Conan Cornered in the Darkness

Chronology
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Episode 845-846 (Int. Episode 900-901)
Information
Title:	Conan Cornered in the Darkness
Japanese title:	絶体絶命暗闇のコナン (Zettai Zetsumei Kurayami no Konan?)
Original airdate:	January 7, 2017 (Part 1) January 14, 2017 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	6.4% 9.1%
Filler case:	#272
Season:	26
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Ai Haibara Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Two-tone shoes (Part 1) Hearse (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Yasuyuki Honda New Year Greeting: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	845: Takanori Yano 846: Minoru Tozawa New Year Greeting: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 845: Akio Kawamura 846: Keiko Sasaki New Year Greeting: Masatomo Sudo (chief) Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Nobuyuki Iwai Kumiko Shishido (design works) New Year Greeting layout: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Production cooperation:	845: BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri 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 Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Yoshito Yasuhara as Kimihiko Asada Kan Tanaka as Kozo Karahashi Akiko Namioka as Mitsuyo Karahashi Hidenobu Kiuchi as Eisuke Karahashi Eiji Takeuchi as Yasuo Murakami
Music
Opening song:	Ikusen no Meikyū de Ikusen no Nazo o Toite
Closing song:	YESTERDAY LOVE

Conan Cornered in the Darkness (絶体絶命暗闇のコナン ,Zettai Zetsumei Kurayami no Konan) is the 845th and 846th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Detective Boys Badge Stun-Gun Wristwatch Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Wristwatch Flashlight Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro is invited to the funeral for Gotaro Karahashi the late chairman of Karahashi Group and is asked by his lawyer Kimihiko Asada to investigate a robbery and break in that took place in his office. He reveals that an altered last will of Gotaro Karahashi, the late chairman of Karahashi Group, had been stolen.

Robbery
	Location: Asada's Law Office Victim: Kimihiko Asada Age: 55 years old Missing items: Altered documents Suspects: Unknown Kogoro is asked by Asada to investigate a break-in and theft in his law office. The object of the robbery was the altered last will of Karahashi who, instead of favoring his next of kin, as previously intended, left his entire vast fortune to his lover and long-time secretary.

Kidnapping
	Location: Asada's Law Office Victim: Conan Edogawa Suspects: Unknown While going shopping for new video games with his fellow Detective Boys, Conan noticed the burglary into Asada's office and decided to investigate on his own. He caught the culprit breaking the safe open, but was discovered, kicked into unconsciousness, and taken away.

Part 2

After Conan regains consciousness, he finds himself in a dark and cramped place he uses his detective to badge to call the others for help. He initially believed that he was stashed beneath a coffin, as a result Ran and the kids rush to a crematorium just in time before President Karahashi is cremated. However when they check the coffin Conan is no where to be found.

Conan eventually deduces that he is actually inside a hearse, he looks around and finds the altered last will had been stashed away with him. He guides the others as best as he can in the hopes that they find him, as the hearse is set to be demolished as a car crusher. Eventually the others locate him just in time to witness the hearse being crushed, and apparently Conan along with it.

They are all in shock, but then Conan emerges unscathed from wreckage much to their relief. A flashback reveals that in the last few moments he managed to escape because the door was weakened when the hearse was being crushed. Using his super kick shoes he kicks the doors off and escapes at the last second before the hearse is completely crushed.

Accidental Homicide (Crushing)

Location: Kuriniji Scrapyard Victim: Conan Edogawa Cause: Left to be crushed Suspects: Unknown The kidnapper enclosed Conan in a box inside an unused hearse in order to secure the material witness and the altered testament, to be released after the original testament's purpose had been executed and thus made legally valid. However, unknown to the culprit, the hearse in question (with the box inside) was assigned to be scrapped and is driven to the Kuriniji Scrapyard. Fortunately, just before the car is compressed, the box cracks, allowing Conan to break out with his power-kick shoes.

