An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case

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Information
Title:	An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case
Japanese title:	アイドル密室殺人事件 (Aidoru Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 22, 1996
Broadcast rating:	11.4%
Manga case:	#3
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 1: Files 6-9 (006-009)
English version
English title:	Beware of Idols
Dubbed episode:	Episode 3
English airdate:	May 26, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Yoko Okino Professor Agasa Gin Vodka Detective Boys Inspector Megure Eiichi Yamagishi Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Ice
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	Masato Sato
Animation director:	Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Yuri Amano as Yoko Okino Asako Dodo as Yuko Ikezawa Kazuya Ichijo as Eiichi Yamagishi Hitoshi Horimoto as Forensics officer Isshin Chiba as Cop
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case is the third episode of Case Closed.

Characters introduced

Yoko Okino
	22 years old Idol/Pop-star

Eiichi Yamagishi
	Yoko Okino's manager

Gadgets introduced

Voice-Changing Bowtie
	Grants ability to imitate voices

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Professor Agasa Gin (background) Vodka (background) Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Inspector Megure Shinichi Kudo (voice)

Case

Situation

Conan declines to walk home from school with classmates Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko. He arrives at the Mouri Detective Agency to see that without work, Kogoro spent all day drinking beer and watching his favorite popstar, Yoko Okino, on TV. When a client arrives during one of her shows, Kogoro even tries to make them return later — until he realizes that the client is Yoko Okino herself, accompanied by her manager. Kogoro quickly makes himself presentable and hears her concerns about a recent stalker. He agrees to investigate at her apartment, and Ran and Conan tag along. Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko were watching the agency and also follow, so when the front door opens everyone sees the body on the floor inside.

Murder
	Location: Yoko Okino's apartment Victim: Akiyoshi Fujie Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Yoko Okino, Yuko Ikezawa, and Eiichi Yamagishi Upon opening the door to Yoko Okino's apartment to investigate a series of pranks and a possible stalker, Conan and the others discovered Fujie lying dead on the floor with a knife in his back.

People

Yoko Okino
	22 years old Idol/Pop-star

Yuko Ikezawa
	Idol/Pop-star Yoko Okino's rival

Eiichi Yamagishi
	Yoko Okino's manager

Akiyoshi Fujie
	Victim (stabbed) 22 years old

Resolution

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Evidence

• Conan discovers a hoop earring underneath a couch in Yoko's apartment. Yoko reveals this earring belongs to Yuko Ikezawa, her rival.
• Yuko, despite claiming never to have been in Yoko's apartment before, seems to know where the bathroom is located and that the Statue of Liberty figurine in the apartment is actually a lighter.
• Yamagishi explains that Yoko's apartment's spare key has been missing for awhile.
• Yamagishi removed a strand of hair from Fujie's hand when he pretended to slip on the floor. When Conan retrieves the hair, he realizes Yamagishi must think it belongs to Yoko.
• Conan discovers an odd indentation mark on the floor as well as traces of water. He also notes that it is strange that only a chair is standing upright on the floor near the body while the rest of the room is in shambles.
• Megure upon entering Yoko's apartment, notes that the room seems to be at an unusually hot temperature.

Conclusion

Conan knocks Kogoro unconscious by kicking him in the head with an ashtray. Using the voice-changing bowtie, Conan as Kogoro reveals the truth behind the strange things that happened to Yoko, as well as the murder.

Yuko is responsible for the missing apartment key, threatening phone calls, etc. This is why Yuko knew where Yoko's bathroom was and why she knew the Statue of Liberty was actually a lighter.

Conan as Kogoro reveals that the Fujie's murder was not a murder at all; Fujie committed suicide by freezing a knife inside a block of ice, grabbing a hair from Yoko's hairbrush and then falling backwards onto the knife from the chair in the room. The odd indentation in the floor was caused by the knife when Fujie landed on it. The water spots on the floor are from the melted ice. Before killing himself, Fujie turned up the heat in Yoko's apartment in order to melt the ice, and therefore evidence, away.

Motive

Yuko's motive for playing mean pranks and tricks on Yoko was to frighten her and find potential scandal material.

Fujie's motive for committing suicide was Yuko's startled reaction to Fujie grabbing her by the shoulder. Fujie used to be Yoko's boyfriend until Yamagishi asked him to break up with her for the sake of Yoko's career. Mistaking Yuko for Yoko, whom he still loved, Fujie took this reaction to mean that Yoko never wanted to see him again. Unable to bear the thought, Fujie committed suicide, framing Yoko for the murder in despairing revenge.

Manga to anime changes

• In the anime, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta introduce themselves to Conan and follows him on the case. The Detective Boys don't appear in the manga until the haunted mansion case in the next volume.
• In the manga, Ran suspects that Shinichi's absence might have to due with the two men in black that he pursued and planned to call the police. In the anime she merely plans to report his absence to the police without any mention of the men in black.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
2	コナンの勝利 （夜空ver.）	Konan no Shōri (Yozora ver.)	Conan's Victory (Night Sky ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	脅迫 （パート２）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)	Threat (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	それいけコナン （哀愁ヴァージョン）	Soreike Konan (Aishū Vājon)	Let's Go Conan (Sorrow Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP
17	蘭のテーマ （涙ver.）	Ran no Tēma (Namida ver.)	Ran's Theme (Tearful ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

Gallery

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  After three days, Conan still has no leads on the men in black.

• 

  Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta offer to be Conan's friends and walk home with him, but he declines.

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  Professor Agasa has a new invention to help Conan, the Voice-Changing Bowtie.

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  Kogoro can't believe his eyes - his newest client is popstar Yoko Okino!

• 

  Someone is stalking Yoko.

Trivia

• Even though the victim landed back-down on the knife and most likely died instantly according to the coroner, the corpse is found in a belly-down position. The only way for this to be possible is if the corpse flopped over after impact or if the coroner was incorrect about the instantaneity of the death.
• This is Eiichi Yamagishi's first appearance, his second appearance is On Location, TV Drama Murder Case.
• Also the first episode that the victim is stabbed.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	جريمة في منزل الممثلة	Murder in the actress's house
French	Méfiez-vous des stars	Be careful with idols!
Galician	Moito ollo cos famosos!	Be careful with idols!
German	Die Doppelgängerin	The Lookalike
Italian	Avventura sul set	Adventure on the set
Spanish	El caso de la habitación cerrada	The Locked Room Case
Vietnamese	Án mạng trong phòng kín Idol	An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case

See also

• Season 1