The Spirit Detective's Murder

2018-10-03T23:38:00Z

Viktor K: /* Trivia */

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 863-864
| image = 863-864.jpg
| title = Soul Detective Murder Case
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|霊魂探偵殺害事件}} (Reikon Tantei Satsugai Jiken)
| rating = 5.7% 5.2%
| Manga case number = #275
| airdate = June 17, 2017 (Part 1) June 24, 2017 (Part 2)
| season = [[Season 27|27]]
| manga = [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Volume 90: Files 3-5 (951-953)]]
| english-title =
| dubbed-episode =
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Masumi Sera]] [[Mary Sera]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Rum]] [[Gin]] [[Vodka]] [[Vermouth]] [[Juzo Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Yoko Okino]]
| solved-by = [[Kogoro Mouri]] (via [[Mary]])
| next-conan-hint = Wine glass (Part 1) Salt (Part 2)
| case =
| director = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| screenplay = [[Shigenori Kageyama]]
| storyboard = [[Shigenori Kageyama]]
| producer = 863: [[Yano Takanori]], 864: [[Minoru Tozawa]]
| animation-director = 863: [[Akio Kawamura]], 864: [[Keiko Sasaki]]
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Rikiya Koyama]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Noriko Hidaka]] as [[Masumi Sera]] [[Atsuko Tanaka]] as [[Mary Sera]] [[Yukitoshi Hori]] as [[Gin]] [[Fumihiko Tachiki]] as [[Vodka]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Nozomu Sasaki]] as Sanpei Kokuri [[Takayuki Sasada]] as Yamamoto [[Taisuke Nakano]] as Itou
| opening-song = Ikusen no Meikyuu de Ikusen no Nazo wo Toite
| closing-song = YESTERDAY LOVE
| prev-episode = Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene
| next-episode = The Foul-Mouthed Myna Bird
| footnotes =
}}

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Masumi Sera}}
{{char|Mary Sera}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (flashback)}}
{{char|Gin}}
{{char|Vodka}}
{{char|Vermouth|display=Vermouth (background)}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"|display=Rum (criminal silhouette)}}
{{char|Yoko Okino|display=Yoko Okino (Kogoro's imagination)}}
}}

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

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
==== Part 1 ====
Conan thinks about Kohji Haneda's murder case. The website with the information has been taken down and hasn't been re-uploaded yet. But Kogoro get a call from the TV-station giving him an offer to appear in a show with Gaito Hotta, a known 'spirit-detective', who claims that he is going to call Kōji Haneda's spirit and have him reveal the truth of the murder. Conan suspects that Hotta might have dig up some information on the murder and tags along with Kogorō to meet him. In the taxi Kogoro and Conan discuss Hotta. Gaito Hotta is a TV-personality, who claims to solve mysteries by contacting the souls of dead people. Kogoro explain that Hotta is a fraud who had been exposed once during a case about a missing climber. A body had been found, but it was a completely different person. And it has been proved that Hotta had paid people to testify false witness statements and had done some investigation beforehand. Now he is probably trying to do a comeback. Conan guess that Hotta has chosen the Haneda murder, because it was so long ago, but Conan decides to see if Hotta has some information that can help him in figuring out Rum's identity.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| victim = Gaito Hotta
| age = Unknown
| cause-death = Stab wounds in Torso
| image = EP863-864 case.jpg
| location = Beika Hotel
| suspects = Sanpei Kokuri
}}

==== Part 2 ====
=== People ===
{{beginBox}}
{{people|Gaito Hotta|Gaito Hotta.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* "Soul Detective"}}
{{people|Sanpei Kokuri|Sanpei Kokuri.jpg|
* 35 years old
* Tohto TV director}}
{{people|Yamamoto|Yamamoto.png|
* Beika Hotel bellhop}}
{{people|Itou|Itou.jpg|
* Beika Hotel bellhop}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Unnamed officer|Forensics Staff member]]|Policeman1.png|
* Tokyo MPD CSI officer}}
{{endBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
The culprit is '''Sanpei Kokuri'''. The motive was that Hotta used his late sister's corpse for his show. A few years ago Kokuri's sister committed suicide in the mountains due to a break-up. But her body was never found. Later Hotta was making a show in the mountain (most likely in connection with a missing person case, that Conan and Kogorō discussed in the taxi) and 'found' the body claiming to have 'felt' it's spirit. Kokuri realized that Hotta must have found his sister's body a long time ago, but instead of reporting it to the police, he had buried it to use it in his show. So he killed Hotta in revenge for having humiliating her.

[[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] calls [[Mary Sera|Mary]] 'mama', Indicating she is her mother. The only thing that Hotta knew is that someone saw Asaka holding a small mirror and that he believed Asaka, the bodyguard, is a woman. Mary considers that information boring and warns Masumi that she should be careful around Conan and that he may not the same boy they met 10 years ago.
Later at night, [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] talk about the case. Gin comments that Rum screwed up in the [[Case from 17 years ago]]. Gin is more concerned about the fact that Kogoro went to investigate the murder. Gin immediately suggests that Kogoro be ''finished off'' before he becomes more of a threat.
</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* The name Gaito Hotta (katakana: '''ホ'''ッ'''タガイト''') comes from "poltergeist" ('''ポ'''ル'''タ'''ー'''ガイ'''ス'''ト''').
* The name '''San'''pei '''Kokuri''' comes from "''Kokkuri-san''" ([[Wikipedia: table-turning|table-turning]]).
* Gin and Vodka are shown to enter a black Porsche with a license plate "48-69" but seconds later the car's licence plate is "43-68".

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=185px>
Mary EP863.jpg|Mary caught by Conan's phone camera.
</gallery>
== In other languages ==
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{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vụ án sát hại thám tử ngoại cảm|}}
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== See also ==
* [[Season 27]]

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