Episode 490: Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo's! The Grand Deduction Battle!
Scenario: Hattori tells Conan that he met a better Detective than Conan during his middle school years and reminisces about the case. At a ski resort, an actor named Shouhei Minowa, is murdered in the same fashion as his stunt performer, Jirou Mizugami, who was murdered four years ago at the same resort.
Minowa is killed while on a ski lift and the gun is placed in his hand suggesting suicide. Minowa's bag is filled with snow to suggest that a Yuki-onna murdered him. |
Hattori and the unknown Detective, revealed to be Shinichi, investigate and realize how the murder is done. Hattori reveals his deductions to the police while Kudo tells them over the phone. They both reveal that the Minowa, who skied for his fans, was actually his stunt double in disguise, Kousuke Mimata, and that Minowa was hiding in a bag Mimata was carrying. On the ski lift, Mimata kills Minowa and grabs the a similar pre-arranged bag containing snow with the use of his ski pole and places it in his seat before dropping down from the ski lift. As evidence, Heji and Shinichi reveal that Mimata should have Minowa's clothes underneath. Mimata confesses and reveals that Minowa was afraid Mizugami would reveal to the public that Minowa did not perform in skiing scenes in his movies which motivated Minowa to murder Mizugami. Later that day, Hattori and Kudo pass each other, without meeting face to face, and acknowledge each other's deduction abilities.