E89 - The Dracula Manor Murder Case (Part 2)

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    A racing second hand,
    shining shooting stars!
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    Conan's logic is good medicine
    for hearts tired by modern society!
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    Today is the Dracula solution!
    The trick is exposed before sunrise!
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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 old man was hired by Mr. Dorakura,
    owner of Dracula Manor,
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    to investigate his wife's infidelity.
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    That night, someone killed
    Mr. Dorakura with a stake to the heart,
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    in his completely-locked study room!
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    To get to the study, one would
    have to pass through the living room,
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    where everyone was at the time!
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    Breaking in from
    outside was also impossible!
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    Did the killer fly through
    the air, like a vampire?!
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    "The Dracula Manor Murder Case Part 2."
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    My, what a farce that was.
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    That's the roof above
    the collection room...
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    What are those imprints in the snow?
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    Wait a minute!
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    The collection room didn't smell
    like oil paint after the incident!
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    Does that mean...
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    Huh?! It doesn't smell!
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    Hey, you!
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    What're you doing?
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    Nothing!
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    Was that stake not
    the source of the smell?
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    Let's first organize what
    we know about the incident.
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    First, at around 8:30,
    Mr. Dorakura went to the study
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    and Tadokoro-san, Ran, and Conan
    went to the collection room
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    to get a film.
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    At that time, the stake used as
    the murder weapon was still there.
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    In other words, the killer
    stole the stake after that.
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    Moreover, Ran confirmed that all
    the windows in the collection room
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    had been locked from the inside.
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    In short, the only way into the
    room was from the living room.
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    Next, Tadokoro-san went to the
    study to deliver the wine and movie.
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    Yes. At around 8:50, I left the
    wine and film and left the study.
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    Huh?
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    The wine bottle's
    seal hasn't been broken.
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    Did anything seem
    odd about Mr. Dorakura then?
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    No, not really.
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    You returned to the living
    room shortly after 9:00,
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    then left to make sure
    that everything was locked up.
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    Yes. I believe I returned
    ten minutes afterward.
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    The snow had already stopped by then.
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    Shortly after, his wife
    retired to her room upstairs.
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    Around 9:15, I'd say?
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    And then she came down when
    the body was found around midnight.
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    In short, she has no
    alibi for that period of time.
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    Hamura-san.
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    You left the living room the same
    time she did, to go to the library.
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    Yes. I returned to the
    living room at about 10:30.
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    Which means I have no
    alibi for that period of time.
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    You had the opportunity to steal
    the stake from the collection room.
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    Doi-san. Right after Hamura-*san
    *returned to the living room,
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    you went to the restroom.
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    You were gone about twenty
    minutes, wouldn't you say?
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    Y-Yes.
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    Twenty minutes is enough
    time to commit the murder.
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    But I never went
    to the collection room.
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    Yeah! Doi-san only
    went to the bathroom!
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    He even bumped into
    Hamura-san on his way!
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    That's right! I didn't think of that!
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    Hamura-san. Perhaps you secretly
    had the stake when that happened?
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    And then Doi-san pretended
    to bump into you and took it.
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    Quit joking around! Why would
    I need to kill Dorakura-sensei?!
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    What's this?
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    T-That's...
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    'Call of Darkness', by Nakajima Yoshihiko
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    These aren't Mr. Dorakura's manuscripts...
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    Could they be novels submitted
    to Doi-san's magazine by readers?
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    See, it says "Horror Times"
    on the envelope.
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    Come to think of it,
    I have heard an odd rumor,
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    from my university's
    Horror Novel Association,
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    that novels submitted
    to the Horror Times
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    wound up being
    plagiarized by Dorakura.
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    Plagiarized?
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    Don't tell me you were involved
    with this too, Editor-in-Chief?
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    W-What makes you think--
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    In that case, we can compare
    Dorakura's manuscripts on this PC
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    with these submitted novels.
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    T-That's...
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    Doi-san.
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    It'd be in your best interest
    to come clean while you still can.
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    Dorakura... His talent had
    been dried up for years now.
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    About seven years ago,
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    I failed in the stock market and
    found myself in incredible debt.
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    Dorakura offered to take over
    my debt if I would leak novels to him.
