0 Detective Conan Episode 127: The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case (P2)

Episode 127: The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case (Part 2)

Scenario: Tamanosuke is seen wandering around Tetsuo’s murder scene and is found attacked by Conan and Megumi. The troupe’s treasurer, Itoe Ogiwara, is found at the bottom of the stage basement, dead with a letter apparently calling her out in her hand. At the hospital, the killer, now believed to be the real Edo Boy, attempts to finish off a recovering Tamanosuke, but fails. Conan finally discover the truth, and tranquilizes Richard, revealing that Tamanosuke knew Edo Boy killed Tetsuo because he was being blackmailed but didn’t know who Edo Boy actually was. Ogiwara, believing her money laundering had been discovered, was killed due to a misunderstanding of the letter which was meant to call Edo Boy out and meet with Tamanosuke. Kenzo Tajima is revealed to be Edo Boy and, in turn, the killer. As evidence, his fingerprints are on Tatsuo’s keyboard when he deleted the files from the computer. Kenzo apologizes to the cast and staff and is arrested for the murders.

The Detective Boys and Megumi are watching a news report from the troupe’s hotel room on Chikaishi’s death, with the reporter stationed right outside the building. When the reporter mentions the ringleader, Tamanosuke, was currently being questioned at the station, Megumi turns off the television out of frustration. Coincidently, Yuri excitedly opens the door to the room with the children to give Megumi good news: Tamanosuke had returned. As Megumi runs out to greet her brother, Tamanosuke walks down the hallway with support from Tajima, least he fall to the ground again.

That night, Tamanosuke sneaks out of the inn alone, only to be followed by his worried little sister. As she continues to follow him, Megumi sees her brother enter the theatre building, where just hours earlier the murder had taken place. As she wonders out loud why Tamanosuke would be going to the theatre at such a late hour, Conan asks her the very same question. Startling Megumi, she begins to speak louder, prompting Conan to tell her to be quiet. After a brief conversation, the chairman’s sister asks Conan why he’s at the theatre himself. Claiming that he’s worried about her brother as well, Conan asks her if she can just leave the cases to himself. Megumi, visibly upset by the mere suggestion of going home, accuses Conan of trying to ditch her, which Conan tries to laugh off. In a final ditch effort, he tells her that children shouldn’t be outside so late at night, causing Megumi to point out that he’s not much older than she is.

Just as Conan and Megumi enter the theatre building through the same door Tamanosuke had previously gone through, somebody knocks someone out with a crowbar out of sight of the two kids. At the sound of the body and crowbar falling to the ground, Conan and Megumi rush onto the stage. When the shine from Conan’s flashlight illuminates the body lying on the ground, the two children stop out of shock. The body lying on the ground, with blood dripping from the top of his head, is none other than Tamanosuke.

As Megumi rushes to her brother’s side, Conan assumes that the criminal can’t have gotten far. Conan, rushing across the stage to find the culprit, tells Megumi to go and call an ambulance, just as he suddenly loses his balance in front of the stage hole. Falling, Conan grasps to the side of the hole, with part of his body dangling down into the dark crevice. Managing to pull himself back up, Megumi rushes over to aid him, but is reassured by Conan stating that he’s alright. However, just then, he looks down the hole and notices a body lying at the bottom of the stage basement. Conan calls out to the body of Itoe Ogiwara, but to no avail; with a puddle of blood already surrounding her head, it’s too late.

After calling the police and an ambulance, Tamanosuke is put onto a stretcher and carried into the ambulance. Conan narrates that the ringleader and been attacked in the back of the head and fallen unconscious. As Megumi enters the ambulance to be by her brother’s side and the vehicle drives off to the hospital, Conan continues on to state that Itoe had fallen to her death. Walking past, Detective Takagi and Inspecter Megure, both looking on as a member of the CSI photographs the crime scene, Conan notices a note on the ground. Curious, the young detective takes a look, reading, “Itoe, I know your true face! Meet me on the stage at midnight.” As Conan ponders the meaning of the letter, Takagi alerts Megure to another note, this time being clutched by the deceased Itoe. Realizing that the two notes are identical, Conan shows Megure the letter he found. As the police inspecter wonders aloud what the two notes mean, Kogoro enters the crime scene and is shocked to see Conan. While Megure explains to Kogoro that Conan had been the first to witness the body, the young detective suddenly notices small splints of wood surrounding the victim’s body. Attempting to investigate further, Conan is grabbed by Kogoro who scolds him for being up so late at night.

The next morning, at the Mouri Detective Agency, Sonoko demands an explanation from Kogoro after he claims that Tamanosuke is the prime suspect. With her bouquet of flowers in hand, Sonoko chides the great detective for suspecting somebody that is in the hospital with serious injuries. Kogoro admits that he doesn’t understand either, but goes on to state that Tamanosuke’s fingerprints were found on the weapon, which leads Conan to ask if any other fingerprints were found. The great detective answers that while other troupe member’s prints were found, none of the other fingerprints matched the deceased Itoe Itoe Ogiwara’s. After laying out the previous evidence, Kogoro theorizes that Itoe had gone to attack Tamanosuke, who in self-defense knocked the careless troupe treasurer into the basement. Sonoko quickly jumps to the defense of the ringleader, stating that he would never want to kill someone. As she and Ran begin to leave for the hospital to deliver the flowers, Kogoro claims that Tamanosuke is currently rejecting all visitors, as he is an important suspect. Despite his warning, Ran and Sonoko decide to at least deliver the flowers to Megumi, who should be at her brother’s side. Kogoro tells them to be quick because Tamanosuke is currently still in a coma.

Deep in thought, Conan suddenly asks Kogoro why Tamanosuke was considered an important suspect if he himself was knocked out in the back of the head. To explain Conan’s question, Kogoro states that doctors did not find many external injuries and currently believe that the coma could have been induced by mental fatigue. Conan finally understands the logic, thinking to himself that Tamanosuke could have been overwhelmed by how he would escape after doing something wrong. Kogoro then brings up the topic of the two notes found at the crime scene, announcing to the Detective Boys that both notes were confirmed to be written by Tamanosuke. Going even further, he explains that every single member of the troupe and been given a piece of paper by the ringleader with the same exact message. Conan questions why Tamanosuke was looking into Itoe’s past, to which Kogoro has no answer. He does, however, note that Itoe had embezzled large sums of money from the troupe’s treasury. As Conan questions whether Tamanosuke would have really needed to kill her for that, Kogoro tells the child to bring him a beer. With the mood now ruined, Conan reminds him that it isn’t dark yet, which Kogoro simply laughs off. After bringing him the beer and a snack, Conan asks whether or not Chikaishi’s disk had been found. Annoyed by the question when trying to enjoy his beer, Kogoro tells Conan that the disk had been found in the trashcan of Tamanosuke’s room with all of the data having been erased. Finally fed up with all the questions, Kogoro tells the children to head outside and play, but later regrets it when he wants another beer and no one is around to get it.

