Diplomat Murder Case

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Episode 48-49 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Diplomat Murder Case
Japanese title:	外交官殺人事件 (Gaikōkan Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 17, 1997 (Part 1) February 24, 1997 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	19% 18.2%
Manga case:	#25
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 10: Files 2-6 (092-096)
English version
English title:	No Immunity for the Diplomat
Dubbed episode:	Episode 49-50
English airdate:	August 12, 2004 (Part 1) August 16, 2004 (Part 2)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Heiji Hattori Shinichi Kudo Juzo Megure Detective Boys Yukiko Katsuragi Takayoshi Tsujimura Sonoko Suzuki
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo
Next Conan's Hint:	A needle, a string, and a key holder (Part 1) Opera CD and books (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Masato Sato
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	48 Kazuo Nogami 49 Susumu Ishizaki
Animation director:	48 Masatomo Sudo, Kei Hyoudou 49 Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Chafurin as Juzo Megure Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Attendant, Next Conan's Hint Mari Arita as Kimie Tsujimura Aruno Tahara as Fumio Koike Yoshinobu Yamada as Takayoshi Tsujimura Hirono Matsubara as Yukiko Katsuragi Eiji Maruyama as Toshimitsu Tsujimura Saburo Kamei as Isao Tsujimura
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Characters introduced

Heiji Hattori
	17 years old High school student Detective

Heizo Hattori
	Superintendent from Osaka Prefecture Police Heiji's father

Yukiko Katsuragi
	24 years old Takayoshi's girlfriend Tohto Medical School student

Takayoshi Tsujimura
	27 years old Isao's only son Legal apprentice

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo Juzo Megure Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Sonoko Suzuki (background) Gin (backround) Vodka (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan has to deal with some stiff competition when Heiji Hattori, heralded as the "Great Detective of the West", comes looking for Shinichi Kudo to prove which of them is the best detective. He shows up all of a sudden in the Mouri Agency (since he suspects Shinichi has a hand on Kogoro's recent success and Sonoko told him where it was located), bringing a nice Osakan liquor as a gift to Kogoro (so he'll let him stay overnight), and delivers the challenge, which will take place regarding the request coming from a rich woman: to make a background check on her future daughter-in-law, a young woman who's simply too good to be true so she could actually be a bitch in sheep's clothing or a gold digger in disguise.

However, before Conan can save his reputation, he must first save himself, as a mysterious sickness threatens to close his file for good, and then check on his surroundings, as the husband of their client appears dead right after the group arrives to his big and fancy house!

Murder

Location: Tsujimura household Victim: Isao Tsujimura Age: 54 years old Cause of death: Poison Suspects: Kimie Tsujimura, Fumio Koike, Yukiko Katsuragi, Takayoshi Tsujimura, and Toshimitsu Tsujimura Kimie Tsujimura goes to the Mouri Agency to ask them to look for info about her stepson's girlfriend, Yukiko. She then takes Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Heiji to the Tsujimura household, where the family is about to gather. However, when she goes speak to the apparently asleep patriarch of the family, he suddenly drops dead.

Part 2

Heiji Hattori believes that the murder of the diplomat Isao Tsujimura is a locked room one, and he's also sure of who the killer is. But almost at the same time, Conan collapses due to his illness, and then Shinichi Kudo returns to the surprise of everyone, especially himself. As Shinichi tries to expose the real secret behind the perfectly sealed room, the rivalry between he and Heiji Hattori heats up. Deceit and treachery are revealed, as Isao Tsujimura's killer is finally unmasked and their reasons to commit the crime are explained.

People

Kimie Tsujimura
	50 years old Isao's wife

Fumio Koike
	48 years old Tsujimura family butler

Yukiko Katsuragi
	24 years old Takayoshi's girlfriend Tohto Medical School student

Takayoshi Tsujimura
	27 years old Isao's only son Kimie's stepson Legal apprentice

Toshimitsu Tsujimura
	78 years old Isao's father Retired college professor

Isao Tsujimura
	Victim (poisoned) 54 years old Diplomat

Resolution

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The killer is Kimie Tsujimura. She murdered her husband by first drugging him with sleeping pills before going to the Mouri agency, then pretending to try waking him up, but actually poisoning him with a poison-imbibed needle that she hid inside a locket attached to her keychain. Which looked exactly like a locket/keychain that Tsujimura himself had. She also tried to stage a locked room mystery with Tsujimua's locket keychain and several fishing line threads specifically placed all around the home, to make everyone believe that Tsujimura had died thanks to a trick that was triggered right when they opened the door to his studio; in reality, he was alive but asleep due to the drugs, so Kimie secretly prickled him to his death in front of everyone.

Kimie's reasons to murder her husband were the following: twenty years before she was was happily married to a man named Kenji Yamashiro and they had a little daughter, Yukiko. Tsujimura, who was in love with Kimie and jealous of Yamashiro, staged a cruel trap to accuse him of being involved in a fraud. Yamashiro was sent to jail and died there soon, then Tsujimura courted the extremely distraught Kimie, and as soon as she was widowed he divorced his wife/Takayoshi's mother and convinced Kimie to marry him. Kimie was unaware of this and accepted, since she was completely devastated and had to give up her child's custody to Yamashiro's family.

Twenty years after the "fraud", the adult Takayoshi brought a picture of a girl he had fallen for and intended to marry: she happened to be Yukiko, Kimie and Yamashiro's daughter, who had grown to look almost exactly like Kimie save for her hair/color scheme. (As seen in an old picture of the just-married Kimie and Tsujimura, which the latter kept in his studio). Tsujimura realised who the girl was, was completely horrified and started screaming at his son for wanting to marry "that man's child". Kimie also recognized Yukiko in the picture and started to get suspicious, then Tsujimura revealed the truth to her. So she decided to kill her "husband" to get at him, using her visit to Kogoro to ask about Yukiko's background as an excuse that would provide her for an alibi.

