Drama Episode 7

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Drama Episode 7
Information
Title:	File. 7
Broadcast rating:	4.8%
Original airdate:	August 18, 2011
Characters:	Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo
Cast: Junpei Mizobata as Shinichi Kudo Shiori Kutsuna as Ran Mouri Sayaka Akimoto as Sonoko Suzuki Yuichi Tsuchiya as Wataru Takagi Natsuhi Ueno as Miwako Sato Mao Miyaji as Yuri Noguchi Tantan Hayashi as Miki Noguchi Shigeru Saiki as Ryosuke Kamoshida
Director:	Eishi Shibuya
Screenplay:	Makoto Hayashi

The Blood Smeared Kin's Inheritance Murder! Reveal the Mystery Behind the Kidnapping Trick! (血ぬられた骨肉の遺産相続殺人! 誘拐トリックのナゾを暴け! ,Chi Nurareta Kotsuniku no Isanzōzoku Satsujin! Yūkai Torikku no Nazo o Abake!) is the 7th episode of the Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo live-action drama series. It was first aired in August 18, 2011.

After attending the funeral of a famous ramen chain owner, Sonoko gets kidnapped along with Yuri Noguchi. Miki, Yuri's sister, receives a phone call from the kidnapper demanding a large amount of money in diamonds. Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri manage to get to Sonoko Suzuki and Yuri safely, only to find Miki was murdered when she was separated from them. Who killed Miki and why?

Cast

Characters

Shinichi Kudo

Ran Mouri

Sonoko Suzuki

Wataru Takagi

Miwako Sato

Plot

Prologue: Trapped in the Sixth White Room

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The balloon continues to expand and fill the room as the two teenagers get trapped in a corner, Shinichi shielding Ran from the balloon. Shinichi spots the next password panel on the wall and the two manage to get over to it. The screen reads 2010.05.27 and has six blank boxes.

Case 1: The Kidnapping of Sonoko Suzuki and Yuri Noguchi

Situation

Sonoko is a guest at a funeral being held for "Ramen Revolutionary" Hyogoro Noguchi. As the priest finishes a prayer the Noguchi sisters, Yuri and Miki, begin to violently fight one another. Yuri exclaims that "the mistress' child shouldn't butt in" and slaps Miki. Miki argues back that even though she was the child of Hyogoro's mistress, Hyogoro still loved her the most. The Noguchi family butler, Ryosuke Kamoshida, and Sonoko intervene to stop the two from fighting anymore.

Meanwhile, Shinichi and Ran are in a ramen shop and see the news report from the funeral on the TV. Shinichi asks what Sonoko was doing at the funeral of Noguchi and Ran explains that Sonoko's father and Hyogoro were close friends, so their families frequently socialized with one another. As Ran is distracted, Shinichi steals a piece of food from Ran's ramen bowl. Ran then takes her revenge from stealing a piece from Shinichi's bowl. Ran's phone suddenly rings with a call from Sonoko's house. Shinichi and Ran are startled when they're told that Sonoko's been kidnapped.

Kidnapping

Location: Unknown

Victim: Sonoko Suzuki and Yuri Noguchi

Suspects: Unknown

Sonoko and Yuri were kidnapped back at the temple. A mysterious voice on the phone told Miki to prepare 10 billion in diamonds to get Yuri back. Can Shinichi and Ran save them and catch the criminal?

Shinichi and Ran meet up with Detective Sato at the Noguchi Ramen Headquarters building. Miki reveals that she received a phone call about the kidnapping when she was at the crematorium, telling her that Yuri had been kidnapped and that if she wants her back she'll have to have 10 billion in diamonds prepared. The voice on the phone also warned that Yuri wasn't the only person they had kidnapped. Ran is panicked and tries to call Sonoko on her cell phone but isn't able to get through.

