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| name                = Vodka
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| name                = Vermouth
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| japanese-name      = {{lang|ja|ウォッカ}} <br> (Wokka)
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| japanese-name      = {{Lang|ja|ベルモット}} <br> (Berumotto)
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| english-name        = Kaspar
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| english-name        = Vermouth
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| image              = Vodka Profile.jpg
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| image              = M26 Vermouth.jpg
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| age                = unknown
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| age                = Her true age is unknown <br> (29) Chris Vineyard<ref>[[Volume 24#File 239 - The Black Burial Ranks|Volume 24, File 239: "The Black Burial Ranks"]]</ref><br> (?) Sharon Vineyard
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| gender              = Male
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| gender              = Female
 
| date-of-birth      =
 
| date-of-birth      =
 
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| occupation          = [[Black Organization]] managerial secretary
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| occupation          = Actress <br> [[Black Organization]] member
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| status              = Alive
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| nicknames          = Rotten Apple ([[FBI]])
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| aliases            = Saburō Uokka<!--It has been confirmed multiple times that it is read as "Uokka" instead of "Uotsuka/Uozuka" https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/bhufqf/and_then_there_were_no_mermaidsgina_and_vodka/f193ods/ https://discord.com/channels/352351264081969152/353321538080210945/772789872805150726--><ref>[[File:Mermaid case guestbook scene manga.PNG|thumb|right|200px|File 281]]
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| aliases            = Chris Vineyard <br> Sharon Vineyard
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[[File:EP223-guestbook.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Episode 223]]
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| status              = Alive (as Chris Vineyard) <br> Dead (as Sharon Vineyard)
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[[File:Op50-4.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Opening 50]]
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| first-appearance    = Manga: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|File 239]] <br> Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176]]
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In the Mermaid Curse Murder Case and later in [[opening 50]], [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name shows up in one of the guestbooks logging past contestants for the arrows, as well as [[Gin]] and Vodka's names, Kurosawa Jin (黒澤 陣) and Uokka Saburō (魚塚 三郎). This was commented in an interview with [[Gosho Aoyama]] in [[Interviews#Love Conan Interview|''Love♥Conan: Conan Official Fan Book for Girls'']], published by [[Shogakukan]] on March 1, 2004 in Japan. In addition, some say that these names are derived from the [[Wikipedia: Seven Lucky Gods|Seven Lucky Gods]] and Japanese actors and film directors and Vodka’s name would derive from [[Wikipedia: Sanjuro|Sanjūrō Tsubaki]], [[Wikipedia: Sanshiro Sugata|Sanshirō Sugata]] (Akira Kurosawa's films and their protagonists), [[Wikipedia:ja:門脇三郎|Saburō Kadowaki]], or [[Wikipedia:ja:池谷三郎|Saburō Iketani]] + a [[Wikipedia: Romanization of Japanese|romanization]] of "Vodka".
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| appearances        = {{:Vermouth Appearances}}
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| first-appearance    = Manga: [[Volume 1#File 001 - The Heisei Holmes|File 1]] <br> Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
 
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| appearances        = {{:Vodka Appearances}}
 
 
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| keyhole            = [[Volume 38]]
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| keyhole            = [[Volume 26]] (Chris Vineyard) <br> [[Volume 35]] (Sharon Vineyard) <br> [[Volume 78]] (Scar Akai) <br> [[Volume 90]] (Azusa Enomoto)
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| japanese-voice      = [[Fumihiko Tachiki]]
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| japanese-voice      = [[Mami Koyama]]
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| english-voice      = [[Kyle Hebert]] (1st FUNimation) <br> [[Christopher Sabat]] (2nd FUNimation) <br> [[Edward Bosco]] (Bang Zoom!) <br> [[David Matranga]] (Studio Nano)
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| english-voice      = [[Laura Post]] (Bang Zoom!) <br> [[Colleen Clinkenbeard]] (Studio Nano)
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| drama-actor        = [[Taro Okada]]
 
 
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'''{{nihongo|Vodka|ウォッカ|Wokka}}''' is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is [[Gin]]'s partner and, like him, was first introduced under the name of Kaspar in the English manga, but then was later renamed to Vodka.<!--His real name is {{nihongo|'''Saburo Uokka'''|魚塚 三郎|Uokka Saburō}}<ref>[[Volume 28#Mermaid's Curse Case|Volume 28: Mermaid's Curse Case]]</ref>, then "Vodka" derived from the last name, which is very similar.<- Same as Gin, never confirmed, can very well be a fake name based on his codename.-->
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'''{{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 ==
 
== Background ==
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Vodka is a member of the [[Black Organization]] who is often seen by Gin's side. His official position is that of secretary in the general oversight division<ref>Conan Drill page 237. Vodka's position is 全体監視役秘書係 which roughly translates to General Oversight division secretary</ref>, so he handles most of the research and information for the duo, such as setting up meetings (309-311), and relaying information to other members (54, 345). Vodka is often seen using some transport.
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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.
  
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== Appearance ==
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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]].
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Vodka has a muscular body, a wide chin making him look more like a member of the mafia, yakuza or simply a thug. Vodka wears a black fedora with a red stripe around it, also he wears black clothes but his shirt is red. Vodka is mostly seen wearing black glasses.
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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.
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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>
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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.
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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 ==
 
== Personality ==
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[[File:Vodka calls Itakura.png|thumb|left|200px|Vodka makes a phone call to Itakura, but instead of him, Agasa and Conan are in Itakura's cottage.]]
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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.
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Vodka speaks and acts like a typical mafia or Yakuza type gangster, and he is just as ruthless a killer as his partner Gin. However, he is also more easy-going and trusting than the latter, thus making him more susceptible to traps Conan sets to apprehend the Organization. In addition, he tends to not perform well under stress without guidance from Gin or other characters, as exemplified in [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] when, distracted by Gin being sedated, he fails to realize Shiho is escaping and stop her before it is too late.
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[[File:Vermouth_provokes_Gin.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth teases Gin and Vodka by disguising as a waiter.]]
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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.
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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.
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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.
  
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While his astuteness is largely overshadowed by Gin, Vodka can notice details that Gin does not, sometimes to the point of endangering Conan. An example of this would again be in Sherry’s Return, where Vodka noted Haibara’s partially consumed bottle of ''[[paikaru]]'' and the unfolded laptop containing data about [[APTX 4869]]. (She had left these behind in order to be able to climb through the chimney and successfully escape from the room before the two arrived).
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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>
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On the bullet train's dining car,<ref>Note that in the anime, their appearance was replaced by a pair of generic lookalike criminals.</ref> Vodka spotted a piece of gum that Conan had previously planted; however, Vodka then confirmed it was just a piece of gum, apparently unaware of the tracker hidden inside.
 
