The Shadow of the Black Organization

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Episode 462-465 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Shadow of the Black Organization
Japanese title:	黒の組織の影 (Kuro no Soshiki no Kage)
Original airdate:	January 29, 2007 (The Young Witness) February 5, 2007 (The Strange Illumination) February 12, 2007 (The Mystery of the Big Reward) February 19, 2007 (Shining Star of Pearl)
Broadcast rating:	9.7% (462) 10.3% (463) 9.8% (464) 9.5% (465)
Manga case:	#159 #160
Season:	15
Manga source:	Volume 53: File 7 (550) ~ Volume 54: File 2 (555)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eisuke Hondou Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Jodie Starling Shuichi Akai Gin Vodka Chianti Korn Kir Vermouth Sonoko Suzuki Azusa Enomoto Toji Funemoto Kamen Yaiba Yoko Okino Kazunobu Chiba Yumi Hikita
Cases solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Shining hammer (The Young Witness) Serpent and nail (The Strange Illumination) "The Red-Headed League" (The Mystery of the Big Reward) Scattering beans for Setsubun (Shining Star of Pearl)
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Organizer:	462 Hisako Tsuji 463 Nobuharu Kamanaka, Masato Sato 464 Takashi Sano 465 Masuhisa Okawa
Storyboard:	462 Hisako Tsuji 463 Nobuharu Kamanaka, Masato Sato 464 Takashi Sano 465 Masuhisa Okawa
Episode director:	462 Minoru Tozawa 463 Takahiro Okada 464 Shuuji Miyahara 465 Kobun Shizuno
Animation director:	462 Tomoyuki Kanno 463 Tomoyuki Kanno (chief), Katsutoshi Kobayashi 464 Rei Masunaga (chief), Daisuke Niinuma (chief), Akira Takeuchi 465 Rie Fujiwara
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Junko Noda as Eisuke Hondou Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Miyuki Ichijo as Jodie Starling Iemasa Kayumi as James Black Kotono Mitsuishi as Rena Mizunashi (Hidemi Hondou) Mikiko Enomoto as Azusa Enomoto  Yukitoshi Hori as Gin Fumihiko Tachiki as Vodka  Mami Koyama as Vermouth  Kikuko Inoue as Chianti Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Korn Chika Sakamoto as Takumi Hashiratani Shingo Horimori as Mr. Hashiratani Kenjiro Tsuda as Kiritani Yumi Hikita as Yumi Hikita Kyosei Tsukui as Tattoo parlor clerk Otoya Kawano as Nail Snake's vocalist Takayuki Sugo as Tatsuhito Funemoto Maria Kawamura as Kaneyo Funemoto Mika Kanai as Toji Funemoto  Kazuko Yanaga as Takami Shigeno Masafumi Kimura as Barney
Music
Opening song:	Kumo ni Notte
Closing song:	Shiroi Yuki

Characters introduced

Yumi Hikita
	46 years old Announcer Real-life announcer

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eisuke Hondou Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Jodie Starling James Black Shuichi Akai Gin Vodka Chianti Korn Kir Vermouth Sonoko Suzuki Azusa Enomoto Toji Funemoto Miss Tome Yoko Okino (photo) Kamen Yaiba (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Plot

Nail, Snake, and Hammer

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eisuke Hondou Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba (no speaking role) Sonoko Suzuki Kir Jodie Starling James Black Shuichi Akai Yoko Okino (photo)

Situation

The Young Witness (462)

A rockstar named Roku Itakagi has been missing for the past few days. A young boy named Takumi Hashiratani claims that on New Year's Day, he witnessed a man carrying Itakagi in a bag and throwing him over a bridge. Takumi claims that the man had a dark car, a nail on arm, and that he saw a giant glowing hammer in the background. Kogoro is skeptical at first but realizes Takumi is telling the truth when the news confirms that the body of Itakagi was found in a bag floating in a river.

Murder
	Location: Teimuzu river Victim: Roku Itagaki Age: 22 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Kiritani, Yasui, and Kannai The News Report Look near by River is a Deadbody in a Bag Floating

From Takumi's testimony, Kogoro, Ran, Conan, and Eisuke search for the bridge where the body was thrown over.

The Strange Illumination (463)

While investigating, they learn that Itakagi's band logo was of a snake with nails piercing through it. After questioning a tattooist, they learn that the tattoo was new and only three people have gotten it. After further investigation, they are able to deduce the tattoo is on the driver's right arm due to the traffic flow on the bridge and that the only way Takumi could have seen his arm is if the steering wheel was on the right side of the car. They realize that advertisement combined with lights from a building created the silhouette of an upside down hammer; Using this knowledge, they are able to pinpoint where the culprit threw the body off from the bridge.

People

Roku Itagaki
	Victim (beaten) 22 years old Musician

Takumi Hashiratani
	Witness

Mr. Hashiratani
	Takumi's father

Kiritani
	Tattoo Shop Nail Snake customer

Yasui
	Tattoo Shop Nail Snake customer

Kannai
	Tattoo Shop Nail Snake customer

Yumi Hikita
	46 years old Announcer Real-life announcer

Resolution

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Through the process of elimination, the culprit is revealed to be a man named Kiritani. After the authorities arrest Kiritani, Eisuke attempts to question Kogoro about Rena causing Conan to realize he is in fact searching for her.

