Diplomat Murder Case

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Episode 48-49 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Diplomat Murder Case
Japanese title:	外交官殺人事件 (Gaikōkan Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 17, 1997 (Part 1) February 24, 1997 (Part 2)
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 10: Files 2~6 (092-096)
English version
English title:	No Immunity for the Diplomat
Dubbed episode:	Episode 49-50
English airdate:	August 12, 2004 (Part 1) August 16, 2004 (Part 2)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Heiji Hattori Inspector Megure Shinichi Kudo Detective Boys
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo
Next Conan's Hint:	Opera CD and books (Part 1) Hardcover books (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Masato Sato
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	48 Kazuo Nogami 49 Susumu Ishizaki
Animation director:	48 Masatomo Sudo, Takashi Hyoudo 49 Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Chafurin as Inspector Megure Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Attendant, Next Conan's Hint Mari Arita as Kimie Tsujimura Aruno Tahara as Fumio Koike Yoshinobu Yamada as Takayoshi Tsujimura Hirono Matsubara as Yukiko Katsuragi Eiji Maruyama as Toshimitsu Tsujimura Saburo Kamei as Isao Tsujimura
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Characters introduced

Heiji Hattori
	High school student Detective

Heizo Hattori
	Heiji Hattori's father Chief of the Osaka Police District

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Shinichi Kudo Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan has to deal with some stiff competition when Heiji Hattori, heralded as the "Great Detective of the West", comes looking for Shinichi Kudo to prove which of them is the best detective. However, before Conan can save his reputation, he must first save himself, as a mysterious sickness threatens to close his file for good!

Murder
	Location: Tsujimura household Victim: Isao Tsujimura Cause of death: Poison Suspects: Toshimitsu Tsujimura

Part 2

Shinichi Kudo returns to the surprise of everyone, especially himself! As Shinichi tries to expose the real secret behind the perfectly sealed room, the rivalry between he and Heiji Hattori heats up! Deceit and treachery are revealed, as Isao Tsujimura's killer is finally unmasked!

People

Kimie Tsujimura
	50 years old Wife of Diplomat, Isao Tsujimura

Fumio Koike
	48 years old Butler to the Tsujimura family

Yukiko Katsuragi
	24 years old Takayoshi Tsujimura's girlfriend Student at Touto Medical School

Takayoshi Tsujimura
	27 years old Isao Tsujimura's only son Legal apprentice

Toshimitsu Tsujimura
	78 years old Isao Tsujimura's father Retired college professor

Isao Tsujimura
	Victim (poison) 54 years old Diplomat

Resolution

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The killer was none other than Kimie, Tsujimura's wife. Twenty years ago, she was married to a man named Kenji Yamashiro and they had a little daughter; Tsujimura, who was in love with Kimie and jealous of Yamashiro, staged a cruel trap to accuse Yamashiro of being involved in a fraud (with the help of his father, Toshimitsu). Yamashiro was sent to jail and died there soon, then Tsujimura courted the extremely distraught Kimie, and as soon as Yamashiro died, convinced her to marry him. Kimie was unaware of this and accepted, as she was completely devastated and had to give up her child's custody to Yamashiro's family.

Twenty years after the "fraud", Takayoshi brought a picture of the girl he had fallen for... who happened to be Yukiko, Kimie and Yamashiro's daughter. Tsujimura was horrified and started screaming at his son for wanting to marry "that man's child". Kimie recognized Yukiko in the picture and started to get suspicious, then Tsujimura revealed the truth to her. So she planned to kill her "husband" to get at him, using her visit to Kogoro to ask about Yukiko's family as an excuse that would provide her for an alibi.

Dub changes

• In the English Dub, after the accusation of spying on Ran Shinichi states that he's a detective & that's what he does, whereas in the Japanese Version he states that he can tell how Ran is doing by hearing her voice.
• In the English Dub, Heiji drops subtle hints that the two men who poisoned him were Gin and Vodka, whereas in the Japanese Version he merely acknowledges Shinichi as a worthy rival. The dub change presumably was made to fix a story problem for the upcoming Game Company Murder Case (see that page's continuity error).
• In the English Dub, Heiji also, in the same lines about Gin and Vodka, alludes to the fact that he already knows that Shin'ichi is Conan, despite the fact that he doesn't deduce this until his next appearance in Holmes Freak Murder Case.
• There may also be some subtle foreshadowing of Heiji being a part of the Black Organization in his words about Gin and Vodka, but because this only occurs in the dub, it is most likely a mistake on the dub's scripter's part.

See also

• Season 2