The Policeman's Missing Notebook Case

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Episode 276
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Information

Title:

Case of the Missing Policeman's Notebook

Japanese title:

警察手帳紛失事件
(Keisatsu Techou Funshitsu Jiken)

Original airdate:

May 6, 2002

Season:

10

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Wataru Takagi
Detective Boys
Ai Haibara
Inspector Megure

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Next Conan's Hint:

Curtain

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Screenplay:

Nobuo Ogizawa

Episode director:

Johei Matsuura

Animation director:

Akiko Kawashima

Music

Opening song:

"I can't stop my love for you♥"

Closing song:

"Yume Mita Ato de"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Wataru Takagi

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Ai Haibara

Inspector Megure

Case

Situation

Takagi loses his notebook after breaking up a fight between a manager and his singer. He searches for his book with the help of the Detective Boys. They then discover that the singer plans to murder his manager. The detective boys manage to bring Takagi to his house and save him before he was killed. With the manager was Takagi's notebook.

Attempted Murder

Victim: Seiichi Sugiyama

Suspects: Jiro Hanzaki

People

Jiro Hanzaki
	30 years old Ballad singer

Seiichi Sugiyama
	52 years old Hanzaki's manager

Resolution

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Evidence

• Hanzaki kept checking the clock rather than eat at the all-you-could-eat as he energetically claimed he would.
• Hanzaki bought a block of ice and a slab of concrete, which was used to create a mechanism which would eventually drop the concrete upon the manager Sugiyama's head. This was found in his apartment bathroom, along with Sugiyama.
• Hanzaki purposely asked Takagi for the time, even though there was a clock right in front of him in the park.

Motive

• Hanzaki was blaming the manager for his lack of success.

Conclusion

Hanzaki was in fact attempting to kill his manager, and was planning on using Takagi to help build his alibi. The murder was to take place in Hanzaki's apartment's bathroom.

Ending

The Detective Boys and Takagi arrive just in time to save Sugiyama. As it turns out, Sugiyama was the one in possession on Takagi's notebook, whereas Hanzaki just observed Sugiyama doing so. Hanzaki is promptly arrested after being confronted by his manager and Takagi.

Unfortunately, Takagi gets in trouble anyway because he claimed he was sick and took a day off to find his notebook.

See also

• Season 10