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September 18, 2001
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ISBN 4-09-126164-7
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Shogakukan
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March 16, 2010
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ISBN 1-4215-2885-1
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Viz Media
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| Aoyama's death & Conan side images
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Volume 34 was released on September 18, 2001 in Japan.
Cast
Gadgets
Escalator Message Case
File 340 - Time to Pick the Apple
Megure tells Jodie he has just phoned Chujo's detective agency to ask his employees if they'd ever been informed about who Chujo was suspecting to be embezzling Kisugi's company's money. They told Megure they had absolutely no idea, since Kisugi had insisted on the investigation to be kept strictly confidential. Furthermore, all data about Chujo's investigations are on his computer and nobody knows the password, and it's not OX△□ at all. Though, Megure sent people there to try and crack the password. Then, the four signs indeed refer to the killer's identity. Jodie and Sonoko say the murderer might be a quizz lover or champion, since Japanese people answer quizzes using "O" or "X" instead of "Yes" or "No". Megure once again keeps them away from the crime scene, saying they're now completely free to leave and go back home.
Conan steps in saying Inspector Chiba is probably the murderer, since the "Chi" character ideogram in his name looks like an addition cross topped with a diagonal line going towards the left. And when Conan hides the line, it shows a cross, and when he hides the southmost and rightmost lines of the cross, it shows a triangle. Conan finds it strange, and Megure thinks about something having to do with "hiding a part". Conan says Takagi could also be the killer since the "Taka" ideogram character looks like a circle or square topped with a goal symbol, another circle or square, and finally a horizontal line with a perpendicular small line amidst. When Conan hides some parts of the ideogram, only a square or circle is shown. Sonoko says though she doesn't see any circles in the ideogram, and Conan answers many people in Japan write a circle instead of a square to save time when quickly writing a name with a square in it. He gives Agasa's name as an example : the "A" ideogram in "Agasa" usually contains a square, but Agasa always writes it as a circle. The professor would always tell Conan that, when people are in a hurry, they have no other choice but to make abbreviations. Megure instantly realises something while Sonoko tells Conan she swears Takagi and Chiba are innocent since she called them and they came after the murder...
Megure grabs the list and scans the names one after the other, and deduces the murderer is called Bunta Kuniyoshi. Conan smirks in satisfaction, and Sonoko and Jodie ask for an explanation, and Megure tells them that if they hide the upper halves of the "Bun" "Ta" and "Yoshi" characters, then it shows, from right to left, a triangle, cross and circle, the same order as on the envelope. Though, Sonoko finds quite far-fetched that a triangle was used for the "ta" character, but the inspector replies that, actuallyn when using prints it sure is far-fetched, but when writing it by hand, people tend to consider the small horizontal line at the bottom of the character as a full and long line they often confusingly fix to the two circumflex-like vertical lines just above, which gives a triangle most of the time. People usually do this, as Conan said, to make things quicker and easier. Sonoko still doesn't get it why Chujo would have only written the halves of his murderer's name's characters, and Megure replies actually he did write the name fully, but he did it while the killer was stealing the documents that were inside the envelope, then the only possible thing, in the dark, is that Chujo wrote the upper halves of the name on the document being stolen, instead of the envelope, and only the remaining parts were accordingly found on the top edge of the envelope. Since the killer ran away with the documents, then it's clear why the message seems so enigmatic. As for the square, Chujo actually wrote it inadvertently on the escalator's step, and left only a small mark on the left edge of the envelope, which is why it wasn't found at first. And the square is bigger than the other symbols because it is actually the full character for "Kuni", which wasn't split into halves then. In fact, Chujo was dying and he needed to be quick not to show his killer that he was writing a message, which accounts for why he only wrote the square, and not the character inside the square, hoping people would understand.
