The Shadow Approaching Amuro

Chronology
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Episode 813 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Shadow Approaching Amuro
Japanese title:	安室に忍びよる影 (Amuro ni Shinobiyoru Kage)
Original airdate:	April 16, 2016
Broadcast rating:	8.9%
Filler case:	#255
Season:	25
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Rei Furuya Azusa Enomoto Detective Boys Ai Haibara Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Vermouth Gin
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Sandwiches
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Takeharu Sakurai
Storyboard:	Shigenori Kageyama
Episode director:	Takanori Yano
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Tohru Furuya as Rei Furuya Mikiko Enomoto as Azusa Enomoto Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Mami Koyama as Vermouth Tomohiro Tsuboi as Man
Music
Opening song:	Hane
Closing song:	Futari no Byōshin
The Darkest Nightmare pre-story

The Shadow Approaching Amuro (安室に忍びよる影 ,Amuro ni Shinobiyoru Kage) is the 813rd episode of the Detective Conan anime. This episode is a pre-story for The Darkest Nightmare.

Characters introduced

Man
	Beika Bakery employee

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Rei Furuya Azusa Enomoto Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ai Haibara Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Vermouth (voice/background) Gin (background)

Case

Situation

One morning, while having breakfast at the Café Poirot along with Kogoro and Ran, Conan notices a strange, glum-looking customer sitting at a table, eating ham sandwiches instead of the regular breakfast selection and without having consulted the menu, which indicates him as a regular client. What makes the guest so peculiar is that he has his eyes constantly fixed on Tooru Amuro while he is working.

People

Man
	Café Poirot suspect customer

Resolution

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The baker's motive.

The mysterious man is revealed by Conan to be a baker. He has been stalking Rei in order to find out how to replicate the ham sandwiches Rei prepares for the Poirot customers, after he had once had breakfast at the café after hearing about how the sandwiches' quality had drastically improved lately, and found them extremely delicious. However, despite all efforts, he has not been able to replicate their unique flavor on his own. Upon learning the motive, and much to the surprise of the Detective Boys, Rei happily teaches the man his unique method of making sandwiches.

After the baker comes by the café once more for a sandwich breakfast and to ask Amuro whether he may actually sell those sandwiches to his customers (something Amuro readily agrees to), Amuro suddenly gets a call from Vermouth, who warns him not to take his current "secret investigation" too deeply, lest it arouses Gin's undue attention.

Trivia

• This is the first TV original episode to feature Bourbon and Vermouth, and the second after Home of Beika's Grenier to feature Gin on background.
• In this episode, while discussing about the mysterious customer real identity, Conan and Rei also freely converse being possible member of, about the members of the Black Organization, as well as about Public Security Bureau, which is the first such occurence since The Scarlet Return.
• The employee and the shop where he works reappear in The Melting Cake!. The shop reappears in Intrigue at the Food Court, but not the employee, and is a neighbor of Shimomura Cigarettes shop, which is introduced in that case.

See also

• Season 25
• The Darkest Nightmare
• Black Organization