Scoop Picture Murder Case

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Episode 106 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Scoop Picture Murder Case
Japanese title:	スクープ写真殺人事件 (Sukūpu Shashin Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	June 22, 1998
Broadcast rating:	19.8%
Filler case:	#41
Season:	4
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Snapshots of Death
Dubbed episode:	Episode 112
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Professor Agasa Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan) Professor Agasa
Next Conan's Hint:	Highway bus
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Yoshio Suzuki
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Chafurin as Inspector Megure Hiroshi Takahashi as Ryuuichi Yanase Nobuaki Fukuda as Atsushi Nakai Wataru Takagi as Director, Next Conan's Hint Isshin Chiba as Presenter Hiroshi Naka as Driver
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Professor Agasa Inspector Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Button Speaker

Case

Situation

In Angel City Hotel, the photographer named Ryuuichi Yanase won the 35th Yomikiri Photography Award in the award ceremony and he received a brand new watch. He was nominated by the crime news department. It also shows Yanase's photographs of incidents on the slideshow.

After the award ceremony, Kogoro gave his business card to Yanase and Yanase is glad to meet the famous detective in person. Yanase also gave his business card to Kogoro. He captures wonderful pictures by thanking to the gods. Until sudden, a man named Atsushi Nakai gave the business card to Kogoro and he's a newspaper reporter. Yanase does not like Nakai at all whenever he's near to him. Nakai just got the white powder from his pocket and blows at Yanase with white powder. Yanase told Nakai to leave him alone and fled. The white powder he just blew is lime.

At the Mouri Detective Agency, the phone rings and Conan answers it. It's Nakai and he wants to talk to Kogoro Mouri because his life is on the line. Conan tries to wake Kogoro up while he's sleeping but he doesn't want to get up. Conan doesn't have a choice so he'll just use the voice changing bowtie to use Kogoro's voice while talking to Nakai on the phone. When Conan's back on the phone, he asks Nakai what's about his life being in danger. Nakai claims that someone is after his life and wants Kogoro to investigate about it. Suddenly, the culprit hits Nakai with the ashtray and hangs up the phone. Conan got Nakai's business card from Kogoro's inside coat pocket and took a ride on a taxi. Meanwhile in Nakai's apartment, the culprit turned the water on and left.

When Conan arrived at the apartment, Nakai crashes through the window and fell to his death while he's on fire.

Accident?
	Location: Atsushi Nakai's apartment Victim: Atsushi Nakai Cause of death: Burning Suspects: Ryuuichi Yanase

While he's falling, Conan sees Yanase taking pictures of the incident from the highway.

The next day, all the newspapers have pictures of Nakai when he's on fire falling to his death taken by Yanase. He tells to the news reporters that it was just a coincidence and thanks to the gods.

Ran is reading the today's article about Yanase and she thinks he certainly has exceptional luck as a crime scene photographer. But whatever he claims, it's too much of a coincidence. When Kogoro came, he reveals that Nakai had a scar on his head, but the lab came to the conclusion that because he was drunk. He lost his balance, fell, and hit his head. The police think it's an unfortunate accident. Conan asks about the cause of fire and Kogoro doesn't know the details but it apparently started in the kitchen sink.

Conan went back to Nakai's apartment and investigates. Last night, the phone call for Kogoro came at 10:30 pm. By the time he rushed to the apartment by taking a taxi ride, it was 10:50. Judging by the progress of the fire, Conan can safely concluded that the fire started as soon as the phone went dead. Yanase was taking pictures from the bridge to the apartment. Without the car, it would be impossible to get up there. Suddenly, Conan notice the entrance for the highway bus. Conan went to the road bridge and sees through the window which is directly across from Nakai's apartment. It is the perfect spot to take pictures. Yanase couldn't have gotten to the road bridge purely by luck. What's more, it takes no more than three minutes to get to the highway from the incident. Conan found some white powder on his sleeve and it's lime. The lime could be the connection about the fire that started in the kitchen sink.

Later, Conan bought a magazine article about the incident of Nakai's death. At the playground, he was looking at the picture of Nakai crashing through the window. He found something and went to visit at Professor Agasa's house. Conan wants Agasa to analyze the picture and he points to the mirror in the background of Nakai crashing through the window. Agasa puts the magazine article on the scanner and imports the picture of Nakai crashing through the window on his computer screen. He zooms in to the kitchen reflected in the mirror. When he zooms in to the kitchen sink, it's so pixelated and it's not clear enough. Agasa fixes it and he finally made the picture more sharp and clear. There's a broken watch on the kitchen counter and Conan has no doubt that it was murder which he knows who did it. Agasa mentions that Yanase will be on tv tomorrow and he was advertised in a commercial. Yanase is going to invite Kogoro as his first guest to his show. This could be a chance for Conan and he has a pretty good idea.