At the theatre stage, the Detective Boys begin to investigate the source of the wood splints surrounding Itoe when her body was discovered. With no luck around the stage hole, Conan rushes to where the wood is stored. Mitsuhiko hypothesizes Itoe was killed elsewhere and then dumped into the basement afterwards. As Mitsuhiko explains his theory aloud, Conan discovers a wood matching the exact color of the splints in the basement. While Conan notices that the wood was a three-prong split, Genta begins to pull it out from where it had been hidden. After the wood is pulled out completely, Conan notices not only that it was broken in two rather forcibly, but that several blood stains are located near the breaking point. After putting the two halves together, Conan notices that the wood is larger than the stage hole. Genta claims that the wood was used for a trap, to which Conan agrees. The young detective explains that the three-prong board is 0.3 cm thick and was split a few times in between in order to quickly put the two halves together again, allowing a person to unknowingly walk on top of the board without the aid of lights to see and fall to their death. Mitsuhiko then adds that the killer quickly hid the two pieces of wood out of sight. When Ayumi concludes that Tamanosuke then knocked himself out, Conan disagrees with her, stating that he and Megumi had been following the young ringleader as soon as he left the inn, meaning that he wouldn’t have had time to set up the trap. Conan thinks to himself momentarily, only to quickly realize something urgent and start running off stage, telling the Detective Boys that they have to hurry. When Genta asks why, Conan explains that Tamanosuke is in danger because the killer is someone else.

Meanwhile, in a police cruiser, Megure is in the middle of a phone conversation with Kogoro, the former claiming to understand what had been previously mentioned (unknown to the viewer). As Takagi continues to drive the vehicle, Megure finishes the phone call by stating that he will arrange what Kogoro had requested. Unbeknownst to Megure, the person on the other end of the phone was Conan using his voice-changing tie. When the call ends, Conan begins to run down a street when his Detective Boys badge starts to ring. Answering the call, Conan hears Ayumi’s voice. She, along with Genta and Mitsuhiko, is stationed in the hallway just outside of the troupe member’s bedrooms. Ayumi reports that all members had been accounted for. Going into detail, she first states that Mr. Tajima, with the room closest to the stairs, is watching television and resting. Continuing on, Ayumi reports that Yuri is in the next room, doing her laundry. Lastly, Muraki, currently staying in the deceased Chikaishi’s room, is cleaning the room. With her report finished, Conan tells Ayumi that the three of them can go home and ends the call. The Detective Boys, however, have no intention of going home.

As Conan reaches Beika Central Hospital, where Tamanosuke is being treated, someone begins to walk down the hallway in the direction of the ringleader’s room. The police officer on guard duty looks up from his paper and, believing him to be a doctor, allows the person in the room. After shutting the door, the fake doctor slowly walks to Tamanosuke’s beside, with both arms out and ready to strangle the currently comatose ringleader.

The fake doctor tried to kill Tamanosuke, but had to flee, since police arrived.

Just as he reaches the bed, however, a loud voice tells the fake doctor to stop. Suddenly, the police, including a fake Tamaonsuke used as a decoy, several officers hidden inside the room, and Megure suddenly entering from the hallway, attempt to surround the culprit. Before the police can apprehend the culprit, however, the fake doctor breaks though the glass window and jumps. Megure, thinking the culprit had committed suicide, is shocked to see him throw a rope around a pipe from the building while in midair and successfully use it to jump down the wall. Conan, hiding in the bushes, completely shocked by the development, kicks his soccer balls at the culprit just as he lands on the ground. Instead of dodging or getting hit by the ball, the culprit jumps over it and escapes into town. While attempting to chase the fake doctor, Conan discovers after watching the culprit’s moves that he is Edo Boy, meaning that the thief really was someone in the troupe after all. Connecting the dots, Conan realizes that Tamanosuke had chosen the play in order to flush the thief out. In addition, Chikaishi had known the thief was in the troupe long before the ringleader had, meaning that the scriptwriter must have been blackmailing whichever troupe member was Edo Boy. Due to the blackmailing and evidence Chikaishi had built up, the thief killed him and deleted the data on the disk. After the murder, Tamanosuke felt like he was to blame, so the ringleader sent out the letters to everyone in the troupe.

After the attempt to capture the culprit at the hospital failed, Megure, Takagi, and Kogoro went back to the inn the next morning to meet with the troupe members. Knocking on the door closest to the stairs first, Megure asked Tajima if he had gone anywhere during the night. A shocked Tajima shakes his head, telling the inspector that he hadn’t left. The Detective Boys, still in stakeout mode, confirm that Tajima had not left his room. The three children explain that they had been there all night long. An upset Kogoro deduces that Conan must have done the same, to which the young detective denies as he enters the building and walks up the stairs. Conan thinks to himself that the three of them inadvertently provided everyone in the troupe with an alibi. After realizing who Edo Boy is, Conan wonders what to do without any solid evidence. All the while, Megure attempts to interrogate the troupe members in an adjacent room but can’t concentrate with all the noise from Kogoro. As Conan thinks to himself that Kogoro doesn’t have the time to drink at the moment, he reacts to his own mention of the word time. Thinking back to when Chikaishi was killed, Conan realizes that only two people would have had the time to murder the scriptwriter. Putting into consideration that the culprit had enough strength to knock out Tamanosuke, Conan finally solves the case.

0 Detective Conan Episode 126: The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case (P1)

Episode 126: The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case (Part 1)

The class crowds around the new transfer student, Tamanosuke.

