White Day of Betrayal (裏切りのホワイトデー ,Uragiri no Howaito Dē?) is the 608th and 609th episode of Detective Conan anime.
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Part 1
Kogoro appears in a commercial to promote white chocolate for White Day and is invited to the chocolate company's White Day party. Kogoro, Ran, and Conan attend and are introduced to the company presidents, Taruto Urai and his wife Hoshie Urai. During the party, Taruto collapses. At first thought to be one of his practical jokes, Conan quickly notices that Taruto has died from cyanide poisoning.
| Suicide?
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| Location:
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Haido City Hotel
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| Victim:
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Taruto Urai
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| Age:
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53 years old
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| Cause of death:
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Cyanide poisoning
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| Suspects:
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Hoshie Urai
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| Taruto Urai collapsed on the floor during the White day party.
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Inspector Megure and his officers are called to investigate the death. The investigation leads Hoshie to be the prime suspect. As she is taken away to be searched, Hoshie trips and falls on a table causing many lemon tea glasses to shatter. Meanwhile, evidence of a medicinal wafer containing poison is found in Urai's mouth, suggesting suicide.
Part 2
Despite all appearing to be a suicide case, Conan is certain that Hoshie is the culprit and investigates on how she delivered the poison to her husband, finally finding several pieces of critical evidence and exposing her.
People
Resolution
Conan discovers that the burn marks on Hoshie's napkin indicate that cyanide was on the napkin and the poison was placed on a lemon slice. Conan elaborately explains how Taruto was famously known to hate sour things, and had planned to surprise his guest by eating sour food with the use of
synsepalum dulcificum, which would temporarily reorganize his taste buds to accept sour food as sweet. Upon testing if the synsepalum dulcificum was still in effect, Taruto ate the poisoned lemon slice. While down on the ground after her "accidental" stumble, Hoshie took the lemon and placed the medicinal wafer in her husband's mouth and hid the lemon slice among the others during her fall. Conan concludes that Hoshie's fingerprint and Taruto's saliva should be on the poisoned lemon slice.
| Suicide
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| Location:
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Boyfriend's house
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| Victim:
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Hoshie's boyfriend
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| Time:
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A few years ago
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| Cause of death:
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Hanging
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| He committed suicide when Taruto says that his cooking is bad.
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When confronted with the facts, Hoshie Urai confesses, revealing her motive is revenge for the death of her boyfriend who had started his apprenticeship along with her in Taruto's confectionery. During a competition, her boyfriend was clearly considered the prospective winner because of his outstanding sour confections, but Taruto, who favored Hoshie, decided to push him out of the race by claiming that his confections were way too sour. Devastated by this fake assessment, the boy had hung himself; Taruto's subsequent distaste for sour things resulted from his panging conscience for inadvertently having caused his apprentice's death. His guilt came to daylight after Hoshie had recently fed him a sour lemon cake, whereupon Taruto had collapsed and told everything.
On the way home, Ran is visibly saddened since she thinks she is the only one of her acquaintances not to have received a
White Day gift. She's about to cry when they get to the Agency, but is cheered up when she discovers a bag of white throat lozenge (
medicine candy for sore throats) left there. Said package is from Shinichi/Conan (who pretends to be the one who found it), and a note left with it says that during their last phone talk he noticed her voice was strained so he wants to help her feel better.
Trivia
- Episode 609 was originally scheduled to be aired on March 12, 2011. However, due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, it was postponed to March 19, 2011.
- The names of the suspects come from "fortune-telling"[1] :
- Taruto Urai (浦井 垂人) comes from "tarot fortune-telling" (タロット占い ,Tarotto Uranai?) and "tarts" (タルト ,taruto?), as related to his occupation ;
- Hoshie Urai (浦井 星江) comes from "horoscope" (星占い ,hoshiuranai?).
BGM listing
Part 1
Part 2
Gallery
In other languages
| Language |
Title |
Translation
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 Catalan (Catalan dub) |
La traïció del Dia Blanc |
The White Day betrayal
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 Indonesian (subbed) |
Pengkhianatan Hari Putih |
White Day of Betrayal
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 Italian |
Il caso agrodolce |
The bittersweet case
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 Thai |
วันไวท์เดย์แห่งการทรยศ |
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 Vietnamese |
Sự phản bội trong ngày Valentine trắng |
Betrayal on White Day
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References
See also
