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| episode            = 77-78
 
| episode            = 77-78
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| int-episode        = 80-81
 
| image              = TV Episode 77-78.jpg
 
| image              = TV Episode 77-78.jpg
 
| title              = Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case
 
| title              = Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case
 
| english-title      = Mysterious Masked Murder
 
| english-title      = Mysterious Masked Murder
| japanese-title      = 名家連続変死事件 <br /> (Meika Renzoku Henshi Jiken)  
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| japanese-title      = 名家連続変死事件 <br> (Meika Renzoku Henshi Jiken)  
| season              = [[Season 3|3]]
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| rating              = 19.1% <br> 19.8%
| manga              = [[Volume 15#Bond of Fire Case|Volume 15: File 10 (150)]] ~<br />[[Volume 16#Bond of Fire Case|Volume 16: File 3 (151-153)]]
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| Manga case number  = #42
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| season              = [[Season 2|2]]
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| manga              = [[Volume 15#Bond of Fire Case|Volume 15: File 10 (150)]] ~ <br> [[Volume 16#Bond of Fire Case|Volume 16: File 3 (153)]]
 
| airdate            = October 20, 1997 (Part 1) <br> October 27, 1997 (Part 2)
 
| airdate            = October 20, 1997 (Part 1) <br> October 27, 1997 (Part 2)
 
| dubbed-episode      = Episode 80-81
 
| dubbed-episode      = Episode 80-81
| english-airdate    =  
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| english-airdate    = September 13, 2005 (DVD)
| cast                = [[Conan Edogawa]] <br> [[Ran Mouri]] <br> [[Kogoro Mouri]] <br> [[Heiji Hattori]] <br> [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] <br> [[Wataru Takagi]] <br> [[Heizo Hattori]]
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| cast                = [[Conan Edogawa]] <br> [[Ran Mouri]] <br> [[Kogoro Mouri]] <br> [[Heiji Hattori]] <br> [[Juzo Megure]] <br> [[Wataru Takagi]] <br> [[Heizo Hattori]] <br> [[Seiji Asoh]] <br> [[Shinichi Kudo]] <br> [[Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case|Yamada]]
 
| suspects            = Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuga,  Nobuko Nagato, and Yasue Nagato
 
| suspects            = Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuga,  Nobuko Nagato, and Yasue Nagato
| solved-by          = [[Kogoro Mouri]] (via [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) <br> [[Heiji Hattori]]
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| solved-by          = [[Kogoro Mouri]] (via [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]])
| next-conan-hint    = Fountain pen (Part 1)<br>Mobile phone (Part 2)
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| next-conan-hint    = Great detective of the West (Part 1) <br> Fountain pen (Part 2)
| voice-cast          = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]]<br>[[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]]<br>[[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]]<br>[[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]]<br>[[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]<br>[[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]], Cook, Next Conan's Hint<br>[[Takehiro Koyama]] as [[Heizo Hattori]]<br>[[Yonehiko Kitagawa]] as Dosan Nagato<br>[[Kaoru Matsuno]] as Nobuko Nagato<br>[[Keiko Aizawa]] as Yasue Nagato<br>[[Kousei Hirota]] as Hideomi Nagato<br>[[Ryouichi Tanaka]] as Mitsuaki Nagato<br>[[Kousei Yagi]] as Kuranosuke Take<br>[[Rica Fukami]] as Miyuki Hyuga<br>[[Isshin Chiba]] as Medical examiner, Security guard A<br>[[Yasuhiro Takato]] as Policeman, Security guard B<br>[[Yukiko Iwai]] as Maid<br>[[Naoki Makishima]] as Voice on phone
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| voice-cast          = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] <br> [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] <br> [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] <br> [[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]] <br> [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] <br> [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]], Cook, Next Conan's Hint <br> [[Takehiro Koyama]] as [[Heizo Hattori]] <br> [[Yonehiko Kitagawa]] as Dosan Nagato <br> [[Kaoru Matsuno]] as Nobuko Nagato <br> [[Keiko Aizawa]] as Yasue Nagato <br> [[Kousei Hirota]] as Hideomi Nagato <br> [[Ryoichi Tanaka]] as Mitsuaki Nagato <br> [[Kousei Yagi]] as Kuranosuke Take <br> [[Rica Fukami]] as Miyuki Hyuga <br> [[Isshin Chiba]] as Medical examiner, Security guard A <br> [[Yasuhiro Takato]] as Policeman, Security guard B <br> [[Yukiko Iwai]] as Maid <br> [[Naoki Makishima]] as Yamada
 
| director            = [[Kenji Kodama]]
 
| director            = [[Kenji Kodama]]
| screenplay          =
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| organizer          = 77: [[Kenji Kodama]] <br> 78: [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| organizer          = 77 [[Kenji Kodama]]<br>78 [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
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| storyboard          = 77: [[Kenji Kodama]] <br> 78: [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| storyboard          = 77 [[Kenji Kodama]]<br>78 [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
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| producer            = 77: [[Masato Sato]] <br> 78: [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| producer            = 77 [[Masato Sato]]<br>78 [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
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| animation-director  = 77: [[Akio Kawamura]] <br> 78: [[Keiko Sasaki]]
| animation-director  = 77 [[Akio Kawamura]]<br>78 [[Keiko Sasaki]]
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| character-design    = [[Masatomo Sudo]] <br> [[Yasuhiro Moriki]] (design works)
 
| opening-song        = Nazo
 
| opening-song        = Nazo
 
| closing-song        = Kimi ga Inai Natsu
 
| closing-song        = Kimi ga Inai Natsu
 
| prev-episode        = Conan vs. Kaitou Kid
 
| prev-episode        = Conan vs. Kaitou Kid
 
| next-episode        = The Bank Heist Murder Case
 
| next-episode        = The Bank Heist Murder Case
| footnotes          =  
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| footnotes          =
 
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{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|名家連続変死事件|Meika Renzoku Henshi Jiken}} is the 77th and 78th episode of ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]].
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== Cast ==
 
== Cast ==
 
 
{{Char Appearances|
 
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
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{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
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{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
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{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
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{{char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
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{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
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{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Heizo Hattori}}
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{{char|Heizo Hattori}}
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{{char|Seiji Asoh|Asai Narumi|display=Seiji Asoh (flashback)}}
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{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (background)}}
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{{char|Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case|EP116-117 Editor|display=Yamada<br>(voice)}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
== Gadgets ==
 
== Gadgets ==
 
 
{{Gadgets Appearances|
 
{{Gadgets Appearances|
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{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
 
