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 On the ground, Conan tries to find his pen around the statue but is unsuccessful. The other tour participants gather around to learn what happened. Kaneshiro calls it a poor story for the Night Baron to die, and it ends the game. Conan gives him a suspicious look, and abruptly calls attention to the backwards necktie. Kogoro thinks it could be a habit, but Conan produces Ebara's other necktie which was given to him earlier, showing it to be tied normally. The belt is also backwards, leading Kogoro and Yokomizo to conclude that Ebara was murdered by one of the rest of the group. They start the process to question the others for their alibis.
-Ran and Conan provide Maeda's alibi. Hideko reminds Kogoro she was with him, but Conan points out Kogoro was drunk. Kaneshiro and Shizue claim they were in the restaurant together, but with the chaos of the strange death no one may remember them. Konno claims he was reading emails and tells them to check the hotel's internet access logs, but he does not have an alibi that can be corroborated by someone else. Akiko was watching a movie on TV, where there was [[movie 1|a bomb on a skyscraper]], until Maeda returned and so has no alibi either. Meanwhile, in the room with Ebara's body, someone attacks the police officer on guard. After questioning, Akiko returns with Ran and Conan to their floor and complains that Kogoro and Yokomizo probably suspect her. While Conan ponders the overall lack of solid alibis and the unknown intent of the killer, Akiko tells Ran that she called the front desk for a wakeup call but did not think it was important enough to mention. Ran says Akiko should be in the clear, but just as the elevator door opens, the Night Baron reappears, bloody mask and all, standing just outside.
+Ran and Conan provide Maeda's alibi. Hideko reminds Kogoro she was with him, but Conan points out Kogoro was drunk. Kaneshiro and Shizue claim they were in the restaurant together, but with the chaos of the strange death no one may remember them. Konno claims he was reading emails and tells them to check the hotel's internet access logs, but he does not have an alibi that can be corroborated by someone else. Akiko was watching a movie on TV, where there was [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper|a bomb on a skyscraper]], until Maeda returned and so has no alibi either. Meanwhile, in the room with Ebara's body, someone attacks the police officer on guard. After questioning, Akiko returns with Ran and Conan to their floor and complains that Kogoro and Yokomizo probably suspect her. While Conan ponders the overall lack of solid alibis and the unknown intent of the killer, Akiko tells Ran that she called the front desk for a wakeup call but did not think it was important enough to mention. Ran says Akiko should be in the clear, but just as the elevator door opens, the Night Baron reappears, bloody mask and all, standing just outside.
 After an initial reaction of shock, Ran immediately attacks the Night Baron with powerful karate kicks, but the Night Baron is somehow able to dodge the kicks and escape. Conan tries to get her to chase, but Ran and Akiko are both stunned into immobility until it is too late. They go to tell Kogoro what happened, and also learn that the costume was stolen earlier from Ebara's body but has now (hat, mask, wig, and cape) suddenly appeared in the pool. Conan wonders if this appearance was unplanned while the police question everyone again and learn that everyone was staying in their room as instructed, so no one has an alibi. Even Maeda is unconfirmed, since they came straight back down without going to Akiko and Maeda's room 1901. The rooms are searched, starting with theirs. Conan notes from the balcony that they are a bit below and to the right of Ebara's room. He notes the position, annoyed that he lost his high-quality fountain pen, while inside Yokomizo finds some sleeping pills belonging to Akiko but nothing suspicious.

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-{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|{{ruby|闇の男爵|ナイトバロン}}殺人事件|Naito Baron Satsujin Jiken}} is the 68th, 69th, and 70th episode of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]].
