Murder at the Townhouse Café

Episode 992
Information
Title:	Murder at the Townhouse Café
Japanese title:	町家カフェでの事件 (Machiya Kafe de no Jiken)
Original airdate:	December 26, 2020
Broadcast rating:	9.3%
Filler case:	#341
Season:	29
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Doughnut
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Akatsuki Yamatoya
Storyboard:	Koichiro Kuroda
Episode director:	Koichiro Kuroda
Animation director:	Seiji Muta and Nobuyuki Iwai (supervisors) Michitaka Yamamoto Kaoru Nagakawa Chiharu Mukai tofu Marie Nagano (asst.)
Character Design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (design works) Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Takuo Kawamura as Satoshi Tomita Naoki Imamura as Kenji Nonaka Fukushi Ochiai as Yoshihisa Furukawa Takuya Eguchi as Chitose Sakai
Music
Opening song:	JUST BELIEVE YOU
Closing song:	Hoshiai
Chronology
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List of episodes

Murder at the Townhouse Café (町家カフェでの事件 ,Machiya Kafe de no Jiken) is the 992nd episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Conan, Ran, and Sonoko are in a townhouse cafe, when later, the manager Satoshi Tomita is found unconscious on the floor.

Attemped Murder
	Location: "Sweets" cafe Victim: Satoshi Tomita Age: 37 years old Injury: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Chitose Sakai, Kenji Nonaka, and Yoshihisa Furukawa When Nonaka enters the bathroom, he discovers the manager lying on the floor after being struck in the head.

The suspects are a part-time worker, a cafe owner in the neighborhood and a customer. The police suspects Nonaka because he didn't have an alibi, but Conan, with help of some clues, discovers the real culprit.

People

Satoshi Tomita
	Victim (beaten-injured) 37 years old "Sweets" café manager

Chitose Sakai
	19 years old Part-time worker Student

Kenji Nonaka
	42 years old Rival café owner Regular customer

Yoshihisa Furukawa
	34 years old Customer

Resolution

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Conan tranquilizes Sonoko and reveals that the culprit is Chitose Sakai. He used a camouflage in the yard to go to the bathroom to struck Tomita. He confesses and reveals that he gave too much ideas, but Tomita only considered him as a part-time worker. At the end of the episode, Conan discovers that Yoshihisa Furukawa didn't pay yet and planned to dine and dash because of his money problems.

See also

• Season 29