The Case of the Besieged Detective Agency

Location:	Mouri Detective Agency
Hostages:	Kogoro Mouri, Ran Mouri, Masumi Sera, Tamami Mitsui, Shinobu Yuchi, and Sumika Nihei
Age:	41 years old (Mitsui), 36 years old (Yuchi), and 39 years old (Nihei)
Culprit:	Isao Sawaguri
	Isao Sawaguri came to the Mouri Detective Agency and brought together three female novelists he believes are responsible for his younger sister Miku's death the previous month. Isao threatens to blow up the Agency unless Kogoro reveals to him the truth about his sister's death and reveals her murderer.

	Bombing Threat
Location:	Mouri Detective Agency
Hostages:	Kogoro Mouri, Ran Mouri, Masumi Sera, Tamami Mitsui, Shinobu Yuchi, and Sumika Nihei
Age:	41 years old (Mitsui), 36 years old (Yuchi), and 39 years old (Nihei)
Culprit:	Isao Sawaguri
	Isao Sawaguri came to the Mouri Detective Agency and brought together three female novelists he believes are responsible for his younger sister Miku's death the previous month. Isao threatens to blow up the Agency unless Kogoro reveals to him the truth about his sister's death and reveals her murderer.

	Episode 648-650 ; (Int. Episode 699-701)
	Information
Title:	The Case of the Besieged Detective Agency
Japanese title:	探偵事務所籠城事件 ; (Tantei Jimusho Rōjō Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 3, 2012 (Outbreak) ; March 10, 2012 (Sniping) ; March 17, 2012 (Release)
Broadcast rating:	9,60% ; 10,70% ; 12%
Manga case:	#224
Season:	17
Manga source:	Volume 73: File 9 (771) ~ ; Volume 74: File 1 (774)
	Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa ; Masumi Sera ; Ran Mouri ; Sonoko Suzuki ; Kogoro Mouri ; Ai Haibara ; Detective Boys ; Hiroshi Agasa ; Misao Yamamura ; Shinichi Kudo ; Professor ; Kaito Kid
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo (via Conan on phone)
Next Conan's Hint:	Signed books (Outbreak) ; Bush warbler (Sniping) ; Toilet (Release)
	Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Organizer:	Masaki Ozora
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	648 Koichiro Kuroda ; 649 Minoru Tozawa ; 650 Tomomi Ikeda
Animation director:	648 Michitaka Yamamoto, Katsumi Hashimoto ; 649 Chiemi Hironaka ; 650 Kana Miyai, Miho Tanaka
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo ; Seiji Muta ; Miharu Nagano (sub-character) ; Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Production cooperation:	648 Azeta Pictures ; 650 Kagura Co., Ltd.
Voice Cast:
	Minami Takayama as Edogawa Conan ; Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri ; Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera ; Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri ; Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki ; Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa ; Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara ; Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ; Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida ; Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo ; Wataru Takagi (voice actor) as Genta Kojima ; Takashi Matsuyama as Isao Sawaguri ; Kazuyo Aoki as Tamami Mitsui ; Akiko Muta as Shinobu Yuchi ; Miyako Endo as Sumika Nihei ; Jun'ichi Sugawara as Professor ; Kenta Matsumoto as Ishizaki, SIT forces member A ; Dai Matsumoto as SIT captain ; Hayato Nakata as SIT Forces member B
	Music
Opening song:	Miss Mystery
Closing song:	Kanashii Hodo Kyō no Yūhi Kirei da ne

Chronology
‹ Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel	List of Episodes	Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West ›

The Case of the Besieged Detective Agency (探偵事務所籠城事件 ,Tantei Jimusho Rōjō Jiken^?) is the 648th, 649th, and 650th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Outbreak

Sera asks Ran if she can come over to talk to Conan. Once there, she learns Conan is at Agasa's with the Detective Boys and the fact Conan is with Kogoro on every case. They are soon interrupted when a gunman strapped with bombs and three hostages are brought into the agency.

The gunman, Isao Sawaguri, demands Kogoro to determine which of his three hostages killed his younger sister.

Suicide? (Past)

Location:	Furitsukaya Ryokan
Victim:	Miku Sawaguri
Cause of death:	Loss of blood through wrist slit
Suspects:	Tamami Mitsui, Shinobu Yuchi, and Sumika Nihei
According to newspaper reports, novelist Miku Sawaguri committed suicide at the Furitsukaya Ryokan a month previous to Isao's threat on the Mouri Detective Agency. Despite the reports, Isao is convinced that his younger sister's novelist friends are responsible for killing Miku.

Conan calls Ran to ask who she was spotted walking with. Sera answers and pretends to end the call, allowing Conan to eavesdrop on the situation. Conan learns the case of Sawaguri's sister, Miku Sawaguri, was concluded to be suicide when she was found with her wrist slit and her ryokan room locked. Agasa and the Detective Boys leave to interview the local neighborhood association who were at the ryokan during Miku's death. Conan gradually learns more about the case from information spoken by Sawaguri, the media, and the Detective Boys. Sawaguri then realizes Ran's cellphone is still connected and prepares to shoot Sera until Conan speaks with his voice changing bow-tie as Shinichi Kudo.

