The Skilled Hawk Hides His Crime

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Episode 996 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Skilled Hawk Hides His Crime
Japanese title:	能ある鷹は罪を隠す (Nō Aru Taka wa Tsumi o Kakusu)
Original airdate:	January 30, 2021
Filler case:	#342
Season:	29
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Puffed rice
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Hiro Masaki
Storyboard:	Nobuharu Kamanaka
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Seiji Muta and Nobuyuki Iwai (supervisors) Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (design works) Rei Masunaga
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi
Music
Opening song:	JUST BELIEVE YOU
Closing song:	Reboot

The Skilled Hawk Hides His Crime (能ある鷹は罪を隠す ,Nō Aru Taka wa Tsumi o Kakusu) is the 996th episodes of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Conan, Kogoro and Ran are in the mountains when they see a hawk, Kogoro disturb the hawk but is stopped by a falconer called Tetsu Akashiba. He yells angrily at him to be careful with hawks. Later, they are at Takehara Cafe, a cafe managed by Genichi Takehara and his wife Satoko, where a festival is being held. They also meet a local farmer called Masahiko Ishima who made puffed rice. The cafe owner later goes hunting boar. The main event of the festival is sending the hawk to a target. When the hawk is arriving to the target, the hawk suddenly falls down and a gunshot is heard. They found Genichi Takehara dead.

Accident?
	Location: Forest Victim: Genichi Takehara Age: 37 years old Cause of death: Gunshot wound on chest Suspects: Tetsu Akashiba, Satoko Takehara and Masahiko Ishima When the hawk almost finish the race, it falls to the floor and a gunshot sound is heard. Not long after that, the cafe owner is falling dead onto the floor.

The police arrives and investigates. It seems to be an accident, but is this true? After finding a few clues, Conan discovers the culprit and the trick behind this murder.

People

Tetsu Akashiba
	28 years old Falconer

Satoko Takehara
	35 years old Genichi's wife

Masahiko Ishima
	50 years old Farmer

Genichi Takehara
	37 years old Victim (gunshot) Takehara café owner

Resolution

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Conan tranquilizes Kogoro and reveals that Genichi was murdered, and the culprit is Satoko Takehara. First, she murdered her husband when the puffed rice exploded in the machine to camouflage the sound. Later, she tied a fishing line across the hawk's path from the gunshot trigger to a drum. When the hawk touched the fishing line, the gunshot fired a shell and pierced a fastener. The drum then droppped to the ravine and fell with a wood plank supporting Genichi's body, creating a scene that he was murdered when he fell onto the ground. The supposed Genichi saw by people was also Satoko, who disguised herself as him to make her alibi. The proof is a blood stain in her neck that also matches with a stain in Genichi's neck. She confesses with a creepy face that her husband planned to sell the cafe and leaving not only the cafe, but also her.

See also

• Season 29