...
  
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=== File 346 - The Fake Supporter ===
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Takagi tells Megure they’ve finished carefully examining the whole train and carriage where the murder took place, and brought it to the warehouse. Megure says now they’ll take the three suspects to the station to question them more thoroughly, though they refuse to follow him since he’s got no tangible evidence they’ve committed the murder. Conan and Agasa turn up saying the three suspects should leave in no case, unless Megure takes the chance to let slip away some important crime evidence.  
 
Takagi tells Megure they’ve finished carefully examining the whole train and carriage where the murder took place, and brought it to the warehouse. Megure says now they’ll take the three suspects to the station to question them more thoroughly, though they refuse to follow him since he’s got no tangible evidence they’ve committed the murder. Conan and Agasa turn up saying the three suspects should leave in no case, unless Megure takes the chance to let slip away some important crime evidence.  
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Conan impersonates Agasa saying the murderer is the « fake supporter » who lied to them. Kira says this might be Funato since he said « ace wingers » when referring to Hideo and Naoki, while actually this is a very old-fashioned expression, nowadays people don’t say « wingers » but « centre-forward players », modern football isn’t played using « winger » strategy anymore. Funato rationalises saying he’s quite old-fashioned indeed and isn’t such a football aficionado as them, he just heard about the « aces » and knew they had scored a goal, he didn’t lie at all. Agasa says it’s indeed the case, he’s only made a a language mistake, and the killer isn’t someone who isn’t a football fan but someone who hasn’t seen the match at all while he/she claims he/she has. He goes on explaining that the Spirits-Noir was a very important derby, so that thousands and thousands of people had come to see it, and then it’s very unlikely the murderer was among them, since he/she would have got lost into the crowd after the game, and would have eventually lost sight of his victim, Akano. The killer instead probably waited in the stadium’s bathroom listening to the match with a portable radio, and then quickly left once the game was over, in order to stand at a strategic place and wait for Akano to emerge, and track him down right after. In order to know who that murderer is, Agasa suggests they all once more listen to their testimonies. Kira claims she was in the central bleachers and perfectly saw the « aces »’ goal, which annoyed her a lot, to the point she easily got in a fight with Spirits’ supporters. Aoba claims he was watching the game in the bleachers’ curve section, with other Noir’s supporters, behind Spirits’ goal, and very perfectly saw Hideo’s and Naoki’s double goal. Funato was near the curve section, on the opposite side, among Spirits’ supporters, and, tough luck, missed the boys’ goal since his boss called him right at that moment, and just saw the players afterwards, hearing that both had scored the victorious point. The suspects believe Agasa wants to check if they’ve really been to the match, and they one and all show their tickets to prove it. The DBs say they were in the central section too and saw the goal but never notice Kira around, to which she answers it’s perfectly normal since there were hundreds of people, and their seats were probably far away from hers. Agasa asks her then in which direction Hide and Nao were running before shooting, and she says she saw them coming from the right, towards the left, and shooting then. Agasa says then according to her viewpoint, Noir’s goal is on the left.
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Conan impersonates Agasa saying the murderer is the « fake supporter » who lied to them. Kira says this might be Funato since he said « ace wingers » when referring to Hideo and Naoki, while actually this is a very old-fashioned expression, nowadays people don’t say « wingers » but « centre-forward players », modern football isn’t played using « winger » strategy anymore. Funato rationalises saying he’s quite old-fashioned indeed and isn’t such a football aficionado as them, he just heard about the « aces » and knew they had scored a goal, he didn’t lie at all. Agasa says it’s indeed the case, he’s only made a a language mistake, and the killer isn’t someone who isn’t a football fan but someone who hasn’t seen the match at all while they claim they have. He goes on explaining that the Spirits-Noir was a very important derby, so that thousands and thousands of people had come to see it, and then it’s very unlikely the murderer was among them, since they would have got lost into the crowd after the game, and would have eventually lost sight of the victim, Akano. The killer instead probably waited in the stadium’s bathroom listening to the match with a portable radio, and then quickly left once the game was over, in order to stand at a strategic place and wait for Akano to emerge, and track him down right after. In order to know who that murderer is, Agasa suggests they all once more listen to the suspects' testimonies. Kira claims she was in the central bleachers and perfectly saw the « aces »’ goal, which annoyed her a lot, to the point she easily got in a fight with Spirits’ supporters. Aoba claims he was watching the game in the bleachers’ curve section, with other Noir’s supporters, behind Spirits’ goal, and very perfectly saw Hideo’s and Naoki’s double goal. Funato was near the curve section, on the opposite side, among Spirits’ supporters, and, tough luck, missed the boys’ goal since his boss called him right at that moment, and just saw the players afterwards, hearing that both had scored the victorious point. The suspects believe Agasa wants to check if they’ve really been to the match, and they one and all show their tickets to prove it. The DBs say they were in the central section too and saw the goal but never notice Kira around, to which she answers it’s perfectly normal since there were hundreds of people, and their seats were probably far away from hers. Agasa asks her then in which direction Hide and Nao were running before shooting, and she says she saw them coming from the right, towards the left, and shooting then. Agasa says then according to her viewpoint, Noir’s goal is on the left.
  
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Agasa tells Takagi Tokyo Spirits were the home team for the derby, and Noir was the away one, something which is clearly written on the game’s tickets. As a rule, in J-League, the home team’s supporters’ seats are mostly on the left according to the central bleachers’ viewpoint, and some of them can be seated behind Noir’s goal, which is on the left. That's the complete opposite for the away’s : they’re all on the right from the central and can be seated behind Spirits’ goal. This means in truth Naoki scored from left to right, in front of his team’s supporters, therefore it’s impossible someone from the complete opposite side could have very perfectly seen how it was all done, yet it’s what '''Etsutoshi Aoba''' told them. Because he probably heard it on the radio, he thought they had scored a goal in front of Noir supporters, since it was Noir’s goal, forgetting completely about the real seat arrangement in J-League, which proves he wasn’t seating in the bleachers but was instead in the bathroom or so. Aoba explains hismelf saying he did a language mistake just like Funato, he meant the boys were coming closer to the opposing goal, and that was just a slip of the tongue to refer to Noir, due to the questioning’s tension. He says he has the ticket proving he was seating with Noir’s supporters. Agasa says it’s false : if he really had been among Noir supporters with a « Ryusuke Higo »’s « 9 » football shirt like the one he is wearing, he would have been utterly lynched, and people would have remembered it - because Higo is considered a traitor by Noir. Megure says this is not tangible proof though, and Agasa tells him to look around Aoba’s underarm : since it’s quite weird to see someone holding a dagger in public, or to see someone taking one out of a bag, Aoba probably crossed his arms during the whole fare to conceal the dagger he had in hand, and given he’s wearing a T-shirt, the dagger’s sheath’s carved patterns left marks around his underarm, which is quite tangible proof. He had got into the train crossing his arms, and as the train was reaching Haido Station, he uncrossed his arms and stabbed Akano when the train braked. Of course, he wore a glove on his right hand. The mark is around the left underarm. Megure tells the expert to take a picture of it, while Ooba comments on this irony : to revenge his brother, he had gathered material about football and had learned to be the « perfect supporter », which was completely useless in the end.
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Agasa tells Takagi Tokyo Spirits were the home team for the derby, and Noir was the away one, something which is clearly written on the game’s tickets. As a rule, in J-League, the home team’s supporters’ seats are mostly on the left according to the central bleachers’ viewpoint, and some of them can be seated behind Noir’s goal, which is on the left. That's the complete opposite for the away’s : they’re all on the right from the central and can be seated behind Spirits’ goal. This means in truth Naoki scored from left to right, in front of his team’s supporters, therefore it’s impossible someone from the complete opposite side could have very perfectly seen how it was all done, yet it’s what '''Etsutoshi Aoba''' told them. Because he probably heard it on the radio, he thought they had scored a goal in front of Noir supporters, since it was Noir’s goal, forgetting completely about the real seat arrangement in J-League, which proves he wasn’t seating in the bleachers but was instead in the bathroom or so. Aoba explains hismelf saying he did a language mistake just like Funato, he meant the boys were coming closer to the opposing goal, and that was just a slip of the tongue to refer to Noir, due to the questioning’s tension. He says he has the ticket proving he was seating with Noir’s supporters. Agasa says it’s false : if he really had been among Noir supporters with a « Ryusuke Higo »’s « 9 » football shirt like the one he is wearing, he would have been utterly lynched, and people would have remembered it - because Higo is considered a traitor by Noir. Megure says this is not tangible proof though, and Agasa tells him to look around Aoba’s underarm : since it’s quite weird to see someone holding a dagger in public, or to see someone taking one out of a bag, Aoba probably crossed his arms during the whole fare to conceal the dagger he had in hand, and given he’s wearing a T-shirt with short sleeves, the dagger’s sheath’s carved patterns left marks around his underarm, which is quite tangible proof. He had got into the train crossing his arms, and as the train was reaching Haido Station, he uncrossed his arms and stabbed Akano when the train braked. Of course, he wore a glove on his right hand, but it didn't prevent the sheath mark from being imprinted on the underarm. Megure tells the expert to take a picture of it, while Ooba comments on this irony: to avenge his brother, he had gathered material about football and had learned to be the « perfect supporter », which was completely useless in the end.
  
 
He says his twin brother was murdered by Akano one year ago. After attending a Noir match, his twin came back home covered with injuries and bruises, saying he had missed a step in the stairs and fallen down it. In the evening, he suddenly suffered a horribly painful headache and had to be taken to the hospital in emergency. He lost consciousness right after and died three days later, following a brain hemorrhage caused by a head trauma. Aoba figured out what happened when visiting « Tokyo Hooligans », Akano’s site his brother would often visit too, and reading about Akano's rejoicing about pushing someone « stupid » down the stairs just because he had been coming for quite a long time at the stadium. Aoba then went to meet Akano who got surprised « he was still alive ». Then he decided to avenge his brother’s death wearing the latter’s favourite Higo shirt, which actually kind of brought him bad luck, and which is maybe why Akano killed his twin that day. Wearing this shirt today was maybe a warning from his twin telling him not to revenge him, because on his way Aoba didn’t meet any Noir supporters, who could have blamed him for wearing that shirt, and if this had been the case, he could just have listened to them and probably gone back home, and things would have had a completely different turn. He is then taken away by police, as everyone gaze at him flabbergasted and thinking.
 
He says his twin brother was murdered by Akano one year ago. After attending a Noir match, his twin came back home covered with injuries and bruises, saying he had missed a step in the stairs and fallen down it. In the evening, he suddenly suffered a horribly painful headache and had to be taken to the hospital in emergency. He lost consciousness right after and died three days later, following a brain hemorrhage caused by a head trauma. Aoba figured out what happened when visiting « Tokyo Hooligans », Akano’s site his brother would often visit too, and reading about Akano's rejoicing about pushing someone « stupid » down the stairs just because he had been coming for quite a long time at the stadium. Aoba then went to meet Akano who got surprised « he was still alive ». Then he decided to avenge his brother’s death wearing the latter’s favourite Higo shirt, which actually kind of brought him bad luck, and which is maybe why Akano killed his twin that day. Wearing this shirt today was maybe a warning from his twin telling him not to revenge him, because on his way Aoba didn’t meet any Noir supporters, who could have blamed him for wearing that shirt, and if this had been the case, he could just have listened to them and probably gone back home, and things would have had a completely different turn. He is then taken away by police, as everyone gaze at him flabbergasted and thinking.
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=== People ===
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{{People|Kadotake Akano|Kadotake Akano manga.jpg|
 
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* Soccer player for Noir Tokyo
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== Chinatown Murder Case ==
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==== ''Major events'' ====
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* Takagi starts to question Conan's intelligence by asking him directly "How are you deducing like that?".
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* Haibara feels an emotional connection with the soccer player Higo.
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* Haibara ask conan "You'll protect me, right?". Conan answered "Yeah..." This might state something about Haibara's feelings for Conan.
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=== Chinatown Murder Case ===
 
{{ref anime|284-285|Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain}}
 
{{ref anime|284-285|Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain}}
  
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==== Characters introduced ====
 
