Three Days with Heiji Hattori

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Episode 479 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Three Days with Heiji Hattori
Japanese title:	服部平次との3日間 (Hattori Heiji to no Mikkakan)
Original airdate:	July 16, 2007
Season:	16
Manga source:	Volume 54: File 6 (562) ~ Volume 55: File 2 (566)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Saguru Hakuba Kogoro Mouri Kazuha Toyama Ran Mouri Yoko Okino Natsuki Koshimizu Junya Tokitsu
Cases solved by:	Heiji Hattori (x2) Conan Edogawa (x2)
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Fumio Maesono Yuzo Aoki
Episode director:	Fumiharu Kamanaka
Animation director:	Keiko Sasaki (chief) Rei Masunaga Daisuke Niinuma
Music
Opening song:	Namida no Yesterday
Closing song:	I still believe ~Tameiki~

Characters introduced

Natsuki Koshimizu
	18 years old Detective

Junya Tokitsu
	18 years old Detective

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Saguru Hakuba Kogoro Mouri Kazuha Toyama Ran Mouri Yoko Okino

Case 1

Situation

Kogoro, Ran, Conan, Heiji, and Kazuha are at a festival when Denkyuu, a student monk, asks them to solve a case of a disappearing body at the temple. Shakuren, the head monk, denies the body's existence and claims Denkyu is mistaken.

Murder?
	Victim: Unknown woman Cause of death: Stab wound Denkyuu claimed to saw a body of mysterious woman who was stabbed in her chest, but when the other got to the crim scene the body disappeared!? Is this his delusion? Or..

People

Denkyu
	18 years old Student monk

Shakuren
	57 years old Head monk

Rinkyu
	Student monk Left the temple

Bunkyu
	Student monk Left the temple

Resolution

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After investigating, Conan and Heiji reveal that Shakuren arranged the temple's blood-stained tatami mats so that the stains are hidden by tatami-squares in the bottom of the glass statue-cases positioned at the four corners of the room. Shakuren reveals that the body was Denkyu's mother, who abandoned him eighteen years ago. He reveals that she committed suicide after Shakuren refused to give her back her son, when she could not even recognize which one of the monks at the temple he was.

Case 2

Situation

The next day, Heiji takes Conan with him to participate in a reality television deduction competition between high school detectives Heiji Hattori, Natsuki Koshimizu, Junya Tokitsu, and Saguru Hakuba. While there, Tokitsu is murdered and the detectives realize the television programming was a hoax.

Murder
	Victim: Junya Tokitsu Cause of death: Blow to the head Suspects: Hiro Tsuchio, Renzo Koya, and Natsuki Koshimizu

Murder? (Past)
	Location: Lavender mansion Victim: Daughter of mansion owner Cause of death: Hanging Suspects: Kana Mizuguchi

People

Hiro Tsuchio
	41 years old Nichiuri TV producer

Renzo Koya
	58 years old Caretaker

Natsuki Koshimizu
	18 years old Detective

Junya Tokitsu
	Victim (beaten) 18 years old Detective

Kana Mizuguchi
	Deceased Maid

Resolution

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After a thorough investigation, the culprit is revealed to be the detective of the South, Natsuki Koshimizu. Koshimizu confesses she was searching for the detective whose inadequate investigation led the police to suspect her friend as a murderer, prompting her friend's suicide. That detective turned out to be Tokitsu, whom she murdered in revenge.

The trick to secret room was to remove the window frame and then replace it after leaving. The screws holding the frame in are removed and cut short. The frame is replaced after the murderer exits by simply gluing it back into place with the short screws slid into their corresponding holes so the window looks untampered with.

See also

• Season 16