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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Vermouth
| japanese-name = {{Lang|ja|ベルモット}} (Berumotto)
| english-name = Vermouth
| image = EP813-Vermouth.jpg
| age = Her true age is unknown (29) Chris Vineyard<ref>[[Volume 24#File 239 - The Black Burial Ranks|Volume 24, File 239: "The Black Burial Ranks"]]</ref> (?) Sharon Vineyard
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Actress [[Black Organization]] member
| nicknames = Rotten Apple ([[FBI]])
| aliases = Chris Vineyard Sharon Vineyard
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|File 239]] Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176]]
| appearances = {{:Vermouth Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 26]] (Chris Vineyard) [[Volume 35]] (Sharon Vineyard) [[Volume 78]] (Scar Akai) [[Volume 90]] (Azusa Enomoto)
| japanese-voice = [[Mami Koyama]]
| english-voice = [[Laura Post]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Vermouth|ベルモット|Berumotto}}''', also known as '''{{nihongo|Sharon Vineyard|シャロン・ヴィンヤード|Sharon Vin'yādo}}''' and '''{{nihongo|Chris Vineyard|クリス・ヴィンヤード|Kurisu Vin'yādo}}''', is an actress and member of the [[Black Organization]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Vermouth's background is very mysterious because she has been secretly living at least two lives through the art of disguise: that of actress Sharon Vineyard (now "deceased") and her supposed daughter, Chris Vineyard.

As the actress Sharon Vineyard, Vermouth gained much fame on Broadway and in movies, even winning an Oscar. Even then, she was a member of the Black Organization. Twenty years ago, she murdered [[Jodie Starling]]'s [[FBI]] father who had collected information on her. Jodie Starling would eventually grow up to be an FBI agent and one of Vermouth's most bitter enemies. As Sharon, Vermouth became close friends with [[Yukiko Kudo]] back when they were studying disguise under [[Toichi Kuroba]].

At some point Sharon began to pretend to have a daughter named Chris, who she did not got along with after she played a rude prank. That fact might have serve as a pretext to why the two 'identities' wouldn't be seen together in public. While Sharon was still alive, Chris kept out of the public eye except for acting in movies and giving interviews. Less than one year ago, Vermouth staged Sharon Vineyard's death, which allowed Chris to come out publicly. Currently, Vermouth serves the Black Organization with the public name Chris Vineyard.

Vermouth is the [[The Boss|boss]]' favorite which grants her some independence. Vermouth also has some particular connection to the boss that she does not want known by the greater organization, which [[Bourbon]] is blackmailing her with.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 898: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref> She also appears not to age or have de-aged over a period of twenty years between when she killed Jodie's parents and her current appearance. She doesn’t seem to like [[APTX 4869|the research]] that [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano|her]] [[Elena Miyano|parents]] engaged in, calling it “foolish".<ref>[[Volume 42#File 434 - Rotten Apple|Volume 42, File 434: "Rotten Apple"]]</ref>

Vermouth entered the storyline some time after [[Ai Haibara|Shiho Miyano/Sherry/Ai Haibara]]'s mysterious flight from the Organization. Her main objective was to track down and eliminate the 'traitor', and for that purpose she assumed the identity of doctor [[Tomoaki Araide]]. But although she managed to discover Shiho's reversion into a child, she did not succeed in killing her, as she met [[Conan Edogawa]], who was able to discover and thwart her plans. She also encountered the FBI during this process.

Vermouth has great personal interest in Conan, constantly calling him "[[Silver Bullet]]". Since it has been revealed that she knows about Ai and Kudo's reversion to their child forms, she seems to know the shrinking effect the drug can have, but for reasons yet unrevealed she keeps this knowledge secret from the rest of the Organization.

== Personality ==
Although she follows orders from the boss and [[Gin]] when he is charge of missions, Vermouth often acts according to her own agenda and whims, even when it runs contrary to the [[Black Organization]]'s best interests. She is secretive and manipulative, even towards other Organization members. Vermouth is confident in her abilities, is very bold, and an expert at manipulating situations to her advantage: traits which allow her to single-handedly weave complex plots and take the upper hand even while she is being monitored by enemies. She is intelligent and insightful, correctly suspecting the allegiance of Kir, but she was successfully outwitted by [[Conan]] and forced by [[Shuichi Akai]] to retreat.
[[File:Vermouth provokes Gin.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth teases Gin and Vodka by disguising as a waiter.]]
Vermouth's personality is contradictory at times. On one hand, she is a cruel and ruthless agent who will blackmail an unwilling man to commit murder by threatening him and his family just to provide a distraction and happily tell [[Jodie Starling|an FBI agent]] she should smile because she will see her dead father again in heaven. On the other hand, she risks her life several times to protect Conan (Cool Guy), [[Ran]] (Angel), and [[Kogoro]], and her friendly behavior while in disguise as Tomoaki Araide left the real Araide wondering if Vermouth is really a bad person. This inconsistency may reflect an underlying conflict of conscience after [[Shinichi]] (Cool Guy / Silver Bullet) and Ran (Angel) saved her life during the events of the [[Vermouth_timeline#Golden_Apple_Case_.28Manga:_350-354_Anime:_286-288.29|Golden Apple case]]. Vermouth also appears to be an atheist at first as she claims to not believe in God nor angels until Ran unknowingly rescued her which seemed to have given her back some faith.

At this point, Vermouth's motives are very mysterious. She knows about Conan being Shinichi, as well as that Haibara is Sherry, yet she has kept this information a secret from the rest of the Organization. She dislikes the Miyano family's research. She also retains personal feelings for persons who have earned a special place in her heart, such as Shinichi/Conan (Cool Guy) (as the son of [[Yukiko Kudo|her best friend]]) and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] (Angel).<ref name="e288">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case, Part 3]].</ref> As a result, she is highly unwilling to do them any harm even when she is ordered to do so.

While she does kill people, something suggests that she is not much into killing children. When Jodie, as a child, caught Vermouth, Vermouth didn't kill her directly but instead asked her to stay in the house, which she later set on fire. It could mean that she doesn't like to kill children directly. And when she questions a young witness, [[Toji Funemoto]], about Kir's accident, she lets him live.

She enjoys teasing others, seen when she disguised as a male waiter and served Gin and Vodka martinis and taunted Chianti by wishing her good luck and blowing her a kiss.<ref>[[Volume 49#File 501 - Follow the Target!|Volume 49, File 501, page 7: "Follow the Target!"]]</ref>

== Abilities ==
=== Disguise ===
[[File:Vermouth taking off Araide's mask.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth removes a latex mask.]]
Vermouth is able to mimic anyone's appearance and voice exactly with her disguise and acting skills even after observing them for only a short period of time. Vermouth frequently utilizes latex masks. Her disguising ability has been noted by Conan to be on par with the current Kaito Kid (Kaito Kuroba).<ref>[[Volume 44|Volume 44, File 457, Page 7]]</ref> Although she may have known how to disguise prior to meeting [[Toichi Kuroba]], she studied disguise under him. Her disguise ability was first shown in [[The Mysterious Passenger]]<ref>[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287: "The Unseen Horror"]], [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref> where she dressed as a male waiter to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]. [[Jodie Starling]] once referred to Vermouth's disguise abilities as a frightening type of perfection.<ref>[[Episode 362]]</ref>

=== Reconnaissance ===
Vermouth specializes in reconnaissance and infiltration, and has been shown to work very swiftly yet cautiously to rapidly acquire information. Her confidence and skill in disguise and imitation means she can execute bold plans that put her in very close contact with her targets and she can advance her plot even when they are suspicious of her. Without the aid of the other organization members, Vermouth successfully snuck into the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police|Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters]] in order to steal the records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases. She later returned them when presumably the surveillance would be even higher after the police noticed the files were missing. She then single-handedly staked out the [[FBI]] who were lured out into watching Kogoro Mouri and uncovered their numbers, addresses, and ways to contact them.

=== Stamina ===
Vermouth is quite strong and has developed a high pain tolerance. While she was disguised as a serial killer in New York City, Vermouth athletically vaults up from a dead hanging positioning over the railing of the stairwell to higher ground despite being shot in the side. She also shoots herself in the leg in order to avoid the effects of sleeping gas, and was able to limp to a phone booth on that shot leg, with several broken ribs caused by Shuichi, and with a deep scratch on her right shoulder when Jodie shot at her.

=== Pain Tolerance ===
She shoots herself in the leg in order to avoid the effects of sleeping gas, and was able to limp to a phone booth on that shot leg, with several broken ribs caused by Shuichi, and with a deep scratch on her right shoulder when Jodie shot at her.

=== Shooting ===
As Vermouth pulled away in Jodie's car with broken ribs after her flak jacket absorbed a close range shotgun blast, she managed to aim a handgun backwards with her left hand using the side mirror while driving a car she wasn't used to and shoot Araide's car's gas tank standing 100 yards away, causing it to explode. Shuichi is impressed she managed that difficult shot with her battered body. Earlier however, she failed to draw fast enough to shoot Jodie or Shuichi; in the first case, the gun was shot out of her hand, in the second, Shuichi fired first.

== Non-aging ==
[[File:Vermouth 20 years ago.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth's appearance 20 years before the current timeline.]]
For some reason, Vermouth does not appear to age. Her apparent age hasn’t changed since she murdered Jodie’s parents twenty years ago.<ref name="f433">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai]] proved that Vermouth was not wearing a mask when his shotgun fire grazed her face. Specifically, it hasn't been clarified if Vermouth hasn't aged over time or if she became younger all at once. It is also important to note that Vermouth's talent for disguise makes it difficult to figure out when Vermouth stopped aging or deaged.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet Kudo Shinichi<ref name="file955">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 955: Whereabouts of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Vermouth<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref> Chris Vineyard Sharon Vineyard|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Silver Bullet Kudo Shinichi<ref name="file955" /> Boy (''Boya'')}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Sharon<ref>[[Volume 35|Volume 35, File 353, Page 6]]</ref>|Ran-chan Angel}}
{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Vermouth<ref name="ep345">[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|Episode 345]]</ref>|That detective (''Ano tantei'')<ref name=827p16>827 pg 16</ref>}}
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{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Vermouth|Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|-|The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3>824 pg 3</ref>}}
{{appellations|Genta Kojima|-|The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>}}
{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|-|The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>}}
{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Vermouth<ref name="m13"/>}}
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{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Vermouth Chris Chris Vineyard Sharon Vineyard|This woman Jodie Agent Jodie Starling (''Jodie Starling-sōsakan'') Kitten of The FBI(''FBI no koneko-chan'')}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Vermouth Rotten Apple|Akai Shuichi Akai Silver Bullet}}
{{appellations|Ethan Hondou|-|Hondou}}
{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Vermouth|Kir}}
{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Vermouth|Bourbon}}
{{appellations|Andre Camel|Vermouth|Andre Camel}}
{{appellations|Mary Sera|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')|Mary Akai}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Akai Tsutomu}}
|}
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{{appellations|The Boss|Vermouth|Boss|file=The Boss 60px.jpg}}
{{appellations|Rum|Vermouth|Rum}}
{{appellations|Gin|Vermouth That woman|Gin}}
{{appellations|Shiho Miyano|Vermouth|Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>}}
{{appellations|Vodka|Vermouth|Vodka}}
{{appellations|Pisco|-|Pisco}}
{{appellations|Calvados|-|Calvados}}
{{appellations|Chianti|Vermouth That woman|Chianti}}
{{appellations|Korn|Vermouth}}
{{appellations|Irish|Vermouth<ref name="m13"/>|Irish<ref name="m13"/>}}
{{appellations|Curaçao|Vermouth|Curaçao}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Vermouth}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Sharon|Yukiko}}
{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Dr. Araide}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|-|Kaitou Kid<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|File 824 (Volume 78)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Toji Funemoto|Foreigner (''gaikoku no hito'')}}
|}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Manga and anime timeline ===
{{main|Vermouth timeline}}

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Raven Chaser (Movie: [[The Raven Chaser|13]]) ===
Vermouth disguises as a brown haired policeman in a dark suit with glasses to check on [[Irish]]'s progress and the integrity of his disguise during the conference. After texting the boss outside the bathroom, she exits the building and leaves in [[Vehicles in Detective Conan#Gin's Porsche 356 A|Gin's Porsche 356 A]].

She is seen again disguising as a young brown-haired woman when trying to come closer to the believed serial killer but leaves as soon as she realizes he is not. [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] tracks her down in the underground parking lot and makes her reveal herself. She gives Conan essential information about an organization member named Irish and wishes him good luck when leaving.
It is later revealed that she was the one who supervised the captured [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Superintendent Matsumoto]] and provided him with comestibles. When the police finds out about Matsumoto's remains, she informs [[Gin]] about it and leaves.
Finally, she is briefly seen driving along the Highway when Gin's helicopter crashes, complimenting Conan's accomplishments and calling him again a "silver bullet".

=== The Shadow Approaching Amuro (Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Amuro|813]]) ===
At the end, Bourbon receives a phone call from Vermouth who warns him not to take his current "secret investigation" too deeply, lest it arouses Gin's undue attention.

=== The Darkest Nightmare (Movie: [[The Darkest Nightmare|20]]) ===

=== Black Iron Submarine (Movie: [[Black Iron Submarine|26]]) ===

== Plot exposition ==
=== Family history ===
[[File:Vermouth Sharon Vineyard EP345.png|thumb|right|200px|Chris and Sharon Vineyard]]
In order to camouflage the fact that Sharon Vineyard and Chris Vineyard are the same person, Vermouth concocted personal histories for her real life cover roles in order to make them seem like different people. When Sharon and Chris Vineyard were revealed to be one and the same, at least part of the stated Vineyard family history was revealed to be a lie. The fall-out between mother and daughter probably serves as an excuse to why the two of them never are seen together. It is unknown how much of the remainder is truthful, based on the truth, or outright fabrication because the primary source of the information is Vermouth herself who may have more to hide.

Little is known of Sharon Vineyard's mother and father. Sharon's parents were not actors, at least not well known ones, because Agasa called Chris Vineyard a second generation actress.<ref name="f341p8">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 8: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> According to Sharon's story, both her mother and father died in a fire on the day Sharon debuted on screen.<ref name="f351p2">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 2: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref>

So far, Sharon Vineyard's age has not been given and nothing is known about her personal history before she became an actress. Even her fans knew little about her private life even after she became famous.<ref name="f344p9">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 9: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Sharon said her road to stardom was very difficult and full of misfortune, prompting her to doubt the existence of God: "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 18: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> Sharon became a star actress<ref name="f350p16">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 16: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> and, according to [[Shuichi Akai]], is best known for her work in the Golden Apple broadway play.
[[File:Chris with veil.png|thumb|left|200px|Chris Vineyard coming out into public for the first time - at the funeral of her mother Sharon Vineyard]]
At some point, she married and gave birth to her daughter Chris Vineyard. Her husband later died of an unspecified illness the day after Sharon won an Oscar. While studying for an acting role approximately 20 years ago, Sharon learned disguise techniques from [[Toichi Kuroba]] alongside the aspiring young Japanese actress [[Yukiko Kudo]].<ref name="f350p17">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 17: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref><ref>Yukiko started her career while in high-school. Yukiko is 37 currently so the time frame while Yukiko was studying as a beginning actress is approximately 20 years ago when Yukiko was 17 or 18.</ref> During their time together, Yukiko became Sharon's friend, and they have maintained contact with one another. Sharon later sent Yukiko three tickets to Golden Apple broadway production the year before she died. The cause of Sharon's death has not been revealed.

Chris Vineyard meanwhile became a successful actress quickly by riding the coattails of her mother's fame.<ref name="f351p2" /> She began to make movies and give interviews to reporters only, but otherwise she never appeared publicly.<ref name="f344p9" /> The first day she came out into public was the day of her mother's funeral some time less than one year ago.<ref name="f344p9" /> A reporter who tried to question Chris asked where she went to school, whether she got along with her mother, who her father is, and if the rumored lover she has will appear at Sharon's funeral.<ref name="f344p10">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 10: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Chris answered none of these, but the types of questions which were asked demonstrate the secrecy surrounding the Vineyard family history.

Sharon Vineyard and Chris apparently didn't get along; Sharon doesn't consider Chris to be her daughter.<ref name="f351p2" /> Sharon explained this by relaying a tale to Yukiko about Chris who disguised as Sharon's husband and then met with Sharon when she visited her husband's grave to lay flowers.<ref name="f351p3">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 3: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref> Sharon did teach Chris the disguise techniques she learned from Toichi after Chris begged for them.<ref name="f351p3" /> One year prior to the current timeline, Sharon says she hasn't seen Chris in ten years and that she is currently hanging out with a "bad crowd" of people.<ref name="f351p3"/>

=== Hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not Jodie ===
[[File:Jodie mirror pictures.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Jodie's copies have uneven borders, highlighted in red, from imperfect camera alignment while photographing Vermouth's images. This detail is erroneously omitted in the anime adaptation.]]
There were several hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not [[Jodie Saintemillion]] who was also a candidate for being Vermouth before her true identity was revealed.
* The records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases that Vermouth stole did not contain any cases involving [[Jodie Saintemillion]], but did contain the murder case [[Tomoaki Araide]] was involved in. This was the clue that allowed Conan to deduce Araide was Vermouth.
* Jodie's copies of [[Media:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard]] have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.<ref name="f343p18">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also, Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
* Araide switches from the basketball to the drama club.<ref name="f270p3">[[Volume 27#File 270 - Game Start|Volume 27, File 270, page 3: "Game Start"]]</ref>
* Haibara skipped school on the day of the yearly health checkups that Dr. Araide gives the elementary school students. Conan wonders if Haibara thinks there is something wrong with Araide.<ref name="f287p3">[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287, page 9: "The Unseen Horror"]]</ref>
* Vermouth falls out of character. One of her patients says Dr. Araide has been acting like a stranger.<ref name=355p6>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 6: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> Also, "Dr. Araide" claims to have sent his grandmother and housekeeper Hikaru ahead to Aomori,<ref name=355p5>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 5: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> which is strange because it was established in the Araide family murder case<ref>[[Volume 24#File 235 - In the Darkness...|Volume 24, Files 235-236: "In the Darkness..."]]</ref> that Araide didn't trust them (especially Hikaru) to take care of themselves.<ref>[[Volume 35#File 355 - Mystery of the Haunted House 1|Volume 35, File 355: "Mystery of the Haunted House 1"]], [[The Truth of the Haunted House|Episode 274: The Truth of the Haunted House]]</ref>

=== Jodie's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ===
[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|right|200px|Seven year old Jodie encounters Vermouth twenty years ago.]]
Jodie's father in the FBI was secretly investigating Vermouth twenty years before the current storyline.<ref name="f433" /> That is too young for Chris Vineyard to be in disguise as she is only 29 currently and would be 9 at the time. After Vermouth killed Jodie's father she inadvertently handled Jodie’s father’s glasses barehanded which had fallen off of him and got her fingerprints on them. Unexpectedly, little Jodie came in and saw Vermouth holding the glasses. When Vermouth left after setting the house on fire, she didn't anticipate that Jodie left to get juice, taking her father’s glasses with her and thus preserving her fingerprint. After she discovered Jodie's corpse was not found in the house, Vermouth looked for the girl desperately in order to rectify her mistake, but Jodie had since been put into witness protection.

Jodie suspected Chris Vineyard of being Vermouth when she saw her at Sharon’s funeral. She somehow determined Chris Vineyard’s prints matched those of the glasses. Chris would have been too young to commit a crime 20 years ago, so later Jodie obtained Sharon’s fingerprints and matched those as well. All three matched, proving to Jodie that the three people were one and the same.

=== Conan's investigation ===
==== Conan's discovery Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide ====
[[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] suspects [[Pisco]] had help from another [[Black Organization]] member. He looks into [[Chris Vineyard]] and realizes that she is able to disguise herself and may be pretending to be someone close to him. [[Kogoro Mouri]]’s case records were stolen from the police department. Conan realizes [[Tomoaki Araide]] is Vermouth because Vermouth needed the files to testify at the trial properly while in disguise.
[[File:Vermouth as Araide.png|left|thumb|200px|Vermouth as Dr. Araide]]
Conan first suspects there is another Black Organization member who was present at the mourning party after considering how Pisco obtained another purple handkerchief which enabled him to leave the investigation. Conan didn't realize that this Black Organization member might be after him or Haibara until after the bus jack case when Haibara tells Conan there was definitely someone from the Organization on the bus. Conan's first suspect is [[Shuichi Akai]] whose behavior seemed suspicious.<ref name="f291p11">[[Volume 29#File 291 - A Tiny Trace|Volume 29, File 291, page 11: "A Tiny Trace"]]</ref> After he recognizes Shuichi in the P & A case<ref name="f326">[[Volume 32#File 326 - P & A|Volume 32, File 326-328: "P & A"]]</ref>, Conan shows sensitivity to the prospect of someone investigating them.<ref name="f332">[[Volume 33#File 332 - Bloody Valentine 2|Volume 33, File 332: "Bloody Valentine 2"]]</ref> Conan doesn't seem to suspect the person Vermouth has replaced, [[Tomoaki Araide|Dr. Araide]], yet because he was willing to use his voice changer in front of him.<ref name="f330">[[Volume 33#File 330 - Sato's Feelings|Volume 33, File 2: "Sato's feelings"]]</ref>

Conan gets his first tangible proof someone is investigating around him when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] informs Conan all the records of [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s cases were stolen from the police station on the day of the bus hijack incident and later returned.<ref name="f336p9">[[Volume 33#File 336 - Clean Scent|Volume 33, File 336, pages 9-10: "Clean Scent"]]</ref> He begins to wonder who the target is and suspects Shuichi may be behind the incident because of the timing. Conan also begins to suspect the English teacher [[Jodie Starling|Jodie Saintemillion]] and Dr. Araide as well because they were also on the bus.<ref name="f343p17">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 17: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> He isn't sure of the motive for taking the records although Conan wonders if someone is trying to lure him out or if the person returned the files because they already knew what Conan would do.<ref name="f341">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref>

Conan's idea that Pisco had an accomplice among the other suspects has fully solidified. He has noticed one of the suspects who had a purple handkerchief, [[Chris Vineyard]], hasn't appeared in public since that case, thus Conan believes Chris is the Black Organization accomplice. He asks [[Agasa]] to go onto Chris's fansite and gather information on her past, interests, and habits<ref name="f341p3">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 3: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> and Agasa's investigation corroborates with Conan's deduction.<ref name="f344p9" /> Conan is already aware that Chris Vineyard has disguise abilities and may be in disguise as someone around him.<ref name="f343p17" />

At this point, Conan is still uncertain of Araide, Jodie, and Shuichi's allegiances. He learns from [[Ran Mouri|Ran Mouri]] that Shuichi Akai was seen with a man in an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] jacket during the New York case, causing Conan to wonder if the FBI is in Japan for some reason or the Black Organization infiltrated the American law enforcement.<ref name="f380p5">[[Volume 37#File 380 - White Snow... Black Shadow...|Volume 37, File 380, pages 5-6: "White Snow... Black Shadow..."]]</ref> Conan begins to take precautions around Dr. Araide and Jodie by lying to them in order to minimize contact and information they have about Haibara.<ref name="f420">[[Volume 41#File 420 - The Enclosing Surrounding Net|Volume 41, File 420: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net"]]</ref><ref name="f422">[[Volume 41#File 422 - Inescapable Target|Volume 41, File 422: "Inescapable Target"]]</ref> However, Jodie and Dr. Araide both go over to Agasa's house and plant listening devices because Conan failed to communicate his suspicion and plans to Agasa.<ref name="f422" />

By the time Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he has realized that Vermouth is most likely Dr. Araide because Jodie wasn't in Mouri's case files when they were stolen, while Araide was. Vermouth needed the files to give proper testimony at the trial and to act correctly as Araide. Vermouth puts her plan to capture Haibara into action by calling Agasa's house as Dr. Araide saying he wants to take Haibara to a hospital because her cough hasn't gotten better.<ref name="f430p9">[[Volume 42#File 430 - The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood|Volume 42, File 430, page 9: "The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood"]]</ref> Conan is still unsure of Jodie's allegiance until she answers the door before Dr. Araide arrives. Jodie lies to "Haibara" (who is really Conan in disguise) saying that Dr. Araide's car has broken down and she has come in his place.<ref name="f431p3">[[Volume 42#File 431 - The Invisible Man Enters!|Volume 42, File 431, page 3: "The Invisible Man Enters!"]]</ref> Conan catches the lie and realizes that Jodie has been listening to the bugs as well and is acting to protect Haibara, meaning she is against Vermouth. Armed with this info, he asks Jodie to force the truth from Vermouth, and in return he will trust her.<ref name="f432p4">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 4: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

Conan tells Jodie the true scenario of Dr. Araide's family murder case.<ref name="f433p11">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433, page 11: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> Tomoaki Araide’s father, Yoshiteru Araide, was killed in his bathtub via electrocution. The murder was masterminded by Yoshiteru Araide's second wife, Yoko Araide. She caused a blackout to occur while she was supposedly on the phone, and during the ensuing darkness, snuck to the bathroom and put an electric shaver in the bathtub. She then crept back and asked the housemaid [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] to flip the circuit breaker, causing Yoshiteru Araide to be electrocuted. "Sleeping Kogoro", the police, and the criminal decided to create a false investigation record to protect the conscience of the maid Hikaru. Jodie used this to her advantage and forced Vermouth to reveal that she didn't know the true sequence of events.<ref name="f432p11">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 11: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

==== Conan's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ====
[[File:Vermouth protecting Conan.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide protects Conan on the hijacked bus. This action puzzled Conan until he realized he had unknowingly saved Vermouth in New York city one year before.]]
At the same time Shinichi and Ran were in New York City, Vermouth disguised as a silver-haired serial killer in order to lure out [[Shuichi Akai]]. Later, Conan suspected the serial killer may have been someone in disguise when he heard that the serial killer’s blood and fingerprints on the stair rails were cleaned up, an action uncharacteristic for someone intending to commit suicide.<ref name=354p3>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (354), pg 3: "Golden Apple 5". Note that Conan had not figured out everything completely at this point.</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380), pg 6: "White Snow... Black Shadow...". Conan is now convinced that the serial killer was killed. He had begun suspecting Shuichi Akai previously, and he still does at this point after Ran informs him Shuichi is an FBI agent, because Shuichi could be a spy in the FBI from the Black Organization.</ref> Sharon was the only person Conan knew about in the local area with high disguise abilities, so suspicion naturally fell onto her.

After Vermouth disguised as Araide, Conan deduced from the way Vermouth was behaving that she was trying to avoid involving Conan in her plan and was only targeting Haibara. Vermouth as Dr. Araide risked her life to protect Conan in the bus jack case and helped him out in Sato's matchup case. When Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he realizes that Vermouth's intentions are to only trap Haibara and that Vermouth is trying to lure Conan to the party to avoid catching him up in her plan.

Conan who didn't exist a year ago has no reason to be “protected” by Vermouth. Conan deduces Vermouth must know his identity as Shinichi and the reason for her “protection” must have to do with something he did as Shinichi. However, Sharon was the only one Shinichi had a connection with, and she is apparently dead. Sharon’s daughter Chris has never met Shinichi and is estranged from Sharon Vineyard so she alone doesn't have an adequate motive to protect Shinichi. Also, it wouldn’t make sense for Chris Vineyard, who isn’t a family friend like Sharon, to be able to recognize Shinichi as Conan; presumably Vermouth saw young Shinichi with Yukiko when she was Sharon.<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 5</ref>

All these clues come together when Conan makes the assumption that Sharon Vineyard is Chris Vineyard who disguised as the silver haired serial killer in New York and that she is grateful for being rescued by [[Shinichi]] (Cool Guy / Silver Bullet) and [[Ran]] (Angel).<ref name="f429p9">[[Volume 42#File 429 - The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet|Volume 42, File 429, page 9: "The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet"]]. After Conan tells Agasa that Vermouth probably knows who they are, Agasa asks "If they know that much, why haven't they come here to kill you?". Conan's response is, "I don't know the reason, but... but I think I at least know one of the causes."</ref>

=== List of disguises used ===
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Vermouth has used many disguises over the course of the series. These are the known ones used so far.
<gallery perrow=7>
File:Sharon Vineyard 308.png|Sharon Vineyard
File:Chris Vineyard first appearence.png|Chris Vineyard
File:Ep286 Radish Redwood.png|New York City police officer [[Radish Redwood]].<ref name="NYcase">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]]</ref>
File:Ep288 Slasher.png|Serial killer in New York City to lure out and kill [[Shuichi Akai]].<ref name="NYcase"/>
File:Not Tomoaki Araide.png|[[Tomoaki Araide]] as part of a plan to capture [[Ai Haibara]]
File:Vermouth's disguise as a waiter.png|Waiter at a jazz bar to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]<ref>Volume 29: Files 3~5. Episode 230-231. "[[The Mysterious Passenger]]"</ref>
File:Fake Bleeding Kiriko Busujima.png|Kiriko Busujima in order to lure assassination target Domon Yasudera out.<ref>Volume 48: File 9~Volume 49: File 4. Episode 425. "[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]]"</ref>
File:Foreign lady.png|Simple disguise used when meeting with the witness Touji Funemoto to investigate about [[Kir]]'s whereabouts.<ref>[[The Shadow of the Black Organization|Episode 464 - 465]]</ref>
File:Vermouth Scar Akai Train case.jpg|Vermouth disguised as Scar Akai on the Bell Tree Express and had put the same disguise on [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] several times earlier.<ref>[[Volume_78#Mystery_Train|Mystery Train]]</ref>
File:Vermouth Disguised.png‎|Simple disguise with hat, sunglasses and tied hair.<ref>[[Volume 78|Volume 78, File 824]]</ref>
File:EP734 Woman.png|Vermouth as "Motoe Benzaki", Touhei Benzaki's fictitious wife<ref>It is revealed in [[Volume 81|File 855]] that Touhei is single, which means that "Motoe" never existed and was only a random alias come up by Vermouth, basing on the appearance of the real woman who taped Jodie.</ref>, who claims to be the woman who taped Jodie back in the bank robbery.
File:vermouth as jodie.png|Vermouth disguises as [[Jodie Starling]] a second time<ref>Volume 42: Files 5~10. Episode 345. "[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night]]". The first was to trick the FBI into leaving the shipping yards.</ref> to trap Camel into revealing critical details about [[Rikumichi Kusuda]]'s death.<ref>Manga [[Volume 84]], File 10 (893): "The Scarlet Prologue"</ref>
File:Vermouth Disguise Azusa.png|Azusa Enomoto.
File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|Vermouth disguise as [[Tsutomu Akai]] from 3 years ago in order to lure out and murder Mary for the infiltration of [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]].

File:Vermouth First Disguise.jpg|Policeman in [[The Raven Chaser]]<ref>There were two police officers with glasses in the meeting room, this one was sitting in the last row and went out first. He walked in the same direction as Yamamura to the toilet, who later heard Vermouth dial "[[Nanatsu no Ko]]" near the bathroom. This spiky-haired officer was also shown entering Gin's car and not the other one.</ref>
File:Vermouth Second Disguise.jpg|Mall shopper in [[The Raven Chaser]]
</gallery>

== Speculation ==
=== Vermouth's true age ===
Vermouth's age is unknown because her history is largely unclear. We know she has lived as Chris who is 29, and as Sharon whose age is unknown. Her face when she killed Jodie's father 20 years ago was youthful, suggesting she is currently at least 40 years old as long as no deaging has occurred...

On the train, when she was talking to Yukiko, Yukiko brought up whatever is used to keep your youthful appearance. She mentiioned about painful that it did not effect the rest of her body, however she sure does not move around like a person in their 40s, and let alone older.

=== Vermouth did not use APTX 4869 ===
A popular theory on Vermouth's non-aging is that she used [[APTX 4869]] to achieve her youthfulness since this is the only known substance capable of producing such an effect ([[Silver Bullet]]'s effects are unknown at this point). However, at present there are things that contradict such a notion. Vermouth would have faced near certain death if she had used APTX 4869.<ref name=V2/> Before Vermouth discovered Haibara and Conan, the known members of the Black Organization (besides Sherry) only knew about APTX 4869's lethal effects,<ref>Sherry did not report the results that several of her mice shrank to the greater organization because they have not been able to figure out how Shiho managed to escape the locked room. If Shiho had reported her data, the Organization would have known that shrinking was a possible side effect of APTX 4869 and would have figured out how she escaped and begun looking for a child. Furthermore, if Shiho had reported to the Organization that APTX 4869 had the possibility of leaving the victim alive, the boss and/or Shiho's superiors would not have permitted the drug in situations where the victim, if surviving, could escape as in Shinichi's case.</ref> and it was considered deadly enough that Sherry's superiors employed it as an untraceable murder weapon.<ref name=V2>Gin described APTX 4869 as a poison before using it on Shinichi, "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff..." (V1-1 pg 37) Haibara also mentions that it was used on a number of other people, "Of all the people who took the drug, only your death hadn't been confirmed yet." (V18-9 pg 6 The Org took great pains to ensure the people APTX4869 was used on were dead, evidenced when they sent Shiho out to investigate Shinichi's case twice to confirm his death. (V18-9 pg 6) Additionally, Gin gave the OK for it to be employed in a time sensitive assassination where failure would be unacceptable: "Anyway, our superior has ordered us to kill him before he rats us out. Don't screw up, Pisco! If there is any complication, you can use the 'experimental drug' [APTX 4869]" (V24-7 pg 17) If the boss, who has been stated to be cautious to a fault, knew about the risk that someone might survive APTX 4869, he would not let his subordinates use the drug without letting them know there was a chance it would leave people alive because, if someone escaped, they could talk to the police or someone else and leak the secret of the Black Organization's existence. If Gin knew it failed to work some of the time, he would have never left Shinichi alone while it acted, and would have also gone looking for him after his body disappeared if that was the case. Even Shiho Miyano who was aware APTX 4869 could rarely cause de-aging expected it to kill her. "I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8) Finally, Shiho makes it clear the Organization is not simply trying APTX 4869 out on victims, they are actively using it to kill. "If I reported your condition to the Organization, it's very likely you would have been terminated before I could do something useful." (V18-9 pg 7) Even though Shinichi was an "interesting specimen" (V18-9 pg 7), if the Org was field testing, they would try to capture Shinichi alive for study. Shiho was still project manager when use on humans began and when Shinichi was poisoned, so she would know the Organization's protocol should someone fail to die.</ref> However, given that Vermouth has said depressing things over the course of the series,<ref>"No angel has smiled upon me", "My life represents a series of misfortunes" (V35-1 pg 2)</ref> it is possible Vermouth took APTX 4869 hoping to commit suicide, but she de-aged instead, similar to Haibara's situation<ref>"I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8)</ref>. Vermouth could have also gambled on taking APTX 4869 after she recognized the deaged Shiho and Shinichi and then discovered that APTX 4869 was the common connection between them and likely cause of their conditions. However, both the suicide scenario (if it occurred while Shiho was working on the drug) and the gambling scenario fail to explain why no one in the Black Organization has questioned why Vermouth has become younger, especially after Gin saw her true face following the Haunted Ship case<ref>Shuichi's shotgun fire struck Vermouth's face and wounded it which made it apparent she wasn't wearing a mask and thus that was her true face. Vermouth was picked up by Gin in a telephone booth and he would have noticed her facial injury as well.</ref>, and then connected that with APTX 4869 use and Sherry's mysterious escape from the handcuffs and locked room. 
It is possible that Atsushi and Elena Miyano had something to do with Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging (e.g. Vermouth was their guinea pig). This might explain the personal animosity Vermouth feels towards the Miyanos and why she calls their APTX experiment foolish.

Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging may be a result of a project older than Shiho's APTX 4869, like her parents' [[Silver Bullet]], or something else even older than that. This would explain why none of the other members of the Black Organization suspect that APTX 4869 can also cause this effect and thus are unaware of the possibility Shiho de-aged to escape.

Another possibility, could be if she ever administered the APTX 4869 orally, as in she hides it in her mouth, and transfers it to her intended target, as in Mary Sera's case, the de-aging effect may had kept her young, while it may kill or make young the target.

After all, she did state her skin care regiment for retaining her youthful glow to Yukiko in [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]] painfully does not affect the entire body, which hints that it mostly affects the face, and other external appearances.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and friends ===
==== Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:Sharon and Yukiko young.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth with Yukiko approximately 20 years ago.]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko attended Sharon's funeral. Later, Yukiko sadly accepts Conan's deduction that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization. Vermouth once left Yukiko safe and sound during their confrontation in the Bell Tree Express, implying her soft spot for Shinichi and Yukiko.

====Toichi Kuroba====
Sharon, along with the aspiring actress Yukiko Kudo, studied the finer arts of disguise under Toichi Kuroba. Sharon seems to be unaware of Toichi's alter ego as Kaitou Kid, and that his son, Kaito Kuroba, once interfered with her and Bourbon's plan of capturing Sherry.<ref>Bell Tree Express Train Case</ref>

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
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[[File:Vermouth provoking Gin.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth teases Gin with a disguise.]]
Vermouth and [[Gin]] are both executive members. They get along well enough on missions, but Gin does not like Vermouth's habit of keeping secrets or her teasing. Before the events of the showdown on the ghost ship, Vermouth and Gin trusted one another, but some of Gin's trust may have disappeared as Vermouth failed to inform even the boss of her intentions.<ref name="CD239b">Conan Drill page 239, "同僚・信頼" (Colleagues Trusted)</ref> Gin doesn't mind threatening her with bodily harm, he nearly stabbed her through the head with an icepick on one occasion when she teased him disguised as a waiter, and he later pointed his gun at her when asking how she was connected with Kogoro. She doesn't seem especially bothered by any of these threats however. Because Vermouth is a high ranking member and the boss's favorite, she isn't scared of provoking the other agents, not even Gin who is extremely dangerous and sensitive. She smiled after moving her head to avoid Gin's deadly sweep with an icepick telling him that "She was just joking" which shows that she enjoys teasing him.

==== Sherry ====
[[File:Vermouth episode 230.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth terrifies Haibara.]]
Vermouth and [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]] have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Vermouth appears to dislike the research the Miyanos engaged in, calling it foolish. Shiho fears Vermouth more than most other members except perhaps Gin. Shiho was Vermouth's target, but Vermouth gave up on her after Conan's intervention. During the '[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|Bell Tree Express arc]]', Vermouth tries to use C4 explosives to kill Sherry without telling anyone about the plan, while Bourbon wanted to take her back alive hinting at an abnormal hatred towards her. Additionally if Shiho was in a relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a romantic relationship with Gin.<ref name="CD239c">Conan Drill page 239, "恋のライバル…?" (Love rivals?)</ref>

==== The Boss ====
In file 898, Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the [[The Boss|boss]], implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship. Within the syndicate, Vermouth is also known as the Boss' Favorite.
As the Boss' Favorite, Vermouth is granted some privileges such as limited independence and protection from other Black Organization Members.

==== Calvados (deceased) ====
[[Calvados]] was in love with Vermouth, and Vermouth took advantage of his feelings and used him. Vermouth called on Calvados to aid her in disposing with Jodie and capturing Haibara at the shipping yards. After Shuichi got the best of Calvados and Vermouth, she chose to run away, leaving him at the mercy of the FBI. Calvados chose to commit suicide rather than be caught.

==== Chianti and Korn ====
[[Chianti]] and [[Korn]] both hate Vermouth because they believe that Vermouth took advantage of Calvados' feelings for her and used him, leading him to his death. Chianti has been more vocal with her hatred than Korn.

==== Pisco (deceased) ====
Although Vermouth and [[Pisco]] are executive members, Vermouth dislikes and looks down on Pisco despite cooperating with him.<ref name="CD239d">Conan Drill page 239, {{Lang|ja|見下す}} (despise look down on}</ref>

==== Rei Furuya/Bourbon ====
[[Rei Furuya|Rei]]/ Bourbon worked with Vermouth on a plan to determine if [[Shuichi Akai]] was really dead. She made [[Scar Akai|masks that looked like Shuichi's face with a scar]] for him so he could approach Shuichi's friends and colleagues to see their reactions to him. She also interfered with his plans to capture Sherry alive by rigging the location Rei intended to trap Sherry in with explosives to kill her,and it probably had nothing to do with her being aware that Gin and Vodka probably placed a ton of explosives at the destination platform, which would have caused the entire train, and everyone on it, including her and Boubon, to blow up as well.

==== Rum ====
The relationship between the Boss' Favorite and the Boss' Close Aide is somewhat unknown, although Vermouth was once seen taking orders from syndicate's Second-In-Command. Vermouth was tasked to investigate Yusaku Kudo, an individual whom Rum considers a threat to the Black Organization in Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case.

==== Tequila ====
Suguru Itakura suspected that Vermouth and Tequila were in cahoots when both individuals demanded him to finish a particular program that the Black Organization was interested in.

==== Vodka====
Throughout the series, Vermouth has not been shown as having any negative emotions regarding [[Vodka]], unlike other members of the Organization (like [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]]). Vodka and Vermouth have been seen along on missions sometimes, but in general they don't pay much attention to each other.
She does tease Vodka about his lack of literary knowledge when he fails to understand how Haido Park could be a place most suited for hunting.

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Jodie Starling ====
[[Jodie Starling]] has a bitter hatred for Vermouth because Vermouth murdered her father, but Vermouth doesn't have any particular animosity for Jodie beyond her being a skilled FBI adversary whom she would like to kill. Jodie thinks Vermouth is an entirely evil person. Vermouth was extremely well liked and kind to students and patients while disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], so when the real Araide wonders if Vermouth is really a bad person, Jodie takes offense and angrily yells at him, "How can someone be a good person if she kills people with a smile!?"<ref>Manga Volume 45, File 2, pg 18: "The truth behind the remaining desk"</ref>

Twenty years before the current timeline, Vermouth goes to the house of Jodie's father, an FBI agent, and kills him. An eight to nine year old [[Jodie Starling]] walks in while Vermouth was trying to put his glasses back on his body and thinks her father is asleep. Vermouth tells her that she should wait for her father to wake up. When the girl asks her who is she, Vermouth replies "A secret makes a woman, woman". Vermouth burns the house down, thinking Jodie stayed behind and was killed as well. However, the girl goes out of the house to buy orange juice for her father, narrowly escaping death. She also takes her father's glasses with her, preserving the fingerprints Vermouth left on them. When Vermouth finds out Jodie's body was not in the house, she looks for her to kill her, but the FBI enrolled her in witness protection. Jodie later becomes an FBI agent in order to find her father's killer.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Vermouth and [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] don't have much personal animosity for each other in particular despite the fact that they have been hunting one another for some time. Vermouth regards Shuichi as a "silver bullet": someone with the potential to destroy the Black Organization. In accordance with this assessment, she attacks him immediately and preferentially in the confrontation with her at the docks. Shuichi seems to hit a nerve when he called her a rotten apple, wilted on the inside.

==== Kir ====
She suspects that [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] is a member of the CIA though she hasn't told anyone about it.

=== Others ===
[[File:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth's dartboard. Conan's picture has "Cool guy" written on it while Ran's says "Angel."]]
==== Shinichi Kudo/ Edogawa Conan ====
After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy".

Later in the series, after [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] successfully interfered with Vermouth's plan of killing [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]], then almost forced her to surrender and take him to find the boss, she gives him another nickname - "Silver bullet" - as she believes that he has the potential to destroy the Black Organization, because he could touch her heart.

Generally, Vermouth tries to protect Shinichi when she is able to, even if it means risking her own life. Although Shinichi found out later that he unknowingly rescued Vermouth in New York City and that Vermouth was a friend of [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko's]], Shinichi doesn't understand why Vermouth would make the promise to give up on hunting Sherry and not inform the [[Black Organization]] about Haibara and himself.

Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to [[Haibara]]. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

In [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|Head-to Head]], After Conan removed his Haibara mask, he was distracted, when Haibara showed up on the scene, which gave Vermouth the needed opening to use his stun gun wrist watch on him, to place him to sleep, before gently sitting him down beside the car, so he does not get hurt in the fall.

She also destroyed the box that he was connected to by many wires, so as not to possibly accidentally kill or hurt him, which pulling out the wires would have, according to Conan.

After she used sleeping gas, in order to knock him back out, so that she can escape, and not lead the Black Organization members to him.

She even covered the sleeping boy up with her coat, so that he would not get sick, since she had literally cut his shirt wide open, in order to see the wires and connected box, which may have made him sick, if he is not found right away, since it is pretty cold, and colds are spreading at this time.

She shot herself in the leg, and had to hobble some distance away from the car, so that he would remain out of sight, and no where around her, when Gin came to pick her up.

In [[the Raven Chaser]], she even provided Conan with the name of [[Irish]], and gave him a little bit of information of why the Organization is interested in this serial murder case.

In [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact]], when she was speaking on the cell phone to [[Gin]], she mentioned hearing noise, and then she thought that Conan may have had something to do with the noise coming from Gin's car, and when Gin asked about what noise, she quickly "Never mind. It is nothing," in order to protect Conan. She also called Conan "My lovely Silver Bullet-kun" once again when she was driving her motorcycle. Also, when the Gin ordered [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]] to kill [[Kogoro Mori]] together with Conan, Vermouth was against it and told them to stop. To the Black Organization, it looked like she was defending Kogoro Mori but she was actually defending Conan.

==== Ran Mouri ====
After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel". Earlier, Vermouth, as her Sharon Vineyard role, complained that her life was a series of misfortunes and, "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18" /> Even though Vermouth in disguise prepared to kill Ran later, Ran stopped Vermouth from taking a fatal fall. Vermouth was touched by this act of kindness. Much later in the story when Ran shielded Haibara from gunfire with her body, Vermouth refused to shoot Ran or allow her to be shot, instead firing around her in an attempt to frighten Ran into releasing Haibara. Although Ran does not know who Vermouth really is, she values the handkerchief that Sharon Vineyard gave her back in New York. She also describes her as "one of only two treasures in her life" (the other being Shinichi Kudo) when Ran asked her if she was or wasn't Azusa Enomoto.

====Tomoaki Araide====
Vermouth originally intended to kill Araide and take his place to approach Conan and Haibara more closely. Anticipating this development, the FBI faked his death and Vermouth took his place as expected, giving the FBI an opportunity to investigate Vermouth in close proximity.
While disguised as Tomoaki Araide, Vermouth was extremely well liked and kind to the students and patients. This fact made the real Araide wonder if Vermouth is really a bad person<ref> Teitan High School's Ghost Story</ref>.

====Suguru Itakura====
Vermouth's Target. Sharon and Itakura worked before in movies containing visual effects and the two were known for their constant quarelling. Although Itakura seems to be unaware of Sharon's persona as Vermouth, he follows her orders anyway and partially completed the program that the Black Organization was interested in.

====Yusaku Kudo====
Sharon and Yusaku were probably acquainted through Yukiko Kudo, a friend of Sharon's and Yusaku's wife. Vermouth once investigated him after being tasked by Rum to monitor the individual, considering him a threat to the Black Organization. However, Yusaku saw through the syndicate's ploy and tricked Vermouth into thinking that they are just staying for vacation.
Since Yusaku is Shinichi's Father, it is unclear if Vermouth really meant to kill him when she stated on planning to eliminate the "person of interest" when necessary.

====Kogoro Mouri====
Vermouth once stole Kogoro's files from the police to successfully testify as Tomoaki Araide in court and later returned them in one piece.
Since Kogoro is Ran's Father, Vermouth tried to protect him from being killed by Gin after he was suspected on planting a bug on Kir's shoe, implying her consideration for Ran's feelings and welfare.

====Mary Sera====
Vermouth once disguised as Tsutomu Akai in an attempt to lure out Mary Sera on Vauxhall Bridge in London.<ref>File 1048</ref> She intended to take her place and infiltrate the Secret Intelligence Service. However, as complications went underway, Vermouth forcibly ingested APTX 4869 into Mary's mouth, shrinking her to her childhood state.<ref>File 1049</ref>

== Character popularity ==
* eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Vermouth placed 9th in the poll with 75 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Vermouth placed 6th out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Vermouth/Sharon Vineyard placed 8th overall with 372 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. [[Wikipedia: Vermouth|Vermouth]] is a type of flavored fortified wine, which follows the pattern of wine based codenames for women in the Black Organization.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth before.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 230]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth after.png|thumb|left|x200px|Movie 13]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:704 05.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 704]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== General ===
{{cquote|A secret makes a woman, woman.|Vermouth's motto}}

=== Specific ===
{{cquote|We can be both of God and the Devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time.|[[Volume 37#File 380 - White Snow... Black Shadow...|V37-8 pg11]]|Speaking to [[Suguru Itakura]] over the phone when he demanded to know who Vermouth thought she was.}}
{{cquote|If he could reach my heart, maybe he could be our long awaited [[silver bullet]]...|[[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 18. Vermouth believes Conan is the person capable of ending the Organization she was waiting for.}}
{{cquote|No angel has ever smiled upon me. Not even once.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 286]]|Speaking to Yukiko and Ran about how Sharon's life has been unfortunate.}}
{{cquote|I wonder if there is really God. If he truly existed, wouldn't all hard working, honest people be happy?|[[Episode 286]]|Vermouth expresses her disbelief in God to Ran.}}
{{cquote|Well if you must blame someone, blame a God that set this up for you.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288]]|Vermouth in disguise as the serial killer speaking to Ran in preparation to kill her in New York City}}
{{cquote|Two silver bullets aren't needed. Only one is enough.|Thinking about Conan after hearing the news of Shuichi's death.}}

== In other languages ==
=== Vermouth ===
{{BeginTable OtherLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ベルモット Berumotto}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|بلموت Bilmot}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Paramount (manga)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|贝尔摩得 Bèi'ěrmódé 苦艾酒 Kǔ'àijiǔ}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Vermouth/Wermut}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Vermouth/Belmouth (anime)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Вермут Vermut}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Vermouth/Vermut}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เบลม็อท Belmot}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vermouth}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Sharon Vineyard ===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シャロン Sharon|ヴィンヤード Vin'yādo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| نينا\شارون Nina / Sharon<ref> Nina was only used during the case "Shinichi Kudo in New York".</ref>|ڤنيارد Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|莎朗 Shālǎng|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name was used when Sharon was first mentioned in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 34]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шэрон Sheron|Винъярд Vin'yard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชารอน Sharon|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Chris Vineyard ===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|クリス Kurisu|ヴィンヤード Vin'yādo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| كرِس Chris|ڤنيارد Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|克莉丝 Kèlìsī|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name appears on Vermouth's name card when she first appeared in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 24]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Крис Kris|Винъярд Vin'yard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|คริส Chris|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
* The FBI's nickname for Vermouth, Rotten Apple, could also refer to "fermenting apples", which are known to produce alcohol.
* Half of Vermouth's disguises contain glasses, seen in her role of [[Sharon Vineyard]], [[Tomoaki Araide]], [[Jodie Starling]], a policeman, an unknown woman and a simple disguise.
* The people who spoke well of Vermouth while she was Araide are [[Ran]]'s karate mentor [[Kazumi Tsukamoto]] ("You still have that look of an Angel, Dr. Araide"), Kazumi's friend Kunishige Seto ("Before our cautious Dr. Araide takes me to the hospital"), the school's principal ("Thanks to the exercise you taught me, my waist feel much better!"), and Ran herself ("Dr. Araide is a truly nice person, right?").
* In episode 674 of the anime, Vermouth's phone appears to be modeled after the iPhone.
* She had met a major part of the main characters introduced before or in Vermouth arc, with only exceptions are [[Eri Kisaki]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Makoto Kyogoku]], [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], [[James Black]] and the other district police detectives. Although, most of them met her while disguised as [[Araide]].
* Vermouth's voice actress, [[Mami Koyama]], was the former wife of [[Rei Furuya]]'s voice actor, [[Tohru Furuya]].

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Wikipedia: Vermouth|Vermouth]] (alcohol)

== References ==
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[[de:Vermouth]]

Wataru Takagi

2023-04-01T05:56:17Z

Exaskliri: /* List of disguises used */ corrected caption (Takagi didn't disguise as Matsuda on purpose)

{{hatnote|For Takagi disambiguation see [[Takagi]].}}
{{hatnote|For Wataru disambiguation see [[Wataru]].}}
{{InfoBox Char
| name = Wataru Takagi
| japanese-name = 高木渉 (Takagi Wataru)
| english-name = Harry Wilder
| image = Wataru Takagi Profile2.png
| age = 26<ref>[[Volume 36|Volume 36, File 10, Page 6: "Red Trap"]]; Takagi says that Sato is 2 years older than him (彼女は二つ年上で先輩なんだから...) In Conan Drill page 29, Sato is assumed to be about 28.</ref>
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth = Unknown
| relatives = Unnamed nephew<ref>[[The Eleventh Striker|The Eleventh Striker]]</ref>
| occupation = Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Detective
| nicknames = Takagi-kun ([[Miwako Sato|Sato]]) Takagi-niisan ([[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 18#Actor.27s Apartment Case|File 171]] Anime: [[On Location, TV Drama Murder Case|Episode 21]]
| appearances = {{:Wataru Takagi Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 20]]
| japanese-voice = [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]]
| english-voice = [[Doug Burks]] (FUNimation) [[Christopher Bevins]] (Bang Zoom!) [[Diego Klock-Perez]] (Macias Group)
| drama-actor = [[Yuichi Tsuchiya]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Wataru Takagi|高木渉|Takagi Wataru}}''' is a police sergeant and detective from the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police|Tokyo Metropolitan Police District]]'s Criminal Investigation First Division and the love interest of [[Miwako Sato]].

== Background ==
Wataru Takagi is a newcomer to the Tokyo Police Criminal Investigations Division 1, having transferred after the bomber case about three years ago but by the time [[Shinichi Kudo]] first established his reputation as a detective, about two years ago.<ref>Manga Chapters 204-207: Shinichi's First Case, and Chapters 366-368: Parade Bomber Case</ref> His mentor was a senior agent called Date, who died one year before the present timeline. In his last moments Date entrusted Takagi his notebook, which had a ring for his girlfriend Natalie Kuruma hidden. He kept Date's notebook as a personal motivation to be just as good as Date. It was first a year later he realized that Date's girlfriend was Natalie, but it was too late to give her the ring, because she committed suicide soon after Date's death. He was [http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Category:Anime_to_manga_characters first introduced in an Anime original] case at an on location film set.