+{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|{{ruby|闇の男爵|ナイトバロン}}殺人事件|Naito Baron Satsujin Jiken}} is the 68th, 69th, and 70th episode of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]]. The first three-episode case of the series, it follows [[Conan]], [[Ran]] and [[Kogoro]] to the idyllic beach resort of Izu, having received hotel tickets from [[Hiroshi Agasa|professor Agasa]]. However, the trip quickly turns into an open-air mystery, as the tickets were only half-paid for, and the payout to the remaining part is only received if one solves a mystery tour organized by a mysterious person nicknamed the "[[Night Baron]]", a costumed thief turned murderer from [[Yusaku Kudo]]'s best selling novel series. As Conan nears the truth, he is sabotaged by Night Baron. Later, one of the tour participants is killed while wearing the Night Baron costume. While everyone suspects it to be an accident, Conan knows there is more to it, and that Night Baron is not just a reference to the novel character. Adapted from [[volume 8]] by [[Masato Sato]], it is animated by [[Keiko Sasaki]], [[Akio Kawamura]] and [[Izumi Shimura]], who would later become veterans of the animation team. The plot is praised for its well-thought-out tricks and for its traditional murder-mystery-styled investigation, and cements itself as one of the masterpieces of [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s early work.
 == Cast ==

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 ==== Aftermath ====
 Hideko Kamijo, Ebara's ex-wife, entered the contest because she wanted to make an antivirus for the Night Baron virus. Incidentally, Ebara sold Akiko's brother's program to Kamijo, but she realized that it was a stolen program and stopped its sale. Genichirou Kaneshiro wanted the virus in order to punish the creator for ruining his high school girl dating simulator four years ago, while simultaneously revealing that he was not blind. Shiro Konno's reason for wanting the virus is unconfirmed, but Kamijo suggested earlier that he had nefarious purposes. Genichirou seemed to concur with Kamijo's analysis, though his agreement came after Konno began sweating bullets over Kamijo's assertion. The only reason Kamijo drugged Kogoro's drink was to take a look at Kogoro's notes and figure out the solution to the tour. Ran tells Kamijo that she ended up following Shinichi's advice to find Maeda's alibi.</spoiler>
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 == Trivia ==
-* This case takes place at least a month after [[Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case]], seeing how Yokomizo transferred to Shizuoka from Saitama last month.
+* This case takes place at least a month after [[Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case]], seeing how Yokomizo transferred to Shizuoka from Saitama the previous month.
-* The Night Baron virus was mentioned in this episode, but it wasn't actually shown until [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case]].
+* The Night Baron virus was mentioned in this episode, but it was not actually shown until [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case]].
 == Remastered version ==

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 :* Satomi (Shiro's mother) - Naomi (Mark's mother)
 :* Izu Princess Hotel Private Beach - St. Anne Island
-* In the Venus Arabic dub the Night Baron is called "رجل الظل" (Translates to "The Shadow Man")
+* In the Venus Arabic dub, the Night Baron is called "رجل الظل" (meaning "The Shadow Man").
 == Trivia ==

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 ==== Summary ====
-Ebara's killer is '''Akiko Sayama'''. Her motive was to avenge the suicide of her beloved older brother from three years ago. Ebara had hacked into her brother's company's records and stolen the program into which he'd invested every penny of his company, driving him to leap from a building to his death. To get revenge, Akiko organized the contest and lured Ebara into participating by pretending to have the legendary Night Baron virus.
+Ebara's killer is revealed to be '''Akiko Sayama'''. Her motive was to avenge the suicide of her beloved older brother from three years ago. Ebara had hacked into her brother's company's records and stolen the program into which he'd invested every penny of his company, driving him to leap from a building to his death. To get revenge, Akiko organized the contest and lured Ebara into participating by pretending to have the legendary Night Baron virus.
-Additionally, she disguised herself as the Night Baron for two reasons. She attacked Conan with the intention of scaring Kogoro out of the tour before the murder occurred to prevent his involvement in the investigation. Akiko also planned to justify Ebara's fall in the costume by tricking the other participants and police into thinking that Ebara was the contest sponsor and died by mishap while trying to cause trouble as the Night Baron.
+Additionally, she disguised herself as the Night Baron for two reasons. She attacked Conan with the intention of scaring Kogoro out of the tour before the murder occurred to prevent his involvement in the investigation, knowing he was a detective. Akiko also planned to justify Ebara's fall in the costume by tricking the other participants and police into thinking that Ebara was the contest sponsor and died by mishap while trying to cause trouble as the Night Baron.
 Satoru Maeda, Akiko's boyfriend, realized Akiko was the murderer, stole the Night Baron disguise from the police, and appeared in front of Ran and Akiko in order to give Akiko an alibi and take blame for her if the police discovered her trick.
