The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden

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Episode 1018-1020 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden
Japanese title:	骨董盆は隠せない (Kottō Bon wa Kakusenai)
Original airdate:	September 11, 2021 (Part 1) September 18, 2021 (Part 2) September 25, 2021 (Part 3)
Broadcast rating:	?.?% (Part 1)  ?.?% (Part 2)  ?.?% (Part 3)
Manga case:	#298
Season:	29
Manga source:	Volume 97: Files 10-11 (1035-1036) ~ Volume 98: Files 1-2 (1037-1038)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Masumi Sera Subaru Okiya Shuichi Akai Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Mary Sera Shukichi Akai Tsutomu Akai Kohji Haneda Detective Boys Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Gin Vodka Vermouth Chianti Korn
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Masumi Sera Subaru Okiya
Next Conan's Hint:	Black Lacquer Tray (Part 1) Crane (Part 2) (Part 3)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	1018: Tsurumi Mukoyama
Animation director:	1018: Seiji Muta (supervisor) Kenichi Otomo Yui Ushinohama Marie Nagano (asst.) Ken Araya (asst.) Rei Masunaga (asst.) Ayu Imoto (asst.)
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (design works) Akiko Motoyoshi
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera Ryotaro Okiayu as Subaru Okiya Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Atsuko Tanaka as Mary Sera Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Masaharu Sato as Hogen Nishitsu Tohru Furusawa as Motoyuki Tojima Yōsuke Akimoto as Kinji Chono Narumi Tsunoda as Suzue Sakamaki
Music
Opening song:	ZERO kara Hajimete
Closing song:	Veronica

The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden (骨董盆は隠せない ,Kottō Bon wa Kakusenai) is the 1018th, 1019th, and 1020th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Masumi Sera Subaru Okiya Shuichi Akai (background) Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Mary Sera Shukichi Akai (flashback) Tsutomu Akai (flashback) Kohji Haneda (flashback) Ayumi Yoshida (flashback) Genta Kojima (flashback) Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya (flashback) Ran Mouri (flashback) Sonoko Suzuki (flashback) Gin (background) Vodka (background) Vermouth (background) Chianti (background) Korn (background) Kurisuke Agasa (background) Tomoaki Okuda (flashback)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Murder
	Location: Nishitsu residence Victim: Hogen Nishitsu Age: 71 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma, then stab wound from spear Suspects: Motoyuki Tojima, Kinji Chono and Suzue Sakamaki

People

Hogen Nishitsu
	Victim (bludgeoned and stabbed) 71 years old Antiques dealer Agasa's acquaintance

Motoyuki Tojima
	41 years old Securities company employee Appraisal client

Kinji Chono
	74 years old Former real estate company CEO Retired Appraisal client

Suzue Sakamaki
	46 years old Art museum director Appraisal client

Woman A
100px	Nishitsu's housekeeper

Woman B
100px	Nishitsu's housekeeper

Resolution

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The culprit is Motoyuki Tojima since he is the only one with the crane's beak pointing at 2 o' clock when the bloodstain was at 10 o' clock. The real tray having the bloodstain from the victim's view was pointing at 2 o' clock angle, which when Agasa flipped it horizontally, the crane's beak was at 2 o' clock angle while the bloodstain is at 10 o' clock, which is perpendicular from each other. Conan tells that nor Sakamaki or Chono would have been able to kill the appraiser since swinging the spear for them would have caused the floor to creak and the appraiser to look behind and see the culprit. Tojima says that even it would have made noise, Nishitsu wouldn't have been able to hear anything since the aid wasn't functioning. This last sentence Tojima said proves that he is the culprit since he shouldn't have known that it wasn't functioning at the time unless he was there in the room with Nishitsu which makes Tojima confess that he didn't want to kill him. The motive for killing the appraiser and snatching the real tray was to cover up the cost of his daughter's operation which cost about 5 million yen while he thought his tray was fake and of no value. Subaru Okiya tells him that in fact, his tray was most probably a prototype made by apprentices and its value should be able to cover up the costs. Tojima bursts into tears as he realizes he had killed the appraiser for nothing. The real tray belongs to Kinji Chouno and he was willing to lend it to Sakamaki for her exhibition at a reasonable price. The proof that it was the real tray was because since Nishitsu was sitting in front of the real tray's box, the blood that would splatter from his head would have likely fallen into the real tray's box just in front of Nishitsu and the only box with blood spots inside is the old man's. After the end of the case, Sera questions Mary about the "50:50" catchprase. Mary replies that it is her catchphrase as well, and it's a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Sera informs her mother that getting the drug at the moment is diffucult since Subaru is standing in her way, which surprised Mary. After learning the truth about the "50:50" catchphrase, Sera suspects that Subaru is Akai, but attempts to deny it since she thinks that her brother is supposed to be dead.

Manga to anime changes

• In the anime version, there is a flashback to Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy where Sera ask Ran and Sonoko about Haibara. The flashback is not in the manga.
• The anime version add the scene where Sera arrives in front of Agasa's house and Subaru observing her from Kudo's house.
• In the anime, the suspect questioning is held in another room, while in the manga it is held directly on the alley in front of the room where the murder happened.
• In the manga, the housekeepers appear and they explain their alibi and answer Conan's question. In the anime, the housekeepers do not appear, but their alibi and the answer to Conan's question is said by Takagi.

Trivia

• The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun was before Haibara transferred in the manga, while in the anime version she didn't want to come along, so Agasa's statement is wrong.

See also

• Season 29