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=== File 347 - Raining Deja-Vu ===
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Ran has an important history exam the next day. Due to the many society activities that she has been taking part in, she has to mug up on it at the eleventh hour, while on the way to Yokohama’s Chinatown to have dinner. Conan is surprised that she is not getting carsick, and Ran answers that she is tougher than she looks.
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It suddenly starts raining, and Ran starts having flashbacks of a scene that she is unable to date back exactly; the scene features Shuichi Akai looking daggers at her in a city unfamiliar to her, Akai standing still under the rain. Ran does not understand why she keeps connecting that scene to another one whenever she has it in mind, a scene where a slightly younger Shinichi is also standing still in the rain, completely soaked, with a warm but also melancholy smile on his face. As she dives deep into her memories, Conan calls her and asks her if everything is alright,  and Ran again answers in affirmative. Despite this, Ran soon starts having a kind of bad fever and starts having blurred vision. She insists that it is not a big deal, but Conan decides to keep an eye on her anyways.
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The subsequent pages of this file take place in the Chinese restaurant that Kogoro, Ran and Conan plan to have dinner in. At one table, four movie workers have gotten together to discuss what to do with their new movie when shooting cannot start due to the heroine having broken her leg in an accident. Kaizo Isogami, the film director, suggests they simply stop producing the “cursed movie”. Shiro Kawabata, the producer, however, refuses to give up on the sequel to such a blockbuster that they shot previously. The assistant director, Motohiro Ito, agrees with Isogami, reminding his colleagues that the actress has been refusing to shoot for a long time before changing her mind, and that her getting injured immediately after that cannot just be plain bad luck. And finally there is Keigo Kitaura, the author of the book on which the movie is based, who is even more opposed to producing the movie, and predicts that continuing regardless might lead to another death (“another” because someone died during the shooting of the first movie).
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Kawabata, who does not seem to be moved by his colleagues’ pessimism, wonders if there is a young and beautiful girl skilled at acrobatics who can replace the injured actress. Kogoro, Ran and Conan enter the restaurant at this moment; despite showing the waiters their voucher, they are still refused entry. As Kogoro refuses to leave, a beefcake waiter approaches him and tries to make him leave by force. This prompts Ran to stop the waiter with a karate move, telling him firmly that unless an explanation is given, they will not be forced out. The waiter is scared by Ran’s move, and points out while sweating that the voucher only works on Sundays and public holidays. After Conan confirms this, Ran apologizes and prepares to leave, but she is stopped by Kawabata, who is deeply impressed and sees in Ran the new heroine of his movie. He subsequently invites all three to eat at his table and proposes that Ran take the leading role in the movie. Kogoro and Conan initially suggest that Ran refuses, but their eyes start sparkling after Kawabata points out the many benefits of being a famous actress (being able to know other famous people, to travel around the world etc.).  Notwithstanding, before long, their minds change again: Kitaura warns that behind all the fame is the danger of being forced by unethical producers (he is clearly hinting at Kawabata) to shoot pointless love scenes for the film to make money, while Isogami comments that she might even end up dead during a filming session.
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At this point, Kawabata asks his colleagues to stop scaring Ran unnecessarily, as “she is just about to agree to an acting career.” As Ran lifts her hands up to protest, saying that she has not made a decision yet, she inadvertently knocks Kawabata's soup bowl and chopsticks onto the floor, staining his trousers as a result. Ran apologizes and proceeds to clean up the mess while Kawabata cleans the stain with his napkin and comforts her. He then moves into the seat between Kogoro and Ran, telling her that they should talk about the matter privately and without Kogoro and Conan sticking their noses into their businesses.
  
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Ran has an important history exam tomorrow and mugs up on it at the eleventh hour, due to her karate training taking too much time in these days, and because there are important TV programs she absolutely wants to watch tonight. Conan is surprised she's not being carsick due to reading while in a car, and she answers she's tougher than she looks. '''It starts raining and she remembers a scene she is unable to date back, featuring a dark Shuichi Akai looking daggers at her, in a kind of Western-style city, Akai standing still under the rain. She doesn't neither understand why she keeps connecting that scene to another one whenever she has it in mind, a scene where "teenager" Shinichi is also standing still in the rain, completely soaked, smiling in a strange way, both sadly and nicely. She has no idea what's going on, and what Shinichi is trying to tell her.''' Conan asks her if everythings's okay, since she's always got that wrinkle between the eyebrows whenever she feels concerned by something. She replies this has to do with a complicated history question, and she resumes her learning, but seems to be having a kind of bad fever and starts having blurred vision. Though, she believes it's just carsickness after all, and she insists on going and eating with them at a Chinese restaurant in Ikebukuro, since she's the one who got discount vouchers for that very fine and select place. Conan keeps an eye on her however. In the Chinatown Restaurant, four movie workers are lamenting about their bad luck, the fact that their film's heroine had a motorbike accident and broke her leg just before shooting, which is always better than a more serious accident. Kaizo Isogami, the filmmaker, suggests they just stop producing that cursed movie. The producer, Shiro Kawabata, refuses to give up on the sequel to such a blockbuster they shot previously. Motohiro Ito, the assistant director, says it's really a curse since the actress had long been refusing to shoot, before eventually accepting, and having that accident, that can't just be plain bad luck. Keigo Kitaura, the screenwriter, says if this keeps on that way, there might be another dead person, just like last year. He adds it's actually a nice stroke of luck she had this accident after all, since she wasn't at all like the heroine he had imagined when writing his screenplay. Kawabata wonders if there is such a girl that exists, a young, beautiful, and strong girl skilled at acrobatics.
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After switching seats, Kawabata notices that someone has ordered Pidans and salted egg crab, much to his distaste (Kawabata is allergic to eggs). Conan, who is determined to stop Ran from even considering an acting career, sneaks into the space between Ran and Kawabata, and starts begging for curry rice. Conan knows that since this is a Chinese restaurant, curry rice will not be on the menu, so asking for it and being told that he will not get it will give him an excuse to throw a tantrum and plead with Ran to leave for another place to eat. The plan goes forwards, but Ran fails to realize Conan’s true intent; she thinks that Conan is just not liking the food. So she gives Conan her steamed dumplings, recalling that he once told her that he loved them. Conan is dismayed by this response, but decides to leave it behind and simply enjoy the dinner. He needs soy sauce and hot sauce to condiment the dumplings, and hence starts turning the turntable to get them. However, whenever he does so, someone else turns it in the opposite direction, resulting in several failed attempts, much to Conan’s annoyance. Ran eventually notices this and grabs them for him, but Conan remains embarrassed.
  
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They are cut off by Ran's loud unbelieving comment that their vouchers can't be used, though it's the right restaurant. Kogoro starts getting angry, believing it's only based on whether they like the look of their customers or not, and, refusing to leave, he is coldly approached by a beefcake waiter who tells him to cool down and talk it over with him outside. Ran quickly stops the waiter with a karate move, threatening to kick him in the face if he lays a finger on Kogoro, and demanding a clear and true explanation. They are eventually told by the manager the vouchers only work on Sundays and public holidays, and Conan says it's indeed written on them. They apologise for the inconvenience and prepare to leave, but are eventually invited by Kawabata at his table. Kawabata proposes Ran a lead role of actress in his film to replace the one who got injured recently. He says she perfectly fits what they are looking for. Kogoro suggests her to refuse : acting is very complicated, and requires she learns tons of lines. Of course, this would be utterly different if she were as good speaker as he is - Conan secretly reminding him of Sleeping Kogoro being actually himself -, and Kawabata goes one further that actresses can quickly become famous and meet many other VIPs, stars, singers, football players, etc., she could befriend later on, and she'll also be able to travel the whole world for the sake of shooting, etc. Conan's and Kogoro's eyes sparkle upon hearing all this, and they strongly recommend Ran say yes, before changing their mind upon hearing this requires however some hard psychological training because certain unprincipled producers sometimes add useless sex and love scenes to the original storyline just to make more money. Kawabata seems to take it for himself, while Isogami says indeed she needs to be very psychologically ready for shooting, because if a mere love scene scares her, then what if she still keeps on and, due to some lack of luck, and to her fright, she ends up dying in the dead of a filming session. Kawabata tells him to stop scaring her uselessly, she may well have the makings of a great star. Ran cringes and inadvertently knocks Kawabata's soup bowl and chopsticks over on the floor, staining his trousers while doing so. She apologises and goes to pick up the bowl and chopsticks, and clean the floor, while Kawabata comforts her and takes her seat, suggesting she should go and seat at his place so his father and Conan would stop sticking their noses into their businesses.
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After a short while, the Peking duck that Kawabata has ordered is served. As Kawabata gets ready to eat the duck, he asks Ran about her favorite actresses. Ran gives him two names: Yukiko Fujimine (who is the mother of a friend of hers since childhood*), and Sharon Vineyard. Ran mentions that Sharon Vineyard passed away a year ago, but, fortunately, she was able to meet her before that, and found her to be a very refined person. Kogoro asks Ran where she met such a celebrity, and Ran decides to not tell him, saying that it is a secret. As for the movie workers, they start commenting on both actresses being indeed very famous and having epic careers, and Ito adds if "that person" were still alive, she could have entered history as well. As Ran asks him who he is referring to, Kawabata shrieks in pain, and drops dead in front of everyone.
  
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When picking up the bowl, Ran feels dizzy again, and Conan puts his hand on her forehead, saying she's got fever. '''Ran says she's probably caught a light cold, and Conan fears she might faint like last time. Ran asks him what this means and he quickly corrects himself saying it's not so important after all.''' Kawabata mops his trousers up with his napkin and asks a waiter for another pair of chopsticks. He asks Ran to order whatever she wants, and they keep the discussion going. He notices someone ordered Pidans and egg crab though he loathes that food, he just can't even stand the sight of eggs, he's allergic to it. Though, Ran is free to eat whatever she wants. Conan takes a seat between Ran and Kawabata, pretending to lament that there's no curry rice - which is obvious since they're in a Chinese restaurant. He says he wants to leave the place then, and throws a tantrum, nicely pleading with Ran to leave and go back home. Ran says she got the message, and...gives Conan her steamed dumplings instead, recalling when he told her he loved that food. Conan feels stupid and inwardly comments that Ran still doesn't get a word he means. He rather focuses on his dinner and tries to get the soy sauce using the turntable. Yet, the table constantly turns in the opposite direction, and the sauce seems to remain near Kogoro. He gets annoyed by it and Ran eventually grabs it for him. He then wants the hot sauce which is near Kitaura, and does the same, but still the table always spins backwards whenever he's about to get the sauce. Ran once again asks it for him, which shames him, he finds the situation so pathetic. At last comes the Peking duck Kawabata had ordered, reputedly excellent. '''Kawabata asks Ran about her favourite actors/actresses, and she answers Yukiko Fujimine, Shinichi's mother she's long been marvelling at, and also her own mom's childhood friend, and Sharon Vineyard, the great American actress who passed away last year. Ran said she met the latter once and remembers her to be a very refined person. Conan looks at her thinking, and Kogoro asks Ran where she's ever met such a VIP, and Ran refuses to tell him, saying it's a sweet secret. The movie workers comment on both actresses being indeed very famous and quite epic,''' and Ito adds if "that person" were still alive, she could have entered history as well, since she was so talented. As Ran asks him who she was, Kawabata suddenly shrieks in pain, and drops dead in front of everyone.
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=== File 348 - The Misleading Washcloth ===
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The police arrive and start investigating, eventually deducing that Kawabata was poisoned by cyanide found in his mouth and on his plate, chopsticks and napkin. Kawabata had Peking duck in his mouth when dying, and he got choked right after tasting it. They found no cyanide in the duck though, and the waiter hadn't any poison on him. This means Kawabata had poison on his hands even before starting to eat his meal. Accordingly, the person who poisoned him was sitting at the same table as him, among his friends and guests. Inspector Yokomizo seems to "remember Kogoro's face", believing he may be one of those he's already arrested before, or a runaway whose face he might have seen at the precinct. Kogoro can't believe his ears, explaining he's Kogoro Mouri, the famous detective. Yokomizo now recalls "Bumbling Kogoro", the one he saw on TV and papers... The police add except on the things they checked previously - especially the wet napkin on which there is a great amount of poison - there is no poison at all however on the table, chairs, other meals, etc. Kogoro was the one sitting on the victim's right, and Conan on his left. Yokomizo believes only Kogoro could murder Kawabata then, switching his own napkin which had poison on it with the victim's. He was best placed to do it, and Conan sure isn't the killer. He just had to wait for Kawabata to wipe his hands before eating duck, and die afterwards... Kogoro and Ran seem not to recognise Inspector Yokomizo until he is called by his name by another agent. They find Inspector Yokomizo has changed a lot : he's being and acting colder, warier, and he's cut his hair very short. Actually, the inspector reveals he's not Sango Yokomizo but Jugo Yokomizo, his twin brother. Sango works in Shizuoka Prefecture while he's in charge of Kanagawa Prefecture, where they are. Jugo warns Kogoro he's not as easygoing with detectives as his moronic brother is, and indeed spends his time investigating against Kogoro, believing he's the only one who could poison Kawabata.
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The police arrive and start investigating; before long, they find that Kawabata was poisoned by cyanide, which was found in his mouth and on his plate, chopsticks and napkin. Since Kawabata got choked right after tasting the Peking duck, and there was no cyanide in the duck nor on the waiter who served it, the inspector in charge of the case deduces that the person who poisoned Kawabata must have been among his co-workers and invitees. The inspector then turns towards them for questioning, and at once finds Kogoro’s face familiar, although his first instinct is that Kogoro might be a former convict who has served his time in jail or a fugitive on the run.
  
