A Woman Standing by the Window

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Episode 929-930 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	A Woman Standing by the Window
Japanese title:	窓辺にたたずむ女 (Madobe ni tatazumu onna)
Original airdate:	February 2, 2019 (Part 1) February 9, 2019 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	8.4% (Part 1) 9.7% (Part 2)
Filler case:	#308
Season:	27
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ai Haibara Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Picture frame (Part 1) Gloves (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Sumio Watanabe
Episode director:	929: Koichiro Kuroda 930: Hiroaki Takagi
Animation director:	929: Seiji Muta (Supervisor)  Michitaka Yamamoto, Kaoru Nagakawa and Shigenori Taniguchi  930: Seiji Muta (Supervisor) Akiko Motoyoshi, Kenichi Otomo, Keiko Sasaki, Michitaka Yamamoto, Ayu Imoto, Masanori Hashimoto, Ken Araya, Hideyuki Motohashi, Asuka Tsubuki, Hiromi Muranaka, Miho Tanaka, Mina Otaka and Kanako Ono
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (Design works)  Rei Masunaga
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi  Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya  Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Chafurin as Juzo Megure Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Ryoka Yuzuki as Saki Midorikawa  Urara Takano as Tatsuko Dojima Shinnosuke Tachibana as Junnosuke Tachibana Hiro Yuki as Michiyo Konno (Daihachi Numagaki) Mitsuru Ogata as Kyoichi Ogi Takaaki Uchino as Clerk Haruka Jinya as Resident A Emiko Takeuchi as Resident B Hiroko Nishi as Hiroe Omori Yuka Iwahashi as Towa Akabane
Music
Opening song:	Barairo no Jinsei
Closing song:	Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai

A Woman Standing by the Window (窓辺にたたずむ女 ,Madobe ni tatazumu onna) is the 929th and the 930th episodes of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ai Haibara Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Elasticity Suspenders

Case

Part 1

One day, as Ayumi runs in the street, she hurts herself when she falls so a lady walking nearby, Saki Midorikawa, goes to help her and bring her home in her apartment to heal her and offers her orange juice. Ayumi thought she was nice. Saki then went to the window to smoke and look over the building in front of hers.

Accident
	Location: Beika City Victim: Driver Injury: Car crash After the Detective Boys leave Saki, they think about solving a case and just at the same moment, a car out of control parades in the street before crashing in the building next to the gym where Saki trains.

Attempted murder
	Location: Crossroad Victim: Saki Midorikawa Age: 28 years old Attack types: Vehicle-Ramming Culprit: Michiyo Konno (Daihachi Numagaki) Just after going to the sports center, Saki returns home and waits at a streetlight before being pushed by Daihachi Numagaki and yells. The Detective Boys hear what happens and go help her. She nearly got ran over by a truck.

Murder

Location: Residential building Victim: Saki Midorikawa Age: 28 years old Cause of death: Falling from top of the building Suspects: Tatsuko Dojima, Junnosuke Tachibana, and Michiyo Konno (Daihachi Numagaki) The next morning, Ogi is standing outside the building waving goodbye to residents and sees Dojima searching for something on the floor. As she says she hasn't find it, Saki's corpse fall from the top of the building before crashing down.