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Another example occurred while Vodka was on the phone with Conan, who at the time was impersonating the Organization contact [[Suguru Itakura]] with his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changing bowtie]]. During the conversation, Vodka heard the click of [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] turning on the lights in the background, although Conan again alleviates his suspicions by telling him that the sound was just the wind blowing.<br />
 
  
 
== Abilities ==
 
== Abilities ==
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=== Marksmanship ===
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=== Disguise ===
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Vodka is a fairly accurate shot with handguns. In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] he pretty accurately shoots at adult height where Conan is standing behind the door. Note that in the anime, Vodka is depicted as shooting wildly because the animators mistook the drawings of the muzzle flash for wall impacts.
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<!--{{Main|disguise}}-->[[File:Vermouth taking off Araide's mask.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth removes a latex mask.]]
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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>
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=== Reconnaissance ===
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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.
  
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=== Memory ===
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=== Stamina ===
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Vodka apparently has a good memory. He could recall offhand the conditions, reasons, and circumstances of the Shinichi's death quite some time after the fact when Gin asked.
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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.
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=== Pain Tolerance ===
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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.
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=== Shooting ===
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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.
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== Non-aging ==
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[[File:Vermouth 20 years ago.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth's appearance 20 years before the current timeline.]]
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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 ==
 
== Appellations ==
 
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{{appellations|Rikumichi Kusuda|-|Fellow (''nakama'')}}
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{{appellations|Scar Akai|-|Man like [[Shuichi Akai|Akai]] (''Akai-rashiki otoko'')}}
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{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|-|The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3>824 pg 3</ref>}}
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{{appellations|Yoshiaki Hara|-|Hara}}
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{{appellations|Genta Kojima|-|The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>}}
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{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|-|The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>}}
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{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Vermouth<ref name="m13"/>}}
 
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{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Bourbon}}
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{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Vermouth <br> Rotten Apple|Akai Shuichi <br> Akai <br> Silver Bullet}}
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{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|-|Kir}}
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{{appellations|Ethan Hondou|-|Hondou}}
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{{appellations|Mary Sera|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')|Mary Akai}}
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{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Akai Tsutomu}}
 
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{{appellations|Toji Funemoto|Foreigner (''gaikoku no hito'')}}
 
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== Plot overview ==
 
== Plot overview ==
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Vodka was the first Black Organization member introduced to the series.
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=== Manga and anime timeline ===
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{{main|Vermouth timeline}}
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== Non-canon plot overview ==
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=== The Raven Chaser (Movie: [[The Raven Chaser|13]]) ===
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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]].
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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.
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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.
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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".
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=== The Shadow Approaching Amuro (Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Amuro|813]]) ===
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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.
  
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=== Blackmail Transaction with a Company Owner (Manga: [[Volume 1|1]], Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|1]]) ===
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=== The Darkest Nightmare (Movie: [[The Darkest Nightmare|20]]) ===
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[[File:Vodka's blackmail transaction.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vodka conduct a blackmail transaction with a company owner.]]
 
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Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
 
  
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=== Murder of Akemi Miyano (Manga: [[Volume 2|16]], Anime: [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|128]]) ===
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=== Black Iron Submarine (Movie: [[Black Iron Submarine|26]]) ===
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[[File:V2-7 Such an awkwardly shaped panel.PNG|thumb|left|150px|Gin confronting Akemi Miyano.]]
 
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In order to free both her sister and herself from the Black Organization, [[Akemi Miyano]] accepts the mission to rob one billion yen from a bank. To increase the chances of her sucess, she hires a driver and a giant-like man as assistants. However, the driver, Kenzo Hirota, disappears with the cash after the robbery, forcing Akemi to search for him. She hires [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] under the alias "Masami Hirota", supposedly Kenzo's teenage daughter. Kogoro luckily manages to find Kenzo for Akemi; after she is left alone with Kenzo, she and their third partner kill Kenzo and stage his death as a suicide hanging after taking the money. Meanwhile, Gin and Vodka meets Masami, who call her Akemi Miyano. Gin asks where the money is. Akemi refuses to reveal the location without them giving up her sister, since she'd done the job on the condition that the two of them could leave after. Gin answers that her sister, as a "top brain" in the organization, is too indispensable to have ever considered giving up. Akemi refuses Gin offer of one last chance to reveal the money cache.
 
  
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=== Bullet Train Case (Manga: [[Volume 4|33]]) ===
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== Plot exposition ==
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[[File:Gin and Vodka on a train.PNG|right|thumb|150px|Conan encounters Gin and Vodka.]]
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=== Family history ===
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Gin and Vodka board a bullet train to complete a transaction: selling information about gold for 400 million yen. They arrange the meeting place to be a dining car on the second floor of the bullet train. On the way to their seats, Gin and Vodka coincidentally encounter [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]. However, neither of them recognize that he is actually [[Shinichi Kudo]], because they are unaware of the rare shrinking effect of [[APTX 4869]]. Vodka simply orders Conan to get out of the way and they take their seats, which are very near the Mouris', without paying further attention to him. When Gin and Vodka go to make the transaction, Conan plants an eavesdropping bug in the seat ashtray. Once they return, he overhears them discussing how the black briefcase they exchanged for 400 million yen has no information about gold, but is a bomb their client is sure to set off without meaning to at a specific time. Conan also learns their codenames at this time. They leave the train at Nagoya station, before the explosion is set to occur when the client dials a specific phone number as instructed to learn how to open the case; the number is actually the bomb activator. It is unknown if Gin, Vodka, or the Organization know that Conan was the one who found the bomb and kicked it off the train just before it exploded.
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[[File:Vermouth Sharon Vineyard EP345.png|thumb|right|200px|Chris and Sharon Vineyard]]
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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.
  
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=== Game Company Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 12|114-116]], Anime: [[Game Company Murder Case|54]]) ===
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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>
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[[File:Tequila talk with Vodka by phone-call.jpg|left|thumb|right|200px|Conan overhears Tequila start a phone-call with Vodka.]]
 
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At the Mantendo Convention, Conan encounters the man code-named [[Tequila]]. Tequila appears at the Mantendo Corporation convention to buy a list of the best programmers in the world from one of the company employees, Hideaki Nakajima. The exchange occurs by the two men bumping into each other in the hallway and exchanging claim tickets for the convention hall's coat-check area. Tequila uses the claim ticket to obtain Hideaki's company briefcase; however, both men are unaware that Hideaki's ticket was previously switched with that of his co-worker with the intention of killing him via a briefcase-bomb. When Tequila opens the briefcase, the explosion kills him.
 
  
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Meanwhile, Conan sees Tequila again on their way back, trading tag 98 for a Mantendo-employee briefcase. Conan is curious, but decides it's not his problem until he overhears the man start a phone-call with Vodka by identifying himself as Tequila and ask Vodka to tell Gin that he promise to meet both of them later.
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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.
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[[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]]
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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.
  
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Tequila and Vodka speak over the phone, though Vodka's dialogue is never heard in the episode, and we're left to interpret it through Tequila's responses. Tequila is easily frustrated talking to Vodka, though it may just be from Conan distracting Tequila for a few seconds. Neither Gin or Vodka appear in the episode aside from some background shots, and Vodka doesn't have lines.
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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.
  
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=== The University Professor Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 18|179-180]] and [[Volume 19|181]], Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|129]]) ===
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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"/>
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[[File:Conan realize Vodka voice.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Conan and Haibara realize Vodka disguised as a person from "Kuro Life Insurance".]]
 