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
 
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
 
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
== Case ==
 
== Case ==
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=== Situation ===
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==== Part 1 ====
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Kogoro is recommended by someone to a wealthy family for a routine assignment: the very old and sickly leader of the clan, Dousan Nagato, wishes to find his first love before he dies. With the police roaming around the house, though, Conan begins to wonder if that's really all there is to it. His answer comes when suddenly, Heiji Hattori joins the group alongside his father Heizo, an old friend of the chairman who was supposed to take up the case, but recomended Kogoro instead. Bad thing, Heiji calls out to Conan by his actual name of "Shinichi Kudo" (not knowing that Conan hasn't told Ran and Kogoro about his identity), and they have to make up a quick lie to cover up.
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Nagato's beautiful secretary, Miyuki Hyuuga, is in the old man's room as well, and she gives Kogoro a brief rundown of the few data they have on the woman he's supposed to find. Her name is Kotomi Akagi, she's from Kanagawa, married a man named Kouhei Yamato and they had a child, but they disappeared mysteriously five years after the kid's birth.
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The two daughters of the family, Nobuko and Yasue, come into the old chairman's room.  Nobuko seems to ''really'' hate Miyuki, so much that when she replies to one of her questions before Nagato does, Nobuko slaps her, mocks her old fountain pen, accuses her of being a gold digger and gets out of the room. The Chairman says she's just cranky since she's in her late 30's and, unlike her little sister and middle brother, she has no suitors. Conan thinks to himself that with such a personality, she'll never marry. Before leaving, Nagato asks Miyuki about someone named Hideomi, and she replies that she and this person are tied by "a destiny made of fire".
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Soon, the mysterious Hideomi appears. He's the eldest son of the family, a novelist who covers his face with bandages after having suffered huge burns when he was in highschool, and his looks cause Heiji and Conan to freak out at first; according to Nagato, he could have his face fixed but he doesn't want that. He's joined by Mitsuaki, Yasue's husband and an old family friend. A flippant comment by him causes Hideomi to leave the room angrily, and later he tries to pressure Nagato into giving him more control of the family business. At that moment Heizo excuses himself from the upcoming birthday party, and says Heiji will be able to help Kogoro better.
  
=== Situation ===
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The family party is a rather small and simple one, and in the middle of it Nagato announces that Miyuki and Hideomi are getting engaged. The reason why the chairman has let Miyuki spend some nights in the house was for her to know the house before moving in. Yasue, the butler Taki and Mitsuaki are pleased, but Nobuko leaves in an irate huff. Again, Nagato and Mitsuaki believe it's because this means she'll be the only unmarried one. Hideomi hasn't showed up, however, and Mitsuaki goes look for him.
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As everyone's getting ready to retire for the night and Conan fails to get Heiji to tell him the actual reason why he's here, the butler receives a call from Mitsuaki. He tells Nagato that he hasn't been able to find Hideomi, but suddenly he starts screaming and claiming that he's being attacked. The screams come from the room beneath Nagato's and when Kogoro goes to the balcony to see what's going on, he and the others see a person with a bandaged face just like Hideomi's, with a knife in his mouth.
  
==== Part 1 ====
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Miyuki stays in the balcony, and everyone else save for Nagato run off to see what's going on. Then they hear Mitsuaki scream again, and few minutes later they find his lifeless body impaled in the fence.
Kogoro is recommended by someone to a wealthy family for a routine assignment; the man wishes to find his first love. With the police roaming around the house, though, Conan begins to wonder if that's really all there is to it. His answer comes when suddenly, the son of the wealthy man supposedly kills his child hood friend. Later they celebrate the chairman's birthday, then Nobuko became very angry at Miyuki and goes out of the room. Later they receive a call from Mitsuaki, that he was attacked by a man wrapped with bandages. Later, they saw Hideomi holding a knife in his mouth, and found Mitsuaki stabbed through the spike fence.
 
  
 
{{InfoBox Crime
 
{{InfoBox Crime
 
| crime              = Murder
 
| crime              = Murder
 
| image              = EP77-78a Case.jpg
 
| image              = EP77-78a Case.jpg
| location            = Nagato Household Spike Fence
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| location            = Nagato household spike fence
 
| victim              = Mitsuaki Nagato
 
| victim              = Mitsuaki Nagato
| cause-death        = Stab wound
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| age                = 36 years old
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| cause-death        = Impaled in fence
 
| suspects            = Hideomi Nagato
 
| suspects            = Hideomi Nagato
| description        = Take received a phone call from Mitsuaki that told him he was stabbed by someone. Everyone apart from the chairman and Miyuki rushed to the room below that they saw someone with knife in his mouth walking toward the balcony. By the time they were able to enter the room, Mitsuaki is found pierced by the fence atop the wall outside!
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| description        = The butler Take receives a phone call from Mitsuaki, telling him he's about to be stabbed by someone. Everyone apart from the chairman and Miyuki rushs to the room below that they saw someone with a knife in his mouth walking toward the balcony. By the time they were able to enter the room, Mitsuaki's corpse is found pierced by the fence atop the wall outside.
 
