Ai Haibara Imprisonment Case

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Episode 768 (Int. Episode 821)
Information
Title:	Ai Haibara Imprisonment Case
Japanese title:	灰原哀監禁事件 (Haibara Ai Kankin Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 21, 2015 March 18, 2023 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	10.3%
Remastered rating:	6.3%
Filler case:	#234
Season:	24
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Canned juice Terrarium (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Masaki Tsuji
Storyboard:	Shigenori Kageyama
Episode director:	Nobuharu Kamanaka
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Tomoko Fukunaga Chiemi Hironaka Kenichi Otomo
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Chafurin as Juzo Megure Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Haruhi Nanao as Mitsuru Higaki Junichi Sugawara as Liquor store owner
Music
Opening song:	DYNAMITE
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso

Ai Haibara Imprisonment Case (灰原哀監禁事件 ,Haibara Ai Kankin Jiken) is the 768th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

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

Gadgets

Gadgets
Detective Boys Badge

Case

Situation

The Detective Boys are wandering the streets in the residential area around Professor Agasa's house, worrying about Haibara, who has gone missing since she went shopping several hours ago. At first, Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi are wondering whether Haibara has become the victim of a traffic accident, but then Conan finds a cat's shawl lying on the street. Seeing this, he remembers how he, Haibara and the Professor recently met a friendly young woman named Mitsuru Higaki, along with her pet cat Chiro, who wore the shawl, and her Indian Star Tortoise.

Searching the vicinity for Chiro, they find the kitten inside a well in a park, but when they try to return it, Mrs. Higaki does not answer the doorbell, so they take the cat back to Agasa's house to feed it. After contacting Chiba to learn whether there have been any accidents in the area none have, Conan tries to contact Haibara through her badge, but to no avail. And it's no small wonder, since at that very moment Haibara awakes to find both herself and Mrs. Higaki inside a darkened living room, solidly tied and gagged.

Robbery and Kidnapping

Location: Higaki Residence Victims: Ai Haibara and Mitsuru Higaki Age: 35 years old (Mitsuru) Suspects: Unknown As Mitsuri Higaki recounts later, she was assaulted in her home and left tied up to a post while the culprit robbed her house. And as the TV was running, she also helplessly witnessed the news about the murder of her husband. Haibara was later brought into the living room as well and left tied to a chair, close to the post Mrs. Higaki was handcuffed to.

As soon as her situation becomes clear and she has realized that she has been out for five hours, Haibara remembers how she came by after concluding her shopping and spotted Chiro struggling with his shawl, which was wrapped around the leg of a telephone table. When she attempted to free the kitten, she was suddenly grabbed from behind and chloroformed, never getting a chance to see her attacker's face. Then she notices that the TV set in the room is running on silent mode, in which a newsflash appears that announces the murder of Naoshi Higaki, Mrs. Higaki's husband.

Murder
	Location: Chitose, Hokkaido Victim: Naoshi Higaki Age: 42 years old Naoshi Higaki was travelling to Chitose, on a business trip, when he was murdered under unknown circumstances.

People

Mitsuru Higaki
	Victim (kidnapped) 35 years old Housewife

Naoshi Higaki
	Victim (murdered) 42 years old Businessman Mitsuru's husband

Chiro
	Mitsuru's pet cat

Woman
	TV news announcer

Man A
	Liquor store owner

Man B
	Driver

Resolution

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Mitsuru Higaki committed the kidnapping in order to use Haibara as an alibi witness. She and Naoshi were about to get divorced, and she murdered him just to keep herself away from the bad side of the impending complications. She chose Haibara because she had noticed how intelligent and strong-willed the girl was.

In order to facilitate the deception, Mitsuru purchased a new apartment house in the Airport Village and decorated it identically to her own living room, thus creating the illusion that she and Haibara were held captive in her home, which would be too far away for her to get to Hokkaido, commit the murder, and return in time. With the fake apartment close to the airport, Mitsuru was able to use the five hour interval in which Haibara was unconscious to fly to Chitou, murder her husband and return to transport Haibara back to her own house. The terrarium with her Star Turtle served as the chief implement to make Haibara believe that she was actually imprisoned in Mitsuru's house.

The decisive pieces of evidence are:

• The fact that the wine delivery man rang the doorbell to Mitsuru's apartment six times in rapid succession, but Haibara heard the bell ringing, which actually originated from a prepared recording, only twice, and at a much slower pace;
• The floor in the fake apartment has a shifted floor, due to jerry-building, poorly executed construction. That fact was noted in a newspaper article featuring Airport Village. Conan stumbles upon that clue after Haibara remembers the odd way the soda can on the table rolled around as she was chloroformed the second time.

After the case, they found someone to adopt Chiro and the tortoise.

Trivia

• The truck is a 1999 Toyota Dyna. The license plate number is 新宿 400, い 23-61 (Shinjuku 400, I 23-61).

BGM Listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
0:01 - 0:24	悪巧み	Warudakumi	Intrigue	Detective Conan "Dimensional Sniper" Original Soundtrack
0:25 - 0:29
2:32 - 2:52	ディスティニー アイランド	Disutinii Airando	Destiny Island	Detective Conan "Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure" Original Soundtrack
3:19 - 3:49	犯人（スナイパー）の正体	Hannin (Sunaipā) no Shōtai	The Culprit's (Sniper's) Identity	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
5:43 - 6:18	悪巧み	Warudakumi	Intrigue	Detective Conan "Dimensional Sniper" Original Soundtrack
6:19 - 6:43	アンダーアイス	Andā Aisu	Under Ice	Detective Conan "Quarter of Silence" Original Soundtrack
6:44 - 6:59
7:24 - 7:40	照準	Shōjun	Alignment	Detective Conan "Dimensional Sniper" Original Soundtrack
8:04 - 8:30	船上サスペンスE	Senjō Sasupensu E	Shipboard Suspense E	Detective Conan "Private Eye in the Distant Sea" Original Soundtrack
9:25 - 9:48	スズランの花	Suzuran no Hana	The Lily of the Valley Flower	Detective Conan "The Raven Chaser" Original Soundtrack
10:49 - 11:46	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
11:47 - 11:57	古城の探索	Kojō no Tansaku	Exploration of the Old Castle	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
12:06 - 12:46	黄色い直感１	Kiiroi Chokkan 1	Yellow Instinct 1	Detective Conan "The Raven Chaser" Original Soundtrack
13:33 - 14:38	「何だこの痕跡は？」	"Nanda Kono Konseki wa?"	"What Is This a Trace Of?"	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
14:55 - 16:20	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16:26 - 16:56	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
17:06 - 18:40	ダウンネイル	Daun Neiru	Nail Down	Detective Conan "The Lost Ship in the Sky" Original Soundtrack
18:59 - 19:15	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
19:33 - 20:49	サスベージュ	Sasu Bēju	Beige Suspense	Detective Conan "The Lost Ship in the Sky" Original Soundtrack
22:11 - 22:48
22:49 - 23:44	ディープ ブルー メモリー	Diipu Burū Memorii	Deep Blue Memory	Detective Conan "Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure" Original Soundtrack

Quotes

Even if the owner commits a crime, the animal is innocent.
(飼い主が犯人でも、動物に罪はないもんな。)

—Conan Edogawa

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'Ai, retinguda contra la seva voluntat	Ai, hold prisoner against her will
Thai	คดีไฮบาระ ไอ ที่ถูกกักขัง	Ai Haibara Imprisonment Case
Vietnamese	Vụ án giam cầm Haibara Ai

See also

• Season 24