# E26 - John the Dog's Murder Case
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**[00:01] ---**
My name's Conan Edogawa!
**[00:02] ---**
High school student Shinichi was
forced to take a drug that shrunk him!
**[00:05] ---**
Although smaller, my mind
remains that of a sharp detective!
**[00:08] ---**
Today's case is about John the dog!
**[00:10] ---**
He's a shepherd dog known
throughout the neighborhood!
**[00:12] ---**
Dogs may not speak, but
there's always only one truth!
**[00:15] ---**
*The first end of the century in 100 years*
**[00:21] ---**
*When told to cry, I laughed instead*
**[00:34] ---**
*The first end of the century
in a long, long time*
**[00:40] ---**
*We're leaping into a wide open world*
**[00:46] ---**
*The things I tried to
understand as a child*
**[00:52] ---**
*remain a mystery even as an adult*
**[00:58] ---**
*I'm neither a hotshot
nor especially great*
**[01:04] ---**
*All I understand is
the pounding of my heart*
**[01:11] ---**
*It's neither an answer nor the truth*
**[01:17] ---**
*All I have faith in is
the pounding of my heart*
**[01:23] ---**
*That and nothing else*
**[01:46] ---**
John the Dog's Murder Case.
**[01:52] ---**
John!
**[01:53] ---**
Hey, John!
**[01:55] ---**
John!
**[01:56] ---**
Come here, John!
**[02:01] ---**
Here he comes!
**[02:03] ---**
John's so cute!
**[02:05] ---**
I wonder how old he is now?
**[02:07] ---**
He was still just a
puppy when I was a kid,
**[02:10] ---**
so I'd say around 8 or so...
**[02:12] ---**
What're you talking about, Conan?
**[02:16] ---**
Never mind!
**[02:18] ---**
That was close!
**[02:21] ---**
John. I'm not high school
student Kudo Shinichi anymore,
**[02:25] ---**
I'm grade school student
Conan Edogawa now.
**[02:29] ---**
Oh, it's you!
**[02:31] ---**
Hello!
**[02:32] ---**
We're back!
**[02:35] ---**
I don't mind at all!
**[02:36] ---**
Come on in!
**[02:38] ---**
OK!
**[02:40] ---**
Several days later
**[02:43] ---**
It's been so long since we ate out!
**[02:46] ---**
That restaurant was pretty good!
**[02:49] ---**
Hey, this is the place!
The house where John the dog lives!
**[02:53] ---**
I know this house!
**[02:54] ---**
When we were in grade school,
**[02:55] ---**
Shinichi used to stop by here
on his way home from school.
**[02:58] ---**
He would save some bread from
lunch and then give it to the dog!
**[03:02] ---**
Sakaguchi Masayoshi?
**[03:05] ---**
I've heard that name somewhere before...
**[03:07] ---**
He says he's a lawyer.
**[03:09] ---**
Oh, that's right.
**[03:11] ---**
He's a famous lawyer who
specializes in cases involving minors.
**[03:16] ---**
Hey, Dad.
**[03:17] ---**
Wasn't this the house where that
middle school student killed himself
**[03:21] ---**
when I was in third grade?
**[03:28] ---**
What was that?!
**[03:33] ---**
Hey! What's going on?!
**[03:37] ---**
What happened?!
**[03:38] ---**
The dog!
**[03:40] ---**
What happened to John?!
**[03:41] ---**
He jumped at Takeshi!
**[03:45] ---**
Conan-*kun*!
**[03:53] ---**
Hey, you!
**[03:55] ---**
You're in the way! Get out of here!
**[04:03] ---**
John! It's me!
**[04:13] ---**
That tickles, John!
**[04:15] ---**
Hello? What's going on,
Takeshi-*kun*?!
**[04:18] ---**
Hello?!
**[04:19] ---**
It's me, Conan!
**[04:20] ---**
Eh? Conan-*kun*?!
**[04:22] ---**
Where are you now?!
**[04:24] ---**
I'm in Izu on business.
**[04:26] ---**
I just heard Takeshi-*kun
*scream-- what happened?!
**[04:33] ---**
Come home right away!
John's done something terrible!
**[04:42] ---**
The victim was Maehara
Takeshi, twenty-two years old.
**[04:46] ---**
He's a college student who lives
in the apartment complex next door,
**[04:48] ---**
and Sakaguchi-*san* asked him to
watch the place while he was gone?
**[04:51] ---**
That's right...
**[04:52] ---**
And Takeshi-*san* invited you,
Sugita Sanae-*san*, over.
