0 Detective Conan Episode 235: The Locked Wine Cellar

Episode 235: The Locked Wine Cellar

Scenario: Mouri, Ran, and Conan are invited to a private party by a President of a financial business, who is known for his expensive collection and various tastes in wine. Three other guests attend and all of which have borrowed money from the president. He challenges one of the guests, a training sommelier to a tasting challenge that if he guesses all of the wines correctly he will forget his debt. As the sommelier guesses many of the wines correctly the president gets frustrated and goes to his wine cellar for a rare wine. They all realize that the president has taken too long and discover his dead body in the wine cellar which has been found locked. Fingerprints have been found on the door knob by two of the suspects yet Conan discovers the clues and in the end uses Mouri with the aid of Takagi and Chiba to reanact how the criminal killed the President. The culprit had called out the President to the backyard by knocking on the wine cellar window and had then killed him in the backyard. The criminal then used clothesline poles to lower the body into the wine cellar where the corpse's feet knocked down the wine bottles on the top shelf and had used his handkerchief to wipe the wine that got on the clothesline poles. The criminal confesses that they killed the president because he rose the interest on their debt and they couldn't pay because he had to pay his employees.

Toshiko looks into the wine cellar door and panics. Her husband is dead in the locked wine cellar.

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are invited to a private party by a president of a financial business, Shohei Kusaka, who is known for his expensive collection and various tastes in wine. Three other guests have attended, Takeo Nonaka, Jyokichi Tonomura, and Yukari Takano; all of whom have borrowed money from the president. Kusaka challenges one of the guests, Tonomura, to a tasting challenge: if Tonomura guesses all of the wines correctly, Kusaka will forget his debt. As Tonomura guesses two of the wines correctly, the president gets frustrated and goes to his wine cellar for a rare wine. After taking a break, they all realize that the president has taken too long to return. Toshiko and Kogoro go to check on him, Conan following behind, and they discover his body in the wine cellar.

Conan takes notice of the victim's odd position on the floor. During the investigation, it is discovered that Shohei and his wife, Toshiko, are the only ones with the keys to the wine cellar, which was locked. In addition, the window could only be opened from the inside, and has a security alarm so it can't be forced open.

Based on what was found so far, the culprit should still be in the house. Fingerprints have been found on the door by two of the suspects, Jyokichi Tonomura and Yukari Takano. Nonaka went outside and never touched the door, and Toshiko was in the kitchen and couldn't leave without passing by Kogoro's group. Conan puts the pieces together, and uses Kogoro with the aid of Takagi and Chiba to reenact how the criminal killed the president.