The Falling from the Condo Case

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Episode 232 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Falling from the Condo Case
Japanese title:	マンション転落事件 (Manshon Tenraku Jiken)
Original airdate:	May 7, 2001
Season:	9
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Detective Chiba Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Clock sound
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Satoshi Kitagawa
Storyboard:	Kazuo Nogami
Episode director:	Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Next Conan's Hint Isshin Chiba as Detective Chiba Toshiyuki Morikawa as Joji Ueda Takashi Onozuka as Mitsuo Yoshimura Yasuo Muramatsu as Ryoji Hara Shinichiro Miki as Umemoto Mie Akagi as Waitress
Music
Opening song:	destiny
Closing song:	Start in my life

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure 100px Detective Chiba Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Kogoro Mouri accepts a case to help to find out who has been sending threatening phone calls and letters. On the way to the man's apartment with his friend, Kogoro and Conan witness the man fall to his death.

Accident?
	Location: Alley near a convenience store near the apartment Victim: Mitsuo Yoshimura Cause of death: Fell from the balcony Suspects: Joji Ueda

People

Joji Ueda
	29 years old Tokyo medical school doctor

Mitsuo Yoshimura
	Victim (fell) 25 years old Tokyo medical school doctor

Ryoji Hara
	56 years old Apartment manager

Umemoto
	Florist

Resolution

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Conan finds out that the culprit is Joji Ueda and solves the case. Yoshimura has the habit to use the warehouse's stairs next door to get to his unit in the condo because every night the condo's elevator stops at every floor for security purposes. The space between his balcony and the warehouse's courtyard is within a jumping distance, making it easier for him to go to his unit. The culprit knows this habit and used it for the murder to make it look like an accident. He rearranged his room furnitures to make the room similar to Yoshikawa's room. While they're drinking whiskey together, Ueda put some sleeping pills in Yoshimura's drink to knock him out and brought Yoshimura to the culprit's unit, laid him on the bed, and closed the room's light so that Yoshimura wouldn't notice that he wasn't in his unit. Ueda used Unemoto, a florist, for his plan. He ordered flowers to be delivered to his unit at 7pm. Ueda called Yoshimura to wake him up and while they were talking to the phone, the florist knocked on the door to deliver the flowers because the doorbell is broken. Mistaking it for the man after him, he tried jumping to the next building as usual. He fell to his death. Ueda was caught because in Yoshimura's telephone, there wasn't any call received on the time of the crime.

See also

• Season 9