The next day at Nichiuri TV, Yanase thanks Kogoro for coming to his show as his first guest. When they shake hands, the pink paper fell out of Yanase's pocket. The pink paper is actually a police notification and it's because last time when he saw the smoke, he subconsciously increased speed and got caught by the surveillance camera. Conan went to the phone and called Inspector Megure. Kogoro is getting ready to the show and Conan tells him that there's dirt on his collar and he's going to brush it off which he actually puts the button speaker on him.

People

Ryuuichi Yanase
	33 years Photographer Photo Contest Winner

Atsushi Nakai
	38 years Victim (burned) Newspaper reporter

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

At the starting of the show, Yanase introduces himself and shows his guest, Kogoro Mouri the famous detective to the tv viewers. Conan knocks out Kogoro with his stun gun wristwatch and uses the voice changing bowtie using Kogoro's voice. He deduces that the culprit who murdered Nakai was Ryuuichi Yanase. First of all, at the time of the incident, he was taking photos from the highway. Yanase asks how did he set fire at Nakai's apartment. Conan deduces that it only take three minutes to get from where he was taking pictures to the crime scene, if he use the staircase for highway bus passengers. He took advantage of that, went to Nakai's room and attacked him, knocking him unconscious. He set up kind of a time bomb, returned to the highway, and waited for the fire to start so he could begin taking pictures. The time bomb wasn't found at the crime scene and it was burned to ashes. The cause of the fire is lime which is a quick lime. That's how Yanase used as a time bomb. Quick lime is different from the slaked lime used to draw lines on athletic fields in the sense that when he add water, the exothermic reaction can reach up to 300 degrees. Then he conveniently used hot sake as a fuel. When bags of lime at construction sites are dampened by rain water, it reacts and sometimes even causes a small fire. He filled the sink with quick lime and added water, allowing to react. Conan suppose if he added newspaper and such, it would start burning even quicker. He would also imagine the picture Yanase won the award for was also taken in a similar fashion. Nakai found out about it and threatened Yanase. The very pictures he took provided conclusive evidence. Suddenly, Agasa appears and shows the picture of the sink on his computer. First, the kitchen sink. Water comes out of the faucet by lowering the lever. The lever's been lowered 1/4th of the way. In other words, at the time of the fire, water was running from the faucet in order to create the time bomb. Also, on Yanase's wrist, there is no watch which he received from the award ceremony and there was his watch on Nakai's kitchen counter in the picture on Agasa's computer. Yanase took it off so it wouldn't get wet while he adjusted the water flow, and then he forgot to take it with him. It's been scorched nicely because it was so close to the fire. Suddenly, Inspector Megure appears by making a V sign which means victory, a gesture popularized by Winston Churchill. He was asked by Kogoro (actually Conan when he called him on the phone awhile ago) for the floppy which contains video data of the highway, taken by the surveillance camera used to catch speeders. The time was 10:20 pm on the night of the fire. In other words, it was just ten minutes before Kogoro received a phone call from Nakai. Agasa then shows the image of Yanase driving a car. When Agasa zooms in, Yanase was wearing the watch. He was wearing it right before the time of the crime. The fact that the watch which was in Nakai's apartment is the very proof that he was at the scene of the crime. The photographer seeking to capture definite moments was captured at the definitive moment himself. It seems Yanase has forgotten the most important part being a photographer. The word "photograph" is composed of the characters, "reflect" and "truth". Yanase is now arrested for murder.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Ryuuichi Yanase - Reynold Yates
• Atsushi Nakai - Artie Nelson

Trivia

• The software professor Agasa uses to help Conan is called "Agasa Photoshob", in reference to Photoshop.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	昼下がりの天使たち （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi (Mantenrō Vājon)	Early Afternoon Angels (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
4	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
5	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	時計じかけの摩天楼	Tokei Jikake no Mantenrō	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
7	爆破予告	Bakuha Yokoku	Bomb Warning	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
8	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	サスペンス～危機感	Sasupensu ~ Kikikan	Suspense ~ Impending Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	阿笠博士のテーマ	Agasa Hakase no Tēma	Professor Agasa's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
11	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
12	サスペンス～危機感	Sasupensu ~ Kikikan	Suspense ~ Impending Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	阿笠博士のテーマ	Agasa Hakase no Tēma	Professor Agasa's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	阿笠博士のテーマ	Agasa Hakase no Tēma	Professor Agasa's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
17	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
18	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
19	それいけコナン （超早ver.）	Soreike Konan (Chōhaya ver.)	Let's Go Conan (Very Fast ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French	Photos de meurtre	Murder Pictures
German	Mord mit Blitzlicht	Murder with Photo Flash
Vietnamese	Vụ án giết người liên quan đến bức ảnh giật gân	Sensational Picture Murder Case

See also

• Season 4