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The police find Kawabata has a stain on his right leg, and Ran explains she accidentally spilt his soup on his trousers as she was sitting next to him. Yokomizo doesn't understand anything and asks who was sitting next to who at last. They all go on explaining before meeting Ran and co Isogami was sitting on the victim's right, and Kitaura on his left, and Ito in front of him. When they invited the three to their table, Ran sat next to the producer - on his right, Conan on her right, and Kogoro on the latter's right, and then Isogami, Ito and Kitaura. Later on, Kawabata took Ran's seat when she went to pick up the bowl, and then Conan came to sit between her and Kawabata. This means Kawabata had Conan on his left, then Ran, then Kitaura, Ito, Isogami, and Kogoro. Isogami precises when they were only four at the table they all had one empty chair at least between each other. Ito insists on him being innocent since he's always been facing Kawabata, but Yokomoizo says they'll check that after thorough investigation. Conan suggests the police check out if the stain on Kawabata's trousers has cyanide on it, in order to know whether the napkin was poisoned before he changed places with Ran, or after, which could exonerate Kogoro or not (because Kawabata had mopped the stain up with that napkin). Later on, the police say they've found no cyanide on the stain, neither on the chopsticks Ran had accidentally dropped on the floor, and that were taken away by the waiter. Which means Kogoro still is the most suspicious person since Kawabata was murdered after the incident then. Kogoro says he had no reason at all to murder a man he had met for the first time, to which the inspector answers he may well have known him beforehand, it's peculiar his daughter was the first one to be spotted in the restaurant, he may have planned to come along. '''Ran gets tense and insists on saying it's all true, they'd never met him. Suddenly, she feels dizzy again and staggers, holding her head, spilling once again by accident a glass of water on the floor when leaning on the table. She once more remembers the rain and Shuichi Akai, being now sure it was rainy on that day. She wonders who that man is, suggesting he may look like another person she's met in the past, just like the Yokomizo twins. She can't remember well though, and this gives her headache, she has three different faces in her mind : a blond-haired woman slily smiling under an umbrella, Akai's infuriated and scary eyes glaring at her, and a soaked-to-the-skin Shinichi trying to tell her something in a very sad way.''' As she's trying to listen to it and to get what he's trying to say, she hears Shinichi's voice calling her aloud, which is actually Conan's, asking her again if she's really doing fine. She says it's just sudden tiredness. Conan though sits her on a chair, telling her to rest a little and wait for her dad to solve the mystery. However, he inwardly comments on Ran being more than simply "out of sorts", she needs to be taken to the doctor as quick as possible.
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Kogoro, naturally, cannot believe his ears, explaining that he is Kogoro Mouri, the famous detective. The inspector now manages to recognize Kogoro, and murmurs that he has seen “Bumbling Kogoro” on TV. As Kogoro corrects him, a subordinate of the inspector calls him and reports that except for Kawabata’s napkin, on which there is a great amount of poison, there is no poison anywhere else on the table (including the dishes) and on the chairs. Since Kogoro was sitting on the victim’s right, and Conan was on the left, the inspector believes that only Kogoro could have murdered Kawabata then, as it was very easy for him to switch his own poisoned napkin with Kawabata’s. As the inspector stares at Kogoro, trying to assert dominance, Kogoro starts finding the inspector’s face familiar as well, and after a subordinate calls him “inspector Yokomizo”, Kogoro exclaims that he must be Sango Yokomizo. Kogoro comments that Yokomizo has changed a lot: his hair is much shorter (and the hairstyle is much more normal now), and he is acting much colder.
  
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He tries to tell it to Yokomizo, but the latter is interrupted by a policeman saying he's found an empty jar in the restroom's bin, having probably contained cyanide. Kogoro is annoyed at Yokomizo’s unrelentingly accusing him of having soaked the napkin with poison previously in the restroom. Conan says Kogoro can't be the culprit given he hasn’t been to the restroom at all since they've arrived at the Chinese restaurant. Conan adds when Kawabata got the soup on his trousers, he mopped the stain up and kept his napkin in hand when changing places with Ran, then Kogoro couldn't switch it. Yokomizo says there must be a way to change napkins without anyone's notice. Kogoro suggests the murderer might have balanced a poisoned napkin on the edge of the turntable, and then he spinned it so that the napkin would fall right near Kawabata. Yokomizo yet says the victim would have very probably found quite weird a napkin "falling by accident" close to him, and if he already had his napkin within hand reach, why would he have used another one ? Conan is suddenly reminded of when he tried to get the soy and hot sauces, and eventually failed to do it, due to the turntable being systematically spinned backwards as he was about to grab one or the other. He tries to remember how the meals were arranged on the table, being, clockwise: beef sauté, stir-fried meat, egg crab, Pidan, soy sauce, vinegared pork, steamed dumplings, and hot sauce. As for the people, clockwise: Kawabata, Conan, Ran, Kitaura, Ito, Isogami, and Kogoro. Vinegared pork was in front of Kawabata when he died, soy sauce was near Kogoro, and hot sauce near Kitaura. Conan thinks about Kawabata's allergy to eggs, the fact he couldn't even stand their sight. He then stares at the Pidan and egg crab, near the napkin. He suddenly goes to ask the forensic agent if he’s checked if there were any poison on every item on or near the table. He replies he’s done it indeed, and Conan secretly asks him if he’s checked "that" as well. He says he hasn't yet, and Conan says he should do it, since « Kogoro asked it actually ». He eventually asks him if he’s found something else except poison on the napkin. The agent says there was a strange brown stain on it, and he smelt it, finding it was just soup after all. He says it's probably connected to the stain on the victim's trousers. Except that, he’s found nothing else, and Conan is just cunningly surprised to hear it... He then pretends going and telling it to Kogoro, inwardly deducing that Kawabata actually didn't die after the napkin was changed, but the napkin was changed after he died. As he had supposed it, Kawabata was killed by one of his three comrades. Conan gazes at the table saying to himself the evidence of the crime is probably still here.
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The inspector, realizing the misunderstanding, clarifies (coldly, of course) that his name is Jugo Yokomizo, and works for the Kanagawa Prefectural Police, unlike his elder brother Sango, who works in Shizuoka Prefecture. He adds that unlike Sango, he does not have respect for and faith in detectives like Kogoro Mouri. Before Kogoro has a chance to respond, Yokomizo is summoned by a subordinate again; he informs him that the police have noticed a stain on Kawabata’s right leg. Ran explains that the stain was due to her accidentally spilling his soup on his trousers, which confuses Yokomizo, prompting him to ask who was sitting next to who. After a series of explanations, it becomes clear that originally, Isogami was sitting on Kawabata’ right; Kitaura was on his left, and Ito was in front of him. After Ran, Conan and Kogoro joined them, they decided to sit between Kawabata and Isogami in that order, with Ran on the immediate right of Kawabata. And finally, after the soup was spilled, Ran and Kawabata switched seats, and Conan, who was on the right of Kawabata, sneaked into the space on his left so that he could act as a buffer.
  
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Conan suggests that the police check if cyanide is present on the stain on Kawabata's trousers, as this will allow them to find out if the napkin was poisoned before he switched seats with Ran, or after. If it was before, then Kogoro can be exonerated, as the poison on the napkin can then be explained by Kawabata mopping the stain up with that napkin. Yokomizo agrees to this suggestion, and the conclusion is that there is no cyanide on the stain, meaning that Kogoro still is the most suspicious person. Kogoro tries to defend himself by arguing that he had no motive at all to murder a man he had just met for the first time, to which Yokomizo answers that he may well have known the victim beforehand, and that it is peculiar that Kawabta decided to scout Ran on first sight. Upon hearing this, Ran gets tense and insists that Kogoro is telling the truth, and that they have never met Kawabata before. As she protests, Ran feels dizzy again; she staggers, and, while holding her head, leans onto the table, spilling a glass of water by accident. Akai’s image again appears in her head, and Ran is now sure that he met him on a rainy day. However, she is not able to put other pieces of memory together into anything coherent; all that goes through her mind is three faces: a blonde, mid-aged woman smiling mysteriously and slily under an umbrella, Akai's infuriated and scary eyes glaring at her, and a soaked-to-the-skin Shinichi trying to tell her something, with a warm and melancholy smile on his face. As Ran tries to listen to and understand the imaginary words of Shinichi, she is interrupted by Conan’s call; he asks her again, in a slightly worried way, if she is really doing fine. Ran says that it is nothing more than dizziness, and Conan sits her on a chair, telling her to rest a little and wait for Kogoro to solve the mystery. However, he inwardly comments that Ran is more than simply "out of sorts", and that she needs to see a doctor as soon as possible.
  
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=== File 349 - Cleared Memory ===
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Conan turns to Yokomizo to tell him about Ran’s worsening condition, but the latter is interrupted by a subordinate, who shows Yokomizo an empty jar (possibly having contained cyanide), which he claims he has found in the restroom's bin. Yokomizo sees this as a further piece of evidence of Kogoro’s guilt (and Kogoro is, understandably, annoyed by this unrelenting stream of accusations), but Conan says that this proves Kogoro innocent, as he has not gone to the restroom once. He adds that when Kawabata switched seats with Ran, he took his napkin with him, for which Kogoro could not have switched it at that moment. Yokomizo is not convinced, and says there must be a way to switch napkins without anyone’s notice. Kogoro suggests that the murderer might have balanced a poisoned napkin on the edge of the turntable; then, upon spinning the turntable, the napkin would fall right near Kawabata. Yokomizo deems this hypothesis ridiculous, and dismisses it impatiently by saying that if the victim’s napkin was within hand reach, there was no way that he would use one that suddenly fell off the turntable by accident. These words remind Conan that when he tried to get the sauces, the turntable was being systematically spinned backwards, such that he could grab neither. He then tries to remember how the dishes were arranged on the table: if we list them clockwise, then it will be beef sauté, followed by  stir-fried meat, salted egg crab, Pidan, soy sauce, vinegared pork, steamed dumplings, and hot sauce. Since vinegared pork was in front of Kawabta when he died, soy sauce would have been near Kogoro, and hot sauce near Kitaura. Conan thinks about Kawabata's severe allergy to eggs, and then stares at the Pidan and the salted egg crab, near the napkin.
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He suddenly goes to ask a forensic agent if his team has checked every item on or near the table for poison. When he gets an affirmative answer, Conan whispers in his ear, asking him if they have checked "that" as well. This time Conan gets a negative answer, so he asks him to check that spot, and tells the agent that it is actually Kogoro’s request. Conan also inquires whether the forensic team has found unusual things on Kawabata’s napkin, apart from the poison. The agent answers that there is a soup stain, but apart from that there is nothing remarkable. Conan smiles confidently upon hearing this, and thinks to himself that the napkin must have been swapped only after Kawabata was dead; he believes that one of Kawabata’s co-workers did it, and that that person is the murderer. The file ends with Conan confidently gazing at the table, thinking that the evidence is probably still there, and Ran sitting at the table, gasping and still holding her head, feeling very feeble.
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==== File 349 - Cleared Memory ====
  
 
Yokomizo eventually concludes the killer went to the restroom to soak his napkin with poison, and then came back, finding a way and moment to switch his’s with Kawabata’s, all the while being seated at the table, in broad daylight, in front of Mouri and co. Kogoro believes the killer used transparent fishing line and resorted to a rod and hook to carry the napkin and drop it near Kawabata…these are special techniques only movie workers know, though Yokomizo says this is utterly ridiculous. All of a sudden, Kogoro feels as if he’s about to sleep, but actually sneezes, and complains about the restaurant’s air conditioning being quite excessive. Yokomizo remembers his brother told him Kogoro would often make up cheesy deductions, but in fact it’s a trick to drop everyone’s guard, and he’s then immediately falling to sleep, starting his true deduction show, with a weird voice and a completely changed behaviour. He then turns unrecognisable, as if he were going into a trance. Though Jugo says his brother always makes a song and dances about it. Yet, they all remark Kogoro is falling asleep indeed, secretly anesthetised by Conan, who sticks a micro transmitter on his back. Kogoro/Conan says discussions have been running for too long now, it’s time to sit down at the same places everyone were when Kawabata died. Yokomizo will play the victim, and Ran agrees to resume her previous role, despite being exhausted and feeling very bad. Kogoro will now tell about the weird things that occurred right before the murder.
 
Yokomizo eventually concludes the killer went to the restroom to soak his napkin with poison, and then came back, finding a way and moment to switch his’s with Kawabata’s, all the while being seated at the table, in broad daylight, in front of Mouri and co. Kogoro believes the killer used transparent fishing line and resorted to a rod and hook to carry the napkin and drop it near Kawabata…these are special techniques only movie workers know, though Yokomizo says this is utterly ridiculous. All of a sudden, Kogoro feels as if he’s about to sleep, but actually sneezes, and complains about the restaurant’s air conditioning being quite excessive. Yokomizo remembers his brother told him Kogoro would often make up cheesy deductions, but in fact it’s a trick to drop everyone’s guard, and he’s then immediately falling to sleep, starting his true deduction show, with a weird voice and a completely changed behaviour. He then turns unrecognisable, as if he were going into a trance. Though Jugo says his brother always makes a song and dances about it. Yet, they all remark Kogoro is falling asleep indeed, secretly anesthetised by Conan, who sticks a micro transmitter on his back. Kogoro/Conan says discussions have been running for too long now, it’s time to sit down at the same places everyone were when Kawabata died. Yokomizo will play the victim, and Ran agrees to resume her previous role, despite being exhausted and feeling very bad. Kogoro will now tell about the weird things that occurred right before the murder.
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Now Kogoro tells Yokomizo to tell him where the soy and hot sauces are when the egg meals are just in front of Kawabata : the soy sauce is near Conan, on the victim’s left, and the hot sauce is near Kawabata, who is sitting on the left of Conan, next to Ran. This means when Conan tried to get the hot sauce, he would have needed to turn the table rightwards, and then he would have prevented Kawabata from touching the spot, or would have possibly caused someone else to come in contact with it. The killer actually wanted to have the egg meals stand in Kawabata’s sight for a long time, in order to annoy and repel the latter, and have him touch the spot quickly and unconsciously so as to turn the table away, which is why he always prevented Conan from turning it first, until Kawabata had done it yet. Though, Yokomizo can’t explain why the killer did the same previously with the soy sauce, and Kogoro says the sauce was near himself at that moment and not near Conan, which means the egg meals were in front of the killer, the latter needing in fact some time to put poison under the table on the specific spot. This is why he would constantly stop Conan from spinning the table, since it would hamper him in his meticulous « work ». Also, the killer needed the poison to be added right before the Peking duck would be served. Indeed, Peking duck is usually eaten using one’s own fingers, and the murderer needed Kawabata to have poison on his fingers right before eating duck, and die afterwards accordingly. To do so, it was paramount to add poison on the spot just before, and the culprit couldn’t let anyone turn the table at that very moment, which would prevent poison from being added, and from being touched and then ingested by the victim. He couldn’t add poison before because it was very likely then someone would touch the spot and get poisoned, or that Kawabata would die before eating duck, which would have seemed too suspicious then. Therefore, the murderer is the person who had the egg plates right in front of him when Conan tried first to get the soy sauce, the person who had shouted to Conan, fearing he might get poisoned after unconsciously laying his fingers right on the spot : '''Kaizo Isogami'''.
 
