Drama Episode 13

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Drama Episode 13
Information
Title:	File. 13
Broadcast rating:	4.4%
Original airdate:	September 29, 2011
Characters:	Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Hajime Hirata
Suspects:	Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo
Cast: Junpei Mizobata as Shinichi Kudo Shiori Kutsuna as Ran Mouri Takanori Jinnai as Kogoro Mouri Yuichi Tsuchiya as Wataru Takagi Natsuhi Ueno as Miwako Sato Hironobu Nomura as Hajime Hirata
Director:	Mitsutaka Endou
Screenplay:	Takehiko Hata

Subtitle

Ran Dies! Expose the Mystery of the Final White Room Challenge from the True Culprit to the Genius Detective (蘭死す! 真犯人が天才探偵へ最後の挑戦 白い部屋の謎を暴け ,Ran Shisu! Shinhannin ga Tensai Tantei e Saigo no Chōsen Shiroi Heya no Nazo o Abake)

Cast

Characters
Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Sonoko Suzuki Hajime Hirata

Episode Prologue:

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Upon releasing Ran from the sensors, Shinichi comes to a conclusion: she is the culprit behind everything. Right after Ran admits being the criminal, a glass door separates the two, white smoke gushing out put both to sleep.

Case

Situation

Hearing Takagi's voice, Shinichi wakes up, finding himself at Beika Marina and Ran lying still nearby. To his dismay, medical examiner Hajime Hirata declares Ran is dead and have to be dissected to specify the cause of death.

Murder?
	Location: Beika Marina Victim: Ran Mouri Cause of death: Unknown Suspects: Shinichi Kudo? When Shinichi comes to he discovers his best friend has been murdered! What's going on?!

Despite his efforts to rush to Ran and stop the emergency unit, Shinichi is stopped by Takagi and Sato; as a major witness, he is taken to Beika West Police Station to interrogate. Shinichi finds a memo in his pocket with the message that he has forgotten a important thing at the murder scene. Taking his chance, Shinichi escapes from the police, unexpectedly (and fortunately) meets Sonoko. He asks her to take him to Beika Marina.

Arriving there, Shinichi meets Kogoro, who has also been called there by the culprit with the message, "Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri are at Beika Marina". Shinichi recalls Ran's condition and Sato's words back then and deduces Ran isn't dead but flash-frozen, thus she's only in an "apparent death" condition. Suddenly Ran's phone, which they found at the scene, has an incoming call from "the true culprit". Shinichi and Kogoro have only 1 hour left before Ran is dissected–alive.

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Ran's body and the ground where she was found are wet.
  • The condition of Ran's corpse doesn't match that of a drowned person.
  • The glass door wall back then was cloudy.
  • Ran's cellphone is cold/freezing to the touch.
  • The panel's keyword this time is "hi-ra-ta-ha-ji-me".

• Conclusion
  • The true culprit is Hajime Hirata. At the very beginning, he kidnapped Ran's mother, Eri, forcing Ran to do everything he said. Ran was forced to make Shinichi and Kogoro drink sleeping pills so that Hirata could bring them to the white room. After they went through all the white rooms but one, Hirata separated Ran and Shinichi, flash-froze Ran's room so that Ran would be in an "apparent death" condition.

• Motive
  • Hajime Hirata's motive is to take revenge on Shinichi, who had completely ruined both his career and his honor in a past case. The past case involved a victim who coincidentally had apparently frozen to death by being locked in a freezer. But Shinichi was able to deduce that the victim had been murdered and the cause of death was different from what Hirata had found during his preliminary examination.

As a result of this one case Hirata had lost his credibility as a medical examiner and lost all the opportunities that was offered to him. Hirata blamed Shinichi for ruining his life, he had initially met Kudo once on the street but he had apparently forgotten Hirata which sent him over the edge causing him to concoct this whole scheme.

He had done so to force Shinichi to relieve his past cases that he solved, to remind him of all the lives he ruined when he solved their cases. Hirata wanted Shinichi to understand how he and the other “victims” felt, when he and they had lost everything.

Episode Resolution: The White Room Case, Closed

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Kogoro and Shinichi disguise themselves and rush to the Morgue at Beika West Police Station. They find Ran's body in a locked tube with a 6-syllable password. They recall the name of Ran's medical examiner - who they also had met before during some cases - and input, "hi-ra-ta-ha-ji-me". The tube opens, but instead of being Ran, it turns out to be a mannequin.

Agonized and angered, Kogoro hits Shinichi, claiming he will beat him to death. Hirata goes downstairs and asks what's going on, only to see both of them look at him oddly and claim Hirata is the culprit. Hirata admits being the true criminal, but triumphantly states that the situation hasn't changed, Ran's life is still in his hands.

In order to force Ran to cooperate with him, Hirata had kidnapped Eri and hid her on the yacht "New Orient" anchored in Honmokufuto. Suddenly Kogoro signals for someone, Sato and Takagi appear, telling Hirata not to move. It turns out that while at Beika Marina, Shinichi realized they were being eavesdropped on through a wiretap in Ran's phone strap and asked Kogoro to put on an act with him (hence the fight sound Hirata heard).

They then went to Beika West Police Station under disguises that anyone could see through, in order to request secret cooperation from Sato and Takagi via a note: by tapping into the radio waves used by the wiretap and eavesdropping from it. Having taken down the criminal, Shinichi goes and finds Ran and tries to wake her up. After much tears and many apologies, Shinichi takes Ran to the hospital and offers to take her to Tropical Land after she gets better and wins the city Karate Tournament, thus ends the white room case.

In the Epilogue, Shinichi explains that while at the tropical land, his life would change forever, as he would encounter a certain organization that would alter the course of life in an unimaginable way.

References

1. "木曜ミステリーシアター「名探偵コナン　工藤新一への挑戦状」 ストーリー". Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. http://www.ytv.co.jp/conan-drama/story13/index.html. Retrieved on 2011-09-22. 

See also

• Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo