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I get where you're coming from—quite frankly, it's on my list of probabilities, not just my list of possibilities. The 982 spoiler pics and file summary came out alongside Episode "One," a remake of DC's first case, which introduced our main character, Shinichi, and had Hina Wada in it, and, at the end, premiered the first trailer for Movie 21, which has Momiji, a Hyakunin Isshu champion, in it, and Hyakunin Isshu is apparently going to play a big role in it—quite the timing, if you ask me. Even so, I'm expecting Shinichi Wada to be a plot character.

Maybe Amuro's request to Conan on keeping his identity silent has something to do with Heiji's father being boss of Osaka Police.

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That's called stretching/reaching for explanations. As in, it requires leaps to explain. Which means it's unlikely—incredibly unlikely. And really, the only purpose of Kogoro being the Boss would be just for the sake of having a twist—there'd be no point to it, beyond the twist.

The Clash Arc took place in January at the end of Ran's winter vacation. The three patients that were suspected of being the BO mole in the hospital, entered the hospital on Dec 18, Dec 19, and Dec 21 respectively. Akai makes a comment about it being less that 20 days since the Dec 21st old man arrived at the hospital, that he wanted to stay more than 20 days to get the special insurance certificate. Then there is a few days time gap between the return of Rena and the start of the case where Camel was a suspect, allowing it to be Jan 13th. The year is never mentioned in that arc. In fact, a few chapters before Clash is a New Years chapter. There is no timeline in this series. Its a floating timeline, which means that it forever takes place in the current day. Also here is a note from Wikipedia : The 13th day of the month is slightly more likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week. On average, there is a Friday the 13th once every 212.35 days (compared to Thursday the 13th, which occurs only once every 213.59 days). Meaning that there can be more than one Friday the 13th in one year.