Characters introduced[edit]
Gadgets[edit]
Situation[edit]
Sonoko brought Ran, who brought Conan, to visit the site in the country used as location in filming of a well-received romantic TV serial, where the lead actor, who stars as a soldier, tied a red handkerchief to a tree branch to enable his lover to find him. The success of the serial went beyond expectation and the sleep rural area became a popular spot where female visitors tied red handkerchieves all over the woods, spoiling Sonoko's scheme to lure Makoto for a romantic rendezvous. They encountered a man who claimed to be part of the TV serial crew. He explains that he was the one who gave the scriptwriter the idea of the red handkerchief tied to a tree in these mountains, because he had spotted one when he was searching for a place to film. Because of the series' popularity, he had been tasked to answer fan requests. Today he had been commissioned by a fan to find the exact location of the tree with the original red handkerchief, that inspired the show. He asked Ran and Sonoko to leave a message for the fan in a guestbook at an inn, where the fan is staying. He tells them to sign the message 'Hozumi' in katakana. Ran and Sonoko agrees and leaves the message. Shortly afterwards, Hozumi was discovered, stabbed dead, at the spot.
| Murder
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| Location:
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Forest
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| Victim:
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Hozumi
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| Cause of death:
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Two stab wounds
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| Suspects:
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Isamu Okuma, Tatsuzo Watanuki, and Hans Berkeley
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| Conan seen the deadbody stabbed from chest and abdomen lying under maple tree.
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Detective Yamamura shows up leading the investigation. The murder investigation narrowed to three suspects who had arrived recently at the nearby inn, based on that Hozumi had told Ran and Sonoko that the 'fan' he was meeting had checked into the inn in that day. Then they learn from the TV-station that they couldn't find 'Hozumi' on the list of employees who worked on the TV-Show.
Conan realize something and run up to the mountains and digs in the ground only to find a skull. He calls Ran and Sonoko to tell them, that they should go home and make Sonoko reveal the location of the tree where Conan searched for her handkerchief for the suspects to hear. He tells them that he will go home with professor Agasa, so they don't have to worry for him.
Ran, concerned for Conan getting himself into dangerous situations, calls Professor Agasa, who is on his way to pick up Conan, and tricks him into revealing the meeting place.
Resolution[edit]
Conan deduced the culprit is
Tatsuzo Watanuki and the cause of the murder. Some time ago Watanuki killed someone and buried the body under a tree in the mountains. He marked the spot with a red handkerchief, so he could later dig up the body and get rid of it. Unfortunaly the red handkerchief became inspiration for a scene in a popular drama, and as a result fans came to the mountains and tied up red handkerchiefs making it impossible for Watanuki to find the real spot. He contacted Hozumi, who was the one responsible for using the red handkerchief in the drama, and paid him to find the real spot. But Hozumi discovered the body and attempted to blackmail Watanuki and got himself killed. The reason why Hozumi writes his name in Katakana is because that in Kanji it can be misread as August 1th, which was why the police couldn't find his name on the crew list. The real spot where the body was buried could easily be find because the film crew was filming at a whole other spot, since they didn't want to have to take down the original handkerchief, that inspired the drama, or accidently caught it on film. Conan confronted Watanuki at the murder site, but a shock waited him, Ran and Sonoko, Watanuki was not alone.
Watanuki was a yakuza lieutenant who brought henchmen far too numerous for Ran to deal with alone. Makoto arrived in the nick of time, he and Ran fought them off until the police arrived.
The buried body belonged to a member of the yakuza, who Watanuki had been in a feud with for leadership.
Makoto had come to the mountains because of Sonoko's message. While he did figured out the place of the meeting, because he is fan of the serie, he didn't figured out what day it was suppose to be, so he decided to camp in the mountains and wait for that day to come.
BGM listing[edit]
- At the same time as Hans Burkly, Isamu Okuma and Tatsuzo Watanuki stayed in the inn, other guests include:
- Joji Kanemoto (金本譲二 - Kanemoto Jōji)
- Shinzo Maehara (前原晋造 - Maehara Shinzō)
- Namie Kondo (近藤奈美江 - Kondō Namie)
- Tomoko Nakayama (中山知子 - Nakayama Tomoko)
Gallery[edit]
In other languages[edit]
| Language |
Title |
Translation
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 Catalan (Catalan dub) |
El mocador vermell de la Sonoko |
Sonoko's red handkerchief
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 Italian |
Il fazzoletto rosso |
The red handkerchief
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 Thai |
ผ้าเช็ดหน้าสีแดงของโซโนโกะ |
Sonoko's red handkerchief
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See also[edit]