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Later that night, Nobuko reveals that one day, there was fire in a lodge where Mitsuaki is stopping Hideomi to go into the fire, where he save a little girl, where she reveals the identity of the girl is Miyuki Hyuga. On the second day, Nobuko spanked Miyuki where her fountain pen (the last present that she recieve from her parents), where they drained the water on the fountain and found Hideomi dead.
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Megure, Takagi, and a police group arrive to the Nagato mansion, and Kogoro says he's sure Hideomi was both the killer and the bandaged man. Miyuki objects and says Hideomi would never do such a thing, despite Yasue's insistence that her brother is the killer; she adds that Hideomi has commited mistakes in the past, but would never do something like this.
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Heiji says that all they saw was someone with a bandaged face, but there's no confirmation on him being Hideomi. They explain the situation to Megure and begin speculating about what could've happened, and soon they interrogate the people around them starting with Miyuki, who explains that she was the last one to leave. Additionally, Conan notices a stabbing wound in Mitsuaki's hand, but the others believe it came from his hand hitting the fence as he fell on it.
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The police also gathers evidence like a bloodied knife, bandages and a beanie hat, but there's no trace of Hideomi himself, and for worse no one has left the mansion so it's likely he's still hiding inside. Conan and Heiji realise that Ran and chairman Nagato are alone in the man's suite and they rush there, and find Nobuko as well, taking care of her sleeping father.
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Nobuko says that she was drinking and ranting to a friend over the phone, and isn't surprised at all with the idea of Hideomi being killed by Mitsuaki. She tells them she that expecting it to happen, since they had come to hate each other after being friends from childhood, thanks to a terrible incident. Around 20 years ago, there was a fire in a nearby inn; the highschool-aged Mitsuaki and Hideomi passed by, and despite Mitsuaki's objections, Hideomi went into the burning building to see if there were any survivors. He managed to rescue a little girl, the daughter of the lodge's owners, but in exchange the once very handsome Hideomi was left with heavy scars on half his face, leading him to shut himself off the world and write his novels in his studio. She finishes the tale by revealing that the little girl is Miyuki Hyuga whom she again accuses of being a gold digger who had been taking advantage of Hideomi's frail mental state to seduce him and ultimately marry into the very rich Nagato family.
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Nagato wakes up and tells Nobuko to stop. After his declaration is taken and the old man has a small emotional/physical crisis, Conan finally gets Heiji to spill out the beans: the "childhood love" issue is just an excuse from Nagato to call up the Hattoris and Kogoro, since in reality many odd things have been going on in the mansion (noises, lost things, etc.). Heiji's father at first wondered if there were thieves around, but now a murder has taken place, and Heiji thinks it's someone in the family. But if the murder was premeditated, Heiji wonders over that the murder went through with the plan in the present of Kogoro, who now have a reputation as a great detective. So was the killer just confident in his plan or had he reached a point of no return? He and Conan also observe that the evidence was obtained ''too'' easily and soon, and believe that the real culprit is trying to ''frame'' Hideomi for the murder of Mitsuaki.
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On the second day of searching, Nobuko and Miyuki have a fight about Hideomi. Nobuko thinks Miyuki is implying that Hideomi didn't want to marry before his eldest sister did, and she gets so angry that she slaps Miyuki again, almost knocking her into a nearby abandoned fountain. This causes her fountain pen (the last present that she got from her parents) to fall in the pond, and Miyuki desperately gets inside to retrieve it despite how dangerous it can be. The water of the pond is drained, and Hideomi's lifeless corpse is found there.
  
 
{{InfoBox Crime
 
{{InfoBox Crime
 
| crime              = Suicide?
 
| crime              = Suicide?
 
| image              = EP77-78b Case.jpg
 
| image              = EP77-78b Case.jpg
| location            = Nagato Household Garden Fountain
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| location            = Nagato household garden fountain
 
| victim              = Hideomi Nagato
 
| victim              = Hideomi Nagato
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| age                = 36 years old
 
| cause-death        = Poison
 
| cause-death        = Poison
 
| suspects            = Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuga, Nobuko Nagato, and Yasue Nagato
 
| suspects            = Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuga, Nobuko Nagato, and Yasue Nagato
| description        = During Miyuki's argument with Nobuko, her fountain pen fell into the pool in the courtyard. When the water was drained to recieve the pen, Hideomi's body is found on the bottom of the pool! Is this a suicide?
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| description        = During Miyuki's argument with Nobuko, her fountain pen falls into the pool in the courtyard. When the water is drained to recieve the pen, Hideomi's body is found on the bottom of the pool. Is this a suicide?
 
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They reveal the death was consumption of poison, where they found a suicide letter by him for Miyuki causing Miyuki to cry and Nobuko said that she was just testing the family's fortune.
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==== Part 2 ====
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Hideomi's corpse is pulled out of the water, and Yasue mourns him heavily. The forensic expert says Hideomi's been dead for at least two days, so Megure thinks that he might have killed Mitsuaki and drowned himself immediately afterwards. There's a flaw in that theory, however: Hideomi's death was caused by poisoning, NOT by drowning. Since there were many stones in his pockets, they wonder if Hideomi first took poison and ''then'' threw himself in the pond, the stones pulling his body to the bottom so he wouldn't found. Nobuko adds that, by the time Mitsuaki married Yasue, Hideomi never managed to see him as his brother-in-law, even when he didn't openly object to their marriage.
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A letter is found in Hideomi's clothes, and it's a suicide note directed to his girlfriend Miyuki. It's a short one, where he apologizes for not being able to marry her after his sins and says only death can cleanse him. The cops bring more evidence: they found some strands of Hideomi's hair in the bag, the blood in the knife matches Mitsuaki's, and the big stab in Mitsuaki's corpse matches the knife blade.
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Miyuki offers to go look for Hideomi's papers to compare the handwriting and somberly goes inside the house, ignoring how Ran offers her the pen. Nobuko tearfully says that Miyuki has only brought misfortune to the Nagatos and again calls her gold digger, but Ran goes look for her; she, Conan and Heiji find Miyuki kneeling on the door to Hideomi's studio, sobbing her heart out. The boys convince Ran to leave her alone and Heiji says he'll give her the pen later. She isn't convinced, but gives in and Heiji is surprised at both how old it is and at another detail something else.
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Once Heiji and Conan are alone, they comment on how nothing really makes sense: Hideomi's actions contradict themselves, and for worse the suicide note is very ambiguous. They wonder if Hideomi was first forced to write it and then killed, but they decide against it as the pond looked almost completely untouched until they got there.
  
==== Part 2 ====
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Heiji interrogates the guards and they tell him that no, no one has left the grounds; one of them, however, says that Mitsuaki approached them right before the birthday party and his own death, telling them to look for Hideomi and then hanging around the pond. In the meantime, Conan goes ask the household staff and specially the cooks: they say that Hideomi would lock himself in his studio to write and ate very few, but lately his appetite was better and he was more docile than usual when his sister Yasue helped him change his bandages. They also tell him that one of his bedsheets is missing.
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Heiji and Conan check on the balconies, and notice odd marks on their bottoms. Then they get into Nobuko's room when she's not there, and Conan answers a phone call (using his bowtie to sound like Nobuko) that confirms her alibi. They manage to sneak into Hideomi's room, full of unused and dust-covered books, and listen to the messages in his telephone, which get them back on their tracks.
  
Conan and Heiji decide to pursue the clues of the childhood friend. The clues allow them to solve the murder, but they also allow Ran to come closer to the truth about Shinichi. Can Heiji help Shinichi keep his secret?
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Checking on Mitsuaki and Yasue's room, the boys find more things, but then Ran and Miyuki come on in, and they're almost found out. Heiji quickly sends Ran to a nearby convenience store and before taking off with Conan, they say that in one hour, everyone should gather in Miyuki's room. Soon they 'tranquilize' Kogoro to use him to expose the case, but when Conan snoops aroud looking for the last piece, he checks on something else and turns somber.
  