Scenario: Tamanosuke is seen wandering around Tetsuo’s murder scene and is found attacked by Conan and Megumi. The troupe’s treasurer, Itoe Ogiwara, is found at the bottom of the stage basement, dead with a letter apparently calling her out in her hand. At the hospital, the killer, now believed to be the real Edo Boy, attempts to finish off a recovering Tamanosuke, but fails. Conan finally discover the truth, and tranquilizes Richard, revealing that Tamanosuke knew Edo Boy killed Tetsuo because he was being blackmailed but didn’t know who Edo Boy actually was. Ogiwara, believing her money laundering had been discovered, was killed due to a misunderstanding of the letter which was meant to call Edo Boy out and meet with Tamanosuke. Kenzo Tajima is revealed to be Edo Boy and, in turn, the killer. As evidence, his fingerprints are on Tatsuo’s keyboard when he deleted the files from the computer. Kenzo apologizes to the cast and staff and is arrested for the murders.

The Detective Boys smirk at the idea of doing what they're told.

While in the classroom one day, several female Teitan High School students, including Ran and Sonoko, gather around the new transfer student, Tamanosuke Ito, as he answers questions about his drama troupe. Sonoko shows everyone a flyer advertising the troupe's production and reads aloud that the show will be the first public performance run by Tamanosuke since becoming the troupe's second ringleader. Tamanosuke confirms this, later explaining that his troupe travels around the entire country and was previously in Beika two years prior when his father was the ringleader. When Ran mentions that she heard his father passed away, Tamanosuke confirms that the previous ringleader died of a disease the previous year. When his father died, half the troupe subsequently left, making transition very challenging. Sonoko volunteers herself and Ran to distribute the troupe's flyers so that Tamanosuke can concentrate on practicing for the big show.

Later, at the Mouri Detective Agency, Ran and Sonoko meet up with the Detective Boys while planning how to hand out fliers. When Conan and the Detective Boys ask to go as well, Sonoko tells them to wait until the performance. When the door closes, all four children simply smirk at the idea of listening to what they were told to do. After arriving at the theatre, Sonoko decides to go in the front door, despite being told earlier to enter through the back. Ran attempts to change her mind, but to no avail. Once inside, the two girls see a man and woman onstage practicing for the show and applaud them for their routine. When Tamanosuke welcomes them both, Ran and Sonoko apologize for intruding, as do the Detective Boys who snuck in too. An upset Sonoko scolds them for not listening, but Tamanosuke simply welcomes the children and thanks the girls for bringing them. He goes on to introduce everyone to the performers on stage: Ryuichi Muraki, age 26, playing the role of Edo Boy, and Yuri Shirai, age 22, who plays the main heroine. Sonoko introduces herself and Ran to the onstage performers and explain that they are passing out the flyers. She then tells Muraki that he had amazing moves, which he and Yuri explain are necessary in order to remain in the troupe. As Tamanosuke begins to take Ran, Sonoko, and the Detective Boys backstage, Muraki tells him to hurry back with the script because the show is in two days. Sonoko and Ran apologize for upsetting things and tell Muraki that they’ll be gone as soon as they get the flyers.

Tamanosuke's sister, Megumi, comes across everyone backstage.

Backstage, Tamanosuke tells everyone not to take that to heart and that the script is finally finished. A concerned Sonoko asks whether that will be enough time, to which Tamanosuke admits that there is a lot to still get done and not much time left to practice. Suddenly, a door opens and out comes a little girl. Tamanosuke introduces her as his Megumi Ito, his little sister. Megumi tells them that her brother is unreliable and makes her worry. As Tamanosuke laughs it off, she states that his personality has pushed the troupe to its limits and that he no longer has time to talk to girls anymore. Sonoko tries to defend him by saying that they are all helping him by choice, but Megumi says she will take over for Tamanosuke so that he can get back to work. As her brother leaves to get the script, Megumi takes an immediate liking to Conan.

In Tamanosuke’s room, Megumi begins going through the unpacked baggage to find the photo of her brother as a kid. The photo of a young Tamanosuke dressed as a geisha catches Conan off guard, thinking to himself that he looks nothing like that. Ayumi and Sonoko both find the photo adorable, while Genta observes that Tamanosuke looks like a doll. The only one to see any resemblance of Conan turns out to be Ran. When Ayumi begins tugging at Conan’s arm, saying that he would look cute all dressed up like that, Megumi looks on with jealousy and takes Conan off to the makeup room. An increasingly upset Ayumi, along with Mitsuhiko and Genta, quickly follow along while Ran and Sonoko take their time.

Megumi shares a photo of Tamanosuke as a child in geisha attire.

When Megumi, still clung onto Conan, and everyone reach their destination, they notice a woman inside who Megumi introduces as Itoe Ogara, the troupe’s treasurer. As she leaves the room, Itoe asks Megumi if Conan is her boyfriend. After a round of denials, the Detective Boys, minus Conan, play dress up with the Geisha props. Suddenly the building shakes. Everyone stops what they are doing and rush into the hall.

Meanwhile, Tamanosuke is thrown out of a room and into the hallway where he slams into a wall. Muraki and Yuri both rush from the stage to see what’s going on, the former rushing to the ringleader who was sprawled out on the floor. When Megumi, Conan, Ran, Sonoko, and the Detective Boys reach the hallway and see Tamanosuke on the ground, Megumi rushes over to her brother’s side. When his sister asks him if he’s okay, Tamanosuke tells Megumi he is fine, all the while gasping for breath. While the visitors look on in shock, Itoe returns from her office in complete shock. Muraki yells at the man, Tetsuo Chikaishi, who threw Tamanosuke, asking him what he meant by a disagreement over the script. Chikaishi responds by stating that he finished the script and is in the process of printing it out, but that Tamanosuke requested he rewrite the ending. The writer defends his actions by saying that he was simply trying to scare the ringleader, stating that the boy has no way of understanding society at such a young age. Looking for agreement, he asks a second man in the room, Kenzo Tajima, who simply glares back at Chikaishi. Noticing that his cigar had run out, the writer throws a bag of coins to Tajima and tells him to go buy cigarettes. Although Yuri offers to do the task for him, Tajima simply complies.

