The Threat to Megure's Police Career

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Episode 1049 (Int. Episode 1106)
Information
Title:	The Threat to Megure's Police Career
Japanese title:	目暮、刑事人生の危機 (Megure, Keiji Jinsei no Kiki)
Original airdate:	July 9, 2022
Broadcast rating:	5.7%
Filler case:	#370
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Clay
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Sumito Sasaki
Episode director:	Sumito Sasaki
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Yuka Sato Zhang Yi Cui Junxiang Studio CL
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Rei Masunaga (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	Studio Leo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Keiko Komyoji as Yasuko Chikaba Masaki Nakanishi as Officer Kawai Motoki Sakuma as Police officer Masami Kikuchi as Kyosuke Temukai
Music
Opening song:	SPARKLE
Closing song:	Karappo no Kokoro

The Threat to Megure's Police Career (目暮、刑事人生の危機 ,Megure, Keiji Jinsei no Kiki) is the 1049th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Several days ago, Iwao Yamakabe was found dead at Tenma. The police then try to contact his family, but he seems to live alone. When a police officer arrives at his house at Hikaridai, he is surprised to find the living room have signs of scuffle, and the money inside the safe had been stolen. When a vase with Yamakabe's blood found at the scene, the police conclude that Yamakabe was murdered at his house around 7:00 p.m.

Murder
	Location: Yamakabe's house? Victim: Iwao Yamakabe Age: 56 years old Time: 7:00 p.m. Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Kyosuke Temukai

Two days after the case, the police found the main suspect: Kyosuke Temukai. Megure recognizes him from a murder case happened three ago, where Temukai, who worked at a government office, was one of the suspects. At that time, to prove his innocence, he confessed that he had been secretly meeting a certain businessman. However, his government office learned about the meeting, and he was fired. Currently, he operates a publishing company, where he try to get close to successful people and make them write autobiographies. Yamakabe is one of those people, and it seems he was avoiding Temukai.

The police later come to Temukai's apartment. Temukai says that he was working alone at the time of the murder. Megure then mentions that Temukai had detroyed his own car in a one-car accident on the morning after the murder. However, Temukai keep insisting that he didn't kill Yamakabe. Despite the lack of evidence, Megure is willing to risk his career before the chief section, and proceed to arrest Temukai. However, the next morning, after the news reported the arrest, Yasuko Chikaba comes to the police station and confesses that she had a meeting with Temukai at her house in Tenma from the evening until around 9:00 p.m. That is the moment when Megure knows that he has fallen into Temukai's plan. Megure then goes to Mouri detective agency, and tells Conan and Kogoro the full story. Kogoro decides to help Megure.

People

Iwao Yamakabe
	Victim (bludgeoned) 56 years old Birthday: July 9th Import goods distributor

Kyosuke Temukai
	38 years old Publishing company operator Former government office employee

Yasuko Chikaba
	57 years old Supermarket manager

Officer Kawai
	Police officer from Hikaridai West police box

Resolution

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Megure makes a plan, saying that Kogoro knows where to find the physical evidence near Kyosuke Temukai, forcing him to go to the location where he disposed the actual weapon. When he finds the weapon is still there, he planned to disposed it into the sea, but he quickly got busted. The events of how Temukai murdered Yamakabe are:

• First, he threatened Yamakabe so that he opened the safe.
• After making Yamakabe fall asleep, he make a mold using clay and the vase, and make the actual weapon using steel rod and UV resin.
• He attached Yamakabe's blood and hair to the vase, ransacked the room, and carried the sleeping Yamakabe to his car.
• He went to Chikaba's house while Yamakabe is still sleeping.
• Around 7:00 p.m., he left Chikaba's house, saying that he was going to buy cigarettes. However, he went to his car and murdered Yamakabe using the actual weapon.
• Later, he dumped Yamakabe's body, disposed the actual weapon, and called the police so that the body can be found quickly.
• In order to get rid any signs that the car is the actual murder scene, he destroyed his car in an accident.

Trivia

• This episode is the first one where TMS is credited along with Studio 1.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	La Carrière de Megure en danger	Megure career in danger
Thai	เมงูเระเผชิญวิกฤติชีวิตตำรวจ	Megure faces a threat to his police career
Vietnamese	Mối đe doạ đối với sự nghiệp cảnh sát của Megure

See also

• Season 31