 
=== People ===
 
=== People ===
 
 
{{BeginBox}}
 
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{{People|Kuranosuke Take|Kuranosuke_Take.jpg|
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{{People|Kuranosuke Take|Kuranosuke Take.jpg|
 
* 72 years old
 
* 72 years old
* Butler to the Nagato family}}
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* Nagato family butler}}
{{People|Dosan Nagato|Dosan_Nagato.jpg|
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{{People|Dosan Nagato|Dosan Nagato.jpg|
 
* 60 years old
 
* 60 years old
* Chairman of Nagato Financial group}}
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* Nagato Financial Group chairman}}
{{People|Miyuki Hyuga|Miyuki_Hyoga.jpg|
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{{People|Miyuki Hyuga|Miyuki Hyoga.jpg|
 
* 26 years old
 
* 26 years old
* Personal secretary to the Chairman}}
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* Dosan's personal secretary
{{People|Nobuko Nagato|Nobuko_Nagato.jpg|
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* Hideomi's fiancee}}
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{{People|Nobuko Nagato|Nobuko Nagato.jpg|
 
* 39 years old
 
* 39 years old
* Dosan's eldest daughter}}
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* Dosan's eldest daughter and eldest child}}
{{People|Yasue Nagato|Yasue_Nagato.jpg|
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{{People|Yasue Nagato|Yasue Nagato.jpg|
 
* 32 years old
 
* 32 years old
* Dosan's second daughter}}
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* Dosan's second daughter and third child
{{People|Hideomi Nagato|Hideomi_Nagato.jpg|
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* Mitsuaki's wife}}
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{{People|Hideomi Nagato|Hideomi Nagato.jpg|
 
* Victim (poison)
 
* Victim (poison)
 
* 36 years old
 
* 36 years old
* Dosan's eldest son
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* Dosan's eldest son and second child
 
* Novelist}}
 
* Novelist}}
{{People|Mitsuaki Nagato|Mitsuaki_Nagato.jpg|fsize=0.87em|squeezed=1|
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{{People|Mitsuaki Nagato|Mitsuaki Nagato.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
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* Victim (impaled)
 
* 36 years old
 
* 36 years old
* Yasue's husband; took Nagato name
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* Yasue's husband (took Nagato name)
* President of Nagato Construction}}
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* Nagato Construction president}}
 
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=== Resolution ===
 
=== Resolution ===
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<spoiler>When everyone is gathered in Miyuki's bedroom, Conan-as-Kogoro announces that he's found out who killed Mitsuaki AND placed Hideomi's body into the pond. The phone rings and Conan/Kogoro tells him to pick it up. The one at the other side is Heiji, who says he's in the room below and suddenly begins to yell that someone is attacking him.
The culprit is '''Miyuki Hyuga'''. She found out that the fire that killed her parents years ago was started by Mitsuaki Nagato, with Hideomi Nagato as a reluctant co-conspirator. She tricks Mitsuaki by luring him with a plan to murder Chairman Nagato, since Mitsuaki coveted the Chairman's position, only to push him off the balcony to his death. The Hideomi that appeared to throughout the episode were actually either Mitsuaki or Miyuki in disguise, as the real Hideomi had killed himself the day before and left behind a suicide note revealing the truth of the fire. When everything is revealed, Miyuki tried to commit suicide with a firelighter and gasoline that she had hidden inside a geyser, but fails because Conan, having discovered the gasoline earlier, replaced it. Chairman Nagato talks Miyuki out of suicide by revealing that he knew her mother, mentioning that the pen she always carried with her was actually a gift he gave to her mother when they were children. Conan later reveals to Heiji that Miyuki's mother was actually Chairman Nagato's first crush.
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Megure decides to go help Heiji, but Conan/Kogoro says the killer drew everyone outside the room by fooling them into thinking there was a murderer downstairs. Soon, a person with a bandaged face climbs up the balcony via a grappling hook- and it's revealed to be Heiji. He says that the call, the knife and the bloody bandages were actually used by ''Mitsuaki'' in an attempt to frame Hideomi. As added touches, Mitsuaki's blood was spilled by himself on the bandages, having taken some of it out with a syringe, and he put on a swimming cap under the beanie hat to not get his hair in it. All of this evidence was found in Mitsuaki and Yasue's suite, and was a plan by '''Mitsuaki Nagato''' to kill his father-in-law and frame Hideomi for it.
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Heiji and Conan/Kogoro add that Mitsuaki didn't act alone, but had an accomplice who would keep everyone downstairs while he killed Nagato; said accomplice, however, turned on him. And their identity? '''Miyuki Hyuga''', who pushed him off the balcony and killed him. They added that Mitsuaki didn't mean to use the knife; his killing weapon would've been the grappling hook, which he'd use to strangle Nagato to death, and which Miyuki had used in secret on other balconies (the source of the noises heard in the last days, and the marks on the underside of the balconies). Nobuko didn't notice, surely since she was drunk, but Nagato did and that's why he called the Hattoris and Kogoro.
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Megure asks if Miyuki also murdered Hideomi. Conan/Kogoro says that no, she didn't: Mitsuaki was her only target and victim, and the letter was truly by Hideomi - who wrote it '''before he committed suicide''', which took place ''before'' Mitsuaki's death. Hideomi's body wasn't placed inside the pond right away, but was buried for some time by Miyuki and Mitsuaki, who used some holes in the garden for that. Mitsuaki also took Hideomi's body, wrapped it in the lost bedsheet so it wouldn't be seen and put it in the pond, which is when he was spotted by the guards. The "Hideomi" that was seen in the two days up to the murder was either Miyuki or Mitsuaki, wearing his clothes and covering their faces with his bandages and eating his food.
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Miyuki was the first to discover Hideomi's body and concocted the plan to kill Mitsuaki and frame Hideomi for it.
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The detectives also guesses that Miyuki lured Mitsuaki in her trap by proposing that by killing Nagao, he would become the new president of the family business.
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Ran objects to all of this, specially when Conan/Kogoro says Miyuki lured Mitsuaki with a plan to kill Nagato and frame Hideomi, since Hideomi saved her life as a child. Instead of replying, Conan/Kogoro asks Miyuki where's her watch, and before she can reply he says she lost it when Mitsuaki tried to grab her arm before being pushed off the balcony. As further proof, they mention the small stab wound Mitsuaki had in his hand, coming from Miyuki stabbing him so he'd release her, and doing so with her old fountain pen. Heiji claims that he tried to use the pen before giving it back to Miyuki, but the tip was bent and unusable, which surely happened when she used it to stab Mitsuaki's hand and make him plummet to his death.
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Heiji says that Miyuki's reason to do all of this is because the fire that destroyed the inn twenty years ago, killed her parents ''and'' disfigured Hideomi... '''was actually caused by Hideomi and Mitsuaki.''' (Which also explained why Hideomi refused to fix his face through plastic surgery, surely for the guilt he felt for what he had done to Miyuki and her family. It also explains the feud between him and his former childhood friend). If there had been more to the suicide note where Hideomi confessed to have started the fire along with Mitsuaki, which would be the crime, he killed himself to atone for, that would give Miyuki motive to kill Mitsuaki and frame Hideomi. He and Conan/Kogoro speculate that Miyuki provoked Nobuko into slapping her near the pond, so Hideomi's corpse would be found.
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When everything is revealed, Miyuki says that she did it because she didn't want to leave her beloved Hideomi alone in the cold water any longer than necessary. Then, Miyuki grabs the thermos that Conan had seen earlier and her lighter, intending to join Hideomi in death. She confirms what Heiji and Conan/Kogoro had said, admitting that she couldn't forgive Mitsuaki (for being so flippant about his and Hideomi's murder of her parents) and Hideomi (for not confessing his part in the murder itself) but adding that she still fell in love with Hideomi despite what he did, since he saved her as a little girl and then dedicated what was left of his life to be kind to her and helping her, but when she asked him to marry her he couldn't endure his guilt any longer and commited suicide, leaving her alone. She concludes that now it's time for her to join Hideomi.
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| crime              = Attempted Murder and Suicide
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| image              = EP77-78c Case.jpg
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| location            = Nagato household inside
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| victim              = Kuranosuke Take, Dosan Nagato, Miyuki Hyuga, Nobuko Nagato, Yasue Nagato, [[Conan Edogawa]], [[Ran Mouri]], [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Heiji Hattori]]
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| cause-death        = Arson and Explosion
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| cause-death-label  = Cause
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| suspects            = Miyuki Hyuga
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| suspects-label      = Culprit
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| description        = Miyuki prepares to kill herself and those around her with Benzene hidden in the Electric water boiler.
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Miyuki's suicide attempt fails because Conan and Heiji had tampered with the thermos and its contents. She breaks down crying and shouting about how she wants her fire to burn like Hideomi's did so she can die with her beloved, and as a result she is restrained. As she cries and calls out for Hideomi, Heiji asks Conan why didn't he let Miyuki kill herself like she wished; Conan says that's because a detective who doesn't stop a suspect's suicide is no better than a murderer, and then recalls the ''Moonlight Sonata'' case and how he couldn't stop Seiji Asou from joining his family in death.
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Chairman Nagato arrives to the scene, and speaks to Miyuki to talk her out of suicide by saying that her mother wouldn't do such things if she was alive. He says that the fountain pen Miyuki treasures so much is actually something ''he'' gave to Miyuki's dead mother, the aforementioned Kotomi Yamato nèe Akagi as he had a crush on her in high school, who surely gave it to her husband Kouhei at some point. He adds that Miyuki is still young and full of life, so she should live for both Kotomi's and Hideomi's sake.
  
