Mountain Witch's Cutlery
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| Episode 481-482 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}}) | |
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| Title: | Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph |
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| Original airdate: | July 30, 2007 (Part 1) August 6, 2007 (Part 2) |
| Season: | 16 |
| English title: | Mountain Witch's Cutlery |
| Cast: | Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Misao Yamamura |
| Case solved by: | Dr. Agasa (via Conan) |
Cast
Plot
Part one
Agasa takes the Detective Boys camping, they end up being stranded in the middle of the woods. They decide to ask for lodgings from a house owned by an elderly woman named Iwae Tanaka. At the same time, Akane Ooba and her two hosts, Raito Adachi and Fuuga Kahara, also request for lodging and Tanaka complies. That night, Mitsuhiko goes to the restroom but see's something horrifying causing him to run back to his room. Soon after they hear a woman scream and Ooba is later found with her throat slit open outside the house with Raito by her side. The police arrive and investigate all the bladed weapons in the house. Mitsuhiko then exclaims that while heading back from the restroom, the knife he saw Tanaka sharpening is missing.
Part two
Tanaka dismisses Mitsuhiko's accusation as his imagination and the police continue their investigation. Agasa notes that his hammer is missing and Conan discovers an officer found the hammer in the woods. Conan later finds the rumored knife with the red handle and shows it to the police. None of the weapons reacted to luminol and leaves the officers stumped. As Conan investigates he realizes who the murderer is. Disguising his voice as Agasa, Conan first reveals Kahara is a fake name and that he is actually Tanaka's grandson in disguise, Shouta Tanaka. Since Kahara lived in the house before, he would have used the knife in the shed and is thus, eliminated as a suspect leaving Adachi as the culprit. As evidence, Conan reveals Adachi had his shoes on when he was by Ooba's body while everyone ran bare feet to investigate the screaming. As for the weapon, Conan reveals Adachi used the hammer to break apart an obsidian rock found in the fish tank for the murder; he then concludes the weapon used for the murder should be in the tank. Adachi professes to the murder revealing Ooba tricked his parents into furthering their debt and murdered her in vengeance. Tanaka gives her grandson the knife and her grandson promises to start visiting her again. A month later, Conan spots Shouta working as a chef with the knife his grandmother gave him.
