The Charismatic CEO's Secret Plan

Chronology
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Episode 1076 (Int. Episode 1133)
Information
Title:	The Charismatic CEO's Secret Plan
Japanese title:	カリスマ社長の極秘計画 (Karisuma Shachō no Gokuhi Keikaku)
Original airdate:	March 4, 2023
Broadcast rating:	6.5%
Filler case:	#388
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Putter
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Atsuko Kase
Episode director:	Tazumi Mukaiyama
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Yusuke Shimizu Eiichi Tokura Ai Nakatani Studio Mindo RadPlus
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Rei Masunaga (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	Mouse
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Akiko Muta as Tomoe Izumi Eiji Yoshitomi as Minoru Otake Yu Wakabayashi as Tosuke Utagawa Akihiro Tajima as Akira Komoda Tomohiro Tsuboi as Juichi Innami Yuki Urushiyama as Female secretary
Music
Opening song:	SPARKLE
Closing song:	Kuufuku

The Charismatic CEO's Secret Plan (カリスマ社長の極秘計画 ,Karisuma Shachō no Gokuhi Keikaku) is the 1076th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Kogoro and Conan discovered a corpse on the street while taking a stroll. Seemingly, the deceased have been hit in the head with a metal pipe, and remained a dying message that looks like "1-1-2". The estimated time of death is around 9PM last night, Conan visited the deceased's apartment.

Murder
	Location: Beika street Victim: Akira Komoda Age: 25 years old Time: 9:00 PM Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Tosuke Utagawa

According to the apartment manager, no one seem to hold grudge with the victim Komoda. Owing to the fact that Komoda doesn't have a job and claimed yesterday afternoon that he will pay off all of his unpaid apartment rent tomorrow, Kogoro deduces that he must be blackmailing people for a living, and Komoda might be anti-killed by his blackmailed target.

The manager added that Komoda noticed the photo of Tosuke Utagawa on the magazine, who is the CEO of Utagawa Corporation. And declared that Utagawa would be the perfect target for him to blackmail, due to his wealth. The police talked to the CEO, Utagawa. He seemed rather arrogant, and he doesn't have an alibi when the crime was carried out. Up until now, he looks like the person who would kill Komoda for a plausible reason.

Tomoe Izumi, the lady that they encountered in the crime scene, said that yesterday morning Komoda approached her to consult about Juichi Innami, who was a her former resident. Innami had been gone for ten days and had only came back the other night. However, he claimed that he was moving away. Izumi showed a video with the appearance of Innami which shocked everyone, Innami looks exactly identical with the CEO Utagawa. Are they the same person?

After a long time of reasoning, another possibility emerged. Innami may be a substitute of Utagawa for fabricating certain alibi, in the premise of their exact same appearances. Kogoro said that it's possible that Komoda blackmailed Utagawa by taking advantage over this matter, and Innami might be killed by Utagawa after the alibi was fabricated. Later, they found out that there was a reward ceremony that was held within Utagawa's company on the evening of 9th. This leads to the assumption that Innami might've substituted Utagawa to attend the ceremony. However, by doing fingerprint analysis, the fingerprints on the winner award tend to matched with Utagawa's. This means that it was the real CEO who attended the ceremony, the investigation went into a stalemate once again.

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While investigating, Conan and Kogoro deduced Komoda's dying message: 11 refers to the number's pronunciation (Jū-ichi/十一) referring to Juichi Innami, and the 2 means in reality the kanji 乙 (Oto), referring to Otohime Park (乙姫公園), the park where Komoda usually hung out. In conclusion, the dying message means that Juichi Innami is related to the park and that probably something happened there that was witnessed by Komoda, and that's why he was killed. Now that they have those clues, they immediately start to investigate the park, and after digging a hole, they find the dead body of Juichi Innami.

Murder
	Location: Otohime Park Victim: Juichi Innami Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Tosuke Utagawa

Conan thinks there's more behind this case, and finally discovers a shocking truth.

People

Tosuke Utagawa
	42 years old Utagawa Corporation CEO

Akira Komoda
	Victim (beaten) 25 years old Birthday: July 4th Unemployed

Tomoe Izumi
	70 years old Apartment landlady

Minoru Otake
	60 years old Apartment manager

Juichi Innami
	Missing Tomoe's former resident Tosuke's lookalike

Woman
	Tosuke's secretary

Sally
	Tomoe's dog Border collie

Toshiya Tsukinari
	Utagawa Corporation Photo Award Ceremony MC

Man
	Izakaya owner

Resolution

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Takagi, by following Conan's orders, says in front of Utagawa that the information Komoda used for blackmailing Utagawa was found, so he immediatly goes to the park to retreive the body. They catch Utagawa red-handed, digging the location where Innami's body was buried. Conan finally sleeps Kogoro and declares that the real culprit is Juichi Innami. The dead body found is actually Tosuke Utagawa.

The proof that exposed his real identity was that he used his left hand while digging. Utagawa was killed after exchanging appearences. This explains why the fingerprints on the winner award matched with the CEO's, that's because it was Innami's, while substituting for Utagawa. This implies that the police have never met the real Utagawa at the outset. After Komoda's witness of murder in the park, he started blackmailing Innami, he apparently complied with all the agreements, but secretly killed Komoda. Therefore, Komoda's blackmailing target wasn't Togawa but Innami. In addition, Innami disclosed the reason Utagawa hired him for the substitution, it was solely that he needed some time off from his company matters.

His motive was simply that he wanted to feel like an important person, just like how he desired. Megure says that he even though he achieved his goal for a little time, he killed two men and that was unforgivable.

Murder
	Location: Otohime Park Victim: Tosuke Utagawa Age: 42 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Culprit: Juichi Innami

Trivia

• The TV program "News 1076" has the same number of this episode.

Quotes

It's impossible to live someone else's life.
(無理なんだよ、他人の人生を生きようなんてな。)

—Conan Edogawa

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Le Projet secret d'un patron charismatique	The secret project of a charismatic boss

See also

• Season 31