# E56 - The Ojamanbo Murder Case
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZ8M3Q/the-ojamanbo-murder-case)
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As long as modern-day
crimes involve people,
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there are no
unsolvable mysteries!
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Today's guests are super special!
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Relationships can be complex things!
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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 Ojamanbo Murder Case
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The Ojamanbo Murder Case.
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Sunday, 7:00 a.m.
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Come on, Dad!
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Are you worn out already?
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Don't blame me,
blame my hangover...
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He's the one who suggested
it in the first place...
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Yeah. We just came along...
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Okay, only two more
kilometers to the park!
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Come on, you can do it!
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Let's take a break for a minute...
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Ojamanbo Cleaning Company, Eastern
Business Director, Tsunehisa Fujii (27)
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What's this?
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Over here!
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You two stay here!
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Ojamanbo Cleaning Company,
President, Hideyuki Nakayama (29)
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Asagi-*san*! Asagi-*san*!
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Ojamanbo Cleaning Company,
President's Secretary, Kuniko Asagi (31)
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Yes? Is something the matter, sir?
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It appears something
happened outside.
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Could you go take a look for me?
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Yes, of course.
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Hey, call an ambulance!
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This looks bad!
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It's the same drawing as that truck's.
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He's dead.
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It looks like that iron
girder fell on him from above...
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Neither of the buildings have windows.
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Meaning this
girder fell from the roof?
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Who are you?
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We were cleaning the
building across the street--
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we're from Ojamanbo.
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Sorry to ask, but could you
check out this abandoned building?
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Someone might have
dropped the girder from it.
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Right!
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Oh? Those are our--
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It's just my luck that
I'd run into a big incident
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first thing Sunday morning...
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Fujii-*san*!
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You know him?!
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Yes! He's one of
our company's directors!
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But why?
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So Fujii-*san* was on his
way from his office up ahead
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to the main office here?
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Yes. He was supposed to meet
the company president at 9:00.
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Oh, that's right!
I need to inform him about this!
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Sir!
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Asagi-*san*. What happened?
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It's Director Fujii...
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Did something happen to him?
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Fujii!
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Asagi-*san*!
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Move the Manbo Mobile away
from that building right away!
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It'll be in the way when
the police get here! Hurry!
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Right!
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But why did this happen?
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Come on in.
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What's that switch for?
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Now, then. When
the incident occurred,
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Nakayama-*san* was in this room,
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and Asagi-*san* was in
the room next door. Right?
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Yes.
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Is there anyone
who can vouch for this?
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Sorry?
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The truth is, right after the incident,
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Mori-*kun* here asked
your employees to inspect
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the abandoned building next door.
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Yes, so I've heard.
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But they didn't find
anyone suspicious, right?
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Nope.
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But when I thought hard about it,
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I realized there's
also a high possibility
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the iron girder was dropped
from the roof of this building.
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Floors 3 and up belong
to a parent company.
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I hear floors 1 and 2 are
being rented out to your company.
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And from what
the security guard told us,
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the parent company above
you is closed because it's Sunday.
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Other than Nakayama-*san* and Asagi-*san*,
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nobody had entered this building.
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That's what he said.
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So you want to know our alibis?
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I don't know what to say.
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There wasn't anyone
else to vouch for us...
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This switch is--
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I can see the road out front!
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Judging from this angle,
there must be a camera on the roof!
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It's recording!
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Now I see! The camera's
angle changes automatically!
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Which means that when it's on manual
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you use this stick
to change the angle...
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Hey, you! Don't touch
other people's things!
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Is this your wife, Nakayama-*san*?
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No, that's my sister.
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Your sister?
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Yes. But she passed away this January...
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Dad!
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I'm sorry to hear that...
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But becoming a company
president at such a young age...
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That's really something!
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This company was originally just me,
Fujii, and my sister Kumiko
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back in my college days.
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We originally started it
as a "jack-of-all-trades" shop.
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We came up with the name "Ojamanbo"
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because we would actively go
to random homes and demand work.
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I see.
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But to our delight, the business
did much better than we ever expected.
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Two years later,
we took our first step into cleaning
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by creating the
Ojamanbo Cleaning Company.
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I took the role
of company president,
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and Fujii oversaw work as business
director of the eastern region.
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My sister worked as my secretary,
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but she died in
an accident in January.
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Inspector.
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I'll tell you since you'd
eventually find out anyway,
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there was some
trouble between me and Fujii.
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Trouble?
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Fujii was going to start his
own cleaning company by himself.
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Because of this, he tried to take
several highly-skilled employees
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along with him, so...