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Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. Shiho mistakenly sent him an APTX 4869 disk when it was mixed up for a disk of Akemi's pictures Shiho was sending back via the professor's address. The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.
 
  
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=== Reunion with the Black Organization (Manga: [[Volume 24|238-242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|176-178]]) ===
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=== Hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not Jodie ===
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Gin and Vodka are planning to eliminate someone, and already has a member named [[Pisco]] in Haido City Hotel. Pisco recognizes Haibara's childhood form and on Gin's order, kidnaps her from the wake after he murders the target. Then Gin and Vodka are on their way to the hotel and intercept her, in Shiho's form, on the roof. Gin shoots her several times as torture to make her answer how she escaped the gas chamber. When she refuses, Gin is about to kill her when Conan shoots Gin with the tranquilizer needle and orders Shiho via th voice-changing bowtie to escape back down the chimney. Gin shoots himself in the arm to stay awake, while Vodka tries unsuccessfully to shoot Conan, letting Shiho escape successfully just before she reverts to Haibara.
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[[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.]]
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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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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>
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* 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>
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* 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>
  
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In the chimney, Haibara meet Kenzo Masuyama who is revealed to be Pisco. When he is just about to shoot Haibara, Conan reveals himself to Pisco. Ethanol fumes are set alight by Pisco's cigarette and the whole cellar catches fire. Conan and Haibara escape in the confusion. Pisco hears someone getting down the chimney. He thought that it was Conan and Haibara, but it was actually Gin who had survived from Conan's tranquilizer darts. He then tells Pisco that he was photographed when commiting the crime, and then shoots him, resulting in his death.
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=== Jodie's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ===
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[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|right|200px|Seven year old Jodie encounters Vermouth twenty years ago.]]
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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.
  
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=== Vodka's rendezvous with Suguru Itakura (Manga: [[Volume 37|380-382]] and [[Volume 38|381]], Anime: [[Contact with the Black Organization|309-311]]) ===
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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.
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[[File:Vodka call Conan.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Vodka talking with Conan who using Itakura's voice with his voice changing bowtie.]]
 
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[[Ran Mouri|Ran]] tells Conan that [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] is an FBI agent causing Conan to wonder what the FBI are doing in Japan. Conan heads to Agasa to analyze the data from [[Suguru Itakura|Itakura]]'s disk and learn that the Black Organization were going to Itakura's cottage to retrieve the program he was working on. Conan and Agasa head to Itakura's cottage in an attempt to intercept the email the email the Black Organization would send in order to trace them. However, the email was programmed to be deleted if the correct password was not typed and subsequently causes the Black Organization members to believe Itakura is in the cottage. Vodka phones the house and believing Itakura is in the cottage, to pick up the phone.
 
  
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Once arriving at their destination point, Conan reveals that the two people are the jewelry robbers. Conan reveals that they hijacked a car as evidenced by the man's inability to handle the foreign car and how coins were found in the ashtray yet the man is a smoker. Conan apprehends the two culprits and proceeds to the subway. Once there Conan places the CD containing the program the Black Organization wants and places it in a coin locker with a check sticking out of the prearranged locker. Vodka arrives and takes the CD but is stopped by Gin who revealed that there is tape on the CD which means that someone was trying to get his fingerprint. Gin finds a tracker device. He places his hand on the case to find out its warm meaning the one who set up the disk is nearby. Conan manages to hide in a coin locker and passes out due to the lack of oxygen; He is found by [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] the next day.
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=== Conan's investigation ===
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==== Conan's discovery Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide ====
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[[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.
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[[File:Vermouth as Araide.png|left|thumb|200px|Vermouth as Dr. Araide]]
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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 &amp; 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>
  
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=== Disguised as Zombie in Halloween Party (Manga: [[Volume 42|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]]) ===
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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>
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[[File:Vodka with Zombie Mask.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Vodka bring a zombie mask.]]
 
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[[Vermouth]] sends a signed off-season Halloween party invitation to Kogoro Mouri and to Conan addressed for Shinichi Kudo challenging them to solve a murder on the ship. Conan asks Haibara who is still sick about the name Vermouth, and learns from her reaction that it is the codename of one of the Black Organization members.
 
  
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Agasa’s house is still bugged and Conan takes advantage of that to manipulate Vermouth into believing he is going to go to the party. Conan knows at this time Vermouth wants to avoid catching him up in her plan to capture Sherry because of the events at New York in the Golden Apple case.
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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" />
  
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Gin has been ordered by the boss to look into Vermouth’s movements related to the Halloween party and tells Vodka to board the ship and investigate. He has no idea what Vermouth is doing but tells Vodka to kill her if she does anything weird even if she is the boss' favorite.
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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" />
  
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The invisible man gathers the party guests to the bow of the boat and reveals his identity as Shinichi and declares werewolf as the murderer. Vodka is very surprised and remembers that Gin had killed Shinichi in Tropical Land. The Shinichi present at the boat is then revealed to have been [[Heiji Hattori]] in disguise.
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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>
  
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=== Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out (Manga: [[Volume 48|499-500]] and [[Volume 49|501-504]], Anime: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|425]]) ===
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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>
  
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=== Clash of Red and Black (Manga: [[Volume 57|595-597]] [[Volume 58|598-608]] and [[Volume 59|609]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|495-504]]) ===
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==== Conan's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ====
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[[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.]]
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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.
  
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=== Department Store Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 67|700-704]], Anime: [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen|579-581]]) ===
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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.
  
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=== The Jet-Black Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]]) ===
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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>
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[[File:Vodka hearing.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vodka observes Jirokichi who talks with Nagoya Police.]]
 
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Vermouth is on the phone with Gin. Vermouth passes on the information that [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] came across, which is that Sherry was hiding in Gunma and was going to travel on the Bell Tree Express, a train own by Suzuki family which hosts a special mystery onboard. Vermouth recalls her encounter with Conan and her promise to let Sherry go. She justifies the upcoming attack on Sherry as Bourbon's job and asks Gin not to interfere before the train reaches its destination.
 
