Drama Episode 2

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Drama Episode 2
Information
Title:	File. 2
Broadcast rating:	5.4%
Original airdate:	July 14, 2011
Characters:	Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Suspects:	Jiro Washimi
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo
Cast: Junpei Mizobata as Shinichi Kudo Shiori Kutsuna as Ran Mouri Takanori Jinnai as Kogoro Mouri Muga Tsukaji as Jiro Washimi Kinya Kikuchi as Takayuki Harada Ayumi Orii as Asako Mizutani Atsuko Sudou as Seiko Hayashi Kenichirou Kikuchi as Isao Ogasawara Makoto Sakamoto as Awase Ohta Koichi Oguriyama as Monjin Nakamura Ryoya Shinoda as Jiro Washimi (young) Teruyuki Furukawa as Make-up artist
Director:	Shi Shirakawa
Screenplay:	Takehiko Hata Mami Oikawa

The Live Broadcast Locked Room Murder! Expose the Secret of the Psychic's Curse (生放送で起きた密室殺人! 超能力者の呪われた秘密を暴け ,Namahōsō de Okita Misshitsu Satsujin! Chō Nōryoku-sha no Norowareta Himitsu o Abake) is the 2nd episode of the Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo live-action drama. It was first aired in July 14, 2011.

Shinichi Kudo is a guest on a live TV program called "The Showdown" where he tests his deductive abilities against the psychic abilities of Jiro Washimi. The TV program goes horribly wrong however when Washimi seems to kill the show's host, Takayuki Harada, using his psychic powers. Are psychic powers really to blame or was it simply a trick by the real murderer?

Cast

Characters

Shinichi Kudo

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Case

Prologue: The Second White Room

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Shinichi, Ran, and Kogoro discover another password panel and a spoon above their heads seemingly floating in midair. Shinichi grabs at it and discovers it was being suspended by fishing line and realizes the spoon is a reference to a murder case he solved involving a psychic and a TV show program. Remembering the case Shinichi is referring to, Ran enters "MA-JI-K-KU" ("Magic") for the password on the panel.

Situation

Shinichi is a secondary guest on a live TV show called "The Showdown" hosted by Takayuki Harada and Asako Mizutani. The main guest is Jiro Washimi, a psychic who claims his abilities are not the result of magic and contain no secrets, tricks, or gimmicks. The show decides to pit Washimi's abilities against Shinichi's deductive reasoning to prove whether ESP exists or not. Washimi proceeds to demonstrate his abilities by bending a spoon's stem backwards. Shinichi, unimpressed, demonstrates himself by seeming to bend a spoon sideways with his mind before revealing that anybody can bend spoons with their fingers given time and practice. Washimi becomes frustrated and Harada eggs him on by suggesting if he really wants to prove his psychic abilities, he should try killing him.

Murder

Location: TV stage set

Victim: Takayuki Harada

Cause of death: Strangulation by psychic powers???

Suspects: Jiro Washimi

To all onlookers, it seems Washimi used his psychic powers on Harada to strangle him to death. Did he really die from psychic powers or is there more behind this murder?

People

Jiro Washimi
	Psychic

Takayuki Harada
	Victim (strangled) TV program host

Asako Mizutani
	TV program assistant

Seiko Hayashi
	Takayuki's dresser

Isao Ogasawara
	Director

Awase Ohta
	Assistant director

Monjin Nakamura
	Assistant director

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Shinichi reveals that the strangulation marks on Harada's neck are actually just makeup, so Harada must have died from some other cause.
  • Shinichi has Washimi reenact his murder on Ran, revealing that like Ran, Harada was only acting like he was being strangled. The purpose of the TV program was to pull a hidden camera surprise prank ("dokkiri") on Washimi.
  • After everybody gathered around Harada after being strangled, Harada suddenly clutched at his heart before dying. Shinichi comments that Harada didn't show real physical signs of strangulation, but rather those of being poisoned from intravenous injection. Therefore Harada's true cause of death is acute heart failure and shock.
  • After Kogoro is held-back from hurting Washimi after thinking Ran was strangled, Hayashi brushes Washimi off with her hands.
  • Shinichi remembers that earlier in Harada's dressing room, Ran had asked Harada for an autograph but couldn't find a pen. Harada is angry with Hayashi, calling her ugly, and as Hayashi was leaving Shinichi noticed that she had a pen in her messenger bag.
  • There is a second syringe pen in Washimi's upper pocket for medication.

• Conclusion

Despite Washimi's arguments otherwise, Shinichi concludes that Washimi is the only person who couldn't possibly be a suspect in Harada's murder. Shinichi then states that Seiko Hayashi is the true murderer and that the real murder weapon, a syringe pen with poison, is in Washimi's pocket. While Harada was lying on the ground, Hayashi took the pen out of the front of her bag and secretly stuck Harada with it. This is why a few moments later Harada suddenly clutched at his heart instead of his neck. When Hayashi brushed Washimi off she hid the murder weapon in his lower pocket.

• Motive

Hayashi's motive for killing Harada is that Harada lied to her about Hayashi being able to make her debut someday on TV, despite being loyal to him for seven years. She was meant to be Harada's assistant on "The Showdown" but Harada replaced her with Mizutani instead.

Resolution: The Third White Room

Ran is surprised to discover "Magic" isn't the password. Shinichi then enters the correct password "DO-K-KI-RI" and the door opens. As Shinichi, Ran, and Kogoro walk into the room they immediately duck to the floor upon hearing the sound of a gunshot. The password panel in the center of the room reads 2010.07.09 and has four blank boxes. Shinichi asks Kogoro if he remembers this case and Kogoro replies he couldn't possibly ever forget it.

Gallery

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  The criminal

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/story02/index.html. Retrieved on 2011-07-14. 

See also

• Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo