The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases

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Information
Title:	The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Successive Big Murder Cases
Japanese title:	追いつめられた名探偵! 連続2大殺人事件 (Oitsumerareta Meitantei! Renzoku Nidai Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 23, 1998
Season:	4
Manga source:	Volume 14: Files 1-8 (131-138)
English version
English title:	Jimmy Kudo Revealed!
Dubbed episode:	Episode 99-102
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Yukiko Kudo Yusaku Kudo Inspector Megure Misao Yamamura Wataru Takagi Eri Kisaki Professor Agasa Kazumi Sanada
Cases solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Misao Yamamura (via Conan) Yusaku Kudo
Next Conan's Hint:	Decorative plant
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Michiyo Sakurai
Storyboard:	Michiyo Sakurai
Episode director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Keitaro Motonaga
Animation Director:	Keiko Sasaki Hiroto Yokote
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Gara Takashima as Eri Kisaki Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo Toshio Furukawa as Misao Yamamura Tamie Kubota as Nanae Tsukumo Konami Yoshida as Ayano Tsukumo Ryotaro Okiayu as Kazumi Sanada Yurika Hino as Mako Miyoshi Sousuke Komori as Yuji Momochi Masaaki Tsukada as Yoshichika Yabuuchi Seiko Fujimoto as Machiko Yabuuchi Yuzuru Fujimoto as Yoshifusa Yabuuchi Chieko Enomoto as Hiromi Yabuuchi Yoshizou Yamaguchi as Hidekazu Yabuuchi Akihiko Shimizu as Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi Masasumi Tsuda as Keiko Yabuuchi Hiroshi Naka as Lawyer Isshin Chiba as Policeman A Wataru Takagi as Policeman B, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Kogoro's Date Murder Case
Next episode:	The Farewell Wine Murder Case »
List of episodes

Characters introduced

Misao Yamamura
	Detective from Gunma Prefecture Police

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Yukiko Kudo Yusaku Kudo Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Eri Kisaki Professor Agasa Kazumi Sanada

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case 1:

Situation

When Conan's glasses fall off when he's asleep, Ran sees his face and begins to recognize it might be Shinichi.

Murder
	Location: Tsukumo household Victim: Motoyasu Tsukumo Cause of death: Poison Suspects: Yuji Momochi, Mako Miyoshi, and Kazumi Sanada

As she carefully watches him decipher clues, she becomes more convinced he is Shinichi. Is there some way to reverse this discovery?

Conan helps Kogoro solve his case without even having to knock him out, but after wards Ran escorts him to Shinichi's house for a confession of him being Shinichi. But Ran shows strong intuition about his personality and it makes Conan look wary for a no way out situation. When Shinichi's mom appears on the scene Conan/Shinichi worried for more thinking that Yukiko his mom might slip information about him, though she make more complex background for Conan to help Shinichi escape but Ran didn't give up so fast but ended in leaving Conan in his mom's care for days without knowing the truth. Upon entering the gate Yukiko started to treat Shinichi as a real baby and even carry him way into their house, but why has she left America for Japan?

People

Nanae Tsukumo
	42 years old Magician

Motoyasu Tsukumo
	Victim (poison) Nanae's husband Magician

Yuji Momochi
	25 years old Magician

Mako Miyoshi
	20 years old Magician

Kazumi Sanada
	27 years old Magician

Ayano Tsukumo
	6 years old Motoyasu and Nanae's daughter

Resolution

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The killer was Mako Miyoshi, whose real name was Mako Kinoshita. She was the younger sister of Yashirou Kinoshita, a promising stage magician who died on-stage 14 years ago, when he tried an escape trick that went horribly wrong... but said death actually was a murder commited by his mentor Tsukumo, who was jealous and fearful due to the man's raw talent.

Mako, who back then was around Ayano's age, was behind the scenes and saw Tsukumo mess up with the supplies, but she was too young to properly testify; she became Tsukumo's apprentice as well and, once the training was complete and Tsukumo was discussing which of his apprentices was the most qualified to be his succesor, she revealed her identity and forced him to go along with her plans by threatening to kill Ayano. (Which she didn't do, though Mako admits she wanted to more than once).

Case 2:

Situation

Yukiko and Conan arrived in Gunma to meet her childhood friend, Hiromi Yabuuchi. After that, Hiromi introduces her uncle to Yukiko. Also, Hiromi's uncle has a friend named Carlos from Brazil. With his mom calling Conan her second son to her friends outside the city, Conan must play along and act like he is a genius thanks to detective books. When a murder takes place and he can't figure out the answer, Conan must figure out if his mom will be safe or if she could be the next target.

Murder
	Location: Yabuuchi household Victim: Machiko Yabuuchi Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Man in sunglasses and Yukiko Kudo Machiko Yabuuchi's body was found in the well in the garden, the same well that took the previous Mrs.Yabuuchi's life. In her breast pocket is found Himetsubaki flower.

With all the clues seemingly disappearing, Conan is forced to realize he has room to grow as a detective and must turn to his father to help him solve the case.

People

Hiromi Yabuuchi
	37 years old Yukiko Kudo's childhood friend

Yoshifusa Yabuuchi
	64 years old Hiromi's uncle

Carlos
	26 years old Yoshifusa Yabuuchi's friend

Yoshichika Yabuuchi
	Deceased Hiromi's father

Hidekazu Yabuuchi
	41 years old Hiromi's husband Married into Yabuuchi family

Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi
	32 years old Hiromi's younger brother

Keiko Yabuuchi
	28 years old Yoshiyuki's wife

Machiko Yabuuchi
	Victim (stabbed) 39 years old Yoshichika's second wife

Resolution

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The killer is Yoshifusa Yabuuchi, who actually is only impersonating the real Yoshifusa Yabuuchi, who died in Brazil years ago and was a good friend of his. The fake Yoshifusa is named Dickson Tanaka, a man born in Brazil to Japanese parents and Carlos' bodyguard, since young Carlos is the real Yoshifusa's son with a Brazilian woman as well as one of the heirs. Dickson Tanaka made everyone believe Carlos was his bodyguard to protect him from the others (since they thought he was a bodyguard, they wouldn't attempt anything against Carlos), and he killed Machiko in self-defense when she attempted to stab him in the bath.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Nanae Tsukumo - Nina Tathers
• Motoyasu Tsukumo - Carl Tathers
• Yuji Momochi - Wymer Mindle
• Mako Miyoshi - Marvella Asundi
• Ayano Tsukumo - Anya Tathers
• Hiromi Yabuuchi - Hiedi Xanderbilt
• Yoshifusa Yabuuchi - Yorkham Xanderbilt
• Yoshichika Yabuuchi - Cornelius Xanderbilt
• Hidekazu Yabuuchi - Herman MacBalm
• Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi - Olaf Xanderbilt
• Keiko Yabuuchi - Kari Xanderbilt
• Machiko Yabuuchi - Marlena Xanderbilt

• In the Funimation Dub, the Yabuuchi Family Attorney is named Chauncey Shiflett.

See also

• Season 4