Ai Haibara Imprisonment Case

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Information

Title:

Ai Haibara Imprisonment Case

Japanese title:

灰原哀監禁事件
(Haibara Ai Kankin Jiken)

Original airdate:

February 21, 2015

Season:

24

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Ai Haibara
Professor Agasa
Detective Boys
Inspector Megure
Wataru Takagi
Detective Chiba

Next Conan's Hint:

Cutout

Music

Opening song:

"DYNAMITE"

Closing song:

"Kimi e no Uso"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ai Haibara

Professor Agasa

Ayumi Yoshida

Genta Kojima

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Inspector Megure

Wataru Takagi

Detective Chiba
Detective Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets

Detective Boys Badge

Case

Situation

The Detective Boys are wandering the streets in the residential area around Professor Agasa's house, worrying about Ai Haibara, who has gone missing since she went shopping several hours ago. At first, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi are wondering whether Ai has become the victim of a traffic accident, but then Conan finds a cat's shawl lying on the street. Seeing this, he remembers how he, Ai and the Professor recently met a friendly young woman named Mitsuru Higaki, along with her pet cat Chiro (who wore the shawl) and her Indian Star Tortoise.

Searching the vicinity for Chiro, they find the kitten inside a well in a park, but as they try to return it, Mrs. Higaki does not answer the doorbell, so they take the cat back to Agasa's house to feed it. After contacting Detective Chiba to learn whether there have been any accidents in the area (none were), Conan tries to contact her through her badge, but to no avail. And it's no small wonder, since at that very moment Haibara awakes to find both herself and Mrs. Higaki inside a darkened living room, solidly tied and gagged!

Robbery and Kidnapping

Location: the Higaki Residence

Victim: Ai Haibara and Mitsuru Higaki

As Mitsuri Higaki recounts later, she was assaulted in her home and left tied up to a post while the culprit robbed her house. And as the TV was running, she also helplessly witnessed the news about the murder of her husband. Ai was later brought into the living room as well and left tied to a chair, close to the post Mrs. Higaki was handcuffed to.

As soon as her situation becomes clear, Ai remembers how she came by after shopping and spotted Chiro struggling with his shawl, which was wrapped around the leg of a telephone table. When she attempted to free the kitten, she was suddenly grabbed from behind and chloroformed, never getting a chance to see her attacker's face. Then she notices that the TV is running on silent mode, in which a newsflash appears that announces the murder of Naoshi Higaki, Mrs. Higaki's husband!

Murder

Location: Chitose, Hokkaido

Victim: Naoshi Higaki

People

Mitsuru Higaki
	Imprisoned with Ai Haibara 35 years old

Naoshi Higaki
	Mitsuru's ex-husband Killed at New Chitose Airport

Chiro
	Mitsuru's pet cat

Resolution

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Mitsuru Higaki committed the kidnapping in order to use Haibara as an alibi witness. Mitsuru found out that her husband was having seeing another woman, and she decided to murder him in retaliation. She chose Ai because Agasa had told her upon their first meeting how intelligent and perceptive the girl was.

In order to faciliate the deception, she purchased an appartment near the airport and decorated it identically to her own living room, thus creating the illusion that she and Haibara were held captive in her home, which would be too far away for her to get to Hokkaido, commit the murder, and return. Since the appartment was very close, Mitsuru was able to use the five hour interval in which Ai Haibara was unconscious to fly to Chitou, murder her husband and return to transport Haibara back to her own house.

The decisive pieces of evidence are:

• the fact that the wine delivery man rang the doorbell to Mitsuru's appartment six times in rapid succession, but Haibara heard the bell ring only twice, and at a much slower pace;
• the floor in the fake appartment has a shifted floor. Conan stumbles upon that clue after Haibara remembers the odd way the soda can on the table rolled around as she was chloroformed the second time.

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See also

• Season 24