# E48 - The Diplomat Murder Case (Part 1)
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As times change, difficult
cases will increase in number!
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Shinichi's rival suddenly appears!
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Can I fight him as Conan?!
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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 Diplomat Murder Case (Part 1).
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Sheesh! You finally call me
for once but you have a cold!
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Just get back here already, Shinichi!
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I can't help it;
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I'm in the middle of a dangerous case.
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Oh, a client.
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It looks like a client is here,
so I'll talk to you later!
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And get over your stupid cold!
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Hey, Ran!
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Ugh! She worries when I don't call,
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and yells at me when I do call!
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All she ever does is complain!
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I just don't get girls!
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No point in lying, Missy.
I know he's here!
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So bring out Kudo Shinichi!
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Eh? Me?
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C'mon, already!
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Conan-*kun*!
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You have a cold, too?!
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Yeah...
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Here, stay still.
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Honestly, both you and Shinichi...
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Is there a cold going around?
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Kudo has a cold?
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How do you know that
if you dunno where he is?
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The phone.
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Shinichi called just
now with a nasally voice.
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Kudo called here?
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He does call once in a while.
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There a problem with that?
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So I guess the rumor you're
Kudo's woman really is true...
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Woman?!
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Eh?!
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Who said that?!
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Who said that?!
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Some friend of yours named Suzuki.
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Says Kudo doesn't go to school,
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and that you're probably involved!
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Sonoko...
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Darn her...
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So, what did you and Kudo talk about?
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Nothing.
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He told me about good
mystery novels he read recently,
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the J-League, and asked
how people at school are.
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Did he ask about you?
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Eh? Me?
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Come to think of it,
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he always talks about
himself and never about me.
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W-What's going on?
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Hey, now! What're you doing?!
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Doesn't it seem strange?
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Eh?
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His occasional calls mean
he has some interest in you.
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Wouldn't someone like that
care how the other person is doing?
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There's only one reason why
he wouldn't ask that.
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Kudo is watching you from somewhere!
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Eh?!
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Probably from nearby, too.
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Shinichi... is watching me?
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I'm sure he's spying from somewhere!
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Talk about creepy!
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Who is this guy?!
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By the way, who are you?
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Oh, right. I forgot.
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My name is Hattori Heiji.
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A high school detective,
just like Kudo.
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High school...
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...detective?!
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Oh, he's just a detective.
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Hey, kid. I got just
the thing for your cold!
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Come to think of it,
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I have heard of a
skilled detective in Kansai...
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Yep. They call us "Hattori of the West"
and "Kudo of the East."
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Here ya go!
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Oh, thanks...
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But there's been no
word about Kudo lately.
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He's never in the papers anymore,
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and rumors say he's missing...
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But now the east has Mori Kogoro--
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So what do you want with Shinichi?!
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Nothing. I just wanna see for myself.
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The east has me, Mori!
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I wanna see if Kudo Shinichi's
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really worthy of being compared to me.
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Huh?
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Conan-*kun*! What's wrong?!
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Ran-*neechan*...
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Conan-*kun*! Hey!
What did you give him!
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Chinese alcohol known as baigar.
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I'll be staying here until I meet Kudo.
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So this is a gift!
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How can you just do that?!
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Do you know how long I rang the bell?!
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I see this agency isn't
equipped to greet clients, either!
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I'm in a hurry,
so could we make this quick?
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A background check
on your son's girlfriend?
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That is a photo of her, and her history.
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Katsuragi Yukiko-*san*, age 24.
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Graduated Mitsuba Middle School
and High School top of her class,
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currently attends
Toto Medical University.
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Well on her way to
becoming a woman doctor.
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Something wrong with all this?
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No. It's just...
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Too perfect, so you don't like her.
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People are inquisitive,
jealous creatures...
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When they see something perfect,
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they naturally look for flaws.
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Right, lady?
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Who is he?!
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Oh, just a friend of my daughter's...
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In any case, we can talk in more
detail at my home, with my husband.
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Umm... Right now?
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Couldn't you have both come here?
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As I told you,
my husband is a diplomat.
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If people found out he came here...
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...it'd turn into scandal.
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Alright! I'm coming too!
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What?!
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It'd be less suspicious
if we went as a family, right?
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Yes. That would be best.
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Eh?! M-Madam!
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Why don't you come, too?
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Why me?
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The more the merrier, y'know?
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Besides, who knows,
maybe Kudo'll show up!
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Ran-*neechan*. Ran-*neechan*!
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Let's go with them!
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But are you *okay* with your cold?
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Yeah! His medicine got rid of it!
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Told ya!
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Yeah, right! It made it even worse!
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I don't wanna go,
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but there's no telling
what this guy might say!
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Welcome back, Madam.
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Where is my husband?
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I do believe he's still in his study.
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Koike Fumio (48)-- Butler
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Who are these folks?
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This is Mori-*san*, an old friend.
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Mother! Hello there!
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Oh! You're from the photo--
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W-Why are you here?!
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I asked her here.
