The Suspicious Spicy Curry

{{InfoBox TV | episode = 331-332 | image = TV Episode 331-332.jpg | title = The Suspicious Spicy Curry | english-title = | japanese-title = 疑惑の辛口カレー
(Giwaku no Karakuchi Karē) | rating = 13.90%
15.00% | Manga case number = #118 | season = 12 | manga = Volume 40: Files 4-6 (407-409) | airdate = August 11, 2003 (Part 1)
August 18, 2003 (Part 2) | english-airdate = | cast = Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Ran Mouri
Sonoko Suzuki
Detective Yamamura
Makoto Kyogoku | solved-by = Kogoro Mouri
Sonoko Suzuki
Detective Yamamura
(all via Conan) | next-conan-hint = Curry rice (Part 1)
Electric cable (Part 2) | director = Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Masato Sato | screenplay = | organizer = 331 Hirohito Ochi
332 Yasumi Mikamoto | storyboard = 331 Hirohito Ochi
332 Yasumi Mikamoto | producer = 331 Katsuyoshi Yatabe
332 Hideaki Oniwa | animation-director = 331 Atsushi Aono
332 Izumi Shimura | voice-cast = Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki
Toshio Furukawa as Detective Yamamura
[[ | opening-song = Kaze no Lalala | closing-song = Kimi to Iu Hikari | prev-episode = A Friendship That Can't Be Bought | next-episode = The Similar Princesses | footnotes = }}

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Detective Yamamura Makoto Kyogoku (Flashback)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro, Ran, Sonoko, and Conan are on a trip to play tennis when it starts to rain heavily. Later, they find out that the rented car has been washed away and that they are stranded. After walking around, they find a house owned by the same man they met at the tennis court. Later, the man asks them to call his father down, but find him hanged in his room.

Suicide?
	Location: Akashi household Victim: Iwao Akashi Cause of death: Hanging Iwao bled from his mouth where two teeth were removed.

Part 2

Conan solves the case but has lost his voice.

People

Hiroto Akashi
	32 years old Tennis instructor

Iwao Akashi
	Victim (hanged) 65 years old Hiroto's father

Resolution

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As usual the death was not a suicide but a murder committed by Hiroto Akashi. Conan lost his voice in the middle of the investigation and so he had to play charades to get Inspector Yamamura, Sonoko, and Mouri to figure out the murder method. Hirota bound and gagged his step father's mouth and wrists using a napkin and rope respectively. The cord used to activate the light in his bedroom along with a few extracted electric cables were tied around critical points in his teeth. Having put him in the proper hanging position he forces his step-father to hold the bite otherwise his neck would have instantly snapped. The napkin apart from hiding large curry traces (eating huge quantities being an irregular activity for one about to commit suicide) was primarily used to prevent Iwao Akashi from calling for help. Ran hears this as the old man giving a muffled cry to establish an alibi for Hiroto who was busy cleaning dishes in the kitchen. After feeling secure, Hiroto finishes the job by pulling at the cord in the dining room. The lights in the household operate simultaneously. It is explained there are three phases to the lights in the Akashi household. If Hiroto had the lights preset to the standby orange light then he could turn off the light in his father's room. Incidentally the cords in his step-father's room retract when doing so, so this releases all the ropes binding his mouth, hanging him, and violently tearing out two of his molars in the process.

The plan was premeditated with Hiroto waiting at the tennis courts for random travelers to pick up so he could have witnesses to the suicide and prepared an extra batch of curry rice for the occasion.

Upon discovery of the body, Hiroto hid one of the severed teeth in the curry rice dish his step-father ate and made excuses that the lost teeth were caused due to a previous dental surgery and that the sudden moment of his death caused bleeding from the gums. Conan points out this cannot be the case as his father ate curry like the rest and it is ill-advised for post dental surgery patients to eat spicy food. Noticing the presence of rope markings on his wrists puts further doubt onto the theory of suicide and then the rest of the murder is explained.