Ever since his joining the force, Takagi (like so many of his other colleagues) has harbored romantic feelings for [[Miwako Sato]]. While Sato appeared to have taken a liking to him as well, Takagi was easily discouraged by the way she dealt with other male colleagues, including their superior Inspector Megure (though in that case it was more a daughterly affection to a father figure, since Sato's father had died when she was very young).<ref>Manga Chapter 233: Countdown</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 269: Time's Up</ref> In time, thanks to several severe incidents - and despite the interference of the other officers in the department, chiefly [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] -, their professional relationship grew more personal,<ref>Manga Chapters 267-269: Sato's Father Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 366-368: Parade Bomber Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 369-373: Serial Bomber Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 404-406: Missing Ring Case</ref> and finally Sato and Takagi shared their first kiss after he had been hospitalized in the course of a difficult case<ref>Episode 683: The Life-Threating Broadcast of Love (entering the scene)</ref> and kissed the second (and third!) time in Episode 683 when he almost died in a bomb accident.

Takagi is among the investigators who receive the most near fatal experiences. That includes, among many things:
* Handcuffed to the window of a burning warehouse.
* Trapped in a tower containing a countdown bomb.
* Held hostages and shot by the criminal.
* Tied on a plank on a roofless two story building containing a countdown bomb, while the temperature outside is -20 Celsius degree.

Although at some point, Takagi briefly develops PTSD, he nevertheless relentlessly pursues justice, even if it endangers his life.

== Personality ==
While he is initially self-conscious and bumbling, Takagi is a dedicated member of the Tokyo Police Force and shows promise as a good officer as the series progresses. He is one of the few officers who trusts [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s judgments the most, listening to him at case scenes to find important evidence and sometimes even letting Conan take the lead in their investigation (the case with [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] handcuffed to the wrong suspect in the bathroom being a good example).<ref>Manga Chapter 232: Finding Evidence</ref>

Takagi has a strong intuition and sense of justice, and is very honorable. He has a strong drive to protect others, partially based in his profession as an officer, and partially based on a self-sacrificing trait in his personality. He is always very polite, even when alarmed, and defers to the judgment of his partner Miwako Sato not only because she is his senior, but because he truly respects her. 

His hobbies are playing the maracas<ref>Manga Chapter 620: The Vanished Blunt Weapon</ref> and following the international wrestling scene, being a fan of wrestlers such as [[Wikipedia: Bruiser Brody|Bruiser Brody]] and [[Wikipedia: Keiji Mutoh|Keiji Mutoh]], and recognizing a move that Ran does as the "Shining Wizard," a finishing move of Mutoh's.<ref>Manga Chapter 388: Wolf's Shadow</ref> In summary, his hobbies involve a lot of martial arts and sports.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations/head|Wataru}}
{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Takagi-kun Takagi Wataru Takao-kun<ref name="file930">[[volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume88)]]</ref>|Sato-san Satoko-san<ref name="file930" />}}

{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Takagi-kun Takagi<ref name="ep791" />|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'') Inspector (''Keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Takagi-kun|Shiratori-san}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Takagi-san|Chiba}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Takagi-kun Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')|Yumi-san}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Takagi-san<ref name="sdb80-113">Detective Conan Super Digest Book 80+ Page 113</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Takagi Takagi Wataru|Managing Officer (''Kanrikan'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|-|Managing Officer (''Kanrikan'')}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|Takagi|Date-san}}

{{appellations|Goro Otaki|Takagi-san}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Takagi-kun}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Amuro-san<ref name="file955">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 955: Whereabouts of the Betrayal (Volume 90)</ref> Amuro Tooru-san<ref name="file955" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>[[Froth, Steam, and Smoke|Episode 684: Froth, Steam, and Smoke (Part 1)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|-|Jodie-san}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|Andre Camel-san}}

{{Appellations|Hidemi Hondou|-|Mizunashi Rena}}

{{appellations|Jinpei Matsuda|Detective Matsuda (''Matsuda-keiji'') Matsuda-san}}

{{appellations|Yuya Kazami|Sergeant Takagi (''Takagi junsa buchō'')|Kazami-san}}

{{appellations|Hiromitsu Morofushi|-|Morofushi}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Wataru}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'') Takagi-san<ref name="m4">[[Captured in Her Eyes]]</ref>|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')|Ran-san}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Takagi<ref name="ep791">[[Detective Takagi On the Run in Handcuffs]]</ref> Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>Episode 558: [[The Interrogation Room]]</ref>|Mouri-san}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')|Kudo-kun}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Wataru}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref name="file475">[[Volume 46#Kaitou Kid and the Three Instruments|File 475 (Volume 46)]]</ref>|Ai-chan}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref name="file475" />|Agasa-san}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Takagi|Genta-kun}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')|Mitsuhiko-kun}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Takagi-niisan|Ayumi-chan}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Thieves">
{{appellations/head|Wataru}}
{{Appellations|Kaitou Kid|-|Kaitou Kid Kid}}

{{appellations|Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|-|Lupin Lupin III (''Lupin Sansei'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Wataru}}
{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|-|Manager Ogura (''Ogura-tencho'')<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|-|Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|-|Ohashi-san<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>[[Volume 86#Poolside Case|File 905 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Sera-kun Sera-san<ref>Chapter 1023</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|-|Yoko-san Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo Ryusuke}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|-|Hondou Eisuke-kun}}

{{appellations|Genji Kojima|-|Genta-kun's dad (''Genta-kun no otōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Suguru Itakura|-|Itakura Suguru-san<ref>[[Episode 307]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Chianti|Cute boy|-}}

{{appellations|Makoto Kyogoku|-| Kyogoku-kun<ref>File 1023</ref><ref>File 1024</ref>}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>File 1079</ref>|-}}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Actor's Apartment Case (Manga: [[Volume 17|170]]-[[Volume 18|172]], Anime: [[The Historical Actor Murder Case|102-103]]) ===
Takagi makes his debut in the Manga series.

=== Treadmill Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 21|208-210]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|146-147]]) ===
This is the first case to show detective Takagi’s romantic affection for a female police officer, [[Miwako Sato]].

Initially, Takagi is tasked with the mission of recording the [[Detective Boys]]' testimonies regarding the events at the [[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|Blue Castle]]. Just as they're about to begin, the children notice his untidy clothing and wonder if he doesn't have a girlfriend. [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] offers to introduce to him his cousin's granddaughter, but Takagi awkwardly declines, stating that he has already had someone that he likes, right before detective [[Miwako Sato]] enters the room. Takagi keeps blushing, and his unnatural manner in front of Sato makes the Detective Boys think that she is really his girlfriend. However, both of them denies that this is true. Takagi wonders why Sato didn't go to assist [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] in the bank robbery case, and learns that the bank manager, together with his wife, will arrive at the Police Headquarter. Sato asks Takagi whether he has heard anything from her friend Yumi. He silently recalls Yumi's words, about what Sato told her when she was drunk, that the person she likes is someone from the first investigation division, who may very well be Takagi himself.

The bank manager, Keizo Masuo, comes by himself and decides to call his wife. During the phone call, Takagi and the others suddenly hear the wife's scream. He, Sato, [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and Keizo rush to Keizo's house and find his wife's dead body. The person to be in charge of this murder case is Inspector [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]], a police officer who has just been promoted recently. When Sato sarcastically suggests that Shiratori may as well consider her "a possible wedding match", Takagi misunderstands and begins to suspect that the person whom Sato said she has feelings for is none other than Shiratori. He keeps thinking of unreal scenarios with Shiratori and Sato being together, and isn't able to fully concentrate on the case.

Later, with the help from Conan, the trick and the identity of the killer are uncovered, and the case goes to an end. After turning down the invitation of Shiratori, Sato invites Takagi to go out and have ramen for dinner, to which he accepts happily. Unexpectedly, a drunken Megure comes up and asks them to go for a drink with him at the bar, and Sato immediately approves of the idea despite the invitation to Takagi earlier. Because of this, Takagi suddenly suspects that Sato's love interest is in fact Inspector Megure, and declines the offer.

The case ends with a depressed Takagi lying on the table and being unable to do anything, even though he still hasn't taken the Detective Boys' testimonies yet.

=== Innocent Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 23|231]]-[[Volume 24|233]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|156-157]]) ===

=== Sato's Father Case (Manga: [[Volume 27|267-269]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|205-206]]) ===
[[File:EP205-206b Case 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Takagi was attacked with a blunt object while talking with Sato on the phone about the Shushiro case.]]

=== Police Escort Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 30|296-298]], Anime: [[The Shinkansen Transport Case|240-241]]) ===

=== Sato's Omiai Case (Manga: [[Volume 32|328]]-[[Volume 33|330]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|253-254]]) ===

=== American Kidnapped Man Case (Anime: [[The Man from Chicago|258-259]]) ===
When Conan is telling the police officers present about the Panda colors of the Police Cars, and that the younger generation may not know this information about their black and white cars, Takagi asks himself, "What generation is this kid from?"

=== Parade Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 36|366-368]], Anime: [[Parade of Malice and Saint|301-302]]) ===

=== Serial Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 36|369]]-[[Volume 37|373]], Anime: [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|304]]) ===
[[File:Takagi and Miwako about to kiss.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Sato and Takagi about to kiss.]]

=== Missing Ring Case (Manga: [[Volume 40|404-406]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5|358-359]]) ===

=== Takagi's Last Case (Manga: [[Volume 44|450-452]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|390-391]]) ===

=== Jewel Robber's Suicide Case (Manga: [[Volume 47|484-486]], Anime: [[A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed|401-402]]) ===

=== Group Date Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 50|511-514]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|431-432]]) ===

=== Fake Wedding Case (Manga: [[Volume 52|535-537]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding|449]]) ===

=== Genta's Shot (Manga: [[Volume 55|567-569]], Anime: [[Genta's Certain Kill Shot|477]]) ===
In the anime, episode 477, at 11:50, Takagi is heard speaking numbers in French. In one of the Japanese Audio/English subtitles, his words are translated as "eins, zwei, drei," which is German, but he is actually saying "un, deux, trois." The victim was German, and Agasa says that when the dying victim (who spoke German, English and Japanese) was asked who the culprit was, he answered in his native tongue. Megure then turns to Takagi, who starts counting in French. Agasa then corrects him, saying "That's French," and then proceeds to count from one to eleven in German, solving the case. This exchange does not take place in the manga. This could suggest that Takagi is bilingual in French and Japanese (or at least took French in school).

=== Sato's Ring Case (Manga: [[Volume 56|576-578]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger|487]]) ===

=== Hammer Man Case (Manga: [[Volume 60|625-627]], Anime: [[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|530-531]]) ===

=== Whistling Killer Case (Manga: [[Volume 64|670-673]], Anime: [[The Scar that Evokes the Past|534-535]]) ===

=== The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love (Manga: [[Volume 76|804]]-[[Volume 77|808]], Anime: [[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|681-683]]) ===
[[File:681-7.png|thumb|200px|Takagi kidnapped.]]
[[File:Takagi and Sato second kiss.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Takagi and Sato's second kiss.]]
Takagi is kidnapped by a mystery man misunderstanding he is [[Wataru Date]] who made his daughter commit suicide. Around a year after the death of his friend and mentor Date, Takagi discovered that a suicide victim Natalie Kuruma was Date's girlfriend. Since the police investigation assumed that she killed herself due to having been dump, Takagi concluded that Natalie didn't know that Date had passed away in a traffic accident and decided to contact Natalie's next-of-kin to inform them of the truth. Since Natalie's parents had passed away, Takagi contacted the one who claimed her possessions, a colleague from English conversation school and old friend, Ryusaku Fuemoto. But due to that Natalie had never told her family her boyfriend's family name and because Date and Takagi had the same given name, Ryusaku mistook Takagi as the boyfriend who dumped Natalie, and lured him to Hokkaido. Police officers including [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Superintendent Matsumoto]] and [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] find their way to save Takagi with [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s help. [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] saves Takagi on time before the bomb under him exploded.
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=== A Missing Item Case (Manga: [[Volume 82|869-871]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9|748-749]]) ===
Takagi sees Sato is hesitates when thinking about that she's expecting some lost. Takagi thinks that she might be pregnant. The thing Sato was actually missing was her red badge which is given to all officers in the 1st Division. The whole pregnancy situation was a huge misunderstanding.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88|930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|828]]) ===
Takagi and Sato put on disguise to catch the culprit at a ramen shop. It's again stated that they're sexually active, as Sato tells Takagi that she plans to work out *intensely* that night to burn out calories (implying that she wants to have sex with him) and is mad when he misses the point of her remark.

=== Wataru Date's Notebook (Manga: [[Volume 101|1079]]-[[Volume 102|1081]], Anime: TPD) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Prior to manga appearances ===
Takagi was originally introduced as an [[anime]] only character to assist [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] as well as [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] with the solutions to cases. He was inserted into both Manga canon episodes as well as TV originals. He appeared in 23 episodes spanning 20 cases before the [[The Historical Actor Murder Case|anime adaptation]] of his [[Volume 18#Actor.27s Apartment Case|first official Manga appearance]] aired.

=== On Location, TV Drama Murder Case (Anime: [[Episode 21|21]])===
Takagi's first appearance in the [[anime]] series.

=== TV Station Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 11#TV Station Murder Case|102-104]], Anime: [[Episode 31|31]])===
The first Manga canon episode to feature Takagi despite him still being an Anime Original character at the time.

=== [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan]] ===
When [[Lupin III]] arrived in Japan to steal a jewel called the Cherry Sapphire, [[Inspector Zenigata]] of the ICPO asked to use some of Inspector Megure's officers as part of a plan to prevent the theft. After seeing Miwako eagerly volunteer to join Zenigata's team (as Lupin was her first love), Takagi took part in the operation as well. However, at the scene of the planned crime, it was revealed that Takagi was actually Lupin, who had replaced Takagi after stealing his clothing and identity. After the heist, [[Yumi Miyamoto]] and [[Naeko Miike]] discovered the real Takagi stripped, bound and gagged inside a parking garage.

== List of disguises used ==
In one case, [[Parade of Malice and Saint]], he wore a disguise that by remarkable coincidence resembled [[Jinpei Matsuda]], Sato's late partner.
<gallery perrow=6>
File:EP301 Takagi as Matsuda.jpg|Jinpei Matsuda-esque disguise<ref>[[Parade of Malice and Saint|Episode 301]]</ref>
File:EP643-14.png|''Mailman''<ref>[[Volume 72#A Wolf-Crier|Grabbing Karuta Cards in Dire Straits]]</ref>
File:Takao.jpg|''Takao''<ref>[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|A Killer in Ramen Ogura]]</ref>
</gallery>

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Miwako Sato ===
[[File:Episode 535 - Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Sato and Takagi.]]
{{main|Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato}}
His affection for [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] is a driving force of his character development. While his insecurity and comical outside interference regularly gets in the way, he slowly manages to win her heart through his dedication, honesty and sincerity - traits Sato had also admired in her late colleague [[Jinpei Matsuda]]. Sato finally kisses Takagi after he has been severely wounded while protecting others.

=== Conan Edogawa ===
Takagi has come the closest of any of the Division One members to finding out [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s true identity. [[File: EP391 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan and Takagi.]]

In The Man From Chicago, Episode 258-259, When Conan is telling the police officers present about the Panda colors of the Police Cars, and that the younger generation may not know this information about their black and white cars, Takagi asks himself, "What generation is this kid from?"

In the Tokyo Tower Bomber Case, while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime, [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], as Conan, told Takagi that he would answer Takagi's questions about his real identity "on the other side."

Takagi has also come to acknowledge Conan's sharp mind and intellect, taking Conan's observations seriously and even allowing him to accompany him to question suspects, most notably during the New Scar and the Whistling Man Case where he has the rest of the Detective Boys remain in the car.

He also fully supports Takagi's relationship with Sato, at one point orchestrated a plan to foil Shiratori's attempt of an arranged marriage with Sato. When asked for reasons, he didn't answer, but quietly relate the experience with Ran's relationship.

=== Kazunobu Chiba ===
[[File: EP526 4.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kazunobu and Takagi.]]
Takagi and [[Kazunobu Chiba]] always work together on murder cases. Chiba is also the only male officer in their department who has had no obsessive crush on Sato, and in fact supported Takagi in his romantic endeavors on several occasions.

=== Wataru Date ===
[[Wataru Date|Date]] was Takagi's mentor and close friend who passed away in a traffic accident. As the pronunciation of his name was the same as Wataru Takagi's, Takagi and Date were nicknamed "the Wataru brothers" (ワタル・ブラザーズ). He is very loyal to his late friend's memory, as demonstrated when he tried to clear out misunderstanding around the death of Date's girlfriend. And he feels guilty in not living up to what he believes was Date's last wish; Giving Natalie a ring hidden in the notebook. He couldn't give her the ring, because Natalie had committed suicide soon after Date's death.

=== Other ===
In the 16th movie, "The Eleventh Striker," Takagi mentions that he saw a football (soccer) game with his nephew, but does not give a name. This implies that he has at least one sibling.

== Character popularity ==
* eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Takagi placed 14th in the poll with 46 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

* In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Takagi placed 10th out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

* In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Takagi placed 10th overall with 226 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

* He ranked 9th in the SDB 80+'s poll "Characters you want to marry the most", with 446 votes.

== Name origin ==
* Takagi is named after his voice actor. In the anime he was originally a nameless character called "Detective A" who would appear in the background in some episodes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/1603/29/news079.html|title=声優・高木渉が「PON!」に生出演　高木刑事＆元太の声で映画「名探偵コナン」をアピール|date=2016-03-29|publisher=https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp|accessdate=2019-06-04}}</ref>. However while recording for [[Night Road Murder Case|episode 66]], Megure's voice actor [[Chafurin]] adlibbed asking Detective A "What's your name?", to which Takagi's voice actor mistakenly responded with his own name and replied "It's Takagi"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://otapol.com/2016/01/post-5345.html|title=大河ドラマ『真田丸』に『コナン』の高木刑事が出陣中!?　ベテラン声優・高木渉の人気にNHKも東スポも驚く！|date=2016-01-17|publisher=https://otapol.com|accessdate=2019-06-04}}</ref>. While this ad-lib was not kept in for the airing, the name stuck and is used in this episode and beyond. Gosho included the name Wataru Takagi since it is also the name of a Detective created by Kenzo Kitakata named Yoshibumi '''Taka'''gi where only the first kanji in the surname is similar (高 - Taka).

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Takagi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 26]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Takagi Second Look.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 147]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Takagi After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 760]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|It doesn't matter whether it's a petty or a major crime, all crimes are unforgivable!}}
{{cquote|Every murderer makes at least one mistake.}}
{{cquote|Sometimes the proof is in what’s not actually there.|From Mouri Kogoro (aka Conan) [[Episode 392]]}}
{{cquote|The way I see it, no matter the situation... No one’s dream can benefit from killing another person!|[[Episode 392]]}}
{{cquote|It’s certainly not right to lie, but you need to hold those who force others to lie accountable.|[[Episode 405]]}}
{{cquote|But what you did is still a crime. No matter how unforgivable of an opponent. There’s no way to fix it with an apology!|[[Episode 459]]}}

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable CharLang|notes=1}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|渉 Wataru|高木 Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|واتارو Watāru|تاكاجي Takāji| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Takagi|Wataru| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|flag2 = Hong Kong | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) |涉 Shè|高木 Gāomù| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harry|Wilder/Takagi<ref>In the manga</ref>| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Wataru|Takagi|In the anime, Takagi is pronunced like "Takaji"}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|형선 Hyung Sun|신 Shin| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Ватару Vataru|Такаги Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|วาตารุ Wātā-ru|ทาคางิ Thā-khāngi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
* Despite debuting in [[On Location, TV Drama Murder Case]] it isn't until the [[Karaoke Box Murder Case]] that Takagi is credited and referred to by that name.
* Takagi's appearance seems to have changed. His old hairstyle included a spikier fringe compared to the current one as well as a darker skin tone.
* Takagi drives a [[Cars|Nissan Skyline]],[[Cars|1966 Toyota Publica De Luxe [UP20-D]]].
* The name of the voice actor of Takagi is Wataru Takagi also.
* "Takagi" (高木) means "tall tree", his first name "Wataru" (渉) means "to cross".
* Takagi is the fifth character with most appearances on the anime, only less than the 3 protagonists and Inspector Megure; he has even more appearances than Detective Boys, Professor Agasa and Ai Haibara.

== Gallery ==
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</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato]]

== References ==
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[[de:Wataru Takagi]]

Voice-Changing Bowtie

2023-03-31T02:23:41Z

Exaskliri: /* Special Cases */ added Episode 117 (attempted case)

{{InfoBox Gadget
| name = Voice-Changing Bowtie
| japanese-name = 蝶ネクタイ型変声機<ref>https://www.ytv.co.jp/conan/item/tai.html</ref>
| romaji-name = Chō Nekutai-gata Henseiki
| image = Voice-Changing Bowtie Profile.jpg
| creator = [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]
| user = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Shinichi Kudo]]
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1|Volume 1 - File 6]] Anime: [[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case|Episode 3]]
| appearances = {{:Voice-Changing Bowtie Appearances}}
| prev-gadget =
| next-gadget = Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes
| footnotes =
}}
The {{nihongo|'''Voice-Changing Bowtie'''|蝶ネクタイ型変声機|Chō Nekutai-gata Henseiki}} is the first gadget created by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]].

== Description ==

By turning the dial on the back Conan is able to imitate all kinds of voices that he hears. When Conan isn't wearing the bowtie, he'll usually store it away in a pocket until he needs it. This gadget is usually used together with the [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch]], prior to receiving it, Conan was shown to knock Kogoro unconscious by kicking an ashtray.

Voice changing bow tie has a megaphone mode as shown in File 998.

There is a white version of the bow tie as shown only in episode 505-506, and 520.

=== Technical details ===

[[File:vlcsnap-2019-01-05-11h48m34s096.png|thumb|left|Bowtie Specifications]]
The theory behind the Voice-Changing Bowtie is that it works on a frequency modifier system based on patterns from the voice it is to emulate. Voice changers are real technology.

In the real world the Voice-Changing Bowtie has many flaws, such as the frequency response for the size of the speakers in the bowtie wouldn't be able to reproduce frequency of a voice realistically. The frequency modifier, in most cases, wouldn't be able reproduce the subtle but also distinguishable variations of another persons voice. In order to even change the sound in the first place they will need components such as a mic, speaker, processor and powerful batteries to keep it all running. Last but not least the Voice-Changing Bowtie needs to have Conan voice inverted to cancel out his voice completely, otherwise it would be present and noticeable. As this is a fictional drama with many factual references take it with a grain of salt that this is subject to a persons imagination, but these types of technology can and will be possible in the near future if they utilise extremely thin and small magnetic speakers which can accurately reproduce the frequencies accordingly, and the other components reduce drastically in size.

==Usage==
''Under Construction''

In most cases, Conan will use the bowtie to simulate Kogoro's voice; and less frequently Sonoko's to solve a case. However, in some unique situations, Conan used the bowtie to take other people's voices. The voice-changing function on the bowtie works by turning the dial behind the left bow to a different preset number. In the anime [https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Luxury_Liner_Serial_Murder_Case Episode 23], Conan mentioned in his inner speech that Kogoro Mouri's voice is stored in preset number 59.
===Kogoro Mouri===
Below is the list of episodes in which Conan mimicked Kogoro's voice. "???" means that the information needs to be verified.
[[File:vlcsnap-2019-01-05-11h49m05s526.png|thumb|left|Conan using bowtie]]
<spoiler>
{| class="wikitable"
! Source || Reason
|-
| [[Episode 3]] || Solving case.
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| [[Episode 6]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 9]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 11]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 16]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 19]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 21]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 22|Episode 22-23]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Fourteenth Target|Episode 24]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 30]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 31]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 38]] || Tricking Inspector Megure and Kogoro to meet up. Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 39|Episode 39-40]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 41]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 44]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 45]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 46]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 47]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 51]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 52]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 54]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 55]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 56]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 60]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 61|Episode 61-62]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 64]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 66]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 68|Episode 68-70]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 71]] || Tricking Inspector Megure and Kogoro to meet up. Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 74]] || Calling Inspector Megure on the phone. Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 75]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 77|Episode 77-78]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 80]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 83]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 87]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 88|Episode 88-89]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 90]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 94]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 95]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 97]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 98|Episode 98-99]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 100|Episode 100-101]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 102|Episode 102-103]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 106]] || Talking to the victim because [[Kogoro]] was sleeping, and solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 109]] || Tricking Inspector Megure and Kogoro to meet up. Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 110|Episode 110-111]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 113]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 114|Episode 114-115]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 119]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 120]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 121|Episode 121-122]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 124|Episode 124-125]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 126|Episode 126-127]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 128]] || Calling Inspector Megure for [[Hirota Masami]]'s address.
|-
| [[Episode 149]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 158]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 159|Episode 160]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 161]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 166|Episode 166-168]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 169]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 170|Episode 170-171]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 172|Episode 172-173]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 174]] || Solving case.
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| [[Episode 175]] || Asking for informations about case, and solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 180|Episode 181]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 184]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 185|Episode 186]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 187]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 194|Episode 194-195]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 197|Episode 198]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 203|Episode 204]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 207]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 208]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 210|Episode 211]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 214]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 215|Episode 216]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 220|Episode 220-221]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 222|Episode 222-224]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 232]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 235]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 236|Episode 237]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 240|Episode 240-241]] || Solving case.
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| [[Episode 243|Episode 243-244]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 245]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 248]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 251]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 256]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 260]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 262]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 264|Episode 264-265]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 266|Episode 266-268]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 274|Episode 274-275]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 282|Episode 282-283]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 284|Episode 284-285]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 296]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 297|Episode 297-298]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 299|Episode 299-300]] || Solving case after Kogoro tried to solve him by himself and failed to do so.
|-
| [[Episode 305|Episode 305-306]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 307|Episode 307-308]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 314]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 315]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 316|Episode 316-317]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 318|Episode 318-319]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 320]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 328]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 337]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 348|Episode 348-349]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 350|Episode 350-351]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 354|Episode 354-355]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 364|Episode 364-365]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 369]] || ???
|-
| [[Episode 384]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 441]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Lawyer Eri Kisaki's Testimony|Episode 506]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Broken Horoscope|Episode 512]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Coffee Aroma with Murderous Intention|Episode 514]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Meiji Restoration Mystery Tour|Episode 519]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Red Wine Indictment|Episode 520]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Scar that Evokes the Past|Episode 535]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[A Fool's Inheritance|Episode 539]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Hand That Plays in Dissonance|Episode 544]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Two Days with the Culprit|Episode 548]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Interrogation Room|Episode 553]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Intersection of Fear|Episode 556]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Rainbow Color Kidnapping|Episode 562]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Eyewitness Who Did Not See|Episode 565]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Murderous Intent Raining on an Outdoor Spa|Episode 567]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Crime with Zero Possibility to be Proven|Episode 570]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Alibi of the Black Dress|Episode 576]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen|Episode 581]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Night the Zombie Died|Episode 582]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Trap of the Rooftop Farm|Episode 588]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Seven Wonders of the Hiroshima Miyajima Tour|Episode 594]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Alibi of the Fall|Episode 596]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[A Friend of Justice|Episode 599]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Séance's Double Locked Room Mystery Case|Episode 605]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Courtroom Confrontation IV: Juror Sumiko Kobayashi|Episode 607]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[White Day of Betrayal|Episode 609]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[What the Flower Clock Knew|Episode 631]] || Get information from inspector Megure and solving case.
|-
| [[The Guardian of Time's Sword|Episode 633]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Super Narrow Shop Crime Scene|Episode 634]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 637]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 639]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 641]] || Solving case and talking to the victim after solving the case.
|-
| [[Episode 645]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 665]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 666]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 668]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 670]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 677]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 679]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 686]] || Asking Takagi and Megure to look into something.
|-
| [[Episode 688]] || Asking Takagi to look into something, and then solving the case.
|-
| [[Episode 689]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Private Eye in the Distant Sea]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 692]] || Discussing the case with Megure, Sato and Takagi.
|-
| [[Episode 694]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 695]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 696]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 697]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 703]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 707]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 709]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 717]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 718]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 721]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 726]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 729]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 736]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 739]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 743]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 745]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 753]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 758]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 762]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 769]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 774]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 778]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 790]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 796]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 802]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 807]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Missing Fiancée|Episode 817]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Hidden Secret of Dongaraji Temple|Episode 821]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Suspects Are a Passionate Couple|Episode 822-823]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Tidal Park Comeback Case|Episode 825]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Man Who Died Twice|Episode 834-835]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[You Can Hear The Tengu's Voice|Episode 839]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Last Gift|Episode 840]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Rainy Bus Stop|Episode 841]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 900]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 1010]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 1013]] || Solving case.
|}
</spoiler>

===Sonoko Suzuki===
Below is a list of times in which Conan mimicked Sonoko's voice (usually knocking her out with his stun-gun wristwatch beforehand) to solve the case.
<spoiler>
{| class="wikitable"
! Source || Reason
|-
| [[A June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|Episode 34-35]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case|Episode 72]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Bank Heist Murder Case|Episode 79]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Magic Lover's Murder Case|Episode 134]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 143]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Battle Game Trap|Episode 226-227]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Murderous Pottery Class|Episode 228-229]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Four Porsches|Episode 338-339]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Bride of Huis ten Bosch|Episode 342]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Fishing Tournament Tragedy|Episode 352-353]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Teitan High School's Ghost Story|Episode 361-362]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Candy House the Witch Lives In|Episode 368]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Blind Spot in the Karaoke Box|Episode 507-508]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|Episode 530-531]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Devil Hidden in the Tennis Court|Episode 602]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Screaming Operation Room|Episode 625-626]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Promo Video Shooting Case|Episode 629-630]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Beware of Dieting|Episode 635]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Hot Chocolate Trap|Episode 658]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Cactus Capriccio|Episode 680]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[A Dispute Over a Platinum Ticket|Episode 719]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid|Episode 724-725]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Wedding Reception and the Two Gunshots|Episode 733]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Welcome to Club Orihime|Episode 784]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon|Episode 838]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Mystery of the Vanished Black Belt|Episode 855]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 924]] || Solving case.
|}
</spoiler>

===Special Cases===
<spoiler>
{| class="wikitable"
! Source || Character simulated || Reason
|-
| [[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case|Episode 3]] || Random voice/[[Shinichi Kudo]] || Testing out the bowtie with random voice. Making up an excuse for why he/Shinichi is not around to Ran.
|-
| [[Once-A-Month Present Threat Case|Episode 7]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || To keep Ran from suspecting Conan. (Used by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]].)
|-
| [[Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case|Episode 10]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Calling Ryoko
|-
| [[Hijacked Department Store Case|Episode 17]] || Random voice || Pretending to be a cop to save Genta & Mitsuhiko from the robbers.
|-
| [[Computer Murder Case|Episode 29]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Calling Inspector Megure to continue investigation and to bring Ran & Conan along..
|-
| [[Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case|Episode 38]] || [[Inspector Megure]], [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Tricking Inspector Megure and Kogoro to meet up. Solving case.
|-
| [[Karaoke Box Murder Case|Episode 42]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case|Episode 43]] || Boy's mother, Alien || Conan needed to convince a young boy to continue to let him hide in his hotel room.
|-
| [[Diplomat Murder Case|Episode 48-49]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Calling Ran.
|-
| [[Holmes Freak Murder Case|Episode 57-58]] || [[Heiji Hattori]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Big Monster Gomera Murder Case|Episode 63]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Stage Actress Murder Case|Episode 67]] || Heihachiro Shiota || Solving case.
|-
| [[A Stalker's Murder Case|Episode 71]] || [[Inspector Megure]], [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Tricking Inspector Megure and Kogoro to meet up. Solving case.
|-
| [[Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case|Episode 77-78]] || Nobuko Nagato, [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Answering a phone call for Nabuko.
|-
| [[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 81-82]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || To maintain disguise as Ayumi.
|-
| [[Ski Lodge Murder Case|Episode 84-85]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Calling Ran, and telling her what to say for solving the case.
|-
| [[The Bank Robber's Hospitalization Case|Episode 91]] || Criminal || Getting the attention of another criminal.
|-
| [[The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases|Episode 96]] || [[Misao Yamamura]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Detective Club Pursuit Case|Episode 109]] || [[Inspector Megure]], [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Tricking Inspector Megure and Kogoro to meet up. Solving case.
|-
| [[The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case|Episode 117]] || No one || Conan aims to knock out Kogoro, but ends up hitting someone else by accident. He attempts to solve the case as the latter, but fails since he has never heard his voice before.
|-
| [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Professor Agasa]] || Calling Inspector Megure as Shinichi to alert him to the counterfeiters. Uses Agasa's voice to solve case.
|-
| [[The Final Screening Murder Case|Episode 139]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[SOS! Messages from Ayumi|Episode 140]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Make the culprit think he's going to give him money.
|-
| [[The Last Wizard of the Century]] || | Shouichi Inui, Ryu Sagawa || Talk to Scorpion.
|-
| [[The Truth Behind the Car Explosion Case|Episode 150-151]] || [[Inspector Megure]] || ???
|-
| [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176-178]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]], Man's voice, [[Conan Edogawa]] || ???
|-
| [[The Coffee Shop Truck's Wild Entrance Case|Episode 179]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Falling from Mt. Ryujin Case|Episode 209]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
|[[The Shinkansen Transport Case|Episode 240-241]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Calls to talk to Ran about the [[The 3 "K"s of Osaka Case|case involving Ray Curtis]].
|-
| [[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|Episode 253-254]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Wataru Takagi]] || Solving case, stopping Shiratori and Sato kissing each other.
|-
| [[The Mysterious Punishment From Heaven|Episode 257]] || [[Inspector Megure]] || ???
|-
| [[The Forgotten Memento from the Crime|Episode 269-270]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Hooligan's Labyrinth|Episode 279-280]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Contact with the Black Organization|Episode 309-311]] || Takashi Itakura || Arranging a meeting with Vodka.
|-
| [[The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car|Episode 321-322]] || Tadashi Yoshizawa || To lure the culprit.
|-
| [[Heiji Hattori's Desperate Situation!|Episode 323-324]] || Misari Itou || To trick the culprit's accomplices.
|-
| [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329-330]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Similar Princesses|Episode 333-334]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Secret of the Tohto Film Development Studio|Episode 335-336]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|Episode 340-341]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Convenience Store Trap|Episode 343-344]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || To help Ran solving the case (on phone)
|-
| [[A Mysterious Spring Beetle|Episode 360]] || [[Misao Yamamura]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Malice Hidden Behind the Masque|Episode 527]] || Kinuko Shimizu, Manabu Tabuchi || Imitate Kinuko's voice to tell Komazuka the play is starting and imitate Tabuchi's voice to tell that the real rapier had been missing.
|-
| [[The Secret of the Vanished Masterpiece|Episode 536]] || [[Keiichi Yagami]] || Prevents Yasuo Shishikura from putting fire to the house.
|-
| [[The Revolving Sushi Mystery|Episode 550]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Detective Boys vs. Robber Group|Episode 564]] || One of the robbers || Lure him into a trap.
|-
| [[The Truth Lit Up By the Fireflies|Episode 577]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The House with the Aquarium|Episode 591]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Scenario of the Steaming Locked Room|Episode 598]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Dream the Kappa Saw|Episode 601]] || [[Misao Yamamura]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 618]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Shinichi having a while before reverting back into Conan pretended to have a cold.
|-
| [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|Episode 647]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Correcting Sera's deduction and solving the case.
|-
| [[The Case of the Besieged Detective Agency|Episode 649]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Kogoro-san is a Good Man|Episode 662]] || [[Ryouhei Onda]] || Uses the voice of Ryouhei Onda, a Kogoro Mouri look-alike.
|-
| [[Chase the Miyama Stag Beetle|Episode 663]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Unsolvable Ice Trap|Episode 687]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Uses the professor's voice to Solving case.
|-
| [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|Episode 691]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Uses Shinichi's voice to answer Ran's phonecall.
|-
| [[Episode 697]] || Misaki Yanai || Tricking Kogoro to meet up.
|-
| [[Episode 774]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Helps on the case by using Ran's phone.
|-
| [[The Scarlet Return|Episode 782]] || [[Yusaku Kudo]] (disguised) || Talks to Bourbon via a microwave transmitter.
|-
| [[Detective Boys' Locked Room Mystery Battle|Episode 799]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[The Ventriloquist's Illusion|Episode 807]] || Doll || Impersonate puppet's Culprit voice.
|-
| [[The Actress Blogger's Locked Room Case|Episode 815]] || [[Professor Agasa]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Episode 864]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Solving case. (Used by [[Mary Sera]].)
|-
| [[Episode 927]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Answering a question from his friends. (Used by [[Heiji Hattori]].)
|-
| [[Episode 1012]] || [[Misao Yamamura]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[A Secret Order From London|OVA 11]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Shinichi (during the flight to London during [[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616]]) calls [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] in order to insist that he keeps Haibara away from Agasa's place.
|-
| [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Talks to Ran several times. Answers a phone call from Teiji Moriya.
|-
| [[Magician of the Silver Sky]] || [[Eri Kisaki]] || Solving case.
|-
| [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan]] || [[Inspector Zenigata]] || Attempts solving case, but Zenigata wakes up.
|-
| [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] (Lupin III in disguise) ||Solving case. Lupin plays along to help Conan.
|-
| [[Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Attempts to call Ran, but the transformation into Shinichi prevents him from speaking.
|}
</spoiler>

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.
</gallery>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Gadgets]]

{{Gadgets}}

[[Category:Gadgets]]
[[Category:Sound-related items]]

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== General ==

=== Articles in general ===

Some important rules:

* Try to include '''categories''' (i.e. using ''<nowiki>[[Category:Name of category]]</nowiki>'') when creating a new article (use other similar articles as example to know which categories to put). If, when previewing, the category name appears in red or if you're unsure, please do not try creating new categories unless you know what you're doing. A moderator or experienced contributor will take care of them.
* Try to always include a '''See also''' section if possible (and/or applicable). It's good practice for user-friendliness purposes (as it provides a useful and extra mean of navigation).
* The '''References''' section should always be placed after the '''See also''' section but before the '''External links''' section.
* If there's an '''External links''' section, it should always be placed at the end completely (i.e. last section on the page).

=== Capitalization ===

For section headers:

* Only the first letter as well as people names should be capitalized.
* Though quite rare, in some context, some common words may be capitalized (possibly following a discussion/talk about it).

In category names:

* The first letter of the first word should be capitalized.
* Common words should not be capitalized. Examples: "Kudo family", "List of ''something''", etc...
* Some words that refer to people should be capitalized such as "Voice Actors", "Executive Producers", etc...

=== Naming convention ===

Even though Japanese names are usually given with the last name placed first, people's names in this wiki should follow the format:
* '''Given_name''' '''Last_name'''

The rationale can be read [[Detective_Conan_Wiki_talk:Manual_of_Style#Naming convention|here]].

=== References ===

If citing manga chapters or anime episodes (or movie, OVA, etc...), please point to the corresponding wiki page of that chapter or episode. The format is as follows:

* For manga chapters:
** {{green|<nowiki>[[Volume X#File Y - Title|Volume X, File Y, page Z: "Chapter title"]]</nowiki>}} (the "page Z" part is optional)
** Example: [[Volume_26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]] in the "References" section of [[Conan Edogawa]]
* For manga chapters not yet in a Volume, '''there must not be links to the chapters''' (this will ensure we easily catch this citation later on when they become part of a Volume):
** {{green|<nowiki>File X: Title</nowiki>}}
** Example: File 763: The Ghost of Time
* For episodes:
** {{green|<nowiki>[[Title|Episode X-Y: Title]]</nowiki>}} (with Y being optional)
** Example: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]] in the "References" section of [[Conan Edogawa]]

If using a "name" variable for the references, please use the following:

* For manga files:
** {{green|<nowiki><ref name="fXpY"></nowiki>}} (the pY is optional). "f" and "p" stand for "File" and "page" respectively. Example: <nowiki><ref name="f433"></nowiki>, <nowiki><ref name="f100p8"></nowiki>.
* For anime episodes:
** {{green|<nowiki><ref name="eX"></nowiki>}}. "e" stands for "Episode". Example: <nowiki><ref name="e501"></nowiki>.

=== Spoiler Policy ===
Spoilers are any information that reveal major parts of a plot, mystery, or storyline event. Spoilers can refer both to information about unreleased or untranslated story events and to dramatic turn of events or resolutions. "Manga spoilers" are specifically any information that would spoil a person up to date with the manga (such as leaked pictures from an upcoming chapter), and "anime spoilers" will spoil someone up to date with the anime (such as information about manga chapters that haven't yet been released as episodes).

In this wiki, individual anime episode pages and manga volume are spoiler free provided the reader/watcher is up to date with the episode/volume in question. Most other articles on the wiki, ''especially'' character articles, are kept up to date with the manga and will contain prominent manga and anime spoilers. Pages where wiki readers that aren't caught up in the manga have a high risk of spoiling themselves may have a [[:Template:SpoilerWarningArticle|spoiler warning template]] or even a click-through with a prominent warning to keep them from reading material they may regret.

{| border="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 60%"
|+ Current Detective Conan Wiki Spoiler Policy
! Article Type
! Example
! Safety
|-
| Individual anime episode, movie, OVA, and Magic File pages
| [[Episode 1]] || Safe for people who have watched up to that point. Case solutions and resolutions are hidden in spoiler boxes. Links to other articles such as character articles may lead to spoilers.
|-
| Individual volume pages
| [[Volume 1]] || Safe for people who have read up to that point. Case solutions and resolutions are hidden in spoiler boxes. Links to other articles such as character articles may lead to spoilers.
|-
| Character Pages
| [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Characters]] || Can contain manga spoilers. Character articles can prominently display spoilers such as secret identities and allegiances that will spoil anyone not caught up with the manga.
|-
| General information lists
| [[Anime]], [[Manga]] || Contain very general spoilers in the form of icons that signify the sorts of plots that appear in each chapter or episode. (eg. Character Pasts, Black Organization)
|-
| Everywhere else
| [[Black Organization]], [[Setting]], [[FBI]], [[APTX 4869]] || Can contain manga spoilers.
|}

Resolutions to cases or arcs are hidden in spoiler boxes on volume and anime pages. Other pages may discuss these resolution spoilers openly as described above. Other measures taken to protect resolutions include making sure the crime boxes and suspect descriptions are appropriately naive; they use the police/Watson perspective as opposed to the hyper-intelligent Conan/Sherlock perspective. This sometimes means using aliases instead of real names prior to a character's reveal, labeling murders as suicides or vice versa depending on what the police think, or not including certain people as suspects that the police believe are ruled out because they have a strong alibi. The point is to avoid ruining the mystery for readers by not giving out additional hints on top of what the case gives out on its own.
=== Headings ===
* Do not use = Heading 1 =. instead, use == Heading 2 ==.
* An == Introduction == section should not be used.

== Characters ==

=== New character articles ===

Here are the characteristics, by order of importance, to look at when justifying the creation of a character's profile:
# The character is a main protagonist
# The character is a major recurring character
# The character is a minor recurring character (2 appearances or more)
# The character is part of a main organization such as the Police, the [[Black Organization]], school body, etc...
# The character has had an impact on the storyline such that said impact spans more than one episode (or movie, etc...)

=== Profiles ===

The following is a global overview of the generic article structure when creating character pages. {{blue|Blue statements}} emphasize important points.

{| class="wikitable top-align"
! Order || Section || Optional? || Description || Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1 || '''Background''' || || The background section should contain a concise and precise overview of:
* The character's past and younger days.
* How the character was introduced in the series (more details can be given later in the '''Plot overview''' section).
* The role of the character and how important they are in the series, their ties to their family/close friends, their impact on the storyline, and more.
* Events or incidents that changed the character in a substantial, major or radical way (more details can be given later in the '''Plot overview''' section).
* Personal history, activities, achievements and the like, known or associated to the character.
|
* The goal of this section is to present the character to a "supposed first-time reader" so that they can easily place the character into the context and storyline of the series and understand the character's role and importance.
* Subsections of substantial importance may be created.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2 || '''Personality''' || || '''For canon and/or main characters:'''
* Description of the general "feeling" emanated by the character from our point of view as well as the other characters'.
* Qualities and flaws of the characters may be presented in details.
* Any relevant information that pertains to the character's personality (or the influence it's had on others or the environment).
'''For non-canon and/or minor (recurring or important enough to mention) characters:'''
* This section should describe at the very least the impression the character made from the viewer's point of view while or after being introduced.
* Any other relevant detail is welcome.
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3 || ... ''Other character specific sections'' ... || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Any other section(s) that pertain(s) directly to the character such as "Appellations", "Special abilities", "Skills", etc... ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4 || '''Plot overview''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Present in a chronological order (broken down in '''subsections''') the series of events in which the character was involved (directly or indirectly). Feel free to be as detailed as possible. || {{blue|If the plot overview is too big, you may fork it out to a new page and add a link to the new article.}}
|-
| style="text-align:center"|5 || '''Non-Canon Plot overview''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Present in a chronological order (broken down in '''subsections''') the series of events in which the character was involved (directly or indirectly). Feel free to be as detailed as possible. || {{blue|If the non-canon plot overview is too big, you may fork it out to a new page and add a link to the new article.}}
|-
| style="text-align:center"|6 || '''Relationships analysis''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List (using '''subheaders''' - {{blue|avoid ''bullets'' unless necessary please}}) other characters with whom the given character (may) have or have had some direct or indirect (but worth mentioning) relationship.
|
* Forking is also allowed if the subsection is too big.
* {{blue|''Relationship analysis'' should always come after the Background, Personality, Plot overview or any other section that directly pertain to the character in question.}} It is essential to first present the character, then their relationships with others (i.e. from specific to generic).
|-
| style="text-align:center"|7 || ... ''Other relevant but non-character-specific sections'' ... || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Any other section(s) that pertain(s) indirectly to the character such as "People who know the character's real identity", etc... ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|8 || '''Name origin''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Describe in details the origin of the character's name. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|9 || '''Quotes''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Provide a list of known, famous or important quotes from the character. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|10 || '''In other languages''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Gives names of the character in other foreign languages. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|11 || '''Trivia''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List of minor or trivial facts of interest. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|12 || '''Gallery''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Character images that provide important information or context about a character that can't easily be shown in other sections on a page || Images in character galleries need to each have a specific purpose, so that the gallery does not turn into a list of a bunch of images with the character in them. Examples of appropriate images would the character's appearance when they were older or younger, or looked significantly different than they do currently.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|13 || '''See also''' || || Point to the [[Characters]] page and any other page that may be relevant to the article. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|14 || '''References''' || Yes (if citations used throughout the article) || References to cited sources. || Please follow the format given in [[#References|References]].
|}

== Episodes, Movies, OVAs and TV Specials ==

The following is a global overview of the generic article structure when creating character pages. {{blue|Blue statements}} emphasize important points.

Unlike other types of pages where [[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]] are displayed openly, on Episodes, Movies, OVAs, TV Specials, and Manga Volumes, spoilers are hidden for the benefit of readers who don't want to know the answer. Therefore, when making crime boxes or adding details to people sections, please use the "Watson" perspective of what is going on in a case (basically what the police think) instead of the "Sherlock" perspective. If culprit was explicitly shown (the case is a howdunnit rather than a whodunnit) it is okay to list the culprit, but don't spoil how the crime was committed. The general rule of thumb is to hide any information that is part of a big reveal at the end, like the fact that X is the murderer, or Y is a member of the Black Organization. All that information and spoilers goes in the resolution section inside of the spoiler box.

{| class="wikitable top-align"
! Order || Section || Optional? || Description || Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1 || '''Characters introduced''', '''Gadgets introduced''' or '''Characters and gadgets introduced''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List new characters and/or gadgets introduced by using the [[Template:NewChar|<nowiki>{{NewChar}}</nowiki>]] and [[Template:NewGadget|<nowiki>{{NewGadget}}</nowiki>]] templates.
|
Describe the new character or gadget in a few words within the corresponding templates.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2 || '''Cast''' || || List the characters that appear in the coresponding video by using the [[Template:NewChar|<nowiki>{{Char Appearances}}</nowiki>]] template. || Use the full names of the characters when known. Titles should only be used when one or both parts of the name are not known. For very long arcs with multiple cases where the cast changes significantly like [[Clash of Red and Black]] or [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen]], consider using multiple cast lists for each major part.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3 || '''Case''' (or '''Case: Title''') || || || This section is broken down into several parts as shown below. {{blue|It is possible to have more than one case in the same episode (or movie, etc...). If so, having many Case sections (enumerated like "'''Case 1'''" or "'''Case: Title of 1st case'''") is possible.}}
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.1 || '''Situation''' || style="text-align:center"| || Add one or many crime boxes pertaining to the current case by using the [[Template:InfoBox Crime|<nowiki>{{InfoBox Crime}}</nowiki>]] template. See [[Detective_Conan_Wiki:Manual_of_Style#Cases|below]] for the image guidelines. || {{blue|We want to be as clear as possible here. So it is important we dedicated one box per specific crime or crime attempt so that more precise details can be given and the reader doesn't get lost or confused.}}
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.2 || '''People''' || style="text-align:center"| || List people related to or involved in the case using the [[Template:People|<nowiki>{{People}}</nowiki>]] and [[Template:BeginBox|<nowiki>{{BeginBox}}</nowiki>]] (for wrapping all of the people's thumbnails together to avoid a broken layout structure) templates.

|
Describe in a few words each of the character when using the [[Template:People|<nowiki>{{People}}</nowiki>]] template. {{blue|Label the victim(s) as well.}} Omit information about people only revealed as part of the resolution of cases to avoid spoilers. Don't list people who only appear as part of the resolution ; those people are listed in the spoilered section.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.3 || '''Resolution''' || style="text-align:center"| || Describe in details the resolution of the case by exposing in 3 points (or more) the:
* '''Evidence'''
* '''Conclusion'''
* '''Motive'''
| {{blue|Use the <nowiki><spoiler></nowiki> tags to hide the whole resolution section to give the reader the option to dig in further or not.}} List anyone who couldn't be listed in the people section above because it would be spoilers in this section.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.4 || ... ''Other relevant case-specific sections'' ... || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Any other section(s) that pertain(s) to the case such as "Trivia", etc... ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4 || ... ''Other relevant sections'' ... || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Any other section(s) that pertain(s) to the article such as "Differences from the manga", etc... ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|5 || '''Trivia''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List of minor or trivial facts of interest related to the whole article. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|6 || '''BGM listing''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List of the songs played during the episode, named by the soundtrack they were from. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|7 || '''Gallery''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Images from the episode || Five images max are allowed on the main page gallery section before it should be forked off into a gallery page for the episode "pagename/gallery" A soft maximum number of 25 images can be added to a page's gallery per 30 minute episode, 15 being a good average number. This is to avoid legal issues associated with uploading too much of a copyrighted work. Please do not include fansubs or watermarks from fansubs or illegal anime hosters when possible.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|8 || '''See also''' || || Point to the corresponding season page of the episode (e.g. [[Season 1]]) or full [[Movies]], [[OVAs]] or [[TV Specials]] articles. Any other relevant page may be added as well. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|9 || '''References''' || Yes (if citations used throughout the article) || References to cited sources. || Please follow the format given in [[#References|References]].
|}

== Season pages ==
Season pages list episodes according to an approximation of the [[Japanese DVDs]], referred to as "Parts".

i.e. [[Season 1]] contains Episodes 1-28 because Part 1 of the Japanese DVDs does as well.

== Manga volumes ==

Manga volumes operate somewhat similarly to episode pages so many of the same instructions apply. The main difference stem from the fact that cases may be spread over multiple pages if the beginning and ending belong to separate volumes. The sectioning works a bit like a multicase episode: There are certain sections that globally cover all the chapters in the episode at the top and bottom of the page such as the cast list, trivia, introduced people, introduced gadgets, cover in other countries, references, etc. The main body of the page is where the cases are listed.

Each case has its own section which is given a brief descriptive title such as "Scarlet Showdown" or "Museum Owner Murder Case". Each case is then subdivided by chapters which are numbered and listed by their chapter name. Each case may have its own introduced people/gadgets and a case people section as needed. People sections in manga volumes use black and white images from the manga instead of using a colored anime version. Unlike episode pages, there is no separate resolution section for volume cases. Instead, spoiler boxes are put where they are needed because resolutions may be spread over multiple cases and even volumes.

Unlike other types of pages where [[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]] are displayed openly, on Episodes, Movies, OVAs, TV Specials, and Manga Volumes, spoilers are hidden for the benefit of readers who don't want to know the answer. Therefore, when making crime boxes or adding details to people sections, please use the "Watson" perspective of what is going on in a case (basically what the police think) instead of the "Sherlock" perspective. If culprit was explicitly shown (the case is a howdunnit rather than a whodunnit) it is okay to list the culprit, but don't spoil how the crime was committed. The general rule of thumb is to hide any information that is part of a big reveal at the end, like the fact that X is the murderer, or Y is a member of the Black Organization. All that information and spoilers goes in the resolution section inside of the spoiler box.

== Music pages ==

The following is a global overview of the generic article structure when creating music related pages.