**[04:58] ---**
Now then, could you give us the
details about what exactly happened?
**[05:03] ---**
Okay...
**[05:04] ---**
It was around 8:00 when I came over.
**[05:12] ---**
I've never been in
such a huge living room!
**[05:15] ---**
Aren't you glad you came?
**[05:17] ---**
Super glad!
**[05:20] ---**
Oh no!
**[05:23] ---**
It was just getting fun!
**[05:28] ---**
Sakaguchi residence.
**[05:30] ---**
Oh, Sakaguchi-*san*.
**[05:32] ---**
Yes, everything's fine.
**[05:34] ---**
Eh? John?
**[05:37] ---**
He's at the top of the stairs,
behaving himself.
**[05:40] ---**
Eh? You want to talk to John?
**[05:43] ---**
Sure!
**[05:44] ---**
John! Hey, John!
**[05:48] ---**
Alright, whatever.
**[06:06] ---**
Here, your master
wants to talk to you.
**[06:24] ---**
And then we showed up...
**[06:26] ---**
But why would
the dog suddenly attack?
**[06:29] ---**
I don't know!
**[06:30] ---**
I can only think that he attacked
Takeshi for no reason at all!
**[06:33] ---**
No way! John would never
attack anyone for no reason!
**[06:37] ---**
But Takeshi didn't do anything!
**[06:40] ---**
What's going to happen
to the dog, Inspector?
**[06:43] ---**
I can't say anything for sure yet,
**[06:45] ---**
but if he really attacked
for no reason as she says,
**[06:49] ---**
then he'll probably
have to be put to sleep.
**[06:51] ---**
Put to sleep?
You're going to kill him?!
**[06:55] ---**
At any rate, we first need
to talk to Sakaguchi-*san*...
**[07:06] ---**
"First year middle school
student kills himself."
**[07:08] ---**
"Was bullying the cause?"
**[07:10] ---**
"...a classmate that
bullied Masato-*kun*--"
**[07:13] ---**
It doesn't give the bully's name!
**[07:16] ---**
John's been well trained,
**[07:18] ---**
and he'd never attack
anyone for no reason at all.
**[07:21] ---**
Wait a minute!
**[07:23] ---**
John attacked the victim immediately
after the phone was put to his ear.
**[07:28] ---**
What if Sakaguchi-*san* ordered
John to attack over the phone?!
**[07:32] ---**
But Sakaguchi-*san* always seems
so nice; he'd never do such a thing!
**[07:40] ---**
Where's John, Inspector?!
**[07:42] ---**
You didn't put him
to sleep already, did you?!
**[07:44] ---**
Don't worry!
**[07:46] ---**
He's been taken to
the police station for now;
**[07:49] ---**
it hasn't been decided that
he's to be put to sleep yet.
**[07:52] ---**
So, Inspector.
What did Sakaguchi-*san* say?
**[07:56] ---**
He says he can't believe
that John would attack anyone.
**[07:59] ---**
Neither can I!
There must be a reason why--
**[08:02] ---**
You keep quiet!
**[08:05] ---**
Please continue, Inspector.
**[08:07] ---**
I asked Mr. Sakaguchi
about his phone conversation...
**[08:13] ---**
To start off, what exactly did
you say to the victim over the phone?
**[08:18] ---**
I asked him if everything
was alright, how John was doing,
**[08:22] ---**
and then I asked him
to put John on the line.
**[08:25] ---**
Why did you do that?
**[08:27] ---**
I always say good night to him,
so I thought I'd say it tonight too.
**[08:31] ---**
So you told John good night?
**[08:33] ---**
Before that, I think I asked,
"How are you doing, John?"
**[08:38] ---**
Then suddenly I heard
John bark and Takeshi-*kun* scream...
**[08:45] ---**
Sakaguchi-*san
*didn't say anything else?
**[08:48] ---**
There's no mistake about it.
**[08:50] ---**
The girl who was
there confirmed his story.
**[08:53] ---**
You mentioned it last night,
didn't you, Ran-neechan?
**[08:56] ---**
That Sakaguchi-*san*'s son
committed suicide a long time ago.
**[09:00] ---**
Oh. Yeah...
**[09:02] ---**
I asked him about
that at the station too.
**[09:05] ---**
He said a bully drove him to do it...
**[09:07] ---**
Maybe his son's bully
was Maehara Takeshi-*kun*?!
**[09:13] ---**
But it's still just a "maybe."
**[09:16] ---**
I thought so.
**[09:17] ---**
I heard this directly
from Sakaguchi-*san* himself.
