Ski Lodge Murder Case

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Episode 84-85 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Ski Lodge Murder Case
Japanese title:	スキーロッジ殺人事件 (Sukii Rojji Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	December 8, 1997 (Part 1) December 15, 1997 (Part 2)
Season:	4
Manga source:	Volume 14: File 9 (139) ~ Volume 15: File 3 (143)
English version
English title:	Massacre Night
Dubbed episode:	Episode 87-88
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Professor Agasa
Case solved by:	Ran Mouri (via Shinichi Kudo)
Next Conan's Hint:	Heater (Part 1) Hair (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	84 Kazuo Nogami 85 Kenji Kodama
Storyboard:	84 Kazuo Nogami 85 Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	84 Izumi Shimura 85 Yoshihiro Shimizu
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Mikiko Maki as Akiko Yonehara Ryuji Mizuno as Kohei Shimoda Ryuichi Nakamura as Ryuichi Sakai Miki Yamazaki as Minori Nakamura Ryûzaburô Otomo as Atsushi Mori Wataru Takagi as Local man, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Professor Agasa Shinichi Kudo (voice) Gin (background) Vodka (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Earring Cellphone

Case

Situation

Part 1

Ran, Sonoko, and Conan run into their old third grade teacher, Akiko Yonehara, who invites them to spend the night at a Mountain Villa with her co-workers, who are taking a small weekend trip. A mysterious journalist arrives and tells them that a massacre similar to three years before will happen that night... and true to the man's words, people are attacked with different results. Can Conan help find the clues before too much damage occurs?

Attempted Murder
	Location: Ski Lodge - 1F (Yonehara's room) Victim: Akiko Yonehara Suspects: Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori While Sonoko is making the beds, she hears the sound of Yonehara's glasses falling on the floor in the next room. She goes in there, only to find Yonehara unconscious on the floor!

Attempted Murder
	Location: Ski Lodge - 1F (Yonehara's room) Victim: Sonoko Suzuki Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori Sonoko tries to check on Yonehara, but the culprit appears from behind the door and first uses anesthetic to put her to sleep, then attempts to strangle her with rope!

Murder
	Location: Ski Lodge - Front Door Victim: Sugiyama Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Akiko Yonehara, Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori When the doorbell rings, the group goes to the front door... only to find Sugiyama's body fall down in front of their eyes, covered in snow!

Part 2

Conan is unable to figure out how a piece of rope disappeared, but when he figures out who is wearing something VERY special in his/her person, he realizes that the person has killed two people on the same night. Using Ran to reveal the secret by using his own voice, Shinichi reveals the information to everyone present, but the revelation will shock everyone involved, especially Ran and Sonoko.

Murder

Location: Ski Lodge - 2F (Shimoda's Room) Victim: Kohei Shimoda Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Akiko Yonehara, Ryuichi Sakai, and Minori Nakamura Both Nakamura and Yonehara hear a voice coming from a cellphone from Shimoda's room and went to ask him to shut it off. They discover that he's been murdered! As Conan has been sitting at the stairway for entire night, he thinks that one of the three teachers on the second floor must be the murderer ans still has the weapon with his/herself. However, after a body search, the weapon is not found!

With Agasa's help, and right before making the big revelation, Conan is able to get very important information about a certain "Minako" person...

Suicide? (Past)
	Location: Haido Elementary School - Volleyball Club Room Victim: Minako Mochizuki Cause of death: Hanging Three years ago, a pre-teenage girl named Minako was found hanged in the Volleyball Club Room. Back then, it was speculated that she commited suicide out of stress from an exam, probably the one for junior high.

