The Real Culprit's Scream

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Episode 899 (Int. Episode 954)
Information
Title:	The Real Culprit's Scream
Japanese title:	真犯人の叫び声 (Shinhan'nin no sakebigoe)
Original airdate:	April 28, 2018
Broadcast rating:	7.3%
Filler case:	#291
Season:	23
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Suitcase
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Yuko Okabe
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	Takanori Yano
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Akiko Motoyoshi (sub-character) Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Production cooperation:	BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Kaori Nazuka as Ayano Saeki Kumiko Nishihara as Mifuyu Morita Takuo Kawamura as Atsushi Tabata Ryota Honda as Police officer A Sakura Nakamura as Female college student A Nozomi Furuki as Female college student B
Music
Opening song:	Everything OK!!
Closing song:	Kamikaze Express

The Real Culprit's Scream (真犯人の叫び声 ,Shinhan'nin no sakebigoe) is the 899th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Case

Situation

Ayano Saeki and Mifuyu Morita work together in the bakery. Morita invites Saeki to hang-out in her apartment. While Saeki is standing at her door, she hears Morita screaming at her boyfriend Atsushi Tabata. When she enters with the spare key, Mifuyu is lying down on the floor having been stabbed in the chest apparently. There are footprints leading to the balcony. Mifuyu tells Saeki to run for her life saying that her boyfriend is still in the apartment.

Murder
	Location: Mifuyu Morita's apartment Victim: Mifuyu Morita Age: 25 years old Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Atsushi Tabata Ayano found her friend stabbed in her bedroom, with a bloodstained knife lying next to her.

While running on the street to get help, Saeki bumps into Kogoro and Conan who apparently notice something strange with her and the blood on her shoulder. She explains that her friend has been stabbed. Saeki leads them to Mifuyu's apartment where they find the knife used for stabbing the victim lying on her floor but there is no body lying around. Conan notices the footsteps are dry which is strange because it hasn't been much time since the incident occurred. The police are called. Kogoro notices a suitcase missing and speculates that the culprit ran with her body in the suitcase. Later they go to the boyfriend's house. Saeki reveals that Atsushi was a fraud and had extracted 10 million yen from the victim. For this reason, Mifuyu was going to sue him.

They find blood outside Atsushi's house and drag marks of the suitcase inside which the body was carried. On entering the house, they find Atsushi poisoned on the table. Beside him is a letter that reads: "I'm going to meet Mifuyu".

Murder or Suicide?
	Location: Atsushi Tabata's house Victim: Atsushi Tabata Age: 35 years old Cause of death: Poison Suspects: Ayano Saeki Atsushi is found lying dead, head on table, with a suicide note and a coffee cup next to him, speculated to be the one used to administer the poison.

Kogoro concludes that Atsushi felt guilty after killing Mifuyu so he committed suicide. They also find the suitcase used for carrying Mifuyu in another room. This is confirmed by a strand of hair inside it. Kogoro leaves the case to the Inspector as solved and they set out to search for the victim's dumped body.

People

Ayano Saeki
	25 years old Mifuyu's friend and colleague Bakery worker

Mifuyu Morita
	Victim (stabbed) 25 years old Bakery worker

Atsushi Tabata
	Victim (poison) 35 years old Mifuyu's boyfriend Fraudster

Police officer A
	Tokyo MPD Police officer

Police officer B
	Tokyo MPD Police officer

Girl A
	College student Kogoro's fan

Girl B
	College student Kogoro's fan

Resolution

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Conan finds some inconsistencies in the case. He makes Kogoro arrive to the actual conclusion with reason and doesn't put him to sleep this time.

Inconsistencies

• The coffee mug Atsushi regularly used is in the cupboard. The cup used to administer the poison is one among those used for guests.
• The culprit tried to hide her presence in Atsushi's house. The cup she used to drink her coffee was cleaned and kept in the cupboard. But the dishwasher scrub has a lipstick mark on the underside.
• Tabata could have dumped the suitcase along with the body but he brought it to his home.
• The footprints on Mifuyu's apartment were dry when Conan and Kogoro entered her apartment. This gives rise to a suspicion that they were deliberately produced beforehand.
• The noise in the balcony of Mifuyu's apartment was created by using a pop-up toaster and keeping a tray above it. When the toast would pop out of the toaster, the tray would fall creating the noise. As evidence, there are breadcrumbs lying on the place where the toaster was placed.

Confrontation

Mifuyu Morita is confronted in the airport by Conan. She cut herself on the arm to paint the blood on her chest. As a result, there wasn't enough blood around the scene for a chest-stabbed victim. She had withdrawn 10 million yen from Atsushi's bank account and was planning to run away to Paris to live her dream of opening her own bakery. The suicide letter was a deliberate double-meaning sentence written by Atsushi himself as promise to Mifuyu that he'd come to Paris to see her. When she sees Saeki among the policemen, she tries to emotionally break her by blaming her revenge on her boyfriend to be assisted by the acts done by Saeki, telling her about how her boyfriend approached her with the same story and asked for 10 million yen as help. Megure and Takagi defend Saeki and tell Mifuyu that the revenge was entirely plotted and executed by her. Blaming the murder on Saeki is evading her responsibility for the sinful acts she has committed.

Aftermath

On the way back, Kogoro exclaims how women are scary and two-faced to Conan. The next moment, he forgets about this as two of his girl-fans approach him and he sets out with them to grab French dinner. Conan wonders what he's supposed to do after skipping lunch.

Trivia

• The flight the culprit is taking is in fact a real Flight called Japanese Airlines Flight 293 (JAL JL 293), connecting Tokyo (Haneda Airport) to Ube, Yamaguchi (Ube Airport).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El crit de l'autèntic culpable	The real culprit scream
French (Subbed)	Les Vociférations du véritable assassin	The vociferations of the real murder
Thai	เสียงกรีดร้องของคนร้ายตัวจริง	The scream of the real culprit
Vietnamese	Tiếng hét của hung thủ thật sự

See also

• Season 23