People

Gotaro Karahashi
	Deceased (illness) Karahashi Group's chairman

Kimihiko Asada
	55 years old Lawyer Karahashi's testament notary and custodian

Kozo Karahashi
	38 years old Karahashi's eldest child and first son Karahashi family head

Mitsuyo Karahashi
	32 years old Karahashi's middle child and only daughter

Eisuke Karahashi
	28 years old Karahashi's youngest child and second son

Woman
	Karahashi's private secretary and lover Karahashi's altered testament apparent beneficiary

Yasuo Murakami
	Kuriniji Scrapyard worker

Man
	Taxi with license plate 54-68 driver

Resolution

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The conspiring Karahashi siblings.

The culprits in this case are Gotaro Karahashi's own children: Kozo, Mitsuyo, and Eisuke. Conan after managing to escape from the wreckage, had also managed to save the altered last will as well. There were two pieces of evidence proving their guilt: the first being some traces of gum on Conan’s broken cellphone as one of the siblings had gum under his shoe, the second is the last will itself it has all the siblings fingerprints as they had supposedly no idea what the altered will said yet their fingerprints were all over the will.

Faced with this evidence they confess that they worked in concert to get rid of their father's altered last will, which would have left them with no inheritance. This disgusts Ran and she yells at the siblings for putting Conan's life in danger over a stupid alternation of a will.

Hearing this put the siblings in shock as they had almost unintentionally murdered an innocent child for their greed. Later on it is revealed that Gotaro had left his entire inheritance to his secretary and lover, but she decides to donate the entire inheritance to charity instead.

Afterwards, as Ran and Conan are brushing their teeth preparing to go to sleep, Ran remarks over what Conan went through and how scary it must’ve been for him to which he agrees. Then Ran offers to sleep together with Conan, but declines while being chased by her which he remarks that there is no way they could do that as he is a high school student.

Trivia

• In the New Year Greeting to the viewers, Mistuhiko says that last year, Conan and Ichikawa Ebizo XI were the ones to do the New Year Greeting. This is a reference to Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery.
• Conan's phone says Ony instead of Sony.
• When Haibara looks up Beika City Crematoriums, on the internet it shows Glegle instead of Google.
• There is a mistake in the first episode. In the earlier scene, Mitsuyo has the white and black shoes but Kozo's feet does not. Later all three siblings have on the white and black shoes. This is an important detail because the culprit wore this distinctive pair of shoes in Conan's flashback of him being kidnapped.
• The sunset painting in Mitsuyo's house is from Wakamatsu villa in The Design of Poison and Mirage and Kataoka household in The Secret of the Statue of Kogoro Mouri, while the one about flowers in Karahashi Group's lobby reappears in Mori family's former apartment from Memories from Sakura Class and in the house from Picking Wild Plants and Clovers. Open spoiler box to see images.

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Sunset (episode 655).

Sunset (episode 736).

Flowers (episode 846).

Sunset (episode 846).

Flowers (episode 853).

Flowers (episode 1012).

• Yasuo Murakami is the same name of the culprit in A Dangerous Recipe.
• Gotaro Karahashi's hearse is a 2013 Black Toyota Crown Hearse [S210]. The license plate number is 新宿 800, い 31-87 (Shinjuku 800, I 31-87).
• The Japanese Buddhist style hearse crushed is a 1999 Black Toyota Crown Hearse [S170]. The license plate number is 新宿 800, あ 36-88 (Shinjuku 800, A 36-88).
• The taxi is a 2001 Yellow Toyota Crown Sedan [XS10]. The license plate number is 新宿 500, い 54-68 (Shinjuku 500, I 54-68).

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	En Conan atrapat a les fosques	Conan caught in the darkness
Thai	สถานการณ์เข้าตาจนของโคนันในความมืด	Conan's Desperate Situation in the Darkness
Vietnamese	Conan rơi vào nơi tối tăm nhất của sự tuyệt vọng

See also

• Season 26