Now Kogoro tells Yokomizo to tell him where the soy and hot sauces are when the egg meals are just in front of Kawabata : the soy sauce is near Conan, on the victim’s left, and the hot sauce is near Kawabata, who is sitting on the left of Conan, next to Ran. This means when Conan tried to get the hot sauce, he would have needed to turn the table rightwards, and then he would have prevented Kawabata from touching the spot, or would have possibly caused someone else to come in contact with it. The killer actually wanted to have the egg meals stand in Kawabata’s sight for a long time, in order to annoy and repel the latter, and have him touch the spot quickly and unconsciously so as to turn the table away, which is why he always prevented Conan from turning it first, until Kawabata had done it yet. Though, Yokomizo can’t explain why the killer did the same previously with the soy sauce, and Kogoro says the sauce was near himself at that moment and not near Conan, which means the egg meals were in front of the killer, the latter needing in fact some time to put poison under the table on the specific spot. This is why he would constantly stop Conan from spinning the table, since it would hamper him in his meticulous « work ». Also, the killer needed the poison to be added right before the Peking duck would be served. Indeed, Peking duck is usually eaten using one’s own fingers, and the murderer needed Kawabata to have poison on his fingers right before eating duck, and die afterwards accordingly. To do so, it was paramount to add poison on the spot just before, and the culprit couldn’t let anyone turn the table at that very moment, which would prevent poison from being added, and from being touched and then ingested by the victim. He couldn’t add poison before because it was very likely then someone would touch the spot and get poisoned, or that Kawabata would die before eating duck, which would have seemed too suspicious then. Therefore, the murderer is the person who had the egg plates right in front of him when Conan tried first to get the soy sauce, the person who had shouted to Conan, fearing he might get poisoned after unconsciously laying his fingers right on the spot : '''Kaizo Isogami'''.
  
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The fact that there is also cyanide on Kawabata’s napkin - while it is supposed not to have been in contact with the spot ever - means that napkin is actually Isogami’s. He went to the restroom to soak it with poison beforehand, and then came back. When he saw Kawabata was mopping up a soup stain on his trousers with his own napkin, he also discreetly soaked his’s into his own soup bowl, exactly the same as Kawabata. When the latter died, Isogami rushed pretending to help him, but actually secretly took Kawabata’s napkin away, and dropped his’s instead, to make police believe he was poisoned due to the cyanide on his own napkin. Isogami deliberately put an enormous amount of poison on the napkin in order to fool police into believing it. He also had to use a napkin so as to put poison on the blind spot, he couldn’t use his fingers, it was too risky. He wanted therefore police to believe the napkin was really Kawabata’s due to the soup the latter had to mop up, yet Kawabata wore blue jeans, and when he mopped the stain up, he probably did it, as people usually do, quite vigorously, and then probably some of the jeans’ blue color bled onto the white napkin. Why is Isogami’s napkin having such a colour on it while it isn’t supposed to be Kawabata’s but his own ? Yet, this isn’t incontrovertible evidence, someone could well have left that napkin who isn’t Isogami’s to have him accused of the murder. Kogoro actually wishes Isogami would confess, given he’s still got his clear and good conscience, due to him telling off Conan in order to protect him because he was going to eat with poisoned fingers - which wasn’t the case actually since Kogoro had previously asked the forensics to clean the spot before the reconstitution. Isogami agrees, saying though he has « clear and good conscience », Kawabata didn’t, otherwise he wouldn’t have deliberately caused the death of Rika, the actress who died last year. It wasn’t a shooting accident at all : Rika was the perfectionist type who would always want to play her own scenes without any stuntmen/women, even the most dangerous scenes with biking for instance. Kawabata, as a sensible and ethical producer, was expected to strictly say no to it, though he would always agree, despite death danger, saying this would reduce costs and make things even more realistic. Ito says Isogami hated Rika though, he said she was nothing else but an ugly, arrogant, stupid and unskilled novice, then why would he seek to revenge her. Isogami says this stupid comment accounts for why Ito would probably always remain an assistant director : even if a filmmaker hates an actor/actress, most of the time, he ends up falling in love with them, by dint of always looking at them and following their slightest moves and reactions through his lens, for days and months, no matter how unskilled or ugly he/she is.
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The fact that there is also cyanide on Kawabata’s napkin - while it is supposed not to have been in contact with the spot ever - means that napkin is actually Isogami’s. He went to the restroom to soak it with poison beforehand, and then came back. When he saw Kawabata was mopping up a soup stain on his trousers with his own napkin, he also discreetly soaked his’s into his own soup bowl, exactly the same as Kawabata. When the latter died, Isogami rushed pretending to help him, but actually secretly took Kawabata’s napkin away, and dropped his’s instead, to make police believe he was poisoned due to the cyanide on his own napkin. Isogami deliberately put an enormous amount of poison on the napkin in order to fool police into believing it. He also had to use a napkin so as to put poison on the blind spot, he couldn’t use his fingers, it was too risky. He wanted therefore police to believe the napkin was really Kawabata’s due to the soup the latter had to mop up, yet Kawabata wore blue jeans, and when he mopped the stain up, he probably did it, as people usually do, quite vigorously, and then probably some of the jeans’ blue color bled onto the white napkin. Why is Isogami’s napkin having such a colour on it while it isn’t supposed to be Kawabata’s but his own ? Yet, this isn’t incontrovertible evidence, someone could well have left that napkin who isn’t Isogami’s to have him accused of the murder. Kogoro actually wishes Isogami would confess, given he’s still got his clear and good conscience, due to him telling off Conan in order to protect him because he was going to eat with poisoned fingers - which wasn’t the case actually since Kogoro had previously asked the forensics to clean the spot before the reconstitution. Isogami agrees, saying though he has « clear and good conscience », Kawabata didn’t, otherwise he wouldn’t have deliberately caused the death of Rika, the actress who died last year. It wasn’t a shooting accident at all : Rika was the perfectionist type who would always want to play her own scenes without any stunt performer, even the most dangerous scenes with biking for instance. Kawabata, as a sensible and ethical producer, was expected to strictly say no to it, though he would always agree, despite death danger, saying this would reduce costs and make things even more realistic. Ito says Isogami hated Rika though, he said she was nothing else but an ugly, arrogant, stupid and unskilled novice, then why would he seek to revenge her. Isogami says this stupid comment accounts for why Ito would probably always remain an assistant director : even if a filmmaker hates an actor, most of the time, they end up falling in love with the actor, by dint of always looking at them and following their slightest moves and reactions through their own lens, for days and months, no matter how unskilled or ugly the actor is.
  
 
As Isogami is about to be taken to the precinct by Yokomizo, he congratulates Kogoro for tricking him with Conan and the poisoned spot, but eventually asks him how he would have forced him to tell the truth if his « clear and good consciousness » had been absent and he had let Conan die. Kogoro says if this had been the case then he would have certainly used very bad, hurting, unbearable words to get Isogami to a corner. The latter says then he’s rather unlucky, he should complain to God who made such a scrupulous man out of him, anyway he doesn’t believe in God or whatever, and he would have loved to film Kogoro cornering him in that case. '''Ran suddenly reacts to the word « God », and pictures herself in a huge city with skyscrappers and Western-style buildings, in the rain, hearing a voice saying « Do you believe in the existence of God ? ». She remembers it to be the voice of a very calm woman, and she starts feeling very dizzy, sweating a lot, and she also hears the resonating sound of the rain, with Shinichi’s picture saying « Do you really need a reason ? ». Akai’s bleak and angry face also yells at her «  Move it ! ». She pictures Sharon Vineyard in the rain as well, under an umbrella, telling her in a both sad and happy way « Angels have never smiled upon me, not even a single time ». Ran eventually remembers everything, where she met all those people and why Shinichi was there too, but ends up collapsing and passing out on the floor.'''
 
As Isogami is about to be taken to the precinct by Yokomizo, he congratulates Kogoro for tricking him with Conan and the poisoned spot, but eventually asks him how he would have forced him to tell the truth if his « clear and good consciousness » had been absent and he had let Conan die. Kogoro says if this had been the case then he would have certainly used very bad, hurting, unbearable words to get Isogami to a corner. The latter says then he’s rather unlucky, he should complain to God who made such a scrupulous man out of him, anyway he doesn’t believe in God or whatever, and he would have loved to film Kogoro cornering him in that case. '''Ran suddenly reacts to the word « God », and pictures herself in a huge city with skyscrappers and Western-style buildings, in the rain, hearing a voice saying « Do you believe in the existence of God ? ». She remembers it to be the voice of a very calm woman, and she starts feeling very dizzy, sweating a lot, and she also hears the resonating sound of the rain, with Shinichi’s picture saying « Do you really need a reason ? ». Akai’s bleak and angry face also yells at her «  Move it ! ». She pictures Sharon Vineyard in the rain as well, under an umbrella, telling her in a both sad and happy way « Angels have never smiled upon me, not even a single time ». Ran eventually remembers everything, where she met all those people and why Shinichi was there too, but ends up collapsing and passing out on the floor.'''
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* Ran is feeling ill! Conan gets incredibly worried about her. Inspector Yokomizo establishes that he is very different from his brother, and is not very fond of him.
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* Ran's past, including her thoughts on where exactly she has seen Shuichi Akai, keep bugging her.
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=== Golden Apple Case ===
 
{{ref anime|286-288|Shinichi Kudo's New York Case}}
 
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'''Ran's fever is very high and Yokomizo decides to take her to Bay Bridge Hospital as quick as possible. She has a vision of Conan calling her name aloud in fear, but instead pictures Shinichi, and dreams about''' '''a case in New York, where she had been invited with Shinichi by Yukiko Kudo.''' Shinichi and Ran had taken the plane to Los Angeles from Tokyo, and Shinichi had solved a murder during the flight, his very first case (Vol. 21). However, once they'd arrived, they were told by Yukiko actually they'd all take another plane to New York, since she hardly managed to get tickets for the must-see opera "Golden Apple", in Broadway's Phantom Theater. However, the show is tonight, and they need to rush, especially because the person who got tickets for the three proposed to show them around the main artists' rooms, backstage, and they accordingly need to be at the theater at least one hour before the curtain riser. Yukiko realises she's actually one hour late due to her forgetting to set her watch fast to summertime. She's driving her beautiful Type-E Jaguar vintage car, and shows the teenagers what it is made of, stepping on it to arrive on time, which scares Ran a lot. The latter had been sleeping for a long time now due to the case in the plane frightening her so much she couldn't sleep at all afterwards, and also due to the length of the trip. She only wakes up in the Jaguar, in the back, at night, gazing at the Statue of Liberty in the distance, while Yukiko is driving with Shinichi on her left. As they leave the Brooklyn Bridge and highway at full speed, and eventually turn up in Broadway, they're arrested by a police car, and Yukiko is about to be in some great trouble due to an over 40-mile and more speeding.
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'''Ran's fever is very high and Yokomizo decides to take her to Bay Bridge Hospital as quick as possible. She has a vision of Conan calling her name aloud in fear, but instead pictures Shinichi, and dreams about a case in New York, where she had been invited with Shinichi by Yukiko Kudo. She also comments on Shinichi being always here to save her, once again, just like that time, just like usual, every time she’s in danger. This always annoys her a bit, but she’s happy in the end.'''
  
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All of a sudden, Radish Redwood, a well-known police inspector of New York, who got helped many times by Yusaku in the past and knows the Kudos very well, along with speaking very good Japanese, turns up telling the police agent Yukiko is in fact an undercover agent who was rushing to chase a suspect in the '''"Phantom Slasher" serial killer case''', but she seems to have missed him completely. '''A Japanese-looking man has indeed been murdering young girls in New York after midnight for a few weeks now, and that accounts for the high number of police patrols at night in New York at the moment.''' Radish tells the agent it's OK and the latter leaves, and the inspector starts speaking Japanese, asking Yukiko to thank "her" for saving her. '''And, tearing off his mask, that person disguised as Radish is revealed to be Sharon Vinyard.''' Sharon was waiting for Yukiko with the tickets, and when she heard the agent, one of her fans, telling her a yellow Jaguar is rushing at full throttle towards Broadway, and his comrades walkie-talkied him to arrest the female driver and the two teenagers inside, she decided to go and disguise as Redwood, that she also knows, in order to help her friend out, being compelled to buy a very expensive coat in the meantime to look perfectly like Radish. '''Sharon and Yukiko met each other about twenty years ago, at world-renowned wizard Toichi Kuroba's (Kid's late father) make-up art courses, in order be taught how to perfectly play spy roles in movies, and hide their true faces behind masks or make-up, Sharon being very good at it, and having even taught her daughter Chris, a flourishing actress, that art, though she's been on very bad terms with her for quite a very long time.'''
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Shinichi and Ran had actually taken the plane to Los Angeles from Tokyo, and Shinichi had solved a murder during the flight, his very first case (Vol. 21). However, once they'd arrived, they were told by Yukiko actually they'd all take another plane to New York, since she hardly managed to get tickets for the must-see opera "Golden Apple", in Broadway's Phantom Theater. However, the show is tonight, and they need to rush, especially because the person who got tickets for the three proposed to show them around the main artists' rooms, backstage, and they accordingly need to be at the theater at least one hour before the curtain riser. Yukiko realises she's actually one hour late due to her forgetting to set her watch fast to summertime. She's driving her beautiful Type-E Jaguar vintage car, and shows the teenagers what it is made of, stepping on it to arrive on time. Ran had been sleeping for a long time now due to the case in the plane frightening her so much she couldn't sleep at all afterwards, and also due to the length of the trip. She only wakes up in the Jaguar, in the back, at night, gazing at the Statue of Liberty in the distance, while Yukiko is driving with Shinichi on her left. She’s quite disappointed Shinichi hasn’t woken her up earlier, she wishes she had seen Brooklyn Bridge, but Shinichi says she was sleeping like a log and he didn't want to bother her. Besides, she can’t understand how Shinichi manages to find sleep in full satisfaction after having solved a recent murder, and he answers her none is always really satisfied « my dear Watson ». Yukiko tells them not to quarrel in the loveliest and most romantic place for lovers : Miss Liberty/Jiyu no Megami.
  