  
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At the Bell Tree Express, there's an unexpected murder case. Etsuto Murobashi, a passanger room B car 7, was killed in a sealed room (8B). [[Jirokichi Suzuki|Jirokichi]] is very angry and calls a meeting with the Nagoya Police directing them to restore his and their honor by capturing the murderer post haste. Gin and Vodka watch the pep rally from behind a column on the Nagoya platform. Gin receives an text from Vermouth that Sherry is indeed boarded the train.
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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>
  
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=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 80|951-953]], Anime: [[Soul Detective Murder Case|863-864]]) ===
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=== List of disguises used ===
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After the case is solved, Gin and Vodka talk about it in their Porsche 356 A. Gin comments that [[Rum]] screwed up in [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder from seventeen years ago. He is intrigued by the fact that Kogoro Mouri decided to investigate that murder and suggests the detective be finished off before he becomes more dangerous.
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Vermouth has used many disguises over the course of the series. These are the known ones used so far.
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File:Sharon Vineyard 308.png|Sharon Vineyard
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File:Chris Vineyard first appearence.png|Chris Vineyard
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File:Ep286 Radish Redwood.png|New York City police officer [[Radish Redwood]].<ref name="NYcase">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]]</ref>
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File:Ep288 Slasher.png|Serial killer in New York City to lure out and kill [[Shuichi Akai]].<ref name="NYcase"/>
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File:Not Tomoaki Araide.png|[[Tomoaki Araide]] as part of a plan to capture [[Ai Haibara]]
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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File:Vermouth Disguised.png‎|Simple disguise with hat, sunglasses and tied hair.<ref>[[Volume 78|Volume 78, File 824]]</ref>
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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.
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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>
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File:Vermouth Disguise Azusa.png|Azusa Enomoto.
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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]].
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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>
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File:Vermouth Second Disguise.jpg|Mall shopper in [[The Raven Chaser]]
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=== Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case (Manga: [[Volume 100|1060]], Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Detective Show|1072]]) ===
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== Speculation ==
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After the case, Gin and Vodka pick up Vermouth in their Porsche 356 A, who is order by Rum to investigate [[Yusaku Kudo]] as a threat to the organization. Gin ask him whether she had kill him or not. Vermouth comments that the investigate was a let down so she didn't kill him, but she can do it any time if it need to be.
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=== Vermouth's true age ===
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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...
  
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=== FBI Serial Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 100|1061-1066]], Anime: [[The Black Organization's Scheme|1077-1079]]) ===
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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.
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Gin and Vodka eliminate the FBI by hacking the FBI Communication code. When the FBI decide to planted a fake code, Rum was able to detect it and able to counter trap and attacked one of the FBI members, [[Andre Camel]], causing him falling into sea at Umibotaru. However, Gin decide to find Camel due to Korn remembers he has seen Camel before. They arrive at Umizarujima and split up for searching Camel. Vodka mentioned that he never met Rum before. The conflicting accounts of his overall appearance and build among the Black Organization members are fake to keep his identity a secret. Only the artifical eye are true rumor. Gin had been met him and knows where he is and what he is doing. He also mentioned that Rum changed his appearance and made up a silly name for himself. However, they were fooled into thinking to have successfully eliminated Camel.
 
  
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== Non-canon plot overview ==
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=== Vermouth did not use APTX 4869 ===
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=== Differences in the anime ===
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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. <br />
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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.
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==== The Shinkansen's Bomb Case ([[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|Anime 5]]) ====
 
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In the manga, this case occurred after [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]]. In the anime version of this case, Gin and Vodka are replaced with unrelated criminals who look and dress very similarly. The replacement of Gin and Vodka created a continuity error because the episode omitted how Conan learned their codenames, which was important to identifying Tequila as a member of the Black Organization in the [[Game Company Murder Case]]. In the Funimation dub, they fixed this continuity error by having Heiji Hattori hint the code names Gin and Vodka.
 
  
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==== The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case ([[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Anime 13]]) ====
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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.
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In the manga, this case occurred before [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case]]. In the anime version of this case, Gin was replaced by a similar looking man with glasses who shot but did not kill Akemi Miyano. This created a rather large continuity error.<ref>Akemi's participation in the robbery was a deal she made with the Black Organization stipulating that if she successfully stole the money, she and her sister would be freed. However, the Organization had intended for her to fail so they could kill her for having a relationship with the FBI infiltrator [[Shuichi Akai]]. Although Akemi was successful, Gin killed her anyway. Her death, which the Black Organization refused to explain, was part of the motive that led to Sherry betraying the Organization.</ref> The continuity error was corrected in [[The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case|episode 128]]. Other information that wound up being delayed included Gin revealing that Akemi had a scientist sister who was valuable to the Organization, and that he was left handed based on how he held his handgun.
 
  
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==== Murder of Akemi Miyano ([[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|Anime 128]]) ====
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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.
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Akemi Miyano, works as a bank teller under the alias "Masami Hirota" to prepare for the upcoming robbery. With the assistance of Shirou Kaizuka (a racecar driver) and Kishi (one of the bank guards), Akemi steals one billion yen from a transport van. However, soon after the Black Organization murders Akemi’s two accomplices and a lipstick-smeared facemask is left at the crime scene in order to frame Akemi as the third robber (which she is), who killed her partners to keep all the money herself (which she didn't). Meanwhile, Gin and Vodka meets Masami, who call her Akemi Miyano. Gin asks where the money is. Akemi refuses to reveal the location without them giving up her sister, since she'd done the job on the condition that the two of them could leave after. Gin answers that her sister, as a "top brain" in the organization, is too indispensable to have ever considered giving up. Akemi refuses Gin offer of one last chance to reveal the money cache.
 
  
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=== Special Manga Appearances ===
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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.
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==== [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus (Part 1)]] ====
 
  
 
== Relationships analysis ==
 
== Relationships analysis ==
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=== Gin ===
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=== Family and friends ===
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Vodka is a subordinate of [[Gin]]'s and they frequently work together as a team, or are seen communicating with one another by phone. Vodka shows Gin absolute respect, using honorifics<ref> Vodka refers to Gin as "aniki", which literally means "big brother" and is a quasi-affectionate term for people within a tight social circle. However, the term is also used by yakuza-types to respectfully refer to their bosses.</ref> while speaking with Gin rather than just simply using his codename. Gin in turn values Vodka for his obedience. Gin views and treats Vodka as an "inexperienced little brother".<ref name=CD239a>Conan drill page 239: 出来の悪い弟分</ref>
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==== Yukiko Kudo ====
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[[File:Sharon and Yukiko young.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth with Yukiko approximately 20 years ago.]]
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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.
  
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=== Tequila ===
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====Toichi Kuroba====
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Vodka and [[Tequila]] are approximately equally ranked, though despite being equals, Tequila is very impatient and easily frustrated with Vodka during their phone call in The Game Company Murder Case. Unlike Vodka, Tequila doesn't use honorifics when referring to Gin, showing that Vodka likely has more respect for Gin given their frequent partnership. Both are Gin's subordinates.<ref name=CD239/>
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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>
  
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=== Sherry ===
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=== Black Organization ===
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Vodka is acquainted with [[Shiho Miyano]], and is just as willing to kill or harm her as Gin, as shown in Reunion with the Black Organization, though likely would leave any finishing blows for Gin to execute. <ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>
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==== Gin ====
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[[File:Vermouth provoking Gin.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth teases Gin with a disguise.]]
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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.
  
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=== Vermouth ===
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==== Sherry ====
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Throughout the series, Vodka has not been shown as having any negative emotions regarding [[Vermouth]], 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.
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[[File:Vermouth episode 230.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth terrifies Haibara.]]
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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>
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==== The Boss ====
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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.
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As the Boss' Favorite, Vermouth is granted some privileges such as limited independence and protection from other Black Organization Members.
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==== Calvados (deceased) ====
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[[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.
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==== Chianti and Korn ====
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[[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.
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==== Pisco (deceased) ====
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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>
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==== Rei Furuya/Bourbon ====
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[[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.
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==== Rum ====
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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.
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==== Tequila (deceased) ====
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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. Though Vermouth and Tequila are never shown interacting on screen or in the manga, it can be assumed they did speak at some point in a coordinated effort to intimidate Itakura to finish the computer program the Organization wanted.
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==== Vodka====
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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.
 