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Dad won't see her,
so I'm forcing him to.
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He still won't come out
of his study, though.
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Umm, might these people be
acquaintances of yours, Mother?
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That is none of your business!
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And you have no
right to call me "Mother"!
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I-I'm sorry...
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This way.
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Sure acts big for a second wife...
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Oh, Father.
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I didn't know you were home.
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Come, now! You said you wanted
to hear about the fish I caught!
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What do you think?
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A real whopper, wouldn't you say?
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Oh, right. I'll be there soon.
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Please wait in the
Japanese-style room.
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Yeah.
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Dear! He's here! Dear!
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That's odd. Is he not in there?
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Oh, you are in here!
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Honestly, now! Leaving the stereo
on and taking a nap in here!
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An opera?
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Dear! Hey! Please wake up! Dear!
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Dear--
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Dear! Say something! Dear!
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Too late. He's already dead!
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Ran! Call the police!
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Right!
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Dear!
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His body is still warm.
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And his lips are
starting to turn purple.
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There's a small
red dot by his hairline...
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Could it be?!
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Oww!
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Oww!
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Stupid kid! Getting in the way!
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Conan-*kun*!
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Isn't it your job to watch him?!
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Kids shouldn't be
seeing dead bodies, anyway!
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Yeah...
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The deceased is Tsujimura Isao-*san*,
age 54 and a diplomat.
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And the detective who happened
to be here when the body was found...
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Was I, Mori Kogoro, Inspector Megure!
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So, is it another
murder today, great detective?
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Well, as there are no
signs of foul play, it's probably--
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Look closer at the body!
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He was probably...
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...poisoned.
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Yeah. He was pois--
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Someone killed this old man with poison.
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There's a red dot by his hairline,
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and a needle's
lying next to the body.
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The old man died propped up,
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but he was probably set that
way after someone poisoned him.
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But it could've been suicide...
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What? You don't get it?
Check out the body.
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The lips and digits
are turning purple,
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and his eyes have excess blood.
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This is proof he suffocated.
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Yet, there are no signs at all of
strangulation, drowning, or suffering.
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The only possibility left is that
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he was paralyzed and then suffocated
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with powerful poison
that can kill instantly!
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Add in the body's warmth
and the lack of rigor mortis
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and that means he
was killed half an hour
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before we entered the room!
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And by someone
who stopped by this room...
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Mori-*kun*. Who is this lad?
**[12:36] ---**
Hattori Heiji.
A cheeky kid detective.
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Hattori... Heiji?
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Oh, you're the son of Hattori Heizo-*san*,
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Osaka's chief of police!
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Osaka's chief of police?
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It's strange, Hattori-*kun
*somehow reminds me of Shinichi...
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Are you all right, Conan-*kun*?!
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This is bad!
My cold's gotten worse!
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All the windows are
locked from the inside.
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Entering from outside is impossible.
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Which means one of you entered
through the door with a spare key.
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Madam. I assume there are
several spare keys to this study?
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No, only two.
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I have one here.
My husband has the other.
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Y-Your husband?!
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Yes. He always kept it
in his pants pocket.
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Let's have a look.
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Damn, his pants are tight.
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I-Impossible!
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Eh? What is?
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Don't you get it?!
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The door was locked when we arrived!
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In other words,
the killer locked the door and left!
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One of the keys is with his wife,
who entered the room with us,
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and the other was in a double
pocket of the victim's pants...
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Making this an
absolutely impossible crime...
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...a locked room murder!
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A locked room murder?!
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That can't be...
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Just as I thought.
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This guy's been in the papers,
but he didn't solve those cases.
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Kudo Shinichi did!
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This guy secretly
contacts Kudo for help.
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Probably will this time, too.
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Alright!
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Let's see who solves this locked
room murder first, Kudo Shinichi!
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I don't feel good...
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Even my ears are ringing now...
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Looks like I better solve this case
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so I can go home and get some rest...
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What're you doing?
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The murder took place
between 3:30 and 4:00.
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Shouldn't you start by asking
all the suspects for their alibis?!
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T-That's right!
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Hey! Don't let him beat you!
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Huh?!
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Do you want some outsider
kid to upstage you?!
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I'm counting on you
as always, great detective!
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Y-Yeah...
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So you spoke with neighbors at
the front door between 3:00 and 4:00?
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Yes.
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Is it true Takayoshi-*san
*and Yukiko-*san*
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arrived just before his wife?
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Yes. That is correct.
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So where were you two while
he was greeting her at the door?
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My dad's study.
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But the door was locked
and he wouldn't respond,
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so we went back downstairs.
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Then we saw Mother at the front door...
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It was shortly after
2:00 when you arrived, yes?
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That's right.
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I came all this way,
but Isao was holed up in here,
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and Kimie-*san* had left...
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With nothing else to do,
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I went to the next room
and watched TV.
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What time did you leave?
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An hour ago.
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Which means that only those
three could've gotten near the victim
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at the time of the murder.
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Oh! What an impressive number of CDs!
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Yes. He loved classical music.
