This article is about the 146th and 147th episodes of the Detective Conan anime.
Characters introduced
Cast
Case
Situation
Part 1
The Detective Boys go to the police station who are trying to figure out who robbed a nearby bank. The man who owns the bank phones his wife, then gives the phone to one of the officers. Suddenly, the woman screams and she is then found dead in her house with a wound from a knife. Conan thinks that these two cases are related - did the robbers kill the wife because she recognized one of them? He sees the man smiling at his wife's dead body.
| Murder
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| Location:
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Masuo household
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| Victim:
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Kayo Masuo
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| Age:
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42 years old
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| Cause of death:
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Stab wound to the back
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| Suspects:
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Keizo Masuo
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Part 2
Conan gives the police small clues and they eventually find out the culprit who killed the wife. They also found out that a robbery took place days ago in Tohto bank, where Keizo is working as the manager.
| Robbery (Past)
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| Location:
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Tohto Bank, Haido Branch
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| Time:
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3 days ago
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| Culprits:
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Two masked robbers
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| A bank robbery took place in the Haido branch of Tohto bank. 200 million Yen were stolen (approx. 2 million $ USD).
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People
Resolution
The killer is
Keizo Masuo. Knowing his wife's daily routine, he set a knife hidden on the top of the bookshelf and tied it to his wife's exercise bike with a thin rope. The string was wound around the pedal and would eventually pull the knife from the shelf, stabbing Kayo in the process. To establish an alibi, Keizo called his wife from the police station and had her talk to Takagi shortly before she "was attacked". Once the police arrived at the scene of the crime, Keizo instructed Takagi and Sato to check upstairs while he went to the living room where Kayo's body is to eliminate the evidences. Unfortunately for Keizo, he accidently pricked his finger while removing the pin used in the crime in order to hide the string inside the bike. If the blood on his finger and the bloodstain on the shelf match, then it will be proved that he is the one who set up the trick to murder his wife.
Cornered, Keizo admits his crime, claiming that he and Kayo had fallen out recently thus he decided to kill her. However, Sato correctly deduces that Keizo's true motive is actually to cover his role as the mastermind behind the robbery crime at the branch under his management.
Motive
The robbery was actually set up by Keizo as he was under financial trouble due to his wife's lavish lifestyle. The plan would have gone smoothly had it not for Kayo happening to visit the bank on that day. While being taken hostage, Kayo recognized the robbers as her husband's friends and not knowing that he was infact the inside man, which was the reason why the robbers switched hostage.
| Hostage situation (past)
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| Location:
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Tohto Bank, Haido Branch
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| Victims:
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Kayo Masuo and Midori Megure
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| Age:
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42 years old (Kayo)
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| Time:
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3 days ago
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| Culprits:
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Unnamed two robbers
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| After being taken hostage, Kayo recognized the robbers' identities. She then tried to free herself, prompting Inspector Megure's wife, Midori to offer herself as a hostage since she was at the bank at the time.
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When Kayo planned to bring an album containing photos of Keizo's friends to the police, Keizo killed her out of fear as if his friends were to be arrested they would reveal Keizo the mastermind behind thing crime. Two hours later, the two accomplices, who are quietly counting their money, are arrested and both cases are solved at once. Conan comments that in a strange twist of fate, Kaizo had to kill his wife because of the robbery, since it was due to her that he had set the robbery in the first place.
Trivia
- This case is Inspector Ninzaburo Shiratori's first canon appearance.
- This is the first case with Yumi Miyamoto of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department patrol office, which opens the door to the traffic cops.
- This is the first case of the Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (series).
- It appears that this is the first time that Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi have ever seen Metropolitan Police Department, since all three of them act awestruck, just from looking at the outside of it.
- Professor Hiroshi Agasa told the Detective Boys that "We are only here as witnesses to the Blue Castle Case, referring to The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case.
- This is the first episode that Detective Takagi is really talking to Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys.
- Although Inspector Juzo Megure's wife was briefly seen in The Fourteenth Target, and she did not make a canon appearance yet, however she was now mentioned in a canon episode about a backstory event.
- This case is also the first time that Detective Miwako Sato meets Professor Agasa and the 5 Detective Boys.
- This is the first case that Conan snuck into Detective Sato's Police Car during an Investigation, and had fist-hand experience of her driving.
- Interesting Note: Detective Kojima and Genta Kojima are apparently unrelated, even though they have the same surname, with the same Kanji spelling, 小島 for the name Kojima.
- This is the first case that Conan gave hints to Sato, Takagi, and Inspector Shiratori, so that the three Police Officers can solve the murder case, which allowed them to also solve the bank robbery case too.
- This is Chief Kiyonaga Matsumoto's first appearance since A June Bride Murder Case.
- Sato told Takagi that she likes most food, even though she told Shiratori that she does not care for French Food. However, it is really the expensive restaurants that she dislikes.
BGM listing
Part 1
Part 2
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