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.
  
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=== Chianti ===
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=== Law enforcement ===
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During the [[Episode 1079|The Black Organization's Scheme]], he and Chianti hunt down FBI Agent Andre Camel, and Chianti asks him about what Rum looks like, and Vodka relays the info he knows from Gin regarding Rum. The two seem to have a mutual respect for each other despite their limited interactions together. Just like Tequila, Chianti and Vodka are both subordinates of Gin.
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==== Jodie Starling ====
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[[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>
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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.
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==== Shuichi Akai ====
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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.
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==== Kir ====
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Kir and her have a respectable relationship in the Black Organization. After Kir says a phrase that the CIA uses, she suspects that [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] is a member of the CIA though she hasn't told anyone about it.
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=== Others ===
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[[File:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth's dartboard. Conan's picture has "Cool guy" written on it while Ran's says "Angel."]]
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==== Shinichi Kudo/ Edogawa Conan ====
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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".
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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.
  
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=== Korn ===
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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.
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Korn and Vodka don't interact much, but likely respect each other, and seem to get along fairly well, and both are Gin's subordinates.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Also, when the Gin ordered [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]] to kill [[Kogoro Mori]] together with Conan, Vermouth was against it.
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==== Ran Mouri ====
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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.
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====Tomoaki Araide====
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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.
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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>.
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====Suguru Itakura====
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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.
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====Yusaku Kudo====
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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.
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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.
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====Kogoro Mouri====
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Vermouth once stole Kogoro's files from the police to successfully testify as Tomoaki Araide in court and later returned them in one piece.
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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.
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====Mary Sera====
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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 ==
 
== Character popularity ==
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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. Vodka placed 25th in the poll with 10 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>
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* 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>
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* 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>
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* 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 ==
 
== Name origin ==
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Vodka is the name of a type of wine made by the distillation of converted substances such as grains, potatoes, or sometimes fruits or sugar.
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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.
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Vodka's English dub name, Kaspar, is the name of one of the three Magi in Christian tradition. In accordance with that theme, Gin's English name, Melchior, is also the name of one of the Magi.
 
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== Character inspiration ==
 
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Vodka is modeled after a bad guy who was in the movie ''[[Wikipedia: Diva (1981 film)|Diva]]'', a guy with good body build.<ref>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref>
 
  
 
== Different looks ==
 
== Different looks ==
 
{|
 
{|
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vodka Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 1]]
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth before.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 230]]
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vodka After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 425]]
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth after.png|thumb|left|x200px|Movie 13]]
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vodka After New.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 704]]
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:704 05.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 704]]
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
== Quotes ==
 
== Quotes ==
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=== General ===
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<!-- "A secret makes a woman, a woman." is incorrect, so please don't change this quote to that. The reason is that there is a child in The Shadow of the Black Organization who sounds out Vermouth's phrase as "Umma Umma". An extra 'a' would mess up that clue.-->{{cquote|A secret makes a woman, woman.|Vermouth's motto}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{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.}}
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{{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.}}
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{{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.}}
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{{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.}}
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{{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}}
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{{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 ==
 
== In other languages ==
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=== Vermouth ===
 
{{BeginTable OtherLang}}
 
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ウォッカ Wokka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ベルモット Berumotto}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|ڤودكا Vōdka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|بلموت Bilmot}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Vodka / Wokka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Vermouth}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melaya|Vodka (anime) <br> Volka (manga) </br>}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Paramount <small>(manga)</small>}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|伏特加 Fútèjiā}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Vermouth}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Kaspar / Vodka<ref>Changed to Vodka in the manga</ref>}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|贝尔摩得 Bèi'ěrmódé <br>苦艾酒 Kǔ'àijiǔ</br>}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Vodka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Vermouth}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Vodka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Vermouth}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Vodka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Vermouth/Wermut}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Vodka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Vermouth/Belmouth <small>(anime)</small>}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Vodka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Вермут Vermut}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|วอตก้า}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Vermouth}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vodka}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Vermouth/Vermut}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เบลม็อท Belmot}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vermouth}}
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{{EndTable}}
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=== Sharon Vineyard ===
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{{BeginTable CharLang}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シャロン Sharon|ヴィンヤード Vin'yādo}}
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{{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}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sharon|Vineyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sharon|Vineyard}}
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{{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>}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sharon|Vineyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Sharon|Vinyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sharon|Vineyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sharon|Vineyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шэрон Sheron|Винъярд Vin'yard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sharon|Vinyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชารอน Sharon|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sharon|Vineyard}}
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{{EndTable}}
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=== Chris Vineyard ===
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{{BeginTable CharLang}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|クリス Kurisu|ヴィンヤード Vin'yādo}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| كرِس Chris|ڤنيارد Vineyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Chris|Vineyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Chris|Vineyard}}
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{{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>}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Chris|Vinyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Chris|Vineyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Крис Kris|Винъярд Vin'yard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Chris|Vinyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|คริส Chris|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Chris|Vinyard}}
 
{{EndTable}}
 
{{EndTable}}
  
 
== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
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* Vodka was the first Black Organization member to appear and speak. In the first episode of the anime, he rushed towards the roller coaster yelling, "Move it! Move it! We were here first!". His bulky body blocked Gin from view for a few seconds, who was walking right behind Vodka. Gin remained silent as they boarded the roller coaster and only uttered his first words after the murder took place.
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* The FBI's nickname for Vermouth, Rotten Apple, could also refer to "fermenting apples", which are known to produce alcohol.
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* Vodka has never been seen taking off his hat or sunglasses. His eyes were shown only during episode 345.
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* 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.
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* 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?").
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* In episode 674 of the anime, Vermouth's phone appears to be modeled after the iPhone.
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* 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]].
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* Vermouth's voice actress, [[Mami Koyama]], was the former wife of [[Rei Furuya]]'s voice actor, [[Tohru Furuya]].
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*Vermouth knows a lot of languages.<ref>[[Super Digest Books#BLACK PLUS Super Digest Book|BLACK PLUS Super Digest Book]]</ref>
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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* [[Black Organization]]
 
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Vermouth

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Profile
Japanese name: ベルモット
(Berumotto)
English name: Vermouth
Age: Her true age is unknown
(29) Chris Vineyard[1]
(?) Sharon Vineyard
Gender: Female
Occupation: Actress
Black Organization member
Status: Alive (as Chris Vineyard)
Dead (as Sharon Vineyard)
Nicknames: Rotten Apple (FBI)
Aliases: Chris Vineyard
Sharon Vineyard
Statistics
First appearance: Manga: File 239
Anime: Episode 176
Appearances: Chapters: 114
Chapters: 1
Chapters: 3
Episodes: 78
Episodes: 2
Movies: 3
Specials: 1
Openings: 27
Closings: 2
Keyhole number: Volume 26 (Chris Vineyard)
Volume 35 (Sharon Vineyard)
Volume 78 (Scar Akai)
Volume 90 (Azusa Enomoto)
Actors
Japanese voice: Mami Koyama
English voice: Laura Post (Bang Zoom!)
Colleen Clinkenbeard (Studio Nano)

Vermouth (ベルモット Berumotto?), also known as Sharon Vineyard (シャロン・ヴィンヤード Sharon Vin'yādo?) and 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.

