The Lovebirds' Ruse

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Episode 796
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Information

Title:

The Lovebirds' Ruse

Japanese title:

おしどり夫婦の策略
(Oshidorifūfu no Sakuryaku^?)

Original airdate:

October 17, 2015

Broadcast rating:

7.6%

Filler case number:

#246

Season:

24

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Inspector Megure
Detective Takagi
Detective Chiba

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Facial scars

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Screenplay:

Shintaro Ueda
Nobuo Ogizawa

Storyboard:

Shigenori Kageyama

Episode director:

Makiko Hayase

Animation director:

Masatomo Sudo (supervisor)
Seiji Muta (supervisor)
Akane Imada
Yui Ushinohama (asst.)
Nozomi Sakamoto (asst.)

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Inspector Megure
Wataru Takagi as Detective Takagi
Isshin Chiba as Detective Chiba
Matsuo Matsuo as Chosaku Kanbayashi
Yoshino Takamori as Seiko Kanbayashi
Sanryo Odaka as Kiyoshi Sugiyama
Takuya Kirimoto as Fumito Ikejiri

Music

Opening song:

"Nazo"

Closing song:

"Kimi e no Uso"

The Lovebirds' Ruse (おしどり夫婦の策略 ,Oshidorifūfu no Sakuryaku) is the 796th episode of Detective Conan.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Inspector Megure

Detective Takagi

Detective Chiba
Detective Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Accident? Suicide? Murder?

Location: Between Ristorante Buono and Kanbayashi's office building

Victim: Chosaku Kanbayashi

Suspects: Seiko Kanbayashi

Chosaku Kanbayashi was found dead on the ground after apparently falling from his office window.

People

Chosaku Kanbayashi
File:Chosaku Kanbayashi.jpg	Victim (fell) 38 years old Mystery novelist

Seiko Kanbayashi
File:Seiko Kanbayashi.jpg	35 years old Chosaku's wife

Kiyoshi Sugiyama
	58 years old Building guard

Fumito Ikejiri
	35 years old Editor

Resolution

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Reconstruction of the crime

The case is actually murder, and the culprit is Seiko Kanbayashi. The Kanbayashis merely pretended to be happily married, but their life together has long since gone to shambles, and they have become interested in different partners. Chosaku had long since developed a plan to kill his wife to reap in her life insurance, but he wasn't aware that Seiko was trying to kill him as well.

Chosaku originally planned have the documents sent to his wife to make her come to him. Then he would pretend to leave his office for cigarettes, then go into the neighboring building to open a bathroom window on the fifth floor. After after returning to his office (with an eyewitness testimony), he intended to jump from his building into the bathroom next door, intercept Seiko in the park which she was sure to walk through, and strangle her. Then he would return the same way and deliver his manuscript, again with an eyewitness, thus consolidating his own alibi.

While on the works to provide his alibi for his wife's murder, however, Seiko (with the intention to carry out her own murder plan) arrived early, spotted Chosaku behaving strangely, and realised what he was doing. The moment when he jumped from one building to the other, she was already waiting inside the bathroom and hit his face with a deck brush in mid-jump, causing the facial scars. This way, he fell in the alley between the two buildings. Seiko returned later and pretended - with the doorman of Chosaku's office building as her alibi witness - to be the first discoverer. Her crime could be proven thanks to her hair being found in the bathroom from where she killed her husband, and Chosaku's eyebrow hairs among the bristles of the brush.

Gallery

See also

• Season 24