Sonoko acknowledges several people only write a square to refer to "Kuni", and Jodie praises "Jules Maigret's incredible investigating qualities". The police rush upstairs to the company in order to arrest Bunta Kuniyoshi. Jodie wonders where Ran has been, since it's quite late now. Sonoko thinks she's probably phoning Shinichi to ask him what "X" means, and then she and Jodie believe a love scene is probably occurring while at the phone. Ran turns up quite angry and blushing, asking what "I'll give you my precious X" means. She adds she is now aware of the meaning of X thanks to Takagi, and she tells Sonoko that whether Shinichi knows it as well or not isn't a problem, because he won't answer to such a question anyway. Sonoko says it's very unlikely he knows what it means, given he's a boy and he's got only a few elements. They all wonder where Conan has been now, as to him. Meanwhile, at the company's project development section, the police ask for Bunta Kuniyoshi to follow them for a few questions in a room nextdoors. He agrees, and Conan spots a paper shredder in the office and suddenly thinks about something. Megure tells Kuniyoshi about his findings, and the latter thinks it's rather too simplistic to make a murderer out of him. It's well possible the true killer used Chujo's own blood and finger to write that message to have Kuniyoshi accused of the crime, and then it wouldn't be a true dying message. He says if they want to hold him responsible, then they have to show him the documents that were stolen from Chujo, and prove he stole them indeed. He adds a killer and robber would have run away from the mall and burned the papers, instead of peacefully coming back to his office in the mall, to work. Conan shows up with Takagi and says they've found the papers in the shredder : Kuniyoshi tried to dispose of them doing so, but actually a shredder doesn't necessarily mixes up the shreds of paper, and actually the blood is still on it, and it's even easier to reassemble than a puzzle. They show the blood marks on the paper shreds, and say it perfectly matches the envelope's ones. If the police search carefully and take some time, they'll find all the remaining documents' shreds inside the shredder - provided he only used one - along with his fingerprints on it, and also on the gloves he discarded in the bathroom - once again provided he is indeed the one who shredded the papers.
Kuniyoshi admits he killed Chujo, saying he now gets it why his university comrades would always write his name using these four symbols. He said he started to divert money so as his family could live a little more comfortably, but afterwards it worked so well that he came to like it, and did more and more of it, and is now trapped into it, just like a mouse which ate too much and which can't go out anymore now. The police take Kuniyoshi away, and Conan joins Ran and co, asking them to tell him now what X means. Sonoko tells him to ask Ran about it : she's sending a message to Shinichi, and has eventually found the meaning. Conan asks her while she's over the moon, thinking about what and how she'll write to her friend. Ran blushes and feels overembarrassed as Conan startles her, and she answers she definitely can't tell him, it's impossible : this is the meaning, impossibility... Ran, Sonoko, and Conan eventually go back home and Jodie tells them to watch their step and mistrust stalkers. She then looks at them leaving, inwardly wondering if it's almost time to pick the apple... During the night, Conan can't get to sleep due to Kogoro's noisy snoring, and he has a look at Shinichi's phone which received Ran's text message, saying "Today we've been once again caught up in a murder case ! Really, I like wonder if we're not being jinxed or something, after all. The kind of case you love. I'll tell you more about it soon. Hurry up and return ! XXX". Reading this, Conan asks himself if Ran actually means he's an "impossible impossible impossible" boy ?
In a dark room only lit up by a computer's screen, next to a glass of alcohol, a smirking woman in babydoll is typing a mail to Gin, saying "Can you tell me please Gin, do you believe in heaven ? You must say coldly..."It's not like you to be so silly." Until we lift our glasses filled with rotten sherry, please find the answer. I can't wait... XXX". The woman then inwardly says X (Chu) means a kiss, it's feminine...expression of affection... Though, she thinks it could also be an evil stamp of hatred, and, saying so, she grabs a dart in an ashtray, kisses it, and slings it violently at a dartboard where three pictures are pinned at, and some others below, looking at it with a dark interest. The woman is revealed to be Vermouth/Chris Vineyard, who adds that X is where the fatal silver arrow shoots, it marks the target spot. The dart indeed hit the bulls-eye right at the center of the dartboard, right at the center of a huge X crossing out the picture of Shiho Miyano in her adult form and lab coat, right in the middle, and right into her head. Next to that picture, there are also two others featuring a happy and smiling Ran, nicknamed "Angel", and a clever-looking and hard-thinking Conan, nicknamed "Cool Guy".
