Diplomat Murder Case

2011-11-24T04:27:21Z

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{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 48-49
| image = TV Episode 48-49.jpg
| title = Diplomat Murder Case
| english-title = No Immunity for the Diplomat
| japanese-title =
| season = [[Season 2|2]]
| manga = [[Volume 10|Volume 10: Files 2 ~ 6]]
| airdate = February 17, 1997 (Part 1) February 24, 1997 (Part 2)
| english-airdate = August 12, 2004 (Part 1) August 16, 2004 (Part 2)
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Shinichi Kudo]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Shinichi Kudo]]
| director = [[Kenji Kodama]]
| organizer = [[Masato Sato]]
| storyboard = [[Masato Sato]]
| producer = 48 [[Kazuo Nogami]] 49 [[Susumu Ishizaki]]
| animation-director = 48 [[Masatomo Sudo]], [[Takashi Hyoudo]] 49 [[Masatomo Sudo]]
| prev-episode = Sports Club Murder Case
| next-episode = Library Murder Case
| footnotes =
| opening-song = Feel Your Heart
| closing-song = Meikyuu no Lovers
}}
== Characters introduced ==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Heiji Hattori]]|image = Heiji Hattori.jpg|link = Heiji Hattori|description =
* High school student
* Detective}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Heizo Hattori]]|image = Heizo Hattori.jpg|link = Heizo Hattori|description =
* [[Heiji Hattori]]'s father
* Chief of the Osaka Police District}}
{{EndBox}}

== Cast ==

{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===
==== Part 1 ====
Conan has to deal with some stiff competition when Heiji Hattori, heralded as the ‘Great Detective of the West', comes looking for Shinichi Kudo to prove which of them is the best detective. However, before Conan can save his reputation, he must first save himself, as a mysterious sickness threatens to close his file for good!

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP48-49_Case.jpg
| location = Tsujimura household
| victim = Isao Tsujimura
| cause-death = Poison
| suspects = Toshimitsu Tsujimura
| description =
}}

==== Part 2 ====
Shinichi Kudo returns to the surprise of everyone, especially himself! As Shinichi tries to expose the real secret behind the perfectly sealed room, the rivalry between he and Heiji Hattori heats up! Deceit and treachery are revealed, as Isao Tsujimura's killer is finally unmasked!

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Kimie Tsujimura|Kimie_Tsujimura.jpg|
* 50 years old
* Wife of Diplomat, Isao Tsujimura}}
{{People|Fumio Koike|Fumio_Koike.jpg|
* 48 years old
* Butler to the Tsujimura family}}
{{People|Yukiko Katsuragi|Yukiko_Katsuragi.jpg|fsize=0.98em|squeezed=1|
* 24 years old
* Takayoshi Tsujimura's girlfriend
* Student at Touto Medical School}}
{{People|Takayoshi Tsujimura|Takayoshi_Tsujimura.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Isao Tsujimura's only son
* Legal apprentice}}
{{People|Toshimitsu Tsujimura|Toshimitsu_Tsujimura.jpg|
* 78 years old
* Isao Tsujimura's father
* Retired college professor}}
{{People|Isao Tsujimura|Isao_Tsujimura.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 54 years old
* Diplomat}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
The killer was none other than Kimie, Tsujimura's wife. 20 years ago, she was married to a man named Kenji Yamashiro and they had a little daughter; Tsujimura, who was in love with Kimie and jealous of Yamashiro, staged a cruel trap to accuse Yamashiro of being involved in a fraud (with the help of his father Toshimitsu). Yamashiro was sent to jail and died there soon, then Tsujimura courted the extremely distraught Kimie and, as soon as Yamashiro died, convinced her to marry him. Kimie wqas unaware of this and accepted, as she was completely devastated and had to give up her child's custody to Yamashirou's family.

20 years after the "fraud", Takayoshi brought a picture of the girl he had fallen for... who happened to be Yukiko, Kimie and Yamashirou's daughter. Tsujimura was horrified and started screaming at his son for wanting to marry "that man's child". Kimie recognized Yukiko in the picture and started to get suspicious, then Tsujimura revealed the truth to her. So she planned to kill her "husband" to get at him, using her visit to Kogoro to ask about Yukiko's family as an excuse that would provide her for an alibi.
</spoiler>

==Dub changes==
*In the English Dub, after the accusation of spying on Ran Shinichi states that he's a detective & that's what he does, whereas in the Japanese Version he states that he can tell how Ran is doing by hearing her voice.
*In the English Dub, Heiji drops subtle hints that the two men who poisoned him were [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]], whereas in the Japanese Version he merely acknowledges Shinichi as a worthy rival. The dub change presumably was made to fix a story problem for the upcoming ''[[Game Company Murder Case]]'' (see that page's continuity error).
*In the English Dub, Heiji also, in the same lines about Gin and Vodka, alludes to the fact that he already knows that Shin'ichi is Conan, despite the fact that he doesn't deduce this until his next appearance in ''[[Holmes Freak Murder Case]]''.
*There may also be some subtle foreshadowing of Heiji being a part of the [[Black Organization]] in his words about Gin and Vodka, but because this only occurs in the dub, it is most likely a mistake on the dub's scripter's part.

==See also==
*[[Season 2]]

[[Category:Episodes]]

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