Three Days with Heiji Hattori

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Episode 479 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Three Days with Heiji Hattori
Japanese title:	服部平次との3日間 (Hattori Heiji to no Mikkakan)
Original airdate:	July 16, 2007 *
Broadcast rating:	10,50%
Season:	16
Manga source:	Volume 54: File 6 (559) ~ Volume 55: File 2 (566)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Saguru Hakuba Kogoro Mouri Kazuha Toyama Ran Mouri Yoko Okino Natsuki Koshimizu Junya Tokitsu Rena Mizunashi Eisuke Hondou Gin Vodka Vermouth Shinichi Kudo Kaitou Kid
Cases solved by:	Heiji Hattori (x2) Conan Edogawa (x2)
Next Conan's Hint:	Tatami mat and window
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Fumio Maesono Yuzo Aoki
Episode director:	Fumiharu Kamanaka
Animation director:	Keiko Sasaki (chief) Rei Masunaga Daisuke Niinuma
Music
Opening song:	Namida no Yesterday
Closing song:	I still believe ~Tameiki~
* 2 Hour Special

Characters introduced

Natsuki Koshimizu
	18 years old Detective

Junya Tokitsu
	18 years old Detective

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Saguru Hakuba Kogoro Mouri Kazuha Toyama Ran Mouri Yoko Okino Kir (background) Eisuke Hondou (flashback) Gin (background) Vodka (background) Vermouth (background) Shinichi Kudo (background) Kaitou Kid (background)

Case 1

Situation

Kogoro, Ran, Conan, Heiji, and Kazuha are at a festival when Denkyuu, a student monk, asks them to solve a case of a disappearing body at the temple. Shakuren, the head monk, denies the body's existence and claims Denkyu is mistaken.

Murder?
	Location: Shogaku Temple Victim: Unknown woman Cause of death: Stab wound Denkyuu claimed to saw a body of mysterious woman who was stabbed in her chest, but when the other got to the crime scene the body disappeared!? Is this his delusion? Or..

People

Denkyu
	18 years old Student monk

Shakuren
	57 years old Head monk

Rinkyu
	Student monk Left the temple

Bunkyu
	Student monk Left the temple

Resolution

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After investigating, Conan and Heiji reveal that Shakuren arranged the temple's blood-stained tatami mats so that the stains are hidden by tatami-squares in the bottom of the glass statue-cases positioned at the four corners of the room. Shakuren reveals that the body was Denkyu's mother, who abandoned him eighteen years ago. He reveals that she committed suicide after Shakuren refused to give her back her son, when she could not even recognize which one of the monks at the temple he was.

Case 2

Situation

The next day, Heiji takes Conan with him to participate in a reality television deduction competition between high school detectives Heiji Hattori, Natsuki Koshimizu, Junya Tokitsu, and Saguru Hakuba. While there, Tokitsu is murdered and the detectives realize the television programming was a hoax.

Murder
	Location: Lodge Victim: Junya Tokitsu Cause of death: Blow to the head Suspects: Hiroo Tsuchio, Renzo Koya, and Natsuki Koshimizu

Murder? (Past)
	Location: Lavender mansion Victim: Daughter of mansion owner Cause of death: Hanging Suspects: Kana Mizuguchi

People

Hiroo Tsuchio
	41 years old Nichiuri TV producer

Renzo Koya
	58 years old Caretaker

Natsuki Koshimizu
	18 years old Detective

Junya Tokitsu
	Victim (beaten) 18 years old Detective

Kana Mizuguchi
	Deceased (apparent suicide) Maid

Resolution

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After a thorough investigation, the culprit is revealed to be the detective of the South, Natsuki Koshimizu. Her real age is 20, and she has pretended to be a school detective to lure them in, complete with using her old school uniform. Natsuki confesses and explains she was searching for the detective whose inadequate investigation caused a massive tragedy.

The owner of the Lavender Mansion (where the Koshien "challenge" was taking place) was a mentally unstable socialitè, who commited suicide by hanging two years ago. Natsuki's best friend Kana Mizuguchi worked as the lady's maid, with Renzo Kouya as the housekeeper; they were seen as possible suspects but were acquitted. Some time later, however, the investigation was re-opened and Tokitsu was the detective in charge, as it was believed that it was a murder; some new tricks had been used in the house, leading to believe that the lady had caught a thief and was killed for it. The top suspect was Kana, and she begged Natsuki to protect her from this "high school detective guy with a weird accent"; she ended up cracking from the pressure and commited suicide by throwing herself into the sea before Natsuki could clear her unfairly tainted reputation. (The thief was revealed to be Tsuchio, whom Natsuki located and forced to pose as a productor.)

Since Natsuki didn't have the detective's name, she went for the guy's gender and accent. The three other school detectives fit in this profile: Junya Tokitsu used an archaic male pronoun for himself (shousei), Heiji Hattori had a thick Osaka accent, and Suguru Hakuba's Japanese was odd since he lived abroads. She confronted Tokitsu first, and he admitted being that school detective but showed no empathy for Natsuki's plight and Kana's death, causing Natsuki to beat him to death with the hammer used in the trick to the locked room.

The trick to the locked room was to remove the window frame and then replace it after leaving. The screws holding the frame in are removed and cut short. The frame is replaced after the murderer exits by simply gluing it back into place with the short screws slid into their corresponding holes so the window looks untampered with. Additionally, when Natsuki lost the screws during the thunderstorm, she pretended to be scared of lightning in order to seek for them without being suspected.

Gallery

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  Main logo for the opening

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  Conan and the group is panicking

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  Heiji and the others found the unconscious body of Hiroo Tsuchio

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  Hakuba is "criticizing" Heiji

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  Heiji is hot-blooded?!

See also

• Season 16