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The police are about to take Ogi to the station but stopped by Conan using Agasa’s voice with the voice changing bowtie and Agasa has to make mouth movement to make it look like what Conan says. Conan says he finally understand the whole truth of the case. You don’t need to enter the dome but there is a weapon that did tighten his neck. The Detective Boys brought a big block of ice and two PET bottles. The description of the trick: the village chief died, using PET bottles and string, which is what Agasa is about to show. Conan tied a string with two PET bottles and puts the string on top of the block of ice. The string slowly goes down. When pressure is applied to ice, it melts. Ice melts when there is pressure applied, but it soon re-freezes. The culprit tried to do this when the chief was sleeping. The trick works outside the dome. With this, they’re able to kill him from anywhere around. Genta brought the small block of ice which is the weight that was used by the culprit. When Haraguchi tries to pull the cord out of the ice, it won’t budge because it freezes. The culprit uses the lighter to burn the string. That’s why there were scotch marks by the neck. The string in ice won’t burn so easily but actually it is not burning. The culprit actually used the magnesium ribbon and it burns intensely. When Agasa uses the lighter, the ribbon creates a will-o’-the-wisp which is what Mitsuhiko saw. This must have burned the bag. The magnesium compound is burned and it’s magnesium oxide. The same thing was observed in the dome. It clears up in less than five minutes and Mika is not the culprit. For the success of this trick, one must go to the position of the sleeping chief. Like if they sleep anywhere else besides in the bed. Then Conan only knows of one person to whom it can be, the man who designed the ice hotel. The culprit is '''Tetsuya Shiota'''. Suddenly, Shiota asks how he knows where Yamaguchi sleeps. Agasa answers that the VIP bed was the perfect size for the chief. It certainly was strange, for an entire dome to have such small bed. The bed was made to fit his body. As evidence, there should be white powder on Shiota’s sleeve. It adheres when using the murder weapon, it’s the magnesium oxide. Shiota confesses to his crime and reveals Yamaguchi made Shiota sick to his stomach. Shiota was running errands to the office the other day and he heard that Yamaguchi and Ogi are talking. Yamaguchi said he reached the agreement and claims that it’s about time limit of the village’s money. Also Ogi said that he’s the one who worked the car to make it look like an accident. The expenses of the festival had been embezzled by Yamaguchi. Shiota used the long-awaited ice hotel as a murder weapon and he played the waiting game to get an iron-clad alibi. He waited for the best possible time to kill him, to create an alibi so that Mika takes no sin. Also Shiota was the one who made the main gate collapsed. Shiota wanted to protect Mika.
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The police are about to take Ogi to the station but stopped by Conan using Agasa’s voice with the Voice-Changing Bowtie. Conan says he finally understands the whole truth of the case. He explained that there's no need to enter the dome because the murder weapon killed Yamaguchi by itself. To help Conan, The Detective Boys bring a big block of ice, two PET bottles, and a string. Conan ties the string with the two PET bottles and puts the string on top of the block of ice. The string slowly goes down as the ice melts with the help of the bottles' weight on both sides of the big ice cube, but the ice soon re-freezes. The culprit tried to do this trick outside of the dome when the chief was sleeping. Haraguchi deduces that Mika is most suspicious, but Shiota defends her claiming that being a woman, she can't get rid of such a weight in a short time. To support Conan's conclusion, Genta brings a small block of glass which is the weight that was actually used by the culprit. When Haraguchi tries to pull the cord out of the ice, he can't because the cord has already frozen. In order to make the string burn easily inside the ice, the culprit used a magnesium tape along with a lighter, which explains the scorch marks that were made on the sleeping bag. When Agasa uses the lighter, the ribbon creates a will-o’-the-wisp which is what Mitsuhiko saw last night. After magnesium burned, a white matter appears behind it which is called magnesium oxide. The same thing was observed in the dome. In addition, for the success of this trick, one must know the position of the sleeping village head. There's only one person that knows that. It is '''Tetsuya Shiota''' who designed the ice hotel. As evidence, there should be magnesium oxide ,white powder, on Shiota’s sleeve; it adheres when using the murder weapon. Shiota confesses to his crime. He killed Yamaguchi because he embezzled the expenses of the festival. Shiota also made Ogi the prime suspect as he’s the one who played with brakes of the car to make it look like an accident. Shiota used the ice hotel to get an iron-clad alibi. He waited for the best possible time to kill the village head, as well as causing the gate to collapse in order to create an alibi for Mika.
 