== Trivia ==
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In the nearby train station, Conan tells Heiji that he had deduced the bond between Miyuki's mom and Chairman Nagato almost at the start, as well as how he saw Miyuki as a surrogate daughter. That's why he covered up for Miyuki and claimed that she never left his side, when the police questioned him. Heiji is mad because Conan didn't tell him and again calls him Kudo, and this time, almost in front of Ran.</spoiler>
* Conan makes a reference to his past failure to stop a suicide in "[[Moonlight Sonata Murder Case]]" when telling Heiji that letting a person commit suicide when it can be stopped is the same as killing the person oneself.
 
  
 
== Manga to anime changes ==
 
== Manga to anime changes ==
 
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
 
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
In the manga, Conan replaced the gasoline that the killer intended to use by emptying the geyser. In the anime, he replaced the gasoline with water.
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* In the anime, Miyuki doesn't make references to Hideomi's "mistakes from the past". She also says how everyone thought they had seen Hideomi but in reality they only saw a person with a bandaged face who could or could have not been him, whereas Heiji does this in the manga.
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* In the manga, Conan replaced the gasoline that the killer intended to use by emptying the geyser. In the anime, he replaced the gasoline with water.</spoiler>
  
== Dub changes ==
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== Translation changes ==
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=== Anime ===
 
* The names of the characters in the [[Funimation]] Dub are:  
 
* The names of the characters in the [[Funimation]] Dub are:  
 
:* Kuranosuke Take - Butler Weathersbee
 
:* Kuranosuke Take - Butler Weathersbee
Line 135: Line 205:
 
:* Yamada (The person who called Dosan, only to get the answering machine) - Stanley Evans (The person who called Gerard, only to get the answering machine)
 
:* Yamada (The person who called Dosan, only to get the answering machine) - Stanley Evans (The person who called Gerard, only to get the answering machine)
 
* In the Funimation Dub, the clip played from "[[Moonlight Sonata Murder Case]]" contains voice over from the episode, whereas the original Japanese Version has the clip done without dialogue.
 
* In the Funimation Dub, the clip played from "[[Moonlight Sonata Murder Case]]" contains voice over from the episode, whereas the original Japanese Version has the clip done without dialogue.
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== BGM listing ==
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=== Part 1 ===
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{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
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{{BGMListingItem|1|謎|Nazo|Mystery|[[Nazo]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|2|蘭のテーマ (摩天楼ヴァージョン)|Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)|Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|3|昼下がりの天使たち (摩天楼ヴァージョン)|Hirusagari no Tenshitachi (Mantenrō Vājon)|Early Afternoon Angels (Skyscraper ver.)|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|4|毛利小五郎のテーマ(ファンキーver.)|Mōri Kogorō no Tēma (Fankii ver.)|Kogoro Mouri's Theme (Funky ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|5|謎解き (その1)|Nazotoki (Sono 1)|Riddle Solution (Part 1)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|6|事件現場 (謎ver.)|Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)|Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|7|コナンの危機|Konan no Kiki|Conan's Crisis|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|8|忍び寄る影|Shinobiyoru Kage|Creeping Shadow|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|9|犯人のアジト (忍び込みver.)|Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)|The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|10|悪のテーマ (パート2)|Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2) |Theme of Evil (Part 2)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|11|事件現場 (オリジナルver.)|Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)|Scene of the Case (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|12|推理 (オリジナルver.)|Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)|Deduction (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|13|君がいない夏|Kimi ga Inai Natsu|The Summer Without You|[[Kimi ga Inai Natsu]]}}
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=== Part 2 ===
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{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
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{{BGMListingItem|1|謎|Nazo|Mystery|[[Nazo]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|2|名探偵コナン・メインテーマ (摩天楼ヴァージョン)|Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)|Detective Conan Main Theme (Skyscraper ver.)|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|3|犯人のアジト (忍び込みver.)|Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)|The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|4|事件現場 (オリジナルver.)|Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)|Scene of the Case (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|5|サスペンス~危機感|Sasupensu ~ Kikikan|Suspense ~ Impending Crisis|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|6|怪人包帯男2|Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2|The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|7|沈む夕陽|Shizumu Yūhi|Depressing Sunset|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|8|陰謀|Inbō|Conspiracy|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|9|事件解明 (オリジナルver.)|Jiken Kaimei (Orijinaru ver.)|Case Clarification (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|10|悪のテーマ (パート1)|Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)|Theme of Evil (Part 1)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|11|沈む夕陽 (アコースティックver.)|Shizumu Yūhi (Akōsutikku ver.)|Depressing Sunset (Acoustic ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|12|名探偵コナン・メインテーマ (ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)|Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Vōkaru・Vājon)|Detective Conan Main Theme (Vocal ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|13|君がいない夏|Kimi ga Inai Natsu|The Summer Without You|[[Kimi ga Inai Natsu]]}}
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{{BGMListingItem|14|それいけコナン (超早ver.)|Soreike Konan (Chōhaya ver.)|Let's Go Conan (Very Fast ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
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== Gallery ==
 