{| class="wikitable top-align"
! Order || Section || Optional? || Description || Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1 || '''Detective Conan opening (or ending) info''' || || The Detective Conan opening info section should contain the following sub headers and information:
* Cast - List of characters that appear in the opening/ending and listed '''''in the order in which they appear''''' in the song.
* Gadgets - List of gadgets that appear in the opening/ending and listed '''''in the order in which they appear''''' in the song.
* Case references - If the opening/ending makes any references to stories found within the anime/manga, link to those specific stories (preferably anime episode) here.
* Conan's opening speech - If the page is for an opening, use the quote template to provide the original Japanese of Conan's speech followed by a translation, when possible.
* Staff - List of the animation staff that worked on the animation for this particular opening/ending.
* FUNimation version - If the opening/ending was changed somehow for the English release of the show, list that information here.
||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2 || '''Song info''' || || The Song info section should contain the following sub headers and information:
* Chart placement - List the songs Oricon chart rankings.
* Lyrics - All lyrics placed on the page should use the lyrics template (see [[Mune ga DOKIDOKI]] for example) and have the lyrics placed in this order: Romaji, English, Kanji, and English dub (if available).
|
Use the full version of each lyric set when possible. If you did not transcribe or translate the lyrics yourself please be sure to credit the appropriate people and provide references.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3 || '''CD info''' || || The CD info section should contain the following sub headers and information if available:
* CD track listing - List the tracks found on the CD. Create another sub header if a limited edition version is available (see [[Don't Wanna Lie]] for example).
* Gallery - Scans/images of the front cover, back cover, and CD.
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4 || '''Trivia''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List of minor or trivial facts of interest. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|5 || '''See also''' || || Point to the [[Music]] page and any other page that may be relevant to the article. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|6 || '''References''' || Yes (if citations used throughout the article) || References to cited sources. || Please follow the format given in [[#References|References]].
|}

== Images ==

=== Naming and sizes conventions ===
Make sure you optimize the images! Manga pictures should be greyscale (8 Bits/channel) except for coloured spreads, and both anime and manga should go through an optimization program like [https://pnggauntlet.com/ PNGGauntlet].
==== Characters ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Character profile info box || ''GivenName_FamilyName_Profile.jpg'' || A reasonably nice picture of the character || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Any over minimum || style="text-align:center"|Any || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:Shinichi_Kudo_Profile.jpg]] || See the [[Detective Conan Wiki:Manual of Style/Profile pictures|profile pictures guide]] for profile picture guidelines.
|-
| Character reference || ''GivenName_FamilyName.jpg'' || Smaller picture of the character used as a reference for other pages (such as for presenting character appearances in an episode, etc...) || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|100 x 100 || style="text-align:center"|Square || style="text-align:center"|100 x 100 || style="text-align:center"|100 x 100 || [[:File:Shinichi_Kudo.jpg]] ||
|-
| Character thumbnail || ''GivenName_FamilyName_60px.png'' || Even smaller picture of the character mainly used in tables for quick and easy visual referencing (i.e. as used on the [[Characters]] page) || style="text-align:center"|png (preferred) or jpg || style="text-align:center"|60 x 60 || style="text-align:center"|Square || style="text-align:center"|60 x 60 || style="text-align:center"|60 x 60 || [[:File:Shinichi_Kudo_60px.jpg]] || It can be a resized version of the "Character reference" image above to 60px. Prefer using official artwork with a blank background.
|}

==== Anime, Movies, OVAs, TV Specials, Drama ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Episode profile info box || ''Episode_X.jpg'' or ''Episode_X-Y.jpg'' (X and Y being episode numbers) || A relevant and expressive picture of the given episode || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Width of 640px (maintain aspect ratio) || style="text-align:center"|Whatever maintains aspect ratio || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:TV_Episode_8.jpg]] (older episodes) [[:File:TV_Episode_646-647.jpg]] (newer episodes)||
|-
| Movie profile info box || ''Movie_X.jpg'' (X being a movie number) || The official Japanese poster of the movie || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Any over minimum || style="text-align:center"|Any || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:Movie_1.jpg]] ||
|-
| OVA profile info box || ''OVA_X.jpg'' (X being an OVA number) || A relevant and expressive picture of the given OVA || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Width of 640px (maintain aspect ratio) || style="text-align:center"|Whatever maintains aspect ratio || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:OVA_1.jpg]] ||
|-
| TV Special profile info box || ''TV_Special_X.jpg'' (X being a TV Special number) || A relevant and expressive picture of the given TV Special || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Width of 640px (maintain aspect ratio) || style="text-align:center"|Whatever maintains aspect ratio || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:Mkspecial4.jpg]] ||
|}

==== Manga ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Volume profile info box || ''Volume_X.jpg'' (X being a volume number) || The Japanese cover of the manga volume || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|300 x 470 || style="text-align:center"|Any || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:Volume_1.jpg]] ||
|}

==== Cases ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Crime info box || EP''X''_Case_''Y''.jpg or EP''Xa''_Case_''Y''.jpg (where ''X'' is the episode number, ''Y'' the case number and ''a'' the beginning of an enumeration of images for the same case) || An image of the crime scene or situation || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Width of 640px (maintain aspect ratio) || style="text-align:center"|Whatever maintains aspect ratio || style="text-align:center"|290 x 218 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 || [[:File:EP1_Case_1.jpg]] ||
|-
| People/Suspects || Given name_Family name.jpg when the full name is known or EP''X''-''Y''_Name.jpg (or F''X''_Name.jpg for manga files) when only part of the name or no name is known (Where X is the first episode (or file) of a series and Y is the last episode of a series)|| A head shot of the suspect, preferably without obstructions like text or boxes || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|225 x 225 (Anime) 100 x 100 (Manga) || style="text-align:center"|square || style="text-align:center"|100 x 100 || style="text-align:center"|not set || [[:File:Eiichi_Yamagishi.jpg]] [[:File:EP33_Man1.jpg]] ||
|-
| ... || || || style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| || ||
|}

=== Galleries ===

* A soft maximum number of '''25''' images can be added to a page's gallery per 30 minute episode, '''15''' being a good average number. This is to avoid legal issues associated with uploading too much of a copyrighted work. Any multiple of 5 (below or equal to 25) is acceptable: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.
{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Episode gallery || EP''X''_''Y''.jpg (where ''X'' is the episode number, ''Y'' is the image serial number) || An image from the episode || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|original aspect ratio || || || || [[:File:EP971 1.jpg]] ||
|-
| Movie gallery || M''X''-''Y''.jpg (where ''X'' is the movie number, ''Y'' is the image serial number) || An image from the movie || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|original aspect ratio || || || || [[:File:M4-19.jpg]] ||
|-
| Song gallery || Op''X''-''Y''.jpg (for opening) Ed''X''-''Y''.jpg (for ending) (where ''X'' is the opening/ending song number, ''Y'' is the image serial number) || An image from the opening/ending sequence || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|original aspect ratio || || || || [[:File:Op51-5.jpg]] [[:File:Ed61-5.jpg]] ||
|-
|}

=== Other useful images ===
* [[:File:No picture.jpg]]: 225x225px, Should be used when a person has no portrait of themselves that was ever shown at any point.
* [[:File:No Pic.jpg]]: 100by100px, May be used as a placeholder for images that have not been uploaded or for male characters whose appearances are not known.
* [[:File:No pic female.jpg]]: 100by100px, the version of the above for women specifically.
* [http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/images/archive/d/d6/20120622131349!Bourbon_60px.jpg File:No pic 60px.jpg]: A 60x60px generic placeholder image with higher contrast for smaller sizes.
* [[:File:Generic Male Profile.jpg]]: A profile silhouette meant to represent a Black Organization member whose appearance is unknown or merely speculated. A specific female version has not been created at this time because it has not been needed yet.
* [[:File:No cover.jpg]]: 200x235px, A holding image for cds, dvds, volumes, etc whose official cover art has not been uploaded.
* [[:File:No Image Gem.jpg]]: A 100by100px image to be used in Kaitou Kid related articles where a gem was not shown.

== Minor recurring character pages and notable case characters pages ==
Currently there are three pages about minor characters: [[List of minor recurring manga characters]], [[List of minor recurring anime characters]], and [[List of notable case characters]].

A minor character is any character who recurs or has a key role in an important case which impacts the plot (e.g. [[Matsuda Jinpei]]), but is not important enough to warrant a spot on the main [[characters]] page. That means the minor character lists are not for main characters, main law enforcement, or mystery people related to the arc (e.g. Eisuke or Araide). Minor characters may have their own article, which should be linked in the relevant minor character page.

There is some wiggle room for who qualifies as a notable character, but one that has a major impact on the plot (e.g. [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] for being relevant to the Vermouth arc's solution), is a love interest (e.g. [[Fusae Campbell]]), or considered notable by fans (e.g. [[Natsuki Koshimizu]] and [[Junya Tokitsu]] for being the highschool detectives of the North and South) are all good candidates. Not every character who is spotlighted in an episode or chapter will count.

=== Recurring characters ===

The definition of "recurring" is a character who 1) has two or more major appearances and 2) those appearances are in two separate mostly unlinked cases.

A major appearance is one that is in person, an extended flashback, or some other notable form. Basically the appearance itself must be substantial or otherwise worthy of some note. A situation where a character appears just by name or in one panel while being mentioned doesn't count as a recurrence even though it may be listed on the appearances page. Natsue and Takeshi Hatamoto's letter in [[Volume_22|File 215: The Northbound Train]] qualified them for recurring because their interaction with the case was fairly substantial - their letter provided additional details about what happened to them after their initial case and prompted Kogoro and co. to travel on the train where the case took place.

Some cases that are separate, but not unlinked enough for a character to count as recurring are [[Volume 87|Ran Girl]] and [[Volume 87|Shinichi Boy]], [[Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain]] and [[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]], and [[Parade of Malice and Saint]] and [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages]]. These continue smoothly into one another (even though the anime split the last pair apart with an AO). When in doubt, the manga version of the cases is what decides whether cases are linked or unlinked.

Entries are not duplicated between the lists. Although most recurring manga characters also recur in the anime when their manga-based episodes air, those characters are only included on the recurring manga characters list. If a character is qualified to be listed on multiple pages, they should be listed only on the top page they qualify for. The order of the pages top to bottom is:
* [[List of minor recurring manga characters]]
* [[List of minor recurring anime characters]]
* [[List of notable case characters]]

[[List of minor recurring manga characters]] is the most exclusive page: only characters who reappear in at least two separate mostly unlinked cases in the main manga [[canon]] are allowed on the list. Only characters who recur in Gosho's main manga [[canon]] are allowed on this list, appearances in [[Detective Conan Special]] manga and other non-canon works do not count as "manga based".

* Sometimes the animators change or add characters when adapting a manga case to the anime. Characters who only appear in the anime adaptation of a case, but not in the corresponding manga do not count as a manga appearance. For example, the named police officers that appeared in the anime version of the [[Volume 40|Be on Guard on a Sweet Date]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5]] case were not named and drawn mostly generically in the manga version. These named officers from the anime thus don't count for a manga-based appearance because they didn't actually appear in the print manga. Those officers can qualify for anime recurrence though.

* A character who appears just once in manga canon (and then does not reoccur), but has multiple appearances in the anime or movies goes on the recurring anime page, not the recurring manga page. That is because the character does not occur at least twice on the canon ink and paper.

[[List of minor recurring anime characters]] covers appearances in both the movies and the anime together. Characters that appear in multiple unlinked anime cases, or in multiple movies count for this list. A character that appears once in the anime and once in a movie also qualifies. Appearances outside of anime and movie canon (such as [[Detective Conan Special]]) don't count for the purposes of the this page.

=== Notable characters ===

[[List of notable case characters]] covers anyone else who doesn't fall in either of the other lists because they don't reoccur, or because they notably reoccur in some other Detective Conan media that isn't manga, anime, or movie.

There is some wiggle room for who qualifies as a notable character, but one that has a major impact on the plot (e.g. [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] for being relevant to the Vermouth arc's solution), is a love interest (e.g. [[Fusae Campbell]]), or considered notable by fans (e.g. [[Natsuki Koshimizu]] and [[Junya Tokitsu]] for being the highschool detectives of the North and South) are all good candidates. Not every character who is spotlighted in an episode or chapter will count.

== Speculation ==
Detective Conan is a long and intricate manga with many long-running mysteries. Many fans and casual readers find speculation sections which address popular theories and hints useful. Knowing the popular theories also eases newcomers' transitions into the fandom.

Speculation sections are generally allowed on character pages and other relevant pages (e.g. [[APTX 4869]], [[Black Organization]]). Users may also create speculation sections in their own userspace (User:Username/Subpage), provided they are not too resource intensive (e.g. image and other media heavy) or link to materials that could attract negative legal attention. (like links to fan scanlations or manga aggregate websites.)

Speculation sections in mainspace articles must follow certain guidelines to enforce quality and usefulness.
* Any speculation section should be clearly labeled so it isn't confused with known fact. This is most often done by adding a section titled "speculation" where various theories are presented in the subsections below it. Subsections should outright state or strongly imply the argument being presented.
* Speculation sections must be serious. No jokes.
* Speculation sections should be both well supported with evidence and notable (popular) by the fandom. A less popular theory with strong evidence or a very popular theory with weak evidence may qualify. If a theory is only popular in one particular fan subgroup or language, then it may not be notable. Truly popular theories will reappear in many languages and websites.
* Speculation sections must use sound logical arguments, quality evidence, and correctly interpret the source. Theories may be removed if they are based on specious logic, invalid assumptions, or misinterpretations of the source material.
* Please cite evidence and quotations in references. This makes it easy to fact check and allows others to examine the evidence and draw their own conclusions.
* The more speculation material there is on any one page, the higher the standards will be for all of it. This is to avoid cluttering a page with excess material by promoting the ejection of the weaker, more unlikely theories.
* [[The Boss of the Black Organization]] is a special case because there are too many theories with none dominant. It would be a nightmare to manage all the major theories about the boss that fans have floated over the years. Unless there is a major new hint, please don't add speculation sections to character pages suggesting that they are the boss. The Boss's own page will also be kept free of identity theories. The speculation section on the boss's page will be reserved for hypotheses that are self evident from facts.
* If you disagree with a speculation, you may add information to point out its flaws. Rebuttals are also held to the same high standards of evidence. If there looks to be a fight brewing between editors, work it out on the talk page. Speculation sections do not decide right and wrong, they are about presenting a suggestive argument which fairly addresses its merits and shortcomings. Only the strongest support and the clearest contradictions matter. If you are in an argument with someone over a theory section, don't set an arbitrary standard where the other editor must answer your 20+ concerns and prove each little assertion with citations in order to be good enough. That turns editing into a war of attrition, which isn't grounded in merit. Start with the core problems.
* Long, well supported speculations may have their own dedicated mainspace page. They should be tagged with the [[:Category:Theories|theories category]].
* Notability and evidence quality do not apply for theories in your user subspace. You should also tag your personal theory subpages with the [[:Category:Theories|theories category]], so other users can find them.

== Other ==

For any other standard issues not mentioned here, please try and follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style when making Detective Conan Wiki pages. For more information, please visit: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Wikipedia's Manual of Style]

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Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4

2022-06-12T15:47:36Z

Exaskliri: grammar

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 253-254
| image = TV Episode 253-254.jpg
| title = Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4
| english-title =
| japanese-title = {{Lang|ja|本庁の刑事恋物語}}4 (Honchō no Keiji Koi-monogatari 4)
| rating = 17.30% 20.50%
| Manga case number = #95
| season = [[Season 9|9]]
| manga = [[Volume 32#Sato's Omiai Case|Volume 32: File 11 (328)]] ~ [[Volume 33#Sato's Omiai Case|Volume 33: File 2 (330)]]
| airdate = October 15, 2001 (Part 1) October 22, 2001 (Part 2)
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Miwako Sato]] [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Tomoaki Araide]] [[Shuichi Akai]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Mrs. Sato]] [[Isokichi Kamoi]]
| suspects = Hiroshi Zama, Eiko Koshimizu, and Yasuo Kamieda
| solved-by = [[Wataru Takagi]]
| next-conan-hint = Sunglasses (Part 1) Wristwatch (Part 2)
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]], Next Conan's Hint [[Atsuko Yuya]] as [[Miwako Sato]] [[Isshin Chiba]] as [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Yuu Sugimoto]] as [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Hideyuki Hori]] as [[Tomoaki Araide]] [[Chikako Akimoto]] as [[Mrs. Sato]] [[Katsumi Chou]] as [[Isokichi Kamoi]] [[Ryuuzo Hasuike]] as Hiroshi Zama [[Kei Hayami]] as Eiko Koshimizu [[Yasuhiko Kawazu]] as Yasuo Kamieda [[Masafumi Kimura]] as Mamehara [[Junichi Sugawara]] as Old man [[Fumiko Miyashita]] as Waitress [[Ritsuko Kasai]] as High school girl
| director = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| screenplay =
| organizer = [[Chika Ichimaru]]
| storyboard = [[Chika Ichimaru]]
| producer = 253 [[Hiroshi Kurimoto]] 254 [[Kazuo Nogami]]
| animation-director = 253 [[Takehiro Hamatsu]] 254 [[Izumi Shimura]]
| character-design = [[Junko Yamanaka]] and [[Kumiko Shishido]] (design works)
| opening-song = destiny
| closing-song = Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni
| prev-episode = The Kidnapper in the Picture
| next-episode = The 14th Round of the Matsue Tamatsukuri Linked Verse Contest
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|本庁の刑事恋物語4|Honchō no Keiji Koi-monogatari 4}} is the 253rd and 254th episode of ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]].

== Characters introduced ==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Isokichi Kamoi]]|image = Isokichi Kamoi.jpg|description =
* Shiratori family butler}}
{{EndBox}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Yumi Miyamoto}}
{{char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Tomoaki Araide}}
{{char|Shuichi Akai}}
{{char|Mrs. Sato}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (voice/background)}}
{{char|Mamehara}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Earring Cellphone}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
==== Part 1 ====
Sato is having an arranged marriage meeting with a man due to her mother's persistence. She arrives to find out it's Ninzaburo Shiratori. She proposes that if Takagi does not arrive to her before sunset, she will marry him whether she wants to or not. He accepts, but Takagi is busy with a store robbery.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Robbery
| image = EP253-254 Case.jpg
| location = Convenience store
| victim =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Hiroshi Zama, Eiko Koshimizu, and Yasuo Kamieda
| description =
}}

Three of the eye witnesses all give different description and the three suspects are kept in the back of the police car. Conan gives help using his gadget. The witnesses are an old man who accidentally got bumped by the running suspect, a teen girl who is a shopper at the store where the crime happens, and a restaurant owner who also notices the suspect running near his restaurant. The suspect is wearing a coat and helmet. After they robbed at the store, they run very fast outside and escapes. Takagi follows them to a restroom where the coat and helmet are leave unattended but inside the restroom, there are three suspects. Which of them is the real one?

==== Part 2 ====
There are three witnesses who each give different accounts of the robber.

An old man who bumped into the robber said the robber was a woman in blue. A woman in a store said the robber was a man in green over 180 cm tall. A cafe owner wearing glasses said a person in black 170 cm tall.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Hiroshi Zama|Hiroshi Zama.jpg|
* 21 years old
* Freelancer}}
{{People|Eiko Koshimizu|Eiko Koshimizu.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Office lady}}
{{People|Yasuo Kamieda|Yasuo Kamieda.jpg|
* 32 years old
* School coach}}
{{People|Old man|EP253-254 Old man.jpg|
* Witness}}
{{People|Girl|EP253-254 Shopping girl.jpg|
* Witness
* Shopping girl}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>The three witnesses had different opinions about the robber because of various circumstances and personality quirks. The old man who said the robber was a woman in blue came to the gender conclusion because the culprit wore their watch facing inwards as most women do. Because he is old, the witness does not differentiate between blue and green, using the same word "aoi" to refer to both colors. The cafe owner who said the robber was a person in black 170 cm tall was wearing special glasses with lenses that darken when exposed to light. He was not used to wearing them yet, so this made the robber's clothing appear to be black as he stepped outside. He was accurate about the height. The woman in a store who said the robber was a man in green over 180 cm tall saw the robber while they were running on a curb, making them appear to be taller than they actually were. She was accurate about the color the robber was wearing.

Takagi solves the case and arrests the culprit, '''Yasuo Kamieda''' when he tries to make a dash out of the police car. Takagi catches up and gives up on going to Sato in time to stop the marriage as the sun is almost set and the car is too far away. His party comes to cheer him on and he runs. Conan manages to stop the marriage in time with Tomoaki Araide's help. Takagi manages to reach the restaurant but the sun has completely sunk. He then sees Sato around the corner who tells him he told her an emergency case has come up. Takagi smiles as he enters the car. Meanwhile Shiratori leaves the restaurant, disappointed in his close marriage. Conan comments how Takagi and Sato reminded him of Ran and himself.</spoiler>

== Manga to anime changes ==
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
* After being told by Mamehara that the culprit was wearing a coat over black clothes and height being 5'6, Takagi thinks of Kamieda who is of that height, but not wearing black clothing. Immediately after in the manga, he thinks of the other accounts given by the other two witnesses, with the anime cutting off after considering Kamieda.
* File 328 ends with Sato agreeing to Shiratori's deal. File 329 follows up immediately with her specifying that Takagi is given until sunset to pick her up, with Conan, Ran, Sonoko, and Araide commenting on their discussion. Episode 253 switches that scene to follow Takagi and Chiba's reflection on the robbery clues given to them by the witnesses and deciding to question the suspects.
* Unlike the manga, part 2 of the episode in the anime shows Takagi recapping the robbery, the suspects and the witnesses to Conan, who's calling as Shinichi.

== Continuity ==
* This is the case that referred to Miwako telling Shiratori that she did not like French Food, which was in [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story]], when in reality, she did not like expensive food, which is what she said to Takagi in that case. However, they are at a (probably expensive) Japanese restaurant in this case.
* When Shiratori made a comment about Takagi receiving a pay-cut before, it was in the [[The Shinkansen Transport Case]], however he neglected to mention that she received the same pay cut.
* When Conan mentioned that he knows Mamehara, probably as one of the witnesses in [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case]].

== Trivia ==
* Mrs. Sato is trying to do an Omiai, an arranged marriage, but instead of going through a liaison or marriage broker, she is making Miwako Sato look at photos of the prospective husband. Omiai is still being used by 5 to 6% of the Japanese people.
* The Spanish dub mistook the title of the episodes, "Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4", for "Love story between 4 metropolitan police detectives".
* Miwako Sato hatchback is a Wolkengrau 1995 Volkswagen Polo III [Typ 6N].

== Goof ==
When Miwako was waiting for Wataru Takagi and saying his name in frustration, she clenched her cellphone causing it to crack, but when Takagi phoned Miwako, her cellphone looked normal.

== BGM listing ==
=== Part 1 ===
{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
{{BGMListingItem|1|destiny|destiny|destiny|[[destiny]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|2|のんびり気分|Nonbiri Kibun|Carefree Feeling|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|3|昼下がりの天使たち|Hirusagari no Tenshitachi|Early Afternoon Angels|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|4|新少年探偵団のテーマ|Shin Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma|The New Detective Boys' Theme|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|5|とっておきクイズ|Totte Oki Kuizu|Take the Quiz|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|6|謎解き（その１）|Nazotoki (Sono 1)|Riddle Solution (Part 1)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|8|陽気な仲間|Yōki na Nakama|Cheerful Friends|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|9|阿笠博士のテーマ|Agasa Hakase no Tēma|Professor Agasa's Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|10|とっておきクイズ|Totte Oki Kuizu|Take the Quiz|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|11|カギを探せ！|Kagi o Sagase!|Search for the Key!|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|12|暗号トリックの解読|Angō Torikku no Kaidoku|The Trick to Deciphering the Code|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|13|キーワードの謎解き|Kiiwādo no Nazotoki|Keyword to the Riddle Solution|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|14|とっておきクイズ|Totte Oki Kuizu|Take the Quiz|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|15|少年探偵団のテーマ|Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma|The Detective Boys' Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|16|青い青いこの地球に|Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni|On This Blue, Blue Star|[[Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni]]}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Part 2 ===
{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
{{BGMListingItem|1|destiny|destiny|destiny|[[destiny]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|2|阿笠博士のテーマ|Agasa Hakase no Tēma|Professor Agasa's Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|3|とっておきクイズ|Totte Oki Kuizu|Take the Quiz|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|4|容疑者判明|Yōgisha Hanmei|Identifying the Suspect|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|5|新少年探偵団のテーマ|Shin Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma|The New Detective Boys' Theme|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|6|犯人のアジト|Hannin no Ajito|The Culprit's Hideout|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|7|西の名探偵（摩天楼ヴァージョン）|Nishi no Meitantei (Mantenrō Vājon)|The Great Detective of the West (Skyscraper Version)|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|8|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|9|推理（オリジナルver.）|Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)|Deduction (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|10|顛末（TENMATSU）|Tenmatsu (TENMATSU)|The Facts (TENMATSU)|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|11|Need not to know.|Need not to know.|Need not to know.|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|12|コナンのテーマ|Konan no Tēma|Conan's Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|13|コナン組曲－Captured In Her Eyes|Konan Kumikyoku - Captured in Her Eyes|Conan Suite - Captured in Her Eyes|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|14|トロピカルランドの想い出|Toropikaru Rando no Omoide|Memories of Tropical Land|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|15|青い青いこの地球に|Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni|On This Blue, Blue Star|[[Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|16|蘭のテーマ（摩天楼ヴァージョン）|Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)|Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|حكاية ساتو وتاكاجي|The Story of Sato and Takagi}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan (Catalan dub)|Continua la història d'amor a la comissaria central|Continues the love story in central Headquarters}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Valencia|Catalan (Valencian dub)|Historia d'amor entre policies 4|Love story between policemen 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|Historia de amor entre detectives 4|Love story between policemen 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Love-Story im Polizeihauptquartier 4|Love Story in the Police Headquarter 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Storia d'amore alla centrale di polizia|Love Story in the Police Headquarter}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish (Castilian dub)|Historia de amor entre cuatro detectives|Love story between four detectives}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Chile|Spanish (American dub)|Historia de amor en la policía metropolitana - Tomo 4|Love story in the metropolitan police - Volume 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|นิยายรักตำรวจนครบาล ภาค 4|Metropolitan Police Love Story - Part 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Câu chuyện tình yêu ở trụ sở cảnh sát 4|Metropolitan Police Headquarter Love Story 4}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Season 9]]
* [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (series)]]

{{Season 9}}

[[Category:Episodes]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Takehiro Hamatsu]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Izumi Shimura]]

[[de:Episode 272]]

Detective Conan Wiki:Manual of Style

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== General ==

=== Articles in general ===

Some important rules:

* Try to include '''categories''' (i.e. using ''<nowiki>[[Category:Name of category]]</nowiki>'') when creating a new article (use other similar articles as example to know which categories to put). If, when previewing, the category name appears in red or if you're unsure, please do not try creating new categories unless you know what you're doing. A moderator or experienced contributor will take care of them.
* Try to always include a '''See also''' section if possible (and/or applicable). It's good practice for user-friendliness purposes (as it provides a useful and extra mean of navigation).
* The '''References''' section should always be placed after the '''See also''' section but before the '''External links''' section.
* If there's an '''External links''' section, it should always be placed at the end completely (i.e. last section on the page).

=== Capitalization ===

For section headers:

* Only the first letter as well as people names should be capitalized.
* Though quite rare, in some context, some common words may be capitalized (possibly following a discussion/talk about it).

In category names:

* The first letter of the first word should be capitalized.
* Common words should not be capitalized. Examples: "Kudo family", "List of ''something''", etc...
* Some words that refer to people should be capitalized such as "Voice Actors", "Executive Producers", etc...

=== Naming convention ===

Even though Japanese names are usually given with the last name placed first, people's names in this wiki should follow the format:
* '''Given_name''' '''Last_name'''

The rationale can be read [[Detective_Conan_Wiki_talk:Manual_of_Style#Naming convention|here]].

=== References ===

If citing manga chapters or anime episodes (or movie, OVA, etc...), please point to the corresponding wiki page of that chapter or episode. The format is as follows:

* For manga chapters:
** {{green|<nowiki>[[Volume X#File Y - Title|Volume X, File Y, page Z: "Chapter title"]]</nowiki>}} (the "page Z" part is optional)
** Example: [[Volume_26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]] in the "References" section of [[Conan Edogawa]]
* For manga chapters not yet in a Volume, '''there must not be links to the chapters''' (this will ensure we easily catch this citation later on when they become part of a Volume):
** {{green|<nowiki>File X: Title</nowiki>}}
** Example: File 763: The Ghost of Time
* For episodes:
** {{green|<nowiki>[[Title|Episode X-Y: Title]]</nowiki>}} (with Y being optional)
** Example: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]] in the "References" section of [[Conan Edogawa]]

If using a "name" variable for the references, please use the following:

* For manga files:
** {{green|<nowiki><ref name="fXpY"></nowiki>}} (the pY is optional). "f" and "p" stand for "File" and "page" respectively. Example: <nowiki><ref name="f433"></nowiki>, <nowiki><ref name="f100p8"></nowiki>.
* For anime episodes:
** {{green|<nowiki><ref name="eX"></nowiki>}}. "e" stands for "Episode". Example: <nowiki><ref name="e501"></nowiki>.

=== Spoiler Policy ===
Spoilers are any information that reveal major parts of a plot, mystery, or storyline event. Spoilers can refer both to information about unreleased or untranslated story events and to dramatic turn of events or resolutions. "Manga spoilers" are specifically any information that would spoil a person up to date with the manga (such as leaked pictures from an upcoming chapter), and "anime spoilers" will spoil someone up to date with the anime (such as information about manga chapters that haven't yet been released as episodes).

In this wiki, individual anime episode pages and manga volume are spoiler free provided the reader/watcher is up to date with the episode/volume in question. Most other articles on the wiki, ''especially'' character articles, are kept up to date with the manga and will contain prominent manga and anime spoilers. Pages where wiki readers that aren't caught up in the manga have a high risk of spoiling themselves may have a [[:Template:SpoilerWarningArticle|spoiler warning template]] or even a click-through with a prominent warning to keep them from reading material they may regret.

{| border="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 60%"
|+ Current Detective Conan Wiki Spoiler Policy
! Article Type
! Example
! Safety
|-
| Individual anime episode, movie, OVA, and Magic File pages
| [[Episode 1]] || Safe for people who have watched up to that point. Case solutions and resolutions are hidden in spoiler boxes. Links to other articles such as character articles may lead to spoilers.
|-
| Individual volume pages
| [[Volume 1]] || Safe for people who have read up to that point. Case solutions and resolutions are hidden in spoiler boxes. Links to other articles such as character articles may lead to spoilers.
|-
| Character Pages
| [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Characters]] || Can contain manga spoilers. Character articles can prominently display spoilers such as secret identities and allegiances that will spoil anyone not caught up with the manga.
|-
| General information lists
| [[Anime]], [[Manga]] || Contain very general spoilers in the form of icons that signify the sorts of plots that appear in each chapter or episode. (eg. Character Pasts, Black Organization)
|-
| Everywhere else
| [[Black Organization]], [[Setting]], [[FBI]], [[APTX 4869]] || Can contain manga spoilers.
|}

Resolutions to cases or arcs are hidden in spoiler boxes on volume and anime pages. Other pages may discuss these resolution spoilers openly as described above. Other measures taken to protect resolutions include making sure the crime boxes and suspect descriptions are appropriately naive; they use the police/Watson perspective as opposed to the hyper-intelligent Conan/Sherlock perspective. This sometimes means using aliases instead of real names prior to a character's reveal, labeling murders as suicides or vice versa depending on what the police think, or not including certain people as suspects that the police believe are ruled out because they have a strong alibi. The point is to avoid ruining the mystery for readers by not giving out additional hints on top of what the case gives out on its own.
=== Headings ===
* Do not use = Heading 1 =. instead, use == Heading 2 ==.
* An == Introduction == section should not be used.

== Characters ==

=== New character articles ===

Here are the characteristics, by order of importance, to look at when justifying the creation of a character's profile:
# The character is a main protagonist
# The character is a major recurring character
# The character is a minor recurring character (2 appearances or more)
# The character is part of a main organization such as the Police, the [[Black Organization]], school body, etc...
# The character has had an impact on the storyline such that said impact spans more than one episode (or movie, etc...)

=== Profiles ===

The following is a global overview of the generic article structure when creating character pages. {{blue|Blue statements}} emphasize important points.

{| class="wikitable top-align"
! Order || Section || Optional? || Description || Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1 || '''Background''' || || The background section should contain a concise and precise overview of:
* The character's past and younger days.
* How the character was introduced in the series (more details can be given later in the '''Plot overview''' section).
* The role of the character and how important they are in the series, their ties to their family/close friends, their impact on the storyline, and more.
* Events or incidents that changed the character in a substantial, major or radical way (more details can be given later in the '''Plot overview''' section).
* Personal history, activities, achievements and the like, known or associated to the character.
|
* The goal of this section is to present the character to a "supposed first-time reader" so that they can easily place the character into the context and storyline of the series and understand the character's role and importance.
* Subsections of substantial importance may be created.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2 || '''Personality''' || || '''For canon and/or main characters:'''
* Description of the general "feeling" emanated by the character from our point of view as well as the other characters'.
* Qualities and flaws of the characters may be presented in details.
* Any relevant information that pertains to the character's personality (or the influence it's had on others or the environment).
'''For non-canon and/or minor (recurring or important enough to mention) characters:'''
* This section should describe at the very least the impression the character made from the viewer's point of view while or after being introduced.
* Any other relevant detail is welcome.
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3 || ... ''Other character specific sections'' ... || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Any other section(s) that pertain(s) directly to the character such as "Appellations", "Special abilities", "Skills", etc... ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4 || '''Plot overview''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Present in a chronological order (broken down in '''subsections''') the series of events in which the character was involved (directly or indirectly). Feel free to be as detailed as possible. || {{blue|If the plot overview is too big, you may fork it out to a new page and add a link to the new article.}}
|-
| style="text-align:center"|5 || '''Non-Canon Plot overview''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Present in a chronological order (broken down in '''subsections''') the series of events in which the character was involved (directly or indirectly). Feel free to be as detailed as possible. || {{blue|If the non-canon plot overview is too big, you may fork it out to a new page and add a link to the new article.}}
|-
| style="text-align:center"|6 || '''Relationships analysis''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List (using '''subheaders''' - {{blue|avoid ''bullets'' unless necessary please}}) other characters with whom the given character (may) have or have had some direct or indirect (but worth mentioning) relationship.
|
* Forking is also allowed if the subsection is too big.
* {{blue|''Relationship analysis'' should always come after the Background, Personality, Plot overview or any other section that directly pertain to the character itself.}} It is essential to first present the character, then their relationships with others (i.e. from specific to generic).
|-
| style="text-align:center"|7 || ... ''Other relevant but non-character-specific sections'' ... || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Any other section(s) that pertain(s) indirectly to the character such as "People who know the character's real identity", etc... ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|8 || '''Name origin''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Describe in details the origin of the character's name. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|9 || '''Quotes''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Provide a list of known, famous or important quotes from the character. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|10 || '''In other languages''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Gives names of the character in other foreign languages. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|11 || '''Trivia''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List of minor or trivial facts of interest. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|12 || '''Gallery''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Character images that provide important information or context about a character that can't easily be shown in other sections on a page || Images in character galleries need to each have a specific purpose, so that the gallery does not turn into a list of a bunch of images with the character in them. Examples of appropriate images would the character's appearance when they were older or younger, or looked significantly different than they do currently.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|13 || '''See also''' || || Point to the [[Characters]] page and any other page that may be relevant to the article. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|14 || '''References''' || Yes (if citations used throughout the article) || References to cited sources. || Please follow the format given in [[#References|References]].
|}

== Episodes, Movies, OVAs and TV Specials ==

The following is a global overview of the generic article structure when creating character pages. {{blue|Blue statements}} emphasize important points.

Unlike other types of pages where [[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]] are displayed openly, on Episodes, Movies, OVAs, TV Specials, and Manga Volumes, spoilers are hidden for the benefit of readers who don't want to know the answer. Therefore, when making crime boxes or adding details to people sections, please use the "Watson" perspective of what is going on in a case (basically what the police think) instead of the "Sherlock" perspective. If culprit was explicitly shown (the case is a howdunnit rather than a whodunnit) it is okay to list the culprit, but don't spoil how the crime was committed. The general rule of thumb is to hide any information that is part of a big reveal at the end, like the fact that X is the murderer, or Y is a member of the Black Organization. All that information and spoilers goes in the resolution section inside of the spoiler box.

{| class="wikitable top-align"
! Order || Section || Optional? || Description || Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1 || '''Characters introduced''', '''Gadgets introduced''' or '''Characters and gadgets introduced''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List new characters and/or gadgets introduced by using the [[Template:NewChar|<nowiki>{{NewChar}}</nowiki>]] and [[Template:NewGadget|<nowiki>{{NewGadget}}</nowiki>]] templates.
|
Describe the new character or gadget in a few words within the corresponding templates.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2 || '''Cast''' || || List the characters that appear in the coresponding video by using the [[Template:NewChar|<nowiki>{{Char Appearances}}</nowiki>]] template. || Use the full names of the characters when known. Titles should only be used when one or both parts of the name are not known. For very long arcs with multiple cases where the cast changes significantly like [[Clash of Red and Black]] or [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen]], consider using multiple cast lists for each major part.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3 || '''Case''' (or '''Case: Title''') || || || This section is broken down into several parts as shown below. {{blue|It is possible to have more than one case in the same episode (or movie, etc...). If so, having many Case sections (enumerated like "'''Case 1'''" or "'''Case: Title of 1st case'''") is possible.}}
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.1 || '''Situation''' || style="text-align:center"| || Add one or many crime boxes pertaining to the current case by using the [[Template:InfoBox Crime|<nowiki>{{InfoBox Crime}}</nowiki>]] template. See [[Detective_Conan_Wiki:Manual_of_Style#Cases|below]] for the image guidelines. || {{blue|We want to be as clear as possible here. So it is important we dedicated one box per specific crime or crime attempt so that more precise details can be given and the reader doesn't get lost or confused.}}
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.2 || '''People''' || style="text-align:center"| || List people related to or involved in the case using the [[Template:People|<nowiki>{{People}}</nowiki>]] and [[Template:BeginBox|<nowiki>{{BeginBox}}</nowiki>]] (for wrapping all of the people's thumbnails together to avoid a broken layout structure) templates.

|
Describe in a few words each of the character when using the [[Template:People|<nowiki>{{People}}</nowiki>]] template. {{blue|Label the victim(s) as well.}} Omit information about people only revealed as part of the resolution of cases to avoid spoilers. Don't list people who only appear as part of the resolution ; those people are listed in the spoilered section.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.3 || '''Resolution''' || style="text-align:center"| || Describe in details the resolution of the case by exposing in 3 points (or more) the:
* '''Evidence'''
* '''Conclusion'''
* '''Motive'''
| {{blue|Use the <nowiki><spoiler></nowiki> tags to hide the whole resolution section to give the reader the option to dig in further or not.}} List anyone who couldn't be listed in the people section above because it would be spoilers in this section.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3.4 || ... ''Other relevant case-specific sections'' ... || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Any other section(s) that pertain(s) to the case such as "Trivia", etc... ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4 || ... ''Other relevant sections'' ... || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Any other section(s) that pertain(s) to the article such as "Differences from the manga", etc... ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|5 || '''Trivia''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List of minor or trivial facts of interest related to the whole article. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|6 || '''BGM listing''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List of the songs played during the episode, named by the soundtrack they were from. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|7 || '''Gallery''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || Images from the episode || Five images max are allowed on the main page gallery section before it should be forked off into a gallery page for the episode "pagename/gallery" A soft maximum number of 25 images can be added to a page's gallery per 30 minute episode, 15 being a good average number. This is to avoid legal issues associated with uploading too much of a copyrighted work. Please do not include fansubs or watermarks from fansubs or illegal anime hosters when possible.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|8 || '''See also''' || || Point to the corresponding season page of the episode (e.g. [[Season 1]]) or full [[Movies]], [[OVAs]] or [[TV Specials]] articles. Any other relevant page may be added as well. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|9 || '''References''' || Yes (if citations used throughout the article) || References to cited sources. || Please follow the format given in [[#References|References]].
|}

== Season pages ==
Season pages list episodes according to an approximation of the [[Japanese DVDs]], referred to as "Parts".

i.e. [[Season 1]] contains Episodes 1-28 because Part 1 of the Japanese DVDs does as well.

== Manga volumes ==

Manga volumes operate somewhat similarly to episode pages so many of the same instructions apply. The main difference stem from the fact that cases may be spread over multiple pages if the beginning and ending belong to separate volumes. The sectioning works a bit like a multicase episode: There are certain sections that globally cover all the chapters in the episode at the top and bottom of the page such as the cast list, trivia, introduced people, introduced gadgets, cover in other countries, references, etc. The main body of the page is where the cases are listed.

Each case has its own section which is given a brief descriptive title such as "Scarlet Showdown" or "Museum Owner Murder Case". Each case is then subdivided by chapters which are numbered and listed by their chapter name. Each case may have its own introduced people/gadgets and a case people section as needed. People sections in manga volumes use black and white images from the manga instead of using a colored anime version. Unlike episode pages, there is no separate resolution section for volume cases. Instead, spoiler boxes are put where they are needed because resolutions may be spread over multiple cases and even volumes.

Unlike other types of pages where [[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]] are displayed openly, on Episodes, Movies, OVAs, TV Specials, and Manga Volumes, spoilers are hidden for the benefit of readers who don't want to know the answer. Therefore, when making crime boxes or adding details to people sections, please use the "Watson" perspective of what is going on in a case (basically what the police think) instead of the "Sherlock" perspective. If culprit was explicitly shown (the case is a howdunnit rather than a whodunnit) it is okay to list the culprit, but don't spoil how the crime was committed. The general rule of thumb is to hide any information that is part of a big reveal at the end, like the fact that X is the murderer, or Y is a member of the Black Organization. All that information and spoilers goes in the resolution section inside of the spoiler box.

== Music pages ==

The following is a global overview of the generic article structure when creating music related pages.

{| class="wikitable top-align"
! Order || Section || Optional? || Description || Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center"|1 || '''Detective Conan opening (or ending) info''' || || The Detective Conan opening info section should contain the following sub headers and information:
* Cast - List of characters that appear in the opening/ending and listed '''''in the order in which they appear''''' in the song.
* Gadgets - List of gadgets that appear in the opening/ending and listed '''''in the order in which they appear''''' in the song.
* Case references - If the opening/ending makes any references to stories found within the anime/manga, link to those specific stories (preferably anime episode) here.
* Conan's opening speech - If the page is for an opening, use the quote template to provide the original Japanese of Conan's speech followed by a translation, when possible.
* Staff - List of the animation staff that worked on the animation for this particular opening/ending.
* FUNimation version - If the opening/ending was changed somehow for the English release of the show, list that information here.
||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|2 || '''Song info''' || || The Song info section should contain the following sub headers and information:
* Chart placement - List the songs Oricon chart rankings.
* Lyrics - All lyrics placed on the page should use the lyrics template (see [[Mune ga DOKIDOKI]] for example) and have the lyrics placed in this order: Romaji, English, Kanji, and English dub (if available).
|
Use the full version of each lyric set when possible. If you did not transcribe or translate the lyrics yourself please be sure to credit the appropriate people and provide references.
|-
| style="text-align:center"|3 || '''CD info''' || || The CD info section should contain the following sub headers and information if available:
* CD track listing - List the tracks found on the CD. Create another sub header if a limited edition version is available (see [[Don't Wanna Lie]] for example).
* Gallery - Scans/images of the front cover, back cover, and CD.
|
|-
| style="text-align:center"|4 || '''Trivia''' || style="text-align:center"|Yes || List of minor or trivial facts of interest. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|5 || '''See also''' || || Point to the [[Music]] page and any other page that may be relevant to the article. ||
|-
| style="text-align:center"|6 || '''References''' || Yes (if citations used throughout the article) || References to cited sources. || Please follow the format given in [[#References|References]].
|}

== Images ==

=== Naming and sizes conventions ===
Make sure you optimize the images! Manga pictures should be greyscale (8 Bits/channel) except for coloured spreads, and both anime and manga should go through an optimization program like [https://pnggauntlet.com/ PNGGauntlet].
==== Characters ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Character profile info box || ''GivenName_FamilyName_Profile.jpg'' || A reasonably nice picture of the character || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Any over minimum || style="text-align:center"|Any || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:Shinichi_Kudo_Profile.jpg]] || See the [[Detective Conan Wiki:Manual of Style/Profile pictures|profile pictures guide]] for profile picture guidelines.
|-
| Character reference || ''GivenName_FamilyName.jpg'' || Smaller picture of the character used as a reference for other pages (such as for presenting character appearances in an episode, etc...) || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|100 x 100 || style="text-align:center"|Square || style="text-align:center"|100 x 100 || style="text-align:center"|100 x 100 || [[:File:Shinichi_Kudo.jpg]] ||
|-
| Character thumbnail || ''GivenName_FamilyName_60px.png'' || Even smaller picture of the character mainly used in tables for quick and easy visual referencing (i.e. as used on the [[Characters]] page) || style="text-align:center"|png (preferred) or jpg || style="text-align:center"|60 x 60 || style="text-align:center"|Square || style="text-align:center"|60 x 60 || style="text-align:center"|60 x 60 || [[:File:Shinichi_Kudo_60px.jpg]] || It can be a resized version of the "Character reference" image above to 60px. Prefer using official artwork with a blank background.
|}

==== Anime, Movies, OVAs, TV Specials, Drama ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Episode profile info box || ''Episode_X.jpg'' or ''Episode_X-Y.jpg'' (X and Y being episode numbers) || A relevant and expressive picture of the given episode || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Width of 640px (maintain aspect ratio) || style="text-align:center"|Whatever maintains aspect ratio || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:TV_Episode_8.jpg]] (older episodes) [[:File:TV_Episode_646-647.jpg]] (newer episodes)||
|-
| Movie profile info box || ''Movie_X.jpg'' (X being a movie number) || The official Japanese poster of the movie || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Any over minimum || style="text-align:center"|Any || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:Movie_1.jpg]] ||
|-
| OVA profile info box || ''OVA_X.jpg'' (X being an OVA number) || A relevant and expressive picture of the given OVA || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Width of 640px (maintain aspect ratio) || style="text-align:center"|Whatever maintains aspect ratio || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:OVA_1.jpg]] ||
|-
| TV Special profile info box || ''TV_Special_X.jpg'' (X being a TV Special number) || A relevant and expressive picture of the given TV Special || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Width of 640px (maintain aspect ratio) || style="text-align:center"|Whatever maintains aspect ratio || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:Mkspecial4.jpg]] ||
|}

==== Manga ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Volume profile info box || ''Volume_X.jpg'' (X being a volume number) || The Japanese cover of the manga volume || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|300 x 470 || style="text-align:center"|Any || style="text-align:center"|275 x 150 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 (or rotated) || [[:File:Volume_1.jpg]] ||
|}

==== Cases ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Crime info box || EP''X''_Case_''Y''.jpg or EP''Xa''_Case_''Y''.jpg (where ''X'' is the episode number, ''Y'' the case number and ''a'' the beginning of an enumeration of images for the same case) || An image of the crime scene or situation || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|Width of 640px (maintain aspect ratio) || style="text-align:center"|Whatever maintains aspect ratio || style="text-align:center"|290 x 218 || style="text-align:center"|1024 x 768 || [[:File:EP1_Case_1.jpg]] ||
|-
| People/Suspects || Given name_Family name.jpg when the full name is known or EP''X''-''Y''_Name.jpg (or F''X''_Name.jpg for manga files) when only part of the name or no name is known (Where X is the first episode (or file) of a series and Y is the last episode of a series)|| A head shot of the suspect, preferably without obstructions like text or boxes || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|225 x 225 (Anime) 100 x 100 (Manga) || style="text-align:center"|square || style="text-align:center"|100 x 100 || style="text-align:center"|not set || [[:File:Eiichi_Yamagishi.jpg]] [[:File:EP33_Man1.jpg]] ||
|-
| ... || || || style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| || ||
|}

=== Galleries ===

* A soft maximum number of '''25''' images can be added to a page's gallery per 30 minute episode, '''15''' being a good average number. This is to avoid legal issues associated with uploading too much of a copyrighted work. Any multiple of 5 (below or equal to 25) is acceptable: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.
{| class="wikitable"
! Location || Naming scheme || Description || Preferred format || Preferred size || Preferred shape || Minimum size || Maximum size || Examples || Notes
|-
| Episode gallery || EP''X''_''Y''.jpg (where ''X'' is the episode number, ''Y'' is the image serial number) || An image from the episode || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|original aspect ratio || || || || [[:File:EP971 1.jpg]] ||
|-
| Movie gallery || M''X''-''Y''.jpg (where ''X'' is the movie number, ''Y'' is the image serial number) || An image from the movie || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|original aspect ratio || || || || [[:File:M4-19.jpg]] ||
|-
| Song gallery || Op''X''-''Y''.jpg (for opening) Ed''X''-''Y''.jpg (for ending) (where ''X'' is the opening/ending song number, ''Y'' is the image serial number) || An image from the opening/ending sequence || style="text-align:center"|jpg || style="text-align:center"|original aspect ratio || || || || [[:File:Op51-5.jpg]] [[:File:Ed61-5.jpg]] ||
|-
|}

=== Other useful images ===
* [[:File:No picture.jpg]]: 225x225px, Should be used when a person has no portrait of themselves that was ever shown at any point.
* [[:File:No Pic.jpg]]: 100by100px, May be used as a placeholder for images that have not been uploaded or for male characters whose appearances are not known.
* [[:File:No pic female.jpg]]: 100by100px, the version of the above for women specifically.
* [http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/images/archive/d/d6/20120622131349!Bourbon_60px.jpg File:No pic 60px.jpg]: A 60x60px generic placeholder image with higher contrast for smaller sizes.
* [[:File:Generic Male Profile.jpg]]: A profile silhouette meant to represent a Black Organization member whose appearance is unknown or merely speculated. A specific female version has not been created at this time because it has not been needed yet.
* [[:File:No cover.jpg]]: 200x235px, A holding image for cds, dvds, volumes, etc whose official cover art has not been uploaded.
* [[:File:No Image Gem.jpg]]: A 100by100px image to be used in Kaitou Kid related articles where a gem was not shown.

== Minor recurring character pages and notable case characters pages ==
Currently there are three pages about minor characters: [[List of minor recurring manga characters]], [[List of minor recurring anime characters]], and [[List of notable case characters]].

A minor character is any character who recurs or has a key role in an important case which impacts the plot (e.g. [[Matsuda Jinpei]]), but is not important enough to warrant a spot on the main [[characters]] page. That means the minor character lists are not for main characters, main law enforcement, or mystery people related to the arc (e.g. Eisuke or Araide). Minor characters may have their own article, which should be linked in the relevant minor character page.

There is some wiggle room for who qualifies as a notable character, but one that has a major impact on the plot (e.g. [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] for being relevant to the Vermouth arc's solution), is a love interest (e.g. [[Fusae Campbell]]), or considered notable by fans (e.g. [[Natsuki Koshimizu]] and [[Junya Tokitsu]] for being the highschool detectives of the North and South) are all good candidates. Not every character who is spotlighted in an episode or chapter will count.

=== Recurring characters ===

The definition of "recurring" is a character who 1) has two or more major appearances and 2) those appearances are in two separate mostly unlinked cases.

A major appearance is one that is in person, an extended flashback, or some other notable form. Basically the appearance itself must be substantial or otherwise worthy of some note. A situation where a character appears just by name or in one panel while being mentioned doesn't count as a recurrence even though it may be listed on the appearances page. Natsue and Takeshi Hatamoto's letter in [[Volume_22|File 215: The Northbound Train]] qualified them for recurring because their interaction with the case was fairly substantial - their letter provided additional details about what happened to them after their initial case and prompted Kogoro and co. to travel on the train where the case took place.

Some cases that are separate, but not unlinked enough for a character to count as recurring are [[Volume 87|Ran Girl]] and [[Volume 87|Shinichi Boy]], [[Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain]] and [[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]], and [[Parade of Malice and Saint]] and [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages]]. These continue smoothly into one another (even though the anime split the last pair apart with an AO). When in doubt, the manga version of the cases is what decides whether cases are linked or unlinked.

Entries are not duplicated between the lists. Although most recurring manga characters also recur in the anime when their manga-based episodes air, those characters are only included on the recurring manga characters list. If a character is qualified to be listed on multiple pages, they should be listed only on the top page they qualify for. The order of the pages top to bottom is:
* [[List of minor recurring manga characters]]
* [[List of minor recurring anime characters]]
* [[List of notable case characters]]

[[List of minor recurring manga characters]] is the most exclusive page: only characters who reappear in at least two separate mostly unlinked cases in the main manga [[canon]] are allowed on the list. Only characters who recur in Gosho's main manga [[canon]] are allowed on this list, appearances in [[Detective Conan Special]] manga and other non-canon works do not count as "manga based".

* Sometimes the animators change or add characters when adapting a manga case to the anime. Characters who only appear in the anime adaptation of a case, but not in the corresponding manga do not count as a manga appearance. For example, the named police officers that appeared in the anime version of the [[Volume 40|Be on Guard on a Sweet Date]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5]] case were not named and drawn mostly generically in the manga version. These named officers from the anime thus don't count for a manga-based appearance because they didn't actually appear in the print manga. Those officers can qualify for anime recurrence though.

* A character who appears just once in manga canon (and then does not reoccur), but has multiple appearances in the anime or movies goes on the recurring anime page, not the recurring manga page. That is because the character does not occur at least twice on the canon ink and paper.

[[List of minor recurring anime characters]] covers appearances in both the movies and the anime together. Characters that appear in multiple unlinked anime cases, or in multiple movies count for this list. A character that appears once in the anime and once in a movie also qualifies. Appearances outside of anime and movie canon (such as [[Detective Conan Special]]) don't count for the purposes of the this page.

=== Notable characters ===

[[List of notable case characters]] covers anyone else who doesn't fall in either of the other lists because they don't reoccur, or because they notably reoccur in some other Detective Conan media that isn't manga, anime, or movie.

There is some wiggle room for who qualifies as a notable character, but one that has a major impact on the plot (e.g. [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] for being relevant to the Vermouth arc's solution), is a love interest (e.g. [[Fusae Campbell]]), or considered notable by fans (e.g. [[Natsuki Koshimizu]] and [[Junya Tokitsu]] for being the highschool detectives of the North and South) are all good candidates. Not every character who is spotlighted in an episode or chapter will count.

== Speculation ==
Detective Conan is a long and intricate manga with many long-running mysteries. Many fans and casual readers find speculation sections which address popular theories and hints useful. Knowing the popular theories also eases newcomers' transitions into the fandom.

Speculation sections are generally allowed on character pages and other relevant pages (e.g. [[APTX 4869]], [[Black Organization]]). Users may also create speculation sections in their own userspace (User:Username/Subpage), provided they are not too resource intensive (e.g. image and other media heavy) or link to materials that could attract negative legal attention. (like links to fan scanlations or manga aggregate websites.)