Once Tajima has left, Megumi tells Chikaishi that he had too far this time, leading her brother to try and calm her down. Tamanosuke asks why the ending can’t be rewritten, to which the writer answers, “Fact is fact, fiction is fiction. You can’t mix it together.” The young ringleader chooses to give in, thanking the writer for his hard work and telling everyone that they need to go rehearse. Although Muraki, Yuri, Megumi, and Itoe all rush to his aid when he struggles to get to his feet, Tamanosuke tells them that he’ll go to his room for a bit. Megumi lends herself for support as the two siblings head for the ringleader’s room. Conan thinks to himself that age aside, there was no need for Tamanosuke to get so agitated; the little detective believes there is more to the story than the ringleader let on.

Later, Conan entered the room where Chikaishi was working. As the young detective puts on his child façade, Conan speaks out loud about how surprising it is that the script prints out so slowly. When the printer finished, he grabbed the script and began to skim it, all the while being stared at in confusion by Chikaishi. Conan reads the title aloud as “Kaito Edo Boy”, surprising himself for real this time. The writer confirms what Conan is thinking, telling him that the current day thief inspired him to write the script. Suddenly, Itoe take the script from Conan, however, and goes to photocopy it per Tamanosuke’s request. As Chikaishi closes his laptop and pulls out a disk, he notices the Detective Boys reading through his notebook compiled of notes on Edo Boy. When Ayumi asks Conan who Edo Boy is, he tells everyone that he is a nationally famous thief that recently appeared near Tokyo just half a year prior. Conan goes on to say that Edo Boy is a new-age thief that escapes via rooftops or jumping around off as if he was weightless, a talent that would later earn him the name “Flying Kid” from the police.

Tamanosuke is kicked out of the room by the scriptwriter, Tetsuo Chikaishi.

Conan asks Chikaishi if he is right, later stating how some of the people in the troupe could do acrobatics similar to that of Edo Boy. Getting straight to the point, the young detective asks if Edo Boy is somebody in the troupe. Chikaishi confirms the theory, stating that the troupe travels all around Japan to perform. When Muraki and Yuri suddenly appear at the doorway of the room, Chikaishi blurts out that Muraki had once been questioned by the police. Yuri looks away and chooses to leave the room, shortly followed by a glaring Muraki. Chikaishi then claims that he understands why the ringleader would want the troupe to do a performance based on Edo Boy, which is why he did so much research himself, and that the data concerning everything is on the laptop. When Ran and Sonoko pop their heads in the room calling for Conan, the writer tells the kids to get out. Once the door closed, Ran comments about how much trouble Chikaishi made for Tamanosuke. When Conan asks where he is, Ran says that Tamanosuke is resting from such a big shock. Ran then says that is time to go, with Sonoko adding in that they got the flyers. Conan says he and the Detective Boys don’t want to leave yet, but Sonoko tells them that they have to help distribute the flyers. As Sonoko leads the way, Conan mentions that the exit is in the other direction. She claims that by going through the backstage, it’s quicker to get to the station, leading the Detective Boys to discuss what kind of food they want Sonoko to buy them there.

At the station, while Ran and Sonoko are busy handing out flyers to people, Conan puts his stack into a brochure kiosk and runs toward towards the theatre in an attempt to sneak away. However, predicting Conan’s actions, the Detective Boys soon follow. Despite his best efforts to ditch the three children, Conan gives in and simply allows them to tag along. Upon returning to the theatre, Megumi runs into the hall wearing her costume for the play where she notices the visibly shocked Detective Boys. Pleased that they hadn’t gone home yet, Megumi asks Conan if she looks pretty and that she will be practicing soon. When Conan asks where the ringleader is, Tamanosuke walks out of the same run his sister came from, also in performance attire. Unlike with Megumi, the Detective Boys all think Tamanosuke’s costume looks cool. Conan asks the ringleader if he plays the role of the boss in the performance, to which Tamanosuke confirms, noting that their rehearsal is about to begin. When he offers the children the chance to watch them practice, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko all accept.

As Ayumi walks around the stage admiring the props, Tamanosuke arrives and yells to Ayumi to be careful and not stand there. Unsure of what was so dangerous, Ayumi notices a hole and loses her balance, almost falling in. When Ayumi asks why there was a hole on stage, Tamanosuke apologizes for not warning them and tells her that it leads the stage basement. Both Tamanosuke and Ayumi apologize just as Muraki, dressed for his role as Edo Boy, comes up from the stage basement on a motorized platform, causing the Detective Boys to fall back from shock, only to later comment on how cool the thief costume looked. Once the platform reached stage level, Muraki pressed stop on his stop watch, reading aloud that the mechanism took 1 minute and 40 seconds, far too slow for the performance. Megumi then explains to Conan that the platform can rise faster if they chose, leading for a grand appearance or disappearance by the thief during the show with the help of other stage effects. Megumi then asks Conan if he’ll help her out of the costume later, stating she can’t change quickly by herself. Tamanosuke disapproves at his sisters request, and then asks Megumi to bring the children to their seats in the audience. Megumi tells Conan to watch her during the show before rushing back on stage. Meanwhile, Conan wonders what Chikaishi changed the ending of the play to.

Conan then narrates the play in brief, first informing the viewers that Tamanosuke played as Officer Itarou while Megumi played as the officer’s assistant. The two had been following Edo Boy, who had gone all over Japan committing crimes, until they narrowed his location down to a drama troupe. However, Edo Boy was someone else; the person that Itarou killed was innocent. In the end, the troupe continued to travel on a new journey. Following the rehersal, Megumi yells out to Conan, asking him how it went. Ayumi and Mitsuhiko both yell out that it was great. After asking her brother if she could get her friends juice, Megumi starts to run off stage when Tamanosuke asks her to bring Chikaishi back with her. When Megumi gets to Chikaishi’s door, she knocks and calls out for him, but he doesn’t respond. Thinking that he’s asleep, Megumi opens the door and enters the room and sees him on the ground unmoving. Her screams grab the attention of Conan, the Detective Boys, and her brother, as well as the cast, who all rush to her aid. When they arrive at the room, Megumi crawls over to her brother, crying that Chikaishi is dead.