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'''Ran thanks heavens for having the opportunity to meet such a great actress, and Sharon is surprised to hear Ran believes in heaven or God or whatever, telling her "As for me, angels have never ever smiled upon me, not even a single time." The group doesn't seem to understand her words, and especially the both sad and happy way in which she said them.'''
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Shinichi believes her mom’s mild « English-lady-style » driving will never take them to Broadway on time. But Yukiko, saying Jaguar cars were designed to save their passengers, advises her son to fasten his seat belt, and Ran to do so and grab tight hold of anything she’ll find in the back, since she’s going to speed up…a lot. She starts hurtling down the highway, overtaking the other cars at full speed, Shinichi reminding her that, though that car drove the French 24-Hours’ Le Mans’ Race with its 276 hp, though a very skilled New York mechanic of her friends had a look at it, it’s been in reparation recently and she shouldn’t flog it too much. She takes a first tight bend and the right side of the car lifts, frightening both teenagers. Though, Yukiko seems to be a very skilled driver. Shinichi remarks police cars are here and there on the bridge, and her mom replies they’re driving on the other way, and they’ll only get it too late there is a road hog around. Yukiko asks her son to do her a favour, because the next bend is a really, really tight one. Shinichi gets her and takes Ran in his arms, asking her to grab tight hold of him while he sits on the open window, holding tightly the car’s door and bodywork, and lastly lying backwards, with Ran on him. Indeed, Yukiko’s full-speed-taken bend forces the car to do an almost 90° lifting, which would have badly hurt the teenagers if they had stayed at their seats. '''Shinichi seems very confident while Ran is awe-stricken, but trusts her friend.''' Once it’s over, Ran shouts at Shinichi, still panic-stricken, for saying it was « not so scary after all ». As they leave the bridge and highway at full speed, and eventually turn up in Broadway, they're arrested by a police car, and Yukiko is about to be in some great trouble due to an over 40-mile and more speeding. The agent says she looks familiar when glancing at her license and registration.
  
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All of a sudden, Radish Redwood, a well-known police inspector of New York, who got helped many times by Yusaku in the past and knows the Kudos very well, along with speaking very good Japanese (his wife is Japanese), turns up telling the police agent he's probably already seen her in some previous case, since Yukiko is in fact "an undercover agent who was rushing to chase a suspect in the '''"Phantom Slasher" serial killer case''', but she seems to have missed him completely". '''A Japanese-looking man has indeed been murdering young girls in New York after midnight for a few weeks now, and that accounts for the high number of police patrols at night in New York at the moment.''' Radish tells the agent it's OK and the latter leaves, and the inspector starts speaking Japanese, asking Yukiko to thank "her" for saving her. '''And, tearing off his mask, that person disguised as Radish is revealed to be Sharon Vinyard.''' Sharon was waiting for Yukiko with the tickets, and when she heard the agent, one of her fans, telling her a yellow Jaguar is rushing at full throttle towards Broadway, and his comrades walkie-talkied him to arrest the female driver and the two teenagers inside, she decided to go and disguise as Redwood, that she also knows, in order to help her friend out, being compelled to buy a very expensive coat in the meantime to look perfectly like Radish.
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'''Sharon and Yukiko met each other about twenty years ago, at world-renowned wizard Toichi Kuroba's (Kid's late father) make-up art courses, in order be taught how to perfectly play spy roles in movies, and hide their true faces behind masks or make-up, Sharon being very good at it, and having even taught her daughter Chris, a flourishing actress, that art, though she's been on very bad terms with her for quite a very long time. Sharon is a bit older than Yukiko. Shinichi confirms her mother’s disguise skills are not that good…being more carnival-like than spy-like.''' Yukiko wonders if it’s not too risky for her friend to show herself among the crowd, but Sharon says they’ll probably believe it’s a movie scene being filmed. Yukiko is very grateful to Sharon, but Shinichi doesn’t seem to know who this great American star is, and why she disguises herself as police officers.
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'''Ran thanks heavens for having the opportunity to meet such a great actress, and Sharon is surprised to hear Ran believes in heaven or God or whatever. It starts raining and she takes out her umbrella. She adds if God truly existed, then wouldn’t all honest, hard-working people be happy ? She says "As for me, angels have never ever smiled upon me, not even a single time." The group doesn't seem to understand her words, and especially the both sad and happy way in which she said them.'''
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Latest revision as of 15:26, 18 July 2023

Chronology
‹ Volume 33 List of Chapters • List of Cases Volume 35 ›
Volume 34

Volume 34.jpg

Information
Release date: September 18, 2001
Chapters: 340-350
ISBN: ISBN 4-09-126164-7
Publisher: Shogakukan
English release date: March 16, 2010
English ISBN: ISBN 1-4215-2885-1
English Publisher: Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
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Akakabu Kenji 		Keyhole 34.jpg
Jugo Yokomizo
Aoyama's death & Conan side images
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Volume 34 was released on September 18, 2001 in Japan.

Cast

Gadgets

Chapters

Escalator Message Case

Anime Episode 271-272: The Secret Rushed Omission

File 340 - Time to Pick the Apple

Megure tells Jodie (which is ironic given that he just told her and other irrelevant people to stay out of the case) that he has just phoned Chujo's detective agency to see whether his employees knew anything about the case at hand; they said that they did not because Kisugi had insisted on keeping his investigation confidential. Furthermore, all data about Chujo's investigations are on his computer and nobody knows the password, and it is not any permutation of the four symbols in the dying message. Then they must refer to the killer's identity. Jodie and Sonoko say the murderer might be a quiz lover, because Japanese people answer quizzes by using symbols instead of "Yes" or "No". Megure again thinks that such deductions are nonsense and tries once more to keep Jodie and Sonoko away from the crime scene.

People

  • Norihisa Kisugi
    Norihisa Kisugi manga.jpg
    • 50 years old
    • Administrative manager of a Trading Company
  • Katsunori Chujo
    Katsunori Chujo manga.jpg
    • Victim (stabbed)
    • 43 years old
    • Detective

    • Major events

    • Ran is baffled, who is the mysterious man that she has seen, before?
    • Ran is completely clueless, as is Shinichi, about the meaning of "X".
    • Ran gets very embarrassed when she discovers the meaning of "X".
    • Vermouth sends an e-mail to Gin. She feels that not far to meet with Sherry

    Flying Neighbor Case

    Anime Episode 277-278: English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective

    File 341 - The Hint That Was Against...

    Conan eventually tells Agasa about Mouri's cases' police files having been recently stolen and then sent back by post to the headquarters. The Organization may be behind that theft, they may be aware that Shinichi is secretly helping Kogoro to solve cases, they could know he was shrunken by APTX, since Kogoro's fame all started when Shinichi went missing. Yet, who would believe a seven-year-old anesthetises Kogoro and speaks with a voice-changing bowtie ? Conan may well only be a boy genius, and it's not 100% sure the Organization stole the documents. Though, someone is discreetly investigating Kogoro, and Conan has something very important to ask to Agasa, the latter saying he's nothing but a search-machine for Shinichi, and not even a confidant. Conan answers he just didn't want Ai to know it (Vol. 33), since this would scare her once again, she would once again refuse to go out, and Conan promised her he would protect her and take things in hand if they were to worsen (Vol. 29). He doesn't want her to be frightened for nothing, but says they must keep it silent to her for now, since Ai isn't as strong as she wants others to believe she is. Conan is however unaware that Ai is eavesdropping their conversation, and inwardly calls him a moron. Conan still wonders what's the point for that thief carefully sending the documents back to the police instead of just getting rid of them. Is it to trap them or have them understand the thief knows what they're doing ? Or is it maybe a stratagem to scare someone in particular, Shinichi most probably, though it's a rather odd way to scare someone. Conan realises in surprise that Heiji is just next to them, having been secretly called by Agasa in order to be Shinichi's confidant, since at the moment the latter is racking his mind with the Organization matters. Agasa still wonders how they can catch such an elusive enemy, Heiji replying that if Conan came to tell him the truth and ask him something very important, this means either he's found out a paramount clue, or he just wants to retaliate now.

    The boys eventually come up to Jodie's flat's door, Heiji wondering how a mere English teacher can afford to live in such a huge and luxurious building, and Conan replying it's because she was born in a very wealthy family. Conan tells Heiji not to act recklessly, but Heiji seems to have no idea what to tell Jodie in order to account for their coming, and Conan can't believe it. They start having a row and Heiji inadvertently presses the door's ring. Conan has to tell Jodie on the intercom that he "came to pay her a liitle visit", and she's very happy about it, and asks him to wait a little moment. Meanwhile, they meet Jodie's neighbour Takai's friends who are leaving his place, all drunk. They seem to blame Takai for being so rude and nasty when he's drunk. After a very long wait, Conan and Heiji are eventually welcomed by Jodie, only dressed in a sexy robe, apologising for the wait, since she was having a bath when they rang. Conan explains he has brought a friend to introduce him to her, and she asks them to wait in the lounge while she gets herself ready. The boys say they need to go to the bathroom, and actually start checking out something in the bath and floor sink. Jodie overhears what they are doing behind the door, and smirks in satisfaction. Afterwards, she decides to take them to a restaurant since she has nothing at home to prepare a meal for them with. Heiji gets infuriated at her beacuse she tells him he looks like a foreigner who doesn't speak very good Japanese, but Conan tries to cool down the situation saying Kansai people are often very tanned and speak a very thick Japanese, such as Southern-American English for instance. Jodie is then told Heiji is also one of Mouri's friends. In front of Jodie's building, they notice Chika Shimoda, Takai's girlfriend who had left the latter's flat and locked it with two other men, is taking snaps of the building, towards the top. Heiji comments on it being rather odd, and suddenly, a phone falls down from upwards, followed by Takai's body, which crashes on the ground.

    File 342 - The Flying Neighbor

    The four people but Shimoda look at the corpse in a cold-blooded behaviour, saying the person died instantly. Jodie recognises her neighbour Takai and Shimoda starts crying in despair. She tells them Takai was drunk and sleeping on his bed when they all left, she would never have imagined he wanted to commit suicide. Jodie says he could have been pushed in the void from his flat by a kind of burglar just as well, but Shimoda says it's impossible : there was none in the apartment when they all left, and she locked the flat because Takai was too drunk to do it properly. Besides, there's only one key, and it's impossible to hear the doorbell from the bedroom. Then, it's nothing but a suicide. Though, Conan and Heiji tell her it's not necessarily the case, because Takai was speaking with a certain Kawakami on the phone just before dying, and one minute ago he had also received a text message from a certain Nakamichi. What's more, Shimoda was behaving strangely when taking pictures of the building in the dark, these are many peculiar reasons why the hypothesis of suicide can't be absolutely established for the moment. And a person who wants to kill themselves doesn't necessarily has a phone in hand. Heiji asks Shimoda to call her friends Michiya Nakamichi and Noboru Kawakami, and tell them to come along, while they'll also call the police for Shimoda to give a clearer explanation to them. Shimoda tells Megure she actually left Takai's flat to drive Nakamichi and Kawakami back home since they were far too drunk to drive carefully. She told Takai she would come back right after, which is why she locked the flat with his key. Afterwards, she drove back to Takai's, but before going upstairs, she took a few snaps of the building to show her friends where her new boyfriend was living. It is the first time she has come here, while Nakamichi and Kawakami already know the place. She intended to go back to Takai's flat right after, but never expected him to kill himself.

    Shimoda, Nakamichi, Takai and Kawakami all work at the same place. They had come at noon to have a few drinks in order to celebrate Takai's promotion to the position of assistant manager of their company. They wanted to stay till late at night, but Takai was getting too drunk, and started to abuse everyone, then they decided to leave. He told them they were and will always be losers because they lacked something which would always prevent them from moving up the social ladder : insensitivity and ambition. Nakamichi later on sent a text message to Takai telling him never to forget "those at the bottom". They also discussed the "Hiraya case" : one of her friends and co-corkers Sumiyo Hiraya who committed suicide last month. Hiraya was a childhood friend of Nakamichi, and they met Takai and Kawakami at college. Takai and Kawakami already knew each other, and Shimoda belonged to the same year group as Hiraya. They remember Hiraya was a very kind and respectful person. She killed herself due to burnout, because she would work far too much. Probably because Takai had told her some day - though he was kidding her actually, and drunk - that if she didn't work even harder than the others, she would be quickly fired in the end. Takai seemed to have forgotten about that story, which is why Kawakami phoned him to remind him that he won his promotion out of blood, he is responsible for Hiraya's death, his career is being founded out of suffering and death. That left him speechless and he hung up afterwards, and Kawakami was then called by Shimoda and came back here at once with Nakamichi. Kawakami acknowledges he's more or less responsible for Takai's leaping in the void, though he never forced him to kill himself, then he's not a criminal. And he was drunk moreover, then Megure should just let them all go back home, since it's a mere suicide. The employees say they've actually already told all of this to Conan, Heiji and Jodie, who asked them to give them Takai's flat's key, and they're probably upstairs now, at the 21st floor. While the latter are thinking about the case, Megure and co, out of breath, turn up, too late, because the group already went into the flat, checked the place, and took pictures of it.