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    So, you murdered him to
    dissolve your relationship, then?
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    N-No!
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    But you have a motive!
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    If it's motives you want,
    Tadokoro-kun has one, too!
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    He was Dorakura's ghostwriter!
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    Ghostwriter?!
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    It was five years ago.
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    No longer able to endure leaking
    him novels submitted to me,
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    I introduced him to Tadokoro-kun,
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    who I learned of through
    literary magazines.
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    Come to think of it,
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    didn't Mr. Dorakura start publishing
    fantasy works five years ago?
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    Tadokoro-kun wrote them.
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    Is this true, Tadokoro-san?!
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    It's true.
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    But I don't bear a
    grudge against him for it.
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    Even if I did, there's
    a reason I couldn't kill him!
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    A reason you couldn't kill him?
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    I have a sister named Kaori,
    who's ten years younger than me.
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    She was born with
    a slightly-faulty heart,
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    and as our parents
    died when she was young,
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    I wasn't able to get
    her decent medical help.
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    But, thanks to Dorakura-sensei,
    she's now in a hospital in Tokyo.
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    He offered to pay Kaori's
    medical and hospital fees
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    if I became his ghostwriter.
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    So, killing Mr. Dorakura would
    cut off your sister's treatment...
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    Yes.
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    Mr. Dorakura sure
    was one horrible man.
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    A true vampire.
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    Even if the victim was as merciless
    as a vampire, murder is murder!
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    It can't be forgiven.
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    I guess, unless Hamura-*san
    *worked with one of the other two,
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    the murder would've been impossible.
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    But, the only way to get to the
    only corridor is from the living room.
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    It'd be impossible to sneak past us all.
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    Even if it was possible, the study
    room was locked from the inside.
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    The door had a rubber seal,
    so outside tricks would be impossible.
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    And, if the window was
    used to enter and exit,
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    only the snow in front
    of the window had footprints.
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    The weapon was the wooden
    stake in the collection room,
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    so the killer was someone
    in Dracula Manor tonight.
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    Wait! Why did the person
    kill him with the stake?
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    That limited the suspects
    to those inside the building.
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    That would be very bad for the killer!
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    Yet... why did they
    dare to use that weapon?
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    Could it be that...
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    I knew it! There's a
    slight smell of oil paint left!
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    The windows were locked from the inside.
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    The small ventilation
    windows have spring stoppers...
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    The twig piece I found
    on the floor under the window...
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    And the strange imprints in the
    snow on the roof above the window...
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    There's gotta be a connection! What is it?!
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    That's it! So, that's the deal!
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    What's this plastic bag?
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    This is...
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    There's gotta be a secret
    passageway here somewhere!
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    There's nothing of the sort!
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    I have a good idea who's behind this.
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    But there's still a big mystery left!
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    Just how did the killer manage to...
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    Come to think of it,
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    why did the killer use the
    projector to light up the body?
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    Was it just to recreate
    the last scene of the movie?
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    What's that?
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    Tape? What's it doing here?
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    This is...
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    That's it! I know the real reason
    why the killer lit up the body!
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    Now, I see the truth behind this case!
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    Dammit! There's no secret passage!
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    Hamura-san! Ma'am! Doi-san!
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    Don't tell me there's
    a real vampire among you!
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    A vampire would be able to
    fly to the study room and back!
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    Dear me. You appear to
    be exhausted, Mori-san.
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    Take a nice nap and leave
    the rest to me, old man!
[12:06] ---
    Here we go again...
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    Let's return to our rooms, too.
[12:14] ---
    Not so fast!
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    I was merely joking before.
    Now, it's time to get down to business.
[12:22] ---
    Down to business?
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    Are you suggesting you've
    discovered the truth to this incident?
[12:26] ---
    Of course I am.
[12:28] ---
    Really?!
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    Yes. All of it.
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    Let us hear your theory then, Mori-san.
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    First, the wooden stake
    used as the murder weapon.
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    I thought only Hamura-*san
    *could have taken the stake,
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    but actually, anyone could
    have stolen it from outside!
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    From outside?
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    There wasn't a single footstep
    in the snow outside, you know.
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    There were no footprints because
    the killer walked through the air.