Deep in thought, Conan suddenly asks Kogoro why Tamanosuke was considered an important suspect if he himself was knocked out in the back of the head. To explain Conan’s question, Kogoro states that doctors did not find many external injuries and currently believe that the coma could have been induced by mental fatigue. Conan finally understands the logic, thinking to himself that Tamanosuke could have been overwhelmed by how he would escape after doing something wrong. Kogoro then brings up the topic of the two notes found at the crime scene, announcing to the Detective Boys that both notes were confirmed to be written by Tamanosuke. Going even further, he explains that every single member of the troupe and been given a piece of paper by the ringleader with the same exact message. Conan questions why Tamanosuke was looking into Itoe’s past, to which Kogoro has no answer. He does, however, note that Itoe had embezzled large sums of money from the troupe’s treasury. As Conan questions whether Tamanosuke would have really needed to kill her for that, Kogoro tells the child to bring him a beer. With the mood now ruined, Conan reminds him that it isn’t dark yet, which Kogoro simply laughs off. After bringing him the beer and a snack, Conan asks whether or not Chikaishi’s disk had been found. Annoyed by the question when trying to enjoy his beer, Kogoro tells Conan that the disk had been found in the trashcan of Tamanosuke’s room with all of the data having been erased. Finally fed up with all the questions, Kogoro tells the children to head outside and play, but later regrets it when he wants another beer and no one is around to get it.

Conan observes the body and notices that the victim was struck on the back of the head. A shattered vase lying next to the body leads Conan to wonder if it is the murderer’s weapon. After sending someone to call the police, Tamanosuke begins to shake, a reaction that Conan notices and considers strange. The ringleader pulls himself together and rushes to the laptop where he notices that the disk is missing. As Tamanosuke frantically searches, Conan and the cast all look on shock. When Megumi asks her brother what’s wrong, he suddenly calms down and tells her that he’s fine, but when Muraki asks if something is gone after noticing how messed up the room is, Tamanosuke tells him that nothing is gone. Conan, who saw the disk earlier, wonders why the ringleader is hiding the fact that the disk was missing.

After the murder's been found, Tamanosuke is looking for something that's missing from Chikaishi.

Later, the police arrive at the theatre. Ran and Kogoro quickly run past the check-point holding off the crowd and enter the building. Meanwhile, Inspector Megure begins to question the troupe. When asked for confirmation from the ringleader that the victim in question was the troupe’s writer, Tetsuo Chikaishi, age 35, Tamanosuke nods in assurance, just as Ran and Kogoro arrive at the stage. Ran runs over to Conan and scolds him for leaving without telling her anything, to which the young detective apologizes. Kogoro then runs over to Inspector Megure and is asked what exactly happened. The famous detective explains that the victim was estimated to have died an hour prior and was most likely murdered by somebody within the troupe. Giving a sigh of agreement, the inspector then asks Tamanosuke where exactly everyone had been within the past hour. While the ringleader hesitates to respond, Megumi runs to his defense, clinging onto his arm as she tells the police that everyone had been on stage rehearsing the performance. Thinking to himself, Conan agrees with Megumi, adding that because he was sitting in the audience, he could see each and every movement on the stage. Continuing on, Conan notes that as it was only a practice run, all members of the troupe would remain backstage if they were not in a particular scene, meaning that the only time people were out of sight was when they were changing.

Megure’s continued investigation leads him to question Muraki, who had been alone in the basement during the play just before his grand entrance on stage as Edo Boy. Muraki confirms this, but also adds that another member of the troupe was watching the entire show backstage, providing him with an alibi. Conan speculates to himself that whoever the killer was, they stole the disk and managed to hide it before returning to the stage. Realizing that nobody had mentioned the disk yet to Megure, Conan blurts out that the inspector needed to find it and then tests the reaction of Tamanosuke by asking the ringleader to confirm this, which results in another shaking fit. As Conan continues to think about the case more, he begins to wonder if someone else hid the disk in place of the killer. Either way, the young detective is positive that the culprit is one of the troupe members.

0 Detective Conan Episode 125: A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case (P2)

Episode 125: A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case (Part 2)

Scenario: Seiji Ishimoto tells the police about the threat letters after he's approached by the minister's secretary, Tsuneaki Niikura. When everyone leaves the hotel room, Conan searches for clues. Inspector Meguire questions Richard about Seiji's secretary and reveals she has a motive and shows a picture of her boyfriend who Richard recognizes as the person he bumped into as he left the hotel room. 

Richard calls everyone to the murder scene where he declares the boyfriend to be the killer. Conan stuns Richard and recreates the murder. Shiro did not shoot Seiji and Tanaka; the gun used in the crime was strapped to the spotlight with a motor that winds a string that pulls the trigger. Afterwards, Shiro took the gun and fled, met up with his accomplice and was murdered. Conan reveals Tsuneaki Niikura as the true killer after he blurts out something he shouldn’t have said; he tried to frame Seiji for the murder after killing Hiraoka by placing the motor in his office. His motive is nothing more than greed as Tsuneaki is next to succeed Tanaka as head of parliament, but he made no plans of retiring soon. As evidence, Tsuneaki’s fingerprints are on the battery inside the remote control. Sending the threat letters to Seiji was just a diversion and he surrender to the authorities.

0 Detective Conan Episode 124: A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case (P1)

Episode 124: A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case (Part 1)

Scenario: Seiji Ishimoto, president of an electronic company, claims he has been receiving threat letters and hires Richard as a bodyguard. While attending a banquet, Tsuneaki, Seiji’s secretary, drops his remote control and puts the batteries back in. Masao Tanaka, a government minister, is killed instantly by a gunshot and Seiji's shoulder is grazed. Conan spots a man, Shiro Hiraoka, on the balcony but he loses him in a chase and discovers scratch marks on the spotlight. Richard spends the night at Seiji's hotel room keeping watch in case the murderer returns. In the morning, Richard receives a phonecall from Inspector Meguire announcing Shiro Hiraoka was found dead after an apparent fall from some stairs in an abandoned building. This twist of events leaves Conan baffled but promised to solve the case.

Seiji Ishimoto, president of an electronic company, claims he has been receiving threat letters and hires Kogoro as a bodyguard. As a House of Representatives member gets on stage at the banquet where they're at, he is shot and Seiji's shoulder is grazed. Conan spots a man on the balcony, but he is unable to find him. Kogoro spends the night at Seiji's hotel room keeping watch in case the murderer returns. In the morning, Kogoro receives a phonecall from Inspector Megure announcing the man on the balcony was found dead.