People
Flying Neighbor Case
File 341 - The Hint That Was Against...
Conan eventually tells Agasa about Mouri's cases' police files having been recently stolen and then sent back by post to the headquarters. The Organisation may be behind that theft, they may be aware that Shinichi is secretly helping Kogoro to solve cases, they could know he was shrunken by APTX, since Kogoro's fame all started when Shinichi went missing. Yet, who would believe a seven-year-old anesthetises Kogoro and speaks with a voice-changing bowtie ? Conan may well only be a boy genius, and it's not 100% sure the Organisation stole the documents. Though, someone is discreetly investigating Kogoro, and Conan has something very important to ask to Agasa, the latter saying he's nothing but a search-machine for Shinichi, and not even a confidant. Conan answers he just didn't want Ai to know it (Vol. 33), since this would scare her once again, she would once again refuse to go out, and Conan promised her he would protect her and take things in hand if they were to worsen (Vol. 29). He doesn't want her to be frightened for nothing, but says they must keep it silent to her for now, since Ai isn't as strong as she wants others to believe she is. Conan is however unaware that Ai is eavesdropping their conversation, and inwardly calls him a moron. Conan still wonders what's the point for that thief carefully sending the documents back to the police instead of just getting rid of them. Is it to trap them or have them understand he/she knows what they're doing ? Or is it maybe a stratagem to scare someone in particular, Shinichi most probably, though it's a rather odd way to scare someone. Conan realises in surprise that Heiji is just next to them, having been secretly called by Agasa in order to be Shinichi's confidant, since at the moment the latter is racking his mind with the Organisation matters. Agasa still wonders how they can catch such an elusive enemy, Heiji replying that if Conan came to tell him the truth and ask him something very important, this means either he's found out a paramount clue, or he just wants to retaliate now.
Conan acknowledges he's right and tells them again about the Haido City Hotel Case (Vol. 24), during which they spotted Pisco, an Organisation member who was tasked to kill Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a corrupt politician. Shinichi had called Megure telling him to bring and question seven suspects in a private room, since they were all given a purple handkerchief at a certain moment. Given Conan had found a purple handkerchief on the crime scene, it may well have belonged to Pisco, who could be one of them. Yet, Pisco was completely unaware of it, then how come is it that he had a purple handkerchief on him when he was questioned ? The only answer is that he had an accomplice among the six other suspects, one who was questioned before him and told him afterwards about it, giving him his/her handkerchief. The six suspects are all very mediatised VIPs, but only one of them hasn't given some sign of life since then : Chris Vineyard, the famous American actress, daughter of world-famous actress Sharon Vineyard, and moreover a very beautiful and sly woman. Conan has investigated her so far, and she's the fishiest suspect, though he can't believe it for some reasons. Conan needs Agasa's help to browse a recent website created by Chris's fans to encourage her comeback on the stage, and he wants Agasa to pretend to be one of them, and to get as much information as possible on the actress. Conan can't do it since it would be strange that a schoolboy spends his time in Internet cafés searching for information on several websites. Conan says this information could be useful in good time. Heiji thinks that Conan is suspecting someone in particular in his entourage, which could be Chris Vineyard in disguise. Agasa thinks Conan is investigating Jodie Saintemilion, and tells Heiji - despite Conan's refusal - that Jodie is Ran's new English teacher, originating from America. But Conan doesn't want such a hot-blooded guy as Heiji to know it since he would spoil everything by investigating her overtly and awkwardly. Heiji indeed suggests they both go to her place to investigate discreetly. Conan believes Heiji is completely unaware of the BO's dangerousness. Ai is startled by the "Chris Vineyard"'s name.