Part 2

The next day, the Detective Boys head to the crime scene and meet Megure, Takagi, and Chiba who are intrigued by their presence. They also meet Naka Nakabayashi, who tells them she witnessed Saki being pushed by someone the day before but that she didn't know who it was and that she's had enough of crimes before leaving the scene. They also see Towa Akabane, who lives in room 202, who just returned from a trip and that sees the crime scene too before heading to her room in disgust. Tatsuko Dojima, who witnessed Saki falling asks the police to leave since she's exhausted and returns home. Tachibana and Konno also head home after visiting the crime scene thinking Midorikawa committed suicide. The Detective Boys explain the situation to the police and tell them she was most likely murdered and that there are three suspicious people who looked highly towards her. Megure agrees to visit the three to interrogate them and Ogi opens the automatic door for them. At Tachibana's room, they interrogate him to find out he received a threathening letter from Saki about not telling anything to the police which rises the police's suspicions before Tachibana reveals he's in fact bald and that he hides it under a wig. He tells he has an alibi since he was at the bar at the time the attempted murder was committed and that when he took off his wig in front of the bay window, Saki saw his bald head and sent him the letter the next day. Second suspect was Michiyo Konno who reveals to the police she's in fact a man named Daihachi Numagaki and that to avoid being arrested for murder, he'll reveal his criminal acts. He is the one who pushed her in the street but he didn't kill her and that Saki has seen him as a man through his window while he was drinking beer and taking off his disguise. He wanted to scare her so he pushed her to hide the fact he was pretending to be Michiyo Konno and that he was frauding the trading firm. He is arrested by the police for attempted murder and fraud and says he was at home when she was killed and that he also received the letter. He replies negatively as the police ask him if he drugged her before pushing her since sleeping pills were found in her body and tells that he didn't drug her. Genta then agrees that he must be the culprit but Conan wonders about the letter and the phone call. Ayumi adds that Saki must have seen the culprit's secrets while she was over since after all she said: "So, they seem to have a friend over!". Conan asks what friend it might be and Mitsuhiko thinks that maybe Saki thought Daihachi was someone else since he was dressed in a different way. At the same time, a police car comes and Towa Akabane heads out of the building running towards the cops and yeling that she's the one from room 202 who called for the police and that she was robbed while she was travelling and that all her jewels were gone when she returned. Conan remebers the lady passing in front of the crime scene and thinks about the friend Saki mentionned which make him deduce something and he runs to Saki's apartment with the rest of the Detective Boys behind.

Robbery
	Location: Building Victim: Towa Akabane Age: 26 years old Robbed items: Jewelry Suspects: Residents of the building Towa Akabane had been robbed all her jewelries while travelling and her apartment was ransacked.

Blackmail
	Location: Beika Victim: Tatsuko Dojima, Michiyo Konno, and Junnosuke Tachibana Age: 43 years old (Tatsuko), 24 years old (Michiyo), and 33 years old (Junnosuke) Time: 3 years ago until now Culprit: Saki Midorikawa Saki had blackmailed people she's seen from the window since three years ago to pay off her boyfriend's debt.

When they arrived to the apartment, Hiroe Omori, the landlady, led them in with Takagi also. From the balcony of Saki's room in her apartment, Conan notices he can see all the apartments of the residential building ending with "2" and sees Akabane in her room talking with the police. The Detective Boys then conclude Saki must have seen the thief of Akabane since she doesn't work in the morning. Haibara notices the apartment is rather simple for someone blackmailing people and Ayumi sees a picture frame with someone holding Saki, probably her boyfriend. They learn from the landlady that the boyfriend left Saki three years ago because he couldn't leave out of his debts and left them to Saki. Conan realizes she started blackmailing people because she wanted to pay off her boyfriend's debts and that was why she lived rather modestly. Omori also says that Saki always believed her boyfriend would return to her someday and believed in him. She started to sit in the window so she'll be there to see him come back and always look everywhere around to see him return one day. Conan asks Omori if she had told anyone else and she says she had told a female detective about it last night and that that detective asked her to tell her all about it since her investigation about Saki was important. Conan then realizes who killed Saki and asks Takagi to return to the building so he'll expose the truth.

People

Saki Midorikawa
	Victim (fell) 28 years old Gym attendant Night club cabaret dancer

Tatsuko Dojima
	43 years old Social critic TV show commentator Lives in room 1107

Junnosuke Tachibana
	33 years old Beika Women's University professor Lives in room 102 In fact bald

Michiyo Konno
	24 years old Trading firm office worker Lives in room 302 Daihachi Numagaki's fake identity

Kyoichi Ogi
	58 years old Building manager

Naka Nakabayashi
	73 years old Elder Witness

Towa Akabane
	26 years old Lives in room 202 Rich traveller

Daihachi Numagaki
	32 years old Birthday: May 2nd Lives as Michiyo Konno Fraudster

Hiroe Omori
	60 years old Saki's apartment building landlady

Ryo Suenaga
	Saki's boyfriend Left three years ago

Resolution

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The culprit is Tatsuko Dojima. She was actually the one who robbed Towa Akabane's jewelry in order to "teach the latter a lesson" for flaunting her richness. However, Tatsuko became paranoid of Saki witnessing her crime due to the latter's habit of sitting by the window, waiting for her boyfriend who never came back. Fearing for Saki's reputation as a blackmailer in order to clean up her boyfriend's debt, Tatsuko plotted to murder her.

