# E120 - The Honey Cocktail Murder Case
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Encounters are mysterious!
But the world is even more so!
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I'm so glad I'm with you!
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Today's case has the scent of honey!
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There's a stinger behind the sweetness!
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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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"The Honey Cocktail Murder Case."
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That hurts...
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Dad, isn't President Yamazaki
the head of Yamazaki Development,
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the company you did a bodyguard
job for during that blackmail case?
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What were you invited to today?
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She says she has a favor to ask
of the nationally famous Mori Kogoro!
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Welcome! Mori-*sama*, yes?
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Aihara Shingo (53) Caretaker
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The president is expecting you!
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Please come in!
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Mori-*sama* is here.
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Right this way!
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Hello!
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Welcome, Mori-*san*.
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Yamazaki Hiromi (50)
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I'm sorry to call you all the way
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into the mountains like this.
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Oh, I see you're as beautiful as ever!
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Oh, you're a flatterer.
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Let me introduce you. This is the
Mayor of Iwami, Hachimaki-*sama*.
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I'm Hachimaki Hachibe.
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Hachimaki Hachibe (62) Mayor of Iwami City
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It's an honor to meet the distinguished
Mori Kogoro-*san* like this!
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It's a pleasure to meet you.
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Nakamura Eri (32) Pres. Yamazaki's Secretary
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I'm Nakamura, her secretary. It's nice to meet you.
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The pleasure's all mine.
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I'm Aihara, the caretaker here.
If you need anything, just let me know.
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Nice to meet you.
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Now if you'll excuse me.
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What's this model of?
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You know not to touch,
Conan-*kun*!
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It's all right.
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Mori-*san*, this is the
Iwami Spa Resort we're planning.
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Aside from the hot springs,
it'll have a golf range, a tennis club,
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an arcade, and many other facilities!
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Our city's population is dwindling,
so I've teamed up with
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President Yamazaki to build a
spa resort to give it a shot in the arm!
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Tomorrow is the ground-breaking ceremony!
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And we'd like you to
play a part in the advertising,
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by appearing in magazines and
television commercials as a model.
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Model in your commercials?!
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Like this, perhaps?
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You're getting too excited...
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Let's set aside the business talk for now.
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Aihara... prepare the early celebration.
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Yes, I'll bring it right now!
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An afternoon with a rare feast
and sake... There's nothing better!
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Wild boar stew and fresh Iwami vegetables!
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They all share the
simple flavors of this region!
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Yes, local cuisine will be
one of the resort's attractions!
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It's coming from your upstairs office.
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Pardon me a moment.
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Oh, yes! Mayor! Why don't
you let Mori-*san* try the specialties?
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Oh, that? Leave it to me!
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Hey! Aihara-*kun*!
Bring you-know-what out!
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What's he doing?
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What are "the specialties"?
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You'll just have to wait and see!
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Aihara-*kun*!
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Oh, you're on the phone?
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Uhh, please send over
one case of beer and juice!
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I'm taking you-know-what.
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Oh, okay!
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Now these are the pride of our town!
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W-What are they?
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Newt and wasp sake!
They're incredibly revitalizing!
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Well, drink up!
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O-Okay...
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I think I've had too much to drink.
I need some fresh air.
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Are you all right?
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Y-Yes, I think so.
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It was such nice weather earlier, too...
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Mountain weather does change quickly.
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Like they say, a woman's
heart is as fickle as autumn weather.
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Th-That was President Yamazaki!
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Call the police and a doctor!
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Right!
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A balloon...
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An insecticide spray?
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It's too late.
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Madam!
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This is horrible!
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Umm, are you the famous
detective, Mori Kogoro-*san*?
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Yes.
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I'm Suzuki, a resident police officer.
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This is Dr. Sakurai,
who runs a clinic in town.
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Thanks for coming.
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Well, I leave the rest to you.
I'm going to have a look at her room.
