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E103 - The Historical Drama Actor Murder Case (Part 2)

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    Encounters are mysterious!
    But cases are even more so!
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    I'm so glad I'm with you!
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    Today's case is
    about the acting spirit!
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    Great actor
    versus great detective!
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    He sees the single
    truth for what it is,
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    and looks like a kid but
    has the mind of an adult!
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    His name? Detective Conan!
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    Hijikata Kozaburo-san, the historical
    drama actor, hired the old guy
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    and showed us to his home on the 5th floor
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    of an apartment building.
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    Hijikata
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    While we were on the veranda,
    taking in the view,
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    the dead body of Isami, Kozaburo's
    wife, collapsed onto the veranda
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    of Okita Hajime,
    who lived next door!
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    Okita was home,
    but denies killing her.
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    Even so, the police and the
    old guy are convinced he did it.
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    But, having seen a smile on
    Hijikata's face instead of sadness,
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    I started to doubt it was Okita...
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    ...and finally found the proof to flip
    the case completely upside-down!
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    "The Historical Drama
    Actor Murder Case (Part 2)."
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    There are a lot more
    here than I thought...
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    Conan! Go back to where Ran is!
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    Okay!
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    Conan-kun?
    Where are you, Conan-kun?
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    That's weird. Where could he be?
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    Umm, have you seen Conan-kun?
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    Maybe he's in my apartment?
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    Oh, right!
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    Just as I thought!
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    Conan-kun?
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    Huh? He's not here?
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    I guess he wouldn't be.
    His shoes weren't at the door...
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    I've figured out the trick.
    But there's still no proof.
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    I could probably corner Hijikata-san
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    by showing everyone
    this strange sight...
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    But I'd really prefer to
    have some definitive proof!
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    C'mon, Conan-kun.
    Are you really not here?
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    Damn. If only we had touched
    much more obvious stuff...
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    Huh? Wait. As I recall...
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    Yes! This is it!
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    And, given the old guy's personality,
    it should be around here...
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    No question about it!
    Hijikata-san is the killer!
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    He used this trick to deceive us
    and lead us to this deceptive place!
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    Detective Mori! Is it true there
    was a murder in this building?!
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    C'mon! You can tell us, Mori-san!
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    I hear that the deceased is
    Nagakura Isami, the former actress,
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    and that you've been to
    the murder scene!
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    Well, Mori-san?!
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    Now, now. I'd like to have a smoke first.
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    Inspector.
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    How do things look
    in there, Takagi-kun?
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    Mori-san has the press' undivided
    attention by the front entrance.
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    The reporters at the back entrance
    have started to come to the front.
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    Good. Just as we planned.
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    While Mori-*kun
    *has them distracted,
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    we'll bring the suspect, Okita-san,
    and the witness, Hijikata-san,
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    down from the 5th floor, and head
    to the station out the back door.
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    Yes, sir!
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    Oh! Mr. Detective!
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    Oh, Conan-kun! What is it?
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    Kogoro-ojisan said he
    has a favor to ask you!
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    You see...
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    Please, Mori-san!
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    Tell us about the incident!
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    Seems fishy if you ask me!
    I bet you don't know anything at all!
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    Alright! Fine!
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    I'll give you just
    one hint! Now come close!
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    Okita Hajime is the killer?!
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    The actor?!
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    This is still a secret!
    Don't let the inspector hear!
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    But you're certain, Mori-san?!
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    You saw Isami-san collapse
    onto the veranda next door
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    from her husband's own veranda?!
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    And that veranda belongs to
    Okita Hajime, who lives on the 5th floor,
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    and when the
    police rushed in afterward,
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    both the body
    and Okita were there?!
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    That'd mean Okita Hajime
    was clearly the killer!
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    Yep, pretty much.
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    Alright! Big scoop!
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    This'll be tonight's top news!
[06:48] ---
    It's me! Get a camera and
    newscaster here on the double!
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    We have a breaking story!
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    Hey, now!
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    Hold it!
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    N-No, that wasn't me...
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    Huh?
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    M-Mori-san?!
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    Do you have more information?
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    And now to use this
    voice-changer to talk for him...
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    Yes, it would seem clear
    that Okita-san killed her,
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    but that isn't the case.
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    What do you mean?!
    Please explain, Mori-san!
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    Alright! Hurry out the back door
    while Mori-kun's distracting them!
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    Are you saying someone
    else killed her, Mori-san?!