**[09:21] ---**
His son Masato-*kun
*and Maehara Takeshi-*kun*
**[09:23] ---**
were classmates in middle school.
**[09:26] ---**
Masato-*kun* apparently wrote
about Takeshi-*kun* in his diary
**[09:30] ---**
shortly before
hanging himself in his room.
**[09:32] ---**
I hear that Mr. Sakaguchi loathed
Takeshi-*kun* after reading the diary.
**[09:37] ---**
Since his wife had died early on,
Masato-*kun* was all he had left.
**[09:43] ---**
But when he saw Takeshi-*kun
*crying and apologizing at the funeral,
**[09:46] ---**
he decided to forgive him.
**[09:49] ---**
Takeshi-*kun* was the only
one who bullied Masato-*kun*?
**[09:53] ---**
It would seem so.
**[09:54] ---**
Shortly after, Takeshi-*kun
*moved to western Japan
**[09:57] ---**
because of his father's job.
**[09:59] ---**
Then, two years ago, he moved
back to attend a university in Tokyo.
**[10:04] ---**
It was this spring that he
moved into an apartment complex
**[10:07] ---**
right next to the Sakaguchi residence.
**[10:09] ---**
It truly was an act of fate.
**[10:13] ---**
Apparently Mr. Sakaguchi was
surprised by the unexpected reunion, too.
**[10:17] ---**
But he no longer bore any
ill feelings toward Takeshi-*kun*.
**[10:20] ---**
I'm even told that he sometimes
invited him over for dinner.
**[10:25] ---**
But if he really does still
have a grudge against Takeshi-*kun*...
**[10:30] ---**
What are you trying to say?
**[10:31] ---**
Mr. Sakaguchi secretly
trained John to attack people
**[10:36] ---**
when a specific phrase is said to him!
**[10:38] ---**
And then last night, he said
that phrase to John over the phone!
**[10:43] ---**
How are you doing, John?
**[10:53] ---**
In this way, Mr. Sakaguchi
accomplished his revenge!
**[10:57] ---**
Wrong.
**[10:59] ---**
How come?
**[11:00] ---**
Have you forgotten?
**[11:02] ---**
When I questioned him last night,
**[11:04] ---**
he repeated what he said on
the phone, right in front of John.
**[11:08] ---**
John didn't react one
bit when he heard him.
**[11:12] ---**
Gah! I thought
I sounded so authoritative too!
**[11:16] ---**
Don't feel so down
in the dumps, Mori-*kun*!
**[11:32] ---**
Masato...
**[11:39] ---**
Thanks for coming, Conan-*kun*!
**[11:40] ---**
I thought you might be lonely
without John to keep you company!
**[11:45] ---**
Thanks!
**[11:46] ---**
Say, does John always
sleep at the top of the stairs?
**[11:52] ---**
Yeah, he does.
**[11:53] ---**
Why doesn't he sleep downstairs?
**[11:55] ---**
See that door there?
**[11:57] ---**
Yeah.
**[11:58] ---**
That was my son's room.
**[12:01] ---**
He absolutely loved John.
**[12:05] ---**
But his late mother said he
couldn't let the dog in his room,
**[12:09] ---**
so John always
slept in front of his door.
**[12:13] ---**
John's still waiting for him to open
the door and say good morning to him!
**[12:19] ---**
Even though it's been
eight years since my son died...
**[12:26] ---**
That's a big phone over there.
**[12:29] ---**
The receiver's
connected to it by a cord...
**[12:31] ---**
Say, wasn't there a
cordless phone there last night?
**[12:37] ---**
Yes. I sometimes switch
it with the phone in my study.
**[12:40] ---**
Why do you ask?
**[12:42] ---**
No reason!
**[12:45] ---**
This guy really did--
**[12:53] ---**
Wait a minute!
**[12:54] ---**
The clock must've struck
9:00 just before it happened!
**[12:59] ---**
That's it!
**[13:01] ---**
Now I see how Sakaguchi-*san
*ordered John to attack!
**[13:10] ---**
The phone was different?
**[13:11] ---**
Yeah.
**[13:12] ---**
The receiver on the big
phone is connected by a cord.
**[13:15] ---**
But last night he had a
cordless phone there, he said.
**[13:18] ---**
I wonder why?
**[13:20] ---**
Why? There's
probably no real reason--
**[13:23] ---**
No, there is a reason.
**[13:25] ---**
Sakaguchi-*san* absolutely
needed it to be a cordless phone!
**[13:30] ---**
What do you mean?
**[13:31] ---**
Listen. It would be impossible to
carry a regular phone up a staircase!
