The Skilled Hawk Hides His Crime

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Episode 996 (Int. Episode 1053)
Information
Title:	The Skilled Hawk Hides His Crime
Japanese title:	能ある鷹は罪を隠す (Nō Aru Taka wa Tsumi o Kakusu)
Original airdate:	January 30, 2021
Broadcast rating:	7.7%
Filler case:	#342
Season:	26
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	The Skilled Hawk Hides His Crimes
Dubbed episode:	996
English airdate:	March 15, 2023 (Tubi)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Puffed rice
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Hiro Masaki
Storyboard:	Nobuharu Kamanaka
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Seiji Muta and Nobuyuki Iwai (supervisors) Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Rei Masunaga (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Eiji Yanagisawa as Real Estate Agent Juri Kimura as Reporter Daisuke Takahashi as Announcer Shunsuke Sakuya as Genichi Takehara Yutaka Aoyama as Tetsu Akashiba Minoru Inaba as Masahiko Ishima Aya Hisakawa as Satoko Takehara
Music
Opening song:	JUST BELIEVE YOU
Closing song:	Reboot

The Skilled Hawk Hides His Crime (能ある鷹は罪を隠す ,Nō Aru Taka wa Tsumi o Kakusu) is the 996th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Conan, Kogoro, and Ran are in the mountains when they see a hawk, Kogoro disturb the hawk but is stopped by a falconer called Tetsu Akashiba. He yells angrily at him to be careful with hawks. Later, they are at Takehara Cafe, a cafe managed by Genichi Takehara and his wife Satoko, where a festival is being held. They also meet a local farmer called Masahiko Ishima who made puffed rice. The cafe owner later goes hunting boar. The main event of the festival is sending the hawk to a target. When the hawk is arriving to the target, the hawk suddenly falls down and a gunshot is heard. They found Genichi Takehara dead.

Accident?

Location: Forest

Victim: Genichi Takehara

Age: 37 years old

Cause of death: Gunshot wound on chest

Suspects: Tetsu Akashiba, Satoko Takehara, and Masahiko Ishima

When the hawk almost finish the race, it falls to the floor and a gunshot sound is heard. Not long after that, the cafe owner is falling dead onto the floor.

The police arrives and investigates. It seems to be an accident, but is this true? After finding a few clues, Conan discovers the culprit and the trick behind this murder.

People

Tetsu Akashiba
	28 years old Falconer

Satoko Takehara
	35 years old Genichi's wife Housewife

Masahiko Ishima
	50 years old Rice farmer

Genichi Takehara
	Victim (gunshot) 37 years old Takehara café owner

Hawk
	Akashiba's hawk

Man
	Real Estate agent

Reporter
	News reporter

Resolution

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Conan tranquilizes Kogoro and reveals that Genichi was murdered, and the culprit is Satoko Takehara. First, she murdered her husband when the puffed rice exploded in the machine to camouflage the sound. Later, she tied a fishing line across the hawk's path from the gunshot trigger to a drum. When the hawk touched the fishing line, the gunshot fired a shell and pierced a fastener. The drum then droppped to the ravine and fell with a wood plank supporting Genichi's body, creating a scene that he was murdered when he fell onto the ground. The supposed Genichi saw by people was also Satoko, who disguised herself as him to make her alibi. The proof is a blood stain in her neck that also matches with a stain in Genichi's neck. She confesses with a creepy face that her husband planned to sell the cafe and leaving not only the cafe, but also her.

Trivia

• The title is adapted from a Japanese idiom "a talented hawk hides its claws" (能ある鷹は爪を隠す). Often used to describe people with talented abilities that don't render them casually.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El falcó savi no ensenya les urpes	The wise hawk does not show its claws
French (Subbed)	Faucon habile cache le crime	Skilled hawk hides the crime
Thai	อาชญากรรมพญาเหยี่ยวซ่อนเงื่อน	A smart hawk hides the crime
Vietnamese	Chú chim ưng che giấu tội ác

See also

• Season 26