A Stalker's Murder Case

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Episode 71 (Int. Episode 73)
Information
Title:	A Stalker's Murder Case
Japanese title:	ストーカー殺人事件 (Sutōkā Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	August 11, 1997
Broadcast rating:	13.2%
Filler case:	#28
Season:	2
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	The Stalker
Dubbed episode:	Episode 73
English airdate:	April 19, 2005 (DVD)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Detective Boys
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Adhesive
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Miki Itō as Miho Nishitani Isshin Chiba as Policeman Naoki Makishima as Forensics officer Toshihiko Nakajima as Middle-aged man
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Kimi ga Inai Natsu

A Stalker's Murder Case (ストーカー殺人事件 ,Sutōkā Satsujin Jiken) is the 71st episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Juzo Megure

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Forensic member

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan go on a hiking trip. While walking, Kogoro noticed a vending machine and decided to buy a bottle of "Guts-man" as he was suffering from a lack of sleep. He found an extra bottle in the machine and decided to take it. After careful examination of the bottle, he decided to drink it. While he was drinking the extra bottle a passing woman screams.

Murder

Location: Town

Victim: Tatsuya Nagai

Age: 26 years old

Cause of death: Phosphoric acid poisoning

Suspects: Miho Nishitani

Tatsuya Nagai was found lying on the floor struggling, while foaming from his mouth. Conan noticed a bottle of "Guts-man" lying on the floor near the struggling Tatsuya, and pointed it out to Kogoro. Kogoro questioned Tatsuya if he had drank from the bottle, and Tatsuya nodded his head before one last struggle and died.

People

Tatsuya Nagai
	Victim (poison) 26 years old Birth date: May 27, 1971 Graduate student

Miho Nishitani
	Family restaurant worker Tatsuya's stalking victim

Police officer
	Tokyo MPD police officer

Woman
	Woman walking her dog Witness

Dog A
	Woman's dog Witness

Man
	Man walking his dog

Dog B
	Man's dog

Mr. Nagai
	Tatsuya's father Ironworks manager

Mrs. Nagai
	Tatsuya's mother

Resolution

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Miho Nishitani used a poisoned Guts-man drink to kill Tatsuya Nagai. He had pushed her down a set of stairs in public after she called the cops on him for stalking her. Worrying for her life, she knew a stalker would even want to drink what she did, purchasing a Guts-man drink in advance and putting poison in it. She did purchase another bottle from the machine, but pretended to get it, taking out the poisoned bottle instead and pretending to drink it. She left it behind on a fence for Tatsuya to drink. However, two things were wrong with the plan: a sticker on the bottle containing the poison advertised a contest that was already over, and the machine would not likely still have any left. Secondly, Kogoro found the bottle she actually paid for, but mistook it for a machine error for getting a second bottle for free. Another thing she not expect was that Nagai had made a hidden camera, hidden in his lighter which he used to take pictures of her actually committing the murder in the exact way Conan described.

Assault (Past)

Location: Train station

Victim: Miho Nishitani

Time: Last week

Crime: Shoving off the stairs

Culprit: Tatsuya Nagai

He pushed her down the stairs after she called the police on him for stalking her.

Miho says that she was too afraid knowing Tatsuya had planned to kill her eventually and the police would not help her so she decided to take matters into her own hands. Sympathetic as Miho is, a self-defense plea will not count in her case: self-defense can only be invoked if there's no premeditation, and since Miho made a whole plan to kill Nagai, it doesn't apply. However, there is evidence in Miho's favor: a bag containing an assortment of harmful tools was found by Conan in the bushes outside her home, with Tatsuya's fingerprints. This means, he had been planning on not only killing her but also torturing her in ways too gruesome to imagine. Due to this evidence, Miho will likely receive a light sentence: self-defense may not be technically appliable, but she was in a desperate enough situation to warrant killing Tatsuya to save herself.

Afterwards, Kogoro, Ran, and Conan discuss the case and how Miho had feared for life so much that she resorted to committing murder. Kogoro comments that had she not killed Tatsuya, they would have been investigating her murder instead. Ran also comments how this could happen to any woman at any time, but Kogoro laughs this off saying no one obsess over her. Insulted, Ran slices off the top of the Guts-man Soda bottle Kogoro is holding with a karate chop, frightening both Conan and Kogoro.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters and places in the Funimation Dub are:

• Tatsuya Nagai - Cary Mantle
• Miho Nishitani - Quinly Peartree
• Guts-man - Shugi Soda
• Midori Dai, 3rd District - 1774 Perrybolt LN, Polbe District 55478
• Haido- chou Family Restaurant - Greasy Meat Diner

Trivia

• This episode features the first use of the show's fifth post-credits stinger image, featuring Ran and Conan rushing toward the foreground, with a grim-looking Shinichi in the background.
• This episode was likely inspired by the real life Vending Machine Killer, an unidentified serial killer or killers in Japan who tampered with drinks from vending machines. Around the time of the initial murders, the culprit was targeting vending machines that had no CCTV cameras and tampered with a specific type of energy drink, and the poison used was a pesticide that is lethal in humans and currently has no know treatment or antidote for, and the anime similarly identifies the poison as being a phosphoric acid compound typically used in pesticides. The company in the episode is similarly running a contest, which Conan realizes is a clue to identifying the culprit, and the energy drink targeted in real life was running a "Buy 1 get 1 free" promotion at the time, and since many people were only wanting 1 drink, they would leave the extra bottles in the pickup slot at the vending machine or next to the machine. Given that this was the early to mid 80's, and that compared to western countries like the United States or Canada, Japan has a low crime rate and typically people there wouldn't be as suspicious of a free full bottle by a vending machine, this likely is why there were so many victims. Kogoro even finds an extra bottle in the pickup slot but is cautioned against drinking it by Ran and Conan.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	昼下がりの天使たち （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi (Mantenrō Vājon)	Early Afternoon Angels (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	犯人のアジト	Hannin no Ajito	The Culprit's Hideout	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
9	小さな巨人	Chiisana Kyojin	A Small Great Person	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
10	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	捜査開始	Sōsa Kaishi	The Investigation Begins	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Vōkaru・Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Vocal ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16	君がいない夏	Kimi ga Inai Natsu	The Summer Without You	Kimi ga Inai Natsu
17	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
18	事件解決（意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	خطوات مريضة	Ill Steps
Basque	Jazarlearen hilketa
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de l'assetjador	Stalker murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de l'assetjador	Stalker murder case
French	Filature ratée	A Failed Tailing
Chinese	自动贩卖机杀人事件	Automatic Vending Machine Murder Case
Chinese	米花之狼杀人事件	Wolf of Beika Murder Case
Galician	O asasinato do acosador	The murder of the stalker
German	Gift im Energy-Drink	Poison in the Energy Drink
Italian	Lo spione	The Stalker
Spanish (American dub)	Un caso de muerte en defensa propia	A death case in self-defense
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El asesinato del mirón	The murder of the voyeur
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมนักตื้อ	A stalker murder case
Vietnamese	Kẻ theo dõi bị đầu độc	A Stalker Being Poisoned

See also

• Season 2