Speculation sections in mainspace articles must follow certain guidelines to enforce quality and usefulness.
* Any speculation section should be clearly labeled so it isn't confused with known fact. This is most often done by adding a section titled "speculation" where various theories are presented in the subsections below it. Subsections should outright state or strongly imply the argument being presented.
* Speculation sections must be serious. No jokes.
* Speculation sections should be both well supported with evidence and notable (popular) by the fandom. A less popular theory with strong evidence or a very popular theory with weak evidence may qualify. If a theory is only popular in one particular fan subgroup or language, then it may not be notable. Truly popular theories will reappear in many languages and websites.
* Speculation sections must use sound logical arguments, quality evidence, and correctly interpret the source. Theories may be removed if they are based on specious logic, invalid assumptions, or misinterpretations of the source material.
* Please cite evidence and quotations in references. This makes it easy to fact check and allows others to examine the evidence and draw their own conclusions.
* The more speculation material there is on any one page, the higher the standards will be for all of it. This is to avoid cluttering a page with excess material by promoting the ejection of the weaker, more unlikely theories.
* [[The Boss of the Black Organization]] is a special case because there are too many theories with none dominant. It would be a nightmare to manage all the major theories about the boss that fans have floated over the years. Unless there is a major new hint, please don't add speculation sections to character pages suggesting that they are the boss. The Boss's own page will also be kept free of identity theories. The speculation section on the boss's page will be reserved for hypotheses that are self evident from facts.
* If you disagree with a speculation, you may add information to point out its flaws. Rebuttals are also held to the same high standards of evidence. If there looks to be a fight brewing between editors, work it out on the talk page. Speculation sections do not decide right and wrong, they are about presenting a suggestive argument which fairly addresses its merits and shortcomings. Only the strongest support and the clearest contradictions matter. If you are in an argument with someone over a theory section, don't set an arbitrary standard where the other editor must answer your 20+ concerns and prove each little assertion with citations in order to be good enough. That turns editing into a war of attrition, which isn't grounded in merit. Start with the core problems.
* Long, well supported speculations may have their own dedicated mainspace page. They should be tagged with the [[:Category:Theories|theories category]].
* Notability and evidence quality do not apply for theories in your user subspace. You should also tag your personal theory subpages with the [[:Category:Theories|theories category]], so other users can find them.

== Other ==

For any other standard issues not mentioned here, please try and follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style when making Detective Conan Wiki pages. For more information, please visit: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Wikipedia's Manual of Style]

[[Category:Detective Conan Wiki]] [[Category:Cleanup]]

Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4

2022-06-12T06:46:32Z

Exaskliri: Used singular "they" in reference to the robber and what looks black is the inner shirt (rather than the coat). Also fixed a typo.

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 253-254
| image = TV Episode 253-254.jpg
| title = Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4
| english-title =
| japanese-title = {{Lang|ja|本庁の刑事恋物語}}4 (Honchō no Keiji Koi-monogatari 4)
| rating = 17.30% 20.50%
| Manga case number = #95
| season = [[Season 9|9]]
| manga = [[Volume 32#Sato's Omiai Case|Volume 32: File 11 (328)]] ~ [[Volume 33#Sato's Omiai Case|Volume 33: File 2 (330)]]
| airdate = October 15, 2001 (Part 1) October 22, 2001 (Part 2)
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Miwako Sato]] [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Tomoaki Araide]] [[Shuichi Akai]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Mrs. Sato]] [[Isokichi Kamoi]]
| suspects = Hiroshi Zama, Eiko Koshimizu, and Yasuo Kamieda
| solved-by = [[Wataru Takagi]]
| next-conan-hint = Sunglasses (Part 1) Wristwatch (Part 2)
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]], Next Conan's Hint [[Atsuko Yuya]] as [[Miwako Sato]] [[Isshin Chiba]] as [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Yuu Sugimoto]] as [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Hideyuki Hori]] as [[Tomoaki Araide]] [[Chikako Akimoto]] as [[Mrs. Sato]] [[Katsumi Chou]] as [[Isokichi Kamoi]] [[Ryuuzo Hasuike]] as Hiroshi Zama [[Kei Hayami]] as Eiko Koshimizu [[Yasuhiko Kawazu]] as Yasuo Kamieda [[Masafumi Kimura]] as Mamehara [[Junichi Sugawara]] as Old man [[Fumiko Miyashita]] as Waitress [[Ritsuko Kasai]] as High school girl
| director = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| screenplay =
| organizer = [[Chika Ichimaru]]
| storyboard = [[Chika Ichimaru]]
| producer = 253 [[Hiroshi Kurimoto]] 254 [[Kazuo Nogami]]
| animation-director = 253 [[Takehiro Hamatsu]] 254 [[Izumi Shimura]]
| character-design = [[Junko Yamanaka]] and [[Kumiko Shishido]] (design works)
| opening-song = destiny
| closing-song = Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni
| prev-episode = The Kidnapper in the Picture
| next-episode = The 14th Round of the Matsue Tamatsukuri Linked Verse Contest
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|本庁の刑事恋物語4|Honchō no Keiji Koi-monogatari 4}} is the 253rd and 254th episode of ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]].

== Characters introduced ==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Isokichi Kamoi]]|image = Isokichi Kamoi.jpg|description =
* Shiratori family butler}}
{{EndBox}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Yumi Miyamoto}}
{{char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Tomoaki Araide}}
{{char|Shuichi Akai}}
{{char|Mrs. Sato}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (voice/background)}}
{{char|Mamehara}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Earring Cellphone}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
==== Part 1 ====
Sato is having an arranged marriage meeting with a man due to her mother's persistence. She arrives to find out it's Ninzaburo Shiratori. She proposes that if Takagi does not arrive to her before sunset, she will marry him whether she wants to or not. He accepts, but Takagi is busy with a store robbery.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Robbery
| image = EP253-254 Case.jpg
| location = Convenience store
| victim =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Hiroshi Zama, Eiko Koshimizu, and Yasuo Kamieda
| description =
}}

Three of the eye witnesses all give different description and the three suspects are kept in the back of the police car. Conan gives help using his gadget. The witnesses are an old man who accidentally got bumped by the running suspect, a teen girl who is a shopper at the store where the crime happens, and a restaurant owner who also notices the suspect running near his restaurant. The suspect is wearing a coat and helmet. After they robbed at the store, they run very fast outside and escapes. Takagi follows them to a restroom where the coat and helmet are leave unattended but inside the restroom, there are three suspects. Which of them is the real one?

==== Part 2 ====
There are three witnesses who each give different accounts of the robber.

An old man who bumped into the robber said the robber was a woman in blue. A woman in a store said the robber was a man in green over 180 cm tall. A cafe owner wearing glasses said a person in black 170 cm tall.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Hiroshi Zama|Hiroshi Zama.jpg|
* 21 years old
* Freelancer}}
{{People|Eiko Koshimizu|Eiko Koshimizu.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Office lady}}
{{People|Yasuo Kamieda|Yasuo Kamieda.jpg|
* 32 years old
* School coach}}
{{People|Old man|EP253-254 Old man.jpg|
* Witness}}
{{People|Girl|EP253-254 Shopping girl.jpg|
* Witness
* Shopping girl}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>The three witnesses had different opinions about the robber because of various circumstances and personality quirks. The old man who said the robber was a woman in blue came to the gender conclusion because the culprit wore their watch facing inwards as most women do. Because he is old, the witness does not differentiate between blue and green, using the same word "aoi" to refer to both colors. The cafe owner who said the robber was a person in black 170 cm tall was wearing special glasses with lenses that darken when exposed to light. He was not used to wearing them yet, so this made the robber's clothing appear to be black as he stepped outside. He was accurate about the height. The woman in a store who said the robber was a man in green over 180 cm tall saw the robber while they were running on a curb, making them appear to be taller than they actually was. She was accurate about the color the robber was wearing.

Takagi solves the case and arrests the culprit, '''Yasuo Kamieda''' when he tries to make a dash out of the police car. Takagi catches up and gives up on going to Sato in time to stop the marriage as the sun is almost set and the car is too far away. His party comes to cheer him on and he runs. Conan manages to stop the marriage in time with Tomoaki Araide's help. Takagi manages to reach the restaurant but the sun has completely sunk. He then sees Sato around the corner who tells him he told her an emergency case has come up. Takagi smiles as he enters the car. Meanwhile Shiratori leaves the restaurant, disappointed in his close marriage. Conan comments how Takagi and Sato reminded him of Ran and himself.</spoiler>

== Manga to anime changes ==
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
* After being told by Mamehara that the culprit was wearing a coat over black clothes and height being 5'6, Takagi thinks of Kamieda who is of that height, but not wearing black clothing. Immediately after in the manga, he thinks of the other accounts given by the other two witnesses, with the anime cutting off after considering Kamieda.
* File 328 ends with Sato agreeing to Shiratori's deal. File 329 follows up immediately with her specifying that Takagi is given until sunset to pick her up, with Conan, Ran, Sonoko, and Araide commenting on their discussion. Episode 253 switches that scene to follow Takagi and Chiba's reflection on the robbery clues given to them by the witnesses and deciding to question the suspects.
* Unlike the manga, part 2 of the episode in the anime shows Takagi recapping the robbery, the suspects and the witnesses to Conan, who's calling as Shinichi.

== Continuity ==
* This is the case that referred to Miwako telling Shiratori that she did not like French Food, which was in [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story]], when in reality, she did not like expensive food, which is what she said to Takagi in that case. However, they are at a (probably expensive) Japanese restaurant in this case.
* When Shiratori made a comment about Takagi receiving a pay-cut before, it was in the [[The Shinkansen Transport Case]], however he neglected to mention that she received the same pay cut.
* When Conan mentioned that he knows Mamehara, probably as one of the witnesses in [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case]].

== Trivia ==
* Mrs. Sato is trying to do an Omiai, an arranged marriage, but instead of going through a liaison or marriage broker, she is making Miwako Sato look at photos of the prospective husband. Omiai is still being used by 5 to 6% of the Japanese people.
* The Spanish dub mistook the title of the episodes, "Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4", for "Love story between 4 metropolitan police detectives".
* Miwako Sato hatchback is a Wolkengrau 1995 Volkswagen Polo III [Typ 6N].

== Goof ==
When Miwako was waiting for Wataru Takagi and saying his name in frustration, she clenched her cellphone causing it to crack, but when Takagi phoned Miwako, her cellphone looked normal.

== BGM listing ==
=== Part 1 ===
{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
{{BGMListingItem|1|destiny|destiny|destiny|[[destiny]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|2|のんびり気分|Nonbiri Kibun|Carefree Feeling|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|3|昼下がりの天使たち|Hirusagari no Tenshitachi|Early Afternoon Angels|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|4|新少年探偵団のテーマ|Shin Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma|The New Detective Boys' Theme|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|5|とっておきクイズ|Totte Oki Kuizu|Take the Quiz|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|6|謎解き（その１）|Nazotoki (Sono 1)|Riddle Solution (Part 1)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|8|陽気な仲間|Yōki na Nakama|Cheerful Friends|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|9|阿笠博士のテーマ|Agasa Hakase no Tēma|Professor Agasa's Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|10|とっておきクイズ|Totte Oki Kuizu|Take the Quiz|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|11|カギを探せ！|Kagi o Sagase!|Search for the Key!|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|12|暗号トリックの解読|Angō Torikku no Kaidoku|The Trick to Deciphering the Code|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|13|キーワードの謎解き|Kiiwādo no Nazotoki|Keyword to the Riddle Solution|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|14|とっておきクイズ|Totte Oki Kuizu|Take the Quiz|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|15|少年探偵団のテーマ|Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma|The Detective Boys' Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|16|青い青いこの地球に|Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni|On This Blue, Blue Star|[[Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni]]}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Part 2 ===
{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
{{BGMListingItem|1|destiny|destiny|destiny|[[destiny]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|2|阿笠博士のテーマ|Agasa Hakase no Tēma|Professor Agasa's Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|3|とっておきクイズ|Totte Oki Kuizu|Take the Quiz|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|4|容疑者判明|Yōgisha Hanmei|Identifying the Suspect|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|5|新少年探偵団のテーマ|Shin Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma|The New Detective Boys' Theme|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|6|犯人のアジト|Hannin no Ajito|The Culprit's Hideout|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|7|西の名探偵（摩天楼ヴァージョン）|Nishi no Meitantei (Mantenrō Vājon)|The Great Detective of the West (Skyscraper Version)|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|8|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|9|推理（オリジナルver.）|Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)|Deduction (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|10|顛末（TENMATSU）|Tenmatsu (TENMATSU)|The Facts (TENMATSU)|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|11|Need not to know.|Need not to know.|Need not to know.|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|12|コナンのテーマ|Konan no Tēma|Conan's Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|13|コナン組曲－Captured In Her Eyes|Konan Kumikyoku - Captured in Her Eyes|Conan Suite - Captured in Her Eyes|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|14|トロピカルランドの想い出|Toropikaru Rando no Omoide|Memories of Tropical Land|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|15|青い青いこの地球に|Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni|On This Blue, Blue Star|[[Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|16|蘭のテーマ（摩天楼ヴァージョン）|Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)|Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|حكاية ساتو وتاكاجي|The Story of Sato and Takagi}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan (Catalan dub)|Continua la història d'amor a la comissaria central|Continues the love story in central Headquarters}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Valencia|Catalan (Valencian dub)|Historia d'amor entre policies 4|Love story between policemen 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|Historia de amor entre detectives 4|Love story between policemen 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Love-Story im Polizeihauptquartier 4|Love Story in the Police Headquarter 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Storia d'amore alla centrale di polizia|Love Story in the Police Headquarter}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish (Castilian dub)|Historia de amor entre cuatro detectives|Love story between four detectives}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Chile|Spanish (American dub)|Historia de amor en la policía metropolitana - Tomo 4|Love story in the metropolitan police - Volume 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|นิยายรักตำรวจนครบาล ภาค 4|Metropolitan Police Love Story - Part 4}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Câu chuyện tình yêu ở trụ sở cảnh sát 4|Metropolitan Police Headquarter Love Story 4}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Season 9]]
* [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (series)]]

{{Season 9}}

[[Category:Episodes]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Takehiro Hamatsu]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Izumi Shimura]]

[[de:Episode 272]]

The Naniwa Serial Murder Case

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{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 118
| image = TV Episode 118.jpg
| title = The Naniwa Serial Murder Case
| english-title = License to Die
| japanese-title = 浪花の連続殺人事件 (Naniwa no Renzoku Satsujin Jiken)
| rating = 21.2%
| Manga case number = #54
| season = [[Season 5|5]]
| manga = [[Volume 19#Stabbed Wallet Case|Volume 19: Files 5-8 (185-188)]]
| airdate = September 23, 1998 * July 19, 2004 '''(Rerun)''' *
| dubbed-episode = Episode 124-125
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Heizo Hattori]] [[Ginshiro Toyama]] [[Goro Otaki]] [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] [[Shinichi Kudo]]
| suspects = Unknown serial killer
| solved-by = [[Heiji Hattori]]
| next-conan-hint = Car mirror N/A '''(Rerun)'''
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]], Next Conan's Hint [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]], Next Conan's Hint [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Yuko Miyamura]] as [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Takehiro Koyama]] as [[Heizo Hattori]] [[Masato Sako]] as [[Ginshiro Toyama]] [[Norio Wakamoto]] as [[Goro Otaki]] [[Kazuya Ichijou]] as [[Minor law enforcement#Yusuke Sakata|Yusuke Sakata]] [[Yukiko Hattori]] as Sumie Okazaki [[Takaya Hashi]] as Sotaro Goshi [[Naoki Tatsuta]] as [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] [[Yukimasa Natori]] as Teahouse owner [[Hitoshi Horimoto]] as Secretary [[Katsumi Suzuki]] as Newscaster [[Kazunari Tanaka]] as Policeman A [[Nobuaki Kanemitsu]] as Policeman B
| director = [[Kenji Kodama]]
| screenplay =
| organizer = [[Michiyo Sakurai]]
| storyboard = [[Michiyo Sakurai]]
| producer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| animation-director = [[Keiko Sasaki]] [[Hiroto Yokote]]
| character-design = [[Yasuhiro Moriki]] (design works)
| opening-song = Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
| closing-song = Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni
| prev-episode = The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case
| next-episode = The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case
| footnotes = * 1 Hour Special
}}
{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|浪花の連続殺人事件|Naniwa no Renzoku Satsujin Jiken}} is the 118th episode of ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]].

== Characters introduced ==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Goro Otaki]]|image = Goro Otaki.jpg|link = Goro Otaki|description =
* Inspector from Osaka Prefecture Police}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Kazuha Toyama]]|image = Kazuha Toyama.jpg|link = Kazuha Toyama|description =
* 17 years old
* Heiji's friend and love interest}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Ginshiro Toyama]]|image = Ginshiro Toyama.jpg|link = Ginshiro Toyama|description =
* Detective from Osaka Prefecture Police
* Kazuha's father}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]|image = Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|link = Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|description =
* Serial hold-up murderer}}
{{EndBox}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Heizo Hattori}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (background)}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
Heiji invites Conan, Ran, and Kogoro to visit him in [[wikipedia:Osaka|Osaka]], taking them on a sightseeing tour. In a restaurant, they run into Kazuha Toyama, Heiji's childhood friend, who appears to be jealous of Ran, asking her if she's "that Kudo girl" that Heiji keeps talking about and telling Ran to back off, because Heiji and her have been "joined by steel" for ages. Ran laughs and explains herself and the two girls hit it off. After finishing their meal, Kazuha joins them on their exploration of the city, but, as they leave the restaurant, a dead body falls from the roof of the building, hitting Kogoro's rental car.

The police arrive and quickly realise that this newest victim, a man in his forties, has been killed in the same fashion as two other people who died a few days earlier, by being stabbed in the heart through their wallets.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder (Past)
| image = EP118a Case.jpg
| location = [[Wikipedia: Toyonaka|Toyonaka City]], Osaka Prefecture
| victim = Hidetoshi Nagao
| age =
| time =
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects =
| description =
| footnotes =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder (Past)
| image = EP118b Case.jpg
| location = [[Wikipedia: Hirakata|Hirakata City]], Osaka
| victim = Tayo Nishiguchi
| age =
| time =
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects =
| description =
| footnotes =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP118c Case.jpg
| location = [[Wikipedia: Shinsaibashi|Shinsai Bridge]], Osaka
| victim = Kazuto Noyasu
| age = 41 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Fell off the window and stab wound
| suspects =
| description =
| footnotes =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP118d Case.jpg
| location = Public toilet near the Seito condo
| victim = Sumie Okazaki
| age = 39 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Strangulation and stab wound
| suspects =
| description =
| footnotes =
}}

A careful study of the victims' driver records reveals they all attended the same driving school. Heiji is the first one to learn of this and decides to confront the Congressman about it. Meanwhile Conan rejoins Ran and Kogoro only to be swooped away to a hidden shack where a serial killer is believed to be, but with a photo of the driving record and the testimony of the serial killer it appears two mysteries are about to be solved.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Hidetoshi Nagao|Hidetoshi Nagao.jpg|fsize=0.80em|
* Deceased (stabbed)
* Department store manager
* Goshi's former personal secretary}}
{{People|Tayo Nishiguchi|Tayo Nishiguchi.jpg|
* Deceased (stabbed)
* Bar owner}}
{{People|[[Minor law enforcement#Yusuke Sakata|Yusuke Sakata]]|Yusuke Sakata.jpg|
* 26 years old
* Osaka police detective from Investigation Unit 1, Tojiri Station}}
{{People|Kazuto Noyasu|Kazuto Noyasu.jpg|fsize=0.80em|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 41 years old
* Taxi driver
* Goshi's former personal chauffeur}}
{{People|Sotaro Goshi|Sotaro Goshi.jpg|
* Assemblyman}}
{{People|Sumie Okazaki|Sumie Okazaki.jpg|
* Victim (strangled & stabbed)
* 39 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Man|EP118 Man.jpg|
* Man on roof of restaurant where Noyasu's body fell from}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
{{People|Tetsuji Inaba|Tetsuji Inaba.jpg|
* Deceased (car accident)
* Driving instructor
* Yusuke's father}}
{{People|Mrs. Inaba|Mrs Inaba.jpg|
* Tetsuji's wife
* Yusuke's mother}}

=== Evidence ===
* Yusuke looks a lot like his father.
* Yusuke adjusting the mirror before driving is similar to the other student's of his father.

=== Conclusion ===
The killer is '''Yusuke Sakata''', one of the detectives, his real name is Yusuke Inaba.

=== Motive ===
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder (Past)
| image =
| location = Cliff
| victim = Tetsujii Inaba
| age =
| time = 20 years ago
| cause-death = Car Fell from the cliff
| suspects = Hidetoshi Nagao, Kazuto Noyasu, Tayo Nishiguchi, Sumie Okazaki, Sotaro Goshi, and [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description =
| footnotes =
}}

Twenty years ago Yusuke's father, a very strict driving instructor, was killed when a tasteless prank involving alcohol and his car went too far, and it was performed by the four victims plus the serial killer Numabuchi and Assemblyman Goshi. Sakata always had doubts about Inaba's death, as he was a very careful and responsible man. When investigating the case with Numabuchi, however, Numabuchi started screaming and begging for "Instructor Inaba"'s forgiveness, due to their noticeable physical resemblance. Ever since then, he kept Numabuchi hidden in the forest, but was planning to kill him and frame him for the murders he'd commit as revenge for his father's death.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = EP118e Case.jpg
| location = Abandoned shack
| victim = [[Ran Mouri]] and [[Conan Edogawa]]
| victim-label = Victims
| age =
| cause-death = Stabbing
| cause-death-label = Attack Types
| suspects = Kiichiro Numabuchi
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description = When he was located in a shack outside of Osaka, Kiichiro Numabuchi lost it and attempted to stab the closest person with a knife, then run away. Ran Mouri was said "closest person", but Conan jumped in front to block the blow. The knife caught on Hattori's omamori which he lent Conan earlier; Conan was in pain and out of breath, but after resting a little he was fine.
| footnotes =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = EP118 Case5.jpg
| location = Near the shack
| victim = [[Hattori Heiji]] and Yusuke Sakata
| victim-label = Victims
| age = 26 years old (Yusuke)
| cause-death = Gunshot Wound (Heiji) and Burnt Alive
| cause-death-label = Cause
| suspects = Yusuke Sakata
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description = Sakata's soon-to-be target was the Congressman, but he failed. By that time, Heiji had realized on his own that he was the killer and confronted him. Yusuke explained why did he kill several people and intended to kill Numabuchi and the Congressman, then got ready to shoot himself dead with his service gun; Heiji tried to stop him and empty the gun itself, but in the struggle he got shot, and the rest of the projectiles hit a gas tank and the place caught fire.
}}

=== Aftermath ===
As Heiji, along with Kazuha, Ran and Conan, is rushed to the hospital, he remarks that "Some idiot told me after cornering the culprit with your detective work, you can't let them die" to Conan's amazement. Heiji then falls asleep, but Kazuha cries over Heiji, believing that he is dying. Heiji then wakes up yelling at her to shut up. As Heiji plans to go back to sleep, Kazuha digs her elbow into Heiji's wound and they start to bicker.</spoiler>

== Manga to anime changes ==
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
* In the manga, Heiji remarks that the trick that was used to make the corpse of the third victim fall to the ground is the same as [[Volume 13#Illustrator Murder Case|the one]] used in a case that Kogoro (or rather, Conan) solved before. This part was removed in the anime.

== Translation changes ==
=== Anime ===
* The names of the characters in the [[Funimation]] Dub are:
:* Yusuke Sakata - Truman Salinger
:* Sotaro Goshi - Congressman Grady
:* Tayo Nishiguchi - Tammy Nightengale
:* Hidetoshi Nagao - Nathan Tollingsworth
:* Kazuto Noyasu - Castron Odalis
:* Sumie Okazaki - Susan Connely

== Rerun ==
* The episode was rerun on July 19, 2004. It was unchanged except for the addition of a new scene at the beginning.

== Trivia ==
* In the English Dub, for unknown reasons the last scene showing Hattori in the ambulance was cut out and never shown.

== BGM listing ==
{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
{{BGMListingItem|1|運命のルーレット廻して|Unmei no Roulette Mawashite|Spinning the Roulette of Destiny|[[Unmei no Roulette Mawashite]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|2|犯人の謎|Hannin no Nazo|The Mystery of the Culprit|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|3|昼下がりの天使たち|Hirusagari no Tenshitachi|Early Afternoon Angels|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|4|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|5|少年探偵団のテーマ|Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma|The Detective Boys' Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|6|蘭・愛のテーマ|Ran・Ai no Tēma|Ran's Love Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|7|ターゲットサスペンスＡ|Tāgetto Sasupensu A|Target Suspense A|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|8|ターゲットサスペンスＤ|Tāgetto Sasupensu D|Target Suspense D|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|9|ターゲットサスペンスＧ|Tāgetto Sasupensu G|Target Suspense G|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|10|コナンの大作戦１|Konan no Daisakusen 1|Conan's Big Battle 1|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|11|犯人の謎|Hannin no Nazo|The Mystery of the Culprit|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|12|トリック|Torikku|Trick|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|13|蘭・愛のテーマ（ギターver.）|Ran・Ai no Tēma (Gitā ver.)|Ran's Love Theme (Guitar ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|14|ターゲットサスペンスＣ|Tāgetto Sasupensu C|Target Suspense C|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|15|ターゲットサスペンスＤ|Tāgetto Sasupensu D|Target Suspense D|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|16|ターゲットサスペンスＢ|Tāgetto Sasupensu B|Target Suspense B|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|17|コナンの大作戦２|Konan no Daisakusen 2|Conan's Big Battle 2|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|18|(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|19|ターゲットサスペンスＡ|Tāgetto Sasupensu A|Target Suspense A|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|20|ターゲットサスペンスＢ|Tāgetto Sasupensu B|Target Suspense B|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|21|ターゲットサスペンスＣ|Tāgetto Sasupensu C|Target Suspense C|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|22|犯人の謎|Hannin no Nazo|The Mystery of the Culprit|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|23|殺意|Satsui|Murderous Intent|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|24|ターゲットサスペンスＣ|Tāgetto Sasupensu C|Target Suspense C|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|25|コナンが通る|Konan ga Tōru|Conan Passes By|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|26|ターゲットサスペンスＪ|Tāgetto Sasupensu J|Target Suspense J|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|27|何かが起きる…|Nanika ga Okiru...|Something Happened...|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|28|ターゲットサスペンスＣ|Tāgetto Sasupensu C|Target Suspense C|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|29|ターゲットサスペンスＤ|Tāgetto Sasupensu D|Target Suspense D|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|30|ターゲットサスペンスＣ|Tāgetto Sasupensu C|Target Suspense C|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|31|蘭・愛のテーマ（ギターver.）|Ran・Ai no Tēma (Gitā ver.)|Ran's Love Theme (Guitar ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|32|トリック|Torikku|Trick|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|33|殺意|Satsui|Murderous Intent|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|34|ターゲットサスペンスＤ|Tāgetto Sasupensu D|Target Suspense D|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|35|ターゲットサスペンスＧ|Tāgetto Sasupensu G|Target Suspense G|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|36|ターゲットサスペンスＩ|Tāgetto Sasupensu I|Target Suspense I|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|37|挫折|Zasetsu|Frustration|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|38|「名探偵コナン」メイン・テーマ（バラードver.）|"Meitantei Konan" Mein・Tēma (Barādo ver.) |"Detective Conan" Main Theme (Ballad ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|39|氷の上に立つように|Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni|Like Standing on Ice|[[Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|40|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|41|蘭のテーマ|Ran no Tēma|Ran's Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== In other languanges ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|خوف الشمال|Fear of the North}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan (Catalan dub)|El cas dels assassinats en serie de Naniwa|The serial murders in Naniwa case}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Valencia|Catalan (Valencian dub)|Els assassinats en sèrie d'Osaka|The Osaka serial murders}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|浪花連續殺人事件|The Naniwa Serial Murder Case}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=France|French|Meurtres en série à Osaka|Serial Murder in Osaka}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|Os asasinatos en serie de Osaka|The Osaka serial murders}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Der Serienmörder von Osaka|The Serial Killer of Osaka}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Venti anni fa|Twenty Years Ago}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=US|Spanish (American dub)|La misteriosa serie de asesinatos|The mysterious serial of murders}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish (Castilian dub)|Los asesinatos en serie de Naniwa|The Naniwa serial murders}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|คดีฆาตกรรมต่อเนื่องแห่งนานิวะ|The Naniwa serial murder case}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vụ án giết người hàng loạt ở Naniwa|The Naniwa Serial Murder Case}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Season 5]]

{{Season 5}}

[[Category:Episodes]][[Category:Animation directed by Keiko Sasaki]][[Category:Animation directed by Hiroto Yokote]]
[[Category:Rerun episode]]

[[de:Episode 124]]

Volume 24

2022-01-09T06:20:45Z

Exaskliri: Spoiler-marked the introduction card of Pisco's real identity and corrected some typos.

{{InfoBox Volume
| volume = 24
| image = Volume 24.jpg
| releasedate = July 17, 1999
| chapters = 232-242
| isbn = 4-09-125494-2
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| english-releasedate = July 15, 2008
| english-isbn = 1-4215-1676-4
| english-publisher = [[Viz Media]]
| detective = [[Perry Mason]]
| keyhole = [[Tomoaki Araide]]
| prev-volume = Volume 23
| next-volume = Volume 25
| footnotes =
}}
Volume 24 was released on July 17, 1999 in Japan.

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Miwako Sato}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{Char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (background)}}
{{Char|Eri Kisaki}}
{{Char|Gin}}
{{Char|Vodka}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara|Shiho Miyano|display=Shiho Miyano}}
{{Char|Sumiko Kobayashi|display=Sumiko Kobayashi (dream)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
{{Gadget|Button Speaker}}
{{Gadget|Earring Cellphone}}
{{Gadget|Transmitter}}
{{Gadget|Microphone}}
{{Gadget|Criminal Tracking Glasses}}
}}

== Innocent Suspect Case ==
{{ref anime|156-157|Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2}}

=== File 232 - Finding Evidence ===
The Detective Boys are still investigating.

=== File 233 - Countdown ===

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Higashida|File 231-233 Higashida manga.jpg|
* Company employee}}
{{People|Masami Muranishi|Masami_Muranishi manga.jpg|
* Victim (strangled)}}
{{People|Kitagawa|File 231-233 Kitagawa manga.jpg|
* Company employee}}
{{EndBox}}

== Blackout Murder Case ==
{{ref anime|170-171|The Blind Spot in the Darkness}}

=== Characters introduced ===
{{NewChar|name = [[Tomoaki Araide]]|image = Tomoaki Araide.jpg|description =
* 25 years old
* Doctor
* Teitan High basketball coach}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Hikaru Yasumoto]]|image = Hikaru Yasumoto.jpg|description =
* 22 years old
* Household maid}}
{{clearleft}}

=== File 234 - Another Half Year... ===
For some time, [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] has taken notice that [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] seems unusually distant to him (Shinichi) whenever he calls her up lately. The day the case begins, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] (along with Conan and Ran) is called by his physician, Yoshiteru Araide, who tells him that he has "just half a year ..." Devastated, Kogoro confronts his doctor with the assumption that he has only half a year left to live, only to learn that the doctor actually meant for Kogoro to reduce his excessive alcohol consumption in that time to ease up on his liver. When he is called away to treat another patient, his wife, Yoko Araide, mutters derisively under her breath that this case is less medical and more sexual.

While looking for the bathroom, Ran runs into the doctor's son, [[Tomoaki Araide|Tomoaki]], and the household aid, [[Hikaru Yasumoto|Hikaru]]. Upon learning that Kogoro is the famed 'master detective', Dr. Araide invites Kogoro and company for dinner. While preparing to eat, Dr. Araide decides to take a bath. All the while, Conan notices Ran staring at Tomoaki, and almost all the family present agrees that the two would make a good couple (much to Conan's consternation).

Suddenly, the lights go out, and Hikaru hurries to the fuse box to switch it back on. The light goes on, then blinks out and goes back on again. Wondering where Dr. Araide is, Yoko and Hikaru go to the bathroom and find him in the bathtub, dead...

=== File 235 - In the Darkness... ===
Conan is quick to discover the cause for Dr. Araide's death: his electric razor has fallen into the filled tub, electrocuting him. Though it seems that Dr. Araide must have dropped the razor himself, Conan notices that some things don't quite add up: Why was Dr. Araide sitting with his back to the mirror mounted at the end of the bathtub when he was shaving? And where did Hikaru get the burn mark on her arm? But what distracts Conan from the case is that Ran and Tomoaki seems strangely drawn to each other, and a disconcerting thought dawns inside him: Could Ran have become interested in Tomoaki now ...?

=== File 236 - The Unbelievable Link ===
While Kogoro, [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] and [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] test all possible scenarios, Conan discovers several clues missed by the police and adds them up to the solution of the case. And as usual, he stuns Kogoro to use him as a mouthpiece to deliver his conclusions. But Tomoaki vehemently protests the questionings, claiming that none of his family could have done such a thing!

=== File 237 - From the Bottom of Heart ===
<spoiler>
Conan sets a trap for the murderer, who is revealed to be '''Yoko Araide''', Dr. Araide's wife. Confronted with the tricks she had used, she confesses that she murdered her husband because her predecessor Chiaki, who was also her best friend, had succumbed to alcoholism and eventually committed suicide because of Dr. Araide's continuous acts of adultery. The trick had involved stealthily putting the razor into the tub during the first short circuit; then, when Hikaru attempted to switch the light back on, Dr. Araide was electrocuted, causing the second power outage. Because Hikaru had thus unintentionally murdered her employer and would as a result break down if she ever learned the truth, Conan (as Kogoro) and Yoko agree to change the details of the procession of events so that Hikaru would never be burdened by her conscience.

After Yoko's arrest, Tomoaki and Ran meet one last time. But contrary to Conan's fears, Tomoaki, who had listened into Yoko's confession and the agreement, is merely asking Ran to deliver his apologies to her father, and Ran is asking Tomoaki to borrow her the sweater he is wearing, of which she knits two copies for her father and Shinichi. Strangely, she giggles in amusement when Conan/Shinichi attests on the phone that he is wearing it right now...
</spoiler>

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Yoshiteru Araide|Yoshiteru Araide manga.jpg|
* Victim (electrocuted)
* 51 years old
* Local practitioner
* Tomoaki's father}}
{{People|Yoko Araide|Youko Araide manga.jpg|
* 46 years old
* Yoshiteru's second wife}}
{{People|Mitsu Araide|Mitsu Araide manga.jpg|
* 74 years old
* Tomoaki's grandmother}}
{{People|Chiaki Araide|Chiaki Araide manga.jpg|
* Deceased
* Yoshiteru's first wife}}
{{EndBox}}

== Hotel Party Murder Case ==
{{ref anime|176-178|Reunion with the Black Organization}}
[[File:Gin2 color page V24-7.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Colored page of Gin from Haibara's dream]]

=== Characters introduced ===
{{NewChar|name = [[Vermouth|Chris Vineyard]]|image=Vermouth.jpg|description =
* 29 years old
* Actress}}
{{newChar|name = [[Shigehiko Nomiguchi]]| image = Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|description =
* 56 years old
* Politician}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Naomichi Mugikura]]|image=Naomichi Mugikura.jpg|description =
* 43 years old
* Announcer}}
<spoiler>
{{NewChar|name = [[Pisco|Kenzo Masuyama]]|image = Pisco.jpg|description =
* 71 years old
* Auto manufacturer chairman}}
</spoiler>
{{clearleft}}

=== File 238 - The Secret Corner of Betrayal ===
Haibara had a nightmare about Gin. The day after, back from school with Conan and the Detective Boys, Haibara comes across Gin's Porsche. Conan places a microphone under the seat and they get to know about a Black Organisation member named Pisco, who was sent to Haido City Hotel and tasked to eliminate the corrupt politician Shigehiko Nomiguchi, who had ties with the Organisation.

=== File 239 - The Black Burial Ranks ===
Conan and Haibara go to Haido City Hotel, hoping to find Pisco and prevent Nomiguchi from being killed. But all people in the party's hall are wearing black. There's Chris Vineyard who is an actress from America. Conan uses the voice of Shinichi and calls the police to protect the politician. Later, the lights go off and a movie is shown on a giant screen, meanwhile, the murder occurs : the room's chandelier fell from the ceiling and crashed over Nomiguchi.

=== File 240 - The Sudden Parting ===
Conan thinks the purple handkerchief he found right after the murder must belong to Pisco and he asks the receptionist about the identity of those who were given such a handkerchief. As the party's guests suddenly rush out of the hall and confront the media, Haibara gets separated from Conan and is abducted by Pisco.

=== File 241 - The Bullet from the Past ===
Haibara is locked in a liquor store but manages to escape through the fireplace after regaining her adult body, thanks to Conan's advice to drink baikal. Meanwhile, Conan deduces the identity of Pisco and how he had the room's chandelier fall over Nomiguchi. Gin and Vodka turn up to the hotel and enter the liquor store, hoping to meet Pisco, but left as none was there. Once out of the chimney, Haibara gets shot by Gin.

=== File 242 - The White World ===
Conan rushes to the hotel's rooftop to rescue Haibara, who dives into the chimney and ends up recovering her child body.
<spoiler>
Pisco then confronts Haibara but Conan reveals the former's identity to be '''Kenzo Masuyama''', and explains how he murdered Nomiguchi by shooting in the chandelier's chain. Masuyama had previously put some fluorescent painting on the chain to see it while in the dark. He told Nomiguchi to stand below the chandelier, where he had also put some fluorescent color. Masuyama then placed his purple handkerchief over his silencer to cover the noise and sparkles caused by the detonation, and to stop powder from staining his clothes. Conan takes Haibara out of the liquor store while Pisco inadvertently causes a fire with his cigarette. He is later killed by Gin as a picture of him will be released tomorrow in the press, showing his raised arm with the gun. Pisco then wasn't able to tell Gin about how he discovered Sherry shrank to a eight-year-old. Later on, a Black Organisation member named '''Vermouth''', who is revealed to be '''Chris Vineyard''', tells Gin and Vodka that she will stay in Japan for a while to check out for "something".
</spoiler>

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Mika Nanjo|Mika Nanjou manga.jpg|
* 38 years old
* Novelist
* Tarumi's lover}}
{{People|Yasuo Mihei|Yasuo Mihei manga.jpg|
* 62 years old
* Baseball team owner}}
{{People|Naoya Tarumi|Naoya Tarumi manga.jpg|
* 35 years old
* Music producer}}
{{People|Chris Vineyard|Chris Vineyard manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Actress}}
{{People|Yoshiharu Tawara|Yoshiharu Tawara manga.jpg|
* 58 years old
* University professor}}
{{People|Kenzo Masuyama|Kenzou Masuyama manga.jpg|
* 71 years old
* Auto manufacturer chairman}}
{{People|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|Shigehiko Nomiguchi manga.jpg|
* Victim (crushed)
* 56 years old
* Politician}}
{{People|Naomichi Mugikura|Naomichi Mugikura manga.jpg|
* 43 years old
* Announcer}}
{{EndBox}}

== Trivia ==
* The title for each chapter are worded as the following in ''Case Closed'':
:* File 232 - On the Spot
:* File 234 - Six More Months
:* File 235 - In the Dark
:* File 236 - An Unbelievable Connection
:* File 237 - The Remains of the Heart
:* File 238 - The Street Corner of Betrayal
:* File 239 - The Black Funeral
:* File 240 - A Sudden Farewell
:* File 241 - A Bullet From the Past
:* File 242 - A World in White

== Cover in other countries ==
<div><ul><li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24cc.jpg|150px|thumb|left|China]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24fi.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Finland]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24f.jpg|150px|thumb|left|France]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24g.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Germany]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24ce.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Hong Kong]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24bi.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Indonesia]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24i.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Italy]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24k.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Korea]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24ct.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Malaysia (Chinese)]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24m.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Malaysia (Malay)]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24n.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Norway]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24cw.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Rep. of China (Taiwan)]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume2_21sp.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume2_22sp.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24sw.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Sweden]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24th.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Thailand]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume 24e.jpg|150px|thumb|left|United States]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume24v.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Vietnam]]</li>
</ul></div>

== See also ==
* [[Manga]]
* [[Volume 21-30]]
* [[Detective Conan]]

{{Volumes}}
{{Black Organization}}

[[Category:Volumes]]
[[de:Band 24]]

Volume 34

2022-01-09T06:11:37Z

Exaskliri: /* File 346 - The Fake Supporter */ Fixed some typos.

{{InfoBox Volume
| volume = 34
| image = Volume 34.jpg
| releasedate = September 18, 2001
| chapters = 340-350
| isbn = 4-09-126164-7
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| english-releasedate = March 16, 2010
| english-isbn = 1-4215-2885-1
| english-publisher = [[Viz Media]]
| detective = [[Akakabu Kenji]]
| keyhole = [[Jugo Yokomizo]]
| prev-volume = Volume 33
| next-volume = Volume 35
| footnotes =
}}
Volume 34 was released on September 18, 2001 in Japan.

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Jodie Starling}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{Char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Shuichi Akai}}
{{Char|Vermouth}}
{{Char|Gin|display=Gin (background)}}
{{Char|Vodka|display=Vodka (background)}}
{{Char|Shiho Miyano|display=Shiho Miyano (photo)}}
{{Char|Pisco|display=Pisco (background)}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{Char|Hideo Akagi}}
{{Char|Naoki Uemura}}
{{Char|Tomoaki Araide|display=Tomoaki Araide (photo)}}
{{Char|Sango Yokomizo|display=Sango Yokomizo (background)}}
{{Char|Toichi Kuroba|display=Toichi Kuroba (background)}}
{{Char|Naomichi Mugikura|display=Naomichi Mugikura (background)}}
{{Char|Mika Nanjo|display=Mika Nanjo (background)}}
{{Char|Yasuo Mihei|display=Yasuo Mihei (background)}}
{{Char|Naoya Tarumi|display=Naoya Tarumi (background)}}
{{Char|Yoshiharu Tawara|display=Yoshiharu Tawara (background)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
}}

== Escalator Message Case ==
{{ref anime|271-272|The Secret Rushed Omission}}

=== File 340 - Time to Pick the Apple ===

Megure tells Jodie he has just phoned Chujo's detective agency to ask his employees if they'd ever been informed about who Chujo was suspecting to be embezzling Kisugi's company's money. They told Megure they had absolutely no idea, since Kisugi had insisted on the investigation to be kept strictly confidential. Furthermore, all data about Chujo's investigations are on his computer and nobody knows the password, and it's not OX△□ at all. Though, Megure sent people there to try and crack the password. Then, the four signs indeed refer to the killer's identity. Jodie and Sonoko say the murderer might be a quizz lover or champion, since Japanese people answer quizzes using "O" or "X" instead of "Yes" or "No". Megure once again keeps them away from the crime scene, saying they're now completely free to leave and go back home.

<spoiler>

Conan steps in saying Inspector Chiba is probably the murderer, since the "Chi" character ideogram in his name looks like an addition cross topped with a diagonal line going towards the left. And when Conan hides the line, it shows a cross, and when he hides the southmost and rightmost lines of the cross, it shows a triangle. Conan finds it strange, and Megure thinks about something having to do with "hiding a part". Conan says Takagi could also be the killer since the "Taka" ideogram character looks like a circle or square topped with a goal symbol, another circle or square, and finally a horizontal line with a perpendicular small line amidst. When Conan hides some parts of the ideogram, only a square or circle is shown. Sonoko says though she doesn't see any circles in the ideogram, and Conan answers many people in Japan write a circle instead of a square to save time when quickly writing a name with a square in it. He gives Agasa's name as an example : the "A" ideogram in "Agasa" usually contains a square, but Agasa always writes it as a circle. The professor would always tell Conan that, when people are in a hurry, they have no other choice but to make abbreviations. Megure instantly realises something while Sonoko tells Conan she swears Takagi and Chiba are innocent since she called them and they came after the murder...

Megure grabs the list and scans the names one after the other, and deduces the murderer is called '''Bunta Kuniyoshi'''. Conan smirks in satisfaction, and Sonoko and Jodie ask for an explanation, and Megure tells them that if they hide the upper halves of the "Bun" "Ta" and "Yoshi" characters, then it shows, from right to left, a triangle, cross and circle, the same order as on the envelope. Though, Sonoko finds quite far-fetched that a triangle was used for the "ta" character, but the inspector replies that, actuallyn when using prints it sure is far-fetched, but when writing it by hand, people tend to consider the small horizontal line at the bottom of the character as a full and long line they often confusingly fix to the two circumflex-like vertical lines just above, which gives a triangle most of the time. People usually do this, as Conan said, to make things quicker and easier. Sonoko still doesn't get it why Chujo would have only written the halves of his murderer's name's characters, and Megure replies actually he did write the name fully, but he did it while the killer was stealing the documents that were inside the envelope, then the only possible thing, in the dark, is that Chujo wrote the upper halves of the name on the document being stolen, instead of the envelope, and only the remaining parts were accordingly found on the top edge of the envelope. Since the killer ran away with the documents, then it's clear why the message seems so enigmatic. As for the square, Chujo actually wrote it inadvertently on the escalator's step, and left only a small mark on the left edge of the envelope, which is why it wasn't found at first. And the square is bigger than the other symbols because it is actually the full character for "Kuni", which wasn't split into halves then. In fact, Chujo was dying and he needed to be quick not to show his killer that he was writing a message, which accounts for why he only wrote the square, and not the character inside the square, hoping people would understand.

Sonoko acknowledges several people only write a square to refer to "Kuni", and Jodie praises "Jules Maigret's incredible investigating qualities". The police rush upstairs to the company in order to arrest Bunta Kuniyoshi. Jodie wonders where Ran has been, since it's quite late now. Sonoko thinks she's probably phoning Shinichi to ask him what "X" means, and then she and Jodie believe a love scene is probably occurring while at the phone. Ran turns up quite angry and blushing, asking what "I'll give you my precious X" means. She adds she is now aware of the meaning of X thanks to Takagi, and she tells Sonoko that whether Shinichi knows it as well or not isn't a problem, because he won't answer to such a question anyway. Sonoko says it's very unlikely he knows what it means, given he's a boy and he's got only a few elements. They all wonder where Conan has been now, as to him. Meanwhile, at the company's project development section, the police ask for Bunta Kuniyoshi to follow them for a few questions in a room nextdoors. He agrees, and Conan spots a paper shredder in the office and suddenly thinks about something. Megure tells Kuniyoshi about his findings, and the latter thinks it's rather too simplistic to make a murderer out of him. It's well possible the true killer used Chujo's own blood and finger to write that message to have Kuniyoshi accused of the crime, and then it wouldn't be a true dying message. He says if they want to hold him responsible, then they have to show him the documents that were stolen from Chujo, and prove he stole them indeed. He adds a killer and robber would have run away from the mall and burned the papers, instead of peacefully coming back to his office in the mall, to work. Conan shows up with Takagi and says they've found the papers in the shredder : Kuniyoshi tried to dispose of them doing so, but actually a shredder doesn't necessarily mixes up the shreds of paper, and actually the blood is still on it, and it's even easier to reassemble than a puzzle. They show the blood marks on the paper shreds, and say it perfectly matches the envelope's ones. If the police search carefully and take some time, they'll find all the remaining documents' shreds inside the shredder - provided he only used one - along with his fingerprints on it, and also on the gloves he discarded in the bathroom - once again provided he is indeed the one who shredded the papers.

Kuniyoshi admits he killed Chujo, saying he now gets it why his university comrades would always write his name using these four symbols. He said he started to divert money so as his family could live a little more comfortably, but afterwards it worked so well that he came to like it, and did more and more of it, and is now trapped into it, just like a mouse which ate too much and which can't go out anymore now. The police take Kuniyoshi away, and Conan joins Ran and co, asking them to tell him now what X means. Sonoko tells him to ask Ran about it : she's sending a message to Shinichi, and has eventually found the meaning. Conan asks her while she's over the moon, thinking about what and how she'll write to her friend. Ran blushes and feels overembarrassed as Conan startles her, and she answers she definitely can't tell him, it's impossible : this is the meaning, impossibility... '''Ran, Sonoko, and Conan eventually go back home and Jodie tells them to watch their step and mistrust stalkers. She then looks at them leaving, inwardly wondering if it's almost time to pick the apple...''' During the night, Conan can't get to sleep due to Kogoro's noisy snoring, and he has a look at Shinichi's phone which received Ran's text message, saying "Today we've been once again caught up in a murder case ! Really, I like wonder if we're not being jinxed or something, after all. The kind of case you love. I'll tell you more about it soon. Hurry up and return ! XXX". Reading this, Conan asks himself if Ran actually means he's an "impossible impossible impossible" boy ?

'''In a dark room only lit up by a computer's screen, next to a glass of alcohol, a smirking woman in babydoll is typing a mail to Gin, saying "Can you tell me please Gin, do you believe in heaven ? You must say coldly..."It's not like you to be so silly." Until we lift our glasses filled with rotten sherry, please find the answer. I can't wait... XXX". The woman then inwardly says X (Chu) means a kiss, it's feminine...expression of affection... Though, she thinks it could also be an evil stamp of hatred, and, saying so, she grabs a dart in an ashtray, kisses it, and slings it violently at a dartboard where three pictures are pinned at, and some others below, looking at it with a dark interest. The woman is revealed to be Vermouth/Chris Vineyard, who adds that X is where the fatal silver arrow shoots, it marks the target spot. The dart indeed hit the bulls-eye right at the center of the dartboard, right at the center of a huge X crossing out the picture of Shiho Miyano in her adult form and lab coat, right in the middle, and right into her head. Next to that picture, there are also two others featuring a happy and smiling Ran, nicknamed "Angel", and a clever-looking and hard-thinking Conan, nicknamed "Cool Guy".'''

</spoiler>

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Norihisa Kisugi|Norihisa Kisugi manga.jpg|
* 50 years old
* Administrative manager of a Trading Company}}
{{People|Katsunori Chujo|Katsunori Chujo manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 43 years old
* Detective}}

{{EndBox}}

== Flying Neighbor Case ==
{{ref anime|277-278|English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective}}

=== File 341 - The Hint That Was Against... ===

Conan eventually tells Agasa about Mouri's cases' police files having been recently stolen and then sent back by post to the headquarters. '''The Organisation may be behind that theft, they may be aware that Shinichi is secretly helping Kogoro to solve cases, they could know he was shrunken by APTX, since Kogoro's fame all started when Shinichi went missing.''' Yet, who would believe a seven-year-old anesthetises Kogoro and speaks with a voice-changing bowtie ? Conan may well only be a boy genius, and it's not 100% sure the Organisation stole the documents. Though, someone is discreetly investigating Kogoro, and Conan has something very important to ask to Agasa, the latter saying he's nothing but a search-machine for Shinichi, and not even a confidant. Conan answers he just didn't want Ai to know it (Vol. 33), since this would scare her once again, she would once again refuse to go out, and Conan promised her he would protect her and take things in hand if they were to worsen (Vol. 29). He doesn't want her to be frightened for nothing, but says they must keep it silent to her for now, since Ai isn't as strong as she wants others to believe she is. Conan is however unaware that Ai is eavesdropping their conversation, and inwardly calls him a moron. '''Conan still wonders what's the point for that thief carefully sending the documents back to the police instead of just getting rid of them.''' Is it to trap them or have them understand the thief knows what they're doing ? Or is it maybe a stratagem to scare someone in particular, Shinichi most probably, though it's a rather odd way to scare someone. Conan realises in surprise that Heiji is just next to them, having been secretly called by Agasa in order to be Shinichi's confidant, since at the moment the latter is racking his mind with the Organisation matters. Agasa still wonders how they can catch such an elusive enemy, Heiji replying that if Conan came to tell him the truth and ask him something very important, this means either he's found out a paramount clue, or he just wants to retaliate now.

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Conan acknowledges he's right and tells them again about the Haido City Hotel Case (Vol. 24), during which they spotted Pisco, an Organisation member who was tasked to kill Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a corrupt politician. Shinichi had called Megure telling him to bring and question seven suspects in a private room, since they were all given a purple handkerchief at a certain moment. Given Conan had found a purple handkerchief on the crime scene, it may well have belonged to Pisco, who could be one of them. '''Yet, Pisco was completely unaware of it, then how come is it that he had a purple handkerchief on him when he was questioned ? The only answer is that he had an accomplice among the six other suspects, one who was questioned before him and told him afterwards about it, giving him their own handkerchief. The six suspects are all very mediatised VIPs, but only one of them hasn't given some sign of life since then : Chris Vineyard, the famous American actress, daughter of world-famous actress Sharon Vineyard, and moreover a very beautiful and sly woman.''' Conan has investigated her so far, and she's the fishiest suspect, though he can't believe it for some reasons. Conan needs Agasa's help to browse a recent website created by Chris's fans to encourage her comeback on the stage, and he wants Agasa to pretend to be one of them, and to get as much information as possible on the actress. Conan can't do it since it would be strange that a schoolboy spends his time in Internet cafés searching for information on several websites. Conan says this information could be useful in good time. '''Heiji thinks that Conan is suspecting someone in particular in his entourage, which could be Chris Vineyard in disguise. Agasa thinks Conan is investigating Jodie Saintemilion''', and tells Heiji - despite Conan's refusal - that Jodie is Ran's new English teacher, originating from America. But Conan doesn't want such a hot-blooded guy as Heiji to know it since he would spoil everything by investigating her overtly and awkwardly. Heiji indeed suggests they both go to her place to investigate discreetly. Conan believes Heiji is completely unaware of the BO's dangerousness. '''Ai is startled by the "Chris Vineyard"'s name.'''

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The boys eventually come up to Jodie's flat's door, Heiji wondering how a mere English teacher can afford to live in such a huge and luxurious building, and Conan replying it's because she was born in a very wealthy family. Conan tells Heiji not to act recklessly, but Heiji seems to have no idea what to tell Jodie in order to account for their coming, and Conan can't believe it. They start having a row and Heiji inadvertently presses the door's ring. Conan has to tell Jodie on the intercom that he "came to pay her a liitle visit", and she's very happy about it, and asks him to wait a little moment. Meanwhile, they meet Jodie's neighbour Takai's friends who are leaving his place, all drunk. They seem to blame Takai for being so rude and nasty when he's drunk. After a very long wait, Conan and Heiji are eventually welcomed by Jodie, only dressed in a sexy robe, apologising for the wait, since she was having a bath when they rang. Conan explains he has brought a friend to introduce him to her, and she asks them to wait in the lounge while she gets herself ready. The boys say they need to go to the bathroom, '''and actually start checking out something in the bath and floor sink. Jodie overhears what they are doing behind the door, and smirks in satisfaction.''' Afterwards, she decides to take them to a restaurant since she has nothing at home to prepare a meal for them with. Heiji gets infuriated at her beacuse she tells him he looks like a foreigner who doesn't speak very good Japanese, but Conan tries to cool down the situation saying Kansai people are often very tanned and speak a very thick Japanese, such as Southern-American English for instance. Jodie is then told Heiji is also one of Mouri's friends. In front of Jodie's building, they notice Chika Shimoda, Takai's girlfriend who had left the latter's flat and locked it with two other men, is taking snaps of the building, towards the top. Heiji comments on it being rather odd, and suddenly, a phone falls down from upwards, followed by Takai's body, which crashes on the ground.

