Intrigue at Morikawa Mansion

Chronology
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Episode 1050-1051 (Int. Episode 1107-1108)
Information
Title:	Intrigue at Morikawa Mansion
Japanese title:	森川御殿の陰謀 (Morikawa Goten no Inbō)
Original airdate:	July 16, 2022 (Part 1) July 23, 2022 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	5.4% (Part 1) 5.6% (Part 2)
Filler case:	#371
Season:	27
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Key (Part 1) Soft serve (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Akatsuki Yamatoya
Storyboard:	Mitsuko Kase
Episode director:	1050: Minoru Tozawa 1051: Yosuke Fujino
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 1050: • Keiko Sasaki 1051: • Akio Kawamura • Yoshitsugu Hatano • Asuka Tsubuki • Kana Aoki • Yui Ushinohama • Miho Tanaka • FALCO Suzuki
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	1051: • Azeta Pictures • BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Kosei Hirota as Yuzan Morikawa Ken Narita as Yuichiro Morikawa Kosuke Toriumi as Yujiro Morikawa Yuichi Iguchi as Yuzaburo Morikawa and Yuzaburo Morikawa (young) Kenji Nomura as Hiroki Oi Fumie Mizusawa as Yuka Shito Risa Yoshinaga as Yuichiro Morikawa (young) Arisa Sekine as Yujiro Morikawa (young)
Music
Opening song:	SPARKLE
Closing song:	Karappo no Kokoro

Intrigue at Morikawa Mansion (森川御殿の陰謀 ,Morikawa Goten no Inbō) is the 1050th and 1051st episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Hiroki Oi
	36 years old Lawyer

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are invited by Yuzan Morikawa to a remote island under Tokyo jurisdiction, where Morikawa mansion is located. Yuzan, whose body has been consumed by late-stage cancer, asks Kogoro to help him and his lawyer, Hiroki Oi, rewriting the will, and to select one person that is worthy of inheriting his legacy.

Later, the group have a small tour around the mansion, lead by chief butler Yuka Shito. While they are looking at the tank room, they meet the first son Yuichiro, who is researching a new flavor for the soft serve. After that, they go to reception room, where they meet the second son Yujiro, and the third son Yuzaburo. However, it seems that the siblings always having a fight over the inheritance.

When it is dinner time, Yujiro doesn't show up. At fisrt, nothing feels wrong. After dinner, Oi reminds the whole group that the will shall be rewritten tomorrow afternoon. However, both Yujiro and Yuzaburo doesn't show up during breakfast. The others decide to check their rooms. Yujiro is not found in his room. Meanwhile, they found Yuzaburo lying dead in his room.

Murder
	Location: Morikawa Mansion - Yuzaburo's room Victim: Yuzaburo Morikawa Age: 27 years old Cause of death: Froze to death Suspects: Yuichiro Morikawa and Yujiro Morikawa

Oi stops Kogoro from calling the police, as it will be considered a breach of contract. However, he allows Kogoro to investigate the case. Conan also investigate, and even ask Yuzan some questions. He later return to their room, where Ran is thinking to have another soft serve. However, the machine is not working. Fortunately, Yuka come in and fix the machine. Suddenly, along with the soft serve, there is also some red-color stuff coming out from the machine. Conan then realized there is "something" in the soft serve tank.

Part 2

Yujiro's body is found inside the soft serve tank.

Murder
	Location: Morikawa Mansion - Tank room Victim: Yujiro Morikawa Age: 31 years old Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Yuichiro Morikawa

Oi then reveals that he secretly call the police as he predicted that the police will arrive after the will has been rewritten. Yuichiro express his fear as his brothers had been killed and he is clearly the next. He then decides to return to his room.

Kogoro, Conan, and Ran return to their room and discuss the identity of the culprit. Meanwhile, Yuichiro successfully make a new flavor of the soft serve. He goes to the roof and enjoy the soft serve. He is very happy with the flavor, and with him being the only one alive, he will get all the inheritance. However, a loud sound is heard, and Yuichiro fall into the backyard. He got one shot through the heart from behind and died instantly.

Murder
	Location: Morikawa Mansion - Backyard Victim: Yuichiro Morikawa Age: 33 years old Cause of death: Gunshot wound to the chest Suspects: Hiroki Oi and Yuka Shito

Conan deduces the position of the shooter, and later finds a rifle lying inside the tool room. He also smell something familiar. Conan then ask Yuka to show him Yuichiro's room. After investigating the room, Conan knows what happened.