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    Yeah. The killer used a trick to
    fool my eyes into seeing it like that.
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    Isn't that right? The real killer,
    who's trying to sneak out the back...
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    ...Hijikata Kozaburo-san!
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    What?!
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    It's Hijikata Kozaburo!
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    And Okita Hajime!
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    H-Hey, now! Hold on!
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    What's going on here, Inspector Megure?!
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    Is what Detective Mori said true?!
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    Who do the police consider a suspect?!
[08:17] ---
    Well?!
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    Mori! Knock this off!
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    Besides, how could it be Hijikata-san?!
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    He was with you when
    you saw Isami-san fall over!
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    Plus, the fishing line used to strangle her
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    was found in Okita-san's apartment!
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    He was even in his 5th floor apartment,
    where the body was found,
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    when the murder took place!
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    How could anyone else have
    carried the body into his room?!
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    Then the killer really is Okita Hajime?!
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    What was his motive?!
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    Don't tell us it had to do
    with his affair with Isami-san?!
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    No! I'm not at liberty to--!
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    We'll be questioning
    him soon about all of that.
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    Yes, given these circumstances,
    Hijikata-san couldn't have done it,
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    and Okita-san clearly seems to be the killer.
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    Assuming the veranda we
    witnessed Isami-san fall onto
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    was really on the 5th floor, of course!
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    Come again?! What do you mean, Mori-kun?!
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    Assuming the veranda we
    witnessed Isami-san fall onto
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    was really on the 5th floor, of course.
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    Come again?! What do you mean, Mori-kun?!
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    Whose cell phone is that?! Turn it off!
[09:52] ---
    It's mine, Inspector. It seems
    to have rung at the perfect time.
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    What nonsense is this?!
[10:01] ---
    Are you saying your cell phone
    will help explain the incident?!
[10:05] ---
    Yes. Please take it from my pants pocket.
[10:09] ---
    One of your men is taking a look
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    at the unusual
    sight Hijikata-san created.
[10:18] ---
    Yes? Hello?
[10:20] ---
    Huh? Takagi? Takagi-kun?!
[10:24] ---
    Why did you call Mori-kun's phone?
    Where are you, anyway?!
[10:29] ---
    The living room in Hijikata-san's
    extra apartment on the 6th floor...
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    ...but it's strange.
[10:36] ---
    What? It's strange?
[10:38] ---
    It's the same. The TV, the sofa,
    the curtains, the table...
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    Even their positions are the same...
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    It's all exactly identical to his
    living room directly below this one!
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    E-Exactly identical?!
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    Yes.
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    The only difference
    is that the 5th floor room
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    has four cups filled
    with tea on the table,
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    but the 6th floor table is bare...
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    What is the meaning of this, Hijikata-san?
[11:13] ---
    Why are your living rooms on the
    5th and 6th floors exactly alike?
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    W-Well...
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    It was to fool me into thinking
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    that Isami-san collapsed on the 5th
    floor veranda, rather than the 6th.
[11:28] ---
    What?!
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    Yes.
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    After he took me to his
    fake room on the 6th floor,
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    Hijikata-san had me wait in the living room
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    while he strangled
    Isami-san in the 5th floor room
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    and carried her to the 6th floor
    room directly above Okita-san's.
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    He set things up so she would
    fall onto the veranda at the right time
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    and then returned to the living room,
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    pretending to have had
    a hard time preparing the tea.
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    He then invited me onto the veranda,
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    and, at just the right time, he used
    his cell phone's speed-dial button.
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    He had the sound of the
    phone next door attract our attention
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    so we would witness Isami-*san
    *falling onto the veranda.
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    He did it in such a way
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    that it looked like it had been
    Okita-san's veranda one floor below!
[12:31] ---
    But that can't be right. Her body
    really was in Okita-san's apartment.
[12:37] ---
    Now, now. Hear me out, Inspector.
[12:41] ---
    After that, Hijikata-san ran straight to the next-door apartment
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    Okita
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    and shouted and pounded on
    the door, but without reply, of course.
[12:50] ---
    That's because it wasn't Okita-san's
    apartment, but Hijikata-san's.
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    All the rooms on the 6th floor
    belong to Hijikata-san, actually.
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    Afterward, while I went
    downstairs to get the spare key,
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    Hijikata-san entered the room,
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    and used the
    rope he had prepared
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    to lower Isami-san to
    Okita-san's veranda below.
