The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno

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Episode 144-145 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno
Japanese title:	上野発北斗星3号 (Ueno-hatsu Hokutosei Sangō)
Original airdate:	May 10, 1999 (Part 1) May 17, 1999 (Part 2)
Season:	6
Manga source:	Volume 22: Files 4-7 (215-218)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Yukiko Kudo Yusaku Kudo
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Yusaku Kudo
Next Conan's Hint:	Disguise (Part 1) Exercise bike (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	144 Nana Harada 145 Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	144 Atsushi Aono, Keiko Sasaki 145 Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Sumi Shimamoto as Fumiyo Akemi, Yukiko Kudo Hikaru Hanada as Inspector Nishimura Takashi Nagasako as Detective Tamura Yasuyuki Kasei as Conductor Isshin Chiba as Waiter, Announcement Hiromichi Kogami as Passenger A Mari Tomokawa as Passenger B Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Girigiri chop
Closing song:	Still for your love

Characters introduced

Inspector Nishimura
100px	Inspector from Hokkaido Prefecture Police

Detective Tamura
	Detective from Hokkaido Prefecture Police

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Natsue Hatamoto (background) Takeshi Hatamoto (background) Yukiko Kudo Yusaku Kudo

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Kogoro, and Ran take the overnight North Star Express to Hokkaido to meet a former client. On the train, they meet up with a series of people. However, in the night, a murder case occurs when a burglar seemingly kills a jewelry trader, and escapes through the window.

Murder
	Location: North Star No.3 Express Victim: Keitaro Izumo Cause of death: Gunshot wound Suspects: Yasuji Asama

The train stops to find his dead body outside.

Accident?
	Location: Railroad Victim: Yasuji Asama Cause of death: Blunt force trauma

Conan noticed that the plot is very similar to an unpublished novel written by his father that had been stolen ten years before. However, unable to contact Yusaku Kudo, Conan takes the case into his own hands, and finds his mother on the train.

Part 2

Conan reveals to the suspicious woman that he knows her identity - it is Yukiko Kudo, his mother, in disguise. As they discuss the case, Kogoro calls all the passengers to witness his inaccurate deduction, enabling Conan to figure out the trick. However, a worried Conan recalls that in the novel, the detective boy who solved the case was murdered by the trap he set for the criminal. Yukiko volunteers to act as a decoy to help him find the proof.

People

Yasuji Asama
	Victim (bludgeoned) 39 years old Passenger

Toshinori Kaetsu
	38 years old Jewelry store manager

Keitaro Izumo
	Victim (gunshot) 56 years old Jewelry store owner

Akishige Ishizuchi
	67 years old Furuito City mayor

Toru Aoba
	32 years old Passenger

Fumiyo Akechi
100px	37 years old Passenger

Azusa Izumo
	49 years old Keitaro Izumo's wife

Inspector Nishimura
100px	Inspector from Hokkaido Prefecture Police

Detective Tamura
	Detective from Hokkaido Prefecture Police

Resolution

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When the train lands at Sapporo Station, however, Conan and Yukiko are separated and the criminal moves, intending to push her onto the tracks. Yusaku appears just in time and reveals the trick and his own identity to the criminal, who had idolized his work. The culprit is Toshinori Kaetsu.

See also

• Season 6