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== In other languages ==
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|صور لا تُنسى|Unforgettable Pictures}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Basque Country|Basque|Hilketa misteriotsuak familia ezagunean|}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan (Catalan dub)|Els misteriosos assassinats de la família famosa|The mysterious murders of a famous family}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Valencia|Catalan (Valencian dub)|Assassinats misteriosos en una rica mansió|Mysterious murders in a rich mansion}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=France|French|Un mariage jeté au feu|A marriage thrown into the fire}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|Misteriosos asasinatos nunha familia importante|Mysterious murders in an important family}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Späte Sühne|Late Atonement}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=India|Hindi| मिस्टरियस मर्डर इं द फेमस फैमिली | Mysterious Murder in the Famous Family}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Intrighi di famiglia|Family's Intrigues}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=US|Spanish (American dub)|Gran tragedia en la familia|A big tragedy in the family}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish (Castilian dub) (First dub)|Los misteriosos asesinatos en la mansión|The mysterious murders in the mansion}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish (Castilian dub) (Second dub)|Las extrañas muertes en una familia con clase|Strange deaths in a glamorous family}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|คดีฆาตกรรมต่อเนื่องในบ้านเศรษฐี|The consecutive murders case in a rich family's house}}
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vụ án những cái chết hàng loạt của một gia đình danh giá|Distinguished Family's Consecutive Death Case}}
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Note: In castilian spanish dub, the first part of this episode was the last one dub by Manga Films and the old cast. That cast never dub the second part. When Arait Multimedia started the new dub, they decided to dub again the first part.
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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* [[Season 2]]
  
* [[Season 3]]
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{{Season 2}}
  
 
[[Category:Episodes]]
 
[[Category:Episodes]]
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[[Category:Serial Murder Cases]]
 
[[Category:Animation directed by Akio Kawamura]]
 
[[Category:Animation directed by Akio Kawamura]]
 
[[Category:Animation directed by Keiko Sasaki]]
 
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Latest revision as of 10:56, 28 October 2024

Chronology
Conan vs. Kaitou Kid List of Episodes The Bank Heist Murder Case
Episode 77-78
(Int. Episode 80-81)

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Information
Title: Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case
Japanese title: 名家連続変死事件
(Meika Renzoku Henshi Jiken)
Original airdate: October 20, 1997 (Part 1)
October 27, 1997 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating: 19.1%
19.8%
Manga case: #42
Season: 2
Manga source: Volume 15: File 10 (150) ~
Volume 16: File 3 (153)
English version
English title: Mysterious Masked Murder
Dubbed episode: Episode 80-81
English airdate: September 13, 2005 (DVD)
Case
Cast: Conan Edogawa
Ran Mouri
Kogoro Mouri
Heiji Hattori
Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi
Heizo Hattori
Seiji Asoh
Shinichi Kudo
Yamada
Case solved by: Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint: Great detective of the West (Part 1)
Fountain pen (Part 2)
Staff
Director: Kenji Kodama
Organizer: 77: Kenji Kodama
78: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard: 77: Kenji Kodama
78: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director: 77: Masato Sato
78: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director: 77: Akio Kawamura
78: Keiko Sasaki
Character design: Masatomo Sudo
Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Music
Opening song: Nazo
Closing song: Kimi ga Inai Natsu

Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case (名家連続変死事件 Meika Renzoku Henshi Jiken?) is the 77th and 78th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Gadgets

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro is recommended by someone to a wealthy family for a routine assignment: the very old and sickly leader of the clan, Dousan Nagato, wishes to find his first love before he dies. With the police roaming around the house, though, Conan begins to wonder if that's really all there is to it. His answer comes when suddenly, Heiji Hattori joins the group alongside his father Heizo, an old friend of the chairman who was supposed to take up the case, but recomended Kogoro instead. Bad thing, Heiji calls out to Conan by his actual name of "Shinichi Kudo" (not knowing that Conan hasn't told Ran and Kogoro about his identity), and they have to make up a quick lie to cover up.

Nagato's beautiful secretary, Miyuki Hyuuga, is in the old man's room as well, and she gives Kogoro a brief rundown of the few data they have on the woman he's supposed to find. Her name is Kotomi Akagi, she's from Kanagawa, married a man named Kouhei Yamato and they had a child, but they disappeared mysteriously five years after the kid's birth.

The two daughters of the family, Nobuko and Yasue, come into the old chairman's room. Nobuko seems to really hate Miyuki, so much that when she replies to one of her questions before Nagato does, Nobuko slaps her, mocks her old fountain pen, accuses her of being a gold digger and gets out of the room. The Chairman says she's just cranky since she's in her late 30's and, unlike her little sister and middle brother, she has no suitors. Conan thinks to himself that with such a personality, she'll never marry. Before leaving, Nagato asks Miyuki about someone named Hideomi, and she replies that she and this person are tied by "a destiny made of fire".

Soon, the mysterious Hideomi appears. He's the eldest son of the family, a novelist who covers his face with bandages after having suffered huge burns when he was in highschool, and his looks cause Heiji and Conan to freak out at first; according to Nagato, he could have his face fixed but he doesn't want that. He's joined by Mitsuaki, Yasue's husband and an old family friend. A flippant comment by him causes Hideomi to leave the room angrily, and later he tries to pressure Nagato into giving him more control of the family business. At that moment Heizo excuses himself from the upcoming birthday party, and says Heiji will be able to help Kogoro better.