People

Yuzan Morikawa
	68 years old Morikawa Group chairman In his final days

Yuichiro Morikawa
	Victim (gunshot) 33 years old Yuzan's first son Self-employed

Yujiro Morikawa
	Victim (bludgeoned) 31 years old Yuzan's second son Morikawa Holdings executive

Yuzaburo Morikawa
	Victim (frozen) 27 years old Yuzan's third son Morikawa Livestock rancher

Hiroki Oi
	36 years old Lawyer

Yuka Shito
	24 years old Chief butler

Mr. Shito
	Deceased Yuka's father

Mrs. Shito
	Deceased Yuka's mother

Resolution

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It turns out that all three brothers tried to kill each other. After finding out that Yuzaburo tried to kill him, Yuichiro Morikawa kills him off by freezing him in his room using the soft serve machine, where he directed the vent outwards. In order to prevent Yuzaburo from leaving the room, Yuichiro "locked" the room using the soft serve ice cream by inserting it into the keyhole, and causing it to freeze when the soft serve machine temperature reached minumum temperature. It also explains the scratch marks at the bottom doorframe, as Yuzaburo had regained consciousness and had tried to open the door to no avail as it was frozen shut from the outside. The timer was set to heat the room after Yuzaburo died, which caused the soft serve ice cream to melted away, creating a locked room.

Conan deduces that Yujiro was killed when he asked Yuichiro to meet him at the tank room. The evidence is the bamboo charcoal Yuichiro used to make the new soft serve flavor, which was found at the tank room and Yuzaburo's room. Yuzan, who oversaw all of this using the cameras installed in every room, mustered the last bit of his strength and killed Yuichiro. The evidence is that there was the smell of the gunpowder, medicine, and Yuzan himself inside the tool room.

Yuzan clarified that Yujiro is the one who tried to kill Yuichiro. Yuzan plays the camera footage that shows when Yujiro and Yuichiro had a fight at the tank room, Yuichiro ended up getting the upper hand and killed him accidentally. Yuzan confesses that the reason he planned to rewrite the will is that he wanted his sons to remember what he had taught since they were boys, which is the willingness to share with each other. In the end, he asks Conan to tell the police what happened, and to make sure Yuichiro's recipe sees the light of day. After saying that, Yuzan dies peacefully in his bed.

Natural death
	Location: Morikawa Mansion - Master room Victim: Yuzan Morikawa Age: 68 years old Cause of death: Illness After Yuzan confessed to killing his last son and gave instructions to Conan, he passes away finally at peace.

Later, Oi arrives at the room and informs Conan that Yuzan has entrusted whoever solved the case with the distribution of his inheritance, which means Conan is the one who will do it. Conan decides to leave the entire inheritance to Yuka Shito, in whom he saw actual interest in the soft serve over the money. Through Oi, he hands over Yuichiro's recipe and asks her to make it public and she agrees remembering the good times that she and the three brothers shared when they were children.

Aftermath

After the case, Kogoro, Ran, and Conan leaves on a boat and Ran appears with two huge stacks of soft serve she made thanks to the skills she learned from Yuka. Ran then gives Conan one of the soft serve and they both delightfully enjoy the soft serve together.

Trivia

Hijikata Special (rice topped with mayo).

• Screenplay writer Akatsuki Yamatoya disclosed on his personal horse racing blog that the plot inspiration comes from the conversation between him and his drinking friends in 2019. Yuichiro Morikawa, Hiroki Oi, and Yuka Shito are all named after his drinking friends.
• The scenario that Ran squeezed out ice cream contaminated with blood pays homage to the Kindaichi movie Opera House, The New Murder (1996).
• The soft serve rice bowl is inspired by Hijikata Special (rice topped with mayo) in the anime Gin Tama.
• The mansion's car is a black Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit Stretched Limousine.

Quotes

• Yuzan Morikawa (to Conan Edogawa):

Money leads people astray, both those who have it and those who don't. Those who have money build walls to protect it, while those who don't easily break laws and hurt people to get their hands on it.
(金は人を惑わせる、持つ者も持たざる者もな。持つ者はそれを守らんと壁を作り、持たざる者はそれを無理にでも得ようと、いとも簡単に法を破り、人を傷つける｡)

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Complot au Palais Morikawa	Plot in Morikawa Palace
Thai	แผนร้ายในคฤหาสน์โมริคาวะ	Intrigue at Morikawa Mansion
Viet Nam	Âm mưu tại dinh thự Morikawa

See also

• Season 27