Drama Episode 3

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Drama Episode 3
Information
Title:	File. 3
Broadcast rating:	4.4%
Original airdate:	July 21, 2011
Characters:	Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Eri Kisaki Miwako Sato Wataru Takagi
Suspects:	Eri Kisaki
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo
Cast: Junpei Mizobata as Shinichi Kudo Shiori Kutsuna as Ran Mouri Takanori Jinnai as Kogoro Mouri Nene Otsuka as Eri Kisaki Natsuhi Ueno as Miwako Sato Yuichi Tsuchiya as Wataru Takagi Makiya Yamaguchi as Takumi Kamikawa Hajime Okayama as Shinya Uchida Mami Yamazaki as Reika Saito
Director:	Mitsutaka Endo
Screenplay:	Takao Isami Yayoi Fukuda

The Court Murder Case Behind Closed Doors! Expose the Hostess' Murder Trick (密室法廷で起きた殺人事件! ホステス殺害トリックを暴け ,Misshitsu Hōtei de Okita Satsujin Jiken! Hosutesu Satsugai Torikku o Abake) is the 3nd episode of the Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo live-action drama. It was first aired in July 21, 2011.

Shinichi Kudo, Ran Mouri, Kogoro Mouri attend a trial at which Eri Kisaki is a witness for the defendant Reika Saito's alibi. Things get out of hand though when Reika Saito begins insulting Eri Kisaki and Eri Kisaki threatens to kill her, pointing at Reika Saito with her hand in the shape of a gun. Much to everyone's surprise, a gunshot is heard when Eri Kisaki says "bang" & Reika drops to the floor dead. Can Shinichi Kudo prove Eri Kisaki's innocence?

Cast

Introduced

Eri Kisaki
	Ran's mother Lawyer

Featured

Characters

Shinichi Kudo

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Miwako Sato

Wataru Takagi

Case

Prologue: The Third White Room

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Ran is startled by the sound of a gunshot and Shinichi holds her hand to help calm her down. After looking at the July 9, 2010 date on the display, Shinichi and Kogoro remember that it was the date of a case Shinichi solved in a court room involving Ran's mother Eri.

Situation

Ran is in the bathroom of the district court with her mother, Eri Kisaki who is applying lipstick. Eri says the lipstick puts her in a fighting spirit and comments that today is about revenge. Ran asks about getting revenge on who when Eri tells her no matter what happens in court today that she shouldn't be frightened. Shinichi then receives romance advice from Eri and Eri reveals that her first present from her boyfriend was the tube of lipstick she was using earlier. Shinichi, Ran, and Eri head into the court room where the group is surprised to see Kogoro waiting. The defendant Reika Saito is brought in who is under suspicion for the theft of 10 million yen from the safe at the Mint Rose snack bar where she works. Reika denies the charges and claims she has an alibi for when the theft occurred and that Eri is an important witness. Reika claims to have seen Eri at a love hotel with an "oily old man", much to everyone's surprise. Reika continues to tease and make fun of Eri and the man when Eri warns Reika that her "own words will take (her) life" and points her fingers in the shape of a gun at her. Just as Eri says "bang", Reika is shot. Did Eri really kill Reika?

Murder

Location: Courtroom

Victim: Reika Saito

Cause of death: Gunshot wound

Suspects: Eri Kisaki

To all onlookers, it looks at though Eri really did manage to kill Reika with a bullet to the head, but where's the murder weapon and how did Eri pull it off?

People

Takumi Kamikawa
	Public prosecutor

Shinya Uchida
	Lawyer

Reika Saito
	Victim (gunshot) Defendant Mint Rose snack bar hostess

Masako Itano
	Plaintiff Mint Rose snack bar "mama"

Man
	Presiding judge

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Uchida enters a videotape from the security camera at the Peach-Peach love hotel as evidence of Eri being at the hotel with a man, as proof that Reika and Eri's testimonies match.
  • Just as Eri says "bang", Reika was shot for real in the middle of her forehead.
  • Upon hearing the gunshot and Reika screaming, Eri dropped to the ground startled.
  • Eri uses her "finger gun" on Shinichi, pointing to his heart and telling him to remember about the present they talked about earlier and that the "expectations hidden in a present are etched into [her] fingertip".
  • Sato, Takagi, and the other policemen can't find the real murder weapon anywhere in the court room.
  • Masako Itano reveals that she saw Eri and Reika fighting over Kogoro.
  • Shinichi saw Eri pick up what seems to be her tube of lipstick off the floor of the court room.
  • When Kamikawa tells Eri's to untie her hair, Kamikawa picks up the object that falls to the floor and claims it's the murder weapon.

• Conclusion

Kamikawa is revealed to be the real murderer when he mistakenly claims that the tube of lipstick Eri was hiding in her hair was the real murder weapon. He was tricked because he had made the weapon from the same kind of lipstick Eri uses in order to frame her for the murder and smuggle the weapon into court. After firing the weapon, Kamikawa cleaned the tube of lipstick and rolled it towards Eri who mistook the tube for being her lipstick.

Eri's cryptic message to Shinichi earlier when she pointed to his heart and told him to remember the present were actually clues to the identity of the real murderer. Eri knew the tube of lipstick she picked up off the floor was actually the murder weapon because it was still hot to the touch. Because she had put her fingerprints on the weapon, she had no choice but to hide it. While no one else was looking, Eri secretly handed off the "lipstick" to Shinichi who then hid the weapon in his pocket and later hid the weapon in the videotape case.

Kamikawa continues to deny being the murderer until Shinichi and Eri reveal Reika's lie about her alibi: she never saw Eri at the love hotel because she was stealing money from the Mint Rose safe. Reika was given information about the videotape in advance from Kamikawa. If she had seen Eri in the hotel, she would've been able to realize the man Eri was with was actually a very drunk Kogoro, since Kogoro was a regular costumer at Mint Rose. Kamikawa had been in charge of a case involving the love hotel the videotape came from, which means he had access to it, and he had never met or even seen Kogoro before the trial, so he could have only told Reika that Eri had been at the hotel with a 'dirty, old man'.

• Motive

Kamikawa's motive for killing Reika was that he had received the stolen 10 million from her and Reika would've revealed everything about them, ruining Kamikawa's life and career.

Resolution: The Fourth White Room

Shinichi enters in the password "ku-chi-be-ni" ("lipstick") and the door to the next room opens. The panel in this room reads 2010.05.31 and has only two blank boxes. The trio turn around from the panel to see a white dress behind them. Shinichi connects the dress to the bride whose wedding didn't work out right because of Kogoro.

Trivia

• This drama episode is out of line with the canon Detective Conan timeline, as in the mainstream storyline, Shinichi was 7-year-old when he last saw Eri Kisaki. He only meets her again in the Coffee Shop Case ten years later as Conan Edogawa.
  • However, the live-action drama are not considered canon to the main series.

Gallery

References

1. "木曜ミステリーシアター「名探偵コナン　工藤新一への挑戦状」 ストーリー". Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. http://www.ytv.co.jp/conan-drama/story03/index.html. Retrieved on 2011-07-14. 

See also

• Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo