The Lover Gone Missing in a Snowstorm

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Episode 767 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Lover Gone Missing in a Snowstorm
Japanese title:	吹雪に消えた恋人 (Fubuki ni Kieta Koibito)
Original airdate:	February 7, 2015
Broadcast rating:	11,70%
Filler case:	#233
Season:	24
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Hiroshi Agasa
Case solved by:	Hiroshi Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Cooler box
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Tatsuro Inamoto
Storyboard:	Seiki Taichuu
Episode director:	Daisuke Takashima
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Akane Imada Yui Ushinohama (asst.) Nozomi Sakamoto (asst.)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Mami Kingetsu as Ryoko Himuro Yuko Kaida as Aya Himuro Haruna Ikezawa as Juri Himuro Junji Majima as Masahiko Fujita
Music
Opening song:	DYNAMITE
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Hiroshi Agasa

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

The Detective Boys arrive at the Ice Room boarding house in Shinjuku's mountains with Professor Agasa. While the Detective Boys start a snowball fight, Genta goes inside the boarding house to clean his face. Conan looks for Genta after a while. Conan accidentally overhears an argument between Juri Himuro and Aya Himuro. Aya protests against Juri having Masahiko Fujita as a boyfriend. Masahiko and Juri run off. Genta then exits the kitchen, which is next to Conan. Conan goes into the kitchen to see where Genta had gone, but he gets promptly kicked out by Ryoko Himuro. In the meantime, Haibara had been making minature snow animals sculptures. Aya then comes from the mountain path.

During dinner, Ayumi is put off by the scent of garlic. This causes Conan to wonder because there isn't garlic in the food. After dinner, Aya reminds Juri to take her medication, but it disappeared. Masahiko goes out in the snowstorm to get medicine for her. A phone call comes from the hospital saying that her boyfriend hadn't arrived. They all begin to wonder because he should have arrived a long time ago. Juri calls his mobile but he doesn't answer. Excluding Juri, they all go out looking for him. Conan discovers his corpse off the cliff of perilous a narrow path.

Accident?
	Location: Ice Room lakeside Victim: Masahiko Fujita Age: 28 years old Cause of death: Fell from the cliff Suspects: Ryoko Himuro, Aya Himuro, and Juri Himuro

The police are not able to come but Conan preserves the scene. Professor Agasa thinks it's an accident but Conan has his doubts. Conan finds some fragments of something shiny in the snow. He continues to wonder why Masahiko chose the dangerous path. The sisters reply because it's faster. Conan asks if she was into town this afternoon because they saw her coming from there. When back in the lodge, Juri breaks down and blames herself. That night, Conan sitting thinking on the steps when he hears a door squeak open. He discovers 'Monaka ice' in the store room. That night Juri suffers a coughing bout. Conan asks her if her sisters would do anything for her. The detective boys bring in the animal ice sculptures that Haibara had made.

People

Ryoko Himuro
	34 years old Eldest daughter Ice Room owner

Aya Himuro
	28 years old Second daughter Ice Room co-owner

Juri Himuro
	25 years old Third daughter Ice Room co-owner

Masahiko Fujita
	Victim (fell) 28 years old Juri's lover

Resolution

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Although there are no signs of a trap and no time to dispose of the trap. Because the trap is still there but we can't see it. It's made of snow and ice. first the culprit made the path narrower by shoveling snow. then placed a sheet of ice under the snow. As the ice melts, it becomes slippery. The plastic wrapping from Monaka Ice were found in the ice. because Genta took it from the freezer of the boarding house during 'he washed his face'. That and because Ayumi smelt Garlic he deduced this. The Genta crumbs fell into the ice sheet while it was setting. Therefore because there would be no reason why the crumbs were there must be from the residents of the house. At first they suspect Aya. But because she wasn't carrying shovel and cooler box to keep the ice cool. Furthermore, she called out to the kids. A culprit wouldn't do it. Ryoko admits she did it. She did this because the sisters consider Juri as a daughter. Ryoko was always cooking so she had access to the freezer. But unfortunately the culprit isn't Ryoko. She was protecting the true culprit, Juri Himuro. Juri then screams stop and admits that she committed the crime and hid her own medication. Her motive was because he was breaking up with her and has another new girlfriend. Only if he did one final thing for her she'd let him go.

Trivia

Episode 687

• Himuro sisters are clearly modeled after the ice sculpture at the beginning of The Unsolvable Ice Trap, then they could be acquaintances of the ice engraver, Tetsuya Shiota. Their character design is also re-used for the three women in Friendship Washed Away in the Riverbed. Open spoiler box to see images.

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Ice sculpture

Himuro sisters

Three women

• Masahiko Fujita's car is a 2010 Red Nissan X-Trail [T31]. The license plate number is 新宿 302, ま 10-29 (Shinjuku 302, Ma 10-29).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'amant que va desaparèixer a la tempesta de neu	The lover who disappeared in a snowstorm

See also

• Season 24