The family party is a rather small and simple one, and in the middle of it Nagato announces that Miyuki and Hideomi are getting engaged. The reason why the chairman has let Miyuki spend some nights in the house was for her to know the house before moving in. Yasue, the butler Taki and Mitsuaki are pleased, but Nobuko leaves in an irate huff. Again, Nagato and Mitsuaki believe it's because this means she'll be the only unmarried one. Hideomi hasn't showed up, however, and Mitsuaki goes look for him.

As everyone's getting ready to retire for the night and Conan fails to get Heiji to tell him the actual reason why he's here, the butler receives a call from Mitsuaki. He tells Nagato that he hasn't been able to find Hideomi, but suddenly he starts screaming and claiming that he's being attacked. The screams come from the room beneath Nagato's and when Kogoro goes to the balcony to see what's going on, he and the others see a person with a bandaged face just like Hideomi's, with a knife in his mouth.

Miyuki stays in the balcony, and everyone else save for Nagato run off to see what's going on. Then they hear Mitsuaki scream again, and few minutes later they find his lifeless body impaled in the fence.

Murder

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Location: Nagato household spike fence
Victim: Mitsuaki Nagato
Age: 36 years old
Cause of death: Impaled in fence
Suspects: Hideomi Nagato
The butler Take receives a phone call from Mitsuaki, telling him he's about to be stabbed by someone. Everyone apart from the chairman and Miyuki rushs to the room below that they saw someone with a knife in his mouth walking toward the balcony. By the time they were able to enter the room, Mitsuaki's corpse is found pierced by the fence atop the wall outside.

Megure, Takagi, and a police group arrive to the Nagato mansion, and Kogoro says he's sure Hideomi was both the killer and the bandaged man. Miyuki objects and says Hideomi would never do such a thing, despite Yasue's insistence that her brother is the killer; she adds that Hideomi has commited mistakes in the past, but would never do something like this.

Heiji says that all they saw was someone with a bandaged face, but there's no confirmation on him being Hideomi. They explain the situation to Megure and begin speculating about what could've happened, and soon they interrogate the people around them starting with Miyuki, who explains that she was the last one to leave. Additionally, Conan notices a stabbing wound in Mitsuaki's hand, but the others believe it came from his hand hitting the fence as he fell on it.

The police also gathers evidence like a bloodied knife, bandages and a beanie hat, but there's no trace of Hideomi himself, and for worse no one has left the mansion so it's likely he's still hiding inside. Conan and Heiji realise that Ran and chairman Nagato are alone in the man's suite and they rush there, and find Nobuko as well, taking care of her sleeping father.

Nobuko says that she was drinking and ranting to a friend over the phone, and isn't surprised at all with the idea of Hideomi being killed by Mitsuaki. She tells them she that expecting it to happen, since they had come to hate each other after being friends from childhood, thanks to a terrible incident. Around 20 years ago, there was a fire in a nearby inn; the highschool-aged Mitsuaki and Hideomi passed by, and despite Mitsuaki's objections, Hideomi went into the burning building to see if there were any survivors. He managed to rescue a little girl, the daughter of the lodge's owners, but in exchange the once very handsome Hideomi was left with heavy scars on half his face, leading him to shut himself off the world and write his novels in his studio. She finishes the tale by revealing that the little girl is Miyuki Hyuga whom she again accuses of being a gold digger who had been taking advantage of Hideomi's frail mental state to seduce him and ultimately marry into the very rich Nagato family.

Nagato wakes up and tells Nobuko to stop. After his declaration is taken and the old man has a small emotional/physical crisis, Conan finally gets Heiji to spill out the beans: the "childhood love" issue is just an excuse from Nagato to call up the Hattoris and Kogoro, since in reality many odd things have been going on in the mansion (noises, lost things, etc.). Heiji's father at first wondered if there were thieves around, but now a murder has taken place, and Heiji thinks it's someone in the family. But if the murder was premeditated, Heiji wonders over that the murder went through with the plan in the present of Kogoro, who now have a reputation as a great detective. So was the killer just confident in his plan or had he reached a point of no return? He and Conan also observe that the evidence was obtained too easily and soon, and believe that the real culprit is trying to frame Hideomi for the murder of Mitsuaki.

On the second day of searching, Nobuko and Miyuki have a fight about Hideomi. Nobuko thinks Miyuki is implying that Hideomi didn't want to marry before his eldest sister did, and she gets so angry that she slaps Miyuki again, almost knocking her into a nearby abandoned fountain. This causes her fountain pen (the last present that she got from her parents) to fall in the pond, and Miyuki desperately gets inside to retrieve it despite how dangerous it can be. The water of the pond is drained, and Hideomi's lifeless corpse is found there.

Suicide?

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Location: Nagato household garden fountain
Victim: Hideomi Nagato
Age: 36 years old
Cause of death: Poison
Suspects: Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuga, Nobuko Nagato, and Yasue Nagato
During Miyuki's argument with Nobuko, her fountain pen falls into the pool in the courtyard. When the water is drained to recieve the pen, Hideomi's body is found on the bottom of the pool. Is this a suicide?

Part 2

Hideomi's corpse is pulled out of the water, and Yasue mourns him heavily. The forensic expert says Hideomi's been dead for at least two days, so Megure thinks that he might have killed Mitsuaki and drowned himself immediately afterwards. There's a flaw in that theory, however: Hideomi's death was caused by poisoning, NOT by drowning. Since there were many stones in his pockets, they wonder if Hideomi first took poison and then threw himself in the pond, the stones pulling his body to the bottom so he wouldn't found. Nobuko adds that, by the time Mitsuaki married Yasue, Hideomi never managed to see him as his brother-in-law, even when he didn't openly object to their marriage.

A letter is found in Hideomi's clothes, and it's a suicide note directed to his girlfriend Miyuki. It's a short one, where he apologizes for not being able to marry her after his sins and says only death can cleanse him. The cops bring more evidence: they found some strands of Hideomi's hair in the bag, the blood in the knife matches Mitsuaki's, and the big stab in Mitsuaki's corpse matches the knife blade.

Miyuki offers to go look for Hideomi's papers to compare the handwriting and somberly goes inside the house, ignoring how Ran offers her the pen. Nobuko tearfully says that Miyuki has only brought misfortune to the Nagatos and again calls her gold digger, but Ran goes look for her; she, Conan and Heiji find Miyuki kneeling on the door to Hideomi's studio, sobbing her heart out. The boys convince Ran to leave her alone and Heiji says he'll give her the pen later. She isn't convinced, but gives in and Heiji is surprised at both how old it is and at another detail something else.

