# E87 - The Crane That Returned a Favor Murder Case
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A racing second hand,
a shooting comet!
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Conan's logic is good medicine
for hearts tired by modern society!
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Today's case is animal protection!
Folk tales have deep meanings!
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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 Crane That Returned
a Favor Murder Case."
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Hey, are you really
sure this is the road?
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Yeah! They should be
in the marsh just ahead!
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Ugh. Here we are in Hokkaido,
so why no crabs or hot springs?!
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We can see cranes
at the zoo any old time!
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*Tanchou* cranes are a protected
species and only found in Hokkaido!
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So what?!
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Feeding Ground
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Another one is flying! How cool!
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Are we done yet?
We gotta find a place to stay
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or we'll be sleeping
in the car tonight!
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Hey!
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Who gave you
permission to be here?!
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Permission? Is this private property?
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That's right!
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I'm so sorry!
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We heard *tanchous* don't like people,
so we came here to watch them...
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I hope you're not crane thieves...
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Do I look like that kind of person?
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Yes!
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Say, why is this window
made of tempered glass?
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It's the same kind
used in planes, right?
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Some people like
to break windows for fun...
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Do you like the *tanchous*?
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Yes!
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Yeah!
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What's so fun about
taking care of cranes?
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Old people make no sense.
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Hey, Dad! He asked
if we'd stay the night!
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There's even an open-air bath nearby!
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Ran-*kun* and Conan-*kun* did help me,
and the *tanchous* are overjoyed.
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It's our way of saying thanks.
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Does that mean... it's free?
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Leave if you don't like it.
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Nothing of the sort!
We'd be glad to stay!
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It's the cranes' return favor!
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Yeah!
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That there is my home.
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I live alone now.
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Your wife passed
away five years ago?
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I've lived all alone ever since.
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This thing looks alive!
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I stuff *tanchous* that
die from injuries or illness
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and donate them
to schools and museums.
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Hello, there!
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This is my brother, Tamotsu. He started
sponging off me ten days ago.
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He's a worthless painter.
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Didn't need the
"worthless" part, Brother.
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I just told the truth.
You lack observational skills.
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It's your fatal flaw.
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This here is Mori-*san* from Tokyo.
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I'm a detective.
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Detective?
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Machida Tamotsu (53) Painter
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Are you the famous Mori Kogoro-*san*?
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My reputation's even
made it to Hokkaido, has it?!
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No.
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Eh?!
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Tamotsu is from Tokyo.
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Oh, I see...
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What is this tempered
glass for, Mister?
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I'm going to use it in that window,
so I can watch the *tanchous* from it.
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Dad!
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Dad!
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Why are you two here?!
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Are you really donating
your estate to the village?!
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It's not true, is it, Dad?!
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It's true.
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I want it to take care of the *tanchous
*and other migratory birds forever!
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What?! What about taking care of me?!
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Boutique Manager
Office Worker
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Dad! Help me! My boutique's
going to be taken over!
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Quit it! We have company!
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Damn! All any of
you want is money!
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Come on, we're family!
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Hey, why isn't there a fire going?!
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Don't, Hiroshi-*kun*!
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Eh?
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Stop!
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What was that for?!
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A turtledove made its nest
on the chimney last spring!
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She's since left it, though.
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She might come back this spring!
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You're not to touch anything
in this house, not just the fireplace!
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Bird, birds, birds! Are birds more
important than your own children?!
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What a great parent!
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Tamotsu, did you call these two here?!
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Yeah. I knew you wouldn't like it,
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but I felt it was best to discuss
this sooner rather than later...
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How egotistical.
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Your Uncle Tamotsu probably told you,
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but an attorney is bringing
the form here at 5:00 today.
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The minute I stamp it, my 300 million
will go to the village once I die!
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300 million?!
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Then I'll talk with that attorney!
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300 million for *tanchous*?!
You're out of your mind!
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There's no point!
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I've already given you your amount
of inheritance required by law!
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You haven't been here in a while.
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It wouldn't hurt to
visit your mother's grave!
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Damn him! Now what do we do?!
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I'll talk to the attorney!
I will put an end to this!
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Geez. This is some place
we wound up staying at...
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You'll be all better soon!
Just hang in there!
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He used to be a CEO?
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Yeah. He had a
car dealership in Tokyo.
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My sister fell ill eight years ago
and moved here with him to recuperate.
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Just the two of them?
What about their kids?
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Noriko and Hiroshi
didn't want to leave Tokyo,
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so my brother gave them
their inheritance early.
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And they used it all up?
I'm so jealous...
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Stop! What're you--
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Quiet! It ain't loaded!
Or are you blind?!
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Move!
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What a horrible son.
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I'm alive again...
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But, there's something missing...
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I don't like the sound of this...
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Geez! Get your own sake, will ya?!
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Huh?
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That hits the spot!
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What do you think, Mori-*san*?
Isn't it a great hot spring?
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The best! No complaints from me!
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Glad to hear it!
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Where are you headed?
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Actually, I've been here for ten days,
but my sketchbook is still blank.