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Revision as of 21:47, 4 September 2013

Episode 687
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Information
Title: The Unsolvable Ice Trap
Japanese title: 誰にもとけない氷の罠
(Darenimo Tokenai Kōri no Wana)
Original airdate: February 16, 2013
Season: 22
Manga source: TV Original
Case
Cast: Conan Edogawa
Ai Haibara
Professor Agasa
Detective Boys
Case solved by: Professor Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint: Gypsum
Staff
Director: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay: Asami Ishikawa
Storyboard: 大河桝玖
Episode director: Shigeru Yamazaki
Animation director: Akio Kawamura
Masanori Hashimoto
Music
Opening song: TRY AGAIN
Closing song: Hitomi no Melody
Chronology
Prev episode: « A Car Carrying a Time Bomb
Next episode: Detective Takagi Finds 30 Million Yen »
List of episodes


Cast

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Case

Situation

At the Ice Festival, Conan, Haibara, Agasa, and the Detective Boys are having a great time together. While in the festival, they meet the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Ice Festival named Mika Itakura. Her father, the former village head, was Agasa’s old friend but unfortunately, he died in a car accident last year. While the detective boys and the others are walking together, they meet the ice engraver named Tetsuya Shiota who made an awesome ice sculptures. The Detective Boys are really impressed at him when he built an ice sculpture of a bear while using a chain saw. The people in the village also made an awesome work of the ice festival. Until sudden, the village head named Tarou Yamaguchi and the secretary named Kazuyuki Ogi appear and they both say that they are going to remove the ice sculptures so the hotels are going to be built soon. Yamaguchi has already signed the contract which make Mika and Shiota disappointed. Suddenly, the main gate collapses which makes Yamaguchi decide to cancel the festival but Mika and Shiota along with the other villagers insist on rebuilding it.

Later at night, Shiota and Mika are taking the group to the Ice Hotel so they could sleep. In order to liven the festival up, Shiota suggested the idea of building the Ice Hotel. The village does have financial difficulties. Therefore, the chief is trying to attract people to Resort Toto. However, the village still can't attract much attention. The ice hotel they made then caught the eye of the chief. He negotiated and it shows an interest beyond. The ice hotel is made for the festival, but it’s been reversed now, so they’re forced to close it down. When they arrive, they see the beautiful view of the ice hotel. While walking around it, they witness Ogi being kicked out by Yamaguchi while he’s telling his secretary that he’s useless. He then throws the papers at him and closes the door. Ogi picks up the papers and flees after insulting the village head and noticing the others looking at him.

Inside the ice cabin, the Detective Boys are enjoying lying down on the fluffy beds. Mika wishes them good night and closes the door. At 4:06 AM, Mitsuhiko comes out of the restroom and sees something that scares him. He goes back into the ice cabin trembling about what he saw. The next morning, when Ogi come inside Yamaguchi’s ice house, he screams and Yamaguchi is found dead with strangle marks on his throat. Conan tells Haibara to call the police immediately.

Murder

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Location: Ice Hotel
Victim: Tarou Yamaguchi
Time: Around 2:00 AM
Cause of death: Strangulation
Suspects: Mika Itakura, Tetsuya Shiota, and Kazuyuki Ogi

The police arrive at the Ice Hotel and investigate the crime scene. The police inspector from Niigata Prefecture, Akira Haraguchi, confirms that the cause of death was the suffocation by the compression of the airway. The estimated time of death is around 2 AM. Since the strangulation is not at the back of the neck, the culprit imposed a fine string-like weapon on the top of the sleeping bag which was burned around the neck.

Afterwards, Inspector Haraguchi is questioning Mika. She was at the festival repairing the main gate with Shiota, who left the workplace at 12 and 4 AM, each for 10 minutes. Conan mentions that it seems like the entrance to the Yamaguchi’s ice house needs a key and wonders how the culprit would even get in. Haraguchi suggests that there can be many key duplicates, but Mika confirms that Ogi is the only one with duplicates. He then nervously claims that he is responsible for waking Yamaguchi up in the morning. Ogi actually doesn't have an alibi, as he was working alone on some documents at his office during the time of the crime.

While Conan walks alone at the side of the big ice house, he notices a small hole. He looks through it and sees two crime scene investigators working around the bed. The Detective Boys run to Conan but Ayumi accidentally slips. The reason why the ice floor is slippery is because ice melts when pressure is applied. While Conan is explaining that fact, an idea occurs to him. Mitsuhiko comes and adds that he saw the chief's ghost last night, which makes Conan finally figures out who the culprit is after hearing Mitsuhiko’s strange testimony.

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