Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case

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Episode 77-78 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case
Japanese title:	名家連続変死事件 (Meika Renzoku Henshi Jiken)
Original airdate:	October 20, 1997 (Part 1) October 27, 1997 (Part 2)
Season:	3
Manga source:	Volume 15: File 10 (150) ~ Volume 16: File 3 (151-153)
English version
English title:	Mysterious Masked Murder
Dubbed episode:	Episode 80-81
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Heiji Hattori Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Heizo Hattori
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan) Heiji Hattori
Next Conan's Hint:	Fountain pen (Part 1) Mobile phone (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	77 Kenji Kodama 78 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	77 Kenji Kodama 78 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	77 Masato Sato 78 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	77 Akio Kawamura 78 Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Cook, Next Conan's Hint Takehiro Koyama as Heizo Hattori Yonehiko Kitagawa as Dosan Nagato Kaoru Matsuno as Nobuko Nagato Keiko Aizawa as Yasue Nagato Kousei Hirota as Hideomi Nagato Ryouichi Tanaka as Mitsuaki Nagato Kousei Yagi as Kuranosuke Take Rica Fukami as Miyuki Hyuga Isshin Chiba as Medical examiner, Security guard A Yasuhiro Takato as Policeman, Security guard B Yukiko Iwai as Maid Naoki Makishima as Voice on phone
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Kimi ga Inai Natsu

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Heiji Hattori Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Heizo Hattori

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro is recommended by someone to a wealthy family for a routine assignment; the man wishes to find his first love. With the police roaming around the house, though, Conan begins to wonder if that's really all there is to it. His answer comes when suddenly, the son of the wealthy man supposedly kills his child hood friend. Later they celebrate the chairman's birthday, then Nobuko became very angry at Miyuki and goes out of the room. Later they receive a call from Mitsuaki, that he was attacked by a man wrapped with bandages. Later, they saw Hideomi holding a knife in his mouth, and found Mitsuaki stabbed through the spike fence.

Murder

Location: Nagato Household Spike Fence Victim: Mitsuaki Nagato Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Hideomi Nagato Take received a phone call from Mitsuaki that told him he was stabbed by someone. Everyone apart from the chairman and Miyuki rushed to the room below that they saw someone with knife in his mouth walking toward the balcony. By the time they were able to enter the room, Mitsuaki is found pierced by the fence atop the wall outside!

Later that night, Nobuko reveals that one day, there was fire in a lodge where Mitsuaki is stopping Hideomi to go into the fire, where he save a little girl, where she reveals the identity of the girl is Miyuki Hyuga. On the second day, Nobuko spanked Miyuki where her fountain pen (the last present that she recieve from her parents), where they drained the water on the fountain and found Hideomi dead.

Suicide?
	Location: Nagato Household Garden Fountain Victim: Hideomi Nagato Cause of death: Poison Suspects: Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuga, Nobuko Nagato, and Yasue Nagato During Miyuki's argument with Nobuko, her fountain pen fell into the pool in the courtyard. When the water was drained to recieve the pen, Hideomi's body is found on the bottom of the pool! Is this a suicide?

They reveal the death was consumption of poison, where they found a suicide letter by him for Miyuki causing Miyuki to cry and Nobuko said that she was just testing the family's fortune.

Part 2

Conan and Heiji decide to pursue the clues of the childhood friend. The clues allow them to solve the murder, but they also allow Ran to come closer to the truth about Shinichi. Can Heiji help Shinichi keep his secret?

People

Kuranosuke Take
	72 years old Butler to the Nagato family

Dosan Nagato
	60 years old Chairman of Nagato Financial group

Miyuki Hyuga
	26 years old Personal secretary to the Chairman

Nobuko Nagato
	39 years old Dosan's eldest daughter

Yasue Nagato
	32 years old Dosan's second daughter

Hideomi Nagato
	Victim (poison) 36 years old Dosan's eldest son Novelist

Mitsuaki Nagato
	Victim (stabbed) 36 years old Yasue's husband; took Nagato name President of Nagato Construction

Resolution

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The culprit is Miyuki Hyuga. She found out that the fire that killed her parents years ago was started by Mitsuaki Nagato, with Hideomi Nagato as a reluctant co-conspirator. She tricks Mitsuaki by luring him with a plan to murder Chairman Nagato, since Mitsuaki coveted the Chairman's position, only to push him off the balcony to his death. The Hideomi that appeared to throughout the episode were actually either Mitsuaki or Miyuki in disguise, as the real Hideomi had killed himself the day before and left behind a suicide note revealing the truth of the fire. When everything is revealed, Miyuki tried to commit suicide with a firelighter and gasoline that she had hidden inside a geyser, but fails because Conan, having discovered the gasoline earlier, replaced it. Chairman Nagato talks Miyuki out of suicide by revealing that he knew her mother, mentioning that the pen she always carried with her was actually a gift he gave to her mother when they were children. Conan later reveals to Heiji that Miyuki's mother was actually Chairman Nagato's first crush.

Trivia

• Conan makes a reference to his past failure to stop a suicide in "Moonlight Sonata Murder Case" when telling Heiji that letting a person commit suicide when it can be stopped is the same as killing the person oneself.

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga, Conan replaced the gasoline that the killer intended to use by emptying the geyser. In the anime, he replaced the gasoline with water.

Dub changes

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

• Kuranosuke Take - Butler Weathersbee
• Dosan Nagato - Gerard Duford
• Miyuki Hyuga - Nancy Nesbit
• Nobuko Nagato - Zelda Dufour
• Yasue Nagato - Zoe Dufour Gray
• Hideomi Nagato - Roland Dufour
• Mitsuaki Nagato - Mitchell Gray
• Akagi Kitomi - Catherine Kline
• Yamada (The person who called Dosan, only to get the answering machine) - Stanley Evans (The person who called Gerard, only to get the answering machine)

• In the Funimation Dub, the clip played from "Moonlight Sonata Murder Case" contains voice over from the episode, whereas the original Japanese Version has the clip done without dialogue.

See also

• Season 3