=== File 342 - The Flying Neighbor ===

The four people but Shimoda look at the corpse in a cold-blooded behaviour, saying the person died instantly. Jodie recognises her neighbour Takai and Shimoda starts crying in despair. She tells them Takai was drunk and sleeping on his bed when they all left, she would never have imagined he wanted to commit suicide. Jodie says he could have been pushed in the void from his flat by a kind of burglar just as well, but Shimoda says it's impossible : there was none in the apartment when they all left, and she locked the flat because Takai was too drunk to do it properly. Besides, there's only one key, and it's impossible to hear the doorbell from the bedroom. Then, it's nothing but a suicide. Though, Conan and Heiji tell her it's not necessarily the case, because Takai was speaking with a certain Kawakami on the phone just before dying, and one minute ago he had also received a text message from a certain Nakamichi. What's more, Shimoda was behaving strangely when taking pictures of the building in the dark, these are many peculiar reasons why the hypothesis of suicide can't be absolutely established for the moment. And a person who wants to kill themselves doesn't necessarily has a phone in hand. Heiji asks Shimoda to call her friends Michiya Nakamichi and Noboru Kawakami, and tell them to come along, while they'll also call the police for Shimoda to give a clearer explanation to them. Shimoda tells Megure she actually left Takai's flat to drive Nakamichi and Kawakami back home since they were far too drunk to drive carefully. She told Takai she would come back right after, which is why she locked the flat with his key. Afterwards, she drove back to Takai's, but before going upstairs, she took a few snaps of the building to show her friends where her new boyfriend was living. It is the first time she has come here, while Nakamichi and Kawakami already know the place. She intended to go back to Takai's flat right after, but never expected him to kill himself.

Shimoda, Nakamichi, Takai and Kawakami all work at the same place. They had come at noon to have a few drinks in order to celebrate Takai's promotion to the position of assistant manager of their company. They wanted to stay till late at night, but Takai was getting too drunk, and started to abuse everyone, then they decided to leave. He told them they were and will always be losers because they lacked something which would always prevent them from moving up the social ladder : insensitivity and ambition. Nakamichi later on sent a text message to Takai telling him never to forget "those at the bottom". They also discussed the "Hiraya case" : one of her friends and co-corkers Sumiyo Hiraya who committed suicide last month. Hiraya was a childhood friend of Nakamichi, and they met Takai and Kawakami at college. Takai and Kawakami already knew each other, and Shimoda belonged to the same year group as Hiraya. They remember Hiraya was a very kind and respectful person. She killed herself due to burnout, because she would work far too much. Probably because Takai had told her some day - though he was kidding her actually, and drunk - that if she didn't work even harder than the others, she would be quickly fired in the end. Takai seemed to have forgotten about that story, which is why Kawakami phoned him to remind him that he won his promotion out of blood, he is responsible for Hiraya's death, his career is being founded out of suffering and death. That left him speechless and he hung up afterwards, and Kawakami was then called by Shimoda and came back here at once with Nakamichi. Kawakami acknowledges he's more or less responsible for Takai's leaping in the void, though he never forced him to kill himself, then he's not a criminal. And he was drunk moreover, then Megure should just let them all go back home, since it's a mere suicide. The employees say they've actually already told all of this to Conan, Heiji and Jodie, who asked them to give them Takai's flat's key, and they're probably upstairs now, at the 21st floor. While the latter are thinking about the case, Megure and co, out of breath, turn up, too late, because the group already went into the flat, checked the place, and took pictures of it.

They all come in once again, Heiji telling Megure the door was indeed locked when they tried first. Heiji and co really thought to suicide too until they came in Takai's bedroom and saw the window near the bed was open and a curtain was fluttering in the wind outside. It's clear the victim jumped from that window, but Heiji attracts Megure's attention on the curtain in itself : it's as if someone had pulled it too much strongly, so much that it came off the rod and damaged it, and some hooks popped away. This means Takai was about to fall and then instinctively tried to grab hold of the curtain, in order to pull himself up. Therefore, it's not a suicide but a murder. Jodie appears saying it's just like in movies or novels, sealed chambers murders. She gives Megure her testimony and account of the events. Heiji says he's still not solved the case, but actually found strange impact marks left on the outside window pane, as if someone had hit it from the outside. Chiba then comes up saying he's got Shimoda's pictures' development, among which an enlargment showing Takai indeed grabbing hold of the curtain and about to fall into the void, and flinging his phone against the pane. Shimoda took this picture but couldn't see Takai, it was too far away from the ground, and it appeared like a tiny shadow on the picture. Jodie and co once more reflect about the case aloud, and Megure hollers at them, ordering them to let police work alone this time, commenting that it's been very frequent in these days that his investigations are being interrupted at some point by Ran, Conan, Sonoko, Jodie or co (Vol. 27, 33, etc.) - though Takagi acknowledges that cases are always solved thanks to them, at every time. Conan and Heiji still can't find out how Takai ended up outside his room, being forced to grab hold of a curtain not to fall. Shimoda just took flash pictures towards the top of the building, Nakamichi sent Takai a message a minute before the fall, and Kawakami abused him on the phone, but even though he'd have said "Die", Takai would never have done it. The victim may have flung his phone because there might have been a clue on it he wanted police to find, but actually Heiji checked it out and found nothing at all.

Jodie secretly looks at them as Heiji gets a phone call from an angry Kazuha, who can't believe he forgot their date at the mall. Conan tells Jodie he "doesn't know who Heiji is speaking with", and Heiji realises his mistake. He tries to promise Kazuha they'll do it some other day, but the reception is poor and they can barely hear each other. Heiji goes to the balcony to get better reception, telling Kazuha he's in Tokyo right now, and it's too late then. Doing so, he suddenly realises something very important. Kazuha says she doesn't understand a word he says, but is 100% sure they had planned a meeting, since she wrote it in her datebook. Upon hearing this, Heiji and Conan rush towards the other end of the balcony, and glance through a window at Takai's bedroom. '''They eventually find out the truth while Jodie secretly takes pictures of them.'''

=== File 343 - Who Are You? ===

Heiji suggests a reconstitution of the events in which he would give the police a hand, which would help them to find out who the killer is. He adds that, for the experiment to be conclusive, they need someone to get drunk and play the victim. Jodie is the perfect actress, given neither policemen who are on duty, nor Heiji and Conan who are minors, are allowed to drink alcohol. '''Jodie agrees, provided Heiji gives her some of her favourite drink : Sherry... Conan is puzzled about it, while Heiji finds ludicrous the way Jodie is getting drunk with it.''' Heiji then asks the police to leave Takai's bedroom for a moment while they're preparing the place for the reconstitution. Once they're done yet, they come out saying they "put Jodie to sleep" in the bed and left Takagi's phone near the pillow, and try not to wake her up, just like Takai's friends did with the latter.

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They start the reconstitution and '''Heiji sends a text message to Jodie''', just like Nakamichi send his's to Takai, which woke him up, and Jodie receives the message in the dark. '''She is startled when reading it : "Who are you ?". This makes her smile mysteriously. She then confirms she got the "cute" message, though Heiji refuses to tell Conan about it.''' Then, just like Shimoda took flash pictures of the top part of the building, Chiba, at the bottom, takes the flash snaps, using Jodie's camera. At last, just like Kawakami phoned Takai before the latter fell, Heiji phones Jodie, asking her to speak with him like Takai spoke with Kawakami, very casually and normally. '''He asks her to answer his text message, but first Jodie would like Heiji to tell her more about himself, who he really is too, and she asks him "You're not an ordinary teenager, are you ?" (in Japanese). To which Heiji replies "Yes, yes, (in English) I am a very ordinary teenager (in Japanese)".''' The call reception starts getting poorer, and Jodie says this has to do with them being at the 21st floor, they're very high and it's perfectly normal then that telephonic waves are getting rarer. It's just like at her own home when she's phoning. She gets up, goes to open the window on the left, and says she'll go on the balcony, and he'll hear her better. Suddenly, she screams in fear, asking them to help her. Megure rushes and switches on the light, only to find Jodie about to fall into the void, grabbing hold with her feet and hands to the window panes and frame, and he notices she's been tied to a rope itself tied to the bed, which actually prevents her from falling, something she was totally unaware of. Megure also realises they changed the place of the bed, which explains why Jodie confused the windows and thought she was going on the balcony, while actually she was stepping over the window overlooking the void. Jodie, just like Takai, is used to stepping over the window overlooking the balcony from the bed to have a better reception when phoning.

The murderer, '''Noboru Kawakami''', actually used that trick to have Takai fall into the void without the latter's knowing it. Usually, Takai's bed is placed just in front of the window overlooking the balcony, so as he would easily go to the balcony when phoning. He would get up on his bed, step over the window, and phone on the balcony. But Kawakami changed the bed's place, and Takai ended up stepping over the window overlooking the void, and falling. No wonder he fell then, especially if it was dark and he was hungover, and still drowsy. While the employees were all having drinks in the lounge, Kawakami pretended going to the bathroom, but actually went to Takai's bedroom, and moved the bed in front of the "void" window. Nobody would notice it, since Shimoda had come to Takai's for the first time, and Nakamichi would find no difference, in the dark, the windows being absolutely similar. Afterwards, Takai was put to sleep in his bed with his phone next to his head. Later on, Nakamichi texted him and Kawakami phoned him, and pretended not to hear him very well - or maybe it was the case - and forced Takai to leap unvoluntarily into the void. The police would never get it that Takai's bed was actually at the wrong place. Kawakami says Takai had actually told him in private to help him moving the furniture of his room because he wanted to change the layout, and Kawakami pretends he wasn't aware that this could be dangerous to Takai. But Conan presses a button on Takai's phone which plays a recording track of Kawakaki's voice saying "Farewell Takai, where you are going, you'll apologise to Hiraya". Heiji explains that before falling, Takai, who still had his phone in hand, recorded Kawakami's words with the "Memo" button, and then either he or Kawakami hung up (or when the phone fell on the ground), and Takai flung his phone at the window, hoping to scrape its screen and have the police understand he had recorded his killer's words, such contemptible words.

After the case, Heiji hands Jodie back her camera, apologising for using her as a test subject, but actually, to be very realistic, the reconstitution needed the "victim" to be completely unaware of it, just like Takai was. The police still believe it was very dangerous. Jodie says it was very pleasant actually, and asks Heiji's name, and Heiji asks her first to answer his text message. She says she is very skilled at speaking English, but Heiji doesn't seem to be very good at it as for him. She explains that, '''when she asked him "You're not an ordinary teenager, are you ?", Heiji answered "Yes, yes, I am a very ordinary teenager".''' '''She asked it in Japanese, and Heiji replied in English-Japanese, which means either he doesn't know how to speak English properly, or he wanted to answer in English. But the English answer to that "tag" is "Yes, I am (ordinary)", and Heiji said or meant "Yes, I am not (ordinary)". Japanese who are good at English usually answer to that "tag" by "Yes, I am (ordinary)" or "No, I am (ordinary)". Yet, Heiji confused everything and actually said he was both ordinary and extraordinary... Then either he's bad at English or he's lying, and Jodie assures she's a true English teacher. However, Heiji startles her replying, in excellent English, that he never pretended not to be able to speak English, he actually meant it in English, but silence is way better anyway than her funnily disguised Japanese. He explains Jodie actually speaks perfect Japanese, and pretends the opposite in order to be considered as a "poor foreigner", and not to be considered too seriously, while actually she is. Heiji heard her Japanese accent and it's clear she's forcing herself to speak "bad" Japanese.''' He then leaves with Conan, saying he'll discuss it more broadly with her next time, bidding her "Sayonara". Megure and Takagi comment on the fact that if they had known earlier Jodie was so good at Japanese, they wouldn't have asked her to take part to the reconstitution, or at least they would have explained her everything. '''Jodie suddenly thinks to something and checks her camera, only to find the roll is missing indeed - it's unclear if she expected it or not.'''

On their way home, Conan and Heiji discuss Jodie's "fishiness", since '''Heiji realised she took several pictures of them in secret. She also pretended to be having a bath when they rang, which is false : Conan and Heiji noticed it when searching the bathroom, the hairdryer was still hot, and there was still some wet body moisturising lotion on the floor. This means she had already taken her bath when they rang, and she was already dry, and she wasn't interrupted in her bath at all or hadn't started it at all. She actually needed some time to hide her "important things" and quickly wetted her hair and body again with hot water, along with the bath, and left some of her hair in the sinks, and all the rest, in order to make them believe she took so much time because she was in the water and needed to dry off, while it wasn't the case at all actually. Heiji says however he's got the roll now, yet he doesn't believe Jodie is such a bad woman, though she's quite weird. Moreover, he doesn't find any likeness between her and Chris Vineyard''' - depsite the "big breasts". '''Conan says he's probably right but can't help thinking about something :''' '''she's not that bad, as long as this is her true face...''' Heiji asks him to speak his mind, but Conan switch gears and advises him to go back to Osaka as quick as possible to meet Kazuha, since she's probably still waiting. Before leaving, Heiji recommends his friend to be very cautious, given '''that person who stole the documents is like an invisible enemy, someone who is able to steal classified police documents in the headquarters and send them back neatly as if nothing had happened.''' He asks Shinichi to call him if he ever spots shifty people around. '''As Heiji rushes away, Conan inwardly comments that he isn't suspecting only Jodie, but also two other people, of being very sleazy.'''

'''Alone in her flat, Jodie mysteriously and darkly comments on Heiji Hattori, son of Osaka's Prefectural Police Chief Heizo Hattori, being a very clever and interesting guy, and being, just like Shinichi Kudo, a private eye. Saying so, she uncouples her bathroom's mirror from its frame, revealing dozens of pictures among which two pictures of Conan and Ran with "Cool Guy" and "Angel" written respectively on each (the exact same as in Vermouth's/Chris Vineyard's room, Escalator Case, Vol. 34), pictures from the Mouri Agency, from Ran's high school or Conan's primary shcool, one picture from the School Play Case (Vol. 26) on which Shinichi is featured in his knight disguise along with Ran, Heiji and Kazuha, and one from the same case featuring Sonoko and Dr. Araide.'''

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=== People ===
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{{People|Chika Shimoda|Chika Shimoda manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Michiya Nakamachi|Michiya Nakamachi manga.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Noboru Kawakami|Noboru Kawakami manga.jpg|
* 33 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Takai|File 341-343 Takai manga.jpg|
* Victim (fell)}}
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== Soccer Supporter Case ==
{{ref anime|279-280|Hooligan's Labyrinth}}

=== Characters introduced ===
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{{NewChar|name = [[Ryusuke Higo]]|image = Ryusuke Higo.jpg|description =
* Soccer player for Big Osaka}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Rikuo Endo]]|image = Rikuo Endo.jpg|description =
* Soccer player for Noir Tokyo
* Higo's older half-brother}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Sharon Vineyard]]|image = Sharon Vineyard.jpg|description =
* Deceased?
* Famous American actress
* [[Yukiko Kudo]]'s good friend}}
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=== File 344 - The Storm of Booing ===

Agasa and the DBs have been to the derby between Tokyo Spirits and Noir Tokyo. The former won the match, and everyone is leaving the stadium towards the train station. On their way back, the DBs comment on the super-duper match they've just watched, and also on the supporters' constantly booing Ryusuke Higo from Big Osaka during a previous match against Noir some time ago. Ai says this is perfectly normal for a traitor, they have no place where to shelter at all. Higo "betrayed" his Noir team when he left them for Big Osaka, then it's probably well deserved. Conan says it's rather because Higo has still not scored any goals for five days now, since the tournament started. There's also a hearsay about Higo's possibly leaving once again his team to go and play in Spanish League. Ai says if this rumour were justified, then that would be the best he could do, running away from all this shame and suffering, to play in a faraway stadium where none will boo him anymore. Conan wonders what she is thinking to, while the DBs realise today at 5 PM there's actually a match in which Higo is playing. They watch it on a street TV, and notice Higo doesn't play properly, probably due to the thunder of booing in the audience. A passer-by, Kadotake Akano, says Higo deserves well his fate for having left his Noir Tokyo team, he adds traitors who fall down to hell never get over it. He then leaves laughing out loud, and Conan says Akano is a notorious superviolent hooligan who keeps picking up fights with supporters during and after matches, and he goes as far as encouraging the bullying, beating-up and sometimes killing of supporters he dislikes. His "Tokyo Hooligan" website prompted his blacklisting from several stadiums, fearing he might cause big trouble.

Conan secretly asks Agasa what information he's found so far about Chris Vineyard, and the professor says '''Chris's private life remains a complete mystery, while her mother Sharon's is known from everyone. The only time Chris appeared in public, except during filmings, was at her mother's funeral, last year.''' The event was so important it was even broadcast on Japanese TV. '''Tabloids' reporters harassed her with questions such as which school she attended, if she were on bad terms with her late mother, who her father was, was the man whom she allegedly had an affair with at the moment at the funeral too, etc. She only gave a "no comment" answer, and a reporter eventually asked her if this was because these truths could be detrimental to her if they were to be disclosed. She turned her back on her mother's coffin, and, smiling, she said " a secret makes a woman woman".''' Agasa remembers '''a very famous Japanese actress looking like Yukiko Kudo was seen among the cortege, but none seems to know who she was, since Chris's words had caught all and everyone's attention around.''' Conan stands wondering, and Agasa asks him '''if Chris Vineyard really belongs to the Black Organisation, to which Conan answers if it were to be the case, she would then be a very, very problematic enemy. Agasa thinks Shinichi is still trying to conceal something from him, and Conan just says actually as an actress she's used to lie and fake reality, then she could lead them to red herrings very easily.'''

Conan suggests they all take the train now and go back home, while Ai is looking at Higo's match with some strange apprehension. The train is overcrowded with supporters from both teams, to the point they're all packed like sardines in a can. This is all because Genta wanted to take the first train to be quickly at home in order to watch Higo's match on his TV. Akano is also on the train, complaining aloud about the overcrowding. Mitsuhiko is listening to the match on his portable radio, and Ai puts her head and ear against his's in order to listen more carefully to the match results. Mitsuhiko blushes and tells her Higo's teammates now hesitate to pass the ball to him due to the audience's booing being unbearable now. Ai is saddened by this and asks him to tell her if there's any breaking news about him later on. Conan notices her state of mind, and suddenly the train brakes abruptly, and Conan sees Akano being stabbed to death by an unknown assailant. At Haido Station, the train is emptied at last due to most of the supporters leaving it for the subway, and Conan and co gaze awe-sricken at Akano's bloody corpse on the floor, next to a dagger.

=== File 345 - The Suspicious Supporters ===

Conan rushes out of the train towards a station manager, asking the latter to stop all trains immediately, and to tell his colleagues to control the tickets of every supporter leaving the station, since somebody was murdered by one of them in one of the train's carriages. Especially, they should keep aside those who bought their tickets before 5 PM, and he asks him to do it very quickly, or else the killer will escape. The police is called and Megure rapidly turns up. They recognise Akano, the infamous violent hooligan. It seems that the dagger found next to him, and which was used to kill him, is quite rare, with handmade embed patterns. Takagi called all resellers in Japan but they one and all told him it's something which was made in a foreign country, therefore it'll take a great deal of time to find the owner. Given the train was overcrowded, there are no witnesses of the crime at all. People started to realise there was a corpse only when all supporters left the train towards the subway stations. Nobody seemed fishy since they were all dressed in the same way, whether it was Tokyo Spirits or Noir Tokyo. The station manager tells Megure his colleagues kept aside three supporters, just as Conan had suggested him to do. Conan explains it's impossible to commit such a murder, among the crowd, and in a train, without having thought about it way beforehand. The murderer was probably stalking Akano, and bought a ticket in advance, which means before the end of the match, probably just before its beginning, so as not to be compelled to queue at the machines at the end, and in order then to follow Akano into his train car without any problems. They just needed to stand not far away from him, and stab him just before they arrived at Haido Station, when the train would brake abruptly, and people would be jostled, and would then one and all leave towards the subway. They just had to slip among them and pretend being a mere traveller. The culprit is probably a supporter, because otherwise people would have remembered their clothing. Moroever, there aren't so many people who buy their tickets in advance, then no wonder they're just three, most people just follow the crowd and buy their tickets at the same time, queueing, etc. And the match precisely ended at around 5 PM. However, Megure points at the fact they may have changed clothes in the station before leaving, or they could even just have gone to take another train in the opposite direction, or somewhere else. Conan says both suppositions are impossible : the restroom is located outside the station, then just after the "barrier" set up by the train station employees. And if the murderer had been to another platform, they would have been quickly spotted, since they probably would be the only one to wear a football shirt. And they couldn't of course change clothes on the platform, it would have seemed too much suspicious. The safest way to change clothes without being noticed at all was to go to the restroom located outside the station, and escape amidst the supporting crowd. They also knew that Haido Station is an important hub where many people get in/off the subways/trains.

The police are amazed, as usual, and Takagi asks Conan how come did he think to all this in a heartbeat right after the murder? Conan tries to protect hismelf claiming Agasa is the one who thought to everything and sent him to tell those things to the managers. Conan tells the police Agasa wanted them to question the three supporters kept aside. All three indeed bought their tickets beforehand in order to avoid queueing at the machines. Yet, they say it doesn't mean they're the murderers. Though, it's strange all of them got into a crowded train, since with their tickets already in hand at the end of the derby, they could just have caught the first carriage, instead of getting into an overcrowded one like all those who queued. Hazue Kira, a Noir supporter, explains she was in the central bleachers where supporters of both teams are mingled, and she got in a little fight with some Spirits supporters and wasted time, forcing her to take the next crowded train. Mitsuaki Funato, a Spirits supporter, had a phone call from his boss towards the end of the match, because he had lied to his boss about his absence so as to come here discreetly and skip work, and got severely told off by the latter, and the blaming was so long that it lasted until late after the match, and Funato even missed the goal of the "ace wingers" (Naoki and Hideo). Etsutoshi Aoba, a Noir supporter, got so shocked of the match's result, that he stood gaping in a blackout state for a long time even after the derby, and also wasted time. They can't remember in which carriage they got on, yet Conan is pretty sure they were all into overcrowded ones. First, Kira's left hand's ring left a mark on her right elbow because she was tightly holding her handbag's strap and zipper due to the place being crowded and therefore very suitable to stealing property, for a very long time. Then, Ooba crossed his arms for a long time during the fare, and left marks of his left wrist's watch on his right arm, due to him not wanting to be accused of having wandering hands. Lastly, Funato tightly held his leather bag between his hands and still has marks of it on all of his fingers, for the same reason as Kira, to avoid pickpocketing. Conan is almost sure it was like that, because the train was very, very crowded, and people could easily stand in the same position for a very long time, with crossed arms or without grabbing hold to bars or handles in the train, and without even being able to sit down. The three acknowledge this is all true, and Conan says this is what Agasa told him to say... Megure tells the suspects to try and remember as much as possible in which train car they were. Conan looks at the suspects' football shirts : Aoba wears Higo's "9" shirt, Kira wears a black Noir shirt, and Funato wears a black and white striped Spirits shirt, and Conan finds something's not quite right on them.

Ai is nowhere to be found, Mitsuhiko last saw her when she told him she was going to the restroom. Mitsuhiko laments that he's lost his radio due to the crowd movement, he hopes someone found it and brought it to the lost property's. Ai is actually watching Higo's match at the station's giant screen, and is shocked to see Higo's missed his goal, as if "the sky had abandoned him". Ai is joined by Conan and is startled when the latter tells her she's indeed just like Higo, leaving the Organisation to go to another "better team", "betraying them" in a way. And just like Ai, Higo had a really good reason to leave them. Higo's father had had a secret child with his mistress : Rikuo Endo. Rikuo and Higo though got on very well, and decided to go and play together in first division in Noir Tokyo. Few people know that story actually, and they keep it secret. Shinichi was told that story by Higo and Endo themselves, he met them by chance some years ago, when he was in first-level secondary school, while he was playing a football match at school. They had come among the audience to see the match, and they told Shinichi he had the potential to join Noir Tokyo like they were about to do, his half-brother and himself. Though, this was all a trap, because two years after the brothers' arrival, Endo was told he lacked the necessary potential to stay with them and become a great player, whereas Higo had it actually. Endo figured out he was taken on for the sole ground of being Higo's brother and then being the only one able to attract him into their team, since they knew Higo was a great player, but Endo wasn't. Higo got it as well and soon left the team just like his brother did, and joined this latter in their new Big Osaka team, because he wanted to play there together with his brother. Endo became instructor there, and Higo player. It's exactly the same thing with Ai and her sister Akemi actually - the teams standing for the Organisation and the "life outside the Organisation".

Suddenly, their attention goes back to the screen as Higo gets knocked down by another player, but the referee doesn't seem to bat an eyelid, and the supporters rejoice when seeing him badly hurt, and keep on booing. Ai's mood turns darker when listening to the anchor saying "Higo doesn't seem to have any ally in this world, though it's a shame because he's so talented..." She leaves while Conan's attention is completely monopolised by the match, and he suddenly discovers something, looking at his derby ticket. He then inwardly declares he knows who the murderer is and that the latter has lied and that he still has the evidence of their doing. Ai goes straight away to the staircase leading to the platform just in front of where the DBs and Agasa are, and she seems to be preparing to take a train going in the opposite direction and leaving Tokyo...

=== File 346 - The Fake Supporter ===

Takagi tells Megure they’ve finished carefully examining the whole train and carriage where the murder took place, and brought it to the warehouse. Megure says now they’ll take the three suspects to the station to question them more thoroughly, though they refuse to follow him since he’s got no tangible evidence they’ve committed the murder. Conan and Agasa turn up saying the three suspects should leave in no case, unless Megure takes the chance to let slip away some important crime evidence.

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Conan impersonates Agasa saying the murderer is the « fake supporter » who lied to them. Kira says this might be Funato since he said « ace wingers » when referring to Hideo and Naoki, while actually this is a very old-fashioned expression, nowadays people don’t say « wingers » but « centre-forward players », modern football isn’t played using « winger » strategy anymore. Funato rationalises saying he’s quite old-fashioned indeed and isn’t such a football aficionado as them, he just heard about the « aces » and knew they had scored a goal, he didn’t lie at all. Agasa says it’s indeed the case, he’s only made a a language mistake, and the killer isn’t someone who isn’t a football fan but someone who hasn’t seen the match at all while they claim they have. He goes on explaining that the Spirits-Noir was a very important derby, so that thousands and thousands of people had come to see it, and then it’s very unlikely the murderer was among them, since they would have got lost into the crowd after the game, and would have eventually lost sight of the victim, Akano. The killer instead probably waited in the stadium’s bathroom listening to the match with a portable radio, and then quickly left once the game was over, in order to stand at a strategic place and wait for Akano to emerge, and track him down right after. In order to know who that murderer is, Agasa suggests they all once more listen to the suspects' testimonies. Kira claims she was in the central bleachers and perfectly saw the « aces »’ goal, which annoyed her a lot, to the point she easily got in a fight with Spirits’ supporters. Aoba claims he was watching the game in the bleachers’ curve section, with other Noir’s supporters, behind Spirits’ goal, and very perfectly saw Hideo’s and Naoki’s double goal. Funato was near the curve section, on the opposite side, among Spirits’ supporters, and, tough luck, missed the boys’ goal since his boss called him right at that moment, and just saw the players afterwards, hearing that both had scored the victorious point. The suspects believe Agasa wants to check if they’ve really been to the match, and they one and all show their tickets to prove it. The DBs say they were in the central section too and saw the goal but never notice Kira around, to which she answers it’s perfectly normal since there were hundreds of people, and their seats were probably far away from hers. Agasa asks her then in which direction Hide and Nao were running before shooting, and she says she saw them coming from the right, towards the left, and shooting then. Agasa says then according to her viewpoint, Noir’s goal is on the left.

Agasa tells Takagi Tokyo Spirits were the home team for the derby, and Noir was the away one, something which is clearly written on the game’s tickets. As a rule, in J-League, the home team’s supporters’ seats are mostly on the left according to the central bleachers’ viewpoint, and some of them can be seated behind Noir’s goal, which is on the left. That's the complete opposite for the away’s : they’re all on the right from the central and can be seated behind Spirits’ goal. This means in truth Naoki scored from left to right, in front of his team’s supporters, therefore it’s impossible someone from the complete opposite side could have very perfectly seen how it was all done, yet it’s what '''Etsutoshi Aoba''' told them. Because he probably heard it on the radio, he thought they had scored a goal in front of Noir supporters, since it was Noir’s goal, forgetting completely about the real seat arrangement in J-League, which proves he wasn’t seating in the bleachers but was instead in the bathroom or so. Aoba explains hismelf saying he did a language mistake just like Funato, he meant the boys were coming closer to the opposing goal, and that was just a slip of the tongue to refer to Noir, due to the questioning’s tension. He says he has the ticket proving he was seating with Noir’s supporters. Agasa says it’s false : if he really had been among Noir supporters with a « Ryusuke Higo »’s « 9 » football shirt like the one he is wearing, he would have been utterly lynched, and people would have remembered it - because Higo is considered a traitor by Noir. Megure says this is not tangible proof though, and Agasa tells him to look around Aoba’s underarm : since it’s quite weird to see someone holding a dagger in public, or to see someone taking one out of a bag, Aoba probably crossed his arms during the whole fare to conceal the dagger he had in hand, and given he’s wearing a T-shirt with short sleeves, the dagger’s sheath’s carved patterns left marks around his underarm, which is quite tangible proof. He had got into the train crossing his arms, and as the train was reaching Haido Station, he uncrossed his arms and stabbed Akano when the train braked. Of course, he wore a glove on his right hand, but it didn't prevent the sheath mark from being imprinted on the underarm. Megure tells the expert to take a picture of it, while Ooba comments on this irony: to avenge his brother, he had gathered material about football and had learned to be the « perfect supporter », which was completely useless in the end.

He says his twin brother was murdered by Akano one year ago. After attending a Noir match, his twin came back home covered with injuries and bruises, saying he had missed a step in the stairs and fallen down it. In the evening, he suddenly suffered a horribly painful headache and had to be taken to the hospital in emergency. He lost consciousness right after and died three days later, following a brain hemorrhage caused by a head trauma. Aoba figured out what happened when visiting « Tokyo Hooligans », Akano’s site his brother would often visit too, and reading about Akano's rejoicing about pushing someone « stupid » down the stairs just because he had been coming for quite a long time at the stadium. Aoba then went to meet Akano who got surprised « he was still alive ». Then he decided to avenge his brother’s death wearing the latter’s favourite Higo shirt, which actually kind of brought him bad luck, and which is maybe why Akano killed his twin that day. Wearing this shirt today was maybe a warning from his twin telling him not to revenge him, because on his way Aoba didn’t meet any Noir supporters, who could have blamed him for wearing that shirt, and if this had been the case, he could just have listened to them and probably gone back home, and things would have had a completely different turn. He is then taken away by police, as everyone gaze at him flabbergasted and thinking.

The DBs then wonder where Ai has been, and Ayumi spots her on the opposite platform, wondering what she’s doing there since the Beika train isn’t on that platform. Conan gets it Ai is fed up with her « traitor » life and wants to escape once again, forever, far away from Tokyo. A train arrives there and Conan rushes to that platform, hoping to stop her. Once there though, it’s too late, the train leaves, and Conan shouts Ai’s name in anger and despair. She has actually remained on the platform, asking him why he’s shouting that loud. She ironically tells him she didn’t run away, instead she had beforehand asked a station manager if he had found any radio around, and she was told to ask the cleaner on the opposite platform, who actually found Mitsuhiko’s radio. Conan seems relieved and Ai reminds him of his words to her not to always run away, and to face her fate, and also his oath to protect her whatever occurs. She realises Conan and co care about her a lot, and Conan is happy she took that decision, though she says she’s not the kind of girls in constant need of protection. Conan casually informs her Higo eventually scored a golden victorious goal for his team, and that all the booing and whistling at him were to prompt him to do his best, and eventually they got even louder after his goal, and turned into joyful and warm cheering-up. Ai coldly tells him she doesn't care a fig about it, she’s not a seven-year-old football fanatic like him. But actually, she secretly goes and watches Higo’s victorious smile on the giant screen, and seems to enjoy it a lot, and Conan spots her from far and inwardly comments on her being a liar, as usual, and that she is betraying her supposed poker face.

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=== People ===
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{{People|Kadotake Akano|Kadotake Akano manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 48 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan and self-styled hooligan}}
{{People|Hasue Kira|Hasue Kira manga.jpg|
* 24 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan}}
{{People|Mitsuaki Funato|Mitsuaki Funato manga.jpg|
* 33 years old
* Tokyo Spirits fan}}
{{People|Etsutoshi Oba|Etsutoshi Oba manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan}}
{{EndBox}}

== Chinatown Murder Case ==
{{ref anime|284-285|Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain}}

=== Characters introduced ===
{{NewChar|name = [[Jugo Yokomizo]]|image = Jugo Yokomizo.jpg|description =
* Police Inspector
* Twin brother of [[Sango Yokomizo]]}}
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=== File 347 - Raining Deja-Vu ===

Ran has an important history exam tomorrow and mugs up on it at the eleventh hour, due to her karate training taking too much time in these days, and because there are important TV programs she absolutely wants to watch tonight. Conan is surprised she's not being carsick due to reading while in a car, and she answers she's tougher than she looks. '''It starts raining and she remembers a scene she is unable to date back, featuring a dark Shuichi Akai looking daggers at her, in a kind of Western-style city, Akai standing still under the rain. She doesn't neither understand why she keeps connecting that scene to another one whenever she has it in mind, a scene where "teenager" Shinichi is also standing still in the rain, completely soaked, smiling in a strange way, both sadly and nicely. She has no idea what's going on, and what Shinichi is trying to tell her.''' Conan asks her if everythings's okay, since she's always got that wrinkle between the eyebrows whenever she feels concerned by something. She replies this has to do with a complicated history question, and she resumes her learning, but seems to be having a kind of bad fever and starts having blurred vision. Though, she believes it's just carsickness after all, and she insists on going and eating with them at a Chinese restaurant in Ikebukuro, since she's the one who got discount vouchers for that very fine and select place. Conan keeps an eye on her however. In the Chinatown Restaurant, four movie workers are lamenting about their bad luck, the fact that their film's heroine had a motorbike accident and broke her leg just before shooting, which is always better than a more serious accident. Kaizo Isogami, the filmmaker, suggests they just stop producing that cursed movie. The producer, Shiro Kawabata, refuses to give up on the sequel to such a blockbuster they shot previously. Motohiro Ito, the assistant director, says it's really a curse since the actress had long been refusing to shoot, before eventually accepting, and having that accident, that can't just be plain bad luck. Keigo Kitaura, the screenwriter, says if this keeps on that way, there might be another dead person, just like last year. He adds it's actually a nice stroke of luck she had this accident after all, since she wasn't at all like the heroine he had imagined when writing his screenplay. Kawabata wonders if there is such a girl that exists, a young, beautiful, and strong girl skilled at acrobatics.

They are cut off by Ran's loud unbelieving comment that their vouchers can't be used, though it's the right restaurant. Kogoro starts getting angry, believing it's only based on whether they like the look of their customers or not, and, refusing to leave, he is coldly approached by a beefcake waiter who tells him to cool down and talk it over with him outside. Ran quickly stops the waiter with a karate move, threatening to kick him in the face if he lays a finger on Kogoro, and demanding a clear and true explanation. They are eventually told by the manager the vouchers only work on Sundays and public holidays, and Conan says it's indeed written on them. They apologise for the inconvenience and prepare to leave, but are eventually invited by Kawabata at his table. Kawabata proposes Ran a lead role of actress in his film to replace the one who got injured recently. He says she perfectly fits what they are looking for. Kogoro suggests her to refuse : acting is very complicated, and requires she learns tons of lines. Of course, this would be utterly different if she were as good speaker as he is - Conan secretly reminding him of Sleeping Kogoro being actually himself -, and Kawabata goes one further that actresses can quickly become famous and meet many other VIPs, stars, singers, football players, etc., she could befriend later on, and she'll also be able to travel the whole world for the sake of shooting, etc. Conan's and Kogoro's eyes sparkle upon hearing all this, and they strongly recommend Ran say yes, before changing their mind upon hearing this requires however some hard psychological training because certain unprincipled producers sometimes add useless sex and love scenes to the original storyline just to make more money. Kawabata seems to take it for himself, while Isogami says indeed she needs to be very psychologically ready for shooting, because if a mere love scene scares her, then what if she still keeps on and, due to some lack of luck, and to her fright, she ends up dying in the dead of a filming session. Kawabata tells him to stop scaring her uselessly, she may well have the makings of a great star. Ran cringes and inadvertently knocks Kawabata's soup bowl and chopsticks over on the floor, staining his trousers while doing so. She apologises and goes to pick up the bowl and chopsticks, and clean the floor, while Kawabata comforts her and takes her seat, suggesting she should go and seat at his place so his father and Conan would stop sticking their noses into their businesses.

When picking up the bowl, Ran feels dizzy again, and Conan puts his hand on her forehead, saying she's got fever. '''Ran says she's probably caught a light cold, and Conan fears she might faint like last time. Ran asks him what this means and he quickly corrects himself saying it's not so important after all.''' Kawabata mops his trousers up with his napkin and asks a waiter for another pair of chopsticks. He asks Ran to order whatever she wants, and they keep the discussion going. He notices someone ordered Pidans and egg crab though he loathes that food, he just can't even stand the sight of eggs, he's allergic to it. Though, Ran is free to eat whatever she wants. Conan takes a seat between Ran and Kawabata, pretending to lament that there's no curry rice - which is obvious since they're in a Chinese restaurant. He says he wants to leave the place then, and throws a tantrum, nicely pleading with Ran to leave and go back home. Ran says she got the message, and...gives Conan her steamed dumplings instead, recalling when he told her he loved that food. Conan feels stupid and inwardly comments that Ran still doesn't get a word he means. He rather focuses on his dinner and tries to get the soy sauce using the turntable. Yet, the table constantly turns in the opposite direction, and the sauce seems to remain near Kogoro. He gets annoyed by it and Ran eventually grabs it for him. He then wants the hot sauce which is near Kitaura, and does the same, but still the table always spins backwards whenever he's about to get the sauce. Ran once again asks it for him, which shames him, he finds the situation so pathetic. At last comes the Peking duck Kawabata had ordered, reputedly excellent. '''Kawabata asks Ran about her favourite actors/actresses, and she answers Yukiko Fujimine, Shinichi's mother she's long been marvelling at, and also her own mom's childhood friend, and Sharon Vineyard, the great American actress who passed away last year. Ran said she met the latter once and remembers her to be a very refined person. Conan looks at her thinking, and Kogoro asks Ran where she's ever met such a VIP, and Ran refuses to tell him, saying it's a sweet secret. The movie workers comment on both actresses being indeed very famous and quite epic,''' and Ito adds if "that person" were still alive, she could have entered history as well, since she was so talented. As Ran asks him who she was, Kawabata suddenly shrieks in pain, and drops dead in front of everyone.

=== File 348 - The Misleading Washcloth ===

The police arrive and start investigating, eventually deducing that Kawabata was poisoned by cyanide found in his mouth and on his plate, chopsticks and napkin. Kawabata had Peking duck in his mouth when dying, and he got choked right after tasting it. They found no cyanide in the duck though, and the waiter hadn't any poison on him. This means Kawabata had poison on his hands even before starting to eat his meal. Accordingly, the person who poisoned him was sitting at the same table as him, among his friends and guests. Inspector Yokomizo seems to "remember Kogoro's face", believing he may be one of those he's already arrested before, or a runaway whose face he might have seen at the precinct. Kogoro can't believe his ears, explaining he's Kogoro Mouri, the famous detective. Yokomizo now recalls "Bumbling Kogoro", the one he saw on TV and papers... The police add except on the things they checked previously - especially the wet napkin on which there is a great amount of poison - there is no poison at all however on the table, chairs, other meals, etc. Kogoro was the one sitting on the victim's right, and Conan on his left. Yokomizo believes only Kogoro could murder Kawabata then, switching his own napkin which had poison on it with the victim's. He was best placed to do it, and Conan sure isn't the killer. He just had to wait for Kawabata to wipe his hands before eating duck, and die afterwards... Kogoro and Ran seem not to recognise Inspector Yokomizo until he is called by his name by another agent. They find Inspector Yokomizo has changed a lot : he's being and acting colder, warier, and he's cut his hair very short. Actually, the inspector reveals he's not Sango Yokomizo but Jugo Yokomizo, his twin brother. Sango works in Shizuoka Prefecture while he's in charge of Kanagawa Prefecture, where they are. Jugo warns Kogoro he's not as easygoing with detectives as his moronic brother is, and indeed spends his time investigating against Kogoro, believing he's the only one who could poison Kawabata.

The police find Kawabata has a stain on his right leg, and Ran explains she accidentally spilt his soup on his trousers as she was sitting next to him. Yokomizo doesn't understand anything and asks who was sitting next to who at last. They all go on explaining before meeting Ran and co Isogami was sitting on the victim's right, and Kitaura on his left, and Ito in front of him. When they invited the three to their table, Ran sat next to the producer - on his right, Conan on her right, and Kogoro on the latter's right, and then Isogami, Ito and Kitaura. Later on, Kawabata took Ran's seat when she went to pick up the bowl, and then Conan came to sit between her and Kawabata. This means Kawabata had Conan on his left, then Ran, then Kitaura, Ito, Isogami, and Kogoro. Isogami precises when they were only four at the table they all had one empty chair at least between each other. Ito insists on him being innocent since he's always been facing Kawabata, but Yokomoizo says they'll check that after thorough investigation. Conan suggests the police check out if the stain on Kawabata's trousers has cyanide on it, in order to know whether the napkin was poisoned before he changed places with Ran, or after, which could exonerate Kogoro or not (because Kawabata had mopped the stain up with that napkin). Later on, the police say they've found no cyanide on the stain, neither on the chopsticks Ran had accidentally dropped on the floor, and that were taken away by the waiter. Which means Kogoro still is the most suspicious person since Kawabata was murdered after the incident then. Kogoro says he had no reason at all to murder a man he had met for the first time, to which the inspector answers he may well have known him beforehand, it's peculiar his daughter was the first one to be spotted in the restaurant, he may have planned to come along. '''Ran gets tense and insists on saying it's all true, they'd never met him. Suddenly, she feels dizzy again and staggers, holding her head, spilling once again by accident a glass of water on the floor when leaning on the table. She once more remembers the rain and Shuichi Akai, being now sure it was rainy on that day. She wonders who that man is, suggesting he may look like another person she's met in the past, just like the Yokomizo twins. She can't remember well though, and this gives her headache, she has three different faces in her mind : a blond-haired woman slily smiling under an umbrella, Akai's infuriated and scary eyes glaring at her, and a soaked-to-the-skin Shinichi trying to tell her something in a very sad way.''' As she's trying to listen to it and to get what he's trying to say, she hears Shinichi's voice calling her aloud, which is actually Conan's, asking her again if she's really doing fine. She says it's just sudden tiredness. Conan though sits her on a chair, telling her to rest a little and wait for her dad to solve the mystery. However, he inwardly comments on Ran being more than simply "out of sorts", she needs to be taken to the doctor as quick as possible.

He tries to tell it to Yokomizo, but the latter is interrupted by a policeman saying he's found an empty jar in the restroom's bin, having probably contained cyanide. Kogoro is annoyed at Yokomizo’s unrelentingly accusing him of having soaked the napkin with poison previously in the restroom. Conan says Kogoro can't be the culprit given he hasn’t been to the restroom at all since they've arrived at the Chinese restaurant. Conan adds when Kawabata got the soup on his trousers, he mopped the stain up and kept his napkin in hand when changing places with Ran, then Kogoro couldn't switch it. Yokomizo says there must be a way to change napkins without anyone's notice. Kogoro suggests the murderer might have balanced a poisoned napkin on the edge of the turntable, and then he spinned it so that the napkin would fall right near Kawabata. Yokomizo yet says the victim would have very probably found quite weird a napkin "falling by accident" close to him, and if he already had his napkin within hand reach, why would he have used another one ? Conan is suddenly reminded of when he tried to get the soy and hot sauces, and eventually failed to do it, due to the turntable being systematically spinned backwards as he was about to grab one or the other. He tries to remember how the meals were arranged on the table, being, clockwise: beef sauté, stir-fried meat, egg crab, Pidan, soy sauce, vinegared pork, steamed dumplings, and hot sauce. As for the people, clockwise: Kawabata, Conan, Ran, Kitaura, Ito, Isogami, and Kogoro. Vinegared pork was in front of Kawabata when he died, soy sauce was near Kogoro, and hot sauce near Kitaura. Conan thinks about Kawabata's allergy to eggs, the fact he couldn't even stand their sight. He then stares at the Pidan and egg crab, near the napkin. He suddenly goes to ask the forensic agent if he’s checked if there were any poison on every item on or near the table. He replies he’s done it indeed, and Conan secretly asks him if he’s checked "that" as well. He says he hasn't yet, and Conan says he should do it, since « Kogoro asked it actually ». He eventually asks him if he’s found something else except poison on the napkin. The agent says there was a strange brown stain on it, and he smelt it, finding it was just soup after all. He says it's probably connected to the stain on the victim's trousers. Except that, he’s found nothing else, and Conan is just cunningly surprised to hear it... He then pretends going and telling it to Kogoro, inwardly deducing that Kawabata actually didn't die after the napkin was changed, but the napkin was changed after he died. As he had supposed it, Kawabata was killed by one of his three comrades. Conan gazes at the table saying to himself the evidence of the crime is probably still here.

Meanwhile, Ran's condition is worsening.

=== File 349 - Cleared Memory ===

Yokomizo eventually concludes the killer went to the restroom to soak his napkin with poison, and then came back, finding a way and moment to switch his’s with Kawabata’s, all the while being seated at the table, in broad daylight, in front of Mouri and co. Kogoro believes the killer used transparent fishing line and resorted to a rod and hook to carry the napkin and drop it near Kawabata…these are special techniques only movie workers know, though Yokomizo says this is utterly ridiculous. All of a sudden, Kogoro feels as if he’s about to sleep, but actually sneezes, and complains about the restaurant’s air conditioning being quite excessive. Yokomizo remembers his brother told him Kogoro would often make up cheesy deductions, but in fact it’s a trick to drop everyone’s guard, and he’s then immediately falling to sleep, starting his true deduction show, with a weird voice and a completely changed behaviour. He then turns unrecognisable, as if he were going into a trance. Though Jugo says his brother always makes a song and dances about it. Yet, they all remark Kogoro is falling asleep indeed, secretly anesthetised by Conan, who sticks a micro transmitter on his back. Kogoro/Conan says discussions have been running for too long now, it’s time to sit down at the same places everyone were when Kawabata died. Yokomizo will play the victim, and Ran agrees to resume her previous role, despite being exhausted and feeling very bad. Kogoro will now tell about the weird things that occurred right before the murder.

<spoiler>

Conan pops out saying someone at the table was constantly turning it backwards just to annoy him and prevent him from getting the soy or hot sauces. Conan had actually tried one to three times to get them, turning the table leftwards/rightwards to do so, but each time it would always turn backwards, and he would never get the sauces until Ran would grab them for him without turning the table. To make things clearer, Conan turns the table leftwards/rightwards, and this time none seems to « bother him ». Yokomizo asks Kogoro what’s the link between the boy’s stories and the murder, and Conan tells him not to bother asking Kogoro, since the latter told Conan there was no need to explain to him, given the culprit would eventually give himself away in a moment. Suddenly, a waiter brings Conan a Bao (Chinese steamed brioche), and Yokomizo asks him what the heck this means, the waiter answering Kogoro had asked him to bring Conan something to eat. Conan raises the Bao to his lips, and suddenly '''Kaizo Isogami''' hollers to him, ordering him to stop it. He goes on explaining his comrades there’s been a murder by poisoning at that table, and then there’s probably still poison on it, it’s dangerous for someone to eat anything after having touched the table. Yokomizo says the police have carefully checked the table and found absolutely no trace of poison on it. Kogoro says Isogami is right, there’s probably still poison on the table, Conan has laid his fingers on it « by accident », in a place human eyes can’t have access to, a blind spot. Yokomizo loses patience and orders Kogoro to speak his mind about the killer and poison right now. Kogoro asks Yokomizo how he would usually turn the table to get anything on it. Yokomizo says he would just put his hand on it and spin it. But Kogoro asks him now how he would do it if there were two plates of Chinese food next to each other on the edge of the table, just like the Pidan and egg crab, and Yokomizo replies he would just grab between his fingers the edge of the table between the two plates, and turn it accordingly. Yokomizo suddenly realises the killer put some poison under the table on that particular spot. When someone would grab it with their fingers, they would eventually get some poison on them and possibly die later on. Yet, Yokomizo says there were very fewer chances the victim would grab the edge of the table at this very particular spot, except, as Kogoro clarifies it, if he had in his sight two plates of egg meals he would loathe, and therefore he would immediately grab the under spot over which the plates are, and rapidly turn the table away not to have them anymore in his sight. If someone had blocked the spinning of the table, then the victim could even have touched that spot several times to turn away the table again.

Now Kogoro tells Yokomizo to tell him where the soy and hot sauces are when the egg meals are just in front of Kawabata : the soy sauce is near Conan, on the victim’s left, and the hot sauce is near Kawabata, who is sitting on the left of Conan, next to Ran. This means when Conan tried to get the hot sauce, he would have needed to turn the table rightwards, and then he would have prevented Kawabata from touching the spot, or would have possibly caused someone else to come in contact with it. The killer actually wanted to have the egg meals stand in Kawabata’s sight for a long time, in order to annoy and repel the latter, and have him touch the spot quickly and unconsciously so as to turn the table away, which is why he always prevented Conan from turning it first, until Kawabata had done it yet. Though, Yokomizo can’t explain why the killer did the same previously with the soy sauce, and Kogoro says the sauce was near himself at that moment and not near Conan, which means the egg meals were in front of the killer, the latter needing in fact some time to put poison under the table on the specific spot. This is why he would constantly stop Conan from spinning the table, since it would hamper him in his meticulous « work ». Also, the killer needed the poison to be added right before the Peking duck would be served. Indeed, Peking duck is usually eaten using one’s own fingers, and the murderer needed Kawabata to have poison on his fingers right before eating duck, and die afterwards accordingly. To do so, it was paramount to add poison on the spot just before, and the culprit couldn’t let anyone turn the table at that very moment, which would prevent poison from being added, and from being touched and then ingested by the victim. He couldn’t add poison before because it was very likely then someone would touch the spot and get poisoned, or that Kawabata would die before eating duck, which would have seemed too suspicious then. Therefore, the murderer is the person who had the egg plates right in front of him when Conan tried first to get the soy sauce, the person who had shouted to Conan, fearing he might get poisoned after unconsciously laying his fingers right on the spot : '''Kaizo Isogami'''.

The fact that there is also cyanide on Kawabata’s napkin - while it is supposed not to have been in contact with the spot ever - means that napkin is actually Isogami’s. He went to the restroom to soak it with poison beforehand, and then came back. When he saw Kawabata was mopping up a soup stain on his trousers with his own napkin, he also discreetly soaked his’s into his own soup bowl, exactly the same as Kawabata. When the latter died, Isogami rushed pretending to help him, but actually secretly took Kawabata’s napkin away, and dropped his’s instead, to make police believe he was poisoned due to the cyanide on his own napkin. Isogami deliberately put an enormous amount of poison on the napkin in order to fool police into believing it. He also had to use a napkin so as to put poison on the blind spot, he couldn’t use his fingers, it was too risky. He wanted therefore police to believe the napkin was really Kawabata’s due to the soup the latter had to mop up, yet Kawabata wore blue jeans, and when he mopped the stain up, he probably did it, as people usually do, quite vigorously, and then probably some of the jeans’ blue color bled onto the white napkin. Why is Isogami’s napkin having such a colour on it while it isn’t supposed to be Kawabata’s but his own ? Yet, this isn’t incontrovertible evidence, someone could well have left that napkin who isn’t Isogami’s to have him accused of the murder. Kogoro actually wishes Isogami would confess, given he’s still got his clear and good conscience, due to him telling off Conan in order to protect him because he was going to eat with poisoned fingers - which wasn’t the case actually since Kogoro had previously asked the forensics to clean the spot before the reconstitution. Isogami agrees, saying though he has « clear and good conscience », Kawabata didn’t, otherwise he wouldn’t have deliberately caused the death of Rika, the actress who died last year. It wasn’t a shooting accident at all : Rika was the perfectionist type who would always want to play her own scenes without any stunt performer, even the most dangerous scenes with biking for instance. Kawabata, as a sensible and ethical producer, was expected to strictly say no to it, though he would always agree, despite death danger, saying this would reduce costs and make things even more realistic. Ito says Isogami hated Rika though, he said she was nothing else but an ugly, arrogant, stupid and unskilled novice, then why would he seek to revenge her. Isogami says this stupid comment accounts for why Ito would probably always remain an assistant director : even if a filmmaker hates an actor, most of the time, they end up falling in love with the actor, by dint of always looking at them and following their slightest moves and reactions through their own lens, for days and months, no matter how unskilled or ugly the actor is.

As Isogami is about to be taken to the precinct by Yokomizo, he congratulates Kogoro for tricking him with Conan and the poisoned spot, but eventually asks him how he would have forced him to tell the truth if his « clear and good consciousness » had been absent and he had let Conan die. Kogoro says if this had been the case then he would have certainly used very bad, hurting, unbearable words to get Isogami to a corner. The latter says then he’s rather unlucky, he should complain to God who made such a scrupulous man out of him, anyway he doesn’t believe in God or whatever, and he would have loved to film Kogoro cornering him in that case. '''Ran suddenly reacts to the word « God », and pictures herself in a huge city with skyscrappers and Western-style buildings, in the rain, hearing a voice saying « Do you believe in the existence of God ? ». She remembers it to be the voice of a very calm woman, and she starts feeling very dizzy, sweating a lot, and she also hears the resonating sound of the rain, with Shinichi’s picture saying « Do you really need a reason ? ». Akai’s bleak and angry face also yells at her « Move it ! ». She pictures Sharon Vineyard in the rain as well, under an umbrella, telling her in a both sad and happy way « Angels have never smiled upon me, not even a single time ». Ran eventually remembers everything, where she met all those people and why Shinichi was there too, but ends up collapsing and passing out on the floor.'''

