The Kanmon Strait of Friendship and Murderous Intent

Chronology
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Episode 299-300 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Kanmon Strait of Friendship and Murderous Intent
Japanese title:	友情と殺意の関門海峡 (Yuujou to Satsui no Kanmon Kaikyou)
Original airdate:	November 4, 2002 (Part 1) November 18, 2002 (Part 2)
Season:	11
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Palm mark (Part 1) Video camera (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Hiroshi Matsuzono
Episode director:	299 Johei Matsuura 300 Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	299 Akiko Kawashima 300 Keiko Sasaki
Music
Opening song:	I can't stop my love for you♥
Closing song:	Mushoku

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro has won another contest and so he, Conan and Ran go on vacation, where 4 friends recognize him as the famous detective Kogoro Mouri by the name of Eiko Nojima, Akane Isaka, Keisuke Otsubo and Touru Akitaya. He has dinner with them which is interrupted by a rude man by the name of Seiji Hario, who is trying to buy one of the friend's businesses, but they refuse to sell. The rude man is found dead, hit on the head with a rock.

Murder

Location: Beneath the Kanmonkyo Bridge Victim: Seiji Hario Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Eiko Nojima, Akane Isaka, Keisuke Otsubo, and Touru Akitaya On the way to visit the late Daimyo and their ancestor, Motonari Mouri, Conan, Ran and Kogoro stumble on the murder of Seiji Hario that the police are investigating. The suspicion quickly falls on the four friends who all have motive to murder him. However, every have airtight alibis. Is the murderer a work of an outsider?

Mouri immediately suspects the four friends who all had motives, but when he questions them they all have alibis.

Part 2

With some investigation by the police and Kogoro, Conan begins and investigation of his own. He discovers that the friends took advantage of one person in the group's poor eyesight, so that one of them could commit the murder. It is then revealed that 13 years ago that man caused their 5th friend to commit suicide.

After some talk with Ran, Eiko turn herself to the police and confessed that she murdered Hario because he refused to say sorry and apologize to the late Hondo. Kogoro doesn't trust her and deduces that she is trying to cover the true murderers.

People

Eiko Nojima
	30 Years old

Akane Isaka
	30 Years old

Keisuke Otsubo
	30 Years old

Touru Akitaya
	30 Years old

Seiji Hario
	Victim (bludgeoned) 30 years old

Officer Anzai
	Detective from Yamakuchi Prefecture Police

Officer Kusuda
	Detective from Shimenonoseki Central Police Station

Resolution

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Conan stuns Kogoro and declares Touru Akitaya is the culprit. Kogoro says when Nojima hit Hario he just regained consciousness but when she left he killed Hario by using the rock that Nojima used. The evidence that Hario was attacked twice is that there's too much dirt on his hand and fingernail.

Akitaya confesses and reveals he can't give his company to Hario. Ran then asked him is that the only thing? Ran then said that she knows Akitaya wants to protect Nojima for being accused by Hario for their friendship and for love that he never confessed to her due to that she still loved Hondo.

See also

• Season 11