The Mystery of the Water-Flowing Stone Garden

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Episode 282-283 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Mystery of the Rock Garden with the Continuously Flowing Water
Original airdate:	June 17, 2002 (Part 1) June 24, 2002 (Part 2)
Season:	10
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Sango Yokomizo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Yoshifumi Fukushima
Storyboard:	282 Yasumi Mikamoto 283 Takaaki Ishiyama
Episode director:	282 Minoru Tozawa 283 Shintaro Itoga
Animation director:	282 Keiko Sasaki 283 Hirobi Muranaka,　Izumi Shimura
Music
Opening song:	I can't stop my love for you♥
Closing song:	Yume mita ato de

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sango Yokomizo

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Kogoro, and Ran enter a mansion to meet up with the President of a large company. Various friends, co-workers, and rival business presidents show up for the dinner, where the tensions are very high. After staying for the night, a worker discovers the President's body, in a water stone garden, that fills and re-fills itself automatically as the day goes by.

Murder
	Location: Majima Household Victim: Michiyoshi Majima Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Ayaka Honjo, Masayuki Hashimoto, Nobuaki Endo, and Tomonori Kiyama.

However, by the dead body, there are no footprints. Could this be an impossible crime?

Part 2

Inspector Sango Yokomizo arrives on the scene, and begins an investigation. Kogoro believes he has solved the case, and even tries to show everyone how the killer could have done the murder.

People

Michiyoshi Majima
	Victim (strangled) 50 years old Kiyama Furniture director

Ayaka Honjo
	24 years old Housekeeper

Masayuki Hashimoto
	37 years old Director Majima's private secretary

Nobuaki Endo
	45 years old Director of Kiyama Interior

Tomonori Kiyama
	28 years old Freelance writer

Resolution

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After this fails, Conan stuns Kogoro with his watch, and tells everyone the real trick. The crime was probably committed around 8:30 PM, the culprit tied a rope to the air mat, and floated Majima's body on the water. Soon after, drainage began and the water receded and right before the air mat hit the sand, they shoved Majima's body with the picking rod, while pulling back the air mat with all their might. With that, it was possible to place the corpse in the middle of the rock garden without a trace. Incidentally, marks were left on the rocks at the edge of the pool when the air mat was dragged out and at that time it was probably washed out from Majima's pocket and a ticket to the photo exhibition ended up stuck in the drain. The culprit probably panicked when they suddenly came by, if Endou cancelled his plans it would have been all for nothing that was why when Endou was supposed to meet with Majima, the culprit took them outside, and declares Tomonri Kiyama did it. After Kiyama left the dining hall, he did not return to his room but went to the main wing of the house and killed Majima. Ayaka was still in the dining hall, so there was no worry that he would be seen and to float the body in the rock garden, Kiyama just kept waiting for Endou to close Ayaka's curtains. In brief, Endou intended to conceal Majima's movements but had assisted in Kiyama's criminal act instead. And on the air mat, there's something on it, it was from the momento that he said never left his side ink from his father's fountain pen.

Kiyama confesses and reveals Majima murdered his father, the previous director of the company, Majima messed with the brakes and had his father fall to his death and while his away, he made himself the director and took over his father's company, When he learned of that, he thought he would kill Majima one day, with his own hands. Endou gave him the perfect opportunity to do so, and he consecrated his corpse to the rock garden that his father loved.

See also

• Season 10