The boys eventually come up to Jodie's flat's door, Heiji wondering how a mere English teacher can afford to live in such a huge and luxurious building, and Conan replying it's because she was born in a very wealthy family. Conan tells Heiji not to act recklessly, but Heiji seems to have no idea what to tell Jodie in order to account for their coming, and Conan can't believe it. They start having a row and Heiji inadvertently presses the door's ring. Conan has to tell Jodie on the intercom that he "came to pay her a liitle visit", and she's very happy about it, and asks him to wait a little moment. Meanwhile, they meet Jodie's neighbour Takai's friends who are leaving his place, all drunk. They seem to blame Takai for being so rude and nasty when he's drunk. After a very long wait, Conan and Heiji are eventually welcomed by Jodie, only dressed in a sexy robe, apologising for the wait, since she was having a bath when they rang. Conan explains he has brought a friend to introduce him to her, and she asks them to wait in the lounge while she gets herself ready. The boys say they need to go to the bathroom, and actually start checking out something in the bath and floor sink. Jodie overhears what they are doing behind the door, and smirks in satisfaction. Afterwards, she decides to take them to a restaurant since she has nothing at home to prepare a meal for them with. Heiji gets infuriated at her beacuse she tells him he looks like a foreigner who doesn't speak very good Japanese, but Conan tries to cool down the situation saying Kansai people are often very tanned and speak a very thick Japanese, such as Southern-American English for instance. Jodie is then told Heiji is also one of Mouri's friends. In front of Jodie's building, they notice Chika Shimoda, Takai's girlfriend who had left the latter's flat and locked it with two other men, is taking snaps of the building, towards the top. Heiji comments on it being rather odd, and suddenly, a phone falls down from upwards, followed by Takai's body, which crashes on the ground.
File 342 - The Flying Neighbor
The four people but Shimoda look at the corpse in a cold-blooded behaviour, saying the person died instantly. Jodie recognises her neighbour Takai and Shimoda starts crying in despair. She tells them Takai was drunk and sleeping on his bed when they all left, she would never have imagined he wanted to commit suicide. Jodie says he could have been pushed in the void from his flat by a kind of burglar just as well, but Shimoda says it's impossible : there was none in the apartment when they all left, and she locked the flat because Takai was too drunk to do it properly. Besides, there's only one key, and it's impossible to hear the doorbell from the bedroom. Then, it's nothing but a suicide. Though, Conan and Heiji tell her it's not necessarily the case, because Takai was speaking with a certain Kawakami on the phone just before dying, and one minute ago he had also received a text message from a certain Nakamichi. What's more, Shimoda was behaving strangely when taking pictures of the building in the dark, these are many peculiar reasons why the hypothesis of suicide can't be absolutely established for the moment. And a person who wants to kill themselves doesn't necessarily has a phone in hand. Heiji asks Shimoda to call her friends Michiya Nakamichi and Noboru Kawakami, and tell them to come along, while they'll also call the police for Shimoda to give a clearer explanation to them. Shimoda tells Megure she actually left Takai's flat to drive Nakamichi and Kawakami back home since they were far too drunk to drive carefully. She told Takai she would come back right after, which is why she locked the flat with his key. Afterwards, she drove back to Takai's, but before going upstairs, she took a few snaps of the building to show her friends where her new boyfriend was living. It is the first time she has come here, while Nakamichi and Kawakami already know the place. She intended to go back to Takai's flat right after, but never expected him to kill himself.
Shimoda, Nakamichi, Takai and Kawakami all work at the same place. They had come at noon to have a few drinks in order to celebrate Takai's promotion to the position of assistant manager of their company. They wanted to stay till late at night, but Takai was getting too drunk, and started to abuse everyone, then they decided to leave. He told them they were and will always be losers because they lacked something which would always prevent them from moving up the social ladder : insensitivity and ambition. Nakamichi later on sent a text message to Takai telling him never to forget "those at the bottom". They also discussed the "Hiraya case" : one of her friends and co-corkers Sumiyo Hiraya who committed suicide last month. Hiraya was a childhood friend of Nakamichi, and they met Takai and Kawakami at college. Takai and Kawakami already knew each other, and Shimoda belonged to the same year group as Hiraya. They remember Hiraya was a very kind and respectful person. She killed herself due to burnout, because she would work far too much. Probably because Takai had told her some day - though he was kidding her actually, and drunk - that if she didn't work even harder than the others, she would be quickly fired in the end. Takai seemed to have forgotten about that story, which is why Kawakami phoned him to remind him that he won his promotion out of blood, he is responsible for Hiraya's death, his career is being founded out of suffering and death. That left him speechless and he hung up afterwards, and Kawakami was then called by Shimoda and came back here at once with Nakamichi. Kawakami acknowledges he's more or less responsible for Takai's leaping in the void, though he never forced him to kill himself, then he's not a criminal. And he was drunk moreover, then Megure should just let them all go back home, since it's a mere suicide. The employees say they've actually already told all of this to Conan, Heiji and Jodie, who asked them to give them Takai's flat's key, and they're probably upstairs now, at the 21st floor. While the latter are thinking about the case, Megure and co, out of breath, turn up, too late, because the group already went into the flat, checked the place, and took pictures of it.
