The Blind Spot in the Darkness

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Episode 170-171 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Blind Spot in the Darkness
Original airdate:	November 29, 1999 (Part 1) December 6, 1999 (Part 2)
Season:	7
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Characters introduced

Tomoaki Araide
	25 years old Occasionally, basketball coach and school medic at Teitan High School

Hikaru Yasumoto
	22 years old Housemaid

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Eri Kisaki Shinichi Kudo (voice) Officer Tome

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan as Shinichi calls Ran but she's got something do and someplace to go. Conan muses that Ran must have something going on, something that's making her happy with anticipation. Hmmm? Next, Kogoro Mouri gets Ran & Conan in the car and drives them to his doctor's office. The doctor had insisted that he bring his family. While they're all in the doctor's home-based office, Ran asks the doctor's wife to use their bathroom. On the way there, she bumps into the doctor's young altruistic and brilliant son, knocks a sheaf of papers from his hands, and experiences a significant touch from his hand to the top of hers when picking up the papers. Later, after accepting an invitation to dinner there, both Kogoro and the doctor's wife suggest that the son, Tomoaki Araide, and Ran marry! They were both enthusiastic about it. Conan was jealous, big time! The doctor gets electrocuted and in this part 1, it's determined to be murder some clues are uncovered.

Murder

Location: Araide house bathroom Victim: Yoshiteru Araide Cause of death: Electrocution in bathtub Suspects: Yoko Araide, Tomoaki Araide, Hikaru Yasumoto, and Mitsu Araide Yoshiteru Araide leaves to take his habitual bath before dinner. A blackout occurs while Yoshiteru Ariade is in the bath. Hikaru Yasumoto resets the circuit breaker once, and then once again when the lights go back out. Yoko Araide and Hikaru go to check on Yoshiteru, and find him dead in the full bathtub with a submerged electric razor.

People

Yoshiteru Araide
	Victim (electrocuted) 51 years old Local practitioner Tomoaki's father

Yoko Araide
	46 years old Yoshiteru's second wife

Tomoaki Araide
	25 years old Doctor Yoshiteru's son

Hikaru Yasumoto
	22 years old Housemaid

Mitsu Araide
	74 years old Tomoaki's grandmother

Resolution

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See also

• Season 7