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Whenever we met, we always
clashed with each other.
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I was supposed to talk
with Fujii again today.
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I got it!
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You already figured it out?!
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Nakayama-*san* was the one
who dropped the girder from the roof!
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Asagi-*san* and Nakayama-*san* are lovers,
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so she's lying to cover for him!
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What's so funny?
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As if he and I would ever be lovers!
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Sorry, but you're wrong, Mori-*san*.
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The reason being that
she's getting married next month!
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Married?
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Inspector!
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It wasn't much, but we found
a mark made by an iron girder
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on the roof of the building next door.
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What?!
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So the girder fell from the
roof of the abandoned building!
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We also found this harmonica
lying next to the body...
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His name's on it, so it would
seem it belongs to Fujii-*san*...
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Yes, that's his.
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I've seen it on several occasions.
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However, we couldn't
find any fingerprints on it at all.
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It's clean, almost as if
it had been wiped with a cloth.
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If it belongs to Fujii-*san*,
shouldn't his fingerprints be on it?
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Yes, but...
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I just remembered
some unimportant business.
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Would you mind
if I leave for just a bit?
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No, that would be fine.
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Thank you.
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Asagi-*san*. Contact Fujii-*kun*'s
parents and fiancée.
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Right!
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Fujii-*san* has a fiancée?
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Yes. Apparently she's the
daughter of a wealthy man,
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and the start-up funds
for his new company
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were supposed to come from him.
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Say, how did
Nakayama-*san*'s sister die?
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She was in an accident.
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An accident?
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Yes.
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Apparently she had a
big argument with her brother
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and quit in December.
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I was hired as her replacement.
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But she took a part-time
job at a construction company
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and was hit in the head by an
iron girder on a construction site.
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Come again?!
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That's exactly the same as
what happened this morning!
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That's why I've been thinking about
how terrible coincidences can be...
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Was it really a coincidence, though?
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Could his sister's
death have some relevance
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to the truth behind this incident?
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If so, then it's highly likely
that Nakayama-*san* did it!
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But how?!
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At any rate, I'm going to
re-question the employees
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who were cleaning the
building across the street.
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You folks stay here.
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Understood.
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Let's go.
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Yes, sir!
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After entering this room, Nakayama-*san
*switched the camera to Auto.
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If he's the killer, then it
must be the key to something!
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I can see the road out front!
This is neat!
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Oh, a security camera
on the roof is recording that.
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A security camera?
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Yes. The company president
is always checking the monitor
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to make sure there's no litter
on the street in front of the building.
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I see. So it's the policy of the
president of a cleaning company.
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Yes. His concepts are always unique--
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the Manbo Mobile was his idea too!
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Parking it in front of a spotless
building makes for great publicity!
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Say, this is set on Auto,
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but do you think we could see
inside that alley if it was on Manual?
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I'm not sure.
Why don't you try and see?
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Okay!
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Can't see it at all, huh?
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No.
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What's this strap?
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Binoculars?!
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Conan-*kun*!
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You know better than to
open other people's drawers!
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I'm gonna go up to the roof!
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So that's the security camera.
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It's pretty big...
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The abandoned building next
door is one floor shorter than this one...
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That must be the mark
made by the sliding iron girder.
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This height difference
would make it impossible
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to return the girder up
here if it had been lowered
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onto the abandoned building.
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Which means Nakayama-*san
*couldn't have dropped it--
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he was inside this building.
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Plus, he was in his
office when it happened!
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Wait a minute! It's possible that--
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Here we go!
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It's not much, but there's
a fresh scratch mark here
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from something thin!
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There's no doubt about it!
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Using this method, it would
be possible to drop the girder
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even from his office!
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But how did he know
Fujii-*san* was in the alley?!
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Wait!
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No good.
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None of the lower floors
reflect what's in the alley!
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Was it really impossible for
Nakayama-*san* to have done it?!
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Conan-*kun*?
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What are you doing?
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Nothing really...
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Wait! Come to think of it...
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Asagi-*san*!
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Move the Manbo Mobile away
from that building right away!
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Now I see!
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That's why the harmonica
didn't have any fingerprints on it!
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Nakayama-*san* really did do it!
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How'd it go, Inspector?
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Not well.
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Apparently they had
finished their window-cleaning
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and moved on to cleaning
the first floor when it happened.
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They said they didn't see anything.
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I see...
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Darn it!
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Will checking this video prove
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that he controlled the
only camera on the roof?!
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But will that alone...
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...serve as conclusive proof?!
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What's this?!
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Alright! Now I have evidence!
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Sorry to keep you waiting.