**[13:37] ---**
So Sakaguchi-*san* purposely
placed a portable cordless phone
**[13:41] ---**
in the living room!
**[13:43] ---**
So you still think that Sakaguchi-*san
*used John to commit a murder?
**[13:48] ---**
I'm absolutely certain of it now!
**[13:51] ---**
But I don't know the most important thing--
how he ordered the attack!
**[13:54] ---**
Hey, our clock doesn't chime, does it?
**[13:58] ---**
The clock in Sakaguchi-*san*'s
living room chimes real loud every hour.
**[14:04] ---**
His clock?!
**[14:06] ---**
Come to think of it,
**[14:07] ---**
it was precisely 9:00 when
John attacked Takeshi-*kun*!
**[14:09] ---**
I've figured it out!
**[14:11] ---**
The great detective, Mori Kogoro,
has just solved the mystery!
**[14:18] ---**
Beika Police Station
**[14:26] ---**
What in the world are you going to do?!
**[14:28] ---**
Just a little test.
**[14:32] ---**
When I give the word,
**[14:34] ---**
repeat what you said to
John last night on the phone!
**[14:37] ---**
Okay...
**[15:06] ---**
Okay, Sakaguchi-*san*!
**[15:07] ---**
Right.
**[15:09] ---**
How are you doing, John?
**[15:14] ---**
Louder!
**[15:16] ---**
How are you doing, John?!
**[15:21] ---**
This can't be!
**[15:24] ---**
Were my deductions all wrong?!
**[15:29] ---**
I was so certain of it!
**[15:33] ---**
You overanalyzed things, Dad.
**[15:36] ---**
He would never use the dog
that his son loved to get revenge...
**[15:39] ---**
I can't say anything for certain,
**[15:42] ---**
but what we found out
from our investigation afterward
**[15:44] ---**
was that Sakaguchi-*san* supposedly
took John somewhere in his car
**[15:48] ---**
every Sunday for the last three months.
**[15:52] ---**
According to him, he took
John to the outskirts of town
**[15:54] ---**
and let him get a lot of
exercise in the empty fields.
**[15:57] ---**
Inspector! He obviously
trained John during those times!
**[16:02] ---**
But there's no proof.
**[16:05] ---**
And I'm sorry to have to say this,
**[16:08] ---**
but it's been decided that John
is to be put to sleep tomorrow evening.
**[16:12] ---**
What?!
**[16:13] ---**
Orders from above.
**[16:15] ---**
Mr. Sakaguchi understands as well.
**[16:24] ---**
Shinichi...
**[16:26] ---**
Where are you?!
**[16:29] ---**
John, the dog you liked so much,
**[16:30] ---**
is going to be killed
if we don't do something!
**[16:34] ---**
Please come back, Shinichi!
**[16:38] ---**
You're the only one who can save John!
**[16:48] ---**
So they're going
to kill John this evening?!
**[16:51] ---**
That's horrible!
**[16:53] ---**
Can't we do something?!
**[16:55] ---**
I was up all night
thinking about it too, you know!
**[16:58] ---**
But...
**[17:02] ---**
Alright! Next!
**[17:03] ---**
On your mark!
**[17:07] ---**
Get set!
**[17:13] ---**
That's it!
**[17:15] ---**
I've finally figured it out!
**[17:18] ---**
What do you think he figured out?
**[17:20] ---**
No idea...
**[17:20] ---**
No idea...
**[17:26] ---**
What now?!
**[17:28] ---**
I'd like to have another test.
**[17:42] ---**
On your mark...
**[17:46] ---**
Hello?
**[18:06] ---**
Get set!
**[18:11] ---**
Now say the words, if you would!
**[18:26] ---**
You got me!
**[18:29] ---**
So you admit you trained
John to attack Maehara Takeshi-*kun*?!
**[18:35] ---**
He didn't remember anything!
**[18:39] ---**
He didn't remember me, or Masato!
**[18:42] ---**
Yes!
**[18:42] ---**
He had completely forgotten about
the very person he drove to suicide!
**[18:48] ---**
And then he unwittingly moved
into the apartment complex next to you...
**[18:51] ---**
I'm a lawyer who specializes
in crimes committed by minors!
**[18:55] ---**
I took this job so that I could
help young people who lost their way!
**[18:59] ---**
So when I saw him crying and
apologizing at the funeral eight years ago,
**[19:04] ---**
I decided to forgive him!
**[19:05] ---**
He was still just a
1st-year middle school student,
**[19:08] ---**
and I felt that Masato's
death wouldn't be in vain
**[19:11] ---**
if he truly regretted it
with all his heart!