[13:18] ---
    With rope?! H-How?!
[13:20] ---
    He probably wrapped
    the rope under her arms,
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    lifted her over, lowered her down,
    swung her onto the veranda,
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    and then pulled the rope free.
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    As proof, her body has a scrape
    mark from when he pulled the rope.
[13:42] ---
    And the scrapes all over her body
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    are from when she was
    swung onto the veranda?
[13:47] ---
    It was a dangerous and
    unreliable method,
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    but the veranda faces the river,
    so the chance of being seen was slim,
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    plus, even if he
    accidentally dropped her,
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    he could explain it away by
    saying the killer threw her over
[14:04] ---
    in the heat of the moment.
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    After lowering Isami-san's body,
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    Hijikata-san put the 6th floor
    room number plate back to normal,
[14:16] ---
    hurried to Okita-san's door
    one floor below,
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    and then nonchalantly waited
    for me to bring the spare key.
[14:27] ---
    As if he had been
    waiting there the entire time.
[14:31] ---
    But could he really lower the body,
    replace the plate, and all that
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    while you were getting the key?!
[14:40] ---
    You could easily buy that much
    time by stopping the elevator above.
[14:45] ---
    Hijikata-san probably did many
    test runs to figure out the timing.
[14:52] ---
    But, Mori-kun! You took the elevator
    when he first brought you here!
[14:58] ---
    Why didn't you realize
    you were on the 6th floor?
[15:02] ---
    The floor number display
    would've made it obvious right away!
[15:08] ---
    Yes. From the moment
    I got on the elevator,
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    Hijikata-san's spell
    was already at work on me.
[15:18] ---
    Eh? Spell?
[15:20] ---
    Here, Inspector. Have a look
    at the elevator's floor number display.
[15:26] ---
    There's still a little bit left...
[15:29] ---
    Signs of the trick he used to
    lead me to his place of deception!
[15:46] ---
    What's that black smudge?
[15:49] ---
    It's most likely black marker
    ink that he failed to wipe away!
[15:55] ---
    He marked out the
    vertical line on the lower left
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    to make the 6 look like a 5!
[16:03] ---
    I get it!
[16:05] ---
    I wouldn't have thought of that!
[16:06] ---
    Hold on, Mori-kun!
    Then what about "2"?!
[16:10] ---
    If it's as you say, then that'd
    make the number 2 look strange!
[16:14] ---
    Yes. I was cleverly fooled there, too.
[16:18] ---
    He gave us his business
    card inside the elevator,
[16:21] ---
    while his back covered the floor buttons.
[16:27] ---
    I see! That would
    direct your eyes to the cards,
[16:30] ---
    and hide the floor buttons
    and display from view...
[16:35] ---
    He probably wiped the ink off
    when he stopped the elevator.
[16:40] ---
    My only chance to see the strange
    "2" was when I went downstairs,
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    but I was in a hurry
    and there was no time for that.
[16:52] ---
    Not so fast, detective.
[16:55] ---
    You've been saying,
    "trick this, deception that,"
[16:59] ---
    and claiming I'm some criminal.
[17:02] ---
    Do you have proof that I killed Isami?
[17:06] ---
    Proof that I took you to
    the 6th floor instead of the 5th?
[17:12] ---
    But how do you explain that
    the living rooms on both floors
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    are exactly the same?
[17:17] ---
    Oh? Is something wrong with that?
[17:20] ---
    I happen to like that furniture and layout.
[17:24] ---
    Before you accuse, could we
    see this infallible proof of yours?
[17:29] ---
    Otherwise, this is nonsense.
[17:34] ---
    Oh?
[17:35] ---
    Your confidence must mean
    that you wiped away our fingerprints
[17:39] ---
    from everything we might've
    touched in the 6th floor room!
[17:44] ---
    What?!
[17:45] ---
    I would surmise you wiped
    them away while I was downstairs,
[17:49] ---
    and when you hurriedly took away
    the teacups in the 6th floor room.
[17:55] ---
    Hurriedly took away?
[17:58] ---
    Yeah.
[17:59] ---
    The fact that Detective Takagi was
    able to enter the 6th floor room easily
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    means he made the grave blunder
    of forgetting to lock the door.
[18:10] ---
    I already told you! Show some proof!
[18:14] ---
    Inspector. Please confirm
    with Detective Takagi.