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This door locks automatically, you know.
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I know that!
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Mori-*san*! I have a spare key!
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It smells like insecticide!
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It appears it was
locked from the inside.
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It appears she broke the
window to get onto the veranda,
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and then she fell over when
the rail she was leaning on broke.
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But why?
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Mori-*san*.
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Dr. Sakurai says she died
of head injuries when she fell.
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This office has an automatic lock,
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and all upstairs windows
were locked from the inside.
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It'd be impossible to sneak
past us on the first floor to go upstairs.
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And sneaking in via the
chimney would also be impossible.
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So it was a completely locked room...
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This is--!
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Say, officer! This is a bee, right?
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That's a yellowjacket wasp.
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Come to think of it, Dr. Sakurai
did find sting marks on her head.
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Sting marks?
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Are wasps common in this area?
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Yes.
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Come to think of it, wasn't she
afraid of wasps, Nakamura-*san*?
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Yes.
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She's from here, and she'd had
a traumatic childhood experience.
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Some wasps stung her in the sixth grade,
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and Aihara-*san* saved
her on the verge of death.
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She said she hired him
to take care of the mansion
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because she owed him her life...
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Yes, that's right.
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I always had bug spray on hand
to keep wasps from coming inside.
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There've been many wasp-related
incidents so far this year.
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I've figured out the killer!
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It was the wasps that killed her,
no question about it!
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Listen... President Yamazaki
must've been attacked
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by wasps that entered
through that fireplace.
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She tried using the nearby bug spray,
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but in her panic, she went
through the window and onto the veranda.
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Then, as luck would have it,
the handrail broke and she fell over.
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In other words, this was an accident.
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But why did she escape
through the window and not the door?
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When people panic, they lose
the ability to make good judgments.
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What's this sticky stuff?!
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This is--!
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This might not have been an accident!
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It's possible it was a murder
plotted by one of these people!
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Protective clothing for handling wasps!
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These two bottles were used recently.
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Ether and sulfuric acid?!
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Helium? Why is this here?
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Wait a minute!
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As I recall, it went downstream!
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Fishing line and a ripped plastic bag!
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And this black dirt!
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The rain cap that should
be on this chimney is gone.
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Some of the soot inside it
has been rubbed off.
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Scotch tape?!
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A hole in the floor?
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Ah! Now I see how the trick worked!
That person is the killer!
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Conan-*kun*! Where are you?
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Where'd that runt disappear to?!
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What is it?
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You always worry us
when you suddenly disappear!
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Quit scampering around! Come with us!
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Hold on. Have a nap
and leave the rest to me, old guy.
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What the--?
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Dad! What was that sound?!
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What was that?!
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What happened?!
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I've figured it out, everyone.
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This was a murder.
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It wasn't an accident?!
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Why do you say that now?
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To catch the killer off guard.
I wanted time to gather proof, you see.
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The person responsible
murdered President Yamazaki
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and made it look like an accident.
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What proof do you have to--?
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Have a look at the inside doorknob.
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What about it?
Nothing seems out of the ordinary...
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Underneath the connecting part.
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This is--!
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Yes... honey.
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If wasps attacked you inside,
you would normally run out the door.
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But there were a bunch of
wasps on the honey-covered doorknob,
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so President Yamazaki ran in
the opposite direction, to the window.
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The rail on the veranda was quite corroded.
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It had been corroded in
advance using sulfuric acid.
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But what about the wasps?
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Yes... the wasps were planned too.
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Have a look at the ceiling behind you.
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Is that the balloon that--?
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Yes.
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It's the balloon you and Conan
saw on your way down to the river.
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It got stuck to a
tree branch downstream.
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Ran, check the plastic bag.
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Okay.
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A wasp!
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The killer put wasps into
the bag attached to the balloon
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and placed it in the chimney.
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They were probably gathered
after spraying them with ether.
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Aihara-*san*.
