The Ventriloquist's Illusion

Chronology
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Episode 806-807 (Int. Episode 861-862)
Information
Title:	The Ventriloquist's Illusion
Japanese title:	腹話術師の錯覚 (Fukuwajutsushi no Sakkaku?)
Original airdate:	January 30, 2016 (Part 1) February 6, 2016 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	8.5% 8.4%
Filler case:	#254
Season:	21
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Speaker (Part 1) Trophy (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	806 Akira Yoshimura 807 Takanori Yano
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 806 Nobuyuki Iwai 807 Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Nobuyuki Iwai Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Production cooperation:	807 BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Takashi Matsuyama as Riichi Tengan and Doll Kei Hayami as Kazuko Tengan Gou Inoue as Haruomi Togawa Kaoru Marimura as Nurse
Music
Opening song:	Hane
Closing song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite

The Ventriloquist's Illusion (腹話術師の錯覚 ,Fukuwajutsushi no Sakkaku) is the 806th and 807th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Riichi Tengan, a popular ventriloquist, wants Kogoro to help himself from killing his wife Kazuko because he had always hallucinations that the doll he had wanted him to killed his wife. Few days later, the apprentice called Kogoro and tell that Kazuko was killed. Afterwards, Kogoro, Ran, and Conan go to the house and found the wife lying on the sofa.

Murder
	Location: Tengan House Victim: Kazuko Tengan Age: 35 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Riichi Tengan and Haruomi Togawa

Megure confirms that the weapon used at the crime is the "trophy" and the only possible for the crime is the husband Riichi, because his fingerprints was found that the trophy but when Conan and Kogoro merely investigate, they found speakers on the different sides of the house and give it to Megure. When the forsenics tested it, Megure spilled out that the apprentice Haruomi had his fingerprints on the speakers, pointing him to be the suspect, but he denied that the speakers were gone missing last week. Later on, the police found out Haruomi's glasses with the victim's blood on it and he turned out to be the major suspect, but he denied and Megure said that its just a matter of time if he confessed. But Conan has that uneasy feeling that there's something wrong. Is Haruomi really the suspect?

People

Riichi Tengan
	40 years old Popular ventriloquist Kogoro's client

Kazuko Tengan
	Victim (bludgeoned) 35 years old Riichi's wife

Haruomi Togawa
	28 years old Riichi's pupil

Woman
	Nurse

Doll
	Riichi's doll and ventriloquism "partner"

Resolution

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The real culprit is Riichi Tengan. The motive was obviously the affair between his wife and Togawa, which had injured his personal pride.

In order to make it appear that Togawa wanted to drive him into insanity, Tengan stole the speakers and recorder from Togawa and planted them inside his own house to be easily found. In addition, the sudden change of the act in the opening scene was meant to further "confirm" that he was already driven into insanity by the time he hired Kogoro. This was all meant to initially cast suspicion on himself, only to have him cleared by both pinning the blame on his apprentice and claiming innocence by reason of his "induced" split personality.

The decisive pieces of evidence are Togawa's glasses Tengan had drenched with Kazuko's blood and then planted inside Togawa's bag. In the process, the glasses had caught some fibers from Tengan's gloves, which were found clinging to the glasses' frame by the forensics. To avoid discovery of the bloodstained gloves, Tengan hid them inside his puppet and later disposed of them. But Conan has deduced their hiding place, and by having it examined, traces of the gloves' fibers with Kazuko's blood and Tengan's sweat were found on the puppet. Before his presentation of the facts, Conan additionally hid two fake gloves on the puppet, making Tengan burst out with an involuntary confession and thus completely shattering his alibi.

Trivia

Suzuki Art Museum

• This is the first time that Conan uses his Voice-Changing Bowtie to impersonate an inanimate object which, in this case, a puppet.
• The painting in Tengan's apartment is the Suzuki Art Museum from Munch's Missing Scream.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El número del ventríloc	The ventriloquist's act
Thai	มายาของนักพากย์ตุ๊กตา
Vietnamese	Ảo giác của người nói tiếng bụng	The Ventriloquist's Illusion

See also

• Season 21