The Blind Spot in the Karaoke Box

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Episode 507-508 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Blind Spot in the Karaoke Box
Japanese title:	カラオケボックスの死角 (Karaoke Bokkusu no Shikaku)
Original airdate:	June 30, 2008 (Part 1) July 7, 2008 (Part 2)
Season:	17
Manga source:	Volume 59: File 11 (619) ~ Volume 60: File 2 (621)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Eisuke Hondou Sonoko Suzuki Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Detective Chiba Officer Tome Ai Haibara Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo Gin Vodka Shuichi Akai
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Suspects' shoes (Part 1) Diary (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Storyboard:	507 Hidetoshi Namura 508 Yoshihisa Matsumoto
Episode director:	507 Masahiro Hosoda 508 Shigeru Yamazaki
Animation director:	507 Noriyoshi Yamazaki 508 Masaki Abe, Nobuyuki Iwai
Music
Opening song:	Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you
Closing song:	Summer Memories

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Eisuke Hondou Sonoko Suzuki Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi 100px Detective Chiba Officer Tome Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Shinichi Kudo Gin (background) Vodka (background) Rena Mizunashi (background) Shuichi Akai (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Eisuke returns to school and Ran and Sonoko take him to karaoke to celebrate his return. Conan notices that there is a strange man following them and presumes he is an FBI agent sent to keep an eye on Eisuke. While there, Eisuke disappears to the bathroom for a suspiciously long time, and returns with a horrified expression. Shortly after the strange man is found dead from repeated beatings to the head with a blunt weapon.

Murder
	Location: Karaoke Box Victim: Tatsumi Moniwa Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Kyota Honma, Konji Arimoto, Kunio Tamai, and Eisuke Hondou

Conan suspects Eisuke to be the murderer due to his strange behavior after returning from the bathroom. However, Eisuke explains that the reason he was so horrified was that while he was heading back to their karaoke room, he stumbled into the wrong room and found two men kissing. The other man whom he saw kissing is revealed to be a woman who looks masculine since she is a body builder. The police decide to interrogate the four suspects, including Eisuke, for the murder.

Part 2

The police search the rooms of the four suspects for the blunt weapon used to murder Tatsumi Moniwa. The pictures on Moniwa's cameras were developed revealing pictures of Sonoko. Conan realizes that the man is not an FBI but a stalker who was targeting Sonoko.

People

Tatsumi Moniwa
	Victim (bludgeoned) 46 years old

Kyota Honma
	32 years old Room #2 customer

Konji Arimoto
	34 years old Room #4 customer

Kunio Tamai
	63 years old Room #1 customer

Woman
	Konji Arimoto's lover

Resolution

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Upon investigation, Conan realizes who the murderer is; He tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her voice to reveal the culprit to be Kyota Honma. Conan reveals that Honma used a sock stuffed with coins to create a Blackjack. After murdering Moniwa, Honma used the coins to buy cartons of cigarettes from a vending machine. As evidence, Conan reveals that Honma's shoes have become tighter after the murder due to the fact he is now wearing two pairs of socks. He tells the police the blood sample from the sock or coins in the vending machine will convict Honma of murder. Honma confesses and reveals that Moniwa kidnapped his four year old son and murdered him but was released from the authorities due to the lack of evidence and fueled by hatred, committed the murder. While walking home, Eisuke asks Conan to contact Shinichi so he could ask permission to take Ran with him to America. Conan reveals his identity as Shinichi and denies Eisuke's request. Eisuke admits that he knew Conan was Shinichi since the beginning and asks him to take care of Ran while he goes to America to pursue his career in the CIA.

Trivia

• Ran, Sonoko, and Conan are seen at the karaoke box singing opening 20.

See also

• Season 17