[18:19] ---
    Ask if there's anything odd on the
    floor of the 6th floor living room.
[18:26] ---
    T-The floor?!
[18:28] ---
    Takagi-kun! Is there anything
    unusual on the floor?
[18:32] ---
    Huh? Anything unusual?
[18:39] ---
    There is something!
    A metallic, pointed thing.
[18:42] ---
    A metallic, pointed thing?
[18:45] ---
    In that case, please flip over
    the cushions of the nearby sofa.
[18:50] ---
    Something I quickly
    hid should be there,
[18:54] ---
    with my fingerprints on it!
[19:01] ---
    I-Inspector! A model gun!
    There's a model gun under the cushion!
[19:05] ---
    A model gun?!
[19:07] ---
    What?!
[19:09] ---
    Mori-kun! You're certain your
    fingerprints are on this model gun?!
[19:14] ---
    Yes.
[19:16] ---
    Because I broke it while waiting
    for Hijikata-san in the living room.
[19:22] ---
    I didn't have the courage to tell him,
    so I hid it under the cushion.
[19:28] ---
    Never did I imagine it would
    be the key to breaking the spell
[19:33] ---
    of Hijikata-san's trick like this.
[19:37] ---
    I assume you realize, Hijikata-san...
[19:39] ---
    I was with you in Okita-san's room
    the entire time after the murder,
[19:45] ---
    and I was with Inspector Megure
    when I came down here.
[19:52] ---
    In other words, unless I'd been
    in that 6th floor room from the start...
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    ...I wouldn't have been
    able to touch that model gun.
[20:05] ---
    Incidentally, the trick to
    making Isami-san fall over
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    was probably done by holding her
    up with fishing line over a rail,
[20:17] ---
    and the line would break or
    come undone when the time came.
[20:23] ---
    Inspector. Please inspect the
    room directly above Okita-san's.
[20:28] ---
    Traces of his set-up might still be there.
[20:34] ---
    Not "might." It's definitely still there.
[20:38] ---
    The mechanism I used to
    make Isami's body fall on its own.
[20:43] ---
    Then you admit to killing her,
    Hijikata-san?!
[20:46] ---
    Yes, that's right!
[20:48] ---
    It was I, Hijikata Kozaburo,
    who murdered my wife Isami!
[20:53] ---
    She had to pay for getting
    together with this lowlife,
[20:57] ---
    and I wanted the money
    to rebuild my film studio!
[21:01] ---
    The money from her insurance, that is!
[21:05] ---
    Stop that, all of you!
[21:07] ---
    So, when did you figure it out, Detective?
[21:11] ---
    It was the sound of Okita-san's phone.
[21:15] ---
    It was different from
    what I heard on the veranda.
[21:19] ---
    Huh? That's odd. I'm certain I prepared
    a phone with the same sound.
[21:24] ---
    I just happened to buy a new one yesterday.
[21:27] ---
    Oh. I have no luck.
[21:30] ---
    Though, the main cause of
    your downfall was probably that
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    you underestimated Mori-*kun
    *and had him witness your trick.
[21:37] ---
    I never underestimated him.
[21:40] ---
    It was a bet.
[21:42] ---
    Had I been able to completely
    fool the great Mori-san,
[21:47] ---
    I would've made a great detective
    in my first modern drama role.
[23:29] ---
    Dad! Dad!
[23:35] ---
    That's the great detective
    Mori Kogoro for you!
[23:37] ---
    Mori-san! How does it feel to have
    caught a historical drama actor?!
[23:44] ---
    Oh, uhh...
[23:47] ---
    I guess I feel like
    Toyama-no-Kin-san!
[23:51] ---
    You're a real star!
[23:56] ---
    This clown is such a pain!
[24:08] ---
    W-What is this?
[24:12] ---
    It's crazy, Dad! All the clocks
    in the house are ringing!
[24:16] ---
    What?! The entire house?!
[24:19] ---
    Even the VCR is running...
[24:22] ---
    What exactly is going to happen?!
[24:26] ---
    On the next Conan--
[24:27] ---
    "The Case of the Mysterious
    Bandit Mansion (Part 1)"
[24:47] ---
    Next Conan's hint:
[24:50] ---
    Stamp.
[24:51] ---
    Next episode features lots of clocks.
[24:52] ---
    I think I smell a case.
[24:54] ---
    Aren't you late?
[24:55] ---
    Crap!
[24:56] ---