    They all come in once again, Heiji telling Megure the door was indeed locked when they tried first. Heiji and co really thought to suicide too until they came in Takai's bedroom and saw the window near the bed was open and a curtain was fluttering in the wind outside. It's clear the victim jumped from that window, but Heiji attracts Megure's attention on the curtain in itself : it's as if someone had pulled it too much strongly, so much that it came off the rod and damaged it, and some hooks popped away. This means Takai was about to fall and then instinctively tried to grab hold of the curtain, in order to pull himself up. Therefore, it's not a suicide but a murder. Jodie appears saying it's just like in movies or novels, sealed chambers murders. She gives Megure her testimony and account of the events. Heiji says he's still not solved the case, but actually found strange impact marks left on the outside window pane, as if someone had hit it from the outside. Chiba then comes up saying he's got Shimoda's pictures' development, among which an enlargment showing Takai indeed grabbing hold of the curtain and about to fall into the void, and flinging his phone against the pane. Shimoda took this picture but couldn't see Takai, it was too far away from the ground, and it appeared like a tiny shadow on the picture. Jodie and co once more reflect about the case aloud, and Megure hollers at them, ordering them to let police work alone this time, commenting that it's been very frequent in these days that his investigations are being interrupted at some point by Ran, Conan, Sonoko, Jodie or co (Vol. 27, 33, etc.) - though Takagi acknowledges that cases are always solved thanks to them, at every time. Conan and Heiji still can't find out how Takai ended up outside his room, being forced to grab hold of a curtain not to fall. Shimoda just took flash pictures towards the top of the building, Nakamichi sent Takai a message a minute before the fall, and Kawakami abused him on the phone, but even though he'd have said "Die", Takai would never have done it. The victim may have flung his phone because there might have been a clue on it he wanted police to find, but actually Heiji checked it out and found nothing at all.

    Jodie secretly looks at them as Heiji gets a phone call from an angry Kazuha, who can't believe he forgot their date at the mall. Conan tells Jodie he "doesn't know who Heiji is speaking with", and Heiji realises his mistake. He tries to promise Kazuha they'll do it some other day, but the reception is poor and they can barely hear each other. Heiji goes to the balcony to get better reception, telling Kazuha he's in Tokyo right now, and it's too late then. Doing so, he suddenly realises something very important. Kazuha says she doesn't understand a word he says, but is 100% sure they had planned a meeting, since she wrote it in her datebook. Upon hearing this, Heiji and Conan rush towards the other end of the balcony, and glance through a window at Takai's bedroom. They eventually find out the truth while Jodie secretly takes pictures of them.

    File 343 - Who Are You?

    Heiji suggests a reconstitution of the events in which he would give the police a hand, which would help them to find out who the killer is. He adds that, for the experiment to be conclusive, they need someone to get drunk and play the victim. Jodie is the perfect actress, given neither policemen who are on duty, nor Heiji and Conan who are minors, are allowed to drink alcohol. Jodie agrees, provided Heiji gives her some of her favourite drink : Sherry... Conan is puzzled about it, while Heiji finds ludicrous the way Jodie is getting drunk with it. Heiji then asks the police to leave Takai's bedroom for a moment while they're preparing the place for the reconstitution. Once they're done yet, they come out saying they "put Jodie to sleep" in the bed and left Takagi's phone near the pillow, and try not to wake her up, just like Takai's friends did with the latter.

    People

  • Chika Shimoda
    Chika Shimoda manga.jpg
    • 30 years old
    • Office worker
  • Michiya Nakamachi
    Michiya Nakamachi manga.jpg
    • 28 years old
    • Office worker
  • Noboru Kawakami
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    • 33 years old
    • Office worker
  • Takai
    File 341-343 Takai manga.jpg
    • Victim (fell)

    • Major events

    • Heiji and Shinichi begin to suspect that Chris Vinyard was the accomplice of Pisco and also a member of the organization...then they begin to suspect that Jodie is Chris Vinyard and decide to investigate...
    • At the end of the case Shinichi and Heiji come to the conclusion that Jodie is very suspicious and they should not let down their guard.
    • Kazuha angrily calls Heiji, because he was supposed to take her out on a dinner date!

    Soccer Supporter Case

    Anime Episode 279-280: Hooligan's Labyrinth

    Characters introduced

    Ryusuke Higo
    Ryusuke Higo.jpg
    • Soccer player for Big Osaka
    Sharon Vineyard
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    • Deceased?
    • Famous American actress
    • Yukiko Kudo's good friend

    File 344 - The Storm of Booing

    Agasa and the DBs have been to the derby between Tokyo Spirits and Noir Tokyo. The former won the match, and everyone is leaving the stadium towards the train station. On their way back, the DBs comment on the super-duper match they've just watched, and also on the supporters' constantly booing Ryusuke Higo from Big Osaka during a previous match against Noir some time ago. Ai says this is perfectly normal for a traitor, they have no place where to shelter at all. Higo "betrayed" his Noir team when he left them for Big Osaka, then it's probably well deserved. Conan says it's rather because Higo has still not scored any goals for five days now, since the tournament started. There's also a hearsay about Higo's possibly leaving once again his team to go and play in Spanish League. Ai says if this rumour were justified, then that would be the best he could do, running away from all this shame and suffering, to play in a faraway stadium where none will boo him anymore. Conan wonders what she is thinking to, while the DBs realise today at 5 PM there's actually a match in which Higo is playing. They watch it on a street TV, and notice Higo doesn't play properly, probably due to the thunder of booing in the audience. A passer-by, Kadotake Akano, says Higo deserves well his fate for having left his Noir Tokyo team, he adds traitors who fall down to hell never get over it. He then leaves laughing out loud, and Conan says Akano is a notorious superviolent hooligan who keeps picking up fights with supporters during and after matches, and he goes as far as encouraging the bullying, beating-up and sometimes killing of supporters he dislikes. His "Tokyo Hooligan" website prompted his blacklisting from several stadiums, fearing he might cause big trouble.

    Conan secretly asks Agasa what information he's found so far about Chris Vineyard, and the professor says Chris's private life remains a complete mystery, while her mother Sharon's is known from everyone. The only time Chris appeared in public, except during filmings, was at her mother's funeral, last year. The event was so important it was even broadcast on Japanese TV. Tabloids' reporters harassed her with questions such as which school she attended, if she were on bad terms with her late mother, who her father was, was the man whom she allegedly had an affair with at the moment at the funeral too, etc. She only gave a "no comment" answer, and a reporter eventually asked her if this was because these truths could be detrimental to her if they were to be disclosed. She turned her back on her mother's coffin, and, smiling, she said " a secret makes a woman woman". Agasa remembers a very famous Japanese actress looking like Yukiko Kudo was seen among the cortege, but none seems to know who she was, since Chris's words had caught all and everyone's attention around. Conan stands wondering, and Agasa asks him if Chris Vineyard really belongs to the Black Organization, to which Conan answers if it were to be the case, she would then be a very, very problematic enemy. Agasa thinks Shinichi is still trying to conceal something from him, and Conan just says actually as an actress she's used to lie and fake reality, then she could lead them to red herrings very easily.

    Conan suggests they all take the train now and go back home, while Ai is looking at Higo's match with some strange apprehension. The train is overcrowded with supporters from both teams, to the point they're all packed like sardines in a can. This is all because Genta wanted to take the first train to be quickly at home in order to watch Higo's match on his TV. Akano is also on the train, complaining aloud about the overcrowding. Mitsuhiko is listening to the match on his portable radio, and Ai puts her head and ear against his's in order to listen more carefully to the match results. Mitsuhiko blushes and tells her Higo's teammates now hesitate to pass the ball to him due to the audience's booing being unbearable now. Ai is saddened by this and asks him to tell her if there's any breaking news about him later on. Conan notices her state of mind, and suddenly the train brakes abruptly, and Conan sees Akano being stabbed to death by an unknown assailant. At Haido Station, the train is emptied at last due to most of the supporters leaving it for the subway, and Conan and co gaze awe-sricken at Akano's bloody corpse on the floor, next to a dagger.

    File 345 - The Suspicious Supporters

    Conan rushes out of the train towards a station manager, asking the latter to stop all trains immediately, and to tell his colleagues to control the tickets of every supporter leaving the station, since somebody was murdered by one of them in one of the train's carriages. Especially, they should keep aside those who bought their tickets before 5 PM, and he asks him to do it very quickly, or else the killer will escape. The police is called and Megure rapidly turns up. They recognise Akano, the infamous violent hooligan. It seems that the dagger found next to him, and which was used to kill him, is quite rare, with handmade embed patterns. Takagi called all resellers in Japan but they one and all told him it's something which was made in a foreign country, therefore it'll take a great deal of time to find the owner. Given the train was overcrowded, there are no witnesses of the crime at all. People started to realise there was a corpse only when all supporters left the train towards the subway stations. Nobody seemed fishy since they were all dressed in the same way, whether it was Tokyo Spirits or Noir Tokyo. The station manager tells Megure his colleagues kept aside three supporters, just as Conan had suggested him to do. Conan explains it's impossible to commit such a murder, among the crowd, and in a train, without having thought about it way beforehand. The murderer was probably stalking Akano, and bought a ticket in advance, which means before the end of the match, probably just before its beginning, so as not to be compelled to queue at the machines at the end, and in order then to follow Akano into his train car without any problems. They just needed to stand not far away from him, and stab him just before they arrived at Haido Station, when the train would brake abruptly, and people would be jostled, and would then one and all leave towards the subway. They just had to slip among them and pretend being a mere traveller. The culprit is probably a supporter, because otherwise people would have remembered their clothing. Moroever, there aren't so many people who buy their tickets in advance, then no wonder they're just three, most people just follow the crowd and buy their tickets at the same time, queueing, etc. And the match precisely ended at around 5 PM. However, Megure points at the fact they may have changed clothes in the station before leaving, or they could even just have gone to take another train in the opposite direction, or somewhere else. Conan says both suppositions are impossible : the restroom is located outside the station, then just after the "barrier" set up by the train station employees. And if the murderer had been to another platform, they would have been quickly spotted, since they probably would be the only one to wear a football shirt. And they couldn't of course change clothes on the platform, it would have seemed too much suspicious. The safest way to change clothes without being noticed at all was to go to the restroom located outside the station, and escape amidst the supporting crowd. They also knew that Haido Station is an important hub where many people get in/off the subways/trains.

    The police are amazed, as usual, and Takagi asks Conan how come did he think to all this in a heartbeat right after the murder? Conan tries to protect hismelf claiming Agasa is the one who thought to everything and sent him to tell those things to the managers. Conan tells the police Agasa wanted them to question the three supporters kept aside. All three indeed bought their tickets beforehand in order to avoid queueing at the machines. Yet, they say it doesn't mean they're the murderers. Though, it's strange all of them got into a crowded train, since with their tickets already in hand at the end of the derby, they could just have caught the first carriage, instead of getting into an overcrowded one like all those who queued. Hazue Kira, a Noir supporter, explains she was in the central bleachers where supporters of both teams are mingled, and she got in a little fight with some Spirits supporters and wasted time, forcing her to take the next crowded train. Mitsuaki Funato, a Spirits supporter, had a phone call from his boss towards the end of the match, because he had lied to his boss about his absence so as to come here discreetly and skip work, and got severely told off by the latter, and the blaming was so long that it lasted until late after the match, and Funato even missed the goal of the "ace wingers" (Naoki and Hideo). Etsutoshi Aoba, a Noir supporter, got so shocked of the match's result, that he stood gaping in a blackout state for a long time even after the derby, and also wasted time. They can't remember in which carriage they got on, yet Conan is pretty sure they were all into overcrowded ones. First, Kira's left hand's ring left a mark on her right elbow because she was tightly holding her handbag's strap and zipper due to the place being crowded and therefore very suitable to stealing property, for a very long time. Then, Ooba crossed his arms for a long time during the fare, and left marks of his left wrist's watch on his right arm, due to him not wanting to be accused of having wandering hands. Lastly, Funato tightly held his leather bag between his hands and still has marks of it on all of his fingers, for the same reason as Kira, to avoid pickpocketing. Conan is almost sure it was like that, because the train was very, very crowded, and people could easily stand in the same position for a very long time, with crossed arms or without grabbing hold to bars or handles in the train, and without even being able to sit down. The three acknowledge this is all true, and Conan says this is what Agasa told him to say... Megure tells the suspects to try and remember as much as possible in which train car they were. Conan looks at the suspects' football shirts : Aoba wears Higo's "9" shirt, Kira wears a black Noir shirt, and Funato wears a black and white striped Spirits shirt, and Conan finds something's not quite right on them.

