Episode 153: Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story (Part 1)
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| A woman was found killed, and the murderer was never caught. |
Scenario: In an attempt to find a man and fix her love life, Sonoko goes to the beach with Ran and Conan where they run into 3 men: a seemingly rude waiter, Kyogoku Makoto, a fat man who has been following Sonoko, Terabayashi Shouji, and college student Tadahiko Michiwaki. Tadahiko asks Sonoko out to lunch, where he tells her about a brown-haired woman who was murdered a year ago. The story frightens Ran and they leave, taking pictures as they wait for a train blocking their way to pass. The group is horrified to discover that a brown-haired woman was recently murdered, eerily in the same fashion as told in Tadahiko's story. While staying at a motel, Sonoko is attacked after she finds a mysterious culprit searching through her bags. Sonoko bites her attacker on, what she describes, his hairy bicep. Conan wonders why Sonoko was attacked and what could be on her camera that would have her targetted.
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan go to Izu because of Sonoko's schemes to get a man. At the beach, Sonoko takes a picture of Ran fixing her bathing suit and threatens to send the picture to Shinichi. Sonoko is upset about her lack of love life. However, a college student approaches the girls and asks Sonoko to lunch. He appears to be romantically interested and asks Sonoko to dinner as well. They agree to meet at their lodgings later that day. The college student tells the group a story about a brunette that was murdered a year ago and now haunts the restaurant he wants to dine at. Ran is frighten by the story and forbids Sonoko in using the camera to capture a ghost in it. Sonoko suggest that maybe they could show such a picture to Shinichi and see if he can figure something out, since she is going to show the other picture anyway. The group then finds out that another brunette was murdered in the woods recently in the same manner as the brunette from a year ago.
The group goes to the crime scene and meet Sango Yokomizo who cautions them to stay safe. Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are staying at a cheap inn because Sonoko doesn't want to scare men away by staying at an expensive luxury hotel. In the evening, the three of them wait for the college student to pick them up in his car. Sonoko realizes that she forgot something in her room and goes back up to get it. Here she discovers a suspicious figure searching her bags. The figure attacks her and is about to stab her with a knife when Ran and Conan, worried about the time Sonoko is taking, come to find her.
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| When Sonoko opened the door to the hotel room, she saw a thief rummaging through the luggage. Just as she was about to scream, the thief caught her and was about to attack her with a knife before escaping through the window. Sonoko manage to bite her attacker in the arm. There was signs suggesting that the intruder was searching for the camera film, Sonoko had already develop them. |
Sonoko is saved and the figure escapes through the window. The stoic, and somewhat unfriendly, high school student Makoto Kyogoku that is working at the inn moves the group to another room. Ran thinks she has seen this person somewhere before but cannot remember where. The college student shows up muddy and wet and Conan suspects him of attacking Sonoko. Sonoko says she bit the attacker's bicep in her struggle and Conan makes the college student take off his shirt. However, the college student does not have a bite mark on his arm. Makoto has a bandaged bicep and falls under suspicion but Sonoko says he wasn't the attacker since the attacker was hairy. The college student, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan decide to have dinner at the inn because the college student says his car broke down. Conan speculates that Sonoko's attacker was looking for the photographs she was taking during the trip, but cannot figure out why. Conan does not think there are any incriminating photos after Sonoko shows them, after taking out the one of Ran. Perhaps the murderer overheard Sonoko talking about the photographs and misunderstood. This case is still full of mysteries and Conan cannot figure out why Sonoko was attacked and why the killer would think that she took a picture, that needs to get rid of.
