Holmes Freak Murder Case

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Episode 57-58 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Holmes Freak Murder Case
Japanese title:	ホームズフリーク殺人事件 (Hōmuzu Furīku Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	May 5, 1997 (Part 1) May 12, 1997 (Part 2) August 11, 2018 (Remastered version Part 1) August 18, 2018 (Remastered version Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	16% (Part 1) 16.5% (Part 2)
Remastered rating:	7.8% (Part 1) 7.1% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#33
Season:	3
Manga source:	Volume 12: File 7 (117) ~ Volume 13: File 1 (121)
English version
English title:	Footsteps of the Hero
Dubbed episode:	Episode 59-60
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Heiji Hattori (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Blanket (Part 1) The Holmes test (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	57 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 58 Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	57 Keiko Sasaki 58 Hiromi Muranaka, Asako Nishida
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Kazuhiko Kishino as Toshiaki Fujisawa Shinobu Satou as Nanako Shimizu Hidenari Ugaki as Ikuo Kawatsu Yukiko Iwai as Hitomi Iwai Kiyoshi Kawakubo as Hiroyuki Kanaya Miyuki Ichijou as Maria Toda Katsumi Toriumi as Kento Togano Yurika Hino as Ayako Oki Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Hikari to Kage no Roman

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo (flashback/background) Isao Tsujimura (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan enters a Sherlock Holmes contest to win a first-edition book and persuades Ran Mouri and Kogoro to attend. Once at the place of the contest, everyone must take a 1000-question test about Sherlock Holmes. Heiji appears and reveals to Ran he thought he would meet Shinichi there. Later that day, Hiroyuki Kanaya, the host, is seen driving his car off a cliff and into the ocean.

Murder
	Location: Side of cliff Victim: Hiroyuki Kanaya Age: 51 years old Cause of death: Dead body fell with SUV and exploded Suspects: Ikuo Kawatsu, Toshiaki Fujisawa, Nanako Shimizu, Hitomi Iwai, Maria Toda, Kento Togano, and Ayako Oki He appeared to drive the SUV off the cliff, but when Conan and Heiji looked inside the window before he was about to drive it off, they noticed a lot of things strange.

Hiroyuki's death is presumed to be a murder and contestant Ayako Oki reveals she knows who the murderer is. Later a garage fire occurs and Ayako is found dead.

Murder
	Location: In the back of the car Victim: Ayako Oki Age: 21 years old Cause of death: Burned to death Suspects: Ikuo Kawatsu, Toshiaki Fujisawa, Nanako Shimizu, Hitomi Iwai, Maria Toda, and Kento Togano Ayako goes to get something in the back of a SUV. The murderer told her to get it. The car ignites and explodes with her in it.

Next, a blackout occurs and Toshiaki Fujisawa, another contestant, is stabbed in the back with an ice pick.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Dining room Victim: Toshiaki Fujisawa Age: 47 years old Injury: Stab Wound Suspects: Ikuo Kawatsu, Nanako Shimizu, Hitomi Iwai, Maria Toda, and Kento Togano A fuse breaks and the lights go off. Conan and Heiji barely notice an item (ice pick) about to hit the victim. They dive and knock him Toshiaki over so it doesn't kill him but hit him in the arm.

Part 2

After Conan reveals his insight, Heiji believes Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. Heiji reveals that when Kanaya was in the car, his body had already undergone rigor mortis. At that moment, Conan and Heiji realize who the murderer is. Heiji decides to wait for Conan to solve the case in order to see if he really is Shinichi. Conan tranquilizes Heiji and makes his deduction.

People

Ikuo Kawatsu
	25 years old High school gym teacher

Toshiaki Fujisawa
	Victim (stabbed-injured) 47 years old Train station employee

Nanako Shimizu
	24 years old Librarian

Hitomi Iwai
	24 years old Inn employee

Maria Toda
	43 years old Seer

Hiroyuki Kanaya
	Victim (exploded) 51 years old Inn owner Cultural trip organizer

Kento Togano
	22 years old University student Mystery club president

Ayako Oki
	Victim (burned) 21 years old University student Mystery club member Kento's girlfriend

Resolution

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Conan accuses Kento Togano, claiming he placed Hiroyuki in the car after murdering him. Kento, then placed Hiroyuki's foot on the brake and once rigor mortis had set in, turned on the car's heater, shifted the car into drive, and opened the garage. The heat caused Hiroyuki's body to leave rigor mortis quicker than usual, easing pressure on the brake and causing the car to accelerate into the ocean. The corpse had to be thrown down the cliff so the time of death wouldn't be found out. For Ayako's murder, Kento told Ayako the book was hidden in a car in the garage. The car had a punctured gas tank and the batteries were dead. With the batteries dead, the car light did not work, forcing Ayako to use her lighter, igniting the fire because of the fuel scattered. He killed her because she found him out. Ayako knew he is the killer and the trick he used. Since the garage fire was designed for Toshiaki, Kento decided to create a blackout and stab him. Togano was in the kitchen and he had the chance to manipulate the plug to create the blackout. Kento then asks Heiji for evidence, and Conan reveals that Kento did not answer a single question on the questionnaire, apparently knowing the host would be dead. Kento did all this because he despised "Irene Adler's Sneer", a book created by Hiroyuki and Toshiaki that had Sherlock's equal laughing at him. Heiji wakes up and decides to blackmail Conan into revealing who he really is. Afterwards, Conan reveals his identity to Heiji, as well as how he shrank.