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    Walked through the air?
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    Is this another of your jokes?
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    Were you aware that the window
    by the entrance hall is as high up
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    as the roof above
    the collection room window?
[13:12] ---
    The killer used that fact to
    make a bridge...
[13:16] ---
    using a ladder.
[13:18] ---
    A ladder?
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    Yes.
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    Walking across it, the killer could
    get to the collection room window
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    without leaving any footsteps.
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    As proof, there are ladder
    marks on the snow on the roof.
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    But, the windows were locked...
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    They could easily be
    opened with a simple little trick.
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    By sticking the twig piece Conan found
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    between the ventilation
    window's stopper and the glass.
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    This way, the stopper
    will look like it's set,
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    but the window can
    still be opened freely.
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    The killer stole the stake from there.
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    Afterward, simply closing the
    window would make the stopper lock.
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    But, Mori-san! The stake was
    two meters from that window!
[14:07] ---
    The killer used a tree pruner.
[14:10] ---
    You used one this afternoon,
    Tadokoro-san.
[14:13] ---
    There are attachments
    for those for picking fruit.
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    The killer attached one and stuck
    it through the ventilation window
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    to steal the stake.
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    Using this method, anyone
    could have obtained the stake.
[14:29] ---
    You can't be serious...
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    But, Mori-san, how did the
    person go to the study and back?
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    Simple, by crossing the corridor.
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    What are you talking about?
    That's absolute nonsense.
[14:44] ---
    Is it?
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    Isn't it much more logical than
    having the killer fly through the air?
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    You were in the living room, too.
    You know no one used the corridor.
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    Oh, but one person did.
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    Yes. The killer...
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    was you, Tadokoro Toshiya-san!
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    Tadokoro-kun?
[15:07] ---
    T-That can't be!
[15:10] ---
    W-What are you talking about?!
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    The stake was still in the collection
    room when I went to the study!
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    Isn't that right?!
[15:19] ---
    That's true, Dad!
[15:21] ---
    Ran, what you two saw was
    an elaborately-made fake.
[15:26] ---
    A fake?!
[15:27] ---
    Yes.
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    When Tadokoro-san went to get
    the film, he invited you and Conan
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    and showed you the stake, so you
    would confirm it had been there.
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    Then, after killing Mr. Dorakura
    with the real stake,
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    which he had hidden
    in the study in advance,
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    he pretended to check all
    the locks and stole the fake stake.
[15:52] ---
    But, Mori-san. Do you have
    proof the stake was a fake?
[16:01] ---
    What's this?
[16:01] ---
    This turned up after I instructed
    Conan to look through the storeroom.
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    Yes, it's very well-made.
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    Was the fake blood
    added using oil paint?
[16:13] ---
    His wife does oil painting, so it
    would've been easy to get the paint.
[16:19] ---
    Tadokoro-kun...
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    Mori-san. Even if he did use
    the corridor to reach the study,
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    how did he get inside?
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    It was locked from the inside,
    so he couldn't have gone out the door.
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    And if he left through the window,
    how did he return to the corridor?
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    There were no other footprints,
    except those in front of the window.
[16:46] ---
    The open window and the trampled
    snow were simply a red herring.
[16:51] ---
    Tadokoro-san entered
    and exited through the door.
[16:55] ---
    Then how could I have
    locked it from the outside?!
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    Locking the door is no problem at all...
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    if you use that projector, that is!
[17:07] ---
    Projector?
[17:09] ---
    W-What are you talking about?
    How could a projector do that?
[17:13] ---
    Tadokoro-san,
    I've figured it all out, you know...
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    Including why you lit up the body.
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    Wasn't it to recreate
    the last scene of the movie?!
[17:25] ---
    No, it wasn't.
[17:27] ---
    The body was lit up to
    camouflage the real reason
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    for moving the projector!
[17:34] ---
    The real reason?
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    For this trick to work,
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    it was absolutely vital to move
    the projector in front of the door.
[17:42] ---
    But, the trick would be obvious
    if only the projector were moved.
[17:47] ---
    So, by lighting up the body as
    a bit of an informed performance,
[17:53] ---
    our attention was diverted.
[17:55] ---
    I'll now reenact this trick I speak of.
