The Shadow of the Black Organization

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Episode 462-465 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Shadow of the Black Organization
Japanese title:	黒の組織の影 (Kuro no Soshiki no Kage)
Original airdate:	January 29, 2007 (The Young Witness) February 5, 2007 (The Strange Illumination) February 12, 2007 (The Mystery of the Big Reward) February 19, 2007 (Shining Star of Pearl)
Broadcast rating:	9.7% (462) 10.3% (463) 9.8% (464) 9.5% (465)
Manga case:	#159 #160
Season:	15
Manga source:	Volume 53: File 7 (550) ~ Volume 54: File 2 (555)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eisuke Hondou Inspector Megure Detective Takagi Jodie Starling Shuichi Akai Gin Vodka Chianti Korn Kir Vermouth Sonoko Suzuki Azusa Enomoto
Cases solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Shining hammer (The Young Witness) Serpent and nail (The Strange Illumination) "The Red-Headed League" (The Mystery of the Big Reward) Scattering beans for Setsubun (Shining Star of Pearl)
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Organizer:	462 Hisako Tsuji 463 Fumiharu Kamanaka, Masato Sato 464 Takashi Sano 465 大河桝玖
Storyboard:	462 Hisako Tsuji 463 Fumiharu Kamanaka, Masato Sato 464 Takashi Sano 465 大河桝玖
Episode director:	462 Minoru Tozawa 463 Takahiro Okada 464 Shuuji Miyahara 465 Kobun Shizuno
Animation director:	462 Tomoyuki Kanno 463 Tomoyuki Kanno (chief), Katsutoshi Kobayashi 464 Rei Masunaga (chief), Daisuke Niinuma (chief), Akira Takeuchi 465 Rie Fujiwara
Music
Opening song:	Kumo ni Notte
Closing song:	Shiroi Yuki

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eisuke Hondou Inspector Megure Detective Takagi Jodie Starling James Black Shuichi Akai Gin Vodka Chianti Korn Kir Vermouth Sonoko Suzuki Azusa Enomoto 100px Touji Funemoto

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Plot

Nail, Snake, and Hammer

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eisuke Hondou Inspector Megure Detective Takagi Sonoko Suzuki Kir Jodie Starling James Black Shuichi Akai

Situation

The Young Witness (462)

A rockstar named Roku Itakagi has been missing for the past few days. A young boy named Takumi Hashiratani claims that on New Year's Day, he witnessed a man carrying Itakagi in a bag and throwing him over a bridge. Takumi claims that the man had a dark car, a nail on arm, and that he saw a giant glowing hammer in the background. Kogoro is skeptical at first but realizes Takumi is telling the truth when the news confirms that the body of Itakagi was found in a bag floating in a river.

Murder
	Location: Teimuzu river Victim: Roku Itakagi Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Kiritani, Yasui, and Kannai

From Takumi's testimony, Kogoro, Ran, Conan, and Eisuke search for the bridge where the body was thrown over.

The Strange Illumination (463)

While investigating, they learn that Itakagi's band logo was of a snake with nails piercing through it. After questioning a tattooist, they learn that the tattoo was new and only three people have gotten it. After further investigation, they are able to deduce the tattoo is on the driver's right arm due to the traffic flow on the bridge and that the only way Takumi could have seen his arm is if the steering wheel was on the right side of the car. They realize that advertisement combined with lights from a building created the silhouette of an upside down hammer; Using this knowledge, they are able to pinpoint where the culprit threw the body off from the bridge.

People

Roku Itakagi
	Victim (beaten) 22 years old Musician

Takumi Hashiratani
	Witness

Mr. Hashiratani
	Takumi's father

Kiritani
	Tattoo Shop Nail Snake customer

Yasui
	Tattoo Shop Nail Snake customer

Kannai
	Tattoo Shop Nail Snake customer

Resolution

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Through the process of elimination, the culprit is revealed to be a man named Kiritani. After the authorities arrest Kiritani, Eisuke attempts to question Kogoro about Rena causing Conan to realize he is in fact searching for her.

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The Mysterious Job

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eisuke Hondou Detective Takagi Inspector Megure Azusa Enomoto Gin Vodka Chianti Korn Kir Vermouth 100px Touji Funemoto 100px Tome's Female Assistant

Situation

The Mystery of the Big Reward (464)

Eisuke asks Kogoro to investigate a mystery and believes that the crime is related to The Red-Headed League; Eisuke reveals that a man is paid a lot of money to switch the garbage from the neighborhood waste collection with the garbage from the previous garbage day. Kogoro takes Ran, Conan, and Eisuke with him to investigate the neighborhood. They run into Takagi who explains that a woman named Kaneyo Funemoto was recently murdered in the neighborhood after being shot in the back of her head while at home.

Murder
	Location: Funemoto Household Victim: Kaneyo Funemoto Cause of death: Gunshot wound Suspects: Vermouth, Takami Shigeno, and Tatsuhito Funemoto The group encounters a murder during an investigation of the secret part-time job which is near where Rena Mizunashi crashed. Furthermore, the boy who is the victim's son says that the murderer is a foreign woman dressed in black, Vermouth!

Her son, Touji Funemoto, says that a strange foreign woman questioned him about an accident he witnessed and believes she murdered his mother. Conan realizes the woman is Vermouth and that the Black Organization must now know that Rena Mizunashi is currently hospitalized in a coma.

People

Kaneyo Funemoto
	Victim (gunshot) 39 years old Tatsuhito's wife

Takami Shigeno
	48 years old Housekeeper

Tatsuhito Funemoto
	43 years old Owner of the Funemoto Estate

Touji Funemoto
100px	8 years old Tatsuhito's son

Resolution

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After a thorough investigation, Conan tranquilizes Kogoro and reveals the culprit to be Kanyo's wheelchair-bound husband, Tatsuhito Funemoto. Conan reveals that Tatsuhito had Kanyo look outside by telling her there was a shooting star and shot her. He then falsified a robbery by hiding her pearl necklace by using them as Setsubun beans and having his maid vacuum them. Conan explains that the garbage scheme was so Tatsuhito could receive the vacuum bag later and pawn the pearls. As proof for the murder, Conan reveals that an onion was on the handle of his wheelchair which he got from the kitchen rubber glove; Conan reveals that the fingerprints and gunpowder on the glove will convict him for murder. Tatsuhito confesses and reveals his wife was obsessively spending money sponsoring parties and that she planned to place a second mortgage on the house and then divorce him to leave him with the debt. But what he couldn't take most is that she wanted to abandon Touji. The police and Tatsuhito decide to preserve Touji's innocence by telling him that his father is going away for a while.

See also

• Season 15