Trivia

Episode 162

• Maria Toda reappears in the one year ago flashback from The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case.
• 2 SUV in The Case are Brown 1991 Mitsubishi Pajero [V20].
• Shinichi/Conan’s favorite Holmes story is revealed in this case to be “The Sign of Four”, one of the four Holmes novels.
• This is the first case where Kogoro is referred to as “Sleeping Kogoro”.
• Kogoro may like Agatha Christie, however he knows nothing about Sherlock Holmes.
• When asked about his favorite Sherlock Holmes book, Kogoro says that his favorite book was "And Then There Were None," although he got the name wrong, and really had no idea of who wrote it.
• The inn is named "Mycroft, which is the name of Sherlock Holmes' brother, and built on a cliff-edge"
• Ran may have been worried, however Conan fits in exceedingly well with the "Sherlockians," considering he really is one too, and lousy at hiding it.
• The Sherlockians were ecstatic to meet Conan, who know doubt is named after Arthur Conan Doyle. He did not even have to tell them that is why he chose the name.
• While Conan was singing off about Holmes to the Sherlockians, Hattori began singing off about his rival Shinichi Kudo. He even knew that he sings off-key, but is great at soccer.
• Hattori's accent is called Kansei-ben, which is spoken of in Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Kobe.
• Hattori entered this tour so that he would hopefully meet off with Shinichi Kudo again, since he knows that he is a big Holmes fan.
• Hattori prefers Ellery Queen to Conan Doyle, however when he said that at the inn, all of the Sherlockians and Conan gave him a look that could kill.
• Thankfully, Hattori noticed, and rephrased his speech, "... but I guess Doyle is still the best," which brought a smile to all of the other Sherlockians, although Conan wasn't buying it.
• Study In Scarlet is the prize that the winner would receive, it the contest went as it should, and did not become a murder mystery, with the first edition prize not really being mentioned, except for bait to commit another murder by the culprit.
• On May 4, 1981 is the day Holmes fell off of a cliff with Professor Moriarty.
• This is the first time that a person went over the cliff in a car, although they were already very well deceased at the time.
• Hattori has his second head-on-collision with Conan, and when he quits griping that the little kid is in his way, he begins to notice similarities between Conan and Shinichi.
• No sooner than Ran telling Hattori that her father "has been solving all of his cases lately, and because he looks like he is asleep when he does his reasoning, he is now called "Sleeping Kogoro,"" He immediately took her to the side and asked where Conan was when he does his reasoning, giving off the hint that he has an idea of how the "Sleeping Detective" trick works, before he even sees it.
• The first time an ice pick is used in a crime.
• Conan tells Hattori, "I like playing detective," however soon Hattori realized that "This kid isn't playing detective; he's doing full-fledged detective reasoning. Although the voice and body are different, could he be Shinichi Kudo?"
• This is the first episode that mentions "Sherlock Holmes' "Dancing Men."
• Kogoro woke up the tranquilized Hattori with a knock on the head, who remained pretending to be asleep in order to secretly observe Conan speaking in his voice, but with a strange Dialect.
• While impersonating Hattori's voice, Conan tended to exaggerate the word endings creating a strange dialect, since he is unable to replicate the Kansei-ben dialect of Hattori's.
• Heiji Hattori successfully deduced that Conan Edogawa was Shinichi Kudo, and how the "Sleeping Detective" trick worked.
• Conan even told him about the syndicate that forced him to take a drug which shrank him into his 7 year old body.
• Since Hattori was practically convinced of Conan's identity prior to him being tranquilized, he purposely withheld his own deduction to force Conan to solve the case.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Ikuo Kawatsu - Burt Bledsoe
• Toshiaki Fujisawa - Ernie Bower
• Nanako Shimizu - Nancy Schmit
• Hitomi Iwai - Betsy
• Maria Toda - Moira Krupp
• Hiroyuki Kanaya - Harry Kanucka
• Kento Togano - Alex Carr
• Ayako Oki - Sheila Sands

• In the Funimation Dub, Heiji states that he was conscious the entire time and makes no mention of Conan speaking without an accent, whereas in the Japanese Version he specifies when he became conscious and noted that Conan didn't mimic his accent (Which the Funimation Dub never incorporated into Heiji).

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	蘭のテーマ （音コンテ）	Ran no Tēma (Oto Konte)	Ran's Theme (Sound Cue)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	少年探偵団のテーマ	Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma	The Detective Boys' Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	昼下がりの天使たち	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi	Early Afternoon Angels	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
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	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
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	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	光と影のロマン	Hikari to Kage no Roman	Romance of Light and Shadow	Hikari to Kage no Roman

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	コナンの勇気	Konan no Yūki	Conan's Courage	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	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
6	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	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
8	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	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
10	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
12	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	ひらめき	Hirameki	Flash	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	悲劇のヒロイン	Higeki no Hiroin	Tragic Heroine	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	事件解決	Jiken Kaiketsu	Case Resolution	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16	光と影のロマン	Hikari to Kage no Roman	Romance of Light and Shadow	Hikari to Kage no Roman
17	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	جريمة الوادي	The Valley Crime
Basque	Holmes-en omenaldiko hilketa	Murder in homage to Holmes
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de la trobada de fans de Holmes	Holmes fans meeting murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El cas de l'assassinat dels fans de Holmes	Holmes fans murder case
French	Sur les traces de Sherlock Holmes	On the Steps of Sherlock Holmes
Galician	Os asasinatos do fanático de Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes fanatical murders
German	Rache für Sherlock Holmes	Revenge for Sherlock Holmes
Italian	Il club di Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes' Club
Spanish (American dub)	El asesino fanático	Fanatical murder
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El caso del fanático de Holmes	Holmes fanatical case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมคนบ้าโฮล์มส์	A Holmes freak murder case
Vietnamese	Án mạng Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes Murder Case

See also

• Season 3