0 Detective Conan Episode 123: The Weather Girl Kidnapping Case

Episode 123: The Weather Girl Kidnapping Case

Scenario: Ashley Underwood, the weather girl for the local news, leaves a message for Richard's assistance. Richard is away because of business so the Junior Detective League goes to discover Ashley has been getting threatening letters. They encounter Katie Banwell, Ashley's coworker, who is cruel to the children. Conan gives Ashley his pager number just before she receives an urgent phone call and asks the Junior Detective League to wait for her. When she does not come back, Conan stumbles onto a few disturbing facts that Ashley has been kidnapped. He begins to receive numbers as messages from her on his pager including the emergency telephone number. With a hint from Rachel and George, Conan is able to decode the messages and pinpoint where Ashley is. The kids rescue Ashley and bump heads with the kidnapper who they subdue and unmask to reveal Katie Banwell. An artistically designed nail is what gave her away. Katie confesses stating the news team replaced her with Ashley, and Conan gives her a reality check saying she should have worked harder and fight to maintain her position. She is arrested shortly afterwards.

While Kogoro is sleeping from drinking too much, the Detective Boys listen to one of his messages and end up talking to Nichiuri TV newswoman Aki Asano. When she goes missing though, it's up to the Detective Boys to solve the clues she is sending them on Conan's pager.

0 Detective Conan Episode 122: The Locked Bathroom Murder Case (P2)

Episode 122: The Locked Bathroom Murder Case (Part 2)

Scenario: Maya's fiancé, Kenneth, busts in telling the police he rang the door bell the day before for a date. Conan detects blood above the peephole on the door and tranquilizes Richard, explaining that Maya didn’t commit suicide but was murdered by her sister Mindy. After rendering Maya unconscious with sleeping pills, Mindy dragged Maya in the bathroom and duct taped the door and window, slit Maya's wrist with a straight razor, and simply walked out. After bringing witnesses, Mindy coaxed them to breaking the door down, then twisted the doorknob to make it appear as if they broken through the seal, when in reality, they did not. As evidence, Mindy unintentionally got Maya's blood on her bandanna that transferred over on the door above the peephole when she looked out at Kenneth. Mindy confesses, stating how the victim stole her boyfriend. After a misunderstanding of feelings, Mindy runs to Maya's corpse begging her to wake up but to no avail. After the case, Richard is running up on stage at Yóko Okino's concert and giving her flowers, however this is revealed to be a dream.

Just as it appears the perfect crime has been committed, Detective Takagi returns with news that could show Mina cared more for her sister than anyone realized. When a spot of Mina's blood is also found on the door, it is all the clues Conan needs to prove Masayo murdered her sister.

0 Detective Conan Episode 121: The Locked Bathroom Murder Case (P1)

Episode 121: The Locked Bathroom Murder Case (Part 1)

Scenario: Two sisters, Mindy and Maya, are packing boxes and drinking glasses of beer, one of which, has sleeping pills dissolved in it. The next day, Conan, Richard, and Rachel are on their way to a Yóko concert when Richard discovers he lost his ticket. He overhears Mindy on the payphone and her situation about a friend who is unable to go to the concert because of a cold. Richard asks her for the spare ticket and she accepts as long as he drives her to her house to pick up her sister Maya. Upon arriving, they find that Maya has taped herself inside the bathroom. Richard, Rachel, and Mindy bust the door down to discover Maya dead from a slit wrist. Only her fingerprints were on the tape and two mixed cleaners were found near the body. Mindy, the prime suspect, is seen hysterically laughing over her sister's death while alone in a room. Everyone is convinced that Maya committed suicide, however, Conan believes that a vicious murder took place, and Mindy Garrett was the cold-blooded killer.

While on the way to a Yoko Okino concert Kogoro loses his ticket. Luck seems to be on his side when a young lady named Masayo Aoshima has an extra ticket, but the concert ends up being the last thing on their minds when they walk into her sister Mina's house and comes upon an apparent suicide. Conan has his own suspicions though, since he has caught Masayo laughing hard, but can he find enough evidence to prove contrary when the victim is found in a sealed room?

0 Detective Conan Episode 120: A Honey Cocktail Murder Case

Episode 120: A Honey Cocktail Murder Case

Scenario: Richard is invited by Stacy Young, a previous client, to her mountain house who wishes Richard to help with the announcement of a spa resort. While Richard is looking out the window, Stacy falls from the second floor and is pronounced dead on the scene. Evidence shows Stacy was attacked by bees and accidentally ran off the balcony, but Conan believes there's more to the story and does an investigation of his own. Conan tranquilizes Richard and declares the housekeeper, Stanley Aikman, as the killer. Stanley covered Stacy's doorknob, her only means of escape, with bees and honey thus using Stacy's apiphobia to his advantage. He weakened her balcony railing in advance with ether and when Stacy leaned against it, it broke, sending her to her death below. As evidence, Stanley has thread in his pocket that was used to release the bees from a balloon that was hidden in her chimney. Stanley confesses and says he saved Stacy from a bee attack when they were younger, but in return, she berated and humiliated him every chance she got.

A woman Kogoro helped in an earlier case, Hiromi Yamazaki, invites Conan, Ran, and Kogoro to a new planned mountain estate hoping to get Kogoro to be their propganda model for their new Hotspring their going to bulid. Later when Kogoro, Ran, Conan, the mayor and the caretaker are enjoying a cocktail, the presidents falls from the balcony and fells on the cliff rocks.

0 Detective Conan Episode 119: Masked Yaiba Murder Case

Episode 119: Masked Yaiba Murder Case

Scenario: Conan, Richard, Rachel, and the Junior Detective League are on their way to dinner and meet Stu Hogan dressed as a Masked Yaiba character. George reaches for his gun but Stu reacts in time. Stu is having a party with his friends York Taylor and Melanie Seymour. Suddenly, Sam Mitchner, another friend, angrily bursts through the door and shoots Stu before turning his gun and killing himself, horrifying everyone present. Stu survives the attack due to the bulletproof vest under his costume. A thorough investigation shows more than what anyone could have imagined.

Mishima fired at Honda with his gun, but Honda was wearing a bullet proof vest which is why he didn't get killed.

Conan stuns Richard and explains that Sam did not kill himself as everyone thought; he was murdered and his death was orchestrated and rehearsed under the rouse of a play carried out with real bullets acted out by Sam and his killer, who is revealed to be Stu Hogan. In conclusion, George's fingerprint was found on Sam's gun but he never touched it. Prior to the party, George touched Stu's gun, concrete evidence that Stu swapped guns. Stu confesses stating veageance for his brother Henry, who was killed in a fatal accident when Sam stole his rare Masked Yaiba poster.

