Tottori Sand Dunes Mystery Tour

Episode 801-802 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Tottori Sand Dunes Mystery Tour
Japanese title:	鳥取砂丘ミステリーツアー (Tottori Sakyū Misuterī Tsuā?)
Original airdate:	November 28, 2015 (Kurayoshi Part) (倉吉編 ,Kurayoshi-hen) December 5, 2015 (Tottori Part) (鳥取編 ,Tottori-hen)
Broadcast rating:	7.2% 8.1%
Filler case:	#251
Season:	24
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Incense burner (Kurayoshi Part) Pendant (Tottori Part)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Takahiro Shimura as Katsuhiko Yamane Takayuki Sasada as Ryo Okamoto Akio Nojima as Iwao Kumado Ai Sato as Makie Kumado Osamu Hosoi as Soichi Kumado Makoto Naruse as Junji Kumado Marie Hatanaka as Kazuma Kumado, Akemi Kimiyoshi Kibe as Kozo Adachi Biichi Sato as Yasunobu Otari Ikuto Kanemasa as Tanaka Sae Aiuchi as Announcer Junko Minagawa as Naomi Senda Satsuki Yukino as Shuko Kumado
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso
Chronology
Prev episode:	« After That Hundred Million Yen
Next episode:	The Pitfall of Fire Precautions »
List of episodes

The Tottori Sand Dunes Mystery Tour (鳥取砂丘ミステリーツアー ,Tottori Sakyū Misuterī Tsuā) is the 801st and 802nd episodes of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Kurayoshi Part

Kogoro takes Ran and Conan to Tottori prefecture to come up with a story for the first Super Mystery Award. He brings them to Tottori Sand Dunes, ties up Conan, and throws him down, because he wants to write a story of how a kid who is tied up and abandoned at the sand dunes escapes from danger; in other words, he is using Conan to find inspiration. However, since this place has numerous tourists, someone is definitely bound to save any kid in that situation. As a result, he gives up on that story and that award, and they go sightseeing instead.

The first place they visit is the sand museum. There, they see a woman with purple hair and purple lipstick ranting at an employee, as if she wanted to pick a fight with someone. After she storms out of the museum, they head in to enjoy the sand sculptures. They planned to eat some crabs at the Kanikkokan, but the kids occupied all the tables, so they went to Kurayoshi and toured around for the rest of the day.

Around late afternoon, they were walking when suddenly they see a police car drive by and stop in front of a house. The detectives in the police car are Ryo Okamoto and Katsuhiko Yamane, a person Kogoro worked with once on a robbery investigation back when he was a Tokyo Metropolitan Police detective. When Kogoro asks the police what is going on, they tell everyone someone reported a robbery. Detective Okamoto rings the doorbell of that house, but no one answers, so everyone sneaks into the house to investigate. Suddenly, they hear a baby crying, and when the police enter a room, they see a baby crying next to a woman with her hands and feet tied up in ropes! Conan notices a few shattered pieces of pottery on the floor of the room.

The woman, Shuko Kumado, was the one who reported the robbery to the police. She tells everyone she was knocked out, so she does not know what the robber looked like. Shuko turns her head and notices the incense burner, which is precious to the family's heir, is missing. Conan looks underneath a couch and finds a pendant with a camel on it.

Tottori Part

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People

Katsuhiko Yamane
	36 years old Tottori Prefecture Kurayoshi Station detective

Ryo Okamoto
	25 years old Tottori Prefecture Kurayoshi Station detective

Iwao Kumado
	68 years old Kumado family head

Makie Kumado
	35 years old Kumado family eldest daughter

Soichi Kumado
	32 years old Kumado family eldest son Shuko's husband

Junji Kumado
	28 years old Kumado family second son

Shuko Kumado
	29 years old Kumado family daughter-in-law Kazuma's mother

Kazuma Kumado
	Shuko and Soichi's only son

Naomi Senda
	30 years old Kumado family former housekeeper

Kozo Adachi
	55 years old Naomi's uncle

Resolution

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The theft of the incense burner is actually a ruse for a tragic case of blackmail, in which Shuko Kumado was made an unwilling victim by Naomi Senda. Two years previously, Shuko had been seen with a strange man, who was actually Yasunobu Kotani, an old high school classmate of hers. Although Shuko's marriage with Soichi had started with mutual love, Shuko had gotten doubts about it, but was unwilling to divorce in order not to disappoint her parents, who were overjoyed at her union with a member of such a prestigious family. One month ago, Kotani had asked her to go with him to South Africa, but since Shuko was pregnant with Kazuma, she decided not to elope in order to secure her child's future.

But as they left their meeting place at the Tottori Sand Dunes, they were spied upon and photographed by Naomi, who used this information to blackmail Shuko. In fear of having her child taken away by her family-in-law, Shuko paid Naomi to keep the "affair" secret; but when Naomi had learned from the news that Yasunobu had died in an accident, she decided to raise her demands. Facing the fear that she couldn't procure the ever-mounting hush money anymore, Shuko decided to kill Naomi.

In order to conceal her intentions, Shuko planned the fake robbery and ransoming of the incense burner along with Naomi, who would agree to cease blackmailing her once the ransom money for the artefact was in their hands. Naomi left Shuko tied up in the house and planted the broken urn and the keychain incriminating her as the culprit after they had established Naomi's fake alibi, and they started the fight to throw off suspicion that they were accomplices in this caper. Afterwards, Shuko would lure Naomi to a steep cliffside at the coast and cast her into the sea, then claim that this was done in self-defense. However, the immediate execution of her plan was foiled because of Iwao Kumado's refusal to let her leave the house while the incense burner was missing; hence, she returned it.

The decisive evidence was the delivery Shuko received at the house door during the family meeting. The delivery service man had acutally attempted to deliver the package at 12.00 o'clock, while Shuko and Kazuma were alone in the house. However, since no one answered the door, the delivery man intended to return with the package some other time; but he got a phone call to re-deliver right away. In fact, Shuko was already tied up at that time, and while the clock had been reset to provide a fake alibi for Naomi, the unplanned arrival of the delivery man upset that vital detail. Therefore Shuko was in a hurry to take the mail to hide the fact that the package has arrived as a re-delivery.

While Shuko couldn't execute her murder plan, the fact that she committed a fake robbery and would face the Kumado clan's wrath as a result cannot be dismissed that easily before the law. However, Soichi - who has followed his wife - unexpectedly intervenes, announcing his decision to cut his ties with his family, leave Junji in succession as the clan's head, and make a new beginning with Shuko and his son once she gets out of jail.

See also

• Season 24