People

Akiko Yonehara
	Victim (beaten - injured) 30 years old Haido Elementary School teacher

Kohei Shimoda
	Victim (strangled) 30 years old Haido Elementary School teacher

Ryuichi Sakai
	29 years old Haido Elementary School P.E. teacher

Minori Nakamura
	27 years old Haido Elementary School nurse

Sugiyama
	Victim (strangled) Haido Elementary School music teacher

Atsushi Mori
	37 years old Newspaper reporter

Minako Mochizuki
	Deceased (suicide by hanging) Haido Elementary School student

Resolution

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The killer is Akiko Yonehara, inspired by the death of little Minako Mochizuki. Minako had found out that Sugiyama and another teacher (Shimoda, but she didn't tell his name to Yonehara) were involved in a fraud, and added that she was planning to confront the unnamed teacher. The poor girl was found hanged in the school gym few days later, and while everyone thought Minako had commited suicide under the effect of stress over the upcoming exams, Yonehara deduced that she had been killed by Sugiyama and his accomplice.

Knowing the identity of only one of Minako's two murderers, Yonehara organized the trip to gather the teachers that she knew Minako was a fan of. She first killed Sugiyama and left his body hidden outside the lodge to freeze and trick people in regards to the time of his death. Later, she attacked Sonoko to have an alibi, then immediately afterwards pretended to be a victim as well (using Sugiyama's body to such effects - that's the corpse Sonoko actually saw before being attacked), and used her lipstick to spell out Minako's name in all of these cases. Shimoda's panicked reaction upon realizing the last detail revealed his involvment to her, so she tricked him into meeting up with her and killed him as well.

The murder weapon was Yonehara's wig: she had cut her hair too short for her liking a while ago and hid it via a very long wig, and then decided to use it to strangle her victims (excluding Sonoko as seen in the picture) without leaving clues. Ran says that there were small bloody scratches on the dead Shimoda's neck, and that there are be some droplets of his blood in the wig...

Once she's uncovered, Yonehara takes off the wig. She admits her responsability for the crimes and says she couldn't forgive teachers who betray students and injure/kill them, but then she adds she's no one to talk because she harmed Sonoko to make her trick work.

Ran, whose emotional state had slowly taken a nosedive as Conan relayed the deductions to her, gets ready to leave the room, barely reacting to Moori telling her that he'll write a great article on "her" deductions. She sees Conan standing outside the hall, ready to "tell" her that Shinichi is gone; before he can do so, she falls to her knees and hugs him tearfully. Two hours later the snowstorm stops, and the police arrives.

Manga to anime changes

• The reason why Conan refrains from knocking out Ran is due to her nearly finding out his identity in The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases. The anime omits this reason as it places the two stories in a different order.

Dub changes

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

• Akiko Yonehara - Anne Preston
• Kohei Shimoda - Paul Keen
• Ryuichi Sakai - Brett Shore
• Minori Nakamura - Shelly Tilton
• Sugiyama - Larry Sullivan
• Atsushi Mori - Drake Ziegman
• Minako Mochizuki - Moreen Manahan

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	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
3	蘭・愛のテーマ （ギターver.）	Ran・Ai no Tēma (Gitā ver.)	Ran's Love Theme (Guitar ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	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
5	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
8	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	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	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
11	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
7	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
8	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	犯人のアジト	Hannin no Ajito	The Culprit's Hideout	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
10	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
11	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
12	コナンの夢 （夕暮れver.）	Konan no Yume (Yūgure ver.)	Conan's Dream (Twilight ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	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
14	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
15	コナンの夢	Konan no Yume	Conan's Dream	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Vietnamese	Vụ án giết người trong căn biệt thự trên núi tuyết	Mansion on the Snow Mountain Murder Case
Arabic	العاصفة	The Storm

The Arabic dub faced some controversy over juvenile suicide as portrayed in Episode 26, as it was linked to various real-life juvenile suicides in the region, alleged by local mainstream media as an imitation of what happened in the episode. As a result, this episode was significantly delayed from broadcast, and aired eventually with substantial changes to the ending to remove that aspect. In the Arabic version plot, all the teachers are ski instructors except for the killer, Minako is the killer's little long-haired brother, who fell in a snow hole during ski practice and none of his instructors helped him get out of the hole, out of cowardice, watching him as he is buried alive by snow. However, parts of the Minako flashback scene with girl Minako hanged from the ceiling were still left in clashing with the spoken dialogue.

See also

• Season 4