Murder method and evidence

• First, Tatsuko send blackmail letters to Junnosuke Tachibana and Michiyo Konno in order to increase potential suspects for the crime, and to incite one of them into murdering Saki for her, which Numagaki fell for. However, he failed, forcing Tatsuko to take the matter into her own hands.

• Tatsuko lured Saki to her room, pretending to have information about Saki's boyfriend. She then drugged her, placing her on the table on the balcony with ice blocks under it. Once the ice melted, the table will tilt and cause Saki to fall down to her doom. Gloves were planted to cause the police to think that the crime scene was the rooftop, and to provide reason why Saki's fingerprints were not found. Because she has an alibi during the time that Saki fell, Tatsuko would be excluded from the list of suspects by the police.

• Unfortunately for Tatsuko's, one of the weather balloons on the balcony was torn apart from the hanger and scratched Saki's neck fell, which provides a connection between her and the victim. Additionally, because Tatsuko is very confident about her trick, she is unlikely to have disposed all the incriminating evidences of the crime in her room, which are sure to be found once the police begin their search.

After hearing Tatsuko's motive rants, Conan, angered by Tatsuko's callous attitude, informs her that no matter the circumstance, she has no right to take away Saki's life as Saki, despite her hard time and sour personality/action, tried to remain kind and caring and return to being a good person she once was, which finally silences Tatsuko for good.

Trivia

• The car involved in the accident is a 2014 white Nissan Quest. The license plate is 新宿 な, 30-86 (Shinjuku Na, 30-86), although the Nissan logo was changed to Nittan to avoid product placements.
• We can see the names of different residents of the appartment building:

• 1st floor: Komatsu 小松 (101), Junnosuke Tachibana 立花 淳之介 (102), Sakamoto 坂本 (103);
• 2nd floor: Okada 岡田 (201), Towa Akabane 赤羽根 十和 (202), Otsuka 大塚 (203);
• 3rd floor: Nakajima 中島 (301), Michiyo Konno 今野 美千代 (302), Hasegawa 長谷川 (303);
• 4th floor: Takeda 武田 (401), Komiyama 小宮山 (402), Hashimoto 橋本 (403);
• 5th floor: Hamada 浜田 (501), Seto 瀬戸 (502), Takikawa 滝川 (503);
• 6th floor: Toyama 遠山 (602), Yanagisawa 柳沢 (602), Mayama 真山 (603), Yamada 山田 (604);
• 7th floor: Tsunoda 角田 (701), Terayama 寺山 (702), Kudo 工藤 (703), Kurosawa 黒澤 (704);
• 8th floor: Komi 国見 (802), Kobayashi 小林 (803), Numata 沼田 (804), Yamamoto 山本 (805);
• 9th floor: Saotome 早乙女 (902), Watanabe 渡辺 (903), Eto 江藤 (904), Tanaka 田中 (905), Hikawa 氷川 (906);
• 10th floor: Hisakawa 久川 (1002), Sato 佐藤 (1003), Sugiyama 杉山 (1004), Matsumoto 松本 (1005), Ogasawara 小笠原 (1006), Sasaki 佐々木 (1007), Uchida 内田 (1008);
• 11th floor: Harada 原田 (1103), Iwamoto 岩本 (1104), Suzumoto 鈴本 (1105), Shimizu 清水 (1106), Tatsuko Dojima 堂島多津子 (1107), Kato 加藤 (1108).

• Jun'nosuke Tachibana's name is just like the one from his voice actor Shin'nosuke Tachibana, although the character 淳 for Jun is different (慎 stands for Shin).
• The store TMS Mart where Saki enters is named after TMS entertainment, the main promoter of Detective Conan.
• The truck that almost ran over Saki Midorikawa is a white Hino 700 Series. The license plate is 新宿 100, い 87-46 (Shinjuku 100, I 87-46).
• One of the police cars parked in front of the building is the same as in The High School Girl Trio's Secret Café.
• Hiro Yuki, the male voice actor for Daihachi Numagaki and Michiyo Konno, surprisingly voices both a man and a woman, unusual since it is more recurring to see female voice actors voice male characters and that the opposite is more uncommon.
• The Romain painting in an apartment is from Amamiya Residence in The Detective Boys Get Out of the Rain, Takizawa Residence in The Beauty, The Lies, and The Secrets, and Setsuo Yamaga's apartment in Conan Kidnapped. Open spoiler box to see images.

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See also

• Season 27