</spoiler>

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Kaizo Isogami|Kaizo Isogami manga.jpg|
* 52 years old
* Movie director}}
{{People|Motohiro Ito|Motohiro Ito manga.jpg|
* 38 years old
* Assistant director}}
{{People|Keigo Kitaura|Keigo Kitaura manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Writer}}
{{People|Shiro Kawabata|Shiro Kawabata manga.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 46 years old
* Producer}}
{{People|Rika|Rika manga.jpg|
* Deceased (bike accident)
* Actress}}
{{EndBox}}

== Golden Apple Case ==
{{ref anime|286-288|Shinichi Kudo's New York Case}}

=== Characters introduced ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Toichi Kuroba]]|link=Toichi Kuroba|image = Toichi Kuroba.jpg|description =
* [[Kaito Kuroba]]'s father
* World famous magician
* The first [[Kaitou Kid]]}}
{{EndBox}}

=== File 350 - Golden Apple 1 ===

'''Ran's fever is very high and Yokomizo decides to take her to Bay Bridge Hospital as quick as possible. She has a vision of Conan calling her name aloud in fear, but instead pictures Shinichi, and dreams about a case in New York, where she had been invited with Shinichi by Yukiko Kudo. She also comments on Shinichi being always here to save her, once again, just like that time, just like usual, every time she’s in danger. This always annoys her a bit, but she’s happy in the end.'''

Shinichi and Ran had actually taken the plane to Los Angeles from Tokyo, and Shinichi had solved a murder during the flight, his very first case (Vol. 21). However, once they'd arrived, they were told by Yukiko actually they'd all take another plane to New York, since she hardly managed to get tickets for the must-see opera "Golden Apple", in Broadway's Phantom Theater. However, the show is tonight, and they need to rush, especially because the person who got tickets for the three proposed to show them around the main artists' rooms, backstage, and they accordingly need to be at the theater at least one hour before the curtain riser. Yukiko realises she's actually one hour late due to her forgetting to set her watch fast to summertime. She's driving her beautiful Type-E Jaguar vintage car, and shows the teenagers what it is made of, stepping on it to arrive on time. Ran had been sleeping for a long time now due to the case in the plane frightening her so much she couldn't sleep at all afterwards, and also due to the length of the trip. She only wakes up in the Jaguar, in the back, at night, gazing at the Statue of Liberty in the distance, while Yukiko is driving with Shinichi on her left. She’s quite disappointed Shinichi hasn’t woken her up earlier, she wishes she had seen Brooklyn Bridge, but Shinichi says she was sleeping like a log and he didn't want to bother her. Besides, she can’t understand how Shinichi manages to find sleep in full satisfaction after having solved a recent murder, and he answers her none is always really satisfied « my dear Watson ». Yukiko tells them not to quarrel in the loveliest and most romantic place for lovers : Miss Liberty/Jiyu no Megami.

Shinichi believes her mom’s mild « English-lady-style » driving will never take them to Broadway on time. But Yukiko, saying Jaguar cars were designed to save their passengers, advises her son to fasten his seat belt, and Ran to do so and grab tight hold of anything she’ll find in the back, since she’s going to speed up…a lot. She starts hurtling down the highway, overtaking the other cars at full speed, Shinichi reminding her that, though that car drove the French 24-Hours’ Le Mans’ Race with its 276 hp, though a very skilled New York mechanic of her friends had a look at it, it’s been in reparation recently and she shouldn’t flog it too much. She takes a first tight bend and the right side of the car lifts, frightening both teenagers. Though, Yukiko seems to be a very skilled driver. Shinichi remarks police cars are here and there on the bridge, and her mom replies they’re driving on the other way, and they’ll only get it too late there is a road hog around. Yukiko asks her son to do her a favour, because the next bend is a really, really tight one. Shinichi gets her and takes Ran in his arms, asking her to grab tight hold of him while he sits on the open window, holding tightly the car’s door and bodywork, and lastly lying backwards, with Ran on him. Indeed, Yukiko’s full-speed-taken bend forces the car to do an almost 90° lifting, which would have badly hurt the teenagers if they had stayed at their seats. '''Shinichi seems very confident while Ran is awe-stricken, but trusts her friend.''' Once it’s over, Ran shouts at Shinichi, still panic-stricken, for saying it was « not so scary after all ». As they leave the bridge and highway at full speed, and eventually turn up in Broadway, they're arrested by a police car, and Yukiko is about to be in some great trouble due to an over 40-mile and more speeding. The agent says she looks familiar when glancing at her license and registration.

All of a sudden, Radish Redwood, a well-known police inspector of New York, who got helped many times by Yusaku in the past and knows the Kudos very well, along with speaking very good Japanese (his wife is Japanese), turns up telling the police agent he's probably already seen her in some previous case, since Yukiko is in fact "an undercover agent who was rushing to chase a suspect in the '''"Phantom Slasher" serial killer case''', but she seems to have missed him completely". '''A Japanese-looking man has indeed been murdering young girls in New York after midnight for a few weeks now, and that accounts for the high number of police patrols at night in New York at the moment.''' Radish tells the agent it's OK and the latter leaves, and the inspector starts speaking Japanese, asking Yukiko to thank "her" for saving her. '''And, tearing off his mask, that person disguised as Radish is revealed to be Sharon Vinyard.''' Sharon was waiting for Yukiko with the tickets, and when she heard the agent, one of her fans, telling her a yellow Jaguar is rushing at full throttle towards Broadway, and his comrades walkie-talkied him to arrest the female driver and the two teenagers inside, she decided to go and disguise as Redwood, that she also knows, in order to help her friend out, being compelled to buy a very expensive coat in the meantime to look perfectly like Radish.

'''Sharon and Yukiko met each other about twenty years ago, at world-renowned wizard Toichi Kuroba's (Kid's late father) make-up art courses, in order be taught how to perfectly play spy roles in movies, and hide their true faces behind masks or make-up, Sharon being very good at it, and having even taught her daughter Chris, a flourishing actress, that art, though she's been on very bad terms with her for quite a very long time. Sharon is a bit older than Yukiko. Shinichi confirms her mother’s disguise skills are not that good…being more carnival-like than spy-like.''' Yukiko wonders if it’s not too risky for her friend to show herself among the crowd, but Sharon says they’ll probably believe it’s a movie scene being filmed. Yukiko is very grateful to Sharon, but Shinichi doesn’t seem to know who this great American star is, and why she disguises herself as police officers.

'''Ran thanks heavens for having the opportunity to meet such a great actress, and Sharon is surprised to hear Ran believes in heaven or God or whatever. It starts raining and she takes out her umbrella. She adds if God truly existed, then wouldn’t all honest, hard-working people be happy ? She says "As for me, angels have never ever smiled upon me, not even a single time." The group doesn't seem to understand her words, and especially the both sad and happy way in which she said them.'''

Shinichi inwardly and retroactively comments on the tragic event that would come up soon and that he didn’t want to remember, to the contrary of Sharon's mysterious words.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Radish Redwood|Radish Redwood manga.jpg|
* Captain from New York Police Department}}
{{People|Lilas Sanchez|Lila Sanchez manga.jpg|
* 32 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Akane Nielsen|Akane Neilson manga.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Rose Hewitt|Rose Hewitt manga.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Iberis Hamilton|Iblis Hamilton manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Stage actress
* Heath's wife}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Heath Flockhart|Heath Flockheart manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* 33 years old
* Stage actor}}
{{People|Slasher|350-354 Slasher manga.jpg|
* Serial killer}}
{{EndBox}}

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== See also ==
* [[Manga]]
* [[Volume 31-40]]
* [[Detective Conan]]

{{Volumes}}
{{Black Organization}}

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Volume 34

2022-01-07T01:23:21Z

Exaskliri: Forgot some stuff.

{{InfoBox Volume
| volume = 34
| image = Volume 34.jpg
| releasedate = September 18, 2001
| chapters = 340-350
| isbn = 4-09-126164-7
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| english-releasedate = March 16, 2010
| english-isbn = 1-4215-2885-1
| english-publisher = [[Viz Media]]
| detective = [[Akakabu Kenji]]
| keyhole = [[Jugo Yokomizo]]
| prev-volume = Volume 33
| next-volume = Volume 35
| footnotes =
}}
Volume 34 was released on September 18, 2001 in Japan.

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Jodie Starling}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{Char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Shuichi Akai}}
{{Char|Vermouth}}
{{Char|Gin|display=Gin (background)}}
{{Char|Vodka|display=Vodka (background)}}
{{Char|Shiho Miyano|display=Shiho Miyano (photo)}}
{{Char|Pisco|display=Pisco (background)}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{Char|Hideo Akagi}}
{{Char|Naoki Uemura}}
{{Char|Tomoaki Araide|display=Tomoaki Araide (photo)}}
{{Char|Sango Yokomizo|display=Sango Yokomizo (background)}}
{{Char|Toichi Kuroba|display=Toichi Kuroba (background)}}
{{Char|Naomichi Mugikura|display=Naomichi Mugikura (background)}}
{{Char|Mika Nanjo|display=Mika Nanjo (background)}}
{{Char|Yasuo Mihei|display=Yasuo Mihei (background)}}
{{Char|Naoya Tarumi|display=Naoya Tarumi (background)}}
{{Char|Yoshiharu Tawara|display=Yoshiharu Tawara (background)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
}}

== Escalator Message Case ==
{{ref anime|271-272|The Secret Rushed Omission}}

=== File 340 - Time to Pick the Apple ===

Megure tells Jodie he has just phoned Chujo's detective agency to ask his employees if they'd ever been informed about who Chujo was suspecting to be embezzling Kisugi's company's money. They told Megure they had absolutely no idea, since Kisugi had insisted on the investigation to be kept strictly confidential. Furthermore, all data about Chujo's investigations are on his computer and nobody knows the password, and it's not OX△□ at all. Though, Megure sent people there to try and crack the password. Then, the four signs indeed refer to the killer's identity. Jodie and Sonoko say the murderer might be a quizz lover or champion, since Japanese people answer quizzes using "O" or "X" instead of "Yes" or "No". Megure once again keeps them away from the crime scene, saying they're now completely free to leave and go back home.

<spoiler>

Conan steps in saying Inspector Chiba is probably the murderer, since the "Chi" character ideogram in his name looks like an addition cross topped with a diagonal line going towards the left. And when Conan hides the line, it shows a cross, and when he hides the southmost and rightmost lines of the cross, it shows a triangle. Conan finds it strange, and Megure thinks about something having to do with "hiding a part". Conan says Takagi could also be the killer since the "Taka" ideogram character looks like a circle or square topped with a goal symbol, another circle or square, and finally a horizontal line with a perpendicular small line amidst. When Conan hides some parts of the ideogram, only a square or circle is shown. Sonoko says though she doesn't see any circles in the ideogram, and Conan answers many people in Japan write a circle instead of a square to save time when quickly writing a name with a square in it. He gives Agasa's name as an example : the "A" ideogram in "Agasa" usually contains a square, but Agasa always writes it as a circle. The professor would always tell Conan that, when people are in a hurry, they have no other choice but to make abbreviations. Megure instantly realises something while Sonoko tells Conan she swears Takagi and Chiba are innocent since she called them and they came after the murder...

Megure grabs the list and scans the names one after the other, and deduces the murderer is called '''Bunta Kuniyoshi'''. Conan smirks in satisfaction, and Sonoko and Jodie ask for an explanation, and Megure tells them that if they hide the upper halves of the "Bun" "Ta" and "Yoshi" characters, then it shows, from right to left, a triangle, cross and circle, the same order as on the envelope. Though, Sonoko finds quite far-fetched that a triangle was used for the "ta" character, but the inspector replies that, actuallyn when using prints it sure is far-fetched, but when writing it by hand, people tend to consider the small horizontal line at the bottom of the character as a full and long line they often confusingly fix to the two circumflex-like vertical lines just above, which gives a triangle most of the time. People usually do this, as Conan said, to make things quicker and easier. Sonoko still doesn't get it why Chujo would have only written the halves of his murderer's name's characters, and Megure replies actually he did write the name fully, but he did it while the killer was stealing the documents that were inside the envelope, then the only possible thing, in the dark, is that Chujo wrote the upper halves of the name on the document being stolen, instead of the envelope, and only the remaining parts were accordingly found on the top edge of the envelope. Since the killer ran away with the documents, then it's clear why the message seems so enigmatic. As for the square, Chujo actually wrote it inadvertently on the escalator's step, and left only a small mark on the left edge of the envelope, which is why it wasn't found at first. And the square is bigger than the other symbols because it is actually the full character for "Kuni", which wasn't split into halves then. In fact, Chujo was dying and he needed to be quick not to show his killer that he was writing a message, which accounts for why he only wrote the square, and not the character inside the square, hoping people would understand.

Sonoko acknowledges several people only write a square to refer to "Kuni", and Jodie praises "Jules Maigret's incredible investigating qualities". The police rush upstairs to the company in order to arrest Bunta Kuniyoshi. Jodie wonders where Ran has been, since it's quite late now. Sonoko thinks she's probably phoning Shinichi to ask him what "X" means, and then she and Jodie believe a love scene is probably occurring while at the phone. Ran turns up quite angry and blushing, asking what "I'll give you my precious X" means. She adds she is now aware of the meaning of X thanks to Takagi, and she tells Sonoko that whether Shinichi knows it as well or not isn't a problem, because he won't answer to such a question anyway. Sonoko says it's very unlikely he knows what it means, given he's a boy and he's got only a few elements. They all wonder where Conan has been now, as to him. Meanwhile, at the company's project development section, the police ask for Bunta Kuniyoshi to follow them for a few questions in a room nextdoors. He agrees, and Conan spots a paper shredder in the office and suddenly thinks about something. Megure tells Kuniyoshi about his findings, and the latter thinks it's rather too simplistic to make a murderer out of him. It's well possible the true killer used Chujo's own blood and finger to write that message to have Kuniyoshi accused of the crime, and then it wouldn't be a true dying message. He says if they want to hold him responsible, then they have to show him the documents that were stolen from Chujo, and prove he stole them indeed. He adds a killer and robber would have run away from the mall and burned the papers, instead of peacefully coming back to his office in the mall, to work. Conan shows up with Takagi and says they've found the papers in the shredder : Kuniyoshi tried to dispose of them doing so, but actually a shredder doesn't necessarily mixes up the shreds of paper, and actually the blood is still on it, and it's even easier to reassemble than a puzzle. They show the blood marks on the paper shreds, and say it perfectly matches the envelope's ones. If the police search carefully and take some time, they'll find all the remaining documents' shreds inside the shredder - provided he only used one - along with his fingerprints on it, and also on the gloves he discarded in the bathroom - once again provided he is indeed the one who shredded the papers.

Kuniyoshi admits he killed Chujo, saying he now gets it why his university comrades would always write his name using these four symbols. He said he started to divert money so as his family could live a little more comfortably, but afterwards it worked so well that he came to like it, and did more and more of it, and is now trapped into it, just like a mouse which ate too much and which can't go out anymore now. The police take Kuniyoshi away, and Conan joins Ran and co, asking them to tell him now what X means. Sonoko tells him to ask Ran about it : she's sending a message to Shinichi, and has eventually found the meaning. Conan asks her while she's over the moon, thinking about what and how she'll write to her friend. Ran blushes and feels overembarrassed as Conan startles her, and she answers she definitely can't tell him, it's impossible : this is the meaning, impossibility... '''Ran, Sonoko, and Conan eventually go back home and Jodie tells them to watch their step and mistrust stalkers. She then looks at them leaving, inwardly wondering if it's almost time to pick the apple...''' During the night, Conan can't get to sleep due to Kogoro's noisy snoring, and he has a look at Shinichi's phone which received Ran's text message, saying "Today we've been once again caught up in a murder case ! Really, I like wonder if we're not being jinxed or something, after all. The kind of case you love. I'll tell you more about it soon. Hurry up and return ! XXX". Reading this, Conan asks himself if Ran actually means he's an "impossible impossible impossible" boy ?

'''In a dark room only lit up by a computer's screen, next to a glass of alcohol, a smirking woman in babydoll is typing a mail to Gin, saying "Can you tell me please Gin, do you believe in heaven ? You must say coldly..."It's not like you to be so silly." Until we lift our glasses filled with rotten sherry, please find the answer. I can't wait... XXX". The woman then inwardly says X (Chu) means a kiss, it's feminine...expression of affection... Though, she thinks it could also be an evil stamp of hatred, and, saying so, she grabs a dart in an ashtray, kisses it, and slings it violently at a dartboard where three pictures are pinned at, and some others below, looking at it with a dark interest. The woman is revealed to be Vermouth/Chris Vineyard, who adds that X is where the fatal silver arrow shoots, it marks the target spot. The dart indeed hit the bulls-eye right at the center of the dartboard, right at the center of a huge X crossing out the picture of Shiho Miyano in her adult form and lab coat, right in the middle, and right into her head. Next to that picture, there are also two others featuring a happy and smiling Ran, nicknamed "Angel", and a clever-looking and hard-thinking Conan, nicknamed "Cool Guy".'''

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=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Norihisa Kisugi|Norihisa Kisugi manga.jpg|
* 50 years old
* Administrative manager of a Trading Company}}
{{People|Katsunori Chujo|Katsunori Chujo manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 43 years old
* Detective}}

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== Flying Neighbor Case ==
{{ref anime|277-278|English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective}}

=== File 341 - The Hint That Was Against... ===

Conan eventually tells Agasa about Mouri's cases' police files having been recently stolen and then sent back by post to the headquarters. '''The Organisation may be behind that theft, they may be aware that Shinichi is secretly helping Kogoro to solve cases, they could know he was shrunken by APTX, since Kogoro's fame all started when Shinichi went missing.''' Yet, who would believe a seven-year-old anesthetises Kogoro and speaks with a voice-changing bowtie ? Conan may well only be a boy genius, and it's not 100% sure the Organisation stole the documents. Though, someone is discreetly investigating Kogoro, and Conan has something very important to ask to Agasa, the latter saying he's nothing but a search-machine for Shinichi, and not even a confidant. Conan answers he just didn't want Ai to know it (Vol. 33), since this would scare her once again, she would once again refuse to go out, and Conan promised her he would protect her and take things in hand if they were to worsen (Vol. 29). He doesn't want her to be frightened for nothing, but says they must keep it silent to her for now, since Ai isn't as strong as she wants others to believe she is. Conan is however unaware that Ai is eavesdropping their conversation, and inwardly calls him a moron. '''Conan still wonders what's the point for that thief carefully sending the documents back to the police instead of just getting rid of them.''' Is it to trap them or have them understand the thief knows what they're doing ? Or is it maybe a stratagem to scare someone in particular, Shinichi most probably, though it's a rather odd way to scare someone. Conan realises in surprise that Heiji is just next to them, having been secretly called by Agasa in order to be Shinichi's confidant, since at the moment the latter is racking his mind with the Organisation matters. Agasa still wonders how they can catch such an elusive enemy, Heiji replying that if Conan came to tell him the truth and ask him something very important, this means either he's found out a paramount clue, or he just wants to retaliate now.

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Conan acknowledges he's right and tells them again about the Haido City Hotel Case (Vol. 24), during which they spotted Pisco, an Organisation member who was tasked to kill Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a corrupt politician. Shinichi had called Megure telling him to bring and question seven suspects in a private room, since they were all given a purple handkerchief at a certain moment. Given Conan had found a purple handkerchief on the crime scene, it may well have belonged to Pisco, who could be one of them. '''Yet, Pisco was completely unaware of it, then how come is it that he had a purple handkerchief on him when he was questioned ? The only answer is that he had an accomplice among the six other suspects, one who was questioned before him and told him afterwards about it, giving him their own handkerchief. The six suspects are all very mediatised VIPs, but only one of them hasn't given some sign of life since then : Chris Vineyard, the famous American actress, daughter of world-famous actress Sharon Vineyard, and moreover a very beautiful and sly woman.''' Conan has investigated her so far, and she's the fishiest suspect, though he can't believe it for some reasons. Conan needs Agasa's help to browse a recent website created by Chris's fans to encourage her comeback on the stage, and he wants Agasa to pretend to be one of them, and to get as much information as possible on the actress. Conan can't do it since it would be strange that a schoolboy spends his time in Internet cafés searching for information on several websites. Conan says this information could be useful in good time. '''Heiji thinks that Conan is suspecting someone in particular in his entourage, which could be Chris Vineyard in disguise. Agasa thinks Conan is investigating Jodie Saintemilion''', and tells Heiji - despite Conan's refusal - that Jodie is Ran's new English teacher, originating from America. But Conan doesn't want such a hot-blooded guy as Heiji to know it since he would spoil everything by investigating her overtly and awkwardly. Heiji indeed suggests they both go to her place to investigate discreetly. Conan believes Heiji is completely unaware of the BO's dangerousness. '''Ai is startled by the "Chris Vineyard"'s name.'''

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The boys eventually come up to Jodie's flat's door, Heiji wondering how a mere English teacher can afford to live in such a huge and luxurious building, and Conan replying it's because she was born in a very wealthy family. Conan tells Heiji not to act recklessly, but Heiji seems to have no idea what to tell Jodie in order to account for their coming, and Conan can't believe it. They start having a row and Heiji inadvertently presses the door's ring. Conan has to tell Jodie on the intercom that he "came to pay her a liitle visit", and she's very happy about it, and asks him to wait a little moment. Meanwhile, they meet Jodie's neighbour Takai's friends who are leaving his place, all drunk. They seem to blame Takai for being so rude and nasty when he's drunk. After a very long wait, Conan and Heiji are eventually welcomed by Jodie, only dressed in a sexy robe, apologising for the wait, since she was having a bath when they rang. Conan explains he has brought a friend to introduce him to her, and she asks them to wait in the lounge while she gets herself ready. The boys say they need to go to the bathroom, '''and actually start checking out something in the bath and floor sink. Jodie overhears what they are doing behind the door, and smirks in satisfaction.''' Afterwards, she decides to take them to a restaurant since she has nothing at home to prepare a meal for them with. Heiji gets infuriated at her beacuse she tells him he looks like a foreigner who doesn't speak very good Japanese, but Conan tries to cool down the situation saying Kansai people are often very tanned and speak a very thick Japanese, such as Southern-American English for instance. Jodie is then told Heiji is also one of Mouri's friends. In front of Jodie's building, they notice Chika Shimoda, Takai's girlfriend who had left the latter's flat and locked it with two other men, is taking snaps of the building, towards the top. Heiji comments on it being rather odd, and suddenly, a phone falls down from upwards, followed by Takai's body, which crashes on the ground.

=== File 342 - The Flying Neighbor ===

The four people but Shimoda look at the corpse in a cold-blooded behaviour, saying the person died instantly. Jodie recognises her neighbour Takai and Shimoda starts crying in despair. She tells them Takai was drunk and sleeping on his bed when they all left, she would never have imagined he wanted to commit suicide. Jodie says he could have been pushed in the void from his flat by a kind of burglar just as well, but Shimoda says it's impossible : there was none in the apartment when they all left, and she locked the flat because Takai was too drunk to do it properly. Besides, there's only one key, and it's impossible to hear the doorbell from the bedroom. Then, it's nothing but a suicide. Though, Conan and Heiji tell her it's not necessarily the case, because Takai was speaking with a certain Kawakami on the phone just before dying, and one minute ago he had also received a text message from a certain Nakamichi. What's more, Shimoda was behaving strangely when taking pictures of the building in the dark, these are many peculiar reasons why the hypothesis of suicide can't be absolutely established for the moment. And a person who wants to kill themselves doesn't necessarily has a phone in hand. Heiji asks Shimoda to call her friends Michiya Nakamichi and Noboru Kawakami, and tell them to come along, while they'll also call the police for Shimoda to give a clearer explanation to them. Shimoda tells Megure she actually left Takai's flat to drive Nakamichi and Kawakami back home since they were far too drunk to drive carefully. She told Takai she would come back right after, which is why she locked the flat with his key. Afterwards, she drove back to Takai's, but before going upstairs, she took a few snaps of the building to show her friends where her new boyfriend was living. It is the first time she has come here, while Nakamichi and Kawakami already know the place. She intended to go back to Takai's flat right after, but never expected him to kill himself.

Shimoda, Nakamichi, Takai and Kawakami all work at the same place. They had come at noon to have a few drinks in order to celebrate Takai's promotion to the position of assistant manager of their company. They wanted to stay till late at night, but Takai was getting too drunk, and started to abuse everyone, then they decided to leave. He told them they were and will always be losers because they lacked something which would always prevent them from moving up the social ladder : insensitivity and ambition. Nakamichi later on sent a text message to Takai telling him never to forget "those at the bottom". They also discussed the "Hiraya case" : one of her friends and co-corkers Sumiyo Hiraya who committed suicide last month. Hiraya was a childhood friend of Nakamichi, and they met Takai and Kawakami at college. Takai and Kawakami already knew each other, and Shimoda belonged to the same year group as Hiraya. They remember Hiraya was a very kind and respectful person. She killed herself due to burnout, because she would work far too much. Probably because Takai had told her some day - though he was kidding her actually, and drunk - that if she didn't work even harder than the others, she would be quickly fired in the end. Takai seemed to have forgotten about that story, which is why Kawakami phoned him to remind him that he won his promotion out of blood, he is responsible for Hiraya's death, his career is being founded out of suffering and death. That left him speechless and he hung up afterwards, and Kawakami was then called by Shimoda and came back here at once with Nakamichi. Kawakami acknowledges he's more or less responsible for Takai's leaping in the void, though he never forced him to kill himself, then he's not a criminal. And he was drunk moreover, then Megure should just let them all go back home, since it's a mere suicide. The employees say they've actually already told all of this to Conan, Heiji and Jodie, who asked them to give them Takai's flat's key, and they're probably upstairs now, at the 21st floor. While the latter are thinking about the case, Megure and co, out of breath, turn up, too late, because the group already went into the flat, checked the place, and took pictures of it.

They all come in once again, Heiji telling Megure the door was indeed locked when they tried first. Heiji and co really thought to suicide too until they came in Takai's bedroom and saw the window near the bed was open and a curtain was fluttering in the wind outside. It's clear the victim jumped from that window, but Heiji attracts Megure's attention on the curtain in itself : it's as if someone had pulled it too much strongly, so much that it came off the rod and damaged it, and some hooks popped away. This means Takai was about to fall and then instinctively tried to grab hold of the curtain, in order to pull himself up. Therefore, it's not a suicide but a murder. Jodie appears saying it's just like in movies or novels, sealed chambers murders. She gives Megure her testimony and account of the events. Heiji says he's still not solved the case, but actually found strange impact marks left on the outside window pane, as if someone had hit it from the outside. Chiba then comes up saying he's got Shimoda's pictures' development, among which an enlargment showing Takai indeed grabbing hold of the curtain and about to fall into the void, and flinging his phone against the pane. Shimoda took this picture but couldn't see Takai, it was too far away from the ground, and it appeared like a tiny shadow on the picture. Jodie and co once more reflect about the case aloud, and Megure hollers at them, ordering them to let police work alone this time, commenting that it's been very frequent in these days that his investigations are being interrupted at some point by Ran, Conan, Sonoko, Jodie or co (Vol. 27, 33, etc.) - though Takagi acknowledges that cases are always solved thanks to them, at every time. Conan and Heiji still can't find out how Takai ended up outside his room, being forced to grab hold of a curtain not to fall. Shimoda just took flash pictures towards the top of the building, Nakamichi sent Takai a message a minute before the fall, and Kawakami abused him on the phone, but even though he'd have said "Die", Takai would never have done it. The victim may have flung his phone because there might have been a clue on it he wanted police to find, but actually Heiji checked it out and found nothing at all.

Jodie secretly looks at them as Heiji gets a phone call from an angry Kazuha, who can't believe he forgot their date at the mall. Conan tells Jodie he "doesn't know who Heiji is speaking with", and Heiji realises his mistake. He tries to promise Kazuha they'll do it some other day, but the reception is poor and they can barely hear each other. Heiji goes to the balcony to get better reception, telling Kazuha he's in Tokyo right now, and it's too late then. Doing so, he suddenly realises something very important. Kazuha says she doesn't understand a word he says, but is 100% sure they had planned a meeting, since she wrote it in her datebook. Upon hearing this, Heiji and Conan rush towards the other end of the balcony, and glance through a window at Takai's bedroom. '''They eventually find out the truth while Jodie secretly takes pictures of them.'''

=== File 343 - Who Are You? ===

Heiji suggests a reconstitution of the events in which he would give the police a hand, which would help them to find out who the killer is. He adds that, for the experiment to be conclusive, they need someone to get drunk and play the victim. Jodie is the perfect actress, given neither policemen who are on duty, nor Heiji and Conan who are minors, are allowed to drink alcohol. '''Jodie agrees, provided Heiji gives her some of her favourite drink : Sherry... Conan is puzzled about it, while Heiji finds ludicrous the way Jodie is getting drunk with it.''' Heiji then asks the police to leave Takai's bedroom for a moment while they're preparing the place for the reconstitution. Once they're done yet, they come out saying they "put Jodie to sleep" in the bed and left Takagi's phone near the pillow, and try not to wake her up, just like Takai's friends did with the latter.

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They start the reconstitution and '''Heiji sends a text message to Jodie''', just like Nakamichi send his's to Takai, which woke him up, and Jodie receives the message in the dark. '''She is startled when reading it : "Who are you ?". This makes her smile mysteriously. She then confirms she got the "cute" message, though Heiji refuses to tell Conan about it.''' Then, just like Shimoda took flash pictures of the top part of the building, Chiba, at the bottom, takes the flash snaps, using Jodie's camera. At last, just like Kawakami phoned Takai before the latter fell, Heiji phones Jodie, asking her to speak with him like Takai spoke with Kawakami, very casually and normally. '''He asks her to answer his text message, but first Jodie would like Heiji to tell her more about himself, who he really is too, and she asks him "You're not an ordinary teenager, are you ?" (in Japanese). To which Heiji replies "Yes, yes, (in English) I am a very ordinary teenager (in Japanese)".''' The call reception starts getting poorer, and Jodie says this has to do with them being at the 21st floor, they're very high and it's perfectly normal then that telephonic waves are getting rarer. It's just like at her own home when she's phoning. She gets up, goes to open the window on the left, and says she'll go on the balcony, and he'll hear her better. Suddenly, she screams in fear, asking them to help her. Megure rushes and switches on the light, only to find Jodie about to fall into the void, grabbing hold with her feet and hands to the window panes and frame, and he notices she's been tied to a rope itself tied to the bed, which actually prevents her from falling, something she was totally unaware of. Megure also realises they changed the place of the bed, which explains why Jodie confused the windows and thought she was going on the balcony, while actually she was stepping over the window overlooking the void. Jodie, just like Takai, is used to stepping over the window overlooking the balcony from the bed to have a better reception when phoning.

The murderer, '''Noboru Kawakami''', actually used that trick to have Takai fall into the void without the latter's knowing it. Usually, Takai's bed is placed just in front of the window overlooking the balcony, so as he would easily go to the balcony when phoning. He would get up on his bed, step over the window, and phone on the balcony. But Kawakami changed the bed's place, and Takai ended up stepping over the window overlooking the void, and falling. No wonder he fell then, especially if it was dark and he was hungover, and still drowsy. While the employees were all having drinks in the lounge, Kawakami pretended going to the bathroom, but actually went to Takai's bedroom, and moved the bed in front of the "void" window. Nobody would notice it, since Shimoda had come to Takai's for the first time, and Nakamichi would find no difference, in the dark, the windows being absolutely similar. Afterwards, Takai was put to sleep in his bed with his phone next to his head. Later on, Nakamichi texted him and Kawakami phoned him, and pretended not to hear him very well - or maybe it was the case - and forced Takai to leap unvoluntarily into the void. The police would never get it that Takai's bed was actually at the wrong place. Kawakami says Takai had actually told him in private to help him moving the furniture of his room because he wanted to change the layout, and Kawakami pretends he wasn't aware that this could be dangerous to Takai. But Conan presses a button on Takai's phone which plays a recording track of Kawakaki's voice saying "Farewell Takai, where you are going, you'll apologise to Hiraya". Heiji explains that before falling, Takai, who still had his phone in hand, recorded Kawakami's words with the "Memo" button, and then either he or Kawakami hung up (or when the phone fell on the ground), and Takai flung his phone at the window, hoping to scrape its screen and have the police understand he had recorded his killer's words, such contemptible words.

After the case, Heiji hands Jodie back her camera, apologising for using her as a test subject, but actually, to be very realistic, the reconstitution needed the "victim" to be completely unaware of it, just like Takai was. The police still believe it was very dangerous. Jodie says it was very pleasant actually, and asks Heiji's name, and Heiji asks her first to answer his text message. She says she is very skilled at speaking English, but Heiji doesn't seem to be very good at it as for him. She explains that, '''when she asked him "You're not an ordinary teenager, are you ?", Heiji answered "Yes, yes, I am a very ordinary teenager".''' '''She asked it in Japanese, and Heiji replied in English-Japanese, which means either he doesn't know how to speak English properly, or he wanted to answer in English. But the English answer to that "tag" is "Yes, I am (ordinary)", and Heiji said or meant "Yes, I am not (ordinary)". Japanese who are good at English usually answer to that "tag" by "Yes, I am (ordinary)" or "No, I am (ordinary)". Yet, Heiji confused everything and actually said he was both ordinary and extraordinary... Then either he's bad at English or he's lying, and Jodie assures she's a true English teacher. However, Heiji startles her replying, in excellent English, that he never pretended not to be able to speak English, he actually meant it in English, but silence is way better anyway than her funnily disguised Japanese. He explains Jodie actually speaks perfect Japanese, and pretends the opposite in order to be considered as a "poor foreigner", and not to be considered too seriously, while actually she is. Heiji heard her Japanese accent and it's clear she's forcing herself to speak "bad" Japanese.''' He then leaves with Conan, saying he'll discuss it more broadly with her next time, bidding her "Sayonara". Megure and Takagi comment on the fact that if they had known earlier Jodie was so good at Japanese, they wouldn't have asked her to take part to the reconstitution, or at least they would have explained her everything. '''Jodie suddenly thinks to something and checks her camera, only to find the roll is missing indeed - it's unclear if she expected it or not.'''

On their way home, Conan and Heiji discuss Jodie's "fishiness", since '''Heiji realised she took several pictures of them in secret. She also pretended to be having a bath when they rang, which is false : Conan and Heiji noticed it when searching the bathroom, the hairdryer was still hot, and there was still some wet body moisturising lotion on the floor. This means she had already taken her bath when they rang, and she was already dry, and she wasn't interrupted in her bath at all or hadn't started it at all. She actually needed some time to hide her "important things" and quickly wetted her hair and body again with hot water, along with the bath, and left some of her hair in the sinks, and all the rest, in order to make them believe she took so much time because she was in the water and needed to dry off, while it wasn't the case at all actually. Heiji says however he's got the roll now, yet he doesn't believe Jodie is such a bad woman, though she's quite weird. Moreover, he doesn't find any likeness between her and Chris Vineyard''' - depsite the "big breasts". '''Conan says he's probably right but can't help thinking about something :''' '''she's not that bad, as long as this is her true face...''' Heiji asks him to speak his mind, but Conan switch gears and advises him to go back to Osaka as quick as possible to meet Kazuha, since she's probably still waiting. Before leaving, Heiji recommends his friend to be very cautious, given '''that person who stole the documents is like an invisible enemy, someone who is able to steal classified police documents in the headquarters and send them back neatly as if nothing had happened.''' He asks Shinichi to call him if he ever spots shifty people around. '''As Heiji rushes away, Conan inwardly comments that he isn't suspecting only Jodie, but also two other people, of being very sleazy.'''

'''Alone in her flat, Jodie mysteriously and darkly comments on Heiji Hattori, son of Osaka's Prefectural Police Chief Heizo Hattori, being a very clever and interesting guy, and being, just like Shinichi Kudo, a private eye. Saying so, she uncouples her bathroom's mirror from its frame, revealing dozens of pictures among which two pictures of Conan and Ran with "Cool Guy" and "Angel" written respectively on each (the exact same as in Vermouth's/Chris Vineyard's room, Escalator Case, Vol. 34), pictures from the Mouri Agency, from Ran's high school or Conan's primary shcool, one picture from the School Play Case (Vol. 26) on which Shinichi is featured in his knight disguise along with Ran, Heiji and Kazuha, and one from the same case featuring Sonoko and Dr. Araide.'''

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=== People ===
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{{People|Chika Shimoda|Chika Shimoda manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Michiya Nakamachi|Michiya Nakamachi manga.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Noboru Kawakami|Noboru Kawakami manga.jpg|
* 33 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Takai|File 341-343 Takai manga.jpg|
* Victim (fell)}}
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== Soccer Supporter Case ==
{{ref anime|279-280|Hooligan's Labyrinth}}

=== Characters introduced ===
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{{NewChar|name = [[Ryusuke Higo]]|image = Ryusuke Higo.jpg|description =
* Soccer player for Big Osaka}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Rikuo Endo]]|image = Rikuo Endo.jpg|description =
* Soccer player for Noir Tokyo
* Higo's older half-brother}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Sharon Vineyard]]|image = Sharon Vineyard.jpg|description =
* Deceased?
* Famous American actress
* [[Yukiko Kudo]]'s good friend}}
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=== File 344 - The Storm of Booing ===

Agasa and the DBs have been to the derby between Tokyo Spirits and Noir Tokyo. The former won the match, and everyone is leaving the stadium towards the train station. On their way back, the DBs comment on the super-duper match they've just watched, and also on the supporters' constantly booing Ryusuke Higo from Big Osaka during a previous match against Noir some time ago. Ai says this is perfectly normal for a traitor, they have no place where to shelter at all. Higo "betrayed" his Noir team when he left them for Big Osaka, then it's probably well deserved. Conan says it's rather because Higo has still not scored any goals for five days now, since the tournament started. There's also a hearsay about Higo's possibly leaving once again his team to go and play in Spanish League. Ai says if this rumour were justified, then that would be the best he could do, running away from all this shame and suffering, to play in a faraway stadium where none will boo him anymore. Conan wonders what she is thinking to, while the DBs realise today at 5 PM there's actually a match in which Higo is playing. They watch it on a street TV, and notice Higo doesn't play properly, probably due to the thunder of booing in the audience. A passer-by, Kadotake Akano, says Higo deserves well his fate for having left his Noir Tokyo team, he adds traitors who fall down to hell never get over it. He then leaves laughing out loud, and Conan says Akano is a notorious superviolent hooligan who keeps picking up fights with supporters during and after matches, and he goes as far as encouraging the bullying, beating-up and sometimes killing of supporters he dislikes. His "Tokyo Hooligan" website prompted his blacklisting from several stadiums, fearing he might cause big trouble.

Conan secretly asks Agasa what information he's found so far about Chris Vineyard, and the professor says '''Chris's private life remains a complete mystery, while her mother Sharon's is known from everyone. The only time Chris appeared in public, except during filmings, was at her mother's funeral, last year.''' The event was so important it was even broadcast on Japanese TV. '''Tabloids' reporters harassed her with questions such as which school she attended, if she were on bad terms with her late mother, who her father was, was the man whom she allegedly had an affair with at the moment at the funeral too, etc. She only gave a "no comment" answer, and a reporter eventually asked her if this was because these truths could be detrimental to her if they were to be disclosed. She turned her back on her mother's coffin, and, smiling, she said " a secret makes a woman woman".''' Agasa remembers '''a very famous Japanese actress looking like Yukiko Kudo was seen among the cortege, but none seems to know who she was, since Chris's words had caught all and everyone's attention around.''' Conan stands wondering, and Agasa asks him '''if Chris Vineyard really belongs to the Black Organisation, to which Conan answers if it were to be the case, she would then be a very, very problematic enemy. Agasa thinks Shinichi is still trying to conceal something from him, and Conan just says actually as an actress she's used to lie and fake reality, then she could lead them to red herrings very easily.'''

Conan suggests they all take the train now and go back home, while Ai is looking at Higo's match with some strange apprehension. The train is overcrowded with supporters from both teams, to the point they're all packed like sardines in a can. This is all because Genta wanted to take the first train to be quickly at home in order to watch Higo's match on his TV. Akano is also on the train, complaining aloud about the overcrowding. Mitsuhiko is listening to the match on his portable radio, and Ai puts her head and ear against his's in order to listen more carefully to the match results. Mitsuhiko blushes and tells her Higo's teammates now hesitate to pass the ball to him due to the audience's booing being unbearable now. Ai is saddened by this and asks him to tell her if there's any breaking news about him later on. Conan notices her state of mind, and suddenly the train brakes abruptly, and Conan sees Akano being stabbed to death by an unknown assailant. At Haido Station, the train is emptied at last due to most of the supporters leaving it for the subway, and Conan and co gaze awe-sricken at Akano's bloody corpse on the floor, next to a dagger.

=== File 345 - The Suspicious Supporters ===

Conan rushes out of the train towards a station manager, asking the latter to stop all trains immediately, and to tell his colleagues to control the tickets of every supporter leaving the station, since somebody was murdered by one of them in one of the train's carriages. Especially, they should keep aside those who bought their tickets before 5 PM, and he asks him to do it very quickly, or else the killer will escape. The police is called and Megure rapidly turns up. They recognise Akano, the infamous violent hooligan. It seems that the dagger found next to him, and which was used to kill him, is quite rare, with handmade embed patterns. Takagi called all resellers in Japan but they one and all told him it's something which was made in a foreign country, therefore it'll take a great deal of time to find the owner. Given the train was overcrowded, there are no witnesses of the crime at all. People started to realise there was a corpse only when all supporters left the train towards the subway stations. Nobody seemed fishy since they were all dressed in the same way, whether it was Tokyo Spirits or Noir Tokyo. The station manager tells Megure his colleagues kept aside three supporters, just as Conan had suggested him to do. Conan explains it's impossible to commit such a murder, among the crowd, and in a train, without having thought about it way beforehand. The murderer was probably stalking Akano, and bought a ticket in advance, which means before the end of the match, probably just before its beginning, so as not to be compelled to queue at the machines at the end, and in order then to follow Akano into his train car without any problems. They just needed to stand not far away from him, and stab him just before they arrived at Haido Station, when the train would brake abruptly, and people would be jostled, and would then one and all leave towards the subway. They just had to slip among them and pretend being a mere traveller. The culprit is probably a supporter, because otherwise people would have remembered their clothing. Moroever, there aren't so many people who buy their tickets in advance, then no wonder they're just three, most people just follow the crowd and buy their tickets at the same time, queueing, etc. And the match precisely ended at around 5 PM. However, Megure points at the fact they may have changed clothes in the station before leaving, or they could even just have gone to take another train in the opposite direction, or somewhere else. Conan says both suppositions are impossible : the restroom is located outside the station, then just after the "barrier" set up by the train station employees. And if the murderer had been to another platform, they would have been quickly spotted, since they probably would be the only one to wear a football shirt. And they couldn't of course change clothes on the platform, it would have seemed too much suspicious. The safest way to change clothes without being noticed at all was to go to the restroom located outside the station, and escape amidst the supporting crowd. They also knew that Haido Station is an important hub where many people get in/off the subways/trains.

The police are amazed, as usual, and Takagi asks Conan how come did he think to all this in a heartbeat right after the murder? Conan tries to protect hismelf claiming Agasa is the one who thought to everything and sent him to tell those things to the managers. Conan tells the police Agasa wanted them to question the three supporters kept aside. All three indeed bought their tickets beforehand in order to avoid queueing at the machines. Yet, they say it doesn't mean they're the murderers. Though, it's strange all of them got into a crowded train, since with their tickets already in hand at the end of the derby, they could just have caught the first carriage, instead of getting into an overcrowded one like all those who queued. Hazue Kira, a Noir supporter, explains she was in the central bleachers where supporters of both teams are mingled, and she got in a little fight with some Spirits supporters and wasted time, forcing her to take the next crowded train. Mitsuaki Funato, a Spirits supporter, had a phone call from his boss towards the end of the match, because he had lied to his boss about his absence so as to come here discreetly and skip work, and got severely told off by the latter, and the blaming was so long that it lasted until late after the match, and Funato even missed the goal of the "ace wingers" (Naoki and Hideo). Etsutoshi Aoba, a Noir supporter, got so shocked of the match's result, that he stood gaping in a blackout state for a long time even after the derby, and also wasted time. They can't remember in which carriage they got on, yet Conan is pretty sure they were all into overcrowded ones. First, Kira's left hand's ring left a mark on her right elbow because she was tightly holding her handbag's strap and zipper due to the place being crowded and therefore very suitable to stealing property, for a very long time. Then, Ooba crossed his arms for a long time during the fare, and left marks of his left wrist's watch on his right arm, due to him not wanting to be accused of having wandering hands. Lastly, Funato tightly held his leather bag between his hands and still has marks of it on all of his fingers, for the same reason as Kira, to avoid pickpocketing. Conan is almost sure it was like that, because the train was very, very crowded, and people could easily stand in the same position for a very long time, with crossed arms or without grabbing hold to bars or handles in the train, and without even being able to sit down. The three acknowledge this is all true, and Conan says this is what Agasa told him to say... Megure tells the suspects to try and remember as much as possible in which train car they were. Conan looks at the suspects' football shirts : Aoba wears Higo's "9" shirt, Kira wears a black Noir shirt, and Funato wears a black and white striped Spirits shirt, and Conan finds something's not quite right on them.

Ai is nowhere to be found, Mitsuhiko last saw her when she told him she was going to the restroom. Mitsuhiko laments that he's lost his radio due to the crowd movement, he hopes someone found it and brought it to the lost property's. Ai is actually watching Higo's match at the station's giant screen, and is shocked to see Higo's missed his goal, as if "the sky had abandoned him". Ai is joined by Conan and is startled when the latter tells her she's indeed just like Higo, leaving the Organisation to go to another "better team", "betraying them" in a way. And just like Ai, Higo had a really good reason to leave them. Higo's father had had a secret child with his mistress : Rikuo Endo. Rikuo and Higo though got on very well, and decided to go and play together in first division in Noir Tokyo. Few people know that story actually, and they keep it secret. Shinichi was told that story by Higo and Endo themselves, he met them by chance some years ago, when he was in first-level secondary school, while he was playing a football match at school. They had come among the audience to see the match, and they told Shinichi he had the potential to join Noir Tokyo like they were about to do, his half-brother and himself. Though, this was all a trap, because two years after the brothers' arrival, Endo was told he lacked the necessary potential to stay with them and become a great player, whereas Higo had it actually. Endo figured out he was taken on for the sole ground of being Higo's brother and then being the only one able to attract him into their team, since they knew Higo was a great player, but Endo wasn't. Higo got it as well and soon left the team just like his brother did, and joined this latter in their new Big Osaka team, because he wanted to play there together with his brother. Endo became instructor there, and Higo player. It's exactly the same thing with Ai and her sister Akemi actually - the teams standing for the Organisation and the "life outside the Organisation".

Suddenly, their attention goes back to the screen as Higo gets knocked down by another player, but the referee doesn't seem to bat an eyelid, and the supporters rejoice when seeing him badly hurt, and keep on booing. Ai's mood turns darker when listening to the anchor saying "Higo doesn't seem to have any ally in this world, though it's a shame because he's so talented..." She leaves while Conan's attention is completely monopolised by the match, and he suddenly discovers something, looking at his derby ticket. He then inwardly declares he knows who the murderer is and that the latter has lied and that he still has the evidence of their doing. Ai goes straight away to the staircase leading to the platform just in front of where the DBs and Agasa are, and she seems to be preparing to take a train going in the opposite direction and leaving Tokyo...

=== File 346 - The Fake Supporter ===

Takagi tells Megure they’ve finished carefully examining the whole train and carriage where the murder took place, and brought it to the warehouse. Megure says now they’ll take the three suspects to the station to question them more thoroughly, though they refuse to follow him since he’s got no tangible evidence they’ve committed the murder. Conan and Agasa turn up saying the three suspects should leave in no case, unless Megure takes the chance to let slip away some important crime evidence.

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Conan impersonates Agasa saying the murderer is the « fake supporter » who lied to them. Kira says this might be Funato since he said « ace wingers » when referring to Hideo and Naoki, while actually this is a very old-fashioned expression, nowadays people don’t say « wingers » but « centre-forward players », modern football isn’t played using « winger » strategy anymore. Funato rationalises saying he’s quite old-fashioned indeed and isn’t such a football aficionado as them, he just heard about the « aces » and knew they had scored a goal, he didn’t lie at all. Agasa says it’s indeed the case, he’s only made a a language mistake, and the killer isn’t someone who isn’t a football fan but someone who hasn’t seen the match at all while they claim they have. He goes on explaining that the Spirits-Noir was a very important derby, so that thousands and thousands of people had come to see it, and then it’s very unlikely the murderer was among them, since they would have got lost into the crowd after the game, and would have eventually lost sight of the victim, Akano. The killer instead probably waited in the stadium’s bathroom listening to the match with a portable radio, and then quickly left once the game was over, in order to stand at a strategic place and wait for Akano to emerge, and track him down right after. In order to know who that murderer is, Agasa suggests they all once more listen to the suspects' testimonies. Kira claims she was in the central bleachers and perfectly saw the « aces »’ goal, which annoyed her a lot, to the point she easily got in a fight with Spirits’ supporters. Aoba claims he was watching the game in the bleachers’ curve section, with other Noir’s supporters, behind Spirits’ goal, and very perfectly saw Hideo’s and Naoki’s double goal. Funato was near the curve section, on the opposite side, among Spirits’ supporters, and, tough luck, missed the boys’ goal since his boss called him right at that moment, and just saw the players afterwards, hearing that both had scored the victorious point. The suspects believe Agasa wants to check if they’ve really been to the match, and they one and all show their tickets to prove it. The DBs say they were in the central section too and saw the goal but never notice Kira around, to which she answers it’s perfectly normal since there were hundreds of people, and their seats were probably far away from hers. Agasa asks her then in which direction Hide and Nao were running before shooting, and she says she saw them coming from the right, towards the left, and shooting then. Agasa says then according to her viewpoint, Noir’s goal is on the left.

Agasa tells Takagi Tokyo Spirits were the home team for the derby, and Noir was the away one, something which is clearly written on the game’s tickets. As a rule, in J-League, the home team’s supporters’ seats are mostly on the left according to the central bleachers’ viewpoint, and some of them can be seated behind Noir’s goal, which is on the left. That's the complete opposite for the away’s : they’re all on the right from the central and can be seated behind Spirits’ goal. This means in truth Naoki scored from left to right, in front of his team’s supporters, therefore it’s impossible someone from the complete opposite side could have very perfectly seen how it was all done, yet it’s what '''Etsutoshi Aoba''' told them. Because he probably heard it on the radio, he thought they had scored a goal in front of Noir supporters, since it was Noir’s goal, forgetting completely about the real seat arrangement in J-League, which proves he wasn’t seating in the bleachers but was instead in the bathroom or so. Aoba explains hismelf saying he did a language mistake just like Funato, he meant the boys were coming closer to the opposing goal, and that was just a slip of the tongue to refer to Noir, due to the questioning’s tension. He says he has the ticket proving he was seating with Noir’s supporters. Agasa says it’s false : if he really had been among Noir supporters with a « Ryusuke Higo »’s « 9 » football shirt like the one he is wearing, he would have been utterly lynched, and people would have remembered it - because Higo is considered a traitor by Noir. Megure says this is not tangible proof though, and Agasa tells him to look around Aoba’s underarm : since it’s quite weird to see someone holding a dagger in public, or to see someone taking one out of a bag, Aoba probably crossed his arms during the whole fare to conceal the dagger he had in hand, and given he’s wearing a T-shirt with short sleeves, the dagger’s sheath’s carved patterns left marks around his underarm, which is quite tangible proof. He had got into the train crossing his arms, and as the train was reaching Haido Station, he uncrossed his arms and stabbed Akano when the train braked. Of course, he wore a glove on his right hand, but it didn't prevent the sheath mark from being imprinted on the forearm. Megure tells the expert to take a picture of it, while Ooba comments on this irony : to avenge his brother, he had gathered material about football and had learned to be the « perfect supporter », which was completely useless in the end.

He says his twin brother was murdered by Akano one year ago. After attending a Noir match, his twin came back home covered with injuries and bruises, saying he had missed a step in the stairs and fallen down it. In the evening, he suddenly suffered a horribly painful headache and had to be taken to the hospital in emergency. He lost consciousness right after and died three days later, following a brain hemorrhage caused by a head trauma. Aoba figured out what happened when visiting « Tokyo Hooligans », Akano’s site his brother would often visit too, and reading about Akano's rejoicing about pushing someone « stupid » down the stairs just because he had been coming for quite a long time at the stadium. Aoba then went to meet Akano who got surprised « he was still alive ». Then he decided to avenge his brother’s death wearing the latter’s favourite Higo shirt, which actually kind of brought him bad luck, and which is maybe why Akano killed his twin that day. Wearing this shirt today was maybe a warning from his twin telling him not to revenge him, because on his way Aoba didn’t meet any Noir supporters, who could have blamed him for wearing that shirt, and if this had been the case, he could just have listened to them and probably gone back home, and things would have had a completely different turn. He is then taken away by police, as everyone gaze at him flabbergasted and thinking.

The DBs then wonder where Ai has been, and Ayumi spots her on the opposite platform, wondering what she’s doing there since the Beika train isn’t on that platform. Conan gets it Ai is fed up with her « traitor » life and wants to escape once again, forever, far away from Tokyo. A train arrives there and Conan rushes to that platform, hoping to stop her. Once there though, it’s too late, the train leaves, and Conan shouts Ai’s name in anger and despair. She has actually remained on the platform, asking him why he’s shouting that loud. She ironically tells him she didn’t run away, instead she had beforehand asked a station manager if he had found any radio around, and she was told to ask the cleaner on the opposite platform, who actually found Mitsuhiko’s radio. Conan seems relieved and Ai reminds him of his words to her not to always run away, and to face her fate, and also his oath to protect her whatever occurs. She realises Conan and co care about her a lot, and Conan is happy she took that decision, though she says she’s not the kind of girls in constant need of protection. Conan casually informs her Higo eventually scored a golden victorious goal for his team, and that all the booing and whistling at him were to prompt him to do his best, and eventually they got even louder after his goal, and turned into joyful and warm cheering-up. Ai coldly tells him she doesn't care a fig about it, she’s not a seven-year-old football fanatic like him. But actually, she secretly goes and watches Higo’s victorious smile on the giant screen, and seems to enjoy it a lot, and Conan spots her from far and inwardly comments on her being a liar, as usual, and that she is betraying her supposed poker face.