Contents

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 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.[2] 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 the research that Shiho Miyano and her parents engaged in, calling it “foolish".[3]

Vermouth entered the storyline some time after 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.

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 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 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 her best friend) and Ran (Angel).[4] 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.[5]

Abilities

Disguise

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).[6] 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[7] 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.[8]

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 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

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.[9] 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

Plot overview

Manga and anime timeline

Main article: Vermouth timeline

Non-canon plot overview

The Raven Chaser (Movie: 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 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 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 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: 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: 20)

Black Iron Submarine (Movie: 26)

Plot exposition

Family history

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.[18] According to Sharon's story, both her mother and father died in a fire on the day Sharon debuted on screen.[19]

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.[20] 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."[21] Sharon became a star actress[22] and, according to Shuichi Akai, is best known for her work in the Golden Apple broadway play.

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.[23][24] 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.[19] She began to make movies and give interviews to reporters only, but otherwise she never appeared publicly.[20] The first day she came out into public was the day of her mother's funeral some time less than one year ago.[20] 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.[25] 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.[19] 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.[26] Sharon did teach Chris the disguise techniques she learned from Toichi after Chris begged for them.[26] 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.[26]

Hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not Jodie

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 the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.[27] This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also, Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
  • Araide switches from the basketball to the drama club.[28]
  • 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.[29]
  • Vermouth falls out of character. One of her patients says Dr. Araide has been acting like a stranger.[30] Also, "Dr. Araide" claims to have sent his grandmother and housekeeper Hikaru ahead to Aomori,[31] which is strange because it was established in the Araide family murder case[32] that Araide didn't trust them (especially Hikaru) to take care of themselves.[33]

Jodie's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person

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.[9] 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 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.

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.[34] After he recognizes Shuichi in the P & A case[35], Conan shows sensitivity to the prospect of someone investigating them.[36] Conan doesn't seem to suspect the person Vermouth has replaced, Dr. Araide, yet because he was willing to use his voice changer in front of him.[37]

Conan gets his first tangible proof someone is investigating around him when Takagi informs Conan all the records of Kogoro's cases were stolen from the police station on the day of the bus hijack incident and later returned.[38] 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 Saintemillion and Dr. Araide as well because they were also on the bus.[39] 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.[40]

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[41] and Agasa's investigation corroborates with Conan's deduction.[20] Conan is already aware that Chris Vineyard has disguise abilities and may be in disguise as someone around him.[39]

At this point, Conan is still uncertain of Araide, Jodie, and Shuichi's allegiances. He learns from Ran Mouri that Shuichi Akai was seen with a man in an 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.[42] 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.[43][44] 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.[44]

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.[45] 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.[46] 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.[47]

Conan tells Jodie the true scenario of Dr. Araide's family murder case.[48] 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.[49]

Conan's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person

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.[50][51] 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.[52]

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).[53]

List of disguises used

Main article: Disguise

Vermouth has used many disguises over the course of the series. These are the known ones used so far.

  • Sharon Vineyard

  • Chris Vineyard

  • New York City police officer Radish Redwood.[54]

  • Serial killer in New York City to lure out and kill Shuichi Akai.[54]

  • Tomoaki Araide as part of a plan to capture Ai Haibara

  • Vermouth's disguise as a waiter.png

    Waiter at a jazz bar to tease Gin and Vodka[55]

  • Kiriko Busujima in order to lure assassination target Domon Yasudera out.[56]

  • Simple disguise used when meeting with the witness Touji Funemoto to investigate about Kir's whereabouts.[57]

  • Vermouth disguised as Scar Akai on the Bell Tree Express and had put the same disguise on Bourbon several times earlier.[58]

  • Simple disguise with hat, sunglasses and tied hair.[59]

  • Vermouth as "Motoe Benzaki", Touhei Benzaki's fictitious wife[60], who claims to be the woman who taped Jodie back in the bank robbery.

  • Vermouth disguises as Jodie Starling a second time[61] to trap Camel into revealing critical details about Rikumichi Kusuda's death.[62]

  • Azusa Enomoto.

  • Vermouth disguise as Tsutomu Akai from 3 years ago in order to lure out and murder Mary for the infiltration of MI6.

  • Policeman in The Raven Chaser[63]

  • Mall shopper in The Raven Chaser

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.[64] Before Vermouth discovered Haibara and Conan, the known members of the Black Organization (besides Sherry) only knew about APTX 4869's lethal effects,[65] and it was considered deadly enough that Sherry's superiors employed it as an untraceable murder weapon.[64] However, given that Vermouth has said depressing things over the course of the series,[66] it is possible Vermouth took APTX 4869 hoping to commit suicide, but she de-aged instead, similar to Haibara's situation[67]. 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[68], 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

Vermouth with Yukiko approximately 20 years ago.

Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard and 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.[69]

Black Organization

Gin

Main article: Gin and Vermouth
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.[70] 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

Vermouth terrifies Haibara.

Vermouth and 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 '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.[71]

The Boss

In file 898, Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the 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.[72]

Rei Furuya/Bourbon

Rei/ Bourbon worked with Vermouth on a plan to determine if Shuichi Akai was really dead. She made 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 (deceased)

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. Though Vermouth and Tequila are never shown interacting on screen or in the manga, it can be assumed they did speak at some point in a coordinated effort to intimidate Itakura to finish the computer program the Organization wanted.

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!?"[73]

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 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

Kir and her have a respectable relationship in the Black Organization. After Kir says a phrase that the CIA uses, she suspects that Kir is a member of the CIA though she hasn't told anyone about it.

Others

Vermouth's dartboard. Conan's picture has "Cool guy" written on it while Ran's says "Angel."

Shinichi Kudo/ Edogawa Conan

After 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 successfully interfered with Vermouth's plan of killing 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'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, 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, 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. Also, when the Gin ordered Chianti and Korn to kill Kogoro Mori together with Conan, Vermouth was against it.

Ran Mouri

After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames 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."[21] 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[74].

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.[75] 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.[76]

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.[77]
  • 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.[78]
  • 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.[79]

Name origin

Vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. Vermouth is a type of flavored fortified wine, which follows the pattern of wine based codenames for women in the Black Organization.

Different looks

Episode 230
Movie 13
Episode 704

Quotes

General

“ A secret makes a woman, woman. „

— Vermouth's motto

Specific

“ We can be both of God and the Devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time. „

— V37-8 pg11, Speaking to Suguru Itakura over the phone when he demanded to know who Vermouth thought she was.

“ 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.

“ No angel has ever smiled upon me. Not even once. „

— Episode 286, Speaking to Yukiko and Ran about how Sharon's life has been unfortunate.

“ 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.