(As a corollary, Toshimitsu Tsujimura had helped his son Isao in his plan to "steal" Kimie from Yamashiro and send him to jail. He had repented long ago, though, and he wanted to take the blame for his son's murder as a way to atone for his terrible sin. Therefore, when Heiji said that he was the culprit, he willingly confessed for a crime he hadn't commited, trying to wash away for his part in ruining the Yamashiro family's lives.)

Kimie recognizes that she is the killer, reveals the above mentioned motivations and surrenders to the police without any resistence. Before being taken away, she begs Takayoshi to take good care of her daughter Yukiko, and Takayoshi promises to do so as Yukiko cries for all of this.

Heiji aknowledges his loss and tells this to Shinichi, aknowledging him officially as the winner of this case. Shinichi, however, calls him a fool and says that it's useless to compete, since there is only one truth ever. After saying this, he almost collapses atop of the stairs; since he had recovered his original physical age solely as an effect of the homemade liquor (doubling as a folk cure for colds) that Heiji made him drink earlier and the cold he had, it's only temporal and it will wear off soon.

Ran, who logically knows nothing of this, catches him trying to sneak away and tries to make him stay so he will go to a doctor. He tells her to wait and gets away by practically throwing himself down the stairs as his body begins to actually reverse to a child's one, nevermind his mental pleas to resist a little so he can stay with Ran a little longer. Then, Shinichi almost screams Ran's name before fully shrinking back.

When Ran finally catches up, she finds Conan alone in an oversized shirt. He tells her that Shinichi has just left and then passes out of pain and light-headness, which keeps Ran from making him any more questions.

Heiji returns to Osaka and, once Conan gets mildly better, he wonders why did his body return to normal even if for some minutes. He realises it was an after-effect of the liquor... but Ran catches him trying to snatch the bottle from the drunk Kogoro and takes it away. Conan is upset but then the Detective Kids drop by to visit, which cheers him up a little.

Translation changes

Anime

• In the English Dub, after the accusation of spying on Ran, Shinichi states that he's a detective and that's what he does, whereas in the Japanese version he states that he can tell how Ran is doing by hearing her voice.
• In the English Dub, Heiji drops subtle hints that the two men who poisoned him were Gin and Vodka, whereas in the Japanese version he merely acknowledges Shinichi as a worthy rival. The dub change presumably was made to fix a story problem for the upcoming Game Company Murder Case (see that page's continuity error).
• In the English Dub, Heiji also, in the same lines about Gin and Vodka, alludes to the fact that he already knows that Shinichi is Conan, despite the fact that he doesn't deduce this until his next appearance in Holmes Freak Murder Case.
• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Kimie Tsujimura - Camiel Tarrington
• Fumio Koike - Franklin Keene
• Toshimitsu Tsujimura - Theodore Tarrington
• Isao Tsujimura - Rudy Tarrington
• Takayoshi Tsujimura - Thomas Tarrington
• Yukiko Katsuragi - Jasmine Kassleschultz
• Kenji Yamashiro - Mori Yasmeen

• This was the final episode aired by Adult Swim.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart
2	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	闇の男爵ナイトバロンのテーマ	Yami no Danshaku Naito Baron no Tēma	Baron of the Darkness, The Night Baron's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
6	悪のテーマ１	Aku no Tēma 1	Theme of Evil 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	事件現場２	Jiken Genba 2	Scene of the Case 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	闇の男爵ナイトバロンのテーマ	Yami no Danshaku Naito Baron no Tēma	Baron of the Darkness, The Night Baron's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
16	迷宮のラヴァーズ	Meikyū no Lovers	Lovers' Labyrinth	Meikyū no Lovers

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart
2	名探偵コナン～新メイン・テーマ	Meitantei Konan ~ Shin Mein・Tēma	Detective Conan ~ New Main Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
3	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
4	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
5	事件現場 （ショートver.）	Jiken Genba (Shōto ver.)	Scene of the Case (Short ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
8	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	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
10	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Vōkaru・Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Vocal ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
11	蘭のテーマ （優しさver.）	Ran no Tēma (Yasashisa ver.)	Ran's Theme (Gentle ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	事件の謎	Jiken no Nazo	Mystery of the Case	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	迷宮のラヴァーズ	Meikyū no Lovers	Lovers' Labyrinth	Meikyū no Lovers
14	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	事件現場３	Jiken Genba 3	Scene of the Case 3	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

Trivia

This is the first episode in which two suspects are affected from GSA, the other being Wedding Eve.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	زيارة خاطفة	Flying visit
Basque	Diplomatikoaren hilketa	Murder of a diplomat
Catalan (Catalonia dub)	L'assassinat d'un diplomàtic	Murder of a diplomat
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat d'un diplomàtic	Murder of a diplomat
French	Meurtre d'un diplomate	Murder of a Diplomat
Galician	O diplomático asasinado	The murdered diplomat
German	Der Giftmord	Murder by Poisoning
Italian	Il diplomatico	The Diplomat
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Muerte de un diplomático	Murder of a diplomat
Spanish (American dub)	La muerte de un diplomático	Murder of a Diplomat
Vietnamese	Vụ án giết nhà ngoại giao	Diplomat Murder Case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมนักการทูต	Diplomat Murder Case

See also

• Season 2