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=== People ===
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{{People|Kadotake Akano|Kadotake Akano manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 48 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan and self-styled hooligan}}
{{People|Hasue Kira|Hasue Kira manga.jpg|
* 24 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan}}
{{People|Mitsuaki Funato|Mitsuaki Funato manga.jpg|
* 33 years old
* Tokyo Spirits fan}}
{{People|Etsutoshi Oba|Etsutoshi Oba manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan}}
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== Chinatown Murder Case ==
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=== Characters introduced ===
{{NewChar|name = [[Jugo Yokomizo]]|image = Jugo Yokomizo.jpg|description =
* Police Inspector
* Twin brother of [[Sango Yokomizo]]}}
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=== File 347 - Raining Deja-Vu ===

Ran has an important history exam tomorrow and mugs up on it at the eleventh hour, due to her karate training taking too much time in these days, and because there are important TV programs she absolutely wants to watch tonight. Conan is surprised she's not being carsick due to reading while in a car, and she answers she's tougher than she looks. '''It starts raining and she remembers a scene she is unable to date back, featuring a dark Shuichi Akai looking daggers at her, in a kind of Western-style city, Akai standing still under the rain. She doesn't neither understand why she keeps connecting that scene to another one whenever she has it in mind, a scene where "teenager" Shinichi is also standing still in the rain, completely soaked, smiling in a strange way, both sadly and nicely. She has no idea what's going on, and what Shinichi is trying to tell her.''' Conan asks her if everythings's okay, since she's always got that wrinkle between the eyebrows whenever she feels concerned by something. She replies this has to do with a complicated history question, and she resumes her learning, but seems to be having a kind of bad fever and starts having blurred vision. Though, she believes it's just carsickness after all, and she insists on going and eating with them at a Chinese restaurant in Ikebukuro, since she's the one who got discount vouchers for that very fine and select place. Conan keeps an eye on her however. In the Chinatown Restaurant, four movie workers are lamenting about their bad luck, the fact that their film's heroine had a motorbike accident and broke her leg just before shooting, which is always better than a more serious accident. Kaizo Isogami, the filmmaker, suggests they just stop producing that cursed movie. The producer, Shiro Kawabata, refuses to give up on the sequel to such a blockbuster they shot previously. Motohiro Ito, the assistant director, says it's really a curse since the actress had long been refusing to shoot, before eventually accepting, and having that accident, that can't just be plain bad luck. Keigo Kitaura, the screenwriter, says if this keeps on that way, there might be another dead person, just like last year. He adds it's actually a nice stroke of luck she had this accident after all, since she wasn't at all like the heroine he had imagined when writing his screenplay. Kawabata wonders if there is such a girl that exists, a young, beautiful, and strong girl skilled at acrobatics.

They are cut off by Ran's loud unbelieving comment that their vouchers can't be used, though it's the right restaurant. Kogoro starts getting angry, believing it's only based on whether they like the look of their customers or not, and, refusing to leave, he is coldly approached by a beefcake waiter who tells him to cool down and talk it over with him outside. Ran quickly stops the waiter with a karate move, threatening to kick him in the face if he lays a finger on Kogoro, and demanding a clear and true explanation. They are eventually told by the manager the vouchers only work on Sundays and public holidays, and Conan says it's indeed written on them. They apologise for the inconvenience and prepare to leave, but are eventually invited by Kawabata at his table. Kawabata proposes Ran a lead role of actress in his film to replace the one who got injured recently. He says she perfectly fits what they are looking for. Kogoro suggests her to refuse : acting is very complicated, and requires she learns tons of lines. Of course, this would be utterly different if she were as good speaker as he is - Conan secretly reminding him of Sleeping Kogoro being actually himself -, and Kawabata goes one further that actresses can quickly become famous and meet many other VIPs, stars, singers, football players, etc., she could befriend later on, and she'll also be able to travel the whole world for the sake of shooting, etc. Conan's and Kogoro's eyes sparkle upon hearing all this, and they strongly recommend Ran say yes, before changing their mind upon hearing this requires however some hard psychological training because certain unprincipled producers sometimes add useless sex and love scenes to the original storyline just to make more money. Kawabata seems to take it for himself, while Isogami says indeed she needs to be very psychologically ready for shooting, because if a mere love scene scares her, then what if she still keeps on and, due to some lack of luck, and to her fright, she ends up dying in the dead of a filming session. Kawabata tells him to stop scaring her uselessly, she may well have the makings of a great star. Ran cringes and inadvertently knocks Kawabata's soup bowl and chopsticks over on the floor, staining his trousers while doing so. She apologises and goes to pick up the bowl and chopsticks, and clean the floor, while Kawabata comforts her and takes her seat, suggesting she should go and seat at his place so his father and Conan would stop sticking their noses into their businesses.

When picking up the bowl, Ran feels dizzy again, and Conan puts his hand on her forehead, saying she's got fever. '''Ran says she's probably caught a light cold, and Conan fears she might faint like last time. Ran asks him what this means and he quickly corrects himself saying it's not so important after all.''' Kawabata mops his trousers up with his napkin and asks a waiter for another pair of chopsticks. He asks Ran to order whatever she wants, and they keep the discussion going. He notices someone ordered Pidans and egg crab though he loathes that food, he just can't even stand the sight of eggs, he's allergic to it. Though, Ran is free to eat whatever she wants. Conan takes a seat between Ran and Kawabata, pretending to lament that there's no curry rice - which is obvious since they're in a Chinese restaurant. He says he wants to leave the place then, and throws a tantrum, nicely pleading with Ran to leave and go back home. Ran says she got the message, and...gives Conan her steamed dumplings instead, recalling when he told her he loved that food. Conan feels stupid and inwardly comments that Ran still doesn't get a word he means. He rather focuses on his dinner and tries to get the soy sauce using the turntable. Yet, the table constantly turns in the opposite direction, and the sauce seems to remain near Kogoro. He gets annoyed by it and Ran eventually grabs it for him. He then wants the hot sauce which is near Kitaura, and does the same, but still the table always spins backwards whenever he's about to get the sauce. Ran once again asks it for him, which shames him, he finds the situation so pathetic. At last comes the Peking duck Kawabata had ordered, reputedly excellent. '''Kawabata asks Ran about her favourite actors/actresses, and she answers Yukiko Fujimine, Shinichi's mother she's long been marvelling at, and also her own mom's childhood friend, and Sharon Vineyard, the great American actress who passed away last year. Ran said she met the latter once and remembers her to be a very refined person. Conan looks at her thinking, and Kogoro asks Ran where she's ever met such a VIP, and Ran refuses to tell him, saying it's a sweet secret. The movie workers comment on both actresses being indeed very famous and quite epic,''' and Ito adds if "that person" were still alive, she could have entered history as well, since she was so talented. As Ran asks him who she was, Kawabata suddenly shrieks in pain, and drops dead in front of everyone.

=== File 348 - The Misleading Washcloth ===

The police arrive and start investigating, eventually deducing that Kawabata was poisoned by cyanide found in his mouth and on his plate, chopsticks and napkin. Kawabata had Peking duck in his mouth when dying, and he got choked right after tasting it. They found no cyanide in the duck though, and the waiter hadn't any poison on him. This means Kawabata had poison on his hands even before starting to eat his meal. Accordingly, the person who poisoned him was sitting at the same table as him, among his friends and guests. Inspector Yokomizo seems to "remember Kogoro's face", believing he may be one of those he's already arrested before, or a runaway whose face he might have seen at the precinct. Kogoro can't believe his ears, explaining he's Kogoro Mouri, the famous detective. Yokomizo now recalls "Bumbling Kogoro", the one he saw on TV and papers... The police add except on the things they checked previously - especially the wet napkin on which there is a great amount of poison - there is no poison at all however on the table, chairs, other meals, etc. Kogoro was the one sitting on the victim's right, and Conan on his left. Yokomizo believes only Kogoro could murder Kawabata then, switching his own napkin which had poison on it with the victim's. He was best placed to do it, and Conan sure isn't the killer. He just had to wait for Kawabata to wipe his hands before eating duck, and die afterwards... Kogoro and Ran seem not to recognise Inspector Yokomizo until he is called by his name by another agent. They find Inspector Yokomizo has changed a lot : he's being and acting colder, warier, and he's cut his hair very short. Actually, the inspector reveals he's not Sango Yokomizo but Jugo Yokomizo, his twin brother. Sango works in Shizuoka Prefecture while he's in charge of Kanagawa Prefecture, where they are. Jugo warns Kogoro he's not as easygoing with detectives as his moronic brother is, and indeed spends his time investigating against Kogoro, believing he's the only one who could poison Kawabata.

The police find Kawabata has a stain on his right leg, and Ran explains she accidentally spilt his soup on his trousers as she was sitting next to him. Yokomizo doesn't understand anything and asks who was sitting next to who at last. They all go on explaining before meeting Ran and co Isogami was sitting on the victim's right, and Kitaura on his left, and Ito in front of him. When they invited the three to their table, Ran sat next to the producer - on his right, Conan on her right, and Kogoro on the latter's right, and then Isogami, Ito and Kitaura. Later on, Kawabata took Ran's seat when she went to pick up the bowl, and then Conan came to sit between her and Kawabata. This means Kawabata had Conan on his left, then Ran, then Kitaura, Ito, Isogami, and Kogoro. Isogami precises when they were only four at the table they all had one empty chair at least between each other. Ito insists on him being innocent since he's always been facing Kawabata, but Yokomoizo says they'll check that after thorough investigation. Conan suggests the police check out if the stain on Kawabata's trousers has cyanide on it, in order to know whether the napkin was poisoned before he changed places with Ran, or after, which could exonerate Kogoro or not (because Kawabata had mopped the stain up with that napkin). Later on, the police say they've found no cyanide on the stain, neither on the chopsticks Ran had accidentally dropped on the floor, and that were taken away by the waiter. Which means Kogoro still is the most suspicious person since Kawabata was murdered after the incident then. Kogoro says he had no reason at all to murder a man he had met for the first time, to which the inspector answers he may well have known him beforehand, it's peculiar his daughter was the first one to be spotted in the restaurant, he may have planned to come along. '''Ran gets tense and insists on saying it's all true, they'd never met him. Suddenly, she feels dizzy again and staggers, holding her head, spilling once again by accident a glass of water on the floor when leaning on the table. She once more remembers the rain and Shuichi Akai, being now sure it was rainy on that day. She wonders who that man is, suggesting he may look like another person she's met in the past, just like the Yokomizo twins. She can't remember well though, and this gives her headache, she has three different faces in her mind : a blond-haired woman slily smiling under an umbrella, Akai's infuriated and scary eyes glaring at her, and a soaked-to-the-skin Shinichi trying to tell her something in a very sad way.''' As she's trying to listen to it and to get what he's trying to say, she hears Shinichi's voice calling her aloud, which is actually Conan's, asking her again if she's really doing fine. She says it's just sudden tiredness. Conan though sits her on a chair, telling her to rest a little and wait for her dad to solve the mystery. However, he inwardly comments on Ran being more than simply "out of sorts", she needs to be taken to the doctor as quick as possible.

He tries to tell it to Yokomizo, but the latter is interrupted by a policeman saying he's found an empty jar in the restroom's bin, having probably contained cyanide. Kogoro is annoyed at Yokomizo’s unrelentingly accusing him of having soaked the napkin with poison previously in the restroom. Conan says Kogoro can't be the culprit given he hasn’t been to the restroom at all since they've arrived at the Chinese restaurant. Conan adds when Kawabata got the soup on his trousers, he mopped the stain up and kept his napkin in hand when changing places with Ran, then Kogoro couldn't switch it. Yokomizo says there must be a way to change napkins without anyone's notice. Kogoro suggests the murderer might have balanced a poisoned napkin on the edge of the turntable, and then he spinned it so that the napkin would fall right near Kawabata. Yokomizo yet says the victim would have very probably found quite weird a napkin "falling by accident" close to him, and if he already had his napkin within hand reach, why would he have used another one ? Conan is suddenly reminded of when he tried to get the soy and hot sauces, and eventually failed to do it, due to the turntable being systematically spinned backwards as he was about to grab one or the other. He tries to remember how the meals were arranged on the table, being, clockwise: beef sauté, stir-fried meat, egg crab, Pidan, soy sauce, vinegared pork, steamed dumplings, and hot sauce. As for the people, clockwise: Kawabata, Conan, Ran, Kitaura, Ito, Isogami, and Kogoro. Vinegared pork was in front of Kawabata when he died, soy sauce was near Kogoro, and hot sauce near Kitaura. Conan thinks about Kawabata's allergy to eggs, the fact he couldn't even stand their sight. He then stares at the Pidan and egg crab, near the napkin. He suddenly goes to ask the forensic agent if he’s checked if there were any poison on every item on or near the table. He replies he’s done it indeed, and Conan secretly asks him if he’s checked "that" as well. He says he hasn't yet, and Conan says he should do it, since « Kogoro asked it actually ». He eventually asks him if he’s found something else except poison on the napkin. The agent says there was a strange brown stain on it, and he smelt it, finding it was just soup after all. He says it's probably connected to the stain on the victim's trousers. Except that, he’s found nothing else, and Conan is just cunningly surprised to hear it... He then pretends going and telling it to Kogoro, inwardly deducing that Kawabata actually didn't die after the napkin was changed, but the napkin was changed after he died. As he had supposed it, Kawabata was killed by one of his three comrades. Conan gazes at the table saying to himself the evidence of the crime is probably still here.

Meanwhile, Ran's condition is worsening.

=== File 349 - Cleared Memory ===

Yokomizo eventually concludes the killer went to the restroom to soak his napkin with poison, and then came back, finding a way and moment to switch his’s with Kawabata’s, all the while being seated at the table, in broad daylight, in front of Mouri and co. Kogoro believes the killer used transparent fishing line and resorted to a rod and hook to carry the napkin and drop it near Kawabata…these are special techniques only movie workers know, though Yokomizo says this is utterly ridiculous. All of a sudden, Kogoro feels as if he’s about to sleep, but actually sneezes, and complains about the restaurant’s air conditioning being quite excessive. Yokomizo remembers his brother told him Kogoro would often make up cheesy deductions, but in fact it’s a trick to drop everyone’s guard, and he’s then immediately falling to sleep, starting his true deduction show, with a weird voice and a completely changed behaviour. He then turns unrecognisable, as if he were going into a trance. Though Jugo says his brother always makes a song and dances about it. Yet, they all remark Kogoro is falling asleep indeed, secretly anesthetised by Conan, who sticks a micro transmitter on his back. Kogoro/Conan says discussions have been running for too long now, it’s time to sit down at the same places everyone were when Kawabata died. Yokomizo will play the victim, and Ran agrees to resume her previous role, despite being exhausted and feeling very bad. Kogoro will now tell about the weird things that occurred right before the murder.

<spoiler>

Conan pops out saying someone at the table was constantly turning it backwards just to annoy him and prevent him from getting the soy or hot sauces. Conan had actually tried one to three times to get them, turning the table leftwards/rightwards to do so, but each time it would always turn backwards, and he would never get the sauces until Ran would grab them for him without turning the table. To make things clearer, Conan turns the table leftwards/rightwards, and this time none seems to « bother him ». Yokomizo asks Kogoro what’s the link between the boy’s stories and the murder, and Conan tells him not to bother asking Kogoro, since the latter told Conan there was no need to explain to him, given the culprit would eventually give himself away in a moment. Suddenly, a waiter brings Conan a Bao (Chinese steamed brioche), and Yokomizo asks him what the heck this means, the waiter answering Kogoro had asked him to bring Conan something to eat. Conan raises the Bao to his lips, and suddenly '''Kaizo Isogami''' hollers to him, ordering him to stop it. He goes on explaining his comrades there’s been a murder by poisoning at that table, and then there’s probably still poison on it, it’s dangerous for someone to eat anything after having touched the table. Yokomizo says the police have carefully checked the table and found absolutely no trace of poison on it. Kogoro says Isogami is right, there’s probably still poison on the table, Conan has laid his fingers on it « by accident », in a place human eyes can’t have access to, a blind spot. Yokomizo loses patience and orders Kogoro to speak his mind about the killer and poison right now. Kogoro asks Yokomizo how he would usually turn the table to get anything on it. Yokomizo says he would just put his hand on it and spin it. But Kogoro asks him now how he would do it if there were two plates of Chinese food next to each other on the edge of the table, just like the Pidan and egg crab, and Yokomizo replies he would just grab between his fingers the edge of the table between the two plates, and turn it accordingly. Yokomizo suddenly realises the killer put some poison under the table on that particular spot. When someone would grab it with their fingers, they would eventually get some poison on them and possibly die later on. Yet, Yokomizo says there were very fewer chances the victim would grab the edge of the table at this very particular spot, except, as Kogoro clarifies it, if he had in his sight two plates of egg meals he would loathe, and therefore he would immediately grab the under spot over which the plates are, and rapidly turn the table away not to have them anymore in his sight. If someone had blocked the spinning of the table, then the victim could even have touched that spot several times to turn away the table again.

Now Kogoro tells Yokomizo to tell him where the soy and hot sauces are when the egg meals are just in front of Kawabata : the soy sauce is near Conan, on the victim’s left, and the hot sauce is near Kawabata, who is sitting on the left of Conan, next to Ran. This means when Conan tried to get the hot sauce, he would have needed to turn the table rightwards, and then he would have prevented Kawabata from touching the spot, or would have possibly caused someone else to come in contact with it. The killer actually wanted to have the egg meals stand in Kawabata’s sight for a long time, in order to annoy and repel the latter, and have him touch the spot quickly and unconsciously so as to turn the table away, which is why he always prevented Conan from turning it first, until Kawabata had done it yet. Though, Yokomizo can’t explain why the killer did the same previously with the soy sauce, and Kogoro says the sauce was near himself at that moment and not near Conan, which means the egg meals were in front of the killer, the latter needing in fact some time to put poison under the table on the specific spot. This is why he would constantly stop Conan from spinning the table, since it would hamper him in his meticulous « work ». Also, the killer needed the poison to be added right before the Peking duck would be served. Indeed, Peking duck is usually eaten using one’s own fingers, and the murderer needed Kawabata to have poison on his fingers right before eating duck, and die afterwards accordingly. To do so, it was paramount to add poison on the spot just before, and the culprit couldn’t let anyone turn the table at that very moment, which would prevent poison from being added, and from being touched and then ingested by the victim. He couldn’t add poison before because it was very likely then someone would touch the spot and get poisoned, or that Kawabata would die before eating duck, which would have seemed too suspicious then. Therefore, the murderer is the person who had the egg plates right in front of him when Conan tried first to get the soy sauce, the person who had shouted to Conan, fearing he might get poisoned after unconsciously laying his fingers right on the spot : '''Kaizo Isogami'''.

The fact that there is also cyanide on Kawabata’s napkin - while it is supposed not to have been in contact with the spot ever - means that napkin is actually Isogami’s. He went to the restroom to soak it with poison beforehand, and then came back. When he saw Kawabata was mopping up a soup stain on his trousers with his own napkin, he also discreetly soaked his’s into his own soup bowl, exactly the same as Kawabata. When the latter died, Isogami rushed pretending to help him, but actually secretly took Kawabata’s napkin away, and dropped his’s instead, to make police believe he was poisoned due to the cyanide on his own napkin. Isogami deliberately put an enormous amount of poison on the napkin in order to fool police into believing it. He also had to use a napkin so as to put poison on the blind spot, he couldn’t use his fingers, it was too risky. He wanted therefore police to believe the napkin was really Kawabata’s due to the soup the latter had to mop up, yet Kawabata wore blue jeans, and when he mopped the stain up, he probably did it, as people usually do, quite vigorously, and then probably some of the jeans’ blue color bled onto the white napkin. Why is Isogami’s napkin having such a colour on it while it isn’t supposed to be Kawabata’s but his own ? Yet, this isn’t incontrovertible evidence, someone could well have left that napkin who isn’t Isogami’s to have him accused of the murder. Kogoro actually wishes Isogami would confess, given he’s still got his clear and good conscience, due to him telling off Conan in order to protect him because he was going to eat with poisoned fingers - which wasn’t the case actually since Kogoro had previously asked the forensics to clean the spot before the reconstitution. Isogami agrees, saying though he has « clear and good conscience », Kawabata didn’t, otherwise he wouldn’t have deliberately caused the death of Rika, the actress who died last year. It wasn’t a shooting accident at all : Rika was the perfectionist type who would always want to play her own scenes without any stunt performer, even the most dangerous scenes with biking for instance. Kawabata, as a sensible and ethical producer, was expected to strictly say no to it, though he would always agree, despite death danger, saying this would reduce costs and make things even more realistic. Ito says Isogami hated Rika though, he said she was nothing else but an ugly, arrogant, stupid and unskilled novice, then why would he seek to revenge her. Isogami says this stupid comment accounts for why Ito would probably always remain an assistant director : even if a filmmaker hates an actor, most of the time, they end up falling in love with the actor, by dint of always looking at them and following their slightest moves and reactions through their own lens, for days and months, no matter how unskilled or ugly the actor is.

As Isogami is about to be taken to the precinct by Yokomizo, he congratulates Kogoro for tricking him with Conan and the poisoned spot, but eventually asks him how he would have forced him to tell the truth if his « clear and good consciousness » had been absent and he had let Conan die. Kogoro says if this had been the case then he would have certainly used very bad, hurting, unbearable words to get Isogami to a corner. The latter says then he’s rather unlucky, he should complain to God who made such a scrupulous man out of him, anyway he doesn’t believe in God or whatever, and he would have loved to film Kogoro cornering him in that case. '''Ran suddenly reacts to the word « God », and pictures herself in a huge city with skyscrappers and Western-style buildings, in the rain, hearing a voice saying « Do you believe in the existence of God ? ». She remembers it to be the voice of a very calm woman, and she starts feeling very dizzy, sweating a lot, and she also hears the resonating sound of the rain, with Shinichi’s picture saying « Do you really need a reason ? ». Akai’s bleak and angry face also yells at her « Move it ! ». She pictures Sharon Vineyard in the rain as well, under an umbrella, telling her in a both sad and happy way « Angels have never smiled upon me, not even a single time ». Ran eventually remembers everything, where she met all those people and why Shinichi was there too, but ends up collapsing and passing out on the floor.'''

</spoiler>

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Kaizo Isogami|Kaizo Isogami manga.jpg|
* 52 years old
* Movie director}}
{{People|Motohiro Ito|Motohiro Ito manga.jpg|
* 38 years old
* Assistant director}}
{{People|Keigo Kitaura|Keigo Kitaura manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Writer}}
{{People|Shiro Kawabata|Shiro Kawabata manga.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 46 years old
* Producer}}
{{People|Rika|Rika manga.jpg|
* Deceased (bike accident)
* Actress}}
{{EndBox}}

== Golden Apple Case ==
{{ref anime|286-288|Shinichi Kudo's New York Case}}

=== Characters introduced ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Toichi Kuroba]]|link=Toichi Kuroba|image = Toichi Kuroba.jpg|description =
* [[Kaito Kuroba]]'s father
* World famous magician
* The first [[Kaitou Kid]]}}
{{EndBox}}

=== File 350 - Golden Apple 1 ===

'''Ran's fever is very high and Yokomizo decides to take her to Bay Bridge Hospital as quick as possible. She has a vision of Conan calling her name aloud in fear, but instead pictures Shinichi, and dreams about a case in New York, where she had been invited with Shinichi by Yukiko Kudo. She also comments on Shinichi being always here to save her, once again, just like that time, just like usual, every time she’s in danger. This always annoys her a bit, but she’s happy in the end.'''

Shinichi and Ran had actually taken the plane to Los Angeles from Tokyo, and Shinichi had solved a murder during the flight, his very first case (Vol. 21). However, once they'd arrived, they were told by Yukiko actually they'd all take another plane to New York, since she hardly managed to get tickets for the must-see opera "Golden Apple", in Broadway's Phantom Theater. However, the show is tonight, and they need to rush, especially because the person who got tickets for the three proposed to show them around the main artists' rooms, backstage, and they accordingly need to be at the theater at least one hour before the curtain riser. Yukiko realises she's actually one hour late due to her forgetting to set her watch fast to summertime. She's driving her beautiful Type-E Jaguar vintage car, and shows the teenagers what it is made of, stepping on it to arrive on time. Ran had been sleeping for a long time now due to the case in the plane frightening her so much she couldn't sleep at all afterwards, and also due to the length of the trip. She only wakes up in the Jaguar, in the back, at night, gazing at the Statue of Liberty in the distance, while Yukiko is driving with Shinichi on her left. She’s quite disappointed Shinichi hasn’t woken her up earlier, she wishes she had seen Brooklyn Bridge, but Shinichi says she was sleeping like a log and he didn't want to bother her. Besides, she can’t understand how Shinichi manages to find sleep in full satisfaction after having solved a recent murder, and he answers her none is always really satisfied « my dear Watson ». Yukiko tells them not to quarrel in the loveliest and most romantic place for lovers : Miss Liberty/Jiyu no Megami.

Shinichi believes her mom’s mild « English-lady-style » driving will never take them to Broadway on time. But Yukiko, saying Jaguar cars were designed to save their passengers, advises her son to fasten his seat belt, and Ran to do so and grab tight hold of anything she’ll find in the back, since she’s going to speed up…a lot. She starts hurtling down the highway, overtaking the other cars at full speed, Shinichi reminding her that, though that car drove the French 24-Hours’ Le Mans’ Race with its 276 hp, though a very skilled New York mechanic of her friends had a look at it, it’s been in reparation recently and she shouldn’t flog it too much. She takes a first tight bend and the right side of the car lifts, frightening both teenagers. Though, Yukiko seems to be a very skilled driver. Shinichi remarks police cars are here and there on the bridge, and her mom replies they’re driving on the other way, and they’ll only get it too late there is a road hog around. Yukiko asks her son to do her a favour, because the next bend is a really, really tight one. Shinichi gets her and takes Ran in his arms, asking her to grab tight hold of him while he sits on the open window, holding tightly the car’s door and bodywork, and lastly lying backwards, with Ran on him. Indeed, Yukiko’s full-speed-taken bend forces the car to do an almost 90° lifting, which would have badly hurt the teenagers if they had stayed at their seats. '''Shinichi seems very confident while Ran is awe-stricken, but trusts her friend.''' Once it’s over, Ran shouts at Shinichi, still panic-stricken, for saying it was « not so scary after all ». As they leave the bridge and highway at full speed, and eventually turn up in Broadway, they're arrested by a police car, and Yukiko is about to be in some great trouble due to an over 40-mile and more speeding. The agent says she looks familiar when glancing at her license and registration.

All of a sudden, Radish Redwood, a well-known police inspector of New York, who got helped many times by Yusaku in the past and knows the Kudos very well, along with speaking very good Japanese (his wife is Japanese), turns up telling the police agent he's probably already seen her in some previous case, since Yukiko is in fact "an undercover agent who was rushing to chase a suspect in the '''"Phantom Slasher" serial killer case''', but she seems to have missed him completely". '''A Japanese-looking man has indeed been murdering young girls in New York after midnight for a few weeks now, and that accounts for the high number of police patrols at night in New York at the moment.''' Radish tells the agent it's OK and the latter leaves, and the inspector starts speaking Japanese, asking Yukiko to thank "her" for saving her. '''And, tearing off his mask, that person disguised as Radish is revealed to be Sharon Vinyard.''' Sharon was waiting for Yukiko with the tickets, and when she heard the agent, one of her fans, telling her a yellow Jaguar is rushing at full throttle towards Broadway, and his comrades walkie-talkied him to arrest the female driver and the two teenagers inside, she decided to go and disguise as Redwood, that she also knows, in order to help her friend out, being compelled to buy a very expensive coat in the meantime to look perfectly like Radish.

'''Sharon and Yukiko met each other about twenty years ago, at world-renowned wizard Toichi Kuroba's (Kid's late father) make-up art courses, in order be taught how to perfectly play spy roles in movies, and hide their true faces behind masks or make-up, Sharon being very good at it, and having even taught her daughter Chris, a flourishing actress, that art, though she's been on very bad terms with her for quite a very long time. Sharon is a bit older than Yukiko. Shinichi confirms her mother’s disguise skills are not that good…being more carnival-like than spy-like.''' Yukiko wonders if it’s not too risky for her friend to show herself among the crowd, but Sharon says they’ll probably believe it’s a movie scene being filmed. Yukiko is very grateful to Sharon, but Shinichi doesn’t seem to know who this great American star is, and why she disguises herself as police officers.

'''Ran thanks heavens for having the opportunity to meet such a great actress, and Sharon is surprised to hear Ran believes in heaven or God or whatever. It starts raining and she takes out her umbrella. She adds if God truly existed, then wouldn’t all honest, hard-working people be happy ? She says "As for me, angels have never ever smiled upon me, not even a single time." The group doesn't seem to understand her words, and especially the both sad and happy way in which she said them.'''

Shinichi inwardly and retroactively comments on the tragic event that would come up soon and that he didn’t want to remember, to the contrary of Sharon's mysterious words.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Radish Redwood|Radish Redwood manga.jpg|
* Captain from New York Police Department}}
{{People|Lilas Sanchez|Lila Sanchez manga.jpg|
* 32 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Akane Nielsen|Akane Neilson manga.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Rose Hewitt|Rose Hewitt manga.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Iberis Hamilton|Iblis Hamilton manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Stage actress
* Heath's wife}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Heath Flockhart|Heath Flockheart manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* 33 years old
* Stage actor}}
{{People|Slasher|350-354 Slasher manga.jpg|
* Serial killer}}
{{EndBox}}

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== See also ==
* [[Manga]]
* [[Volume 31-40]]
* [[Detective Conan]]

{{Volumes}}
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Volume 34

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Exaskliri: Changed his/her to singular they.

{{InfoBox Volume
| volume = 34
| image = Volume 34.jpg
| releasedate = September 18, 2001
| chapters = 340-350
| isbn = 4-09-126164-7
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| english-releasedate = March 16, 2010
| english-isbn = 1-4215-2885-1
| english-publisher = [[Viz Media]]
| detective = [[Akakabu Kenji]]
| keyhole = [[Jugo Yokomizo]]
| prev-volume = Volume 33
| next-volume = Volume 35
| footnotes =
}}
Volume 34 was released on September 18, 2001 in Japan.

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Jodie Starling}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{Char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Shuichi Akai}}
{{Char|Vermouth}}
{{Char|Gin|display=Gin (background)}}
{{Char|Vodka|display=Vodka (background)}}
{{Char|Shiho Miyano|display=Shiho Miyano (photo)}}
{{Char|Pisco|display=Pisco (background)}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{Char|Hideo Akagi}}
{{Char|Naoki Uemura}}
{{Char|Tomoaki Araide|display=Tomoaki Araide (photo)}}
{{Char|Sango Yokomizo|display=Sango Yokomizo (background)}}
{{Char|Toichi Kuroba|display=Toichi Kuroba (background)}}
{{Char|Naomichi Mugikura|display=Naomichi Mugikura (background)}}
{{Char|Mika Nanjo|display=Mika Nanjo (background)}}
{{Char|Yasuo Mihei|display=Yasuo Mihei (background)}}
{{Char|Naoya Tarumi|display=Naoya Tarumi (background)}}
{{Char|Yoshiharu Tawara|display=Yoshiharu Tawara (background)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
}}

== Escalator Message Case ==
{{ref anime|271-272|The Secret Rushed Omission}}

=== File 340 - Time to Pick the Apple ===

Megure tells Jodie he has just phoned Chujo's detective agency to ask his employees if they'd ever been informed about who Chujo was suspecting to be embezzling Kisugi's company's money. They told Megure they had absolutely no idea, since Kisugi had insisted on the investigation to be kept strictly confidential. Furthermore, all data about Chujo's investigations are on his computer and nobody knows the password, and it's not OX△□ at all. Though, Megure sent people there to try and crack the password. Then, the four signs indeed refer to the killer's identity. Jodie and Sonoko say the murderer might be a quizz lover or champion, since Japanese people answer quizzes using "O" or "X" instead of "Yes" or "No". Megure once again keeps them away from the crime scene, saying they're now completely free to leave and go back home.

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Conan steps in saying Inspector Chiba is probably the murderer, since the "Chi" character ideogram in his name looks like an addition cross topped with a diagonal line going towards the left. And when Conan hides the line, it shows a cross, and when he hides the southmost and rightmost lines of the cross, it shows a triangle. Conan finds it strange, and Megure thinks about something having to do with "hiding a part". Conan says Takagi could also be the killer since the "Taka" ideogram character looks like a circle or square topped with a goal symbol, another circle or square, and finally a horizontal line with a perpendicular small line amidst. When Conan hides some parts of the ideogram, only a square or circle is shown. Sonoko says though she doesn't see any circles in the ideogram, and Conan answers many people in Japan write a circle instead of a square to save time when quickly writing a name with a square in it. He gives Agasa's name as an example : the "A" ideogram in "Agasa" usually contains a square, but Agasa always writes it as a circle. The professor would always tell Conan that, when people are in a hurry, they have no other choice but to make abbreviations. Megure instantly realises something while Sonoko tells Conan she swears Takagi and Chiba are innocent since she called them and they came after the murder...

Megure grabs the list and scans the names one after the other, and deduces the murderer is called '''Bunta Kuniyoshi'''. Conan smirks in satisfaction, and Sonoko and Jodie ask for an explanation, and Megure tells them that if they hide the upper halves of the "Bun" "Ta" and "Yoshi" characters, then it shows, from right to left, a triangle, cross and circle, the same order as on the envelope. Though, Sonoko finds quite far-fetched that a triangle was used for the "ta" character, but the inspector replies that, actuallyn when using prints it sure is far-fetched, but when writing it by hand, people tend to consider the small horizontal line at the bottom of the character as a full and long line they often confusingly fix to the two circumflex-like vertical lines just above, which gives a triangle most of the time. People usually do this, as Conan said, to make things quicker and easier. Sonoko still doesn't get it why Chujo would have only written the halves of his murderer's name's characters, and Megure replies actually he did write the name fully, but he did it while the killer was stealing the documents that were inside the envelope, then the only possible thing, in the dark, is that Chujo wrote the upper halves of the name on the document being stolen, instead of the envelope, and only the remaining parts were accordingly found on the top edge of the envelope. Since the killer ran away with the documents, then it's clear why the message seems so enigmatic. As for the square, Chujo actually wrote it inadvertently on the escalator's step, and left only a small mark on the left edge of the envelope, which is why it wasn't found at first. And the square is bigger than the other symbols because it is actually the full character for "Kuni", which wasn't split into halves then. In fact, Chujo was dying and he needed to be quick not to show his killer that he was writing a message, which accounts for why he only wrote the square, and not the character inside the square, hoping people would understand.

Sonoko acknowledges several people only write a square to refer to "Kuni", and Jodie praises "Jules Maigret's incredible investigating qualities". The police rush upstairs to the company in order to arrest Bunta Kuniyoshi. Jodie wonders where Ran has been, since it's quite late now. Sonoko thinks she's probably phoning Shinichi to ask him what "X" means, and then she and Jodie believe a love scene is probably occurring while at the phone. Ran turns up quite angry and blushing, asking what "I'll give you my precious X" means. She adds she is now aware of the meaning of X thanks to Takagi, and she tells Sonoko that whether Shinichi knows it as well or not isn't a problem, because he won't answer to such a question anyway. Sonoko says it's very unlikely he knows what it means, given he's a boy and he's got only a few elements. They all wonder where Conan has been now, as to him. Meanwhile, at the company's project development section, the police ask for Bunta Kuniyoshi to follow them for a few questions in a room nextdoors. He agrees, and Conan spots a paper shredder in the office and suddenly thinks about something. Megure tells Kuniyoshi about his findings, and the latter thinks it's rather too simplistic to make a murderer out of him. It's well possible the true killer used Chujo's own blood and finger to write that message to have Kuniyoshi accused of the crime, and then it wouldn't be a true dying message. He says if they want to hold him responsible, then they have to show him the documents that were stolen from Chujo, and prove he stole them indeed. He adds a killer and robber would have run away from the mall and burned the papers, instead of peacefully coming back to his office in the mall, to work. Conan shows up with Takagi and says they've found the papers in the shredder : Kuniyoshi tried to dispose of them doing so, but actually a shredder doesn't necessarily mixes up the shreds of paper, and actually the blood is still on it, and it's even easier to reassemble than a puzzle. They show the blood marks on the paper shreds, and say it perfectly matches the envelope's ones. If the police search carefully and take some time, they'll find all the remaining documents' shreds inside the shredder - provided he only used one - along with his fingerprints on it, and also on the gloves he discarded in the bathroom - once again provided he is indeed the one who shredded the papers.

Kuniyoshi admits he killed Chujo, saying he now gets it why his university comrades would always write his name using these four symbols. He said he started to divert money so as his family could live a little more comfortably, but afterwards it worked so well that he came to like it, and did more and more of it, and is now trapped into it, just like a mouse which ate too much and which can't go out anymore now. The police take Kuniyoshi away, and Conan joins Ran and co, asking them to tell him now what X means. Sonoko tells him to ask Ran about it : she's sending a message to Shinichi, and has eventually found the meaning. Conan asks her while she's over the moon, thinking about what and how she'll write to her friend. Ran blushes and feels overembarrassed as Conan startles her, and she answers she definitely can't tell him, it's impossible : this is the meaning, impossibility... '''Ran, Sonoko, and Conan eventually go back home and Jodie tells them to watch their step and mistrust stalkers. She then looks at them leaving, inwardly wondering if it's almost time to pick the apple...''' During the night, Conan can't get to sleep due to Kogoro's noisy snoring, and he has a look at Shinichi's phone which received Ran's text message, saying "Today we've been once again caught up in a murder case ! Really, I like wonder if we're not being jinxed or something, after all. The kind of case you love. I'll tell you more about it soon. Hurry up and return ! XXX". Reading this, Conan asks himself if Ran actually means he's an "impossible impossible impossible" boy ?

'''In a dark room only lit up by a computer's screen, next to a glass of alcohol, a smirking woman in babydoll is typing a mail to Gin, saying "Can you tell me please Gin, do you believe in heaven ? You must say coldly..."It's not like you to be so silly." Until we lift our glasses filled with rotten sherry, please find the answer. I can't wait... XXX". The woman then inwardly says X (Chu) means a kiss, it's feminine...expression of affection... Though, she thinks it could also be an evil stamp of hatred, and, saying so, she grabs a dart in an ashtray, kisses it, and slings it violently at a dartboard where three pictures are pinned at, and some others below, looking at it with a dark interest. The woman is revealed to be Vermouth/Chris Vineyard, who adds that X is where the fatal silver arrow shoots, it marks the target spot. The dart indeed hit the bulls-eye right at the center of the dartboard, right at the center of a huge X crossing out the picture of Shiho Miyano in her adult form and lab coat, right in the middle, and right into her head. Next to that picture, there are also two others featuring a happy and smiling Ran, nicknamed "Angel", and a clever-looking and hard-thinking Conan, nicknamed "Cool Guy".'''

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=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Norihisa Kisugi|Norihisa Kisugi manga.jpg|
* 50 years old
* Administrative manager of a Trading Company}}
{{People|Katsunori Chujo|Katsunori Chujo manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 43 years old
* Detective}}

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== Flying Neighbor Case ==
{{ref anime|277-278|English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective}}

=== File 341 - The Hint That Was Against... ===

Conan eventually tells Agasa about Mouri's cases' police files having been recently stolen and then sent back by post to the headquarters. '''The Organisation may be behind that theft, they may be aware that Shinichi is secretly helping Kogoro to solve cases, they could know he was shrunken by APTX, since Kogoro's fame all started when Shinichi went missing.''' Yet, who would believe a seven-year-old anesthetises Kogoro and speaks with a voice-changing bowtie ? Conan may well only be a boy genius, and it's not 100% sure the Organisation stole the documents. Though, someone is discreetly investigating Kogoro, and Conan has something very important to ask to Agasa, the latter saying he's nothing but a search-machine for Shinichi, and not even a confidant. Conan answers he just didn't want Ai to know it (Vol. 33), since this would scare her once again, she would once again refuse to go out, and Conan promised her he would protect her and take things in hand if they were to worsen (Vol. 29). He doesn't want her to be frightened for nothing, but says they must keep it silent to her for now, since Ai isn't as strong as she wants others to believe she is. Conan is however unaware that Ai is eavesdropping their conversation, and inwardly calls him a moron. '''Conan still wonders what's the point for that thief carefully sending the documents back to the police instead of just getting rid of them.''' Is it to trap them or have them understand the thief knows what they're doing ? Or is it maybe a stratagem to scare someone in particular, Shinichi most probably, though it's a rather odd way to scare someone. Conan realises in surprise that Heiji is just next to them, having been secretly called by Agasa in order to be Shinichi's confidant, since at the moment the latter is racking his mind with the Organisation matters. Agasa still wonders how they can catch such an elusive enemy, Heiji replying that if Conan came to tell him the truth and ask him something very important, this means either he's found out a paramount clue, or he just wants to retaliate now.

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Conan acknowledges he's right and tells them again about the Haido City Hotel Case (Vol. 24), during which they spotted Pisco, an Organisation member who was tasked to kill Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a corrupt politician. Shinichi had called Megure telling him to bring and question seven suspects in a private room, since they were all given a purple handkerchief at a certain moment. Given Conan had found a purple handkerchief on the crime scene, it may well have belonged to Pisco, who could be one of them. '''Yet, Pisco was completely unaware of it, then how come is it that he had a purple handkerchief on him when he was questioned ? The only answer is that he had an accomplice among the six other suspects, one who was questioned before him and told him afterwards about it, giving him their own handkerchief. The six suspects are all very mediatised VIPs, but only one of them hasn't given some sign of life since then : Chris Vineyard, the famous American actress, daughter of world-famous actress Sharon Vineyard, and moreover a very beautiful and sly woman.''' Conan has investigated her so far, and she's the fishiest suspect, though he can't believe it for some reasons. Conan needs Agasa's help to browse a recent website created by Chris's fans to encourage her comeback on the stage, and he wants Agasa to pretend to be one of them, and to get as much information as possible on the actress. Conan can't do it since it would be strange that a schoolboy spends his time in Internet cafés searching for information on several websites. Conan says this information could be useful in good time. '''Heiji thinks that Conan is suspecting someone in particular in his entourage, which could be Chris Vineyard in disguise. Agasa thinks Conan is investigating Jodie Saintemilion''', and tells Heiji - despite Conan's refusal - that Jodie is Ran's new English teacher, originating from America. But Conan doesn't want such a hot-blooded guy as Heiji to know it since he would spoil everything by investigating her overtly and awkwardly. Heiji indeed suggests they both go to her place to investigate discreetly. Conan believes Heiji is completely unaware of the BO's dangerousness. '''Ai is startled by the "Chris Vineyard"'s name.'''

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The boys eventually come up to Jodie's flat's door, Heiji wondering how a mere English teacher can afford to live in such a huge and luxurious building, and Conan replying it's because she was born in a very wealthy family. Conan tells Heiji not to act recklessly, but Heiji seems to have no idea what to tell Jodie in order to account for their coming, and Conan can't believe it. They start having a row and Heiji inadvertently presses the door's ring. Conan has to tell Jodie on the intercom that he "came to pay her a liitle visit", and she's very happy about it, and asks him to wait a little moment. Meanwhile, they meet Jodie's neighbour Takai's friends who are leaving his place, all drunk. They seem to blame Takai for being so rude and nasty when he's drunk. After a very long wait, Conan and Heiji are eventually welcomed by Jodie, only dressed in a sexy robe, apologising for the wait, since she was having a bath when they rang. Conan explains he has brought a friend to introduce him to her, and she asks them to wait in the lounge while she gets herself ready. The boys say they need to go to the bathroom, '''and actually start checking out something in the bath and floor sink. Jodie overhears what they are doing behind the door, and smirks in satisfaction.''' Afterwards, she decides to take them to a restaurant since she has nothing at home to prepare a meal for them with. Heiji gets infuriated at her beacuse she tells him he looks like a foreigner who doesn't speak very good Japanese, but Conan tries to cool down the situation saying Kansai people are often very tanned and speak a very thick Japanese, such as Southern-American English for instance. Jodie is then told Heiji is also one of Mouri's friends. In front of Jodie's building, they notice Chika Shimoda, Takai's girlfriend who had left the latter's flat and locked it with two other men, is taking snaps of the building, towards the top. Heiji comments on it being rather odd, and suddenly, a phone falls down from upwards, followed by Takai's body, which crashes on the ground.

=== File 342 - The Flying Neighbor ===

The four people but Shimoda look at the corpse in a cold-blooded behaviour, saying the person died instantly. Jodie recognises her neighbour Takai and Shimoda starts crying in despair. She tells them Takai was drunk and sleeping on his bed when they all left, she would never have imagined he wanted to commit suicide. Jodie says he could have been pushed in the void from his flat by a kind of burglar just as well, but Shimoda says it's impossible : there was none in the apartment when they all left, and she locked the flat because Takai was too drunk to do it properly. Besides, there's only one key, and it's impossible to hear the doorbell from the bedroom. Then, it's nothing but a suicide. Though, Conan and Heiji tell her it's not necessarily the case, because Takai was speaking with a certain Kawakami on the phone just before dying, and one minute ago he had also received a text message from a certain Nakamichi. What's more, Shimoda was behaving strangely when taking pictures of the building in the dark, these are many peculiar reasons why the hypothesis of suicide can't be absolutely established for the moment. And a person who wants to kill themselves doesn't necessarily has a phone in hand. Heiji asks Shimoda to call her friends Michiya Nakamichi and Noboru Kawakami, and tell them to come along, while they'll also call the police for Shimoda to give a clearer explanation to them. Shimoda tells Megure she actually left Takai's flat to drive Nakamichi and Kawakami back home since they were far too drunk to drive carefully. She told Takai she would come back right after, which is why she locked the flat with his key. Afterwards, she drove back to Takai's, but before going upstairs, she took a few snaps of the building to show her friends where her new boyfriend was living. It is the first time she has come here, while Nakamichi and Kawakami already know the place. She intended to go back to Takai's flat right after, but never expected him to kill himself.

Shimoda, Nakamichi, Takai and Kawakami all work at the same place. They had come at noon to have a few drinks in order to celebrate Takai's promotion to the position of assistant manager of their company. They wanted to stay till late at night, but Takai was getting too drunk, and started to abuse everyone, then they decided to leave. He told them they were and will always be losers because they lacked something which would always prevent them from moving up the social ladder : insensitivity and ambition. Nakamichi later on sent a text message to Takai telling him never to forget "those at the bottom". They also discussed the "Hiraya case" : one of her friends and co-corkers Sumiyo Hiraya who committed suicide last month. Hiraya was a childhood friend of Nakamichi, and they met Takai and Kawakami at college. Takai and Kawakami already knew each other, and Shimoda belonged to the same year group as Hiraya. They remember Hiraya was a very kind and respectful person. She killed herself due to burnout, because she would work far too much. Probably because Takai had told her some day - though he was kidding her actually, and drunk - that if she didn't work even harder than the others, she would be quickly fired in the end. Takai seemed to have forgotten about that story, which is why Kawakami phoned him to remind him that he won his promotion out of blood, he is responsible for Hiraya's death, his career is being founded out of suffering and death. That left him speechless and he hung up afterwards, and Kawakami was then called by Shimoda and came back here at once with Nakamichi. Kawakami acknowledges he's more or less responsible for Takai's leaping in the void, though he never forced him to kill himself, then he's not a criminal. And he was drunk moreover, then Megure should just let them all go back home, since it's a mere suicide. The employees say they've actually already told all of this to Conan, Heiji and Jodie, who asked them to give them Takai's flat's key, and they're probably upstairs now, at the 21st floor. While the latter are thinking about the case, Megure and co, out of breath, turn up, too late, because the group already went into the flat, checked the place, and took pictures of it.

They all come in once again, Heiji telling Megure the door was indeed locked when they tried first. Heiji and co really thought to suicide too until they came in Takai's bedroom and saw the window near the bed was open and a curtain was fluttering in the wind outside. It's clear the victim jumped from that window, but Heiji attracts Megure's attention on the curtain in itself : it's as if someone had pulled it too much strongly, so much that it came off the rod and damaged it, and some hooks popped away. This means Takai was about to fall and then instinctively tried to grab hold of the curtain, in order to pull himself up. Therefore, it's not a suicide but a murder. Jodie appears saying it's just like in movies or novels, sealed chambers murders. She gives Megure her testimony and account of the events. Heiji says he's still not solved the case, but actually found strange impact marks left on the outside window pane, as if someone had hit it from the outside. Chiba then comes up saying he's got Shimoda's pictures' development, among which an enlargment showing Takai indeed grabbing hold of the curtain and about to fall into the void, and flinging his phone against the pane. Shimoda took this picture but couldn't see Takai, it was too far away from the ground, and it appeared like a tiny shadow on the picture. Jodie and co once more reflect about the case aloud, and Megure hollers at them, ordering them to let police work alone this time, commenting that it's been very frequent in these days that his investigations are being interrupted at some point by Ran, Conan, Sonoko, Jodie or co (Vol. 27, 33, etc.) - though Takagi acknowledges that cases are always solved thanks to them, at every time. Conan and Heiji still can't find out how Takai ended up outside his room, being forced to grab hold of a curtain not to fall. Shimoda just took flash pictures towards the top of the building, Nakamichi sent Takai a message a minute before the fall, and Kawakami abused him on the phone, but even though he'd have said "Die", Takai would never have done it. The victim may have flung his phone because there might have been a clue on it he wanted police to find, but actually Heiji checked it out and found nothing at all.

Jodie secretly looks at them as Heiji gets a phone call from an angry Kazuha, who can't believe he forgot their date at the mall. Conan tells Jodie he "doesn't know who Heiji is speaking with", and Heiji realises his mistake. He tries to promise Kazuha they'll do it some other day, but the reception is poor and they can barely hear each other. Heiji goes to the balcony to get better reception, telling Kazuha he's in Tokyo right now, and it's too late then. Doing so, he suddenly realises something very important. Kazuha says she doesn't understand a word he says, but is 100% sure they had planned a meeting, since she wrote it in her datebook. Upon hearing this, Heiji and Conan rush towards the other end of the balcony, and glance through a window at Takai's bedroom. '''They eventually find out the truth while Jodie secretly takes pictures of them.'''

=== File 343 - Who Are You? ===

Heiji suggests a reconstitution of the events in which he would give the police a hand, which would help them to find out who the killer is. He adds that, for the experiment to be conclusive, they need someone to get drunk and play the victim. Jodie is the perfect actress, given neither policemen who are on duty, nor Heiji and Conan who are minors, are allowed to drink alcohol. '''Jodie agrees, provided Heiji gives her some of her favourite drink : Sherry... Conan is puzzled about it, while Heiji finds ludicrous the way Jodie is getting drunk with it.''' Heiji then asks the police to leave Takai's bedroom for a moment while they're preparing the place for the reconstitution. Once they're done yet, they come out saying they "put Jodie to sleep" in the bed and left Takagi's phone near the pillow, and try not to wake her up, just like Takai's friends did with the latter.

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They start the reconstitution and '''Heiji sends a text message to Jodie''', just like Nakamichi send his's to Takai, which woke him up, and Jodie receives the message in the dark. '''She is startled when reading it : "Who are you ?". This makes her smile mysteriously. She then confirms she got the "cute" message, though Heiji refuses to tell Conan about it.''' Then, just like Shimoda took flash pictures of the top part of the building, Chiba, at the bottom, takes the flash snaps, using Jodie's camera. At last, just like Kawakami phoned Takai before the latter fell, Heiji phones Jodie, asking her to speak with him like Takai spoke with Kawakami, very casually and normally. '''He asks her to answer his text message, but first Jodie would like Heiji to tell her more about himself, who he really is too, and she asks him "You're not an ordinary teenager, are you ?" (in Japanese). To which Heiji replies "Yes, yes, (in English) I am a very ordinary teenager (in Japanese)".''' The call reception starts getting poorer, and Jodie says this has to do with them being at the 21st floor, they're very high and it's perfectly normal then that telephonic waves are getting rarer. It's just like at her own home when she's phoning. She gets up, goes to open the window on the left, and says she'll go on the balcony, and he'll hear her better. Suddenly, she screams in fear, asking them to help her. Megure rushes and switches on the light, only to find Jodie about to fall into the void, grabbing hold with her feet and hands to the window panes and frame, and he notices she's been tied to a rope itself tied to the bed, which actually prevents her from falling, something she was totally unaware of. Megure also realises they changed the place of the bed, which explains why Jodie confused the windows and thought she was going on the balcony, while actually she was stepping over the window overlooking the void. Jodie, just like Takai, is used to stepping over the window overlooking the balcony from the bed to have a better reception when phoning.

The murderer, '''Noboru Kawakami''', actually used that trick to have Takai fall into the void without the latter's knowing it. Usually, Takai's bed is placed just in front of the window overlooking the balcony, so as he would easily go to the balcony when phoning. He would get up on his bed, step over the window, and phone on the balcony. But Kawakami changed the bed's place, and Takai ended up stepping over the window overlooking the void, and falling. No wonder he fell then, especially if it was dark and he was hungover, and still drowsy. While the employees were all having drinks in the lounge, Kawakami pretended going to the bathroom, but actually went to Takai's bedroom, and moved the bed in front of the "void" window. Nobody would notice it, since Shimoda had come to Takai's for the first time, and Nakamichi would find no difference, in the dark, the windows being absolutely similar. Afterwards, Takai was put to sleep in his bed with his phone next to his head. Later on, Nakamichi texted him and Kawakami phoned him, and pretended not to hear him very well - or maybe it was the case - and forced Takai to leap unvoluntarily into the void. The police would never get it that Takai's bed was actually at the wrong place. Kawakami says Takai had actually told him in private to help him moving the furniture of his room because he wanted to change the layout, and Kawakami pretends he wasn't aware that this could be dangerous to Takai. But Conan presses a button on Takai's phone which plays a recording track of Kawakaki's voice saying "Farewell Takai, where you are going, you'll apologise to Hiraya". Heiji explains that before falling, Takai, who still had his phone in hand, recorded Kawakami's words with the "Memo" button, and then either he or Kawakami hung up (or when the phone fell on the ground), and Takai flung his phone at the window, hoping to scrape its screen and have the police understand he had recorded his killer's words, such contemptible words.

