The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case

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Information
Title:	The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case
Original airdate:	April 22, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 2: File 4~7 (Heavily altered)
English version
English title:	Mystery Mastermind
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Calculator
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Yuuichi Higurashi
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation Director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Inspector Megure Masako Katsuki as Masami Hirota Hideaki Tezuka as Akira Hirota Kan Tokumaru as Mystery Man A Ryuzaburo Otomo as Mystery Man B Rin Mizuhara as Landlady Isshin Chiba as Cloak checker Takumi Yamazaki as TV Announcer Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint announcer
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case
Next episode:	The Mysterious Shooting Message Case »
List of episodes

Characters and gadgets introduced

Akemi Miyano (Alias: Masami Hirota)
	Mysterious client

Criminal Tracking Glasses
	Uses radar to locate his transmitters Tracks location of the Detective Boys' badges

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Dr. Agasa

Case

Situation

Missing Person / Murder
	Victim: Kenzou Hirota Suspects: Akira Hirota A woman named Masami Hirota shows up at Kogoro's Detective Agency and asks him to find her father, Kenzou Hirota. She is reunited with her father when they located him in a horse racing track. The next day, Kenzou is found dead and Masami missing. Meanwhile, another detective is tracking Kenzou down for his client, Akira Hirota.

People

Kenzou Hirota
	Victim (strangulation) Believed to be Masami's father and Akira's brother

Landlady
	Kenzou's apartment landlady

Detective
100px	Hired by Akira to find Kenzou

Akira Hirota
	Suspect

Okita
	Mastermind

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Masami had make-up on and looked mature when reunited with Kenzou
  • Every night, Kenzou would run the same taxi route over and over, even without customers, and at high speed
  • Judging from the bruises from Kenzou's neck, the killer was a large man
  • Masami's glasses were found in the crime scene
  • Because of Conan's tracking button believed to be in Masami's watch, Akira was found dead due to cyanide poisoning in the hotel

• Resolution

The Hirotas were the criminals involved in the 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case. The route Kenzou drove at night was the practice route of the getaway. But Kenzou betrayed his partners, he ran and took the money for himself. In order to find him, his partners made fake identities - Masami and Akira. When found, Akira killed Kenzou and made it look like suicide. He broke his watch while doing so that's why Masami gave him hers. But the real mastermind of the 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case was Okita. The poison that killed Akira was originally intended for Masami.

• Motive

Okita planned to kill the three from the very beginning. Kenzou realized this so he ran away with the money.

Manga to anime change

In the manga version of the story Gin and Vodka are the masterminds of the case (rather than Okita), and they end up killing Masami Hirota/Akemi Miyano who informs Conan of the organization's existence. This would lead to Ai Haibara's appearance in the series.

To repair the storyline, Episode 128 The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case was written with a similar ending to the manga version.

See also

• Season 1