Once Heiji and Conan are alone, they comment on how nothing really makes sense: Hideomi's actions contradict themselves, and for worse the suicide note is very ambiguous. They wonder if Hideomi was first forced to write it and then killed, but they decide against it as the pond looked almost completely untouched until they got there.

Heiji interrogates the guards and they tell him that no, no one has left the grounds; one of them, however, says that Mitsuaki approached them right before the birthday party and his own death, telling them to look for Hideomi and then hanging around the pond. In the meantime, Conan goes ask the household staff and specially the cooks: they say that Hideomi would lock himself in his studio to write and ate very few, but lately his appetite was better and he was more docile than usual when his sister Yasue helped him change his bandages. They also tell him that one of his bedsheets is missing.

Heiji and Conan check on the balconies, and notice odd marks on their bottoms. Then they get into Nobuko's room when she's not there, and Conan answers a phone call (using his bowtie to sound like Nobuko) that confirms her alibi. They manage to sneak into Hideomi's room, full of unused and dust-covered books, and listen to the messages in his telephone, which get them back on their tracks.

Checking on Mitsuaki and Yasue's room, the boys find more things, but then Ran and Miyuki come on in, and they're almost found out. Heiji quickly sends Ran to a nearby convenience store and before taking off with Conan, they say that in one hour, everyone should gather in Miyuki's room. Soon they 'tranquilize' Kogoro to use him to expose the case, but when Conan snoops aroud looking for the last piece, he checks on something else and turns somber.

People

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    Manga to anime changes

    Translation changes

    Anime

    • The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:
    • Kuranosuke Take - Butler Weathersbee
    • Dosan Nagato - Gerard Duford
    • Miyuki Hyuga - Nancy Nesbit
    • Nobuko Nagato - Zelda Dufour
    • Yasue Nagato - Zoe Dufour Gray
    • Hideomi Nagato - Roland Dufour
    • Mitsuaki Nagato - Mitchell Gray
    • Akagi Kitomi - Catherine Kline
    • Yamada (The person who called Dosan, only to get the answering machine) - Stanley Evans (The person who called Gerard, only to get the answering machine)
    • In the Funimation Dub, the clip played from "Moonlight Sonata Murder Case" contains voice over from the episode, whereas the original Japanese Version has the clip done without dialogue.

    BGM listing

    Part 1

    # Song Title Romaji Translation OST
    1 Nazo Mystery Nazo
    2 蘭のテーマ (摩天楼ヴァージョン) Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon) Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.) Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
    3 昼下がりの天使たち (摩天楼ヴァージョン) Hirusagari no Tenshitachi (Mantenrō Vājon) Early Afternoon Angels (Skyscraper ver.) Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
    4 毛利小五郎のテーマ(ファンキーver.) Mōri Kogorō no Tēma (Fankii ver.) Kogoro Mouri's Theme (Funky ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    5 謎解き (その1) Nazotoki (Sono 1) Riddle Solution (Part 1) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
    6 事件現場 (謎ver.) Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.) Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    7 コナンの危機 Konan no Kiki Conan's Crisis Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
    8 忍び寄る影 Shinobiyoru Kage Creeping Shadow Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
    9 犯人のアジト (忍び込みver.) Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.) The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    10 悪のテーマ (パート2) Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2) Theme of Evil (Part 2) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    11 事件現場 (オリジナルver.) Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.) Scene of the Case (Original ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    12 推理 (オリジナルver.) Suiri (Orijinaru ver.) Deduction (Original ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    13 君がいない夏 Kimi ga Inai Natsu The Summer Without You Kimi ga Inai Natsu

    Part 2

    # Song Title Romaji Translation OST
    1 Nazo Mystery Nazo
    2 名探偵コナン・メインテーマ (摩天楼ヴァージョン) Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon) Detective Conan Main Theme (Skyscraper ver.) Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
    3 犯人のアジト (忍び込みver.) Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.) The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    4 事件現場 (オリジナルver.) Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.) Scene of the Case (Original ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    5 サスペンス~危機感 Sasupensu ~ Kikikan Suspense ~ Impending Crisis Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
    6 怪人包帯男2 Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2 The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2 Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
    7 沈む夕陽 Shizumu Yūhi Depressing Sunset Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
    8 陰謀 Inbō Conspiracy Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
    9 事件解明 (オリジナルver.) Jiken Kaimei (Orijinaru ver.) Case Clarification (Original ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    10 悪のテーマ (パート1) Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1) Theme of Evil (Part 1) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    11 沈む夕陽 (アコースティックver.) Shizumu Yūhi (Akōsutikku ver.) Depressing Sunset (Acoustic ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
    12 名探偵コナン・メインテーマ (ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン) Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Vōkaru・Vājon) Detective Conan Main Theme (Vocal ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
    13 君がいない夏 Kimi ga Inai Natsu The Summer Without You Kimi ga Inai Natsu
    14 それいけコナン (超早ver.) Soreike Konan (Chōhaya ver.) Let's Go Conan (Very Fast ver.) Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

    Gallery

    In other languages

    Language Title Translation
    Flag of Arabic Arabic صور لا تُنسى Unforgettable Pictures
    Flag of Basque Country Basque Hilketa misteriotsuak familia ezagunean
    Flag of Catalonia Catalan (Catalan dub) Els misteriosos assassinats de la família famosa The mysterious murders of a famous family
    Flag of Valencia Catalan (Valencian dub) Assassinats misteriosos en una rica mansió Mysterious murders in a rich mansion
    Flag of France French Un mariage jeté au feu A marriage thrown into the fire
    Flag of Galicia Galician Misteriosos asasinatos nunha familia importante Mysterious murders in an important family
    Flag of Germany German Späte Sühne Late Atonement
    Flag of India Hindi मिस्टरियस मर्डर इं द फेमस फैमिली Mysterious Murder in the Famous Family
    Flag of Italy Italian Intrighi di famiglia Family's Intrigues
    Flag of US Spanish (American dub) Gran tragedia en la familia A big tragedy in the family
    Flag of Spain Spanish (Castilian dub) (First dub) Los misteriosos asesinatos en la mansión The mysterious murders in the mansion
    Flag of Spain Spanish (Castilian dub) (Second dub) Las extrañas muertes en una familia con clase Strange deaths in a glamorous family
    Flag of Thailand Thai คดีฆาตกรรมต่อเนื่องในบ้านเศรษฐี The consecutive murders case in a rich family's house
    Flag of Vietnam Vietnamese Vụ án những cái chết hàng loạt của một gia đình danh giá Distinguished Family's Consecutive Death Case

    Note: In castilian spanish dub, the first part of this episode was the last one dub by Manga Films and the old cast. That cast never dub the second part. When Arait Multimedia started the new dub, they decided to dub again the first part.

    See also

    Episodes of Season 2
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