The Dark Mountain Route

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Episode 859 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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Information
Title:	The Mountain Route of Darkness
Japanese title:	暗闇の山岳ルート (Kurayami no Sangaku Rūto)
Original airdate:	May 13, 2017
Broadcast rating:	7.6%
Filler case:	#278
Season:	27
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Hiroshi Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Research Balloon
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Koushirou Mikami
Storyboard:	Yasuyuki Honda
Episode director:	Youko Fukushima, Makiko Hayase(assistant)
Animation director:	Yuuyui Ushinohama, Miho Tanaka (assistant), Chie Morishita (assistant), Yumiko Ishii (assistant), Hiroaki Takagi (assistant)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Chafurin as Juzo Megure Mamiko Noto as Takemi Yamakura Minako Kotobuki as Eiko Ikeguchi Go Shinomiya as Taro Hayashida Takashi Kondo as Tokunori Ashizuka Tatsuhiro Kikuchi as Inspector
Music
Opening song:	Ikusen no Meikyuu de Ikusen no Nazo wo Toite
Closing song:	YESTERDAY LOVE

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Accident (Past)
	Location: Mountain Victim: Motoki Time: 3 years ago (Night) Cause of death: Falling Suspects: Takemi Yamakura, Eiko Ikeguchi, Taro Hayashida and Tokunori Ashizuka

Murder
	Location: Mountain Victim: Takemi Yamakura Age: 26 Years old Time: 3:00-5:05 A.M Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Eiko Ikeguchi, Taro Hayashida and Tokunori Ashizuka

People

Takemi Yamakura
	Victim (stabbed) 26 years old Mountain climber

Eiko Ikeguchi
	23 years old Mountain climber

Taro Hayashida
	28 years old Mountain climber Weather Station Employee

Tokunori Ashizuka
	33 years old Mountain climber Childhood friend with the deceased Motoki

Motoki
	Deceased (fell) Childhood friend with Tokunori

Inspector
	MPD Forensics member

Policeman
	MPD Police officer

Resolution

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The culprit is Eiko Ikeguchi. First, she stole Hayashida's weather balloon to get into the crime scene. She used 5 of 6 balloons. After the crime, she climbed up the mountain, she was hurrying and ended having her palm wounded. And there are marks of the balloon, also she smells of kerosene. Her motive is that Motoki was finding Takemi in the mountains, without knowing that she was taking pictures below the mountain. Until Motoki falls over the cliff and died. Also, Eiko wants to frame Hayashida, because he was jealous about the two of them and he knew that Motoki and Eiko were secretly dating.

Trivia

• Taro Hayashida uses research balloons, balloons that are used for scientific purposes. Usually unmanned, theses balloons are filled with gases lighter than air so they can go high in the sky. Most of them are used in meteorology, atmospheric research, astronomy, and military research and only a few balloons like these are launched per year by particulars.

See also

• Season 27