The Fearful Traversing Murder Case

Episode 92-93 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Fearful Traversing Murder Case
Japanese title:	恐怖のトラヴァース殺人事件 (Kyōfu no Toravaasu Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 23, 1998 (Part 1) March 2, 1998 (Part 2)
Season:	4
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Mountain Fox
Dubbed episode:	Episode 95-96
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Mountain cottage record notebook (Part 1) Sun block foundation (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Michiyo Sakurai
Episode director:	92 Kazuo Nogami 93 Yoshio Suzuki
Animation Director:	92 Hiromi Muranaka 93 Mayumi Yamamoto
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Osamu Saka as Bunzo Ushio Mitsuru Ogata as Kenichi Hirai Toshihiko Kojima as Wataru Takanashi Masahiko Tanaka as Shingo Nose Kaori Yamagata as Kyoko Saegusa Mitsuaki Hoshino as Akira Kawabe Masaaki Tsukada as Juukichi Iwata Isshin Chiba as Announcer, Radio news
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Bank Robber's Hospitalization Case
Next episode:	Snow Woman's Legend Murder Case »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro is hired to capture the best assassin in the country, a man or woman known only as the Fox. When multiple murders begin to occur though, it could cost everyone involved their life.

Murder
	Location: Tanbara mountain trail Victim: Kenichi Hirai Suspects: The Fox: Wataru Takanashi, Shingo Nose, Kyoko Saegusa and Akira Kawabe

Part 2

The clues go to show that multiple murders have been made, and Jericho the Fox isn't responsible for all of them, but who is Jericho, and can Conan and Kogoro successfully work together on the case?

Murder
	Location: Tanbara mountain cottage Victim: Kyoko Saegusa Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: The Fox: Shingo Nose, Akira Kawabe and Juukichi Iwata

People

Fox
	Serial killer

Bunzo Ushio
	40 years old Real Estate Company Branch president

Kenichi Hirai
	Victim (felled) 22 years old Touto University Mountaineering Club

Wataru Takanashi
	50 years old Company employee

Shingo Nose
	35 years old Novelist

Kyoko Saegusa
	Victim (stabbed) 25 years old Hiker

Akira Kawabe
	28 years old Hiker

Juukichi Iwata
	60 years old Cottage caretaker

Resolution

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The Fox was responsible for Saegusa and Hirai's deaths, having killed them for being in the wrong place at the right time. However, this was a gambit from Bunzou, who wanted to kill the Fox with his own hands. He never was ill or willing to die: it was all feigned to get close to The Fox and murder him in punishment for having accidentally caused the death of his little daughter Chisato; during one of his assassinations, his car crashed on a school bus and killed the little girl.

The Fox was disguised as Juukichi Iwata, the cottage caretaker, and Bunzo confronts him. Conan stops stop Bunzo by showing him the pic of Chisato that he kept in his wallet and begging him to not taint his hands, then he makes sure the Fox is taken into custody.

Trivia

• The story Shingo Nose is said to have written describes the plot of another anime original episode, The Mysterious Woman With Amnesia Case. Nose's character design seems to be based off of Maya's: he even appears to be wearing her headband.

See also

• Season 4