They all come in once again, Heiji telling Megure the door was indeed locked when they tried first. Heiji and co really thought to suicide too until they came in Takai's bedroom and saw the window near the bed was open and a curtain was fluttering in the wind outside. It's clear the victim jumped from that window, but Heiji attracts Megure's attention on the curtain in itself : it's as if someone had pulled it too much strongly, so much that it came off the rod and damaged it, and some hooks popped away. This means Takai was about to fall and then instinctively tried to grab hold of the curtain, in order to pull himself up. Therefore, it's not a suicide but a murder. Jodie appears saying it's just like in movies or novels, sealed chambers murders. She gives Megure her testimony and account of the events. Heiji says he's still not solved the case, but actually found strange impact marks left on the outside window pane, as if someone had hit it from the outside. Chiba then comes up saying he's got Shimoda's pictures' development, among which an enlargment showing Takai indeed grabbing hold of the curtain and about to fall into the void, and flinging his phone against the pane. Shimoda took this picture but couldn't see Takai, it was too far away from the ground, and it appeared like a tiny shadow on the picture. Jodie and co once more reflect about the case aloud, and Megure hollers at them, ordering them to let police work alone this time, commenting that it's been very frequent in these days that his investigations are being interrupted at some point by Ran, Conan, Sonoko, Jodie or co (Vol. 27, 33, etc.) - though Takagi acknowledges that cases are always solved thanks to them, at every time. Conan and Heiji still can't find out how Takai ended up outside his room, being forced to grab hold of a curtain not to fall. Shimoda just took flash pictures towards the top of the building, Nakamichi sent Takai a message a minute before the fall, and Kawakami abused him on the phone, but even though he'd have said "Die", Takai would never have done it. The victim may have flung his phone because there might have been a clue on it he wanted police to find, but actually Heiji checked it out and found nothing at all.
Jodie secretly looks at them as Heiji gets a phone call from an angry Kazuha, who can't believe he forgot their date at the mall. Conan tells Jodie he "doesn't know who Heiji is speaking with", and Heiji realises his mistake. He tries to promise Kazuha they'll do it some other day, but the reception is poor and they can barely hear each other. Heiji goes to the balcony to get better reception, telling Kazuha he's in Tokyo right now, and it's too late then. Doing so, he suddenly realises something very important. Kazuha says she doesn't understand a word he says, but is 100% sure they had planned a meeting, since she wrote it in her datebook. Upon hearing this, Heiji and Conan rush towards the other end of the balcony, and glance through a window at Takai's bedroom. They eventually find out the truth while Jodie secretly takes pictures of them.
File 343 - Who Are You?
Heiji suggests a reconstitution of the events in which he would give the police a hand, which would help them to find out who the killer is. He adds that, for the experiment to be conclusive, they need someone to get drunk and play the victim. Jodie is the perfect actress, given neither policemen who are on duty, nor Heiji and Conan who are minors, are allowed to drink alcohol. Jodie agrees, provided Heiji gives her some of her favourite drink : Sherry... Conan is puzzled about it, while Heiji finds ludicrous the way Jodie is getting drunk with it. Heiji then asks the police to leave Takai's bedroom for a moment while they're preparing the place for the reconstitution. Once they're done yet, they come out saying they "put Jodie to sleep" in the bed and left Takagi's phone near the pillow, and try not to wake her up, just like Takai's friends did with the latter.
