The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno

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Episode 144-145 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno
Japanese title:	上野発北斗星3号 (Ueno-hatsu Hokutosei Sangō)
Original airdate:	May 10, 1999 (Part 1) May 17, 1999 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	18.9% 19.4%
Manga case:	#62
Season:	6
Manga source:	Volume 22: Files 4-7 (215-218)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Natsue Hatamoto Takeshi Hatamoto Yukiko Kudo Yusaku Kudo Inspector Nishimura Detective Tamura
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Yusaku Kudo
Next Conan's Hint:	Northern star (Part 1) Disguise (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	144 Nana Harada 145 Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	144 Atsushi Aono, Keiko Sasaki 145 Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Sumi Shimamoto as Fumiyo Akechi, Yukiko Kudo Hikaru Hanada as Inspector Nishimura Takashi Nagasako as Detective Tamura Shigeru Ushiyama as Keitaro Izumo Takashi Taniguchi as Toshinori Kaetsu Yuzuru Fujimoto as Akishige Ishizuchi Seiko Fujiki as Azusa Izumo Tsutomu Tsuji as Yasuji Asama Kouichi Nagano as Toru Aoba Yasuyuki Kase as Conductor Isshin Chiba as Waiter, Announcement Hiromichi Kogami as Passenger A Mari Tomokawa as Passenger B Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Girigiri chop
Closing song:	Still for your love

Characters introduced

Inspector Nishimura
100px	Inspector from Hokkaido Prefecture Police

Detective Tamura
	Detective from Hokkaido Prefecture Police

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo (flashback) Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Natsue Hatamoto (background) Takeshi Hatamoto (background) Yukiko Kudo Yusaku Kudo

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Kogoro, and Ran take the overnight North Star Express to Hokkaido to meet a former client. On the train, they meet up with a series of people. However, in the night, a murder case occurs when a burglar seemingly kills a jewelry trader, and escapes through the window.

Murder
	Location: North Star No.3 Express dining car Victim: Keitaro Izumo Age: 56 years old Cause of death: Gunshot wound to left temple Suspects: Yasuji Asama Jewelry owner dead by Asama disguised shoot head.

The train stops to find his dead body outside.

Accident?
	Location: Railroad Victim: Yasuji Asama Age: 39 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Toshinori Kaetsu, Akishige Ishizuchi, Toru Aoba, and Azusa Izumo Criminal shoots window to throw out dead body from train outside.

Conan noticed that the plot is very similar to an unpublished novel written by his father that had been stolen ten years before. However, unable to contact Yusaku Kudo, Conan takes the case into his own hands, and finds his mother on the train.

Part 2

Conan reveals to the suspicious woman that he knows her identity - it is Yukiko Kudo, his mother, in disguise. As they discuss the case, Kogoro calls all the passengers to witness his inaccurate deduction, enabling Conan to figure out the trick. However, a worried Conan recalls that in the novel, the detective boy who solved the case was murdered by the trap he set for the criminal. Yukiko volunteers to act as a decoy to help him find the proof.

People

Yasuji Asama
	Victim (bludgeoned) 39 years old Passenger

Toshinori Kaetsu
	38 years old Jewelry store manager

Keitaro Izumo
	Victim (gunshot) 56 years old Jewelry store owner

Akishige Ishizuchi
	67 years old Furuito City mayor

Toru Aoba
	32 years old Passenger

Fumiyo Akechi
	37 years old Passenger

Azusa Izumo
	49 years old Keitaro Izumo's wife

Inspector Nishimura
100px	Inspector from Hokkaido Prefecture Police

Detective Tamura
	Detective from Hokkaido Prefecture Police

Train Worker
	Train Worker

Train Worker
	Train Worker wearing white

Policemen
	Policemen

Resolution

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When the train lands at Sapporo Station, however, Conan and Yukiko are separated and the criminal moves, intending to push her onto the tracks.

Attempted murder
	Location: Sapporo Station Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido Victim: Yukiko Kudo as Fumiyo Akechi Crime: Pushed to railway Culprit: Toshinori Kaetsu The killer attempts to kill Yukiko by pushing her into the railway but is stopped by Yusaku.

