An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case

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Information
Title:	An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case
Japanese title:	アイドル密室殺人事件 (Aidoru Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 22, 1996
Broadcast rating:	11.4%
Manga case:	#3
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 1: Files 6-9 (006-009)
English version
English title:	Beware of Idols
Dubbed episode:	Episode 3
English airdate:	May 26, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Yoko Okino Hiroshi Agasa Gin Vodka Detective Boys Juzo Megure Eiichi Yamagishi Shinichi Kudo Officer Tome
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Ice
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	Masato Sato
Animation director:	Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Yuri Amano as Yoko Okino Asako Dodo as Yuko Ikezawa Kazuya Ichijo as Eiichi Yamagishi Hitoshi Horimoto as Forensics officer Isshin Chiba as Cop
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case (アイドル密室殺人事件 ,Aidoru Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken) is the 3rd episode of Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Yoko Okino
	22 years old Idol/Pop-star

Eiichi Yamagishi
	Yoko's manager

Officer Tome
	CSI member from Tokyo Police District

Gadgets introduced

Voice-Changing Bowtie
	Grants ability to imitate voices

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Gin (background) Vodka (background) Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Juzo Megure Shinichi Kudo (voice)

Case

Situation

Conan declines to walk home from school with classmates Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko. He arrives at the Mouri Detective Agency to see that without work, Kogoro spent all day drinking beer and watching his favorite popstar, Yoko Okino, on TV. When a client arrives during one of her shows, Kogoro even tries to make them return later, until he realizes that the client is Yoko Okino herself, accompanied by her manager. Kogoro quickly makes himself presentable and hears her concerns about a recent stalker. He agrees to investigate at her apartment, and Ran and Conan tag along. Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko were watching the agency and also follow, so when the front door opens everyone sees the body on the floor inside.

Murder
	Location: Yoko Okino's apartment Victim: Akiyoshi Fujie Age: 22 years old Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Yoko Okino, Yuko Ikezawa, and Eiichi Yamagishi Upon opening the door to Yoko Okino's apartment to investigate a series of pranks and a possible stalker, Conan and the others discovered Fujie lying dead on the floor with a knife in his back.

People

Yoko Okino
	22 years old Idol/Pop-star

Yuko Ikezawa
	Idol/Pop-star Yoko's rival

Eiichi Yamagishi
	Yoko's manager

Akiyoshi Fujie
	Victim (stabbed) 22 years old

Resolution

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Evidence

• Conan discovers a hoop earring underneath a couch in Yoko's apartment. Yoko reveals this earring belongs to Yuko Ikezawa, her rival.
• Yuko, despite claiming never to have been in Yoko's apartment before, seems to know where the bathroom is located and that the Statue of Liberty figurine in the apartment is actually a lighter.
• Yamagishi explains that Yoko's apartment's spare key has been missing for awhile.
• Yamagishi removed a strand of hair from Fujie's hand when he pretended to slip on the floor. When Conan retrieves the hair, he realizes Yamagishi must think it belongs to Yoko.
• Conan discovers an odd indentation mark on the floor as well as traces of water. He also notes that it is strange that only a chair is standing upright on the floor near the body while the rest of the room is in shambles.
• Megure upon entering Yoko's apartment, notes that the room seems to be at an unusually hot temperature.

Conclusion

Conan knocks Kogoro unconscious by kicking him in the head with an ashtray. Using the voice-changing bowtie, Conan as Kogoro reveals the truth behind the strange things that happened to Yoko, as well as the murder.

Yuko is responsible for the missing apartment key, threatening phone calls, etc. This is why Yuko knew where Yoko's bathroom was and why she knew the Statue of Liberty was actually a lighter.

Conan as Kogoro reveals that the Fujie's murder was not a murder at all; Fujie committed suicide by freezing a knife inside a block of ice, grabbing a hair from Yoko's hairbrush and then falling backwards onto the knife from the chair in the room. The odd indentation in the floor was caused by the knife when Fujie landed on it. The water spots on the floor are from the melted ice. Before killing himself, Fujie turned up the heat in Yoko's apartment in order to melt the ice, and therefore evidence, away.

Motive

Yuko's motive for playing mean pranks and tricks on Yoko was to frighten her and find potential scandal material.

Fujie's motive for committing suicide was Yuko's startled reaction to Fujie grabbing her by the shoulder. Fujie used to be Yoko's boyfriend until Yamagishi asked him to break up with her for the sake of Yoko's career. Mistaking Yuko for Yoko, whom he still loved, Fujie took this reaction to mean that Yoko never wanted to see him again. Unable to bear the thought, Fujie committed suicide, framing Yoko for the murder in despairing revenge.

Manga to anime changes

• In the anime, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta introduce themselves to Conan and follows him on the case. The Detective Boys don't appear in the manga until the haunted mansion case in the next volume.
• In the manga, Ran suspects that Shinichi's absence might have to due with the two men in black that he pursued and planned to call the police. In the anime she merely plans to report his absence to the police without any mention of the men in black.

Trivia

• This is the first case of death by stabbing.
• This marks Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi's determination to make Conan their friend, so they can have more adventures.
• Ayumi was the first Detective Boy to try and befriend Conan.
• Although the title includes "Locked Room", but the locked room here is in fact the whole apartment, which's front door is locked from the inside.
• This is the first case of suicide, and of suicide disguised as murder.
• This episode takes place a canon week after Shinichi has shrunk down to Conan, according to the post credit scene.
• This is the first episode to have a crime take place in an apartment.
• This is the first time that Conan solves a case using Kogoro's voice with his new Voice-Changing Bowtie, although he is knocked out by an ash tray this time.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
2	コナンの勝利 （夜空ver.）	Konan no Shōri (Yozora ver.)	Conan's Victory (Night Sky ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	脅迫 （パート２）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)	Threat (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
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	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	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	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	それいけコナン （哀愁ヴァージョン）	Soreike Konan (Aishū Vājon)	Let's Go Conan (Sorrow Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP
17	蘭のテーマ （涙ver.）	Ran no Tēma (Namida ver.)	Ran's Theme (Tearful ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	جريمة في منزل الممثلة	Crime in the Actress's House
Indonesia	Pembunuhan Idol di Ruang Terkunci	An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case
Basque	Kontuz, telebistako izarrekin	Be careful with TV stars
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Compte amb els ídols	Be Careful With Idols
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Compte amb els ídols	Be Careful With Idols
French	Méfiez-vous des stars	Be Careful With Stars
Galician	Moito ollo cos famosos!	Be Careful With Famous People!
German	Die Doppelgängerin	The Lookalike
Italian	Avventura sul set	Adventure on the Set
Korean	위기의 인기스타	Popular Star of Crisis
Portuguese	Cuidado com os Ídolos	Be careful with idols
Spanish (American dub)	Ídolos peligrosos	Dangerous Idols
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El caso de la habitación cerrada	The Locked Room Case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมในห้องปิดตายของยอดดารา	An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case
Vietnamese	Án mạng trong phòng kín Idol	An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case
China	偶像密室杀人事件	An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case

See also

• Season 1