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Thought I'd head to the feeding
ground to sketch some *tanchous*.
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Well, enjoy yourselves--
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Here you go!
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Thanks!
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Oh, yeah. I'll stop by again at
around 5:00 when the attorney arrives,
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so please enjoy yourselves until then!
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Sure! I'll enjoy myself plenty!
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Dad! You should get
out before he gets here!
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Not yet! There's no telling when
I'll get to visit another hot spring!
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It's your own fault
if you wind up fainting!
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Hiroshi-*san*...
Is he going back to Tokyo?
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So dizzy...
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Haven't you ever heard of limits?!
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I don't feel so good...
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Of course you don't.
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You were in there for two hours
and swam after drinking!
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Is he all right?
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He's just dizzy! Anyways,
did you get any drawings done?
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Yep. As you can see...
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Wow! You're really good!
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Well, I should be going back.
Take your time, now.
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Thanks...
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Yamagami Tatsuo (58) Attorney
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Evening, Tamotsu-*san*! Is Shuzo-*san* home?
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Yeah, he should be
waiting for you. Come on in.
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The window's broken!
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Brother!
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Oh, no!
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No good! It's locked from the inside!
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What's going on?
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My brother's been
killed with an arrow!
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You can't be serious...
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Dad!
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Don't come in!
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Uncle! Hiroshi ran off!
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Calm down, Nori-*chan*!
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You look for Hiroshi-*kun*! I'll tell
Detective Mori at the hot spring!
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You call the police
with the phone by the door!
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Right...
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So, the crossbow
was shot from outside...
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The window is locked, and the
door was locked from the inside?
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Yes. He always locks it
at 4:00 to watch his videos.
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He would watch videos
of my late sister every day.
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He probably didn't want
anyone to see him visiting her...
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So, he had the windows
made of ground glass?
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He was about to put in tempered
glass so he could finally
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get over the sadness and watch
his *tanchous* whenever he wanted...
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But he was murdered
just before he could...
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There's a mark on it...
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The arrow was shot from this window?
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What's this?!
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Why are the shards all lined up?!
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And there's another mark on the floor...
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Uncle Tamotsu!
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Where's Hiroshi-*kun*?!
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I can't find him anywhere!
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And our car is gone!
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We saw Hiroshi-*san
*drive off just after 5:00...
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How'd he seem?!
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He seemed in a real hurry...
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Suspicious...
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Soot?
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There's soot gone in some places!
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An unburned wood chip?
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Alright, you!
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No nosing around the crime scene!
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Hiroshi!
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Hiroshi-*kun*!
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I'm Ezomatsu, of the Hokkai Police.
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This man has confessed to killing
his father with this crossbow.
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Confessed?!
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Who are you?
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I'm the famous Tokyo
detective, Mori Kogoro!
**[13:36] ---**
Famous detective? Mori what?
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Kogoro...
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Guess my name really
hasn't spread to Hokkaido...
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It's strange!
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What is it?!
Something's not right!
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I just meant to scare him, not kill him!
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I aimed for that stuffed *tanchou*...
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I thought if I scared him,
he wouldn't donate his fortune away...
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So, you took the crossbow
from the workshop?!
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When I peeked inside,
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I saw him on the sofa,
watching a video of Mom...
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I aimed at the *tanchou*,
took two steps back, and shot!
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That scare ya?!
Next time it won't be a--
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I didn't want to do it!
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But my sister kept telling me to!
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What?! I never said to kill anyone!
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And that was only
because Uncle Tamotsu said
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Dad might change his
mind if we really scared him!
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Hold on, Nori-*chan*!
I would never say anything like that!
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There must be some
misunderstanding.
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A feather in his back pocket...
Is it a *tanchou* feather?
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Feather?!
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I thought so!
But, this isn't enough to--
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Wait! The skylight!
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Yes! I found it!
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The peculiar *tanchou* sketches...
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The mark on the tempered glass...
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The lined-up glass shards
and mark on the floor...
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And, the wood chip in the fireplace!
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One thing connected them all!
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Hiroshi-*san* isn't the killer!
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Believe me! I really
didn't mean to kill him!
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Alright, alright. We can continue
this discussion back at the station.
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And, I must ask you to come as well.
You're suspected of abetting him.
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You can't be serious...
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That alright with you,
Mr. Famous Detective?
**[15:56] ---**
Of course! After all, he himself
confessed to the murder...
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A mosquito this time of year...
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Not so fast, Detective Ezomatsu.
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Hiroshi-*san* did not murder Shuzo-*san*!
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What kind of nonsense is this?
He's already admitted to it...
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Then, how do you explain
the glass shards his arrow made?
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Glass shards?
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These? What about them?
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Don't you find it odd?
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The arrow was shot from outside,
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and the resulting glass
shards are all lined up.
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This is why I don't like amateurs,
they tamper with crime scenes.
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There was something lying here!
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Yes! The tempered glass
had been placed there!
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Tempered glass?
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This?
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And, just like that, Hiroshi-*san
*fired the crossbow from outside!
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And then the glass
shards fell to the ground...