“ Well if you must blame someone, blame a God that set this up for you. „

— Episode 288, Vermouth in disguise as the serial killer speaking to Ran in preparation to kill her in New York City

“ 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

Language Name
Flag of Japan Japanese ベルモット Berumotto
Flag of Arab League Arabic بلموت Bilmot
Flag of Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia Vermouth
Flag of Malaysia Bahasa Melayu Paramount (manga)
Flag of Catalonia Catalan Vermouth
Flag of China Chinese (Simplified) 贝尔摩得 Bèi'ěrmódé
苦艾酒 Kǔ'àijiǔ
Flag of Finland Finnish Vermouth
Flag of France French Vermouth
Flag of Germany German Vermouth/Wermut
Flag of Italy Italian Vermouth/Belmouth (anime)
Flag of Russia Russian Вермут Vermut
Flag of Spain Spanish Vermouth
Flag of Sweden Swedish Vermouth/Vermut
Flag of Thailand Thai เบลม็อท Belmot
Flag of Vietnam Vietnamese Vermouth

Sharon Vineyard

Language Given Name Family Name
Flag of Japan Japanese シャロン Sharon ヴィンヤード Vin'yādo
Flag of Arab League Arabic نينا\شارون Nina / Sharon[80] ڤنيارد Vineyard
Flag of Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia Sharon Vineyard
Flag of Catalonia Catalan Sharon Vineyard
Flag of China Chinese (Simplified) 莎朗 Shālǎng 温亚德 Wēnyàdé[81]
Flag of Finland Finnish Sharon Vineyard
Flag of France French Sharon Vinyard
Flag of Germany German Sharon Vineyard
Flag of Italy Italian Sharon Vineyard
Flag of Russia Russian Шэрон Sheron Винъярд Vin'yard
Flag of Spain Spanish Sharon Vinyard
Flag of Thailand Thai ชารอน Sharon วินยาร์ด Vinyard
Flag of Vietnam Vietnamese Sharon Vineyard

Chris Vineyard

Language Given Name Family Name
Flag of Japan Japanese クリス Kurisu ヴィンヤード Vin'yādo
Flag of Arab League Arabic كرِس Chris ڤنيارد Vineyard
Flag of Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia Chris Vineyard
Flag of Catalonia Catalan Chris Vineyard
Flag of China Chinese (Simplified) 克莉丝 Kèlìsī 温亚德 Wēnyàdé[82]
Flag of France French Chris Vinyard
Flag of Italy Italian Chris Vineyard
Flag of Russia Russian Крис Kris Винъярд Vin'yard
Flag of Spain Spanish Chris Vinyard
Flag of Thailand Thai คริส Chris วินยาร์ด Vinyard
Flag of Vietnam Vietnamese Chris Vinyard

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.
  • Vermouth knows a lot of languages.[83]

