The Séance's Double Locked Room Mystery Case

Chronology
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Episode 603-605 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Séance Double Locked Room Mystery Case
Original airdate:	January 29, 2011 (First Locked Room)
Season:	20
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Chiba Officer Tome

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Plot

First Locked Room

Conan, Ran, and Kogoro knocked on a mansion door at night time as they were lost. The door is open and a man in a hood is seen which makes them scream. They see behind the mysterious man more people dressed like him. One of them notices Kogoro and shows himself as Kouji Yatsukawa. They are allowed to come in and everyone tells Kogoro who they are. Hiraski tells them that they will be holding a séance for their idol, (who was supposed to be a star in the Black Magic Girl Movie). They decided to hold a séance as rumors have come up saying if people ditched the club, they will be suffered with illness. They also brought up a murder who was supposed to be related to the death of Kira. So they decided to have the séance to ask Kira herself. During the séance, they call out to Kira and voices of her coming out from the paintings around them telling them that one of them here has killed her and she shall have her vengeance. Soon the tables start shaking and things start breaking. Kogoro deducts that the person moving these objects (from a remote control) was Hiraski which is proven to be right. He claims it was just a little performance but says that someone switched the audio as thats not what he put on the tape. Soon after Hiraski and Hoonogi are in a room talking to each other. It seems that Hoonogi did or saw something a while ago. While eating with some other guests Conan asks questions about Kira and the previous murder. They learn the person who saw the body was Shoko. When they call her cell to see if she will talk to Mouri a bit she says she has a headache and not now. Later that night when everyone is sleeping. The club members get a message saying "I have returned to life" ~Kira from Shoko's phone. After breaking into the meditation room she is on the table dead. Conan quickly notices that this was a sealed door murder. Yutaka than lets out an evil laugh saying "Kira has returned."

Murder
	Victim: Shoko Utakura Suspects: Club members

Second Locked Room

Murder
	Victim: Reiki Hirasaka Suspects: Club members

People

Reiki Hirasaka
	Victim (poison) 28 years old Occult manga artist

Kouji Yatsukawa
100px	27 Years old Nichiuri TV assistant director

Shoko Utakura
100px	Victim (strangulation) 22 years old Kira fan/Aspiring gravure idol

Kira Miyahara
	Deceased Idol actress died in accident

Yutaka Kani
	24 Years old Fan club chairman/Figurine creator

Kazuo Hoonogi
	28 Years old Kira fan/Doctor

Maho Izumi
	22 Years old Kira fan

Ryuichi Mifune
	27 Years old Cameraman

Ichiro Sawanami
	Deceased

Resolution

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The killer was Mifune, the cameraman. He actually was Kira's secret boyfriend, and had planned the séance in order to have revenge and to manipulate the situation so Kira's lifeless body, which was probably hidden in the mansion, would be found. He had always thought that Kira, an excellent and careful driver, would have not died in a car accident, and since the "accident" took place near the mansion, he believed the people who had been there with her were related to her mysterious death.

Kira's murderer was Reiki Hirasaka, who was a very heavy drinker due to depression. They were in a party in the mansion and at some point he got just too drunk. When Kira tried to calm him down he threw her to the floor violently, and she died by a hitting her head and suffering a fatal concussion. He then set up everything to make people believe she had died in an accident instead, hiding her body in the mansion.

Mifune had started to target the people who were known to have been with Kira the day she died. He first attacked Sawanami, being the one with the lowest guard. In regards to Hirasaka, Mifune killed him by poisoning wine; the proof of it were some wine stains on his shirt, hidden under his tie. Hr also wanted to kill Honogi first, but then changed his mind and killed Shouko before him...

Finally, there were two "reasons" why Shouko Utakura was killed.

- First: Mifune thought Shouko was the girl who was in the party that ended with Kira's death (Sawanami had mentioned a female, but didn't say her name)... but it wasn't her. It actually was Maho Izumi, the cosplayer. She didn't say it due to the trauma she had gone through when the kind-hearted Kira, who befriended her and saved her from ending up as a hikikomori (house recluse), had been murdered. She also ended up explaining to Mifune the reasons why she commited the mistake that would get her killed...

- Second: Shouko found Sawanami's lifeless body and, thanks to the kana he spelled in his own blood, deduced that Mifune was the one who attacked him; she later commited the mistake of confronting Mifune and saying she knew the truth, but would cover up for him. Shouko was in love with Mifune and truly wanted to assure him that she wouldn't reveal his guilt, and not to mention she had decided to not tell him that she loved him since she knew he still loved Kira. When they spoke, however, Mifune misunderstood her and thought she wanted to blackmail him, so as soon as he could he strangled the girl to silence her. The reason why Shouko didn't fight back and let Mifune kill her was because she fell into despair when he attacked her.

Extra information

• A séance is a ritual used to call back the spirits of the dead to talk to them.

See also

• Season 20