A Dispute Over a Platinum Ticket

Episode 719 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Platinum Ticket Commotion
Japanese title:	プラチナチケット騒動記 (Purachina Chiketto Sōdō-ki)
Original airdate:	November 23, 2013
Season:	22
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Inspector Megure Miwako Sato
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Stuffed Animals
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Music
Opening song:	Butterfly Core
Closing song:	Kimi no Egao ga Nani Yori mo Suki Datta
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Devil's Circuit
Next episode:	Fire and Water Mystery Tour »
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Inspector Megure Miwako Sato

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Murder
	Location: Masako Moka's apartment Victim: Masako Moka Cause of death: Blunt force trauma from hitting her head on the corner of the table Suspects: Unknown thief Conan, Ran, Sonoko, the workers from Marin Coffee, and Haruka Kona look for the missing Masako at her apartment to ask her about the platinum ticket online auction only to find her dead on her apartment floor.

People

Kaori Kosuda
	20 years old Coffee shop part-time worker College student

Jiro Kirima
	26 years old Manager

Haruka Kona
	23 years old Office worker

Masako Moka
	Victim (beaten) 20 years old Coffee shop part-time worker College student

Ten Uruma
	30 years old Masako's neighbor

Rin Manda
	50 years old Apartment landlady

Resolution

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The culprit is Kaori Kosuda. She stole the ticket from Haruka Kona because she wanted to impress her boyfriend, a guitarist, on his birthday. However, at the day the ticket was stolen, she overheard Kona telling her friend that her own boyfriend was also a guitarist and would have his birthday at exactly the same date, indicating that her man was really an exploitative two-timer. Therefore Kosuda committed the theft to draw his full and undivided attention to her.

After stealing it, Kosuda hid the ticket in the pocket of her cafe apron. However, after her shift at the cafe had ended, Masako Moka mistakenly took Kosuda's apron with her for wahing, thinking it was hers. When Kosuda noticed the loss and deduced that Moka had it, she followed her home, waiting for her to leave so she could retrieve the ticket from her apron, which was already in the washing machine. However, Moka returned unexpectedly early and caught her in the act. She had found the ticket before she put the apron in the machine, and was about to sell it on the Internet to save Kosuda from her two-timing boyfriend. As the two argued, Kosuda pushed Moka too hard, which resulted in the latter receiving her fatal head injury.

Kosuda attempted to make the accident look like the work of a burglar, and in order to faciliate the ruse, she replaced her own appron with Moka's. However, Moka had overlooked a red ball pen (used in the cafe for writing down customer orders) in the pocket of Kosuda's apron, and as the apron was being washed, the pen's ink was diluted and spilled out, staining Moka's other laundry pieces in the machine. While the cafe's aprons are uniformingly black, the apron's white care label was stained pink by the ink, thus proving Kosuda's guilt.

Later on, while discussing the guitarist "boyfriend's" guilt in this tragic case, a surprised Conan, Ran and Sonoko incidentally witness Haruka furiously cutting her ties with the cheater, giving him his well-deserved dues.

See also

• Season 22