-==== Exposition ====
+==== Timeline ====
 After dinner, Akiko called Ebara up to her room, implying that she would give him the Night Baron virus. Once he arrived, she drugged him to make him fall asleep, went to his room to plant the glove Kogoro found stuck to the balcony and create a room locked from the inside, and then put the rest of the Night Baron outfit on him, minus the unnecessary wig, before she threw him off the building. While landing on the statue was a fluke, having Ebara's body land in the area beneath his room's balcony was her goal. In order to conceal the fact that Ebara was in her room, she dropped his body out the window closest to his balcony, which happened to be sheltered from the "Princess Wind" that was blowing outside. This way, it seems like Ebara locked himself in his room, changed into the costume, and attempted to descend into the room below, occupied by Genichirou and Shizue, in order to cause more mischief, only to slip and fall to his death.
 However, Akiko's plan backfired. She failed to factor in the force of the "Princess Wind" that was blowing at the time of the murder and continues to blow similarly all the time. Conan, as Sleeping Kogoro, had the police drop several rolled futons from each suspect's room, each futon carrying weights to give them approximately the same weight as a person and a sheet tied around them to act like Night Baron's cape, as well as the number of the room they were dropped from written on them for identification. Thanks to the force of the "Princess Wind" and the cape catching that wind, none of the futons landed beneath any of their respective balconies. In other words, if Ebara had fallen from his own balcony, the wind would have blown him ''to the right of the statue'' rather than on top of it. The only way to make Ebara's body land beneath his own balcony in spite of the wind was, as demonstrated by Conan and the police, to drop his body in an area of the hotel that would shield it from the wind, an area that is only accessible from a room below the 20th floor of the hotel. With the suspect list in mind, Ebara could only have fallen from room 1901, Akiko and Maeda's room.
-The Night Baron that appeared before Akiko, Ran, and Conan, however, was '''Satoru Maeda''', who had no connection to the murder. After noticing a few anomalies about Ebara's body, he began to suspect Akiko and went through her luggage. He found the Night Baron wig in her suitcase. She had originally intended to include it with the rest of the costume she placed on Ebara, but she didn't need it since Ebara's hair already looked the part. With proof in hand, he realized his fiancée's plans and made his own plan to divert attention away from her so she wouldn't go to jail. The first part was to not reveal the alibi that he ''did'' have, as to not create inconsistencies within any possible confession he may have to make. The second was to steal the costume and appear in front of Akiko and someone else, creating a phony alibi for Akiko; stealing the costume proves there's only one costume, and only one costume would lead people to believe there's only one Night Baron, which couldn't be Akiko.
+The Night Baron that appeared before Akiko, Ran, and Conan, however, was '''Satoru Maeda''', who had no connection to the murder. After noticing a few anomalies about Ebara's body, he began to suspect Akiko and went through her luggage. He found the Night Baron wig in her suitcase. She had originally intended to include it with the rest of the costume she placed on Ebara, but she didn't need it since Ebara's hair already looked the part. With proof in hand, he realized his fiancée's plans and made his own plan to divert attention away from her so she would not go to jail. The first part was to not reveal the alibi that he ''did'' have, as to not create inconsistencies within any possible confession he may have to make. The second was to steal the costume and appear in front of Akiko and someone else, creating a phony alibi for Akiko; stealing the costume proves there is only one costume, and only one costume would lead people to believe there is only one Night Baron, who could not be Akiko.
-After Akiko is accused, Maeda insists that he's the real killer, but Ran had track down his alibi to clear his name, and Conan via Kogoro present the phone call Akiko made to the front desk from her room to prove she was at the scene of the crime when Ebara was thrown to his death. Maeda is also convicted, but for interfering with the investigation and the offenses that came with it, and is likely to get a lighter sentence due to the circumstances of his crimes and his own good behavior beforehand. Before being taken away, Akiko bitterly tells Maeda to forget about her since she's not a good woman. He promises to wait for Akiko's release, however, and despite trying to put on a mask of stoicism, she can't help crying as she's taken away.
