The Worst Birthday

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Episode 589-590 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Worst Birthday
Japanese title:	最悪な誕生日 (Saiaku na Bāsudē)
Original airdate:	September 25, 2010 (Part 1) October 2, 2010 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	8,40% 9,00%
Season:	19
Manga source:	Volume 68: Files 2-4 (708-710)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Eri Kisaki Sango Yokomizo Midori Kuriyama Hideo Akagi Goro
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri
Next Conan's Hint:	Cola (Part 1) Health & Sports Day (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Organizer:	Shigenori Kageyama
Storyboard:	Shigenori Kageyama
Episode director:	589 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 590 Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	589 Nobuyuki Iwai, Tomomi Kamiya 590 Chiemi Hironaka
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Gara Takashima as Eri Kisaki Akio Otsuka as Sango Yokomizo Asako Dodo as Midori Kuriyama Harumi Asai as Akiko Kokubu
Music
Opening song:	SUMMER TIME GONE
Closing song:	Tomorrow is the last Time

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Eri Kisaki Sango Yokomizo Midori Kuriyama Hideo Akagi Goro

Case

Situation

Part 1

Ran discovers a receipt for a necklace in Kogoro's wallet and discerns that he is going to give it to Eri as a birthday present. Ran decides to enter a raffle draw to win a luxury hotel trip for her parents and succeeds in winning the tickets. Eri reschedules to meet her client at the hotel upon hearing about the supposed necklace. Her client, Akiho Kokuba, enters Eri's room after getting into a fight with her husband, Takehiko Kokuba, and falls asleep. Eri arranges for Takehiko to retrieve his wife and leaves to eat dinner with her family. She returns to her room, disappointed by Kogoro's behavior and the lack of a present and opens a carbonated drink but is soaked by the can; After showering to wash off the drink, she returns and finds Akiho dead in her room.

Murder
	Location: Shizuoka Sea Side Hotel, Room 309 Victim: Akiho Kokubu Cause of death: Blunt head trauma Suspects: Takehiko Kokubu, Midori Hino, Seiji Hino, and Eri Kisaki After taking a shower, Eri found the dead body of her client Akiho on the floor of her room!

Conan notices the blood stains suggest the bed was moved, and hypothesis the culprit murdered Akiho, concealed her body under the bed and hid himself, then when Eri went to shower, returns the bed back to its original position and leaves the room. The police investigate the alibis of the three suspects, Akiho's stalker and his mother, and her husband.

Part 2

That night, Conan realizes how the murder was done and who the culprit is. The next day, he drops a hint for Kogoro by spilling ketchup on a food cart which creates an evenly spaced ketchup stain on the floor, miming the victim's blood stain.

People

Akiho Kokubu
	Victim (bludgeoned) 28 years old Eri Kisaki's client

Takehiko Kokubu
	30 years old Akiho's husband

Midori Hino
	51 years old Opposing party in the negotiations

Seiji Hino
	26 years old Midori's son

Policeman
	Police officer working for Sango Yokomizo

Resolution

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Kogoro has the police gather the suspects and declares Takehiko Kokubu to be the culprit. He reveals that Takehiko placed his toy cars under the bed legs allowing the bed to easily slide. They evidence it with Takehiko's statement, when he said that James Dean's car was a Porsche 911, but in reality it was a Porsche 550; revealing he used the 550 in the crime. Takehiko asks how would he know Eri was going to take a shower. Eri reveals that Takehiko filled her fridge with only carbonated drink and Takehiko knew that Alcohol would make one thirsty. As evidence, the murder weapon, the ashtray in Takehiko's room, should contain Akiho's blood. Takehiko confesses and reveals the truth. It turns out that Akiho was a former Race-queen and she loved mini-cars. They hit it off and got married. But Akiho laughed saying it was all a lie to lure a rich man like Takehiko. Akiho only married him for his money.

Later, Kogoro gives Eri her present, announcing it is her birthday. However, Eri reveals that her birthday was yesterday, and that Kogoro assumed Health and Sports Day was the same day as her birthday. Conan explains that Heatlh and Sports Day used to be on every October 10th, but was changed to the second Monday of October at some point. Kogoro is disappointed his plan of lowering Eri's expectation and surprising her with her present has failed, but Eri happily accepts her gift and kisses him. The next day, Eri angrily phones asking why she received prayer beads and if Kogoro wanted her dead. Kogoro then notices that the real present was in his desk.

Trivia

• The manga version of this story happens over 3 days. In the manga, the 10th of October falls on a Saturday with Health and Sports Day falling on the 12th. The scene where Kogoro gives Eri her present happens shortly after midnight on the 12th.
  In the anime version, the 10th falls on a Sunday with the 11th being Health and Sports Day. In this version, the same scene happens shortly after 11:00 PM on the 11th.
• The second part of this episode came out in October 2010. By coincidence, October 10th fell on a Sunday that year.

See also

• Season 19