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What?!
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Hold on! Wouldn't the arrow
hit the tempered glass, too?!
**[17:10] ---**
Yes. The arrow hit
the glass and struck the floor.
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As tempered glass is clear,
Hiroshi-*san* didn't notice from outside.
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Then where did the arrow
in the victim's chest come from?!
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From inside the fireplace.
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Inside it is a part with soot removed.
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That's because a crossbow
had been set up there.
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But, how was it shot from inside here?!
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This.
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It was lying inside the fireplace.
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What's a wood chip
got to do with anything?
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First, you stick a wood
chip with a string around it
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behind the trigger of
the crossbow in the fireplace.
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Next, you attach a strip
of rubber around the trigger.
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The string tied to the wood chip
is led up the chimney and outside.
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The person with that string
then looked through the skylight
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and checked that Shuzo-*san
*was sitting in his usual spot...
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and then pulled the string just
as Hiroshi-*san* fired his crossbow.
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That arrow struck Shuzo-*san* in the chest.
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The string left distinct
marks inside the chimney.
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The arrow had fireplace soot on it,
so analysis should confirm it.
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This was a premeditated murder?!
**[18:36] ---**
Yes. A carefully premeditated one.
**[18:39] ---**
So, the killer took care of the
glass and crossbow after the murder?!
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Hiroshi-*san* couldn't
have done it, he had run off.
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In other words, he's not the killer.
**[18:50] ---**
The one who murdered Shuzo-*san*,
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and cleared away the glass,
and crossbow in this locked room...
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was you, Machida Tamotsu-*san*!
**[19:00] ---**
But, three people were at the scene!
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They would've noticed the
tempered glass had been moved!
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No.
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The first thing most people
at a crime scene notice
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is the victim.
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By quickly forcing them back into the hall,
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they wouldn't be able to
recall the condition of the room.
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Moreover, you gave them
orders to leave the scene.
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Afterward, you took care of
the tempered glass and crossbow.
**[19:31] ---**
Your reason for murdering Shuzo-*san*
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was likely because he
refused to loan you money.
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Damn! All any of you want is money!
**[19:40] ---**
He didn't say that in regard
to just them, but to you as well!
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So, you lured them here, into a trap.
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After all, you wouldn't get any
inheritance if you killed him yourself.
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Sorry, Mori-*san*, but when
my brother was murdered,
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I was at the feeding ground
drawing pictures, as you can see.
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The reason I suspected you
was because of those drawings!
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The reason being that
*tanchous*' tails aren't black!
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Their plumes are black,
and their tails are white!
**[20:21] ---**
What's more, *tanchous* face
the wind when they sleep.
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But, they're sleeping against
the wind in your drawings.
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That's because you didn't draw
them at the feeding ground,
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you drew this stuffed one instead!
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Probably several days earlier, too!
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To make us think
you drew them today,
**[20:43] ---**
you showed us
an unused sketchbook.
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Am I wrong?
**[20:49] ---**
It's true, I might've drawn
their feathers incorrectly,
**[20:54] ---**
but you haven't proven
I didn't draw these there, either!
**[21:00] ---**
Remember when you dropped
your sketchbook at the hot spring?
**[21:05] ---**
When you did, Conan caught
it and gave it back to you.
**[21:10] ---**
Yes. Conan's fingerprints
should be on your sketchbook.
**[21:15] ---**
Assuming it's the same one, that is!
**[21:19] ---**
I wiped it down when it got dirty later!
**[21:22] ---**
Very well. The proof is the
feather in your back pocket!
**[21:28] ---**
A *tanchou* feather...
**[21:29] ---**
No, it's not a *tanchou* feather.
**[21:34] ---**
It's a feather of the turtledove
that made a nest atop the chimney.
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It probably got there when you
stuffed the string in your pocket.
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Ergo, there should be
soot in your pocket, as well.
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Unbelievable. Being suspected
because of my drawings...
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I guess I never did
have any artistic talent...
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Just like my brother said,
I lack observational skills.
**[22:06] ---**
I've finally realized it.
**[23:36] ---**
Entire Fortune Donated!!
Migratory Bird Foundation Created.
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But, it's great that his children
decided to follow in his footsteps
**[23:45] ---**
and take care of the *tanchous*...
**[23:48] ---**
But 300 million?
**[23:51] ---**
I wanna be a *tanchou
*and get taken care of...
**[23:56] ---**
This guy never changes his ways...
**[24:02] ---**
Most of Mr. Dorakura's
novels feature vampires,
**[24:08] ---**
so his nickname is "Mr. Dracula."
**[24:17] ---**
All the windows were
locked from the inside.
**[24:21] ---**
Which means the killer...
**[24:23] ---**
...is an insider!
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On the next Conan: "The Dracula
Manor Murder Case (Part 1)."
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Next Conan's hint:
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Projector.
**[24:51] ---**
When I say Dracula, what comes to mind?
**[24:53] ---**
Crosses.
**[24:53] ---**
Garlic.
**[24:54] ---**
Korean barbecue.
**[24:55] ---**
That's not right.
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