**[19:14] ---**
But when I met him
again eight years later,
**[19:18] ---**
he didn't remember a
single thing about the incident!
**[19:21] ---**
Not only that, he was no
different than he was eight years ago!
**[19:25] ---**
Give me my wallet back!
**[19:27] ---**
I'm just borrowing it!
**[19:32] ---**
Stop worrying! I'll pay you back
one of these days, when I feel like it!
**[19:37] ---**
Who knows when that'll be, though...
**[19:41] ---**
When I saw that,
I could feel my blood boil!
**[19:47] ---**
What was Masato's death for?!
**[19:50] ---**
Why did I ever forgive him?!
**[19:54] ---**
So then you used John--
**[19:56] ---**
That's right!
**[19:57] ---**
I decided that if the
law couldn't deal with him,
**[19:59] ---**
then I would take
justice into my own hands!
**[20:01] ---**
And I'm sure that John was happy
that he avenged Masato too!
**[20:05] ---**
That's horrible!
**[20:06] ---**
You weren't the only one who
was sad when Masato-*kun* died!
**[20:10] ---**
Do you have any idea how sad John was?!
**[20:12] ---**
You said so yourself!
**[20:14] ---**
Even now, John still waits
for Masato-*kun* in front of his door!
**[20:19] ---**
Do you honestly think that
Masato-*kun* would be happy
**[20:22] ---**
that you used his
loyal dog to kill someone?!
**[20:26] ---**
Sakaguchi-*san*.
Bullying is definitely wrong.
**[20:31] ---**
And I actually do understand your
ill will toward Maehara Takeshi-*kun*.
**[20:35] ---**
But did you ever once think
about the feelings of the dog
**[20:38] ---**
you stupidly used as a
murder tool to get revenge?
**[20:45] ---**
John's feelings?
**[20:48] ---**
Here you go, John.
**[20:55] ---**
Oh, John!
**[20:58] ---**
Sakaguchi-*san*.
**[21:00] ---**
John is saying that he still
cares for you, even now.
**[21:03] ---**
Please try to understand that feeling.
**[21:07] ---**
John!
**[21:08] ---**
Forgive me, John!
**[21:13] ---**
John!
**[21:35] ---**
*Just my imagination*
**[21:38] ---**
*Playing with threads around my finger
while drinking lukewarm tea*
**[21:49] ---**
*Let's walk lightly
to the bossa nova rhythm*
**[21:57] ---**
*The puzzle pieces are in my hands*
**[22:03] ---**
*That's right...*
**[22:08] ---**
*I was in the same place last week
but with different clothes*
**[22:19] ---**
*Step by step,
there's no reason to be anxious*
**[22:26] ---**
*Case by case,
I don't care if you laugh*
**[22:33] ---**
*Beyond the countless days,
she's waiting for me*
**[22:42] ---**
*I gotta go my own way*
**[22:53] ---**
So they didn't kill John?!
**[22:55] ---**
That's right!
**[22:56] ---**
He was taken in by one of
Sakaguchi-*san*'s relatives!
**[22:59] ---**
That's great!
**[23:00] ---**
And it's all thanks to
Mori Kogoro, the great detective!
**[23:07] ---**
But John doesn't live
at that house anymore, huh?
**[23:11] ---**
That's too bad.
We really liked him a lot...
**[23:15] ---**
You can always make
friends with another dog!
**[23:19] ---**
See? Look at that one!
**[23:20] ---**
It looks just like John!
**[23:21] ---**
It does! Let's go!
**[23:23] ---**
Yeah!
**[23:29] ---**
You appear to have
quite an exceptional dog, Miss.
**[23:33] ---**
Actually, I'm a dog-lover myself...
**[23:36] ---**
What do you say we talk about
dogs at that coffee shop over there?!
**[23:40] ---**
No, thanks...
**[23:42] ---**
Don't say that!
**[23:43] ---**
Come on!
**[23:49] ---**
Sic 'im, boy!
**[23:50] ---**
Go get him!
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Go start a relationship
with a dog instead.
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You two took a bath together?!
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Yeah!
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That sure was fun,
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scrubbing each other's back!
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A nosebleed?
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The bath must've rushed the blood to your head.
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I'm dead if she finds out
who I really am!
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No question about it!
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When you commit suicide,
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you raise the gun like this and--
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On the next Conan--
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Kogoro's Reunion Murder Case (Part 1).
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Next Conan's Hint:
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A gun.
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Can you identify next episode's culprit in part one?
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