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The Mysterious Job

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eisuke Hondou Wataru Takagi Juzo Megure Azusa Enomoto Gin Vodka Chianti Korn Kir Vermouth Toji Funemoto Miss Tome

Situation

The Mystery of the Big Reward (464)

Eisuke asks Kogoro to investigate a mystery and believes that the crime is related to The Red-Headed League; Eisuke reveals that a man is paid a lot of money to switch the garbage from the neighborhood waste collection with the garbage from the previous garbage day. Kogoro takes Ran, Conan, and Eisuke with him to investigate the neighborhood. They run into Takagi who explains that a woman named Kaneyo Funemoto was recently murdered in the neighborhood after being shot in the back of her head while at home.

Murder

Location: Funemoto Household Victim: Kaneyo Funemoto Age: 39 years old Cause of death: Gunshot wound Suspects: Vermouth, Takami Shigeno, and Tatsuhito Funemoto The group encounters a murder during an investigation of the secret part-time job which is near where Rena Mizunashi crashed. Furthermore, the boy who is the victim's son says that the murderer is a foreign woman dressed in black, Vermouth!

Her son, Toji Funemoto, says that a strange foreign woman questioned him about an accident he witnessed and believes she murdered his mother. Conan realizes the woman is Vermouth and that the Black Organization must now know that Rena Mizunashi is currently hospitalized in a coma.

People

Kaneyo Funemoto
	Victim (gunshot) 39 years old Tatsuhito's wife

Takami Shigeno
	48 years old Housekeeper

Tatsuhito Funemoto
	43 years old Funemoto Estate owner

Toji Funemoto
	8 years old Tatsuhito's son

Resolution

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After a thorough investigation, Conan tranquilizes Kogoro and reveals the culprit to be Kaneyo's wheelchair-bound husband, Tatsuhito Funemoto. Conan reveals that Tatsuhito had Kaneyo look outside by telling her there was a shooting star and shot her. He then falsified a robbery by hiding her pearl necklace by using them as Setsubun beans and having his maid vacuum them. Conan explains that the garbage scheme was so Tatsuhito could receive the vacuum bag later and pawn the pearls. As proof for the murder, Conan reveals that an onion was on the handle of his wheelchair which he got from the kitchen rubber glove; Conan reveals that the fingerprints and gunpowder on the glove will convict him for murder. Tatsuhito confesses and reveals his wife was obsessively spending money sponsoring parties and that she planned to place a second mortgage on the house and then divorce him to leave him with the debt. But what he couldn't take most is that she wanted to abandon Toji. The police and Tatsuhito decide to preserve Toji's innocence by telling him that his father is going away for a while.

Manga to anime changes

• The manga chapter ends with Conan finding out that Vermouth met Toji when he deduces that (Uuma, Uuma) Toji heard was the last part of Vermouth famous quote "A secret makes a Woman, Woman." while the anime episode ends with Gin remembering what the rat's name was Hondu.

Trivia

• Mr. Hashiratani's vehicle is a silver Toyota Crown Athlete [S180].
• Kogoro's car in episode 462 is a black 2004 Toyota Crown [S180].
• Kogoro's imagined vehicle is James Bond 007 (Daniel Craig)'s lighting silver Aston Martin DBS V12 (2007–2012) in Casino Royale.
• Kogoro's imagined rental car has a 2-25 license plate.
• Kiritani's car is a 2001 nighthawk black pearl Honda integra Type-R (DC5).
• Roku Itagaki's first name is a pun to the type of music he was playing, Rock and Roll, which is pronounced in japanese as Roku.
• This is the first case that Eisuke Hondou is fishing for information about Rena Mizunashi, the announcer who recently disappeared.
• Even though the manga for the first part of this case was released on February 17, and the original airdate for the first part of this case was on January 29, Kogoro stated that New Years Day was four days ago.
• When Eisuke did the same thing with Takumi Hashiratani that Rena Mizunashi did to him in Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!, he figured out that it was a kind of lie detector test.
• This is the second case that Gin states that he always forgets the names and faces of dead people. Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night was the first.
• The van switching out the garbage has the license plate of 53-75.
• Although Conan's photographic memory has been shown many times before, this case also includes his ability to perform mental math. This case did show a scene where Conan performed a mental calculation for a story problem.
• Although it was not revealed in Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out, this case does reveal the location of Kir's motorcycle accident happened around Toriya City.

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• The release date for the Manga of the latter part of this case was on June 16th, however the anime originally aired part 3 and 4 on February 12 and 19, while that part of this case takes place on February 5th, while the crime about February 3rd.
• Vermouth and Eisuke both know the truth of Rena Mizunashi's accident, however Vermouth knows the FBI is involved.
• Gin recalled that Hondou was the name of the rat that Kir killed.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'ombra de l'Organització dels homes de negre	The shadow of the men in black organization
Italian	L'ombra dell'organizzazione	The shadow of the organization
Thai	เงาขององค์กรชุดดำ (ภาคพยานตัวน้อย / ภาคแสงไฟพิศวง / ภาคงานพิเศษที่น่าสงสัย / ภาคดาวตกใข่มุก)	The Shadow of the Black Organization (The Little Witness / Mysterious Lights / A Suspicious Special Job / Shooting Star of Pearl

See also

• Season 15