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Ah, Nakayama-*san*.
You can leave for today.
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We'll contact you at a later time.
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I see.
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Oh no!
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This video'll be erased if he notices it!
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I have no choice!
I'll use my usual method!
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What?
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What is it, Mori-*kun*?
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Inspector. You mustn't
let him leave just yet.
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The reason being that I've
seen through the superb trick
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Nakayama-*san* used to murder
Fujii-*san* from this room.
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What?!
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So you're saying
Nakayama-*san* killed him?!
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Yes. The key to his trick was
the security camera on the roof.
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The security camera?
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Nakayama-*san* placed an iron
girder on top of the building next door
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and then connected it to the
security camera with something thin--
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piano wire, most likely.
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Afterward, when Fujii-*san
*walked into the alleyway,
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he operated the security camera,
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which had been
set to Manual in advance.
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The reason Nakayama-*san* had
Asagi-*san* check what happened outside
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was so he could go to the roof
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and remove the piano wire
from the camera.
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And the reason
he went outside just now
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was to dispose of that piano wire.
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Am I wrong?
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You're not only wrong, but your
theory lacks a vital part, Mori-*san*.
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From in here,
how could I have known what time
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Fujii would be in the alley?
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I agree.
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It would be impossible
to drop the girder on Fujii-*san*
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if the timing was even a second off.
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In order to have Fujii-*san
*stop on a specific spot,
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Nakayama-*san* stole
his harmonica in advance
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and placed it in the alley.
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He then used his binoculars
to see Fujii-*san* enter the alley.
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How? The alley
isn't visible from here!
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Inspector. When the incident occurred,
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the company's Manbo Mobile was parked
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in front of a
building across the street.
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The logo's eye was a mirror.
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What?!
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Do you see now?
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Nakayama-*san* used binoculars to
view the reflection of the alley
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and then dropped the girder.
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He waited for just the right time...
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That's why you had
the Manbo Mobile moved
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right after you saw his body.
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So that the police
wouldn't figure out your trick.
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But you made a mistake.
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You dropped the girder before
Fujii-*san* had picked up the harmonica.
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That's why his
fingerprints weren't on it.
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You were flustered.
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There's no blaming you.
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Because Ran got in your
way at the worst possible time.
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But you have no
proof of this, Mori-*san*.
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According to your theory,
I've already disposed of the piano wire.
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But there is proof.
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After you used the security
camera to drop the girder,
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you changed the camera's angle
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to make it easier to
remove the piano wire.
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During that time,
the camera recorded
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the reflection in the glass
windows of the opposite building.
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It's all yours, Conan!
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Everyone gather over here!
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Conan-*kun*?
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Watch closely, everyone.
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See the camera in
the glass's reflection?
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In just a moment...
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Here!
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Company president!
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My sister and Fujii were lovers.
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But Fujii met a rich man's daughter
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and ditched my
sister like it was nothing.
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As a result,
my sister quit the company.
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So it wasn't because
you two had an argument?
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I thought so, myself.
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Our parents died
when we were very young.
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My sister always
saw me as a father-figure,
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but now she was confused,
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so she quit the company
to get away from her brother.
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That's what I thought, anyway.
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But that wasn't the case...
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After she died in an accident,
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I went to her apartment in
Yokohama to tend to her belongings.
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I realized everything then.
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So then you wiped the
harmonica and put it in the alley?
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If Fujii hadn't dumped her,
she wouldn't have died!
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I had to make him pay!
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But it certainly is ironic, isn't it?
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I used the Manbo Mobile's
mirror to commit a murder--
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and then I was found guilty because
of my reflection in those windows.
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And it was no other
than your own company
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that polished those windows.
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But of course.
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The Ojamanbo Cleaning Company's
cleaning techniques
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are the best in the world!
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Brother...
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I saw the Manbo Mobile go by today.
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It looks like the company's still
going even after the president's arrest.
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Yeah. But apparently Asagi-*san* quit.
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It must have been a real shock to her.
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I wonder what she's doing now?
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Hello, there!
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I'm Ojamanbo's new announcer,
Kuniko Asagi!
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I'm honored to be here!
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What a strong woman...
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No! She must have found a clue
we don't know about yet!
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Now that you mention it, Ayako-*san
*was acting odd this afternoon...
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What?!
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Don't tell me Ayako-*san*'s in there!
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The Holmes Freak Murder Case (Part 1)
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On the next Conan--
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The Holmes Freak Murder Case (Part 1).
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Next Conan's Hint:
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Blanket.
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Next episode Conan's rival returns.
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Me again?
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It's not you, Genta.
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