The Lovebirds' Ruse

Episode 796 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Lovebirds' Ruse
Japanese title:	おしどり夫婦の策略 (Oshidorifūfu no Sakuryaku?)
Original airdate:	October 17, 2015
Broadcast rating:	7.6%
Filler case:	#246
Season:	24
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Detective Takagi Detective Chiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Facial scars
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Shintaro Ueda Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Shigenori Kageyama
Episode director:	Makiko Hayase
Animation Director:	Masatomo Sudo (supervisor) Seiji Muta (supervisor) Akane Imada Yui Ushinohama (asst.) Nozomi Sakamoto (asst.)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Detective Takagi Isshin Chiba as Detective Chiba Matsuo Matsuo as Chosaku Kanbayashi Yoshino Takamori as Seiko Kanbayashi Sanryo Odaka as Kiyoshi Sugiyama Takuya Kirimoto as Fumito Ikejiri
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Secret of the Missing Young Lady
Next episode:	The Dreaming Girl's Confused Deduction »
List of episodes

The Lovebirds' Ruse (おしどり夫婦の策略 ,Oshidorifūfu no Sakuryaku) is the 796th episode of Detective Conan.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Detective Takagi 100px Detective Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Accident? Suicide? Murder?
	Location: Between Ristorante Buono and Kanbayashi's office building Victim: Chosaku Kanbayashi Suspects: Seiko Kanbayashi Chosaku Kanbayashi was found dead on the ground after apparently falling from his office window.

People

Chosaku Kanbayashi
100px	Victim (fell) 38 years old Mystery novelist

Seiko Kanbayashi
100px	35 years old Chosaku's wife

Kiyoshi Sugiyama
	58 years old Building guard

Fumito Ikejiri
	35 years old Editor

Resolution

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Reconstruction of the crime

The case is actually murder, and the culprit is Seiko Kanbayashi. The Kanbayashis merely pretended to be happily married, but their life together has long since gone to shambles, and they have become interested in different partners. Chosaku had long since developed a plan to kill his wife to reap in her life insurance, but he wasn't aware that Seiko was trying to kill him as well.

Chosaku originally planned have the documents sent to his wife to make her come to him. Then he would pretend to leave his office for cigarettes, then go into the neighboring building to open a bathroom window on the fifth floor. After after returning to his office (with an eyewitness testimony), he intended to jump from his building into the bathroom next door, intercept Seiko in the park which she was sure to walk through, and strangle her. Then he would return the same way and deliver his manuscript, again with an eyewitness, thus consolidating his own alibi.

While on the works to provide his alibi for his wife's murder, however, Seiko (with the intention to carry out her own murder plan) arrived early, spotted Chosaku behaving strangely, and realised what he was doing. The moment when he jumped from one building to the other, she was already waiting inside the bathroom and hit his face with a deck brush in mid-jump, causing the facial scars. This way, he fell in the alley between the two buildings. Seiko returned later and pretended - with the doorman of Chosaku's office building as her alibi witness - to be the first discoverer. Her crime could be proven thanks to her hair being found in the bathroom from where she killed her husband, and Chosaku's eyebrow hairs among the bristles of the brush.

See also

• Season 24