The Detective Boys in a Grove

Chronology
‹ Turning Point on a Driving Date	List of Episodes	Conan Cornered in the Darkness ›

Episode 843-844 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Detective Boys in a Grove
Japanese title:	探偵団はヤブの中 (Tantei-dan wa Yabu no Naka)
Original airdate:	December 17, 2016 (Part 1) December 24, 2016 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	6.9% 7.2%
Season:	26
Manga source:	Volume 89: Files 2-4 (939-941)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Mary Masumi Sera Shuichi Akai Jodie Starling James Black Andre Camel
Next Conan's Hint:	Christmas presents (Part 1) Mannequin (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Umesaburou Sagawa
Storyboard:	Umesaburou Sagawa
Episode director:	Koichiro Kuroda
Animation director:	Michitaka Yamamoto
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Chafurin as Juzo Megure Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Toru Okawa as Ujiyasu Hosogoe Eiji Miyashita as Takami Kamaya Yuka Komatsu as Mitsuko Shikama Ikuya Sawaki as Masaru Miyadai Masafumi Kobatake as Cook Shigeru Shibuya as Male Guest Atsushi Kisaichi as Clerk A Kensuke Tamura as Clerk B Hisako Kanemoto as Clerk C Masayo Kurata as Salesperson A Yuriko Fuchizaki as Salesperson B
Music
Opening song:	Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru
Closing song:	YESTERDAY LOVE

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Juzo Megure Kazunobu Chiba Wataru Takagi Mary (background) Masumi Sera (background) Shuichi Akai (background) Jodie Starling (background) James Black (background) Andre Camel (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Professor Agasa has once again won a meal ticket and is taking the Detective Boys to a restaurant at the department store. On the way there Conan thinks over what he knows about Masumi and the girl, Mary, who is living with her, but his thoughts are interrupted by Haibara, who is dead tired after chasing after a cockroach all night. When they arrive at the department store, they see it already decorated for Christmas. Ayumi and Haibara approach the makeup counter, and Haibara demands that they get to try on some makeup since they are customers. The counter workers try to deny them since they are too young. Upon Haibara's insistence they get the makeup (Mascara lining) anyway, but Haibara sorely disappoints the counter worker's hops for a sale to their mothers.

After the meal Agasa reveals another surprise, that he had also won a shopping ticket so that they could buy themselves early Christmas presents. Ayumi, Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Haibara all walk off to select their favorite presents, blissfully ignoring the fact that the ticket is worth only ¥10,000 (roughly $100). Conan and Agasa observe the restaurant chef, Ujiyasu Hosogoe, getting told by another chef that a troublesome customer had called again, and Ujiyasu telling him to inform the customer to meet him in the stairwell.

After half an hour has passed, Conan hears screaming coming from the stairwell and rushes in to find Ujiyasu has been stabbed. He said that the culprit ran down the stairs so Conan has the Detective Boys run to the stairwell and remember every detail about the culprit when they see him running down. The police are able to round up three suspects, but the Detective Boys unexpectedly give three completely different descriptions of who they think is the culprit is, and Genta mentions that he thinks the culprit had the number 2 on him.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Department Store Victim: Ujiyasu Hosogoe Age: 47 Years old Injury: Stab wound to the abdomen Suspects: Takashi Kannya, Mitsuko Shikama and Masaru Miyadai

People

Ujiyasu Hosogoe
	Victim (stabbed - injured) 47 years old Head chef

Takashi Kamaya
	26 years old Part-time worker

Mitsuko Shikama
	38 years old Housewife

Masaru Miyadai
	52 years old Chef

Woman #1
	Takashi's ex-girlfriend

Woman #2
	Cosmetician in the mall

Woman #3
	Cosmetician in the mall Put make-up for Ayumi and Haibara

Man #1
	Customer Husband of female customer

Woman #4
	Customer Wife of male customer

Man #2
	Cook

Man #3
	Sporting Goods shop clerk

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The culprit is Takashi Kamaya. Kamaya took his girlfriend on a date to the restaurant. He called Hosogoe and told him that he had found out the secret ingredient in the recipe to impress his girlfriend. But Hosogoe told him that he didn't use the ingredient anymore and ended up recognising Kamaya, revealing that he worked in the restaurant earlier to Kamaya's date. She ended up dumping him and Kamaya blamed Hosogoe for this, which formed the basis for his motive.

Afterwards, Haibara rubs mascara off of her eye, and Conan sees that the smeared mascara makes her face look like that of that girl Mary who stays with Masumi.

Trivia

• Masaru Miyadai wears a shirt showing the logo of the Tokyo Spirits

Gallery

• 

  Haibara showing a Mascara smudge beneath her eye.

• 

  Conan noticing Ai's uncanny resemblence to the mysterious girl Mary.

See also

• Season 26