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Shinichi asks whether a ransom demand was made to Sonoko's family as well, but Takagi reveals that no ransom was given for Sonoko's release. Ran comments this is very strange since Sonoko's family is extremely wealthy as well.
  • Miki carelessly dumps the diamonds into velvet bags, causing a few to drop to the floor. Sato and Takagi help pick them up, and Shinichi notices Kamoshida pick one up as well.
  • Miki asks for Kamoshida to bring her an attache case, believing it would be better to have the diamonds all in one place.
  • The voice on the phone asks for the diamonds to be attached the red ad balloon on the building's roof. Ran wonders how they plan to check the contents of the case from the sky.
  • As the group runs through the halls of the building, Miki slips and falls, dropping the attache case on the ground. Sato ends up carrying the case and comments how the weight of the case is just what you'd expect from the diamonds.
  • Despite the fact the group never saw anyone go near the diamonds, the criminal claims to have retrieved them. Miki opens the attache case and the velvet pouches are all empty, just as the criminal claimed.
  • Inside the attache case is a letter telling the group the hostages will be returned and that they need to go to the bench at Beika Central Park. Miki seems surprised by the letter.

• Conclusion

(see case 2 for the conclusion)

• Motive

(see case 2 for the motive)

Case 2: The Murder of Miki Noguchi

Situation

The group minus Miki finally spot a bench with a red balloon attached and a letter telling them to go to the underground depot back at the headquarters building. After Sonoko and Yuri are successfully rescued, Takagi runs in saying Miki is on the roof.

Murder

Location: Rooftop of the Noguchi Ramen Headquarters building

Victim: Miki Noguchi

Cause of death: Strangulation

Suspects: The kidnapper

The group finds Miki on the roof dead with the pearls of her necklace strewn about on the ground around her. Is the kidnapper responsible for her murder?

People

Yuri Noguchi
	Victim (kidnapped) Noguchi family 1st daughter

Miki Noguchi
	Victim (strangled) Noguchi family 2nd daughter

Ryosuke Kamoshida
	Noguchi family butler

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Pearls from Miki's broken necklace are scattered everywhere around her body.
  • Miki was killed sometime after she left the group at Beika Central Park.
  • While trapped in the room, Sonoko sees the lights shut off briefly and hears a door open, followed by a chair collapsing and noises from Yuri. When the lights shut back on, Sonoko sees that Yuri's chair has fallen over and she's fallen on the ground, unable to respond to Sonoko. The lights went off again later just before Sonoko and Yuri were rescued.
  • Neither of the girls got a good look at their kidnapper.
  • As Kamoshida and Sato wake up Yuri, Shinichi spots Kamoshida pick something up off the ground.
  • Shinichi wonders why it was necessary for the kidnapper to kill Miki if they had successfully retrieved the diamonds.
  • Shinichi figures out that there were actually two identical attache cases that were switched out when Miki fell to the ground and took advantage of a blind spot in the hallway. The attache case with the diamonds was hidden away while the second attache case picked up by Sato contained dry ice. The dry ice melted while up in the air which is why the case was empty when the group retrieved it later.

• Conclusion

Shinichi reveals that the murderer is Yuri Noguchi and that the kidnapping had been a fake planned by both sisters. The sisters staged the fight at the funeral to draw suspicions away from them being accomplices. Shinichi explains that when the lights went out the first time Yuri escaped the room, leaving a mannequin disguised as her in her place. From her viewpoint, Sonoko wasn't able to see Yuri's face and only saw what she thought was Yuri from the backside lying on the ground.

While the group was on the roof watching the fake attache case, Yuri took the real attache case with the diamonds from its hiding spot. As the group ran to Beika Central Park, Yuri met Miki on the roof and killed her. The lights went out again later so Yuri could hide the mannequin and take its place, creating an alibi for her during the time of Miki's murder. Shinichi then reveals that Kamoshida is carrying the key piece of evidence: a pearl from Miki's necklace. The pearl had been fallen in the hem of Yuri's pants and fell out when she was in the underground depot. Kamoshida spotted it and picked it up with the intention of wanting to protect the Noguchi family. Shinichi then finds the missing diamonds and mannequin stuffed in the air duct.

• Motive

The sisters' motive for the fake kidnapping was to avoid inheritance taxes. Yuri's motive for killing Miki was that she wanted to finally be able to surpass her.

Resolution: The Seventh White Room

Shinichi enters the password "DA-I-YA-MO-N-DO" ("diamonds") and balloon slowly deflates before popping and revealing the door to the next room. As the two enter and the door closes they suddenly receive a large electric shock. They turn around to find the next password panel behind them with a voltage meter at the top.

References

1. "木曜ミステリーシアター「名探偵コナン　工藤新一への挑戦状」 ストーリー". Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. http://www.ytv.co.jp/conan-drama/story07/index.html. Retrieved on 2011-08-11. 

See also

• Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo