The Mechanical Witness

Episode 876 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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Information
Title:	The Mechanical Witness
Japanese title:	機械じかけの目撃者 (Kikaiji Kake no Mokugeki-sha)
Original airdate:	October 7, 2017
Broadcast rating:	7.7%
Filler case:	#285
Season:	27
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Mouse
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Hiro Masaki
Storyboard:	Yasuyuki Honda
Episode director:	Akira Yoshimura
Animation Director:	Chiemi Hironaka, Asuka Tsubuki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Kouji Ochiai as Kyoichi Kusumi Akeno Watanabe as Fumika Horiuchi Juri Kimura as Robot Yūji Ueda as Kazuomi Isshiki Junichi Sugawara as Takeshi Tanizaki
Music
Opening song:	Lie, Lie, Lie,
Closing song:	Togetsukyō ~Kimi Omou~
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Mysterious Prophetic Buddha
Next episode:	A Pair of Crossing Fates »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Wristwatch Flashlight Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Theft
	Location: Kusumi Machinery Victim: Kyoichi Kusumi Age: 50 years old Missing Item: Company Technology Suspects: Takeshi Tanizaki

Murder
	Location: Kusumi Machinery Victim: Takeshi Tanizaki Age: 45 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Kyoichi Kusumi, Fumika Horiuchi and Kazuomi Isshiki

People

Kyoichi Kusumi
	50 years old Kusumi Machinery president

Takeshi Tanizaki
	Victim (strangled) 45 years old Employee

Fumika Horiuchi
	32 years old Employee

Kazuomi Isshiki
	25 years old Employee

Makita
	Myojo Technics employee

Resolution

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The thief stealing company technology was actually Kazuomi Isshiki. He was selling the components to Hiraguchi, an R&D employee at Myojo Technics, for a profit. The mouse robot created by Takeshi Tanizaki was actually designed as a security device to help him catch the person stealing company secrets. It was tuned to detect traces of a special ink (of a type which Isshiki kept at home, and which got stuck on his shoes) the culprit left at the scene of his thefts. Tanizaki met in secret with Makita, an HR employee at Myojo Technics, in order to find out the dates of their newest presentations, thus learning when the thief would strike next.

Upon catching Isshiki in the act, Tanizaki attacked the thief but was wounded in the process. As Isshiki attempted to escape, his rope came undone when the gas pipe he had tied it on was broken, and he began to fall. Tanizaki grabbed the rope in an attempt to save the culprit's life, but lost his grip on it and was hanged when the rope loop caught his neck, which Isshiki failed to notice.

See also

• Season 27