Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night
| Episode 345 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}}) | |
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| Title: | Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night |
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| Original airdate: | January 5, 2004 |
| Season: | 12 |
| Cast: | Conan Edogawa Jodie Starling Vermouth |
| Case solved by: | Shinichi Kudo Heiji Hattori |
| Prev episode: | « The Convenience Store Trap |
| Next episode: | Find the Buttock's Mark » |
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Contents
Characters introduced
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Cast
Case
This also involves important details about the F.B.I. and Jodie Starling.
Situation
Kogoro receives an invitation to a Halloween cruise; the Halloween cruise is famous for hiring guests to star in a horror film. Conan receives the same invitation from Vermouth; the invitation however is addressed to Conan Edogawa and Shinichi Kudo, meaning Vermouth knows his true identity. During the cruise, the party members are divided into groups with team devil consisting of Kogoro, Sonoko, and people disguised as a werewolf, a mummy, a medusa and an invisible man. During the party, the host is shot by a crossbow, attached to the arrow is a card from team devil. The Mummy is the prime suspect since his lacks an alibi and his card is missing. The invisible man gathers the party guests to the bow of the boat and reveals his identity as Shinichi and declares werewolf as the murderer. He reveals that the werewolf placed his mask on the Mummy to establish his own alibi evidenced when the Werewolf come out of the Mummy's bathroom stall. To support this, Shinichi points to the fact that the Werewolf claimed he was busy concentrating on staying in character so he could be hired to star in the movie, yet he was drinking a dry Martini, also known as a silver bullet and thus disproves his lie. As evidence, Shinichi reveals that there was glass shards on the balcony where the host was killed and that there should be glass shards between the soles of the Werewolf's shoes. The Werewolf confesses and reveals that Vermouth held his family hostage and blackmailed him to murder the host. Elsewhere, Haibara is picked up by Jodie while they are stalked by Tomoaki Araide. Jodie confronts Araide at the pier who reveals that it is Vermouth in disguise. Back at the party, Shinichi is revealed to be Heiji in disguise; This was done to distract Vermouth from noticing Conan's absence. Haibara is revealed to be Conan in disguise and attempts to subdue Vermouth. However, the real Haibara arrives at the pier and is narrowly saved from death by Ran's timely appearance. Shuichi Akai's appearance prompts Vermouth to take Conan hostage and flee the scene. Conan reveals to Vermouth he has a covert listening device on him that will send everything that was said to the authorities in the event of his death. Vermouth sleeping gas on Conan and tells him she will postpone her plan on murdering Haibara for now. Conan awakens to find out the device has been destroyed and no evidence of the Black Organization remain.
People
Resolution
Spoilers
- Vermouth was disguised as Araide-sensei.
- Conan was disguised as Ai Haibara.
- Heiji Hattori was disguised as Shinichi Kudo.
- Yukiko Kudo was disguised as Medusa. By first impression, the viewers would have thought that Medusa was Vermouth.
- The murderer which Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri encountered in New York was actually Chris Vineyard.
- The given codename for Vermouth in the F.B.I. was "Rotten Apple".
- Only the movie producer disguised as the Ghost Captain died in this episode.
- Shuichi Akai was previously considered by Vermouth as the Black Organization's "Silver Bullet", but from the end of this episode onwards (even up to Movie 13: The Raven Chaser) she finally thought the organization's real downfall would be Shinichi Kudo.
Trivia
- This episode was actually seperated into 6 parts in the Italian dub.
