Find the Buttock's Mark (お尻のマークを探せ ,Oshiri no Māku o Sagase?) is the 346th and 347th episode of Detective Conan anime.
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Part 1
After the confrontation with Black Organization, Jodie Starling offers Ai Haibara to join the Witness Protection Program, which allows Haibara to escape the Black Organization by faking her name and cutting ties with her friends.
One rainy on the way from school, Ayumi collides with an escaping phantom killer and she isn't able see the face of the killer, due to him being concealed with a hat and hood. The phantom killer fells upon colliding with Ayumi and drops his knife he used for a recent slasher attack. Once the phantom killer gets up, he faced Ayumi and reaches out to her. Ayumi screams in fear of harm, but he only picks up a small object from the ground and then flees the scene afterwards. A clue is left behind when Ayumi realizes a mark on her hand that resembles a number 5.
| Attempted Murders
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| Location:
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Streets
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| Victim:
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Random female civilians
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| Injuries:
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Slash wound on the left arm
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| Suspects:
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Hiroshi Enomoto, Naokazu Fukuchi, and Toshiaki Degawa
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| A phantom killer dressed in a gray raincoat has been randomly slashing civilians. His face wasn't seen by the victim for his face was covered with a hat and hood.
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Ayumi and the Detective Boys are taken to the police department to provide information regarding the phantom killer, but the only thing provided was that the phantom killer was a man through Ayumi hearing his voice, but that provided little help. With Detective Sato they all returned to the scene of the crime and found out the mark left on Ayumi was of a car brand. Genta was also found with the symbol on his butt from sitting on Detective Sato's car logo. With this added information, the culprit has been narrowed down to those with cars of the same mark.
Part 2
The suspects have been narrowed to three people: Hiroshi Enomoto, Naokazu Fukuchi, and Toshiaki Degawa. Ayumi is willing to face the suspects to find out who is the phantom killer, but Haibara objects to that plan due to concern for Ayumi's safety. Haibara explains to her how the culprit would bear a grudge on her if she places the culprit in that kind of predicament and how he may also seek revenge if he is acquitted due to a lack of evidence. As a precaution, Ayumi and the others would instead watch the suspects from afar in a car with smoked glass to prevent such an outcome.
People
Resolution
Naokazu Fukuchi is the Culprit
Based on the testimonies, the Detective Boys realize that culprit is Naokazu Fukuchi.
- Among the three suspects, Fukuchi's testimony contradicts with his actions at the time of murder: a unskilled driver would never test drive their car in a location full of people or on the day with poor visibility due to rain. In additional to that, he parked his car in an extremely close distance with the nearby car and did it very neatly, meaning that he is in fact a very good driver.
- Despite the fact that the culprit might have disposed of the key, there would still be presence of blood in the keyhole, so Conan asked Takagi to bring in the forensics to perform a Luminol spray test. Though initially there was no reaction, Conan is able to sever the lock cylinder and reveal that the exterior of the keyhole was replaced by another one in order to remove the incriminating evidence.
- Moreover, the police can check the key lock with the one near the wheel to confirm whether or not they belong to the same car. Additionally, Fukuchi is unlikely to have replaced the key hole near the steering wheel, which means that there must still be a bloodstain from his victim there from when he inserted his key to start up the car.
Fukuchi attempts to escape while pretending to let the police confirm the key lock, but is knocked out by Conan's dart. After intense interrogation, he reveals he was slashing random victims to become famous and gain attention, a change to his mundane life.
Aftermath
Moved by Ayumi's courage, Haibara decides to decline in participating in the Witness Protection Program, knowing that she cannot fully trust the FBI and that she herself no longer wants to keep running away from the Black Organization forever. Though Jodie is initially against this, she accepts Haibara's decision and ask her to always remember the courage of this day. After Haibara left, James comments that Haibara was like Jodie long ago, as Jodie herself also refused to participate in the program unless they let her join the FBI to chase after her father's murderer. However, Jodie replies that both of them are different, as Haibara has the warmth of her friends by her side, giving her the courage to fight on no matter what the future may bring.
Trivia
- Hiroshi Enomoto vehicle in left side is a Dirty Innocent Blue Mica Mazda RX-7 (FD) Spirit R Type A with the License Plate of 1-20.
- Naokazu Fukuchi vehicle in the middle is a Silver Stone Metallic Clearcoat Mazda RX-7 (FD) Type-R with the License Plate of 76-01.
- Toshiaki Degawa vehicle in right side is a Clean Neat Green Mica Clearcoat 1991 Ẽfini MS-6 (Mazda 626) [GE] with the License Plate of 43-13.
Gallery
BGM listing
Part 1
Part 2
In other languages
| Language |
Title |
Translation
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 Arabic |
مفتاح السيارة المفقود |
The Missing Car Key
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 Catalan (Catalan dub) |
A la recerca de la marca del cul |
Searching the bottom's mark
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 Catalan (Valencian dub) |
Buscant la marca del cul! |
Searching the bottom's mark!
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 German |
Das Zeichen auf dem Hintern |
The mark at the bottom
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 Italian |
La chiave del mistero |
The mystery crux
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 Spanish (Castilian dub) |
Buscando la marca de los pantalones |
Searching the mark on the pants
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 Thai |
ค้นหาเครื่องหมายที่ติดอยู่ที่ก้น |
Searching the mark on the buttock
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 Vietnamese |
Truy tìm dấu vết |
Find the Buttock's Mark
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See also
