Kogoro's Date Murder Case

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Episode 95 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Kogoro's Date Murder Case
Japanese title:	小五郎のデート殺人事件 (Kogorō no Deeto Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 16, 1998
Season:	4
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Richard's Deadly Date
Dubbed episode:	Episode 98
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Detective Boys
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Actress
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Junichi Nishida
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yoko Soumi as Sachiko Shimamura Kazuyuki Ishikawa as Friend Isshin Chiba as Station announcement Rika Iwamoto as Grade school student
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Inspector Megure

Wataru Takagi

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

After drinking with an old friend, Kogoro falls asleep on a train and awakens to find himself a person that is willing to go on a date with him. When she stops at home though, she finds a person murdered and causes Kogoro and Conan to start seeking out whether she's guilty or if someone else is involved.

Murder

Location: Apartment

Victim: Kazumi Takenaka

Cause of death: Stab wound

Suspects: Sachiko Shimamura

People

Sachiko Shimamura
	31 years old Import sales director

Kazumi Takenaka
	Victim (stabbed) 29 years old Companion

Resolution

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After that, Kogoro was about to confront Sachiko Shimamura about the ballpoint pen but when while he touches the table and when he's about to talk to Sachiko, Kogoro slips his hand off the table making his body go down and knocked his head on the table making him unconscious. He then went to sit on the chair. Since Kogoro's unconscious, Conan uses the voice changing bowtie to impersonate him and reveals that Sachiko Shimamura to be the murderer. First, when Kazumi was alive a mail courier and let Kazumi to sign it then, she told the mail courier to check if there is ink left, when there is ink left, she was able to sign her name. But after twenty minutes, Sachiko stabbed Kazumi and the body fell the ballpen, then she check if it was her, in panic, she rushed to her and put the ballpen in her car.

Sachiko confesses and reveals Kazumi was blackmailing her because she sold a product that it was prohibited to sale in Japan, and she was threatening Sachiko to report her in the police.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Sachiko Shimamura - Sonia Shadowly
• Kazumi Takenaka - Vicki Bowen

Gallery

See also

• Season 4