The Mystery-Solving Water Taxi

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Episode 956-957 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Mystery-Solving Water Taxi
Japanese title:	謎解き水上バス (Nazotoki Suijō Basu)
Original airdate:	October 12, 2019 (Part 1) October 19, 2019 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	?.?% (Part 1) 8.0% (Part 2)
Filler case:	#322
Season:	29
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	All you can eat buffet (Part 1) Fireworks (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto  Koichiro Kuroda
Episode director:	956: Koichiro Kuroda 957: Masahiro Takada
Animation director:	Seiji Muta, Nobuyuki Iwai, and Masatomo Sudo (supervisors) 956: Michitaka Yamamoto and Kaoru Nagakawa 957: Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (design works) Rei Masunaga
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Yoshiko Okamoto as Yasuko Kadowaki Makoto Yasumura as Yuichi Kadowaki Kenta Miyake as Rintaro Takase Takahiro Sato as Shop manager, Takase's friend Akihiko Murasugi as Bar employee  Keiko Kimoto as Girl Naomi Sano as Inboard announcement Marie Hatanaka as Woman
Music
Opening song:	ANSWER
Closing song:	Sissy Sky

The Mystery-Solving Water Taxi (謎解き水上バス ,Nazotoki Suijō Basu) is the 956th and 957th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro and Conan walk past Beika Park and see Megure, Takagi and Chiba along with witnesses on a canvassed area. They decide to look further into it.

Murder
	Location: Beika Park Victim: Eiji Kadowaki Age: 23 years old Time: 10:00 PM Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Yasuko Kadowaki, Yuichi Kadowaki and Rintaro Takase After returning from the bar, Eiji was struck by a metal pipe in the park and died instantly.

Domestic Abuse (Past)
	Location: Kadowaki house Victim: Yasuko Kadowaki Age: 63 years old Time: 3 years ago until a few days ago Injury: Punch to the face Suspects: Eiji Kadowaki After their father's death, Eiji was believed to abuse his mother and Yuichi was probably the protector.

Murder / Arson

Location: Kadowaki house Victim: Yasuko Kadowaki and Yuichi Kadowaki (escaped) Age: 63 years old (Yasuko) and 28 years old (Yuichi) Time: Night Cause of death: Burning Suspects: Yuichi Kadowaki, Yasuko Kadowaki and Rintaro Takase After interrogating Takase, the police get a call from officers stationed at the Kadowakis. When they arrive, the house was burned completely and Yasuko's dead body had already been brought by forensics. Yuichi was found uninjured.

People

Yasuko Kadowaki
	Victim (burned?) 63 years old Former elementary school teacher

Yuichi Kadowaki
	Victim (burned - survived) 28 years old Government office employee Yasuko's eldest son

Mr. Kadowaki
	Deceased Yasuko's husband Yuichi and Eiji's father

Eiji Kadowaki
	Victim (beaten) 23 years old Unemployed Yasuko's youngest son

Rintaro Takase
	32 years old Construction company worker Yasuko's past student

Girl
	Beika Business Hotel customer Drunk lady

Boy
	Beika Business Hotel bellboy Witness

Man
	PM convenience store cashier

Woman
	PM convenience store clerk

Man B
	PM convenience store manager

Man C
	Hinode Pier construction site supervisor Takase's boss

Man D
	Nebada Brewery bar employee

Woman B
	Tourist in Tokyo Cruise Ship water taxi

Resolution

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Conan stuns Kogoro in the water taxi and reveals to Rintaro Takase that he is the culprit who killed Eiji Kadowaki. He used his doppelganger friend as an accomplice in his plan which follows as this:

• At 8:00 PM, Takase enters the bar but sits opposite to the customers so they don't see him;
• At 9:00 PM, Takase's friend enters and pretends he wants to see someone. They change in the toilets and switch roles, his friend pretending to be the noisy Takase at the back of the store and him pretending to be the customer who hasn't found his drinking partner;
• At around 9:40 PM, Takase arrives at Beika Park after a 30-minute walk and kills Eiji;
• At around 10:10 PM, Takase comes back to the bar as the customer looking for his friend and changes back with the fake Takase who leaves the place saying to the waiter that he got the wrong date;
• At 11:00 PM, Takase leaves the bar without being suspected of having left earlier.

Man E
	Takase's friend Takase's lookalike

Kogoro tells him that his motive is that Yasuko helped him in the past and that he thought he owed her because of it. He saw her at the hospital a few days ago and saw her injured so he wondered who could have done this to her since she was so careful. He learned from PM store's cashier and clerk that she was constantly abused by one her sons and he assumed that based on his mischievous personality, Eiji was the one. After learning about it, he took matters in his own hands to end it and that was why he killed Eiji. Although he doesn't have any evidence, Kogoro forces Takase into confessing as he reveals him the truth behind the fire. The sleeping detective reveals Yuichi Kadowaki was the real one behind the domestic abuse as confirmed by the fact that on the day Yasuko was at the hospital, Eiji was at the police station after he got arrested for having got into an argument with the bar owner which leaves only Yuichi as the one behind it. Eiji was in fact the protector. Yuichi had a grudge against her for having messed up his childhood and wanted to seek revenge by abusing her daily. The fire was also started by him because he accidentally killed her when he threw her to the wall after a fit of rage. Kogoro also adds that Inspector Megure called him to tell him that Yuichi confessed to it. Takase then kneels and feels sorry for what he has done because it led to his favorite teacher's death.

Murder
	Location: Kadowaki house Victim: Yasuko Kadowaki Age: 63 years old Time: Before the fire Cause of death: Bashing Culprit: Yuichi Kadowaki Before the house was on fire, Yuichi accidentally killed his mother in an attack of rage by pushing her to the wall.

Aftermath

Later on that night, Takase is arrested in Asakusa and Kogoro is left in the water taxi since he didn't get up on time.

Trivia

• The water-taxi is part of Tokyo Cruise Ship's Sumida River Line (隅田川ライン ,Sumidagawa Rain) which departs from Hinode Pier to Asakusa.
• The police car from The High School Girl Trio's Secret Café reappeared.

See also

• Season 29