After Mishima fired at Honda with his gun, he raises the gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Could this really be a suicide?

While on the way to dinner Conan and the group come across a bunch of people dressed as Kamen Yaiba fans. They are invited to the party where an attempted murder and suicide appears to occur, but Conan begins to wonder if there is more than meets the eye to this.

0 Detective Conan Episode 118: The Naniwa Serial Murder Case

Episode 118: The Naniwa Serial Murder Case

Scenario: Conan and Harley find out the victims are indeed connected, they took the driving test at the same place, where an instructor named Mr. Inaba was killed in a drunk driving accident. Harley then travels to meet up with Congressman Grady, their prime suspect; however, Grady himself received a call from the culprit but refuses to tell the authorities. Conan is forced by Rachel to travel with another officer to go to their motel but due to an emergency, they are driven to the site where Cornelius Graver, a dangerous fugitive and also a suspect, is thought to be hiding.

After Conan finds him, he realizes Cornelius and Grady are not the murderer. Harley confronts the serial killer: Truman Salinger, his tour guide, who intentionally dropped his victim's body on the car to throw Harley into an active murder case, which in turn, gave him access to Congressman Grady who he planned to murder next. Cornelius, while hiding for his other crimes, was found by Salinger who he mistaken for Mr. Inaba, Salinger's father who was killed by his victims in a prank gone wrong. Cornelius also confesses this to the other authorities when he is captured and was planned to be used as a scapegoat once Salinger completed his killing spree. After stopping his suicide, Harley is shot but survives.

A serial killer who strangles his victims first then stabs them through their wallet and into their chest appears in Osaka. Harley Hartwell invites Conan and the Moores for a tour in around his hometown with Truman Salinger as their guide and police escort. While on the tour they meet Kirsten Thomas who has followed them since the beginning. Later, the body of Castron Odalis is dropped onto their car, the third victim of the same offender. Susan Connoly, a terrified bystander, leaves the scene in her car and Harley manages to get her license and track her down to her residence. Conan and Harley find her apartment empty and they are drawn by a scream outside, where they and a maintenance worker find Susan has fallen prey to the same serial killer, strangled and stabbed through her wallet into her chest.

Heiji invites Conan, Ran, and Kogoro to visit him in Osaka, taking them on a sightseeing tour. In a restaurant, they run into Kazuha Toyama, Heiji's childhood friend, who appears to be jealous of Ran, asking her if she's "that Kudo girl" that Heiji keeps talking about and telling Ran to back off, because Heiji and her have been "joined by steel" for ages.

Ran laughs and explains herself and the two girls hit it off. After finishing their meal, Kazuha joins them on their exploration of the city, but, as they leave the restaurant, a dead body falls from the roof of the building, hitting Kogoro's rental car. The police arrive and quickly realise that this newest victim, a man in his forties, has been killed in the same fashion as two other people who died a few days earlier, by being stabbed in the heart through their wallets.

0 Detective Conan Episode 117: The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case (P2)

Episode 117: The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case (Part 2)

Scenario: In continuation from the last case, the search for the mystery writer continues. Conan and the others must decipher the code in his text in order to solve the mystery of his and his wife's disappearance two months before. Heiji Hattori calls having deciphered the text in the first new chapter, and with this information Conan manages to solve the rest of the hidden riddles, but can him and the cops get to the hotel before any type of death takes place?

0 Detective Conan Episode 116: The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case (P1)

Episode 116: The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case (Part 1)

Kaori hires Kogoro for search his parents.

Scenario: Katie Nantz shows up at the detective agency asking Detective Moore to find her father, Jonathan, who vanished two months ago along with his wife. The only clue to his whereabouts is a piece found in his latest publication. One evening, Kogoro, Ran, and Conan watch the latest Detective Samonji episode based on the ongoing mystery novel series, written by Nintaro Shinmei. Just when Kogoro expresses his annoyance at the series (just because Conan and Ran have outguessed him about the culprit's identity), Shinmei's daughter Kaori appears and hires him to find her father and mother, who have been missing for two months, they find clues that lead them to believe the Shinmeis have been kidnapped, with Mr. Shinmei only being able to leak hints in his scripts.

0 Detective Conan Episode 115: Scuba Diving Murder Case (P2)

Episode 115: Scuba Diving Murder Case (Part 2)

Scenario: The Moore family, Conan, and the diving club members rush to the hospital where Kimberly is in intensive care. Conan and Eva are sure that murder was the plan. Conan gets an idea who did it after a conversation Eva and Rachel has about Richard trying to test her patience. Conan tranquilizes Richard, revealing Haley Martin to be the culprit and explaining how Kimberly was pretending to drown to test Matthew's love for her. Haley, with her own plan in mind, jumped into the water not to save Kimberly, but to force a snake to bite Kimberly, thus taking advantage of the situation. She had a snake hidden in her fanny pack secured with tape to keep it from biting her, explaining the wings Rachel saw. The tape and snake scales attached to it is enough evidence to convict her of attempted first degree murder. Haley confesses, stating she was jealous that Matthew chose Kimberly over her. Kimberly, having survived Haley's attack, apologizes to Haley for not considering her feelings of Matthew and bushes the incident off as karma catching up to her. Conan knows a love triangle is involved in Kiwako's attack, but is Kawazu or is Harumi the culprit?

0 Detective Conan Episode 114: Scuba Diving Murder Case (P1)

Episode 114: Scuba Diving Murder Case (Part 1)

Scenario: Rachel tricks her mother and father into going to the beach together. Richard, annoyed, leaves for the bathroom and returns with two girls named Kimberly Sanchez and Haley Martin and meet their companions: Kevin, Hatcher, and Matthew, who is engaged to Kimberly. They invite the Moore family and Conan to lunch with the scuba diving club at the local college. Kimberly decides to go swimming alone and asks Kiwako to get her a towel during lunch, however, the group spots Kimberly drowning. Matthew attempts to rescue Kimberly but he is thrown back by Kevin, who saves her, due to his inability to swim. Kimberly, complaining of pain from her hand, was bitten by a snake and is rushed to the hospital. Rachel is sure she saw an erabu sea snake, but everyone is confused when she claims she saw the snake with wings. Into the investigation, Eva expresses her anger to Rachel, not at Richard who has yet to discover she isn’t wearing her wedding ring, but one of Kimberly's friends made an attempt at her life.