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Classical? Oh yeah, there was
an opera playing when we found him...
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Oh? Madam.
What is this photograph?
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Huh?! Oh no!
**[16:45] ---**
This photo is twenty years old!
What does it matter?!
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M-My eyesight is blurring!
**[16:50] ---**
Inspector! What shall we
do with the books on the desk?
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Oh. Just leave 'em.
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Books?
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Come to think of it, there were
irrelevant books stacked by the body.
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Almost as if pulled
straight out of the bookshelf...
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Inspector. We found something
odd about the victim's key.
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What?!
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The key holder opens up to reveal...
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...Scotch tape!
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What's that thin bulge in the middle?
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L-Let me see, too...
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Conan-*kun*?
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Now it's my chest!
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I gotta solve this case, quick!
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Got any realizations for me,
great detective?
**[17:32] ---**
Nope, nothing.
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Wait! Could it be?!
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The unnaturally-stacked
books in front of the body,
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and the opera playing
at the scene of the crime!
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The tape on the key!
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The mysterious bulge
in the middle of it!
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And the slit beneath this door!
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The opera!
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That's it!
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I figured out the locked room trick!
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And...
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...who... did it...
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Conan-*kun*!
**[18:10] ---**
Conan-*kun*! What's wrong?!
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Hey! Call a doctor!
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Yes, sir!
**[18:21] ---**
You're really burning up!
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Huh? Hattori-*kun*'s gone...
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He asked where the
Japanese-style room was, then left.
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Japanese-style room?
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It has to be here!
If my theory's right...
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it has to be here somewhere!
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Bingo! This is it!
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I win, Kudo!
**[18:55] ---**
I'm sorry, but is there
anywhere he can lie down?
**[18:58] ---**
You can use the bed in my room.
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It's at the end of the hallway.
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Thank you! I appreciate it!
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Hattori-*kun*...
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I figured it out.
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The locked room trick,
and who did it.
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What?!
**[19:15] ---**
Eh?!
**[19:16] ---**
You solved it already?
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That's what you get for being slow!
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I'll show you the proof right now.
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Fishing line?
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Inspector Megure.
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Hate to ask, but could
you play the role of the body?
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O-Okay...
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D-Don't tell me he's...
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At the time of the murder,
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all the windows were
locked from the inside,
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and the only other entrance
was locked as well.
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That clearly makes this
a locked room murder.
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But even when this room seems locked,
there's still one opening.
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Opening?
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Yes. The opening beneath the door!
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Hey, now. You're not suggesting
the key was thrown through that gap
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and into the victim's pocket, are you?
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It can be done!
**[20:15] ---**
With tape and this needle-ended
fishing line I found!
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Fishing line?
**[20:25] ---**
Don't worry, Conan-*kun*!
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A doctor will be here soon!
**[20:30] ---**
Damn! This isn't funny!
**[20:33] ---**
Fainting from a
cold at a time like this!
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Conan-*kun*!
**[20:41] ---**
After pricking the victim's
neck with the needle and killing him,
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the killer stole the victim's key.
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The killer then took out
the needle-ended fishing line,
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taped the non-needle
end to the key holder,
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stuck the needle
end into the victim's pocket,
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pulled the line through,
**[21:04] ---**
and then sat him in the chair
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and put him in the pose we found him in.
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The killer then took both ends
outside the room, beneath the door,
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and then closed and locked the door.
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All that remained was to put the
key down and pull the needle end.
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The key slipped under
the door, climbed up the table,
**[21:30] ---**
and entered the
victim's pocket on its own.
**[21:35] ---**
I-It went in!
**[21:36] ---**
Then, with one last tug...
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the line pulled through the tape.
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Then, by simply winding it up,
the evidence disappeared
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and created the perfect
"locked room murder"!
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I-Indeed...
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Say something,
Conan-*kun*! Conan-*kun*!
**[21:55] ---**
I'm burning up...
My heart's about to burst...
**[22:00] ---**
That must be the doctor!
**[22:03] ---**
Hang in there!
I'll bring him right here!
**[22:07] ---**
A-Am I gonna die...
**[22:10] ---**
Am I gonna die like this?!
**[22:19] ---**
Well, Kudo?
**[22:21] ---**
If you got any problems
with my theory, show yourself!
**[22:23] ---**
Better hurry before I solve it all!
**[24:01] ---**
Nope, I'm afraid not.
**[24:07] ---**
You got it all wrong!
**[24:09] ---**
Kudo!
**[24:11] ---**
Shinichi!
**[24:13] ---**
Just what's wrong
with my theory, Kudo?!
**[24:18] ---**
That... can't be!
**[24:21] ---**
Yes. The killer... is you!
**[24:25] ---**
On the next Conan--
**[24:27] ---**
"The Diplomat Murder Case (Part 2)."
**[24:46] ---**
Next Conan's Hint:
**[24:49] ---**
Opera (music and books).
**[24:51] ---**
Next episode...
**[24:53] ---**
I'm back for the first time in 14 months.
It's me, Kudo Shinichi.
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