Volume 4
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| Release date: | February 18, 1995 | ||
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| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-123374-0 | ||
| Publisher: | Shogakukan | ||
| English release date: | March 1, 2005 | ||
| English ISBN: | ISBN 1-59116-632-2 | ||
| English Publisher: | Viz Media | ||
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Volume 4 was released on February 18, 1995 in Japan.
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
Museum Owner Murder Case
File 030 - The Armored Knight
Two security guards at the Beika Art Museum see a medieval suit of armor moving on its own. Ran hears the rumor and wants to visit the museum; when Conan and Kogoro mock her for believing it might be true, she forces them to come along for fear of her karate skills. While admiring a painting, Ran meets Ochiai, the curator of the museum, who explains his love for the art and then berates a museum worker named Kubota for not handling a painting properly. Another worker, Iijima, takes over the job before they are interrupted by the museum's new owner, Manaka, arriving with an architect. The museum will be demolished soon to make a hotel, despite the sale having hinged on the promise to keep the museum open. After Kubota accidentally drops a helmet, Manaka mentions his plans to sell all the museum pieces, which frustrates Kubota enough to throw it down after — but Conan notices that Ochiai doesn't lecture Kubota this time.
Conan, Kogoro and Ran visit the rest of the museum. As they are about to leave, Ran notices a previously closed gallery has reopened and convinces the other two to come along. In the "Hell Gallery" they first see a large painting of a knight having stabbed a demon in the name of justice. Ran then hears a dripping sound and turns to find that Manaka has been pinned to the opposite wall by a sword through the throat. Inspector Megure arrives to investigate, and he, Kogoro, and Conan check the surveillance cameras to see if the culprit was recorded. However, the murderer had been lying in wait in the guise of a knight's suit of armor.
File 031 - Dying Message
The surveillance camera caught all of Manaka's brutal murder, multiple stabbings ending with him pinned to the wall and the knight walking away, towards the camera — exactly like, Kogoro and Conan realize, the painting in the gallery. Because the gallery was blocked off at 4 p.m. but re-opened by 5 p.m., and the video timestamps set the murder at about 4:30 p.m., Inspector Megure deduces that the murderer must be a museum worker. Conan also notices that Manaka tried to write something on a piece of paper between the first attack and his death; while he threw the pen away, the paper remains crumpled in his hand, and names Kubota as the killer. Kubota has no alibi as Ochiai had him doing a task in the office, where he was alone. He has motive because, as Iijima reveals, the owner wanted Kubota to repay the money he'd made selling pieces off secretly.
Conan finds a pen on the ground, which anyone in the museum could have forgotten on the table. It matches the video image and has ink, so Inspector Megure concludes that it was the pen Manaka used. Kubota is detained as they wait for the suit of armor to be found. Conan is unsatisfied with Kubota's apparent carelessness and why he would mirror a painting when he has no great love for art. Conan convinces the police officers to let him watch the surveillance footage one more time. He notices that Manaka looks shocked when he sees the paper he writes on, and realizes that the pen Conan found had its point retracted, when there wouldn't have been reason or time for Manaka to retract it before throwing it away. Conan tricks his way into re-examining the dying message, and finds inkless scribbles over the original writing. The police find the armor in Kubota's locker, but Conan has figured out the truth and knows the murderer's trick.
File 032 - The Pen That Cannot Write
A few days later, Kogoro has made the headline of the paper for solving the crime, and public interest has ensured that the gallery will stay open.
People
Shinkansen Bomb Case
Gadgets introduced
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File 033 - Running Into The Two
Kogoro attempts to shave while on the train to Kyoto for a wedding. Ran complains about his manners, and his fake excuse of meeting a client late when he simply got drunk. She came along to see Kyoto for the first time, and brought Conan rather than leave him alone in Tokyo. Kogoro, annoyed, asks if they've heard from Conan's parents yet, prompting Conan to make an excuse to slip away rather than face more questions about his fake family. Conan bitterly remembers the men and drug who shrank him in the first place, only for the very same men in black to appear in front of him moments later as passengers on the train. Conan starts to panic, but they dismiss him as a little kid and go to sit down. Conan schemes to steal a sample of the drug for Agasa to make a cure from, so Conan can grow back up and expose their crimes.
Later, Conan follows the two men to the train's second floor dining car, but Ran interrupts his spying and drags him back to their car. Conan attempts to hide a gum-wrapped mic bug under the seat of one of the men, but Ran catches him and fortuitously throws the mic into the ashtray of the same seat. When the men in black return, Conan eavesdrops via the glasses and learns their code names: Gin and Vodka. They exchanged a black attache case with information about gold for 400 million yen, but Gin reveals to Vodka that there is actually a bomb inside, which the buyer will accidentally set off at 3:10 pm and blow the train to bits.
Conan starts to shout the last word Gin said, drawing their attention, but quickly covers by reciting a math equation beginning with the same sound and they dismiss him again. Gin and Vodka disembark at Nagoya station. Conan starts to chase after them, determined to learn more, but Ran catches him before he can get off the train. Disappointed, Conan turns his mind to the problem of the bomb, and how to figure out within the 40 minutes left until 3:10 which of the hundreds of passengers possesses the deadly case.