Yusaku appears just in time and reveals the trick and his own identity to the criminal, who had idolized his work. The culprit is Toshinori Kaetsu.

Kaetsu dressed like Asama and made people believe that he jump off the train by using his fishing equipment. First, he hit Asama in the head until he died and broke the window using silenced gun. Then, he put the fishing line through the belt loop on the back of his pants and hung him outside the window. He tied the side of the fishing line to the pulley and the other to something stable outside the room. Lastly, he used another fishing line, looped one end, and put a piece of tape through it. He passed the other end into the lock and tied the end to the line he cut. After that, he went to the lobby car, shot Izumo, and ran back to Asama's room. He opened the door and fired some shots to make people believe he shattered the window then. He saw Kogoro and the conductors following him, so he shot at them. While they were shielding themselves from the bullets, he went to hide himself next to the stairs and cut the fishing line to release the string from the pulley so the corpse will be released. When the line was cut, the corpse would drag the fishing line tied to the door down. The dragging force released the tape but the inertia made the door close completely. He used this trick to framed Asama on the murder of Izumo. He chose to operate in the tunnel in the middle of the night because he didn't want people off the train to see the corpse hanging off. Also, the hallway was dark so no one would see the fishing line tied to the room. Lastly, he put sleeping pills in his wife's dinner box so she couldn't hear the gunshot. The shirt the criminal used is found on his luggage together with the disguise outfit. This is the evidence that he is really the culprit.

Kaetsu admitted the two murders. Izumo and Asama were in a joint plan to have Asama's own jewelry store robbed. In the process a worker at the store who is his girlfriend gets kidnapped and murdered by Asama by forcing her to over consume drugs. He stole Yusaku's incomplete novel to use it to construct the murder. He is soon arrested. Yusaku and Yukiko flew back to Los Angeles.

Trivia

• This episode seems to connect with Yusaku's stolen manuscript that was mentioned in Detective Boys Survival Case, although a stolen manuscript did show up at the end of that episode.
• This is the third case that Yukiko Kudo is involved in with her son. The other two cases are the Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case and The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases, however, unlike in those two cases, she is in another new disguise, and appears to be completely unrelated to Conan in any way, shape, or form.
• This case brought up a jewelry store robbery backstory, that took place recently, in which Conan was completely uninvolved in it, due to being on a camping trip recently.
• Even in Hokkaido Prefecture, Kogoro Mouri is renowned, and Detective Tamura stated, "He's cursed. They say everywhere he goes, a crime occurs."
• This is the third case that takes place aboard a train, the other two are The Shinkansen's Bomb Case and The Train Trick Murder Case, however it is only the second case that takes place about a murder, and the only one based on an unfinished, stolen manuscript.
• This is the first case that shows a bamboo sword for Kendo.
• In this case, Yukiko set herself up as bait in order to help solve this case.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	ギリギリchop	Girigiri chop	On the edge chop	Girigiri chop
2	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
10	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	何かが起きる…	Nanika ga Okiru...	Something Happened...	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	ギリギリchop	Girigiri chop	On the edge chop	Girigiri chop
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
5	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	真相究明	Shinsō Kyūmei	Investigating the Truth	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
9	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	蘭のテーマ （優しさver.）	Ran no Tēma (Yasashisa ver.)	Ran's Theme (Gentle ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'exprés Estrella del nord número 3	The North Star express number 3
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Assassinat al tren Estrela del Nord	Murder in the North Star train
French	Le Meurtre de l'"Étoile du nord"	The Murder of the "North Star"
Galician	Asasinato a bordo do Estrela Polar	Murder aboard the Polar Star
German	Mord im Speisewagen	Murder in the Dining Car
Italian	Assassino sull'Intercity	Murder on the Intercity Train
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Asesinato en el Estrella del Norte	Murder in the North Star
Spanish (American dub)	Asesinato en el tren expreso Hokutosei número 3	Murder in the express train Hokutosei number 3
Thai	โฮคุโตะเซย์หมายเลข 3 ต้นทางอุเอโนะ	Hokutosei No.3 - Leaving Ueno
Vietnamese	Vụ án trên chuyến tàu cao tốc ngôi sao Bắc Đẩu số 3	The North Star No.3 Express Case

See also

• Season 6