    Ai is nowhere to be found, Mitsuhiko last saw her when she told him she was going to the restroom. Mitsuhiko laments that he's lost his radio due to the crowd movement, he hopes someone found it and brought it to the lost property's. Ai is actually watching Higo's match at the station's giant screen, and is shocked to see Higo's missed his goal, as if "the sky had abandoned him". Ai is joined by Conan and is startled when the latter tells her she's indeed just like Higo, leaving the Organization to go to another "better team", "betraying them" in a way. And just like Ai, Higo had a really good reason to leave them. Higo's father had had a secret child with his mistress : Rikuo Endo. Rikuo and Higo though got on very well, and decided to go and play together in first division in Noir Tokyo. Few people know that story actually, and they keep it secret. Shinichi was told that story by Higo and Endo themselves, he met them by chance some years ago, when he was in first-level secondary school, while he was playing a football match at school. They had come among the audience to see the match, and they told Shinichi he had the potential to join Noir Tokyo like they were about to do, his half-brother and himself. Though, this was all a trap, because two years after the brothers' arrival, Endo was told he lacked the necessary potential to stay with them and become a great player, whereas Higo had it actually. Endo figured out he was taken on for the sole ground of being Higo's brother and then being the only one able to attract him into their team, since they knew Higo was a great player, but Endo wasn't. Higo got it as well and soon left the team just like his brother did, and joined this latter in their new Big Osaka team, because he wanted to play there together with his brother. Endo became instructor there, and Higo player. It's exactly the same thing with Ai and her sister Akemi actually - the teams standing for the Organization and the "life outside the Organization".

    Suddenly, their attention goes back to the screen as Higo gets knocked down by another player, but the referee doesn't seem to bat an eyelid, and the supporters rejoice when seeing him badly hurt, and keep on booing. Ai's mood turns darker when listening to the anchor saying "Higo doesn't seem to have any ally in this world, though it's a shame because he's so talented..." She leaves while Conan's attention is completely monopolised by the match, and he suddenly discovers something, looking at his derby ticket. He then inwardly declares he knows who the murderer is and that the latter has lied and that he still has the evidence of their doing. Ai goes straight away to the staircase leading to the platform just in front of where the DBs and Agasa are, and she seems to be preparing to take a train going in the opposite direction and leaving Tokyo...

    File 346 - The Fake Supporter

    Takagi tells Megure they’ve finished carefully examining the whole train and carriage where the murder took place, and brought it to the warehouse. Megure says now they’ll take the three suspects to the station to question them more thoroughly, though they refuse to follow him since he’s got no tangible evidence they’ve committed the murder. Conan and Agasa turn up saying the three suspects should leave in no case, unless Megure takes the chance to let slip away some important crime evidence.

    People

  • Kadotake Akano
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    • Victim (stabbed)
    • 48 years old
    • Noir Tokyo fan and self-styled hooligan
  • Hasue Kira
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    • 24 years old
    • Noir Tokyo fan
  • Mitsuaki Funato
    Mitsuaki Funato manga.jpg
    • 33 years old
    • Tokyo Spirits fan
  • Etsutoshi Oba
    Etsutoshi Oba manga.jpg
    • 29 years old
    • Noir Tokyo fan
  • Rikuo Endo
    • Soccer player for Noir Tokyo
    • Higo's older half-brother

    • Major events

    • Takagi starts to question Conan's intelligence by asking him directly "How are you deducing like that?".
    • Haibara feels an emotional connection with the soccer player Higo.
    • Haibara ask conan "You'll protect me, right?". Conan answered "Yeah..." This might state something about Haibara's feelings for Conan.

    Chinatown Murder Case

    Anime Episode 284-285: Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain

    Characters introduced

    Jugo Yokomizo
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    File 347 - Raining Deja-Vu

    Ran has an important history exam the next day. Due to the many society activities that she has been taking part in, she has to mug up on it at the eleventh hour, while on the way to Yokohama’s Chinatown to have dinner. Conan is surprised that she is not getting carsick, and Ran answers that she is tougher than she looks.

    It suddenly starts raining, and Ran starts having flashbacks of a scene that she is unable to date back exactly; the scene features Shuichi Akai looking daggers at her in a city unfamiliar to her, Akai standing still under the rain. Ran does not understand why she keeps connecting that scene to another one whenever she has it in mind, a scene where a slightly younger Shinichi is also standing still in the rain, completely soaked, with a warm but also melancholy smile on his face. As she dives deep into her memories, Conan calls her and asks her if everything is alright, and Ran again answers in affirmative. Despite this, Ran soon starts having a kind of bad fever and starts having blurred vision. She insists that it is not a big deal, but Conan decides to keep an eye on her anyways.

    The subsequent pages of this file take place in the Chinese restaurant that Kogoro, Ran and Conan plan to have dinner in. At one table, four movie workers have gotten together to discuss what to do with their new movie when shooting cannot start due to the heroine having broken her leg in an accident. Kaizo Isogami, the film director, suggests they simply stop producing the “cursed movie”. Shiro Kawabata, the producer, however, refuses to give up on the sequel to such a blockbuster that they shot previously. The assistant director, Motohiro Ito, agrees with Isogami, reminding his colleagues that the actress has been refusing to shoot for a long time before changing her mind, and that her getting injured immediately after that cannot just be plain bad luck. And finally there is Keigo Kitaura, the author of the book on which the movie is based, who is even more opposed to producing the movie, and predicts that continuing regardless might lead to another death (“another” because someone died during the shooting of the first movie).

    Kawabata, who does not seem to be moved by his colleagues’ pessimism, wonders if there is a young and beautiful girl skilled at acrobatics who can replace the injured actress. Kogoro, Ran and Conan enter the restaurant at this moment; despite showing the waiters their voucher, they are still refused entry. As Kogoro refuses to leave, a beefcake waiter approaches him and tries to make him leave by force. This prompts Ran to stop the waiter with a karate move, telling him firmly that unless an explanation is given, they will not be forced out. The waiter is scared by Ran’s move, and points out while sweating that the voucher only works on Sundays and public holidays. After Conan confirms this, Ran apologizes and prepares to leave, but she is stopped by Kawabata, who is deeply impressed and sees in Ran the new heroine of his movie. He subsequently invites all three to eat at his table and proposes that Ran take the leading role in the movie. Kogoro and Conan initially suggest that Ran refuses, but their eyes start sparkling after Kawabata points out the many benefits of being a famous actress (being able to know other famous people, to travel around the world etc.). Notwithstanding, before long, their minds change again: Kitaura warns that behind all the fame is the danger of being forced by unethical producers (he is clearly hinting at Kawabata) to shoot pointless love scenes for the film to make money, while Isogami comments that she might even end up dead during a filming session.

    At this point, Kawabata asks his colleagues to stop scaring Ran unnecessarily, as “she is just about to agree to an acting career.” As Ran lifts her hands up to protest, saying that she has not made a decision yet, she inadvertently knocks Kawabata's soup bowl and chopsticks onto the floor, staining his trousers as a result. Ran apologizes and proceeds to clean up the mess while Kawabata cleans the stain with his napkin and comforts her. He then moves into the seat between Kogoro and Ran, telling her that they should talk about the matter privately and without Kogoro and Conan sticking their noses into their businesses.

    After switching seats, Kawabata notices that someone has ordered Pidans and salted egg crab, much to his distaste (Kawabata is allergic to eggs). Conan, who is determined to stop Ran from even considering an acting career, sneaks into the space between Ran and Kawabata, and starts begging for curry rice. Conan knows that since this is a Chinese restaurant, curry rice will not be on the menu, so asking for it and being told that he will not get it will give him an excuse to throw a tantrum and plead with Ran to leave for another place to eat. The plan goes forwards, but Ran fails to realize Conan’s true intent; she thinks that Conan is just not liking the food. So she gives Conan her steamed dumplings, recalling that he once told her that he loved them. Conan is dismayed by this response, but decides to leave it behind and simply enjoy the dinner. He needs soy sauce and hot sauce to condiment the dumplings, and hence starts turning the turntable to get them. However, whenever he does so, someone else turns it in the opposite direction, resulting in several failed attempts, much to Conan’s annoyance. Ran eventually notices this and grabs them for him, but Conan remains embarrassed.

    After a short while, the Peking duck that Kawabata has ordered is served. As Kawabata gets ready to eat the duck, he asks Ran about her favorite actresses. Ran gives him two names: Yukiko Fujimine (who is the mother of a friend of hers since childhood*), and Sharon Vineyard. Ran mentions that Sharon Vineyard passed away a year ago, but, fortunately, she was able to meet her before that, and found her to be a very refined person. Kogoro asks Ran where she met such a celebrity, and Ran decides to not tell him, saying that it is a secret. As for the movie workers, they start commenting on both actresses being indeed very famous and having epic careers, and Ito adds if "that person" were still alive, she could have entered history as well. As Ran asks him who he is referring to, Kawabata shrieks in pain, and drops dead in front of everyone.

    Note: this friend is obviously just Shinichi Kudo, and “Fujimine” was the surname of Yukiko before she married.

    File 348 - The Misleading Washcloth

    The police arrive and start investigating; before long, they find that Kawabata was poisoned by cyanide, which was found in his mouth and on his plate, chopsticks and napkin. Since Kawabata got choked right after tasting the Peking duck, and there was no cyanide in the duck nor on the waiter who served it, the inspector in charge of the case deduces that the person who poisoned Kawabata must have been among his co-workers and invitees. The inspector then turns towards them for questioning, and at once finds Kogoro’s face familiar, although his first instinct is that Kogoro might be a former convict who has served his time in jail or a fugitive on the run.

    Kogoro, naturally, cannot believe his ears, explaining that he is Kogoro Mouri, the famous detective. The inspector now manages to recognize Kogoro, and murmurs that he has seen “Bumbling Kogoro” on TV. As Kogoro corrects him, a subordinate of the inspector calls him and reports that except for Kawabata’s napkin, on which there is a great amount of poison, there is no poison anywhere else on the table (including the dishes) and on the chairs. Since Kogoro was sitting on the victim’s right, and Conan was on the left, the inspector believes that only Kogoro could have murdered Kawabata then, as it was very easy for him to switch his own poisoned napkin with Kawabata’s. As the inspector stares at Kogoro, trying to assert dominance, Kogoro starts finding the inspector’s face familiar as well, and after a subordinate calls him “inspector Yokomizo”, Kogoro exclaims that he must be Sango Yokomizo. Kogoro comments that Yokomizo has changed a lot: his hair is much shorter (and the hairstyle is much more normal now), and he is acting much colder.

    The inspector, realizing the misunderstanding, clarifies (coldly, of course) that his name is Jugo Yokomizo, and works for the Kanagawa Prefectural Police, unlike his elder brother Sango, who works in Shizuoka Prefecture. He adds that unlike Sango, he does not have respect for and faith in detectives like Kogoro Mouri. Before Kogoro has a chance to respond, Yokomizo is summoned by a subordinate again; he informs him that the police have noticed a stain on Kawabata’s right leg. Ran explains that the stain was due to her accidentally spilling his soup on his trousers, which confuses Yokomizo, prompting him to ask who was sitting next to who. After a series of explanations, it becomes clear that originally, Isogami was sitting on Kawabata’ right; Kitaura was on his left, and Ito was in front of him. After Ran, Conan and Kogoro joined them, they decided to sit between Kawabata and Isogami in that order, with Ran on the immediate right of Kawabata. And finally, after the soup was spilled, Ran and Kawabata switched seats, and Conan, who was on the right of Kawabata, sneaked into the space on his left so that he could act as a buffer.

    Conan suggests that the police check if cyanide is present on the stain on Kawabata's trousers, as this will allow them to find out if the napkin was poisoned before he switched seats with Ran, or after. If it was before, then Kogoro can be exonerated, as the poison on the napkin can then be explained by Kawabata mopping the stain up with that napkin. Yokomizo agrees to this suggestion, and the conclusion is that there is no cyanide on the stain, meaning that Kogoro still is the most suspicious person. Kogoro tries to defend himself by arguing that he had no motive at all to murder a man he had just met for the first time, to which Yokomizo answers that he may well have known the victim beforehand, and that it is peculiar that Kawabta decided to scout Ran on first sight. Upon hearing this, Ran gets tense and insists that Kogoro is telling the truth, and that they have never met Kawabata before. As she protests, Ran feels dizzy again; she staggers, and, while holding her head, leans onto the table, spilling a glass of water by accident. Akai’s image again appears in her head, and Ran is now sure that he met him on a rainy day. However, she is not able to put other pieces of memory together into anything coherent; all that goes through her mind is three faces: a blonde, mid-aged woman smiling mysteriously and slily under an umbrella, Akai's infuriated and scary eyes glaring at her, and a soaked-to-the-skin Shinichi trying to tell her something, with a warm and melancholy smile on his face. As Ran tries to listen to and understand the imaginary words of Shinichi, she is interrupted by Conan’s call; he asks her again, in a slightly worried way, if she is really doing fine. Ran says that it is nothing more than dizziness, and Conan sits her on a chair, telling her to rest a little and wait for Kogoro to solve the mystery. However, he inwardly comments that Ran is more than simply "out of sorts", and that she needs to see a doctor as soon as possible.

    Conan turns to Yokomizo to tell him about Ran’s worsening condition, but the latter is interrupted by a subordinate, who shows Yokomizo an empty jar (possibly having contained cyanide), which he claims he has found in the restroom's bin. Yokomizo sees this as a further piece of evidence of Kogoro’s guilt (and Kogoro is, understandably, annoyed by this unrelenting stream of accusations), but Conan says that this proves Kogoro innocent, as he has not gone to the restroom once. He adds that when Kawabata switched seats with Ran, he took his napkin with him, for which Kogoro could not have switched it at that moment. Yokomizo is not convinced, and says there must be a way to switch napkins without anyone’s notice. Kogoro suggests that the murderer might have balanced a poisoned napkin on the edge of the turntable; then, upon spinning the turntable, the napkin would fall right near Kawabata. Yokomizo deems this hypothesis ridiculous, and dismisses it impatiently by saying that if the victim’s napkin was within hand reach, there was no way that he would use one that suddenly fell off the turntable by accident. These words remind Conan that when he tried to get the sauces, the turntable was being systematically spinned backwards, such that he could grab neither. He then tries to remember how the dishes were arranged on the table: if we list them clockwise, then it will be beef sauté, followed by stir-fried meat, salted egg crab, Pidan, soy sauce, vinegared pork, steamed dumplings, and hot sauce. Since vinegared pork was in front of Kawabta when he died, soy sauce would have been near Kogoro, and hot sauce near Kitaura. Conan thinks about Kawabata's severe allergy to eggs, and then stares at the Pidan and the salted egg crab, near the napkin.