[17:59] ---
    Ran. Lend me a hand.
[17:59] ---
    Yes! Okay!
[18:02] ---
    First, pull about five
    meters of film from the reel.
[18:06] ---
    Right!
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    Next, stick a piece of
    tape on the end of the film.
[18:15] ---
    After that, throw the film over
    the blackout curtain rail by the door,
[18:20] ---
    and attach it to the lock on the door.
[18:26] ---
    All done, Dad!
[18:29] ---
    Now everything is set.
[18:32] ---
    Ran. Start the projector.
[18:34] ---
    Right!
[18:59] ---
    This is how Tadokoro-*san
    *locked the door.
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    But, unfortunately for him,
    as the film was being pulled in,
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    the piece of tape caught on
    the curtain rail and remained there.
[19:13] ---
    On the piece of tape are small,
    square marks... from perforations.
[19:19] ---
    The square holes in
    the film, in other words.
[19:23] ---
    Tadokoro-san, can you
    give any other explanation
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    as to why that perforation-marked
    tape was stuck on the curtain rail?
[19:33] ---
    W-Well...
[19:35] ---
    I think it's about
    time you tell us the truth.
[19:38] ---
    You already confessed you were
    the killer when the body was found.
[19:45] ---
    At the time, you said
    you could hear the projector.
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    Don't you find that strange?
[19:51] ---
    The door had airtight,
    sound-proof rubber sealing.
[19:55] ---
    How could you hear
    what was happening inside?
[19:59] ---
    You knew that the
    projector was on inside.
[20:06] ---
    Or, shall we see if the projector is
    audible behind the closed door?
[20:15] ---
    I... killed him.
[20:20] ---
    Tadokoro-san...
[20:22] ---
    But why would you kill Dorakura-san?!
    What about your sister?!
[20:28] ---
    My sister... Kaori... has
    been dead for a year now...
[20:35] ---
    That can't be...
[20:38] ---
    Dorakura never gave
    Kaori real medical treatment.
[20:44] ---
    He paid off her doctor so she
    would get neither better nor worse.
[20:51] ---
    Just to keep Kaori hospitalized longer.
[20:54] ---
    But, then her condition suddenly
    took a turn for the worse, and she...
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    I only found out about
    this one month ago.
[21:06] ---
    Dorakura kept my sister's
    death secret the entire time!
[21:11] ---
    I believed his lie about sending her
    to a better hospital in America...
[21:17] ---
    But, one month ago...
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    Kaori's nurse couldn't bear it
    anymore and secretly came to tell me.
[21:27] ---
    She said Kaori deliriously cried
    my name over and over as she died...
[21:36] ---
    If she had, had real treatment...
[21:39] ---
    If she had had real treatment,
    that never would've happened!
[21:44] ---
    Dorakura murdered Kaori!
[21:47] ---
    That's why... That's why I...
[21:58] ---
    They say a vampire's bite can turn
    a normal person into a vampire.
[22:04] ---
    Unknowingly, Tadokoro-san might
    have become a vampire himself.
[22:10] ---
    A vampire known as a murderer...
[23:41] ---
    Franken Manor?!
[23:43] ---
    Yeah. It belongs to Furano Kenzo,
    an engineering professor.
[23:47] ---
    Apparently, he conducts strange
    experiments every night and--
[23:50] ---
    This time it's Frankenstein...
[23:54] ---
    Now we just need
    a wolfman and we're all set.
[24:04] ---
    Mr. Shiraki!
[24:06] ---
    Something's not right!
    What could it be?!
[24:11] ---
    Wait a minute!
[24:11] ---
    When he was in the dressing room,
    the flower on his chest was--
[24:15] ---
    If Okano Rika-san is the killer,
    who will she go after next?!
[24:20] ---
    This is bad!
    Who is she trying to kill?!
[24:23] ---
    Who is it?!
    I'm not gonna make it in time!
[24:26] ---
    On the next Conan:
    "The Flower Scent Murder Case."
[24:47] ---
    Next Conan's hint:
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    Ice.
[24:51] ---
    Next episode fits me perfectly. Smells like flowers.
[24:54] ---
    Sometimes pretty flowers have thorns.
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