Night Baron Murder Case

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Episode 68-70 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Night Baron Murder Case
Japanese title:	闇の男爵殺人事件 (Yami no Danshaku Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	July 21, 1997 (The Case) July 28, 1997 (The Suspicion) August 4, 1997 (The Resolution) August 15, 2009 (Remastered version) August 22, 2009 (Remastered version) August 29, 2009 (Remastered version)
Season:	3
Manga source:	Volume 8: Files 2-7 (072-077)
English version
English title:	Knight Baron Mystery
Dubbed episode:	Episode 70-72
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sango Yokomizo Professor Agasa Yusaku Kudo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Karate (Part 1) Building winds (Part 2) Adhesive (Part 3)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Masato Sato
Storyboard:	68 Masato Sato 69 Masato Sato 70 Akio Kawamura
Episode director:	68 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 69 Masato Sato 70 Yoshio Suzuki
Animation director:	68 Keiko Sasaki 69 Akio Kawamura 70 Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Akio Otsuka as Sango Yokomizo Sho Hayami as Shiro Konno Shigezou Sasaoka as Tokio Ebara Hiroshi Ito as Genichirou Kaneshiro Rin Mizuhara as Shizue Hayashi Chieko Enomoto as Hideko Kamijo Taro Arakawa as Satoru Maeda Chieko Honda as Akiko Sayama Isshin Chiba as Manager, Policeman A, Forensics officer A Wataru Takagi as Customer, Policeman B, Forensics officer B, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Customer, Waitress Yasuhiro Takato as Misawa
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Hikari to Kage no Roman

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sango Yokomizo Professor Agasa Yusaku Kudo (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

The Case

Conan, Ran, and Kogoro end up on a paid vacation to Izu Princess beach resort, which is actually a mystery tour, to find the masked Night Baron (a fictional character in Yusaku Kudo's books). The winner gets free room and a software design that is most likely a virus. Ten people are on the tour as well, who get tensed instantly when they find out the detective, Kogoro Mouri is on the tour too. While staring out on the balcony, the Night Baron appears and pushes Conan over the edge causing him to land in the pool.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Izu Princess Hotel Balcony Victim: Conan Edogawa Suspects: Night Baron

Later that night, when Conan, Ran, and Satoru are on the outlook lounge, and Kogoro and Hideko at the pub, the Night Baron shows again but something went wrong, he went to the window and falls and is stabbed at the statue's spear.

Murder
	Location: Izu Princess Hotel Outdoor Restaurant Victim: Tokio Ebara Cause of death: Falls from a great height and stabbed Suspects: Shiro Konno, Genichirou Kaneshirou, Shizue Hayashi, Hideko Kamijo, Satoru Maeda, and Akiko Sayama

Can Conan figure out who the Night Baron is? And why is the Night Baron giving away a computer virus?

The Suspicion

While Kogoro investigates the murder of Tokio Ebara, the Night Baron costume is stolen and dawned once more. The thief's intent: a duel with Ran.

The Resolution

Conan, Kogoro, and Inspector Yokomizo solve the case, but who really is Night Baron?

People

Shiro Konno
	28 years old Banker

Tokio Ebara
	Victim (stabbed) 32 years old Computer programmer

Genichirou Kaneshiro
	74 years old Computer company owner

Shizue Hayashi
	56 years old Kaneshiro's servant

Hideko Kamijo
	29 years old Computer software company president

Satoru Maeda
100px	30 years old Jonan University Electronics Department assistant

Akiko Sayama
	24 years old High school math teacher

Resolution

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The killer was Akiko Sayama. Ebara's hackings and dealings were the cause of her beloved older brother's death. Ebara hacked into his company's records and stole the program he invested every penny of the company in, which drove him to suicide; she organized the trip to punish Ebara with her own hands. (He also tried to sell the program to Kamijo, his ex-wife; she realized that it was a stolen program and stopped its sale).

After the dinner Sayama called Ebara up to her room, hinting that she would give him the "Night Baron" virus. Once he entered her room, she drugged him to make him fall asleep, went off to his room to plant the glove Kogoro found stuck to the balcony, and then put the rest of the Night Baron outfit on him before she threw him off the building. While landing on the statue was a fluke, landing in that general area was a part of her plan. In order to conceal the fact that Ebara wasn't in her room, she dropped his body out the window, causing it to fall in the area directly beneath his room's balcony. However, Akiko's plan backfired. She failed to factor in the force of the Hime-Kaze (Princess Wind), which was blowing at the time of the murder. Conan, as Kogoro, had the police release several mattresses from each suspect's room, each mattress carrying weights to give them approximately the same weight as a person and a sheet to act like Night Baron's cape. Thanks to the force of the wind and the cape catching that force, none of the mattresses landed beneath any of their respective balconies. The only way to make Ebara's body land beneath his own balcony in spite of the wind was to drop his body in an area of the hotel that would shield it from the wind. With the suspect list in mind, that area is only accessible from one room: 1901. Akiko's room.

The Night Baron that attacked Ran and Sayama, however, was Satoru Maeda, a fake Night Baron with no connection to the murder. After noticing a few anomalies about Ebara's body, he began to suspect Sayama and went through their luggage in search of the Night Baron wig in her suitcase - she had originally intended to include it with the rest of the costume she placed on Ebara, but their reunion revealed that she didn't need it since Ebara's hair already looked the part. With proof in hand, he realized his girlfriend's plans and made his own plan to divert attention away from her so she wouldn't go to jail. The first part was to not reveal the alibi that he did have, as to not create inconsistencies within any possible confession he may have to make. The second was to steal the costume and appear in front of Akiko and someone else, creating a phony alibi for Akiko; stealing the costume proves there's only one costume, and only one costume would lead people to believe there's only one Night Baron, which couldn't be Akiko.

Maeda insists that he's the real killer, but Conan via Kogoro reveals that he's not. He is also convicted, but for interfering with the investigation and the offenses that came with it, and is likely to get a lighter sentence. Sayama tells Maeda to forget about her since she's not a good woman; he promises to wait for Sayama's release, however, and despite trying to put on a mask of stoicism, she can't help crying as she's taken away.

Remastered version

A remastered version of the entire case was aired over the span of August 15, 22, and 29, 2009. Instead of editing the episodes and combining them into an hour, all three standalone episodes were remastered.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters and places in the Funimation Dub are:

• Shiro Konno - Mark McKean
• Tokio Ebara - Romero Rojas
• Genichirou Kaneshiro - Winston Cadbury
• Shizue Hayashi - Clarissa Bunn
• Hideko Kamijo - Heidi Camino
• Satoru Maeda - Cliff Reed
• Akiko Sayama - Audra Kelly
• Satomi (Shiro's Mother) - Naomi (Mark's Mother)
• Izu Princess Hotel Private Beach - St. Anne Island

See also

• Season 3