Conan Cornered in the Darkness (絶体絶命暗闇のコナン ,Zettai Zetsumei Kurayami no Konan?) is the 845th and 846th episode of the Detective Conan anime.
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Part 1
Kogoro is invited to the funeral for Gotaro Karahashi the late chairman of Karahashi Group and is asked by his lawyer Kimihiko Asada to investigate a robbery and break in that took place in his office. He reveals that an altered last will of Gotaro Karahashi the late chairman of Karahashi Group had been stolen.
Robbery
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Location:
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Asada's Law Office
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Victim:
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Kimihiko Asada
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Age:
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55 years old
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Missing items:
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Altered documents
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Suspects:
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Unknown
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Kogoro is asked by lawyer Kimihiko Asada to investigate a break-in and theft in his office. The object of the robbery was the altered last will of Gotaro Karahashi, the late chairman of the Karahashi Group, who - instead of favoring his next of kin, as previously intended - left his entire vast fortune to his lover and long-time secretary.
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Kidnapping
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Location:
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Asada's Law Office
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Victim:
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Conan Edogawa
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Suspects:
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Unknown
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While going shopping for new video games with his fellow Detective Boys, Conan noticed the burglary into Asada's office and decided to investigate on his own. He caught the culprit breaking the safe open, but was discovered, kicked into unconsciousness, and taken away.
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Part 2
After Conan regains consciousness, he finds himself in a dark and cramped place he uses his detective to badge to call the others for help. He initially believed that he was stashed beneath a coffin, as a result Ran and the kids rush to a crematorium just in time before President Karahashi is cremated. However when they check the coffin Conan is no where to be found.
Conan eventually deduces that he is actually inside a hearse, he looks around and finds the altered last will had been stashed away with him. He guides the others as best as he can in the hopes that they find him, as the hearse is set to be demolished as a car crusher. Eventually the others locate him just in time to witness the hearse being crushed, and apparently Conan along with it.
They are all in shock, but then Conan emerges unscathed from wreckage much to their relief. A flashback reveals that in the last few moments he managed to escape because the door was weakened when the hearse was being crushed. Using his super kick shoes he kicks the doors off and escapes at the last second before the hearse is completely crushed.
Accidental Homicide (Crushing)
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Location:
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Kuriniji Scrapyard
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Victim:
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Conan Edogawa
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Cause:
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Left to be crushed
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Suspects:
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Unknown
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The kidnapper enclosed Conan in a box inside an unused hearse in order to secure the material witness and the altered testament, to be released after the original testament's purpose had been executed and thus made legally valid. However, unknown to the culprit, the hearse in question (with the box inside) was assigned to be scrapped and is driven to the Kuriniji Scrapyard. Fortunately, just before the car is compressed, the box cracks, allowing Conan to break out with his power-kick shoes.
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People
Resolution
The conspiring Karahashi siblings.
The culprits in this case are Gotaro Karahashi's own children: Kozo, Mitsuyo, and Eisuke. Conan after managing to escape from the wreckage, had also managed to save the altered last will as well. There were two pieces of evidence proving their guilt: the first being some traces of gum on Conan’s broken cellphone as one of the siblings had gum under his shoe, the second is the last will itself it has all the siblings fingerprints as they had supposedly no idea what the altered will said yet their fingerprints were all over the will.
Faced with this evidence they confess that they worked in concert to get rid of their father's altered last will, which would have left them with no inheritance. This disgusts Ran and she yells at the siblings for putting Conan's life in danger over a stupid alternation of a will.
Hearing this put the siblings in shock as they had almost unintentionally murdered an innocent child for their greed. Later on it is revealed that Gotaro had left his entire inheritance to his secretary and lover, but she decides to donate the entire inheritance to charity instead.
Afterwards, as Ran and Conan are brushing their teeth preparing to go to sleep, Ran remarks over what Conan went through and how scary it must’ve been for him to which he agrees. Then Ran offers to sleep together with Conan, but declines while being chased by her which he remarks that there is no way they could do that as he is a high school student.
Trivia
- In the New Year Greeting to the viewers, Mistuhiko says that last year, Conan and Ichikawa Ebizo XI were the ones to do the New Year Greeting. This is a reference to Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery.
- There is a mistake in the first episode. In the earlier scene, Mitsuyo has the white and black shoes but Kozo's feet does not. Later all three siblings have on the white and black shoes. This is an important detail because the culprit wore this distinctive pair of shoes in Conan's flashback of him being kidnapped.
- The sunset painting in Mitsuyo's house is from Wakamatsu villa in The Design of Poison and Mirage and Kataoka household in The Secret of the Statue of Kogoro Mouri. Open spoiler box to see images.
- Yasuo Murakami is the same name of the culprit in A Dangerous Recipe.
- Gotaro Karahashi's hearse is a 2013 Black Toyota Crown Hearse [S210]. The license plate number is 新宿 800, い 31-87 (Shinjuku 800, I 31-87).
- The Japanese Buddhist style hearse crushed is a 1999 Black Toyota Crown Hearse [S170]. The license plate number is 新宿 800, あ 36-88 (Shinjuku 800, A 36-88).
- The taxi is a 2001 Yellow Toyota Crown Sedan [XS10]. The license plate number is 新宿 500, い 54-68 (Shinjuku 500, I 54-68).
Gallery
In other languages
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Translation
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Catalan (Catalan dub) |
En Conan atrapat a les fosques |
Conan caught in the darkness
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Thai |
สถานการณ์เข้าตาจนของโคนันในความมืด |
Conan's Desperate Situation in the Darkness
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Vietnamese |
Bóng tối bao trùm Conan |
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See also