The Trap of the Rooftop Farm

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Episode 588
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Information

Title:

The Trap of the Rooftop Farm

Japanese title:

屋上農園の罠
(Okujō Nōen no Wana)

Original airdate:

September 18, 2010

Broadcast rating:

6,80%

Season:

19

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Ran Mouri
Kogoro Mouri
Inspector Megure
Wataru Takagi
Detective Chiba

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Scarecrow

Staff

Director:

Koujin Ochi

Screenplay:

Junichi Iioka
Yuu Kaneko

Storyboard:

Seiki Taichuu

Episode director:

Shigeru Yamazaki

Animation director:

Akio Kawamura

Music

Opening song:

"SUMMER TIME GONE"

Closing song:

"Tomorrow is the last Time"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Inspector Megure

Wataru Takagi

Detective Chiba
Detective Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are invited to assist in a rooftop farm. Once there, they discover the elderly farmer, Takehiko Nakamura, dead from a head injury.

Murder

Location: Rooftop farm

Victim: Takehiko Nakamura

Cause of death: Blunt force head trauma

Suspects: Misa Mejiro, Shinichiro Taguchi, and Marie Inoue

The police are brought in and the other three farmers are interrogated for the death.

People

Misa Mejiro
	45 years old Office worker

Shinichiro Taguchi
	51 years old Salaryman

Takehiko Nakamura
	Victim (beaten) 73 years old Unemployed

Marie Inoue
	26 years old Office lady

Resolution

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Conan's discovers a shattered brick with a hole and discerning how Nakamura was murdered, tranquilizes Kogoro and reveals the farmer Marie Inoue to be the murderer. Conan reveals that she hung a brick on the handrail and concealed it with a towel and lured Nakamura to it with a phone call. When he was close enough, she pulled a rope connected to the brick hitting him on the forehead causing him to lose his balance and having him fall into the corner of the water tank. As evidence, Conan explains the towel's paint mark is from the handrail and that the rope must be in Inoue's home. Inoue confesses and reveals that Nakamura killed her crop which were grown from her father's final harvest.

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See also

• Season 19