They start the reconstitution and Heiji sends a text message to Jodie, just like Nakamichi send his's to Takai, which woke him up, and Jodie receives the message in the dark. She is startled when reading it : "Who are you ?". This makes her smile mysteriously. She then confirms she got the "cute" message, though Heiji refuses to tell Conan about it. Then, just like Shimoda took flash pictures of the top part of the building, Chiba, at the bottom, takes the flash snaps, using Jodie's camera. At last, just like Kawakami phoned Takai before the latter fell, Heiji phones Jodie, asking her to speak with him like Takai spoke with Kawakami, very casually and normally. He asks her to answer his text message, but first Jodie would like Heiji to tell her more about himself, who he really is too, and she asks him "You're not an ordinary teenager, are you ?" (in Japanese). To which Heiji replies "Yes, yes, (in English) I am a very ordinary teenager (in Japanese)". The call reception starts getting poorer, and Jodie says this has to do with them being at the 21st floor, they're very high and it's perfectly normal then that telephonic waves are getting rarer. It's just like at her own home when she's phoning. She gets up, goes to open the window on the left, and says she'll go on the balcony, and he'll hear her better. Suddenly, she screams in fear, asking them to help her. Megure rushes and switches on the light, only to find Jodie about to fall into the void, grabbing hold with her feet and hands to the window panes and frame, and he notices she's been tied to a rope itself tied to the bed, which actually prevents her from falling, something she was totally unaware of. Megure also realises they changed the place of the bed, which explains why Jodie confused the windows and thought she was going on the balcony, while actually she was stepping over the window overlooking the void. Jodie, just like Takai, is used to stepping over the window overlooking the balcony from the bed to have a better reception when phoning.
The murderer, Noboru Kawakami, actually used that trick to have Takai fall into the void without the latter's knowing it. Usually, Takai's bed is placed just in front of the window overlooking the balcony, so as he would easily go to the balcony when phoning. He would get up on his bed, step over the window, and phone on the balcony. But Kawakami changed the bed's place, and Takai ended up stepping over the window overlooking the void, and falling. No wonder he fell then, especially if it was dark and he was hungover, and still drowsy. While the employees were all having drinks in the lounge, Kawakami pretended going to the bathroom, but actually went to Takai's bedroom, and moved the bed in front of the "void" window. Nobody would notice it, since Shimoda had come to Takai's for the first time, and Nakamichi would find no difference, in the dark, the windows being absolutely similar. Afterwards, Takai was put to sleep in his bed with his phone next to his head. Later on, Nakamichi texted him and Kawakami phoned him, and pretended not to hear him very well - or maybe it was the case - and forced Takai to leap unvoluntarily into the void. The police would never get it that Takai's bed was actually at the wrong place. Kawakami says Takai had actually told him in private to help him moving the furniture of his room because he wanted to change the layout, and Kawakami pretends he wasn't aware that this could be dangerous to Takai. But Conan presses a button on Takai's phone which plays a recording track of Kawakaki's voice saying "Farewell Takai, where you are going, you'll apologise to Hiraya". Heiji explains that before falling, Takai, who still had his phone in hand, recorded Kawakami's words with the "Memo" button, and then either he or Kawakami hung up (or when the phone fell on the ground), and Takai flung his phone at the window, hoping to scrape its screen and have the police understand he had recorded his killer's words, such contemptible words.
