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This year, for the Japanese Variety show Gaki no Tsukai (No Job for Kids)'s annual "No Laughing Batsu Special", the theme was "Detectives" where the main cast who would be punished by a slap on the butt for laughing at the funny characters and situations they'd encounter. As per usual, their former manager and guide for these is Fujiwara, who would also dress in according to the theme, usually in drag, but look whom he chose to dress as this time. Not only that, they got a pretty competent child actor who looks like Fujiwara dressed as Conan to do a quick little gag near the beginning, then near the end, when there is a twist regarding a routine, he makes a surprise, dramatic reappearance and even does the "It Was You!" Pointing routine.

I said this on the cbox, but I'll repeat here. My working theory is that Akai knew Scotch was an infiltrator but not vice versa. Akai didn't feel comfortable telling Scotch for whatever reason, the typical Akai behavior. Either Bourbon or Scotch slipped (my opinion is Bourbon) and Scotch took the fall for it. Akai went to confront him and revealed his FBI allegiance (The scene where Akai is kabe-don-ning Scotch. Scotch looks panicked because he still thinks Akai is loyal BO at that point in the convo, even though it's obvious a loyal BO wouldn't let Scotch do whatever with a gun while hovering so close they are breathing each others' air ._.). They formed a last minute plan to get Scotch killed in a way that would hide his identity and allow Bourbon to continue. Akai promises Scotch not to reveal Bourbon made the mistake that led up to all of this. Meanwhile Akai regrets not forming an allegiance with Scotch and working together before everything went south because maybe Scotch could have escaped alive. (The reason I don't think that Akai got there after Scotch shot himself is because there is no blood spatter on Akai yet.) Thoughts on the murder case Rokumichi almost certainly wears contacts/glasses. The harsh face he makes while squinting and the lack of it when his vision was corrected is what caused the change in his face and image. There was no way Rokumichi was hanged on that rope. That knot doesn't slide to cinch tight like a noose knot. Rokumichi could have easily slipped out if lifted into the air alive. That means he was probably dead before he was hanged on that rope. He must have been killed on the ground and then his dead body was hauled into the air. Okiya speculated you need a huge person to do so, but with proper rope techniques, it is easily possible for a regular size person to hoist a greater weight. The use of various rope configurations (and optionally pulleys) can reduce the force needed to haul a person upwards significantly. That's why mountaineering in relevant to this case, it's the source of the rope know-how. As an example, the simplest configuration, giving a 2:1 mechanical advantage, would be tie down the non-body end of the main rope, then attach a sliding rope winch to the middle of the main rope and pull it. The exact rope configuration details though (and why those chairs are relevant at all) are still unclear to me. The baseball was was used to get the hanging rope over a stage beam so the body could be hauled upward. The thick rope can't be thrown over the high beam by itself, so a string is tried to the non-looped end of the thick rope, the string is tied to the ball, and the ball tossed over the beam. The string is then reeled in to pull the end of the thick rope up and over. Why the murderer didn't recover the ball and string by tugging on it is a mystery to me. Also the vic's sunglasses are missing. He was wearing them in the movie, but not seen with them later. Edit: One thing I forgot is that many people are accusing Amuro of irrationally hanging on to his resentment after finding out Akai didn't kill Scotch in cold blood because Amuro now thinks that Akai could have gotten Scotch out of the situation alive. While I don't disagree about Amuro being rather unreasonable, remember Akai did pull off a fabulous fake death plan so Amuro's frustration is sort of justified. Amuro just doesn't know Conan was the mastermind. Sometimes people just become hysterical when someone they deeply care about dies, and unfortunately Gosho seems portray the feeling ham-handedly to the detriment of the likability of the character. Jodie's complete loss of composure, independence, and detective skill when Akai died is a prime example.

She failed to detect both Vermouth and Bourbon during the Cherry Blossom pickpocket case, so her sense is inconsistent. I think Sakurako is going to be more like Eisuke than Tomoaki—she'll be connected to Rum, rather than actually be Rum. I'm starting to think that September 2014 AC hint was referring to Lum, too. Though Heizo and Taka'aki are still on my list of Rum suspects, Taka'aki—if Rum is Asaka and he is Rum—would've been 18, at the time. Heizo would've been in his twenties.

In both Shuukichi's introduction case, as well as the Blog case, wouldn't Haibara "sense" Yonehara if she was Rum? All things considered I'm betting on Rum being a "new character" and that the AC hint was referencing the Lum cameo...

This may not be exactly related to the topic, but I just came up with this theory. If a topic on this exists, please guide me to it.