Ran secretly plans for her parents to meet at the beach in hopes of reuniting them. While there, they come upon Kiwako and Masahiko, who are childhood sweethearts and are engaged. When Kiwako gets bitten by a sea snake it appears a freakish accident has taken place, but Conan suspects there is more than what the regular eye can see.

0 Detective Conan Episode 113: The White Sandy Beach Murder Case

Episode 113: The White Sandy Beach Murder Case

Scenario: Annie Evans is found by a reef in what appears to be a suicide. Her friend Liz believes otherwise and is convinced that Dr. Kennedy murdered her because she broke up with him due to his behavior. When information that the town's doctor had been intimate with her in the past is revealed, both Conan and Richard suspect that murder is really involved. Now the two must find the clues before his drinking alibi reigns over them. Conan finds a float with a hole in it, studies the ocean tides, and stuns Richard, revealing Dr. Kennedy murdered Annie Evans. He chloroformed her then tied a rock to her ankles then placed her in the float with a hole in it and set her out to sea where she quietly drowned once the float ran out of air. Though he continues denying involvement, Conan reveals that Dr. Kennedy's fingerprints are on the float. Presented with this evidence, Dr. Kennedy surrenders to the authorities.

A young and beautiful woman named Mitsuko Sekine is found by a reef drowned in what appears to be a suicide. When information that the town's doctor had been intimate with her in the past is revealed, and Mitsuko's best friend Tomoko insists it was murder, both Conan and Kogoro suspect she is right and that suicide is impossible. Now the two must find the clues before his drinking alibi fully comes through, but what to do when Tanaka was actually drinking with Kogoro himself?

0 Detective Conan Episode 112: The Seven Mysteries of Teitan Elementary School Case

Episode 112: The Seven Mysteries of Teitan Elementary School Case

Scenario: Amy came to school one night to find a masked man. She told the vice-principal about it and he became absent for the last two days and the other teachers are acting suspicious. The Junior Detective League sneaks into the school at night where they find puppets with their names on it, mannequins and statues being moved, and someone trying to scare them with red paint and dry ice. The Junior Detective League pretends to be scared and hide in the bathroom. When they come out, they find their teacher, Ms. Kobayashi, secretly practicing for the parent meet. However, she claims to not have tried to scare them off and they realize that someone else is indeed in the school. However, it is actually the vice-principal who lost his toupee and had been searching for it for the last two nights.

Busts have been moving, the anatomy figure has been seen running around, a strange figure shows up during night time in 1-B's classroom, a vice principal has gone missing, dolls have been given students' names, blood is running down stairs and the door to the teacher's louge is unlocked.

The elementary school has had strange things going on at night. The anatomy figure running around, statues appearing to move, dolls showing up in the hall with the students' names, and a missing Vice Principal. The Detective Boys decide they need to sneak in at night to uncover these mysteries, but what they learn could lead to a laugh and to a horrible nightmare.

0 Detective Conan Episode 111: Cooking Classroom Murder Case (P2)

Episode 111: Cooking Classroom Murder Case (Part 2)

Scenario: The four suspects are interrogated and searched. Everyone has a motive: Misty stole Katherine's boyfriend, Carol's husband, who is Misty's son, is abusive, Misty favors another chef and not Percy, and Becca's recipes was stolen and published by Misty. Conan does a little investigation of his own and finds a contact lens case outside the bathroom window and tinted contact lens in one of the mixing bowls. Conan tranquilizes Richard, revealing Percy Nicholson as the killer. He wore colored contacts before class started then took them out during the blackout which temporarily enhanced his vision. Percy, using a sewing needle, heightened vision, and string, moved over to Misty and murdered her. He used the ring on his finger (the only suspect wearing a ring) as a thimble to push the needle in and the string to pull it out. Conan concludes, stating Percy hid his needle in the tube of his fountain pen. Percy confesses and was enraged how Misty stole Becca's recipes. Conan denounces this; Misty's murder wasn't out of love, she refused to sponsor him and his restaurant failed. After the case, Rachel talks about joining other cooking lessons and Richard claims there is no need, and comically chokes on a fish bone.

All four students are found to be suspects in Uemori's murder, and it appears a needle or another small object is to be to blame. Conan begins to search for locations that could hide a needle. Can any person be proven to be the culprit?

0 Detective Conan Episode 110: Cooking Classroom Murder Case (P1)

Episode 110: Cooking Classroom Murder Case (Part 1)

After a blackout in Uemori residence, Michi is stabbed and delivered to the hospital, but dies in there.

Scenario: Rachel takes a French cuisine cooking lesson in Serena's absence and Conan and Richard tag along. There, they meet the other students: Katherine Sinclair, Becca Kinsey, Coral Laraway, and Percy Nicholson, before meeting the teacher, Misty Laraway. There is a blackout while Conan and Richard head to the washroom. An unseen figure creeps up on Misty who falls on the ground. When power is restored, they find someone purposely tripped the circuit breaker using a weight and block of ice. Returning to the kitchen, Misty is on the floor claiming to have trouble breathing and Conan discovers she's been punctured in the back. She is rushed to the hospital while the police investigate and find evidence the attacker was someone from inside. Word gets out that Misty had been stabbed by, what doctors described as, a sewing needle. Personal belongings are searched for a weapon fitting that description, however, nothing turns up. Inspector Meguire receives a phone call from the hospital, and despite all efforts made, Misty passes away, thus turning the investigation into a murder case.

Sonoko tricks Ran into attending a cooking class by famous French chef Michi Uemori, and in order to go she invites her father and Conan. When the group arrives, they met several other people: Uemori's assistant, Yuko Komiyama, Michi's daughter-in-law Kaoru, and the cooking students Kazue Yashiro and Hiroaki Nishitani. Finally, the cooking class teacher Michi Uemori shows up. Conan, Ran, and Kogoro learn everyone seems to have something against the instructor, who is also a very unpleasant person. At some point the lights go out, then Uemori gets stabbed in the back and her lung is punctured, causing her to die. Now Conan and Kogoro have to decipher four suspects's agendas against her, but can they find the killer?