Murderer, Shinichi Kudo

Episode 521-522 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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Information
Title:	Murderer, Shinichi Kudo
Original airdate:	January 19, 2009
Season:	17
Case
Cast:	Shinichi Kudo Heiji Hattori Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	No one. Case is solved in the next episode.
Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Organizer:	Shigenori Kageyama
Storyboard:	Shigenori Kageyama
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa
Animation Director:	Rei Masunaga Keiko Sasaki
Music
Opening song:	Revive
Closing song:	Koigokoro kagayaki nagara
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Red Wine Indictment
Next episode:	Shinichi's True Face and Ran's Tears »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Shinichi Kudo Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Kazuha Toyama Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Subaru Okiya (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt

Case

Situation

Heiji takes Kazuha, Kogoro, Ran, and Conan to East Okuho after receiving a letter from Makoto Okuda addressed to Shinichi; The letter tells Shinichi to meet with him so he could explain Shinichi's deduction mistake from his past investigation. Upon arrival, the group learns that Makoto has been missing for over a year; Conan separates from the group and heads to the meeting location disclosed in the letter and is subsequently trapped inside a shed by an unknown culprit. Conan realizes that he mistakenly took the antidote to the APTX 4869 in place of his cold medicine; He escapes through a window and falls into the river before becoming Shinichi again. Heiji and the others find an amnesic Shinichi by a shore; the villagers believe that the Shiragami, a deity living in the forest, cursed Shinichi resulting in his amnesia. Haibara tells Heiji that the antidote would wear off in 24 hours and if Shinichi still retains amnesia even after reverting back to Conan, his identity would be exposed. Heiji learns that Shinichi was called to investigate the murder of the mayor and his wife which was concluded to be a forced double suicide. A journalist named Misato Kawauchi threatens to reveal Shinichi's secret if he does not confess to faking his amnesia. The following day, Kawauchi is found with a knife wound with Shinichi beside her holding a knife.

Attempted Murder
	Victim: Misato Kawauchi Suspects: Shinichi Kudo

The group believing Shinichi is being framed, hides him from the authorities until they can prove his innocence. Heiji attempts to deduce how the culprit was able to frame Shinichi for the stabbing and believes it is related to the past case Shinichi solved.

Meanwhile, Ran runs into the forest hoping to confront the Shiragami to remove his curse on Shinichi but loses consciousness after falling off a cliff. Ran wakes up in a hut in the woods and discovers someone has treated the wounds from when she fell. Eventually, Kazuha finds Ran and calls Kogoro in. Heiji radios them from the next room. They all go over and find that the room is filled with pictures of Shinichi with knife marks in them. Heiji figures out the case, and they head back to Hinohara's house.

People

Makoto Okuda
	19 years old Brother of Tamako Okuda

Tamako Okuda
	Little Sister of Makoto Okuda

Kazuma Shiroyama
	46 years old Police officer

Daiki Hinohara
	Takinori and Shoko's son

Takinori Hinohara
	Deceased Village mayor Daiki's father

Shoko Hinohara
	Deceased Takinori's wife Daiki's mother

Moegi Hikawa
	19 years old Makoto's classmate

Misato Kawauchi
	Victim (stabbed) 36 years old Newspaper reporter

Policeman
	Police detective

Resolution

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Heiji figures out out that the Shinichi with the group is not the real Shinichi, but the supposedly missing Makoto. Makoto had undergone plastic surgery to look like Shinichi and faked the amnesia in order to frame Shinichi in revenge for his previous deduction that the deaths of his adoptive parents was actually a murder-suicide instead of a burglary. He attacked the reporter because she knew the truth about who he really was and would have outed him. The Shirigami that Ran encountered in the woods enters the room during Heiji's explanation and reveals that he is the real Shinichi, and had been hiding out in the woods disguised as the Shirigami while keeping an eye on everyone to prevent Makoto from reacting violently if he were to appear and ruin his plans.

The crime one year previously that Shinichi had solved and was hated for was explained in full: he wasn't wrong in his deduction, but he did lie about the motive. The mayor did kill his wife and himself, not because he was terminally ill like Shinichi had told everyone, but because he discovered that the child he believed to be his son was actually the result of an affair his wife had. Makoto was told this, but he was in such a state of shock at the time that it didn't register.

After Makoto is arrested, Ran, Heiji, Shinichi, Kazuha, and Kogoro walk back toward the hotel. Before they can reach it, APTX 4869 starts to wear off, and Heiji helps Shinichi escape to the bathroom to change back. Haibara had been hiding there, and she gave Shinichi another antidote. Then, she says to return to Tokyo before he changes back if he wishes to keep his identity a secret.

What She Truly Wants to Ask

The group are all heading home in Kogoro's rental car, when they discover a man who was strangled within his car on the highway. They stop to investigate.

See also

• Season 17