After the case, Heiji hands Jodie back her camera, apologising for using her as a test subject, but actually, to be very realistic, the reconstitution needed the "victim" to be completely unaware of it, just like Takai was. The police still believe it was very dangerous. Jodie says it was very pleasant actually, and asks Heiji's name, and Heiji asks her first to answer his text message. She says she is very skilled at speaking English, but Heiji doesn't seem to be very good at it as for him. She explains that, when she asked him "You're not an ordinary teenager, are you ?", Heiji answered "Yes, yes, I am a very ordinary teenager". She asked it in Japanese, and Heiji replied in English-Japanese, which means either he doesn't know how to speak English properly, or he wanted to answer in English. But the English answer to that "tag" is "Yes, I am (ordinary)", and Heiji said or meant "Yes, I am not (ordinary)". Japanese who are good at English usually answer to that "tag" by "Yes, I am (ordinary)" or "No, I am (ordinary)". Yet, Heiji confused everything and actually said he was both ordinary and extraordinary... Then either he's bad at English or he's lying, and Jodie assures she's a true English teacher. However, Heiji startles her replying, in excellent English, that he never pretended not to be able to speak English, he actually meant it in English, but silence is way better anyway than her funnily disguised Japanese. He explains Jodie actually speaks perfect Japanese, and pretends the opposite in order to be considered as a "poor foreigner", and not to be considered too seriously, while actually she is. Heiji heard her Japanese accent and it's clear she's forcing herself to speak "bad" Japanese. He then leaves with Conan, saying he'll discuss it more broadly with her next time, bidding her "Sayonara". Megure and Takagi comment on the fact that if they had known earlier Jodie was so good at Japanese, they wouldn't have asked her to take part to the reconstitution, or at least they would have explained her everything. Jodie suddenly thinks to something and checks her camera, only to find the roll is missing indeed - it's unclear if she expected it or not.
On their way home, Conan and Heiji discuss Jodie's "fishiness", since Heiji realised she took several pictures of them in secret. She also pretended to be having a bath when they rang, which is false : Conan and Heiji noticed it when searching the bathroom, the hairdryer was still hot, and there was still some wet body moisturising lotion on the floor. This means she had already taken her bath when they rang, and she was already dry, and she wasn't interrupted in her bath at all or hadn't started it at all. She actually needed some time to hide her "important things" and quickly wetted her hair and body again with hot water, along with the bath, and left some of her hair in the sinks, and all the rest, in order to make them believe she took so much time because she was in the water and needed to dry off, while it wasn't the case at all actually. Heiji says however he's got the roll now, yet he doesn't believe Jodie is such a bad woman, though she's quite weird. Moreover, he doesn't find any likeness between her and Chris Vineyard - depsite the "big breasts". Conan says he's probably right but can't help thinking about something : she's not that bad, as long as this is her true face... Heiji asks him to speak his mind, but Conan switch gears and advises him to go back to Osaka as quick as possible to meet Kazuha, since she's probably still waiting. Before leaving, Heiji recommends his friend to be very cautious, given that person who stole the documents is like an invisible enemy, someone who is able to steal classified police documents in the headquarters and send them back neatly as if nothing had happened. He asks Shinichi to call him if he ever spots shifty people around. As Heiji rushes away, Conan inwardly comments that he isn't suspecting only Jodie, but also two other people, of being very sleazy.
Alone in her flat, Jodie mysteriously and darkly comments on Heiji Hattori, son of Osaka's Prefectural Police Chief Heizo Hattori, being a very clever and interesting guy, and being, just like Shinichi Kudo, a private eye. Saying so, she uncouples her bathroom's mirror from its frame, revealing dozens of pictures among which two pictures of Conan and Ran with "Cool Guy" and "Angel" written respectively on each (the exact same as in Vermouth's/Chris Vineyard's room, Escalator Case, Vol. 34), pictures from the Mouri Agency, from Ran's high school or Conan's primary shcool, one picture from the School Play Case (Vol. 26) on which Shinichi is featured in his knight disguise along with Ran, Heiji and Kazuha, and one from the same case featuring Sonoko and Dr. Araide.
People
Soccer Supporter Case
Anime Episode 279-280:
Hooligan's LabyrinthCharacters introduced
File 344 - The Storm of Booing
File 345 - The Suspicious Supporters
File 346 - The Fake Supporter
People
Chinatown Murder Case
Characters introduced
File 347 - Raining Deja-Vu
File 348 - The Misleading Washcloth
File 349 - Cleared Memory
People
Golden Apple Case
Characters introduced
File 350 - Golden Apple 1
Ran has a bad fever and dreams about the case in New York.
People
Cover in other countries
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