After the case, Heiji hands Jodie back her camera, apologising for using her as a test subject, but actually, to be very realistic, the reconstitution needed the "victim" to be completely unaware of it, just like Takai was. The police still believe it was very dangerous. Jodie says it was very pleasant actually, and asks Heiji's name, and Heiji asks her first to answer his text message. She says she is very skilled at speaking English, but Heiji doesn't seem to be very good at it as for him. She explains that, '''when she asked him "You're not an ordinary teenager, are you ?", Heiji answered "Yes, yes, I am a very ordinary teenager".''' '''She asked it in Japanese, and Heiji replied in English-Japanese, which means either he doesn't know how to speak English properly, or he wanted to answer in English. But the English answer to that "tag" is "Yes, I am (ordinary)", and Heiji said or meant "Yes, I am not (ordinary)". Japanese who are good at English usually answer to that "tag" by "Yes, I am (ordinary)" or "No, I am (ordinary)". Yet, Heiji confused everything and actually said he was both ordinary and extraordinary... Then either he's bad at English or he's lying, and Jodie assures she's a true English teacher. However, Heiji startles her replying, in excellent English, that he never pretended not to be able to speak English, he actually meant it in English, but silence is way better anyway than her funnily disguised Japanese. He explains Jodie actually speaks perfect Japanese, and pretends the opposite in order to be considered as a "poor foreigner", and not to be considered too seriously, while actually she is. Heiji heard her Japanese accent and it's clear she's forcing herself to speak "bad" Japanese.''' He then leaves with Conan, saying he'll discuss it more broadly with her next time, bidding her "Sayonara". Megure and Takagi comment on the fact that if they had known earlier Jodie was so good at Japanese, they wouldn't have asked her to take part to the reconstitution, or at least they would have explained her everything. '''Jodie suddenly thinks to something and checks her camera, only to find the roll is missing indeed - it's unclear if she expected it or not.'''

On their way home, Conan and Heiji discuss Jodie's "fishiness", since '''Heiji realised she took several pictures of them in secret. She also pretended to be having a bath when they rang, which is false : Conan and Heiji noticed it when searching the bathroom, the hairdryer was still hot, and there was still some wet body moisturising lotion on the floor. This means she had already taken her bath when they rang, and she was already dry, and she wasn't interrupted in her bath at all or hadn't started it at all. She actually needed some time to hide her "important things" and quickly wetted her hair and body again with hot water, along with the bath, and left some of her hair in the sinks, and all the rest, in order to make them believe she took so much time because she was in the water and needed to dry off, while it wasn't the case at all actually. Heiji says however he's got the roll now, yet he doesn't believe Jodie is such a bad woman, though she's quite weird. Moreover, he doesn't find any likeness between her and Chris Vineyard''' - depsite the "big breasts". '''Conan says he's probably right but can't help thinking about something :''' '''she's not that bad, as long as this is her true face...''' Heiji asks him to speak his mind, but Conan switch gears and advises him to go back to Osaka as quick as possible to meet Kazuha, since she's probably still waiting. Before leaving, Heiji recommends his friend to be very cautious, given '''that person who stole the documents is like an invisible enemy, someone who is able to steal classified police documents in the headquarters and send them back neatly as if nothing had happened.''' He asks Shinichi to call him if he ever spots shifty people around. '''As Heiji rushes away, Conan inwardly comments that he isn't suspecting only Jodie, but also two other people, of being very sleazy.'''

'''Alone in her flat, Jodie mysteriously and darkly comments on Heiji Hattori, son of Osaka's Prefectural Police Chief Heizo Hattori, being a very clever and interesting guy, and being, just like Shinichi Kudo, a private eye. Saying so, she uncouples her bathroom's mirror from its frame, revealing dozens of pictures among which two pictures of Conan and Ran with "Cool Guy" and "Angel" written respectively on each (the exact same as in Vermouth's/Chris Vineyard's room, Escalator Case, Vol. 34), pictures from the Mouri Agency, from Ran's high school or Conan's primary shcool, one picture from the School Play Case (Vol. 26) on which Shinichi is featured in his knight disguise along with Ran, Heiji and Kazuha, and one from the same case featuring Sonoko and Dr. Araide.'''

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=== People ===
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{{People|Chika Shimoda|Chika Shimoda manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Michiya Nakamachi|Michiya Nakamachi manga.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Noboru Kawakami|Noboru Kawakami manga.jpg|
* 33 years old
* Office worker}}
{{People|Takai|File 341-343 Takai manga.jpg|
* Victim (fell)}}
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== Soccer Supporter Case ==
{{ref anime|279-280|Hooligan's Labyrinth}}

=== Characters introduced ===
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{{NewChar|name = [[Ryusuke Higo]]|image = Ryusuke Higo.jpg|description =
* Soccer player for Big Osaka}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Rikuo Endo]]|image = Rikuo Endo.jpg|description =
* Soccer player for Noir Tokyo
* Higo's older half-brother}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Sharon Vineyard]]|image = Sharon Vineyard.jpg|description =
* Deceased?
* Famous American actress
* [[Yukiko Kudo]]'s good friend}}
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=== File 344 - The Storm of Booing ===

Agasa and the DBs have been to the derby between Tokyo Spirits and Noir Tokyo. The former won the match, and everyone is leaving the stadium towards the train station. On their way back, the DBs comment on the super-duper match they've just watched, and also on the supporters' constantly booing Ryusuke Higo from Big Osaka during a previous match against Noir some time ago. Ai says this is perfectly normal for a traitor, they have no place where to shelter at all. Higo "betrayed" his Noir team when he left them for Big Osaka, then it's probably well deserved. Conan says it's rather because Higo has still not scored any goals for five days now, since the tournament started. There's also a hearsay about Higo's possibly leaving once again his team to go and play in Spanish League. Ai says if this rumour were justified, then that would be the best he could do, running away from all this shame and suffering, to play in a faraway stadium where none will boo him anymore. Conan wonders what she is thinking to, while the DBs realise today at 5 PM there's actually a match in which Higo is playing. They watch it on a street TV, and notice Higo doesn't play properly, probably due to the thunder of booing in the audience. A passer-by, Kadotake Akano, says Higo deserves well his fate for having left his Noir Tokyo team, he adds traitors who fall down to hell never get over it. He then leaves laughing out loud, and Conan says Akano is a notorious superviolent hooligan who keeps picking up fights with supporters during and after matches, and he goes as far as encouraging the bullying, beating-up and sometimes killing of supporters he dislikes. His "Tokyo Hooligan" website prompted his blacklisting from several stadiums, fearing he might cause big trouble.

Conan secretly asks Agasa what information he's found so far about Chris Vineyard, and the professor says '''Chris's private life remains a complete mystery, while her mother Sharon's is known from everyone. The only time Chris appeared in public, except during filmings, was at her mother's funeral, last year.''' The event was so important it was even broadcast on Japanese TV. '''Tabloids' reporters harassed her with questions such as which school she attended, if she were on bad terms with her late mother, who her father was, was the man whom she allegedly had an affair with at the moment at the funeral too, etc. She only gave a "no comment" answer, and a reporter eventually asked her if this was because these truths could be detrimental to her if they were to be disclosed. She turned her back on her mother's coffin, and, smiling, she said " a secret makes a woman woman".''' Agasa remembers '''a very famous Japanese actress looking like Yukiko Kudo was seen among the cortege, but none seems to know who she was, since Chris's words had caught all and everyone's attention around.''' Conan stands wondering, and Agasa asks him '''if Chris Vineyard really belongs to the Black Organisation, to which Conan answers if it were to be the case, she would then be a very, very problematic enemy. Agasa thinks Shinichi is still trying to conceal something from him, and Conan just says actually as an actress she's used to lie and fake reality, then she could lead them to red herrings very easily.'''

Conan suggests they all take the train now and go back home, while Ai is looking at Higo's match with some strange apprehension. The train is overcrowded with supporters from both teams, to the point they're all packed like sardines in a can. This is all because Genta wanted to take the first train to be quickly at home in order to watch Higo's match on his TV. Akano is also on the train, complaining aloud about the overcrowding. Mitsuhiko is listening to the match on his portable radio, and Ai puts her head and ear against his's in order to listen more carefully to the match results. Mitsuhiko blushes and tells her Higo's teammates now hesitate to pass the ball to him due to the audience's booing being unbearable now. Ai is saddened by this and asks him to tell her if there's any breaking news about him later on. Conan notices her state of mind, and suddenly the train brakes abruptly, and Conan sees Akano being stabbed to death by an unknown assailant. At Haido Station, the train is emptied at last due to most of the supporters leaving it for the subway, and Conan and co gaze awe-sricken at Akano's bloody corpse on the floor, next to a dagger.

=== File 345 - The Suspicious Supporters ===

Conan rushes out of the train towards a station manager, asking the latter to stop all trains immediately, and to tell his colleagues to control the tickets of every supporter leaving the station, since somebody was murdered by one of them in one of the train's carriages. Especially, they should keep aside those who bought their tickets before 5 PM, and he asks him to do it very quickly, or else the killer will escape. The police is called and Megure rapidly turns up. They recognise Akano, the infamous violent hooligan. It seems that the dagger found next to him, and which was used to kill him, is quite rare, with handmade embed patterns. Takagi called all resellers in Japan but they one and all told him it's something which was made in a foreign country, therefore it'll take a great deal of time to find the owner. Given the train was overcrowded, there are no witnesses of the crime at all. People started to realise there was a corpse only when all supporters left the train towards the subway stations. Nobody seemed fishy since they were all dressed in the same way, whether it was Tokyo Spirits or Noir Tokyo. The station manager tells Megure his colleagues kept aside three supporters, just as Conan had suggested him to do. Conan explains it's impossible to commit such a murder, among the crowd, and in a train, without having thought about it way beforehand. The murderer was probably stalking Akano, and bought a ticket in advance, which means before the end of the match, probably just before its beginning, so as not to be compelled to queue at the machines at the end, and in order then to follow Akano into his train car without any problems. They just needed to stand not far away from him, and stab him just before they arrived at Haido Station, when the train would brake abruptly, and people would be jostled, and would then one and all leave towards the subway. They just had to slip among them and pretend being a mere traveller. The culprit is probably a supporter, because otherwise people would have remembered their clothing. Moroever, there aren't so many people who buy their tickets in advance, then no wonder they're just three, most people just follow the crowd and buy their tickets at the same time, queueing, etc. And the match precisely ended at around 5 PM. However, Megure points at the fact they may have changed clothes in the station before leaving, or they could even just have gone to take another train in the opposite direction, or somewhere else. Conan says both suppositions are impossible : the restroom is located outside the station, then just after the "barrier" set up by the train station employees. And if the murderer had been to another platform, they would have been quickly spotted, since they probably would be the only one to wear a football shirt. And they couldn't of course change clothes on the platform, it would have seemed too much suspicious. The safest way to change clothes without being noticed at all was to go to the restroom located outside the station, and escape amidst the supporting crowd. They also knew that Haido Station is an important hub where many people get in/off the subways/trains.

The police are amazed, as usual, and Takagi asks Conan how come did he think to all this in a heartbeat right after the murder? Conan tries to protect hismelf claiming Agasa is the one who thought to everything and sent him to tell those things to the managers. Conan tells the police Agasa wanted them to question the three supporters kept aside. All three indeed bought their tickets beforehand in order to avoid queueing at the machines. Yet, they say it doesn't mean they're the murderers. Though, it's strange all of them got into a crowded train, since with their tickets already in hand at the end of the derby, they could just have caught the first carriage, instead of getting into an overcrowded one like all those who queued. Hazue Kira, a Noir supporter, explains she was in the central bleachers where supporters of both teams are mingled, and she got in a little fight with some Spirits supporters and wasted time, forcing her to take the next crowded train. Mitsuaki Funato, a Spirits supporter, had a phone call from his boss towards the end of the match, because he had lied to his boss about his absence so as to come here discreetly and skip work, and got severely told off by the latter, and the blaming was so long that it lasted until late after the match, and Funato even missed the goal of the "ace wingers" (Naoki and Hideo). Etsutoshi Aoba, a Noir supporter, got so shocked of the match's result, that he stood gaping in a blackout state for a long time even after the derby, and also wasted time. They can't remember in which carriage they got on, yet Conan is pretty sure they were all into overcrowded ones. First, Kira's left hand's ring left a mark on her right elbow because she was tightly holding her handbag's strap and zipper due to the place being crowded and therefore very suitable to stealing property, for a very long time. Then, Ooba crossed his arms for a long time during the fare, and left marks of his left wrist's watch on his right arm, due to him not wanting to be accused of having wandering hands. Lastly, Funato tightly held his leather bag between his hands and still has marks of it on all of his fingers, for the same reason as Kira, to avoid pickpocketing. Conan is almost sure it was like that, because the train was very, very crowded, and people could easily stand in the same position for a very long time, with crossed arms or without grabbing hold to bars or handles in the train, and without even being able to sit down. The three acknowledge this is all true, and Conan says this is what Agasa told him to say... Megure tells the suspects to try and remember as much as possible in which train car they were. Conan looks at the suspects' football shirts : Aoba wears Higo's "9" shirt, Kira wears a black Noir shirt, and Funato wears a black and white striped Spirits shirt, and Conan finds something's not quite right on them.

Ai is nowhere to be found, Mitsuhiko last saw her when she told him she was going to the restroom. Mitsuhiko laments that he's lost his radio due to the crowd movement, he hopes someone found it and brought it to the lost property's. Ai is actually watching Higo's match at the station's giant screen, and is shocked to see Higo's missed his goal, as if "the sky had abandoned him". Ai is joined by Conan and is startled when the latter tells her she's indeed just like Higo, leaving the Organisation to go to another "better team", "betraying them" in a way. And just like Ai, Higo had a really good reason to leave them. Higo's father had had a secret child with his mistress : Rikuo Endo. Rikuo and Higo though got on very well, and decided to go and play together in first division in Noir Tokyo. Few people know that story actually, and they keep it secret. Shinichi was told that story by Higo and Endo themselves, he met them by chance some years ago, when he was in first-level secondary school, while he was playing a football match at school. They had come among the audience to see the match, and they told Shinichi he had the potential to join Noir Tokyo like they were about to do, his half-brother and himself. Though, this was all a trap, because two years after the brothers' arrival, Endo was told he lacked the necessary potential to stay with them and become a great player, whereas Higo had it actually. Endo figured out he was taken on for the sole ground of being Higo's brother and then being the only one able to attract him into their team, since they knew Higo was a great player, but Endo wasn't. Higo got it as well and soon left the team just like his brother did, and joined this latter in their new Big Osaka team, because he wanted to play there together with his brother. Endo became instructor there, and Higo player. It's exactly the same thing with Ai and her sister Akemi actually - the teams standing for the Organisation and the "life outside the Organisation".

Suddenly, their attention goes back to the screen as Higo gets knocked down by another player, but the referee doesn't seem to bat an eyelid, and the supporters rejoice when seeing him badly hurt, and keep on booing. Ai's mood turns darker when listening to the anchor saying "Higo doesn't seem to have any ally in this world, though it's a shame because he's so talented..." She leaves while Conan's attention is completely monopolised by the match, and he suddenly discovers something, looking at his derby ticket. He then inwardly declares he knows who the murderer is and that the latter has lied and that he still has the evidence of their doing. Ai goes straight away to the staircase leading to the platform just in front of where the DBs and Agasa are, and she seems to be preparing to take a train going in the opposite direction and leaving Tokyo...

=== File 346 - The Fake Supporter ===

Takagi tells Megure they’ve finished carefully examining the whole train and carriage where the murder took place, and brought it to the warehouse. Megure says now they’ll take the three suspects to the station to question them more thoroughly, though they refuse to follow him since he’s got no tangible evidence they’ve committed the murder. Conan and Agasa turn up saying the three suspects should leave in no case, unless Megure takes the chance to let slip away some important crime evidence.

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Conan impersonates Agasa saying the murderer is the « fake supporter » who lied to them. Kira says this might be Funato since he said « ace wingers » when referring to Hideo and Naoki, while actually this is a very old-fashioned expression, nowadays people don’t say « wingers » but « centre-forward players », modern football isn’t played using « winger » strategy anymore. Funato rationalises saying he’s quite old-fashioned indeed and isn’t such a football aficionado as them, he just heard about the « aces » and knew they had scored a goal, he didn’t lie at all. Agasa says it’s indeed the case, he’s only made a a language mistake, and the killer isn’t someone who isn’t a football fan but someone who hasn’t seen the match at all while they claim they have. He goes on explaining that the Spirits-Noir was a very important derby, so that thousands and thousands of people had come to see it, and then it’s very unlikely the murderer was among them, since they would have got lost into the crowd after the game, and would have eventually lost sight of the victim, Akano. The killer instead probably waited in the stadium’s bathroom listening to the match with a portable radio, and then quickly left once the game was over, in order to stand at a strategic place and wait for Akano to emerge, and track him down right after. In order to know who that murderer is, Agasa suggests they all once more listen to the suspects' testimonies. Kira claims she was in the central bleachers and perfectly saw the « aces »’ goal, which annoyed her a lot, to the point she easily got in a fight with Spirits’ supporters. Aoba claims he was watching the game in the bleachers’ curve section, with other Noir’s supporters, behind Spirits’ goal, and very perfectly saw Hideo’s and Naoki’s double goal. Funato was near the curve section, on the opposite side, among Spirits’ supporters, and, tough luck, missed the boys’ goal since his boss called him right at that moment, and just saw the players afterwards, hearing that both had scored the victorious point. The suspects believe Agasa wants to check if they’ve really been to the match, and they one and all show their tickets to prove it. The DBs say they were in the central section too and saw the goal but never notice Kira around, to which she answers it’s perfectly normal since there were hundreds of people, and their seats were probably far away from hers. Agasa asks her then in which direction Hide and Nao were running before shooting, and she says she saw them coming from the right, towards the left, and shooting then. Agasa says then according to her viewpoint, Noir’s goal is on the left.

Agasa tells Takagi Tokyo Spirits were the home team for the derby, and Noir was the away one, something which is clearly written on the game’s tickets. As a rule, in J-League, the home team’s supporters’ seats are mostly on the left according to the central bleachers’ viewpoint, and some of them can be seated behind Noir’s goal, which is on the left. That's the complete opposite for the away’s : they’re all on the right from the central and can be seated behind Spirits’ goal. This means in truth Naoki scored from left to right, in front of his team’s supporters, therefore it’s impossible someone from the complete opposite side could have very perfectly seen how it was all done, yet it’s what '''Etsutoshi Aoba''' told them. Because he probably heard it on the radio, he thought they had scored a goal in front of Noir supporters, since it was Noir’s goal, forgetting completely about the real seat arrangement in J-League, which proves he wasn’t seating in the bleachers but was instead in the bathroom or so. Aoba explains hismelf saying he did a language mistake just like Funato, he meant the boys were coming closer to the opposing goal, and that was just a slip of the tongue to refer to Noir, due to the questioning’s tension. He says he has the ticket proving he was seating with Noir’s supporters. Agasa says it’s false : if he really had been among Noir supporters with a « Ryusuke Higo »’s « 9 » football shirt like the one he is wearing, he would have been utterly lynched, and people would have remembered it - because Higo is considered a traitor by Noir. Megure says this is not tangible proof though, and Agasa tells him to look around Aoba’s underarm : since it’s quite weird to see someone holding a dagger in public, or to see someone taking one out of a bag, Aoba probably crossed his arms during the whole fare to conceal the dagger he had in hand, and given he’s wearing a T-shirt with short sleeves, the dagger’s sheath’s carved patterns left marks around his underarm, which is quite tangible proof. He had got into the train crossing his arms, and as the train was reaching Haido Station, he uncrossed his arms and stabbed Akano when the train braked. Of course, he wore a glove on his right hand, but it didn't prevent the sheath mark from being imprinted on the forearm. Megure tells the expert to take a picture of it, while Ooba comments on this irony : to avenge his brother, he had gathered material about football and had learned to be the « perfect supporter », which was completely useless in the end.

He says his twin brother was murdered by Akano one year ago. After attending a Noir match, his twin came back home covered with injuries and bruises, saying he had missed a step in the stairs and fallen down it. In the evening, he suddenly suffered a horribly painful headache and had to be taken to the hospital in emergency. He lost consciousness right after and died three days later, following a brain hemorrhage caused by a head trauma. Aoba figured out what happened when visiting « Tokyo Hooligans », Akano’s site his brother would often visit too, and reading about Akano's rejoicing about pushing someone « stupid » down the stairs just because he had been coming for quite a long time at the stadium. Aoba then went to meet Akano who got surprised « he was still alive ». Then he decided to avenge his brother’s death wearing the latter’s favourite Higo shirt, which actually kind of brought him bad luck, and which is maybe why Akano killed his twin that day. Wearing this shirt today was maybe a warning from his twin telling him not to revenge him, because on his way Aoba didn’t meet any Noir supporters, who could have blamed him for wearing that shirt, and if this had been the case, he could just have listened to them and probably gone back home, and things would have had a completely different turn. He is then taken away by police, as everyone gaze at him flabbergasted and thinking.

The DBs then wonder where Ai has been, and Ayumi spots her on the opposite platform, wondering what she’s doing there since the Beika train isn’t on that platform. Conan gets it Ai is fed up with her « traitor » life and wants to escape once again, forever, far away from Tokyo. A train arrives there and Conan rushes to that platform, hoping to stop her. Once there though, it’s too late, the train leaves, and Conan shouts Ai’s name in anger and despair. She has actually remained on the platform, asking him why he’s shouting that loud. She ironically tells him she didn’t run away, instead she had beforehand asked a station manager if he had found any radio around, and she was told to ask the cleaner on the opposite platform, who actually found Mitsuhiko’s radio. Conan seems relieved and Ai reminds him of his words to her not to always run away, and to face her fate, and also his oath to protect her whatever occurs. She realises Conan and co care about her a lot, and Conan is happy she took that decision, though she says she’s not the kind of girls in constant need of protection. Conan casually informs her Higo eventually scored a golden victorious goal for his team, and that all the booing and whistling at him were to prompt him to do his best, and eventually they got even louder after his goal, and turned into joyful and warm cheering-up. Ai coldly tells him she doesn't care a fig about it, she’s not a seven-year-old football fanatic like him. But actually, she secretly goes and watches Higo’s victorious smile on the giant screen, and seems to enjoy it a lot, and Conan spots her from far and inwardly comments on her being a liar, as usual, and that she is betraying her supposed poker face.

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=== People ===
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{{People|Kadotake Akano|Kadotake Akano manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 48 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan and self-styled hooligan}}
{{People|Hasue Kira|Hasue Kira manga.jpg|
* 24 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan}}
{{People|Mitsuaki Funato|Mitsuaki Funato manga.jpg|
* 33 years old
* Tokyo Spirits fan}}
{{People|Etsutoshi Oba|Etsutoshi Oba manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Noir Tokyo fan}}
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== Chinatown Murder Case ==
{{ref anime|284-285|Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain}}

=== Characters introduced ===
{{NewChar|name = [[Jugo Yokomizo]]|image = Jugo Yokomizo.jpg|description =
* Police Inspector
* Twin brother of [[Sango Yokomizo]]}}
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=== File 347 - Raining Deja-Vu ===

Ran has an important history exam tomorrow and mugs up on it at the eleventh hour, due to her karate training taking too much time in these days, and because there are important TV programs she absolutely wants to watch tonight. Conan is surprised she's not being carsick due to reading while in a car, and she answers she's tougher than she looks. '''It starts raining and she remembers a scene she is unable to date back, featuring a dark Shuichi Akai looking daggers at her, in a kind of Western-style city, Akai standing still under the rain. She doesn't neither understand why she keeps connecting that scene to another one whenever she has it in mind, a scene where "teenager" Shinichi is also standing still in the rain, completely soaked, smiling in a strange way, both sadly and nicely. She has no idea what's going on, and what Shinichi is trying to tell her.''' Conan asks her if everythings's okay, since she's always got that wrinkle between the eyebrows whenever she feels concerned by something. She replies this has to do with a complicated history question, and she resumes her learning, but seems to be having a kind of bad fever and starts having blurred vision. Though, she believes it's just carsickness after all, and she insists on going and eating with them at a Chinese restaurant in Ikebukuro, since she's the one who got discount vouchers for that very fine and select place. Conan keeps an eye on her however. In the Chinatown Restaurant, four movie workers are lamenting about their bad luck, the fact that their film's heroine had a motorbike accident and broke her leg just before shooting, which is always better than a more serious accident. Kaizo Isogami, the filmmaker, suggests they just stop producing that cursed movie. The producer, Shiro Kawabata, refuses to give up on the sequel to such a blockbuster they shot previously. Motohiro Ito, the assistant director, says it's really a curse since the actress had long been refusing to shoot, before eventually accepting, and having that accident, that can't just be plain bad luck. Keigo Kitaura, the screenwriter, says if this keeps on that way, there might be another dead person, just like last year. He adds it's actually a nice stroke of luck she had this accident after all, since she wasn't at all like the heroine he had imagined when writing his screenplay. Kawabata wonders if there is such a girl that exists, a young, beautiful, and strong girl skilled at acrobatics.

They are cut off by Ran's loud unbelieving comment that their vouchers can't be used, though it's the right restaurant. Kogoro starts getting angry, believing it's only based on whether they like the look of their customers or not, and, refusing to leave, he is coldly approached by a beefcake waiter who tells him to cool down and talk it over with him outside. Ran quickly stops the waiter with a karate move, threatening to kick him in the face if he lays a finger on Kogoro, and demanding a clear and true explanation. They are eventually told by the manager the vouchers only work on Sundays and public holidays, and Conan says it's indeed written on them. They apologise for the inconvenience and prepare to leave, but are eventually invited by Kawabata at his table. Kawabata proposes Ran a lead role of actress in his film to replace the one who got injured recently. He says she perfectly fits what they are looking for. Kogoro suggests her to refuse : acting is very complicated, and requires she learns tons of lines. Of course, this would be utterly different if she were as good speaker as he is - Conan secretly reminding him of Sleeping Kogoro being actually himself -, and Kawabata goes one further that actresses can quickly become famous and meet many other VIPs, stars, singers, football players, etc., she could befriend later on, and she'll also be able to travel the whole world for the sake of shooting, etc. Conan's and Kogoro's eyes sparkle upon hearing all this, and they strongly recommend Ran say yes, before changing their mind upon hearing this requires however some hard psychological training because certain unprincipled producers sometimes add useless sex and love scenes to the original storyline just to make more money. Kawabata seems to take it for himself, while Isogami says indeed she needs to be very psychologically ready for shooting, because if a mere love scene scares her, then what if she still keeps on and, due to some lack of luck, and to her fright, she ends up dying in the dead of a filming session. Kawabata tells him to stop scaring her uselessly, she may well have the makings of a great star. Ran cringes and inadvertently knocks Kawabata's soup bowl and chopsticks over on the floor, staining his trousers while doing so. She apologises and goes to pick up the bowl and chopsticks, and clean the floor, while Kawabata comforts her and takes her seat, suggesting she should go and seat at his place so his father and Conan would stop sticking their noses into their businesses.

When picking up the bowl, Ran feels dizzy again, and Conan puts his hand on her forehead, saying she's got fever. '''Ran says she's probably caught a light cold, and Conan fears she might faint like last time. Ran asks him what this means and he quickly corrects himself saying it's not so important after all.''' Kawabata mops his trousers up with his napkin and asks a waiter for another pair of chopsticks. He asks Ran to order whatever she wants, and they keep the discussion going. He notices someone ordered Pidans and egg crab though he loathes that food, he just can't even stand the sight of eggs, he's allergic to it. Though, Ran is free to eat whatever she wants. Conan takes a seat between Ran and Kawabata, pretending to lament that there's no curry rice - which is obvious since they're in a Chinese restaurant. He says he wants to leave the place then, and throws a tantrum, nicely pleading with Ran to leave and go back home. Ran says she got the message, and...gives Conan her steamed dumplings instead, recalling when he told her he loved that food. Conan feels stupid and inwardly comments that Ran still doesn't get a word he means. He rather focuses on his dinner and tries to get the soy sauce using the turntable. Yet, the table constantly turns in the opposite direction, and the sauce seems to remain near Kogoro. He gets annoyed by it and Ran eventually grabs it for him. He then wants the hot sauce which is near Kitaura, and does the same, but still the table always spins backwards whenever he's about to get the sauce. Ran once again asks it for him, which shames him, he finds the situation so pathetic. At last comes the Peking duck Kawabata had ordered, reputedly excellent. '''Kawabata asks Ran about her favourite actors/actresses, and she answers Yukiko Fujimine, Shinichi's mother she's long been marvelling at, and also her own mom's childhood friend, and Sharon Vineyard, the great American actress who passed away last year. Ran said she met the latter once and remembers her to be a very refined person. Conan looks at her thinking, and Kogoro asks Ran where she's ever met such a VIP, and Ran refuses to tell him, saying it's a sweet secret. The movie workers comment on both actresses being indeed very famous and quite epic,''' and Ito adds if "that person" were still alive, she could have entered history as well, since she was so talented. As Ran asks him who she was, Kawabata suddenly shrieks in pain, and drops dead in front of everyone.

=== File 348 - The Misleading Washcloth ===

The police arrive and start investigating, eventually deducing that Kawabata was poisoned by cyanide found in his mouth and on his plate, chopsticks and napkin. Kawabata had Peking duck in his mouth when dying, and he got choked right after tasting it. They found no cyanide in the duck though, and the waiter hadn't any poison on him. This means Kawabata had poison on his hands even before starting to eat his meal. Accordingly, the person who poisoned him was sitting at the same table as him, among his friends and guests. Inspector Yokomizo seems to "remember Kogoro's face", believing he may be one of those he's already arrested before, or a runaway whose face he might have seen at the precinct. Kogoro can't believe his ears, explaining he's Kogoro Mouri, the famous detective. Yokomizo now recalls "Bumbling Kogoro", the one he saw on TV and papers... The police add except on the things they checked previously - especially the wet napkin on which there is a great amount of poison - there is no poison at all however on the table, chairs, other meals, etc. Kogoro was the one sitting on the victim's right, and Conan on his left. Yokomizo believes only Kogoro could murder Kawabata then, switching his own napkin which had poison on it with the victim's. He was best placed to do it, and Conan sure isn't the killer. He just had to wait for Kawabata to wipe his hands before eating duck, and die afterwards... Kogoro and Ran seem not to recognise Inspector Yokomizo until he is called by his name by another agent. They find Inspector Yokomizo has changed a lot : he's being and acting colder, warier, and he's cut his hair very short. Actually, the inspector reveals he's not Sango Yokomizo but Jugo Yokomizo, his twin brother. Sango works in Shizuoka Prefecture while he's in charge of Kanagawa Prefecture, where they are. Jugo warns Kogoro he's not as easygoing with detectives as his moronic brother is, and indeed spends his time investigating against Kogoro, believing he's the only one who could poison Kawabata.

The police find Kawabata has a stain on his right leg, and Ran explains she accidentally spilt his soup on his trousers as she was sitting next to him. Yokomizo doesn't understand anything and asks who was sitting next to who at last. They all go on explaining before meeting Ran and co Isogami was sitting on the victim's right, and Kitaura on his left, and Ito in front of him. When they invited the three to their table, Ran sat next to the producer - on his right, Conan on her right, and Kogoro on the latter's right, and then Isogami, Ito and Kitaura. Later on, Kawabata took Ran's seat when she went to pick up the bowl, and then Conan came to sit between her and Kawabata. This means Kawabata had Conan on his left, then Ran, then Kitaura, Ito, Isogami, and Kogoro. Isogami precises when they were only four at the table they all had one empty chair at least between each other. Ito insists on him being innocent since he's always been facing Kawabata, but Yokomoizo says they'll check that after thorough investigation. Conan suggests the police check out if the stain on Kawabata's trousers has cyanide on it, in order to know whether the napkin was poisoned before he changed places with Ran, or after, which could exonerate Kogoro or not (because Kawabata had mopped the stain up with that napkin). Later on, the police say they've found no cyanide on the stain, neither on the chopsticks Ran had accidentally dropped on the floor, and that were taken away by the waiter. Which means Kogoro still is the most suspicious person since Kawabata was murdered after the incident then. Kogoro says he had no reason at all to murder a man he had met for the first time, to which the inspector answers he may well have known him beforehand, it's peculiar his daughter was the first one to be spotted in the restaurant, he may have planned to come along. '''Ran gets tense and insists on saying it's all true, they'd never met him. Suddenly, she feels dizzy again and staggers, holding her head, spilling once again by accident a glass of water on the floor when leaning on the table. She once more remembers the rain and Shuichi Akai, being now sure it was rainy on that day. She wonders who that man is, suggesting he may look like another person she's met in the past, just like the Yokomizo twins. She can't remember well though, and this gives her headache, she has three different faces in her mind : a blond-haired woman slily smiling under an umbrella, Akai's infuriated and scary eyes glaring at her, and a soaked-to-the-skin Shinichi trying to tell her something in a very sad way.''' As she's trying to listen to it and to get what he's trying to say, she hears Shinichi's voice calling her aloud, which is actually Conan's, asking her again if she's really doing fine. She says it's just sudden tiredness. Conan though sits her on a chair, telling her to rest a little and wait for her dad to solve the mystery. However, he inwardly comments on Ran being more than simply "out of sorts", she needs to be taken to the doctor as quick as possible.

He tries to tell it to Yokomizo, but the latter is interrupted by a policeman saying he's found an empty jar in the restroom's bin, having probably contained cyanide. Kogoro is annoyed at Yokomizo’s unrelentingly accusing him of having soaked the napkin with poison previously in the restroom. Conan says Kogoro can't be the culprit given he hasn’t been to the restroom at all since they've arrived at the Chinese restaurant. Conan adds when Kawabata got the soup on his trousers, he mopped the stain up and kept his napkin in hand when changing places with Ran, then Kogoro couldn't switch it. Yokomizo says there must be a way to change napkins without anyone's notice. Kogoro suggests the murderer might have balanced a poisoned napkin on the edge of the turntable, and then he spinned it so that the napkin would fall right near Kawabata. Yokomizo yet says the victim would have very probably found quite weird a napkin "falling by accident" close to him, and if he already had his napkin within hand reach, why would he have used another one ? Conan is suddenly reminded of when he tried to get the soy and hot sauces, and eventually failed to do it, due to the turntable being systematically spinned backwards as he was about to grab one or the other. He tries to remember how the meals were arranged on the table, being, clockwise: beef sauté, stir-fried meat, egg crab, Pidan, soy sauce, vinegared pork, steamed dumplings, and hot sauce. As for the people, clockwise: Kawabata, Conan, Ran, Kitaura, Ito, Isogami, and Kogoro. Vinegared pork was in front of Kawabata when he died, soy sauce was near Kogoro, and hot sauce near Kitaura. Conan thinks about Kawabata's allergy to eggs, the fact he couldn't even stand their sight. He then stares at the Pidan and egg crab, near the napkin. He suddenly goes to ask the forensic agent if he’s checked if there were any poison on every item on or near the table. He replies he’s done it indeed, and Conan secretly asks him if he’s checked "that" as well. He says he hasn't yet, and Conan says he should do it, since « Kogoro asked it actually ». He eventually asks him if he’s found something else except poison on the napkin. The agent says there was a strange brown stain on it, and he smelt it, finding it was just soup after all. He says it's probably connected to the stain on the victim's trousers. Except that, he’s found nothing else, and Conan is just cunningly surprised to hear it... He then pretends going and telling it to Kogoro, inwardly deducing that Kawabata actually didn't die after the napkin was changed, but the napkin was changed after he died. As he had supposed it, Kawabata was killed by one of his three comrades. Conan gazes at the table saying to himself the evidence of the crime is probably still here.

Meanwhile, Ran's condition is worsening.

=== File 349 - Cleared Memory ===

Yokomizo eventually concludes the killer went to the restroom to soak his napkin with poison, and then came back, finding a way and moment to switch his’s with Kawabata’s, all the while being seated at the table, in broad daylight, in front of Mouri and co. Kogoro believes the killer used transparent fishing line and resorted to a rod and hook to carry the napkin and drop it near Kawabata…these are special techniques only movie workers know, though Yokomizo says this is utterly ridiculous. All of a sudden, Kogoro feels as if he’s about to sleep, but actually sneezes, and complains about the restaurant’s air conditioning being quite excessive. Yokomizo remembers his brother told him Kogoro would often make up cheesy deductions, but in fact it’s a trick to drop everyone’s guard, and he’s then immediately falling to sleep, starting his true deduction show, with a weird voice and a completely changed behaviour. He then turns unrecognisable, as if he were going into a trance. Though Jugo says his brother always makes a song and dances about it. Yet, they all remark Kogoro is falling asleep indeed, secretly anesthetised by Conan, who sticks a micro transmitter on his back. Kogoro/Conan says discussions have been running for too long now, it’s time to sit down at the same places everyone were when Kawabata died. Yokomizo will play the victim, and Ran agrees to resume her previous role, despite being exhausted and feeling very bad. Kogoro will now tell about the weird things that occurred right before the murder.

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Conan pops out saying someone at the table was constantly turning it backwards just to annoy him and prevent him from getting the soy or hot sauces. Conan had actually tried one to three times to get them, turning the table leftwards/rightwards to do so, but each time it would always turn backwards, and he would never get the sauces until Ran would grab them for him without turning the table. To make things clearer, Conan turns the table leftwards/rightwards, and this time none seems to « bother him ». Yokomizo asks Kogoro what’s the link between the boy’s stories and the murder, and Conan tells him not to bother asking Kogoro, since the latter told Conan there was no need to explain to him, given the culprit would eventually give himself away in a moment. Suddenly, a waiter brings Conan a Bao (Chinese steamed brioche), and Yokomizo asks him what the heck this means, the waiter answering Kogoro had asked him to bring Conan something to eat. Conan raises the Bao to his lips, and suddenly '''Kaizo Isogami''' hollers to him, ordering him to stop it. He goes on explaining his comrades there’s been a murder by poisoning at that table, and then there’s probably still poison on it, it’s dangerous for someone to eat anything after having touched the table. Yokomizo says the police have carefully checked the table and found absolutely no trace of poison on it. Kogoro says Isogami is right, there’s probably still poison on the table, Conan has laid his fingers on it « by accident », in a place human eyes can’t have access to, a blind spot. Yokomizo loses patience and orders Kogoro to speak his mind about the killer and poison right now. Kogoro asks Yokomizo how he would usually turn the table to get anything on it. Yokomizo says he would just put his hand on it and spin it. But Kogoro asks him now how he would do it if there were two plates of Chinese food next to each other on the edge of the table, just like the Pidan and egg crab, and Yokomizo replies he would just grab between his fingers the edge of the table between the two plates, and turn it accordingly. Yokomizo suddenly realises the killer put some poison under the table on that particular spot. When someone would grab it with their fingers, they would eventually get some poison on them and possibly die later on. Yet, Yokomizo says there were very fewer chances the victim would grab the edge of the table at this very particular spot, except, as Kogoro clarifies it, if he had in his sight two plates of egg meals he would loathe, and therefore he would immediately grab the under spot over which the plates are, and rapidly turn the table away not to have them anymore in his sight. If someone had blocked the spinning of the table, then the victim could even have touched that spot several times to turn away the table again.

Now Kogoro tells Yokomizo to tell him where the soy and hot sauces are when the egg meals are just in front of Kawabata : the soy sauce is near Conan, on the victim’s left, and the hot sauce is near Kawabata, who is sitting on the left of Conan, next to Ran. This means when Conan tried to get the hot sauce, he would have needed to turn the table rightwards, and then he would have prevented Kawabata from touching the spot, or would have possibly caused someone else to come in contact with it. The killer actually wanted to have the egg meals stand in Kawabata’s sight for a long time, in order to annoy and repel the latter, and have him touch the spot quickly and unconsciously so as to turn the table away, which is why he always prevented Conan from turning it first, until Kawabata had done it yet. Though, Yokomizo can’t explain why the killer did the same previously with the soy sauce, and Kogoro says the sauce was near himself at that moment and not near Conan, which means the egg meals were in front of the killer, the latter needing in fact some time to put poison under the table on the specific spot. This is why he would constantly stop Conan from spinning the table, since it would hamper him in his meticulous « work ». Also, the killer needed the poison to be added right before the Peking duck would be served. Indeed, Peking duck is usually eaten using one’s own fingers, and the murderer needed Kawabata to have poison on his fingers right before eating duck, and die afterwards accordingly. To do so, it was paramount to add poison on the spot just before, and the culprit couldn’t let anyone turn the table at that very moment, which would prevent poison from being added, and from being touched and then ingested by the victim. He couldn’t add poison before because it was very likely then someone would touch the spot and get poisoned, or that Kawabata would die before eating duck, which would have seemed too suspicious then. Therefore, the murderer is the person who had the egg plates right in front of him when Conan tried first to get the soy sauce, the person who had shouted to Conan, fearing he might get poisoned after unconsciously laying his fingers right on the spot : '''Kaizo Isogami'''.

The fact that there is also cyanide on Kawabata’s napkin - while it is supposed not to have been in contact with the spot ever - means that napkin is actually Isogami’s. He went to the restroom to soak it with poison beforehand, and then came back. When he saw Kawabata was mopping up a soup stain on his trousers with his own napkin, he also discreetly soaked his’s into his own soup bowl, exactly the same as Kawabata. When the latter died, Isogami rushed pretending to help him, but actually secretly took Kawabata’s napkin away, and dropped his’s instead, to make police believe he was poisoned due to the cyanide on his own napkin. Isogami deliberately put an enormous amount of poison on the napkin in order to fool police into believing it. He also had to use a napkin so as to put poison on the blind spot, he couldn’t use his fingers, it was too risky. He wanted therefore police to believe the napkin was really Kawabata’s due to the soup the latter had to mop up, yet Kawabata wore blue jeans, and when he mopped the stain up, he probably did it, as people usually do, quite vigorously, and then probably some of the jeans’ blue color bled onto the white napkin. Why is Isogami’s napkin having such a colour on it while it isn’t supposed to be Kawabata’s but his own ? Yet, this isn’t incontrovertible evidence, someone could well have left that napkin who isn’t Isogami’s to have him accused of the murder. Kogoro actually wishes Isogami would confess, given he’s still got his clear and good conscience, due to him telling off Conan in order to protect him because he was going to eat with poisoned fingers - which wasn’t the case actually since Kogoro had previously asked the forensics to clean the spot before the reconstitution. Isogami agrees, saying though he has « clear and good conscience », Kawabata didn’t, otherwise he wouldn’t have deliberately caused the death of Rika, the actress who died last year. It wasn’t a shooting accident at all : Rika was the perfectionist type who would always want to play her own scenes without any stuntmen/women, even the most dangerous scenes with biking for instance. Kawabata, as a sensible and ethical producer, was expected to strictly say no to it, though he would always agree, despite death danger, saying this would reduce costs and make things even more realistic. Ito says Isogami hated Rika though, he said she was nothing else but an ugly, arrogant, stupid and unskilled novice, then why would he seek to revenge her. Isogami says this stupid comment accounts for why Ito would probably always remain an assistant director : even if a filmmaker hates an actor/actress, most of the time, they ends up falling in love with the actor/actress, by dint of always looking at them and following their slightest moves and reactions through their own lens, for days and months, no matter how unskilled or ugly they are.

As Isogami is about to be taken to the precinct by Yokomizo, he congratulates Kogoro for tricking him with Conan and the poisoned spot, but eventually asks him how he would have forced him to tell the truth if his « clear and good consciousness » had been absent and he had let Conan die. Kogoro says if this had been the case then he would have certainly used very bad, hurting, unbearable words to get Isogami to a corner. The latter says then he’s rather unlucky, he should complain to God who made such a scrupulous man out of him, anyway he doesn’t believe in God or whatever, and he would have loved to film Kogoro cornering him in that case. '''Ran suddenly reacts to the word « God », and pictures herself in a huge city with skyscrappers and Western-style buildings, in the rain, hearing a voice saying « Do you believe in the existence of God ? ». She remembers it to be the voice of a very calm woman, and she starts feeling very dizzy, sweating a lot, and she also hears the resonating sound of the rain, with Shinichi’s picture saying « Do you really need a reason ? ». Akai’s bleak and angry face also yells at her « Move it ! ». She pictures Sharon Vineyard in the rain as well, under an umbrella, telling her in a both sad and happy way « Angels have never smiled upon me, not even a single time ». Ran eventually remembers everything, where she met all those people and why Shinichi was there too, but ends up collapsing and passing out on the floor.'''

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=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Kaizo Isogami|Kaizo Isogami manga.jpg|
* 52 years old
* Movie director}}
{{People|Motohiro Ito|Motohiro Ito manga.jpg|
* 38 years old
* Assistant director}}
{{People|Keigo Kitaura|Keigo Kitaura manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Writer}}
{{People|Shiro Kawabata|Shiro Kawabata manga.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 46 years old
* Producer}}
{{People|Rika|Rika manga.jpg|
* Deceased (bike accident)
* Actress}}
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== Golden Apple Case ==
{{ref anime|286-288|Shinichi Kudo's New York Case}}

=== Characters introduced ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Toichi Kuroba]]|link=Toichi Kuroba|image = Toichi Kuroba.jpg|description =
* [[Kaito Kuroba]]'s father
* World famous magician
* The first [[Kaitou Kid]]}}
{{EndBox}}

=== File 350 - Golden Apple 1 ===

'''Ran's fever is very high and Yokomizo decides to take her to Bay Bridge Hospital as quick as possible. She has a vision of Conan calling her name aloud in fear, but instead pictures Shinichi, and dreams about a case in New York, where she had been invited with Shinichi by Yukiko Kudo. She also comments on Shinichi being always here to save her, once again, just like that time, just like usual, every time she’s in danger. This always annoys her a bit, but she’s happy in the end.'''

Shinichi and Ran had actually taken the plane to Los Angeles from Tokyo, and Shinichi had solved a murder during the flight, his very first case (Vol. 21). However, once they'd arrived, they were told by Yukiko actually they'd all take another plane to New York, since she hardly managed to get tickets for the must-see opera "Golden Apple", in Broadway's Phantom Theater. However, the show is tonight, and they need to rush, especially because the person who got tickets for the three proposed to show them around the main artists' rooms, backstage, and they accordingly need to be at the theater at least one hour before the curtain riser. Yukiko realises she's actually one hour late due to her forgetting to set her watch fast to summertime. She's driving her beautiful Type-E Jaguar vintage car, and shows the teenagers what it is made of, stepping on it to arrive on time. Ran had been sleeping for a long time now due to the case in the plane frightening her so much she couldn't sleep at all afterwards, and also due to the length of the trip. She only wakes up in the Jaguar, in the back, at night, gazing at the Statue of Liberty in the distance, while Yukiko is driving with Shinichi on her left. She’s quite disappointed Shinichi hasn’t woken her up earlier, she wishes she had seen Brooklyn Bridge, but Shinichi says she was sleeping like a log and he didn't want to bother her. Besides, she can’t understand how Shinichi manages to find sleep in full satisfaction after having solved a recent murder, and he answers her none is always really satisfied « my dear Watson ». Yukiko tells them not to quarrel in the loveliest and most romantic place for lovers : Miss Liberty/Jiyu no Megami.

Shinichi believes her mom’s mild « English-lady-style » driving will never take them to Broadway on time. But Yukiko, saying Jaguar cars were designed to save their passengers, advises her son to fasten his seat belt, and Ran to do so and grab tight hold of anything she’ll find in the back, since she’s going to speed up…a lot. She starts hurtling down the highway, overtaking the other cars at full speed, Shinichi reminding her that, though that car drove the French 24-Hours’ Le Mans’ Race with its 276 hp, though a very skilled New York mechanic of her friends had a look at it, it’s been in reparation recently and she shouldn’t flog it too much. She takes a first tight bend and the right side of the car lifts, frightening both teenagers. Though, Yukiko seems to be a very skilled driver. Shinichi remarks police cars are here and there on the bridge, and her mom replies they’re driving on the other way, and they’ll only get it too late there is a road hog around. Yukiko asks her son to do her a favour, because the next bend is a really, really tight one. Shinichi gets her and takes Ran in his arms, asking her to grab tight hold of him while he sits on the open window, holding tightly the car’s door and bodywork, and lastly lying backwards, with Ran on him. Indeed, Yukiko’s full-speed-taken bend forces the car to do an almost 90° lifting, which would have badly hurt the teenagers if they had stayed at their seats. '''Shinichi seems very confident while Ran is awe-stricken, but trusts her friend.''' Once it’s over, Ran shouts at Shinichi, still panic-stricken, for saying it was « not so scary after all ». As they leave the bridge and highway at full speed, and eventually turn up in Broadway, they're arrested by a police car, and Yukiko is about to be in some great trouble due to an over 40-mile and more speeding. The agent says she looks familiar when glancing at her license and registration.

All of a sudden, Radish Redwood, a well-known police inspector of New York, who got helped many times by Yusaku in the past and knows the Kudos very well, along with speaking very good Japanese (his wife is Japanese), turns up telling the police agent he's probably already seen her in some previous case, since Yukiko is in fact "an undercover agent who was rushing to chase a suspect in the '''"Phantom Slasher" serial killer case''', but she seems to have missed him completely". '''A Japanese-looking man has indeed been murdering young girls in New York after midnight for a few weeks now, and that accounts for the high number of police patrols at night in New York at the moment.''' Radish tells the agent it's OK and the latter leaves, and the inspector starts speaking Japanese, asking Yukiko to thank "her" for saving her. '''And, tearing off his mask, that person disguised as Radish is revealed to be Sharon Vinyard.''' Sharon was waiting for Yukiko with the tickets, and when she heard the agent, one of her fans, telling her a yellow Jaguar is rushing at full throttle towards Broadway, and his comrades walkie-talkied him to arrest the female driver and the two teenagers inside, she decided to go and disguise as Redwood, that she also knows, in order to help her friend out, being compelled to buy a very expensive coat in the meantime to look perfectly like Radish.

'''Sharon and Yukiko met each other about twenty years ago, at world-renowned wizard Toichi Kuroba's (Kid's late father) make-up art courses, in order be taught how to perfectly play spy roles in movies, and hide their true faces behind masks or make-up, Sharon being very good at it, and having even taught her daughter Chris, a flourishing actress, that art, though she's been on very bad terms with her for quite a very long time. Sharon is a bit older than Yukiko. Shinichi confirms her mother’s disguise skills are not that good…being more carnival-like than spy-like.''' Yukiko wonders if it’s not too risky for her friend to show herself among the crowd, but Sharon says they’ll probably believe it’s a movie scene being filmed. Yukiko is very grateful to Sharon, but Shinichi doesn’t seem to know who this great American star is, and why she disguises herself as police officers.

'''Ran thanks heavens for having the opportunity to meet such a great actress, and Sharon is surprised to hear Ran believes in heaven or God or whatever. It starts raining and she takes out her umbrella. She adds if God truly existed, then wouldn’t all honest, hard-working people be happy ? She says "As for me, angels have never ever smiled upon me, not even a single time." The group doesn't seem to understand her words, and especially the both sad and happy way in which she said them.'''

Shinichi inwardly and retroactively comments on the tragic event that would come up soon and that he didn’t want to remember, to the contrary of Sharon's mysterious words.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Radish Redwood|Radish Redwood manga.jpg|
* Captain from New York Police Department}}
{{People|Lilas Sanchez|Lila Sanchez manga.jpg|
* 32 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Akane Nielsen|Akane Neilson manga.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Rose Hewitt|Rose Hewitt manga.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Stage actress}}
{{People|Iberis Hamilton|Iblis Hamilton manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Stage actress
* Heath's wife}}
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{{People|Heath Flockhart|Heath Flockheart manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* 33 years old
* Stage actor}}
{{People|Slasher|350-354 Slasher manga.jpg|
* Serial killer}}
{{EndBox}}

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== See also ==
* [[Manga]]
* [[Volume 31-40]]
* [[Detective Conan]]

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"The Criminal"

2021-05-14T09:34:36Z

Exaskliri: Pronoun change (the same paragraph also uses "their").

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| name = No specific name
| image = The Criminal Profile.jpg
| age = Variable
| gender = Variable
| date-of-birth = Variable
| relatives = Variable
| nicknames = Variable
| first-appearance = [[Volume 3#File 020 - The Hatamoto Family|File 020]]
| appearances = {{:The Criminal Appearances}}
| japanese-voice = Always changes
| english-voice = Always changes
}}
'''The {{nihongo|Criminal|犯人|han'nin}}''' in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' is a substitute image for the culprits presented in and is usually depicted as a black or dark humanoid figure, looking like an evil demon. It is used whenever the reader or watcher is to be made aware of the culprit's actions while attempting to keep their identity secret for the time being. Though usually depicted as a criminal, the silhouettes are sometimes protagonists, but their identity has to be kept a secret from both the viewers/readers and/or [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]].

== Character evolution ==
=== First appearances ===
[[Gosho Aoyama]] stated that the idea of drawing the silhouette of the culprit was directly ripped off Kindaichi Case Files. The first black figures were very shady and roughly drawn in, and had no real body formation. They usually didn't even have a clearly drawn in face, as was shown in [[Nazo]], the third opening. Sometimes, the figures resembled enough of the actual criminal's body that it could give away the true identity of the culprit.

=== Later changes ===
As the series went even further, the figure received a more human-like appearance with the gradual addition of eyes, noses, mouths, and finally muscles. However, the culprit still maintains a dark hue, lacking distinct clothing, body hair (including beards) and other physical anomalies, like overweightness.

The figure remains very generic, looking more like a man or a genderless person (an exception in [[A Small Client]] and [[A Lucky Man's Suspense]] episodes because an evidence confirms that the murderer is female and thus the criminal has feminine appearance with breasts), keeping the audience guessing about the true identity and physical characterstics of the culprit in question.
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== Gallery ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji as the crimilal silhouette.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|[[Heiji Hattori]] as the black figure (episode 293).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:femaleculprit.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|The female criminal (episode 355).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|[[The Boss]] as a big black figure with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:CriminalDrama.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|The criminal in the live-action drama series.]]
|}

== Trivia ==
* In Japan, a hooded jacket is sold with the face of "The Criminal" on the hood. When this is pulled down over the wearer's face, it makes them look like it.
* [[The Shifting Mystery of Beika City]] case featured a criminal with an "X" on their face because that is what the police are calling him.
* It's just like the criminal costume wearing by Diabolik and Eva Kant in the 1999 animated series ''[[Wikipedia:fr:Diabolik, sur les traces de la panthère|Diabolik: Track of the Panther]]'', or also by [[Lupin III]] and his gang.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Hanzawa-san]]

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