0 Detective Conan Episode 165: The Disappearing Junior Detective League Case

Episode 165: The Disappearing Junior Detective League Case

Scenario: Hattori Heiji, bringing along Kazuha, is hired by the rich Takeda family to investigate a series of suspicious suicides that has plagued their mansion in Tottori Prefecture. Along the way, he gets lost but runs into Robert Taylor, a lost American, and Kogoro, Ran, and Conan, who happen to be traveling to meet the same client for the same reason. After arriving at the mansion, they meet the Takeda family, consisting of Yuzo, Yoko, Ryuji, Nobukazu, Sae, Emi, Chie, and housekeeper Shioya. Yuzo explains to them of the “spider curse”; in ancient times, a beautiful woman morphed into a gigantic spider attempting to attack a traveler, it was shot with burning arrows and retreated to the forest where it died. Misa and Kinuyo Takeda both hanged themselves, and 3 years before, Akio hung himself as well. When dinner is finished, Nobukazu disappears, but is found in hanging in a locked room with his corpse entangled in a “spider‘s web.”

Kids have been disappearing one after the other, and the dolls each disappeared one had also vanished each time. The plot resembled the one of the play they trying to re-enact, which was based on Agatha Christie's And then, there were none, where ten people were invited on an island and disappeared one after the other, while a doll representing them also disappeared.

The Detective Boys, but not Haibara, are in a puppeteer camping trip in Ungaoka, Kanagawa Prefecture, where they are practicing for a school puppet play. At the same time, a serial arsonist has been spotted near the areas of the camp. While at the camp, the students disappear with their puppets, leaving the Detective boys alone. Mitsuhiko assumes that their teacher is the serial arsonist. After they disappear, even Conan is caught too, only Mitsuhiko remains alone.