+After Akiko is accused, Maeda insists that he is the real killer, but Ran had tracked down his alibi to clear his name, and Conan via Kogoro presents the phone call Akiko made to the front desk from her room to prove she was at the scene of the crime when Ebara was thrown to his death. Maeda is also convicted, but for interfering with the investigation and the offenses that came with it, and is likely to get a lighter sentence due to the circumstances of his crimes and his own good behavior beforehand. Before being taken away, Akiko bitterly tells Maeda to forget about her since she is not a good woman. He promises to wait for her release, however, and despite trying to put on a mask of stoicism, she cannot help crying as she is taken away.
-Hideko Kamijo, Ebara's ex-wife, entered the contest because she wanted to make an antivirus for the Night Baron virus. Incidentally, Ebara sold Akiko's brother's program to Kamijo, but she realized that it was a stolen program and stopped its sale. Genichirou Kaneshiro wanted the virus in order to punish the creator for ruining his high school girl dating simulator four years ago. Shiro Konno's reason for wanting the virus is unconfirmed, but Kamijo suggested earlier that he had nefarious purposes. Genichirou seemed to concur with Kamijo's analysis, though his agreement came after Konno began sweating bullets over Kamijo's assertion.</spoiler>
+==== Aftermath ====
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 ==== The Resolution ====
-In their hotel room, Ran sits miserably on the bed with the knowledge that only a certain person could have blocked her kick the way Night Baron did. Unsure what to do with the knowledge, she wishes for Shinichi to tell her what to do. A knock on the door interrupts her; she opens the door as far as the anti-theft lock allows to find Conan, who declares his experiment successful because she didn't close the lock herself. He notices her face and asks if she was crying, but she passes it off as yawning and Conan runs off again. He ends up in the same elevator as the two policeman, and as he ponders the suspects he overhears that the officer who was guarding Ebara's body and overpowered was himself a strong practitioner of karate. Like Ran earlier, Conan suddenly wonders if the identity of Night Baron may in fact be karate champion Satoru Maeda. But Ran confirms that Maeda has a perfect alibi because he was giving autographs to his fans. So Conan dismisses him as a killer and still wonders who did it. Talking to one of the hotel maids, Conan learns that the wind that blows in this time of the year is a famous one named "Himekaze" aka "Princess Wind", and it blows in a very special direction. Thanks to that, he finally figures out who the killer is.
+In their hotel room, Ran sits miserably on the bed with the knowledge that only a certain person could have blocked her kick the way Night Baron did. Unsure what to do with the knowledge, she wishes for [[Shinichi]] to tell her what to do. A knock on the door interrupts her; she opens the door as far as the anti-theft lock allows to find Conan, who declares his experiment successful because she did not close the lock herself. He notices her face and asks if she was crying, but she passes it off as yawning and Conan runs off again. He ends up in the same elevator as the two policemen, and as he goes through the suspects list he overhears that the officer who was guarding Ebara's body and was later knocked out was himself a strong practitioner of karate. Like Ran earlier, Conan suddenly wonders if the identity of Night Baron may in fact be that of karate champion Satoru Maeda. Ran however confirms that Maeda has a perfect alibi because he was giving autographs to his fans, so Conan dismisses him as a killer and still wonders who did it. Talking to one of the hotel employees, Conan learns that the wind that blows in this time of the year is a famous one named "Himekaze" aka "Princess Wind", and it blows in a very specific direction. Thanks to that, he finally figures out who the killer is.