    He suddenly goes to ask a forensic agent if his team has checked every item on or near the table for poison. When he gets an affirmative answer, Conan whispers in his ear, asking him if they have checked "that" as well. This time Conan gets a negative answer, so he asks him to check that spot, and tells the agent that it is actually Kogoro’s request. Conan also inquires whether the forensic team has found unusual things on Kawabata’s napkin, apart from the poison. The agent answers that there is a soup stain, but apart from that there is nothing remarkable. Conan smiles confidently upon hearing this, and thinks to himself that the napkin must have been swapped only after Kawabata was dead; he believes that one of Kawabata’s co-workers did it, and that that person is the murderer. The file ends with Conan confidently gazing at the table, thinking that the evidence is probably still there, and Ran sitting at the table, gasping and still holding her head, feeling very feeble.

    File 349 - Cleared Memory

    Yokomizo eventually concludes the killer went to the restroom to soak his napkin with poison, and then came back, finding a way and moment to switch his’s with Kawabata’s, all the while being seated at the table, in broad daylight, in front of Mouri and co. Kogoro believes the killer used transparent fishing line and resorted to a rod and hook to carry the napkin and drop it near Kawabata…these are special techniques only movie workers know, though Yokomizo says this is utterly ridiculous. All of a sudden, Kogoro feels as if he’s about to sleep, but actually sneezes, and complains about the restaurant’s air conditioning being quite excessive. Yokomizo remembers his brother told him Kogoro would often make up cheesy deductions, but in fact it’s a trick to drop everyone’s guard, and he’s then immediately falling to sleep, starting his true deduction show, with a weird voice and a completely changed behaviour. He then turns unrecognisable, as if he were going into a trance. Though Jugo says his brother always makes a song and dances about it. Yet, they all remark Kogoro is falling asleep indeed, secretly anesthetised by Conan, who sticks a micro transmitter on his back. Kogoro/Conan says discussions have been running for too long now, it’s time to sit down at the same places everyone were when Kawabata died. Yokomizo will play the victim, and Ran agrees to resume her previous role, despite being exhausted and feeling very bad. Kogoro will now tell about the weird things that occurred right before the murder.

    People

  • Kaizo Isogami
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    • 52 years old
    • Movie director
  • Motohiro Ito
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    • 38 years old
    • Assistant director
  • Keigo Kitaura
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    • 29 years old
    • Writer
  • Shiro Kawabata
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    • Victim (poison)
    • 46 years old
    • Producer
  • Rika
    Rika manga.jpg
    • Deceased (bike accident)
    • Actress

    • Major events

    • Ran is feeling ill! Conan gets incredibly worried about her. Inspector Yokomizo establishes that he is very different from his brother, and is not very fond of him.
    • Ran's past, including her thoughts on where exactly she has seen Shuichi Akai, keep bugging her.
    • Inspector Yokomizo is a much different Inspector from his brother, not believing in Kogoro at all.
    • Conan is incredibly concerned about Ran. Is she OK?
    • Ran's past and her memories finally return to her, after she has passed out.

    Golden Apple Case

    Anime Episode 286-288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case

    Characters introduced

    Toichi Kuroba
    Toichi Kuroba.jpg

    File 350 - Golden Apple 1

    Ran's fever is very high and Yokomizo decides to take her to Bay Bridge Hospital as quick as possible. She has a vision of Conan calling her name aloud in fear, but instead pictures Shinichi, and dreams about a case in New York, where she had been invited with Shinichi by Yukiko Kudo. She also comments on Shinichi being always here to save her, once again, just like that time, just like usual, every time she’s in danger. This always annoys her a bit, but she’s happy in the end.

    Shinichi and Ran had actually taken the plane to Los Angeles from Tokyo, and Shinichi had solved a murder during the flight, his very first case (Vol. 21). However, once they'd arrived, they were told by Yukiko actually they'd all take another plane to New York, since she hardly managed to get tickets for the must-see opera "Golden Apple", in Broadway's Phantom Theater. However, the show is tonight, and they need to rush, especially because the person who got tickets for the three proposed to show them around the main artists' rooms, backstage, and they accordingly need to be at the theater at least one hour before the curtain riser. Yukiko realises she's actually one hour late due to her forgetting to set her watch fast to summertime. She's driving her beautiful Type-E Jaguar vintage car, and shows the teenagers what it is made of, stepping on it to arrive on time. Ran had been sleeping for a long time now due to the case in the plane frightening her so much she couldn't sleep at all afterwards, and also due to the length of the trip. She only wakes up in the Jaguar, in the back, at night, gazing at the Statue of Liberty in the distance, while Yukiko is driving with Shinichi on her left. She’s quite disappointed Shinichi hasn’t woken her up earlier, she wishes she had seen Brooklyn Bridge, but Shinichi says she was sleeping like a log and he didn't want to bother her. Besides, she can’t understand how Shinichi manages to find sleep in full satisfaction after having solved a recent murder, and he answers her none is always really satisfied « my dear Watson ». Yukiko tells them not to quarrel in the loveliest and most romantic place for lovers : Miss Liberty/Jiyu no Megami.

    Shinichi believes her mom’s mild « English-lady-style » driving will never take them to Broadway on time. But Yukiko, saying Jaguar cars were designed to save their passengers, advises her son to fasten his seat belt, and Ran to do so and grab tight hold of anything she’ll find in the back, since she’s going to speed up…a lot. She starts hurtling down the highway, overtaking the other cars at full speed, Shinichi reminding her that, though that car drove the French 24-Hours’ Le Mans’ Race with its 276 hp, though a very skilled New York mechanic of her friends had a look at it, it’s been in reparation recently and she shouldn’t flog it too much. She takes a first tight bend and the right side of the car lifts, frightening both teenagers. Though, Yukiko seems to be a very skilled driver. Shinichi remarks police cars are here and there on the bridge, and her mom replies they’re driving on the other way, and they’ll only get it too late there is a road hog around. Yukiko asks her son to do her a favour, because the next bend is a really, really tight one. Shinichi gets her and takes Ran in his arms, asking her to grab tight hold of him while he sits on the open window, holding tightly the car’s door and bodywork, and lastly lying backwards, with Ran on him. Indeed, Yukiko’s full-speed-taken bend forces the car to do an almost 90° lifting, which would have badly hurt the teenagers if they had stayed at their seats. Shinichi seems very confident while Ran is awe-stricken, but trusts her friend. Once it’s over, Ran shouts at Shinichi, still panic-stricken, for saying it was « not so scary after all ». As they leave the bridge and highway at full speed, and eventually turn up in Broadway, they're arrested by a police car, and Yukiko is about to be in some great trouble due to an over 40-mile and more speeding. The agent says she looks familiar when glancing at her license and registration.

    All of a sudden, Radish Redwood, a well-known police inspector of New York, who got helped many times by Yusaku in the past and knows the Kudos very well, along with speaking very good Japanese (his wife is Japanese), turns up telling the police agent he's probably already seen her in some previous case, since Yukiko is in fact "an undercover agent who was rushing to chase a suspect in the "Phantom Slasher" serial killer case, but she seems to have missed him completely". A Japanese-looking man has indeed been murdering young girls in New York after midnight for a few weeks now, and that accounts for the high number of police patrols at night in New York at the moment. Radish tells the agent it's OK and the latter leaves, and the inspector starts speaking Japanese, asking Yukiko to thank "her" for saving her. And, tearing off his mask, that person disguised as Radish is revealed to be Sharon Vinyard. Sharon was waiting for Yukiko with the tickets, and when she heard the agent, one of her fans, telling her a yellow Jaguar is rushing at full throttle towards Broadway, and his comrades walkie-talkied him to arrest the female driver and the two teenagers inside, she decided to go and disguise as Redwood, that she also knows, in order to help her friend out, being compelled to buy a very expensive coat in the meantime to look perfectly like Radish.

    Sharon and Yukiko met each other about twenty years ago, at world-renowned wizard Toichi Kuroba's (Kid's late father) make-up art courses, in order be taught how to perfectly play spy roles in movies, and hide their true faces behind masks or make-up, Sharon being very good at it, and having even taught her daughter Chris, a flourishing actress, that art, though she's been on very bad terms with her for quite a very long time. Sharon is a bit older than Yukiko. Shinichi confirms her mother’s disguise skills are not that good…being more carnival-like than spy-like. Yukiko wonders if it’s not too risky for her friend to show herself among the crowd, but Sharon says they’ll probably believe it’s a movie scene being filmed. Yukiko is very grateful to Sharon, but Shinichi doesn’t seem to know who this great American star is, and why she disguises herself as police officers.

    Ran thanks heavens for having the opportunity to meet such a great actress, and Sharon is surprised to hear Ran believes in heaven or God or whatever. It starts raining and she takes out her umbrella. She adds if God truly existed, then wouldn’t all honest, hard-working people be happy ? She says "As for me, angels have never ever smiled upon me, not even a single time." The group doesn't seem to understand her words, and especially the both sad and happy way in which she said them.

    Shinichi inwardly and retroactively comments on the tragic event that would come up soon and that he didn’t want to remember, to the contrary of Sharon's mysterious words.

    People

  • Radish Redwood
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    • Captain from New York Police Department
  • Lilas Sanchez
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    • 32 years old
    • Stage actress
  • Akane Nielsen
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    • 27 years old
    • Stage actress
  • Rose Hewitt
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    • 28 years old
    • Stage actress
  • Iberis Hamilton
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    • 30 years old
    • Stage actress
    • Heath's wife
  • Heath Flockheart
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    • Victim (gunshot)
    • 33 years old
    • Stage actor
  • Slasher
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    • Serial killer

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    Black Organization
    High ranking The Boss • Rum • Gin • Vermouth
    Other agents Vodka • Kir (undercover) • Chianti • Korn • Bourbon (undercover)
    Deceased agents Akemi Miyano • Tequila • Kenzo Masuyama/Pisco • Atsushi Miyano • Elena Miyano • Calvados • Rikumichi Kusuda • Ethan Hondou (undercover) • Hiromitsu Morofushi/Scotch (undercover)
    Former agents Shiho Miyano/Sherry (Ai Haibara) • Shuichi Akai/Dai Moroboshi/Rye (undercover) • Ki'ichiro Numabuchi
    Extended canon Yoshiaki Hara (movie only) • Irish (movie only) • Masaaki Okakura (movie only) • Arrack (special manga only) • Generic (special manga only) • Blackbeard (special manga only) • Kate Lauren (playstation only) • Curaçao (movie only) • Stout (movie only) • Aquavit (movie only) • Leona Bucholz/Riesling (movie only) • Man in bar (tv special only) • Pinga (movie only)
    Related articles Black Organization timeline • APTX 4869 • Nanatsu no Ko • Scar Akai • List of Black Organization related characters • Vermouth timeline • Suguru Itakura • Kohji Haneda case • Karasuma Group • "The Criminal" • Night Baron • Crow
    Manga Roller Coaster Murder Case • ¥1,000,000,000 Robbery • Bullet-Train Bombing • Game Convention Case • Missing Older Brother Case • Murdered Professor Case • Hotel Party Murder Case • Bus Hijacking Case • Kaitou Kid and the Murder • Escalator Message Case • Golden Apple Case • Footsteps of Darkness • Meeting with Vodka • Four Porsches Case • Bathroom Murder Case • Halloween Party Case • Black Organization vs. FBI • Mysterious Job Case • Kir Transport Case • Foreign Suspect Case • Department Store Bomber Case • Online Client • Mystery Train • Tennis Meetup • A Shrine to Remember • Elementary Teacher Assault • Scarlet Showdown • Girls Band Murder Case • Soul Detective Murder Case • A song named ASACA • Missing Maria Higashio Case • Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case • Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case • FBI Serial Murder Case • Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule • Chess Tournament Murder Case
    Anime Roller Coaster Murder Case • Game Company Murder Case • The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case • The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case • Reunion with the Black Organization • The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid • The Mysterious Passenger • The Secret Rushed Omission • Shinichi Kudo's New York Case • On the Trail of a Silent Witness • Contact with the Black Organization • The Four Porsches • Hidden Bathroom Secret • Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night • Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out • The Shadow of the Black Organization • Clash of Red and Black • The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen • Detectives' Nocturne • The Jet-Black Mystery Train • Conan in a Locked Room • Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap • The Scarlet Return • The Shadow Approaching Amuro (TV original) • The Unfriendly Girls Band • The Spirit Detective's Murder • The Betrayal's Stage • Search for Maria-chan! • The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment • Yusaku Kudo's Detective Show • The Black Organization's Scheme • Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule
    Movies and Specials Countdown to Heaven • Time Travel of the Silver Sky • Black History • The Raven Chaser • Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization • The Darkest Nightmare • Black Iron Submarine
    Special Manga The Wish Put on the Airship • The Black Organization...Revealed • Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus
    Playstation Remembrance Treasure Case
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