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I found a beekeeper outfit
that smelled of ether in the shed.
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Most everyone in this area has one.
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Then what are the
helium tanks in the shed for?
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We made balloons for
kids at the summer festival.
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They're what's left over.
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I wonder. There were three tanks.
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Are you sure you didn't do
a lot of test flights of a balloon
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with a bag attached instead?
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What's that supposed to mean?
What are you trying to say?!
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Only the caretaker here
could have set all this up!
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Yes! You're the killer,
Aihara-*san*!
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Wh-What are you talking about?!
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I was in the living room when she fell!
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I was with all of you!
How could I have killed her?!
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First, to temporarily keep
the balloon inside the chimney,
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you tied fishing line to it,
led it to the downstairs kitchen
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through a small hole in the floor
by the fireplace, and tied it to a nail.
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You also stuck fishing line
to a piece of tape on the bag
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and led it to the kitchen as well.
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Everything was then ready to go.
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The phone rang, and President
Yamazaki went to the upstairs office.
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At the same time, you were on the phone.
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Yes... you had called her upstairs
office to get her into the room.
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After confirming that
she had picked up the receiver,
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you pulled a thread leading into the kitchen.
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The tape covering a pre-made
rip in the bag came off
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and sent the wasps flying out.
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The balloon blocked the chimney's top,
so they flew into the room.
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The agitated wasps then
attacked President Yamazaki.
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While spraying the insecticide,
she headed for the door.
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But she was unable to open it.
Because it was crawling with wasps.
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With no other choice, she ran
around the room, broke the window,
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and leapt onto the veranda.
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She leaned against the rail
and aimed the spray at the wasps,
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but the rail broke and she fell over.
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After we rushed outside,
you quickly returned to the kitchen
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and undid the other thread.
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And so the balloon
went flying out of the chimney.
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That's what Ran
and Conan happened to see.
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But something didn't go as planned.
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The balloon was supposed to
fly far off into the distance,
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but the light rain and wind
unfortunately got it stuck in a tree.
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I found the tape!
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And there is a hole in the floor!
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That doesn't prove anything!
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Aihara-*san*. Could you
show us the towel on your hip?
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Towel?! Wh-What about it?!
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The doorknob must've been
entirely covered in honey.
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Are you sure you didn't
wipe it away with your towel?
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There is honey on it!
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And one more thing.
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Please take out what's
in your right pants pocket.
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What's the matter? Show it to us.
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That's the very same thread
that undid the tape on the plastic bag.
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The mayor and Conan
had barged in just then,
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so you hastily stuffed it into your pocket.
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It appears you didn't have
time to dispose of the evidence.
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That, or you lowered your guard
when it was deemed an accident.
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Making me the caretaker because
I saved her life was nice and all,
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but I wound up like a worker
bee slaving away for the queen bee.
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But she said she'd make
me manager of the spa resort,
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so I tried so hard to endure it!
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But it was a lie. A big, fat lie.
I couldn't stand it anymore.
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I wanted to ruin tomorrow's
ground-breaking ceremony.
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So I had to do it today.
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Way to go, Dad! You solved the case!
You're a genius, as always!
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Don't be silly! That was a piece of cake!
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Speaking of which, I'm hungry!
Plus we didn't go to the hot springs!
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Okay! Let's hit the
hot springs and get manlier!
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Sleeping Kogoro gets to
show off his mind and body!
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The only thing you
can show off is how to sleep...
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Whoa! What is this?!
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The room is filled with idol posters!
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There are two of everything,
even photo books and CDs!
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And they have their names on them.
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This wasn't a suicide! It was a murder!
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But this was a sealed room!
How did the killer escape?!
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On the next Conan--
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"The Sealed Bathroom Murder Case (Part 1)."
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Next Conan's hint:
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Adhesive tape.
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Next episode takes place at the home of two beautiful sisters.
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Specifically, their bathroom. No peeping, Conan-kun.
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