Sniping

Sawaguri, pleased to have another detective to find the culprit, obeys his requests to take pictures of the hostage's books which were autographed by Miku. During the course of the investigation, the authorities lose the chance to snipe Sawaguri after Ran closes the curtain as she believes Shinichi can find a solution to prevent any deaths. Miku's blog post reveals her last three visitors were from an elephant, a fox, and a rat. Conan explains the animals were based on the hostage's professions: The elephant is Sumika Nihei, due to her husband's seal designs is similar to an elephant's tusk. Shinobu Yuchi is the fox since she is a bakery and her food is colored like a fox's coat, and the rat is Tamami Mitsui whom is a stonemasonry which is gray like a rat's coat. In response, Sawaguri prepares to kill Mitsui.

Release

Conan declares Mitsui is innocent as Miku was still alive due to the fact that the witness was able to identify the room's number, something that is not possible if the door was left wide open as the number would be hidden from the view, and only possible if they saw it when Miku was closing the door after Mitsui had left. As for Miku's death, it is a suicide or not?

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People

Tamami Mitsui
	41 years old Amateur novelist

Shinobu Yuchi
	36 years old Amateur novelist

Sumika Nihei
	39 years old Amateur novelist

Miku Sawaguri
	Deceased (wrist slit) Mystery writer Isao's younger sister

Isao Sawaguri
	37 years old Miku's older brother

Man #1
	Special Investigation team member Sniper

Man #2
	Special Investigation team member Defense member

Man #3
	Special Investigation team member Team captain

Resolution

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Later, Conan reveals his previous deduction was a bluff to contain the situation and that Miku was really murdered by one of her three novelist friends.

First, Conan excludes Mitsui from the list of suspects due to her action on that day was too unnatural for the culprit who'd carefully planned out a murder disguised as suicide. Her action of leaving the room in hurry would not only cast suspicion on her, but also making it even more unlikely for her to return to Miku's room and commit the murder.

Rereading Miku's message reveals that the person who still remained in the room was not the rat (Mitsui), but actually the fox (Yuchi), thus Shinobu Yuchi was the last person who remained in the room after Mitsui had left.

Timeline of the day of murder

Nihei was the first person to come to Miku's room and asked Miku to sign an autograph for her shortly after the later took a bath in her room.

Later, Yuchi came to the room and had a quarrel with Miku, refusing to leave even after she had signed an autograph for her.

During this time, Mitsui arrived in front of the room, forcing Miku to hide Yuchi inside her bathroom. However, Yuchi took Miku's slippers instead of her own, causing Mitsui to mistakenly believe that Miku had gone to the outdoor bath.

After Miku signed an autograph for Mitsui and made her leave the room by not letting the latter use her bathroom. Yuchi drugged Miku and murdered her, disguising the crime as suicide, then utilized the stated trick to escape the room.

While there is a possibility that Nihei could also utilize the same method, her methodical personality means that it was less likely for her to pick up the wrong slippers.

Evidence

There was a strange blood mark on the bathroom towel indicating that Miku was grasping something before she died. However, no such object was found at the crime scene.

Despite the fact that they were from the same printing, the pages on Yuchi's autographed book was neatly aligned unlike those of Mitsui's and Nihei's, which means that she filed the edge with sandpaper in order to remove something from it: Miku's bloodstain. She also replaced the blooded cover for the same reason. However, Yuchi was unable to remove the remaining bloodstain that had soaked deeper into the pages, incriminating her as the true culprit of the case.

Motive

Yuchi confesses and reveals that Miku's debut book was actually a collaboration between the two. While Yuchi was initially proud of Miku when she received a Naomoto Award. She was shocked and angered when she discovered that Miku had been copying her writing style after she had tried to make her own debut as a novelist and visited an editor, who told her of the similarity between their writing styles. When Miku refused Yuchi's request to announce her involvement in the debut work, she decided to murder her in vengeance.

Trivia

The painting.

The flowers' painting in Furitsukaya Ryokan is from Your Best Friend.
The culprit's pistol is a SIG-Sauer P226.
The suspects' names come from "social media"^[1] :
- Tamami Mitsui (光井珠実) comes from Twitter (ツイッター ,Tsuittā^?) ;
- Shinobu Yuchi (湯地志信) comes from Youtube (ユーチューブ ,Yūchūbu^?) ;
- Sumika Nihei (二瓶純夏) comes from Facebook (フェイスブック ,Feisubukku^?) ;
- Isao Sawaguri (沢栗勲) comes from GREE (グリー ,Gurī^?) ;
- Miku Sawaguri (沢栗未紅) comes from GREE (グリー ,Gurī^?) and mixi (ミクシイ ,mikushī^?) ;
- Additionally, the hot springs resort "Furitsukaya" (降塚屋) comes from Flickr (フリッカ ,Furikka^?).