 === People ===

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 * Shizuoka police officer
 * Karate champion}}
-{{People|Man #1|EP70-Man.jpg|
+{{People|Man A|EP70-Man.jpg|
 * Izu Princess Hotel front desk receptionist}}
-{{People|Man #2|EP70-Man 2.jpg|
+{{People|Man B|EP70-Man 2.jpg|
 * Pub Emerald barman}}
-{{People|Man #3|EP68-Man 3.jpg|
+{{People|Man C|EP68-Man 3.jpg|
 * Professor
 * Agasa's friend and co-worker}}
 {{People|Girl|EP68-Girl.jpg|
 * Elementary school girl
-* Man #3's grand-daughter}}
+* Man C's granddaughter}}
-{{People|Woman #1|EP68-Woman 1.jpg|
+{{People|Woman A|EP68-Woman 1.jpg|
 * Izu Princess Hotel waitress}}
-{{People|Woman #2|EP70-Woman 2.jpg|
+{{People|Woman B|EP70-Woman 2.jpg|
 * Izu Princess Hotel waitress}}
-{{People|Woman #3|EP70-Woman 3.jpg|
+{{People|Woman C|EP70-Woman 3.jpg|
 * Izu Princess Hotel guest
 * Satoru's fan}}
-{{People|Woman #4|EP70-Woman 4.jpg|
+{{People|Woman D|EP70-Woman 4.jpg|
 * Izu Princess Hotel guest
 * Satoru's fan}}
-{{People|Forensics officer|EP70 Forensics.jpg|
+{{People|Forensics officer A|EP70 Forensics.jpg|
 * Shizuoka police forensics officer}}
 {{People|Forensics officer B|EP70 Forensics2.jpg|
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 * Deceased (suicide - fell)
 * 27 years old (3 years ago)
-* Akiko's older brother
+* Akiko's older brother and Maeda's friend
-* Computer software company owner
+* Computer software company owner}}
 {{People|Satomi Konno|No pic female.jpg|
 * Shiro's late mother}}

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 ==== The Suspicion ====
 Conan and Ran hear about the death of someone "in a mask" and go to look. Conan slips through the police barrier only to be stopped by detective Yokomizo, who was recently transferred from [[Setting/Prefectures of Japan#Saitama|Saitama Prefecture]] to [[Setting/Prefectures of Japan#Shizuoka|Shizuoka Prefecture]]. While Yokomizo explains this to Ran, Conan slides the Night Baron mask off to reveal Tokio Ebara. Ran recognizes him and explains the mystery tour to Yokomizo while Conan discovers Ebara only has one glove on, and his costume's necktie tied backwards. Yokomizo assumes Ebara was the sponsor but wonders whether the death is a suicide or an accident and asks where Kogoro is. Hideko tells them he is still in the bar, but stays to look at the body. Conan realizes that behind her sunglasses, she is crying.
 In the bar, Ran wakes Kogoro up and they all go to Ebara's room 2101. The anti-theft lock is in place from the inside and they could only enter the room after another officer cuts it with a handsaw. Ebara's clothes from earlier in the evening and his room key are on the floor just inside. The sliding door to the balcony is open, and a glove is stuck at the base of the railing. Kogoro assumes Ebara died accidentally as he was trying to scare the occupants of the room below, but Conan points out that on the 21st floor, Ebara would probably have used rope, and needed his room key to get back in. Kogoro smacks Conan in annoyance, causing Conan's fountain pen to fall to the ground below, and leaves with Yokomizo to examine the body.
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 After an initial reaction of shock, Ran immediately attacks the Night Baron with powerful karate kicks, but the Night Baron is somehow able to dodge the kicks and escape. Conan tries to get her to chase, but Ran and Akiko are both stunned into immobility until it is too late. They go to tell Kogoro what happened, and also learn that the costume was stolen earlier from Ebara's body but has now (hat, mask, wig, and cape) suddenly appeared in the pool. Conan wonders if this appearance was unplanned while the police question everyone again and learn that everyone was staying in their room as instructed, so no one has an alibi. Even Maeda is unconfirmed, since they came straight back down without going to Akiko and Maeda's room 1901. The rooms are searched, starting with theirs. Conan notes from the balcony that they are a bit below and to the right of Ebara's room. He notes the position, annoyed that he lost his high-quality fountain pen, while inside Yokomizo finds some sleeping pills belonging to Akiko but nothing suspicious.
 In Kaneshiro and Shizue's room 2001, Conan sees that Ebara's room was directly above, but it's difficult to make notes with all the wind rushing by. Kogoro is annoyed by Conan's presence until Conan says he is studying Kogoro's detective skills. Kaneshiro mentions that Konno has reasons to want the virus after having tampered with computers at his own bank. However, in his own room 2002, Konno says Kaneshiro hates the Night Baron because his son died as a result of "a virus". Konno's room was closest to Ebara's, but impossible to reach from Ebara's balcony. Kanno also says that Hideko was Ebara's wife, which she reluctantly confirms in her room 2102 but that she divorced him after she discovered he was a computer hacker. She also mentioned that Akiko's older brother used to have a small software company. Everyone has a motive.