Murderer, Shinichi Kudo

Chronology
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Episode 521-523 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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Information
Title:	Murderer, Shinichi Kudo (521) Shinichi's True Face and Ran's Tears (522) What She Truly Wants to Ask (533)
Original airdate:	January 19, 2009 (521) January 26, 2009 (522) February 2, 2009 (533)
Season:	17
Case
Cast:	Shinichi Kudo Heiji Hattori Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Heiji Hattori Shinichi Kudo
Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi (521-523)
Organizer:	Shigenori Kageyama (521) Yoshihisa Matsumoto (522) Yoshio Suzuki (533)
Storyboard:	Shigenori Kageyama (521) Yoshihisa Matsumoto (522) Yoshio Suzuki (533)
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa (521) Shigeru Yamazaki (522) Kouichirou Kuroda (533)
Animation director:	Rei Masunaga (521) Keiko Sasaki (521) Shinaki Saitou (522) Nobuyuki Iwai (522) Masakazu Yamazaki (522) Shunryo Yamamura (522) Michitaka Yamamoto (533) Masashi Hasegawa (533)
Music
Opening song:	Revive
Closing song:	Koigokoro kagayaki nagara

Cast

Characters
Shinichi Kudo Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Kazuha Toyama Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Subaru Okiya (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt

Plot

Murder, Shinichi Kudo

Cast

Characters
Shinichi Kudo Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Kazuha Toyama Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Subaru Okiya (background)

Situation

Heiji takes Kazuha, Kogoro, Ran, and Conan to East Okuho after receiving a letter from Makoto Okuda addressed to Shinichi; The letter tells Shinichi to meet with him so he could explain Shinichi's deduction mistake from his past investigation. Upon arrival, the group learns that Makoto has been missing for over a year; Conan separates from the group and heads to the meeting location disclosed in the letter and is subsequently trapped inside a shed by an unknown culprit. Conan realizes that he mistakenly took the antidote to the APTX 4869 in place of his cold medicine; He escapes through a window and falls into the river before becoming Shinichi again. Heiji and the others find an amnesic Shinichi by a shore; the villagers believe that the Shiragami, a deity living in the forest, cursed Shinichi resulting in his amnesia. Haibara tells Heiji that the antidote would wear off in 24 hours and if Shinichi still retains amnesia even after reverting back to Conan, his identity would be exposed. Heiji learns that Shinichi was called to investigate the murder of the mayor and his wife which was concluded to be a forced double suicide. A journalist named Misato Kawauchi threatens to reveal Shinichi's secret if he does not confess to faking his amnesia. The following day, Kawauchi is found with a knife wound with Shinichi beside her holding a knife.

Attempted Murder
	Victim: Misato Kawauchi Suspects: Shinichi Kudo

The group believing Shinichi is being framed, hides him from the authorities until they can prove his innocence. Heiji attempts to deduce how the culprit was able to frame Shinichi for the stabbing and believes it is related to the past case Shinichi solved.

Meanwhile, Ran runs into the forest hoping to confront the Shiragami to remove his curse on Shinichi but loses consciousness after falling off a cliff. Ran wakes up in a hut in the woods and discovers someone has treated the wounds from when she fell. Eventually, Kazuha finds Ran and calls Kogoro in. Heiji radios them from the next room. They all go over and find that the room is filled with pictures of Shinichi with knife marks in them. Heiji figures out the case, and they head back to Hinohara's house.

People

Makoto Okuda
	19 years old Brother of Tamako Okuda

Tamako Okuda
	Little Sister of Makoto Okuda

Kazuma Shiroyama
	46 years old Police officer

Daiki Hinohara
	Takinori and Shoko's son

Takinori Hinohara
	Deceased Village mayor Daiki's father

Shoko Hinohara
	Deceased Takinori's wife Daiki's mother

Moegi Hikawa
	19 years old Makoto's classmate

Misato Kawauchi
	Victim (stabbed) 36 years old Newspaper reporter

Policeman
	Police detective

Resolution

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Heiji figures out out that the Shinichi with the group is not the real Shinichi, but the supposedly missing Makoto. Makoto had undergone plastic surgery to look like Shinichi and faked the amnesia in order to frame Shinichi in revenge for his previous deduction that the deaths of his adoptive parents was actually a murder-suicide instead of a burglary. He attacked the reporter because she knew the truth about who he really was and would have outed him. The Shirigami that Ran encountered in the woods enters the room during Heiji's explanation and reveals that he is the real Shinichi, and had been hiding out in the woods disguised as the Shirigami while keeping an eye on everyone to prevent Makoto from reacting violently if he were to appear and ruin his plans.

The crime one year previously that Shinichi had solved and was hated for was explained in full: he wasn't wrong in his deduction, but he did lie about the motive. The mayor did kill his wife and himself, not because he was terminally ill like Shinichi had told everyone, but because he discovered that the child he believed to be his son was actually the result of an affair his wife had. Makoto was told this, but he was in such a state of shock at the time that it didn't register.

After Makoto is arrested, Ran, Heiji, Shinichi, Kazuha, and Kogoro walk back toward the hotel. Before they can reach it, APTX 4869 starts to wear off, and Heiji helps Shinichi escape to the bathroom to change back. Haibara had been hiding there, and she gave Shinichi another antidote. Then, she says to return to Tokyo before he changes back if he wishes to keep his identity a secret.

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What She Truly Wants to Ask

Cast

Characters
Shinichi Kudo Heiji Hattori Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Kazuha Toyama Miwako Sato Wataru Takagi Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Conan Edogawa

Situation

The group are all heading home in Kogoro's rental car, when they discover a man who was strangled within his car on the highway. They stop to investigate.

Murder
	Location: Highway Victim: Gunpei Furuki Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Riko Mizuhashi, Atsuo Chuda, and Futoshi Shimodori

The police are able to stop traffic by ordering a toll gate to refuse cars passage. Shinichi and Heiji reveal that the victim died while driving evidenced by his body temperature. They are able to narrow the list of suspects to three people by examining the time on their toll tickets and matching it with the victims. The three suspects reveal that the victim was a famous street racer who went under the name Gunpei who quit racing when he caused the death of a man named Akira during a race. The three each have a motive for the murder. Shinichi and Heiji notice that there are holes in the car window by the side of the driver's seat and realize how the murder is done.

People

Riko Mizuhashi
	25 years old

Atsuo Chuda
	34 years old

Futoshi Shimodori
	48 years old

Gunpei Furuki
100px	Victim (strangled) 32 years old

Resolution

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Shinichi and Heiji both reveal that the culprit is Riko Mizuhashi, Akira's girlfriend. They explain that Riko gave Gunpei sleeping pills forcing Gunpei to pull over and sleep in a rest stop. While asleep, Mizuhashi drilled holes into Gunpei's window and set up a fishing line through the holes and looped it around Gunpei's neck. After Gunpei wakes up and begins to drive, Mizuhashi drove up beside him and signaled to him that she has something to tell him. Gunpei lowers his window which causes the fishing line to tighten around his neck and causes his death. Mizuhashi confesses and reveals Furuki challenged Akira a race but in the race there was a storm that it must not be a conditions of a race causing Akira's car swept by the slippery floor and feel in the depths of the valley where the race happened and died with his hands clinched to the steering wheel. After solving the murder, the antidote to the APTX 4869 begins to wear off and Shinichi begins to change back to Conan; He attempts to seclude himself for the transformation but Ran grabs onto his hand and refuses to let go.

Resolution

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See also

• Season 17