See also

References

  1. ^ Volume 24, File 239: "The Black Burial Ranks"
  2. ^ Manga Volume 85, File 898: "Scarlet Epilogue"
  3. ^ Volume 42, File 434: "Rotten Apple"
  4. ^ Episode 288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case, Part 3.
  5. ^ Volume 49, File 501, page 7: "Follow the Target!"
  6. ^ Volume 44, File 457, Page 7
  7. ^ Volume 29, File 287: "The Unseen Horror", Episode 230: The Mysterious Passenger
  8. ^ Episode 362
  9. ^ a b Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask"
  10. ^ a b File 955: Whereabouts of the Betrayal (Volume 90)
  11. ^ a b c d Movie 13: The Raven Chaser
  12. ^ Volume 35, File 353, Page 6
  13. ^ Episode 345
  14. ^ 827 pg 16
  15. ^ a b 823 pg 15
  16. ^ a b c 824 pg 3
  17. ^ File 824 (Volume 78)
  18. ^ Volume 34, File 341, page 8: "The Hint That Was Against"
  19. ^ a b c Volume 35, File 351, page 2: "Golden Apple 2"
  20. ^ a b c d Volume 34, File 344, page 9: "The Storm of Booing"
  21. ^ a b Volume 34, File 350, page 18: "Golden Apple 1"
  22. ^ Volume 34, File 350, page 16: "Golden Apple 1"
  23. ^ Volume 34, File 350, page 17: "Golden Apple 1"
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ Volume 34, File 344, page 10: "The Storm of Booing"
  26. ^ a b c Volume 35, File 351, page 3: "Golden Apple 2"
  27. ^ Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"
  28. ^ Volume 27, File 270, page 3: "Game Start"
  29. ^ Volume 29, File 287, page 9: "The Unseen Horror"
  30. ^ Manga Volume 35, File 5 (355), pg 6: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"
  31. ^ Manga Volume 35, File 5 (355), pg 5: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"
  32. ^ Volume 24, Files 235-236: "In the Darkness..."
  33. ^ Volume 35, File 355: "Mystery of the Haunted House 1", Episode 274: The Truth of the Haunted House
  34. ^ Volume 29, File 291, page 11: "A Tiny Trace"
  35. ^ Volume 32, File 326-328: "P & A"
  36. ^ Volume 33, File 332: "Bloody Valentine 2"
  37. ^ Volume 33, File 2: "Sato's feelings"
  38. ^ Volume 33, File 336, pages 9-10: "Clean Scent"
  39. ^ a b Volume 34, File 343, page 17: "Who Are You?"
  40. ^ Volume 34, File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"
  41. ^ Volume 34, File 341, page 3: "The Hint That Was Against"
  42. ^ Volume 37, File 380, pages 5-6: "White Snow... Black Shadow..."
  43. ^ Volume 41, File 420: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net"
  44. ^ a b Volume 41, File 422: "Inescapable Target"
  45. ^ Volume 42, File 430, page 9: "The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood"
  46. ^ Volume 42, File 431, page 3: "The Invisible Man Enters!"
  47. ^ Volume 42, File 432, page 4: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"
  48. ^ Volume 42, File 433, page 11: "The Truth Behind the Mask"
  49. ^ Volume 42, File 432, page 11: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"
  50. ^ Manga Volume 35, File 5 (354), pg 3: "Golden Apple 5". Note that Conan had not figured out everything completely at this point.
  51. ^ 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.
  52. ^ Manga Volume 42, File 10, pg 5
  53. ^ 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."
  54. ^ a b Shinichi Kudo's New York Case
  55. ^ Volume 29: Files 3~5. Episode 230-231. "The Mysterious Passenger"
  56. ^ Volume 48: File 9~Volume 49: File 4. Episode 425. "Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out"
  57. ^ Episode 464 - 465
  58. ^ Mystery Train
  59. ^ Volume 78, File 824
  60. ^ It is revealed in 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.
  61. ^ 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.
  62. ^ Manga Volume 84, File 10 (893): "The Scarlet Prologue"
  63. ^ 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.
  64. ^ a b 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.
  65. ^ 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.
  66. ^ "No angel has smiled upon me", "My life represents a series of misfortunes" (V35-1 pg 2)
  67. ^ "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)
  68. ^ 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.
  69. ^ Bell Tree Express Train Case
  70. ^ Conan Drill page 239, "同僚・信頼" (Colleagues Trusted)
  71. ^ Conan Drill page 239, "恋のライバル…?" (Love rivals?)
  72. ^ Conan Drill page 239, 見下す (despise look down on}
  73. ^ Manga Volume 45, File 2, pg 18: "The truth behind the remaining desk"
  74. ^ Teitan High School's Ghost Story
  75. ^ File 1048
  76. ^ File 1049
  77. ^ "『名探偵コナン』 人気投票結". eBookJapan. 2011-05-12. http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp. Retrieved on 2011-05-15. 
  78. ^ "名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」". www.conan-movie.jp. 2011. http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html. Retrieved on 2011-08-12. 
  79. ^ "Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic"]. eva. 2012-02-28. http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566. Retrieved on 2012-02-29. 
  80. ^ Nina was only used during the case "Shinichi Kudo in New York".
  81. ^ This name was used when Sharon was first mentioned in the Chinese Volume 34. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.
  82. ^ This name appears on Vermouth's name card when she first appeared in the Chinese Volume 24. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.
  83. ^ BLACK PLUS Super Digest Book
v • d • e
Black Organization
High ranking The Boss • Rum • Gin • Vermouth
Other agents Vodka • Kir (undercover) • Chianti • Korn • Bourbon (undercover)
Deceased agents Akemi Miyano • Tequila • Kenzo Masuyama/Pisco • Calvados • Rikumichi Kusuda • Ethan Hondou (undercover) • Hiromitsu Morofushi/Scotch (undercover)
Former agents Shiho Miyano/Sherry (Ai Haibara) • Shuichi Akai/Dai Moroboshi/Rye (undercover) • Ki'ichiro Numabuchi
Extended canon Yoshiaki Hara (movie only) • Irish (movie only) • Masaaki Okakura (movie only) • Arrack (special manga only) • Generic (special manga only) • Blackbeard (special manga only) • Kate Lauren (playstation only) • Curaçao (movie only) • Stout (movie only) • Aquavit (movie only) • Leona Bucholz/Riesling (movie only) • Man in bar (tv special only) • Pinga (movie only)
Related articles Black Organization timeline • APTX 4869 • Nanatsu no Ko • Scar Akai • List of Black Organization related characters • Vermouth timeline • Suguru Itakura • Kohji Haneda case • Karasuma Group • "The Criminal" • Night Baron • Crow
Manga Roller Coaster Murder Case • ¥1,000,000,000 Robbery • Bullet-Train Bombing • Game Convention Case • Missing Older Brother Case • Murdered Professor Case • Hotel Party Murder Case • Bus Hijacking Case • Kaitou Kid and the Murder • Escalator Message Case • Golden Apple Case • Footsteps of Darkness • Meeting with Vodka • Four Porsches Case • Bathroom Murder Case • Halloween Party Case • Black Organization vs. FBI • Mysterious Job Case • Kir Transport Case • Foreign Suspect Case • Department Store Bomber Case • Online Client • Mystery Train • Tennis Meetup • A Shrine to Remember • Elementary Teacher Assault • Scarlet Showdown • Girls Band Murder Case • Soul Detective Murder Case • A song named ASACA • Missing Maria Higashio Case • Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case • Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case • FBI Serial Murder Case • Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule • Chess Tournament Murder Case • Video Gamer Locked Room Murder Case
Anime Roller Coaster Murder Case • Game Company Murder Case • The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case • The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case • Reunion with the Black Organization • The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid • The Mysterious Passenger • The Secret Rushed Omission • Shinichi Kudo's New York Case • On the Trail of a Silent Witness • Contact with the Black Organization • The Four Porsches • Hidden Bathroom Secret • Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night • Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out • The Shadow of the Black Organization • Clash of Red and Black • The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen • Detectives' Nocturne • The Jet-Black Mystery Train • Conan in a Locked Room • Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap • The Scarlet Return • The Shadow Approaching Amuro (TV original) • The Unfriendly Girls Band • The Spirit Detective's Murder • The Betrayal's Stage • Search for Maria-chan! • The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment • Yusaku Kudo's Detective Show • The Black Organization's Scheme • Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule • The 17-Year-Old Truth
Movies and Specials Countdown to Heaven • Time Travel of the Silver Sky • Black History • The Raven Chaser • Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization • The Darkest Nightmare • Black Iron Submarine
Special Manga and Spin-offs The Wish Put on the Airship • The Black Organization...Revealed • Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus • Chianti's Last Supper
Playstation Remembrance Treasure Case
v • d • e
Main Characters
Protagonists Shinichi Kudo • Conan Edogawa • Ran Mouri • Kogoro Mouri
Detective Boys Ai Haibara • Ayumi Yoshida • Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya • Genta Kojima
Family & Friends Hiroshi Agasa • Sonoko Suzuki • Eri Kisaki • Yusaku Kudo • Yukiko Kudo • Heiji Hattori • Kazuha Toyama • Yoko Okino • Sumiko Kobayashi • Tomoaki Araide • Makoto Kyogoku • Shizuka Hattori • Jirokichi Suzuki • Eisuke Hondou • Azusa Enomoto • Subaru Okiya • Masumi Sera • Shukichi Haneda • Sakurako Yonehara • Rumi Wakasa • Momiji Ooka • Muga Iori • Elena Miyano • Atsushi Miyano
Tokyo Metropolitan Police District Juzo Megure • Wataru Takagi • Miwako Sato • Ninzaburo Shiratori • Yumi Miyamoto • Kazunobu Chiba • Naeko Miike • Kiyonaga Matsumoto • Inspector Yuminaga • Shintaro Chaki • Hyoue Kuroda • Kenji Hagiwara • Jinpei Matsuda • Wataru Date
Osaka Police District Heizo Hattori • Ginshiro Toyama • Goro Otaki
Nagano Police District Kansuke Yamato • Yui Uehara • Taka'aki Morofushi
Other police districts Sango Yokomizo • Misao Yamamura • Jugo Yokomizo • Chihaya Hagiwara • Fumimaro Ayanokoji
NPA and Public Security Bureau Rei Furuya (Bourbon) • Hiromitsu Morofushi • Yuya Kazami
FBI Shuichi Akai • Jodie Starling • James Black • Andre Camel
CIA Hidemi Hondou (Kir) • Ethan Hondou
MI6 Mary Sera • Tsutomu Akai
Black Organization The Boss • Rum • Gin • Vodka • Vermouth • Chianti • Korn • Shiho Miyano • Akemi Miyano • Tequila • Pisco • Calvados • Rikumichi Kusuda • Ki'ichiro Numabuchi
Magic Kaito Kaito Kuroba • Kaitou Kid • Aoko Nakamori • Ginzo Nakamori • Midoriko Nakamori • Toichi Kuroba • Chikage Kuroba • Konosuke Jii • Keiko Momoi • Akako Koizumi • Saguru Hakuba • Snake • Kaitou Corbeau
Others "The Criminal" • Hideo Akagi • Ryusuke Higo • Takahiro Sanada • Scar Akai • Kohji Haneda • Kamen Yaiba • Amanda Hughes
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