The motive is that Mr Akashi caused the death of Hiroto's wife. One day when it was raining heavily, Iwao Akashi forced the mistress to go to the nearest supermarket and buy mushrooms he insisted on having his dinner with. The trip was dangerous as the Akashis lived in a household isolated from the Karuizawa urban community. To go to the supermarket would mean Hiroto's wife would have to travel a long distance through the forest. She also had a severe cold at the time. The fatigue of traveling and her illness caused her to collapse. She never woke up and it was not until days later that the police discovered her body: albeit completely decomposed from the moisture and fungi.

Hiroto was grieved by his step-father's gross negligence but it was not until he heard his father's last words at the funeral that his outlook of him forever change. Iwao snickers contentment that his step-son's wife died as she was physically frail and not worth having as a spouse to physically superior tennis coach like Hiroto. Hearing his arrogance and later his apparent refusal to live with others, Hiroto kills him out of revenge and to escape his isolated life.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	風のららら	Kaze no Lalala	The Wind's Lalala	Kaze no Lalala
2	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 Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	暗号トリックの解読	Angō Torikku no Kaidoku	The Trick to Deciphering the Code	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
4	３人組の会話	3 Ningumi no Kaiwa	The Group of Three's Conversation	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
5	毛利小五郎のテーマ	Mōri Kogorō no Tēma	Kogoro Mouri's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
6	尋問	Jinmon	Interrogation	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
7	恋のトランプゲーム占い （世紀末ヴァージョン）	Koi no Toranpu Gēmu Uranai (Seikimatsu Vājon)	Love's Fortune-Telling Card Game (Last Century Version)	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
8	コナンのRock＆Roll （アナザーver.）	Konan no Rock & Roll (Anazā ver.)	Conan's Rock & Roll (Another ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
10	オセンチな歩美 （未収録ヴァージョン）	Osenchina Ayumi (Mi Shūroku Vājon)	Sentimental Ayumi (Unreleased Version)
11	哀のサスペンス～ジンのテーマＢ	Ai no Sasupensu ~ Jin no Tēma B	Ai's Suspense ~ Gin's Theme B	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
12	コナン推理	Konan Suiri	Conan's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
13	暗殺者のテーマ─忍び寄る魔手	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Shinobiyoru Mashu	Assassin's Theme - The Devil's Hand Approaches	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
14	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	夜の探索	Yoru no Tansaku	Night Search	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
17	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
18	犯人（スナイパー）の正体	Hannin (Sunaipā) no Shōtai	The Culprit's (Sniper's) Identity	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
19	君という光	Kimi to Iu Hikari	The Light Called "You"	Kimi to Iu Hikari

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	風のららら	Kaze no Lalala	The Wind's Lalala	Kaze no Lalala
2	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	「何だこの痕跡は？」	"Nanda Kono Konseki wa?"	"What Is This a Trace Of?"	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
5	二世・三世の子供達	Nisei・Sansei no Kodomotachi	The Second and Third Generation Children	Detective Conan "The Phantom of Baker Street" Original Soundtrack
6	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	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
8	危機迫る～コナン出動	Kiki Semaru ~ Konan Shutsudō	Approaching Crisis ~ Conan's Move	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
9	古城の探索	Kojō no Tansaku	Exploration of the Old Castle	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
10	急げ！少年探偵団	Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan	Hurry! The Detective Boys	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
11	コナン推理	Konan Suiri	Conan's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
12	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	次のターゲット！	Tsugi no Tāgetto!	The Next Target!	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
15	コナン推理	Konan Suiri	Conan's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
16	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
17	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
18	「名探偵コナン」メイン・テーマ （バラードver.）	"Meitantei Konan" Mein・Tēma (Barādo ver.)	"Detective Conan" Main Theme (Ballad ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
19	君という光	Kimi to Iu Hikari	The Light Called "You"	Kimi to Iu Hikari
20	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack

Trivia

• The tennis court in this case is the same tennis court that appears in Conan in a Locked Room.

See also

• Season 12