The Truth Behind Valentine's

Episode 266-268 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Truth Behind Valentine's
Japanese title:	バレンタインの真実 (Barentain no Shinjitsu)
Original airdate:	January 28, 2002 (The Case) February 4, 2002 (The Deduction) February 11, 2002 (The Resolution)
Season:	10
Manga source:	Volume 33: Files 3-6 (331-334)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Kogoro Mouri Makoto Kyogoku Ai Haibara Detective Boys James Black Shuichi Akai
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Playing ball (The Case) Completely black photo (The Deduction) Wristwatch (The Resolution)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Chika Ichimaru
Storyboard:	Chika Ichimaru
Episode director:	266 Hideaki Oniwa 267 Toru Kitahata 268 Hideki Hiroshima
Animation Director:	266 Keiichi Ishida 267 Hirobi Muranaka 268 Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2 & 3) Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki, Next Conan's Hint (Part 3) Nobuyuki Hiyama as Makoto Kyogoku Tomie Kataoka as Chiyoko Yuasa Tomoyuki Dan as Yoshitaka Nigaki Aya Hisakawa as Ako Amari Yuko Sasaki as Mika Konakawa Mugihito as Yuzo Sakami Tetsuo Kaneo as Hajime Itakura
Music
Opening song:	Winter Bells
Closing song:	Yume Mita Ato de
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Courtroom Confrontation: Kisaki vs. Kogoro
Next episode:	The Forgotten Memento from the Crime »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Kogoro Mouri Makoto Kyogoku Ai Haibara Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ayumi Yoshida James Black (flashback) Shuichi Akai (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Wristwatch Flashlight

Case

Situation

The Case

Sonoko invites Ran to come to a house in the hills where their chocolates are blissed with good fortune for love. Conan and Kogoro attend too. Once there, they meet two men who are out hunting for a Japanese wolf, an old lady who owns the place her two female assistants and a male photographer. The females there start making chocolate as gifts for the one they love. Sonoko makes hers for Makoto and Ran leaves hers nameless. A snowstorm occurs and the photographer is found dead by Conan and the dog named Saburo.

Murder
	Location: Suito House Victim: Yoshitaka Nigaki Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Chiyoko Yuasa, Mika Konakawa, Ako Amari, Yuzo Sakami, and Hajime Itakura

The Deduction

The mystery continues and they develop the film on the camera to find droplets of blood on it. Apparently, the murder takes place before the snowstorm but Conan feels like there's a trick to it. The characters are given more back story.

The Resolution

While examining the chocolates, Conan figures out who the murder is. Kogoro pops in finding Conan snooping around and is put to sleep. Conan tells everyone in the house Kogoro is ready to place his deduction.

People

Chiyoko Yuasa
	61 years old Lodge owner

Yoshitaka Nigaki
	Victim (beaten) 28 years old Lodge guest

Mika Konakawa
	26 years old Lodge guest

Ako Amari
	25 years old Lodge guest

Yuzo Sakami
	42 years old Lodge guest

Saburo
	Chiyoko's pet dog

Hajime Itakura
	37 years old Lodge guest

Resolution

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Kogoro reveals who the murderer is and it is reveal to be Ako Amari. She was angered at her boyfriend who supposedly was recording long footage of an avalanche that killed an innocent man, thereby acting as a bystander to a man in need of help (and possibly causing the avalanche). It was revealed however, that he was recording evidence of the two lodge hunters who caused that accident and intended as a samaritan to report it to the police. The two hunters congratulate Amari, revealing that they planned to murder that person the whole time to avoid blackmail from the crime they committed. Just then, a man in a ski mask, goggles, and a scarf comes in when one of the hunters opens the door. He knocks one of the hunters out and in his goggles a shot revealing Makoto. Ran knocks the other hunter out with a kick. Makoto demands Sonoko to tell her who is the other boy she is dating as he has not received her hand-made knitted sweater (She gave up due to its difficulty), her hand-made pottery glass (he mistook it to be a vase) and the chocolate (She refused to tell who it is for). He gets ready to fight until Sonoko tells him the chocolate was for him. Later on Ran cries because of Shinichi while Conan watches in the shadows. Ran wakes up to find her jacket blanketing her. She received a picture of herself sleeping from Detective Kid who is Conan with Shinichi's voice. Conan pretended Shinichi paid a visit and ate her chocolate due to hunger while she was asleep. Ran becomes angry due to Shinichi not waking her up to meet him.

Trivia

• This is the second Valentine's Day which has been broadcasted throughout the whole series. The first Valentine's Day broadcasted is in episode 6.

Gallery

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See also

• Season 10