The Trap of the Rooftop Farm

Episode 588 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Trap of the Rooftop Farm
Original airdate:	September 18, 2010
Season:	19
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Chiba

Case

Situation

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are invited to assist in a rooftop farm. Once there, they discover the elderly farmer, Takehiko Nakamura, dead from a head injury.

Murder

The police are brought in and the other three farmers are interrogated for the death.

People

Misa Mejiro
	45 years old Office worker

Shinichiro Taguchi
	51 years old Salaryman

Takehiko Nakamura
	Victim 73 years old Unemployed

Marie Inoue
	26 years old Office lady

Resolution

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Conan's discovers a shattered brick with a hole and discerning how Nakamura was murdered, tranquilizes Kogoro and reveals the farmer Marie Inoue to be the murderer. Conan reveals that she hung a brick on the handrail and concealed it with a towel and lured Nakamura to it with a phone call. When he was close enough, she pulled a rope connected to the brick hitting him on the forehead causing him to lose his balance and having him fall into the corner of the water tank. As evidence, Conan explains the towel's paint mark is from the handrail and that the rope must be in Inoue's home. Inoue confesses and reveals that Nakamura killed her crop which were grown from her father's final harvest.

See also

• Season 19