Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case

Chronology
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Episode 34-35 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case
Japanese title:	山荘包帯男殺人事件 (Sansō Hōtai Otoko Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	October 21, 1996 (Part 1) October 28, 1996 (Part 2)
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 5: Files 1-5 (040-044)
English version
English title:	Mountain Villa Murder
Dubbed episode:	Episode 35-36
English airdate:	July 21, 2004 (Part 1) July 22, 2004 (Part 2)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Ayako Suzuki
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Piano wire (Part 1) Curtain (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	34 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 35 Masato Sato
Storyboard:	34 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 35 Masato Sato
Episode director:	34 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 35 Masato Sato
Animation director:	34 Keiko Sasaki 35 Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Norihiro Inoue as Masaru Ohta Tetsuo Goto as Hiroki Sumiya Man Katou as Ryoichi Takahashi Sumiko Motoi as Ayako Suzuki Jun Karasawa as Chikako Ikeda Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Characters introduced

Ayako Suzuki
	24 years old Sonoko's older sister

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan and Ran visit Sonoko's mountain villa to see the autumn leaves and meet up with some old friends. On the way to the front they see a strange bandaged man in a dark cloak crossing the bridge. When they see him he turns around, shocking them with his face and eye contact as he quickly makes a retreat around the side of the house. Everything seems fine as Ran tries to find her room, accidentally walking in on the boys of the house. When everyone is asked about the bandaged man he is brushed off as possibly a crazy man with nothing better to do. However he is taken far more seriously when later one of the girls is seen being carried off by him from the windows, the boys give chase and find her dismembered body in the woods.

Murder

Location: Suzuki's mountain villa Victim: Chikako Ikeda Cause of death: Decapitation Suspects: Masaru Ohta, Hiroki Sumiya and Ryoichi Takahashi The boys are after the bandaged man when they saw him carrying Chikako's body from outside. While they're in the woods, Ryoichi got freaked out when he found Chikako's arm. When Hiroki found Chikako, he raised her body, but her head falls apart. Now Hiroki screams!

He had previously attacked Ran in the woods earlier, but ran off when Conan gave chase. Everyone panics and decides that it's best to go to bed for the night, when he strikes again, this time trying to kill Ran in her sleep. Conan kicks Ran out of the way, using his bow-tie to wake her up, she freezes up as Conan grabs for him, but he is thrown against the bed, twisting his ankle. The bandaged man quickly makes a hasty retreat, leaving Conan to wonder why he is targeting Ran.

Part 2

Everyone decides to stay up for the night and keep together to throw off the murderous man in bandages. Conan suspects that Ran saw something that made her a target for the bandaged man, and the culprit is one of the people staying there. The rush for remembrance is on as Conan desperately tries to solve the mystery before the bandaged man strikes again.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Suzuki's mountain villa Victim: Ran Mouri Suspects: Masaru Ohta, Hiroki Sumiya and Ryoichi Takahashi

People

Masaru Ohta
	24 years old Foreign car broker

Hiroki Sumiya
	25 years old Film magazine editor

Ryoichi Takahashi
	25 years old Food Product Corporation employee

Chikako Ikeda
	Victim (decapitated) 24 years old Screenwriter

Atsuko Tokumoto
	Deceased (suicide by hanging) Prospect screenwriter

Resolution

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Using Sonoko's persona to express his thoughts, Conan unravels the whole mystery of the murder and attempted murder. Revealing the heavier set of the men was not really heavy set! Ran saw this when she walked in on him, making her a target to cover his tracks (he hid part of the body under himself so that Conan would not think that the medium builded bandaged man was him).

The culprit is Ryoichi Takahashi. Takahashi tries to explain that Chikako Ikeda deserved her horrible death, as she stole the manuscript of her friend Atsuko's book and turned it into her own movie, causing poor Atsuko (whom he was in love with) to commit suicide. After he tries to explain why it was noble to do this, Conan (as Sonoko) tells him that trying to kill Ran was never noble and that it was not something someone valiant would do. Realizing his mistake, the man falls to the ground in sorrow and regret for what he has done as the sun comes out, ridding them of the horrors of that cold night.

Manga to anime changes

• The manga version of this story was the first appearance of Sonoko Suzuki (while in the anime she made her debut in Valentine Murder Case), as well as the first time that Conan solved a murder through her (which in the anime was first done in A June Bride Murder Case). The manga version established that she never met Conan until now.
• The anime version ends with Ran bringing up Sonoko's deduction of the case. Conan is worried as his cover might be blown, only for Sonoko to accept the credit for solving the murder. The manga placed this at the beginning of the Karaoke Box Murder Case.

See also

• Season 2