Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

Detective Conan Episode 994 "Kyogoku Makoto the Understudy (Part Two)"

Due to a misunderstanding,

Kyogoku-san accidentally knocked out a stuntman filming a TV drama.

He was recruited to fill in for the stuntman, but...

Looks pretty good. It's got intensity.

So, has anyone seen Tokuzono-chan?

Hey, we're not ready ye—

Excuse me.

Is something wrong?

Makoto-san!

Find the question that solves the mystery!

Apply miraculous detective skills to the secrets of the heart!

Sera turns her detective skills onto a new target:

the suspicious pair of Conan and Kudo Shinichi!

Always determining the one truth

with the body of a child and the mind of an adult,

his name is Detective Conan!

Kyogoku Makoto the Understudy

"Kyogoku Makoto the Understudy, Part Two!"

Odori Daisaku Found the culprit

Odori Daisaku Found the culprit Let's have a nice long chat later.

Even if the culprit placed Tokuzono-san's phone outside the fourth floor window,

how did they get him to fall?

Indeed.

If Tokuzono-san was afraid of heights,

he wouldn't have gone outside the window.

He wasn't afraid of heights.

Jinmei Nanako (29) Actress

If anything, he loved high places.

He wouldn't have had any trouble retrieving his phone from that kind of place.

Is that medicine?

They're iron supplements.

I'm on a diet, and remember what I said earlier?

I run out of breath easily these days.

I see. I bet you could fit a little device in that case.

Hey, don't assume I'm the culprit just because of this.

Hideka-chan uses a case just like this one for her allergy capsules,

Aburai Hideka (26) Makeup Artist

Hoegi Yota (26) AD

and Hoegi-kun the AD had a box of cold medicine in his pocket.

Tomioka Shigematsu (50) Director

Even the director's got a ramune case.

In the first place, there are plenty of similar small containers around the filming location.

The medicines and cases don't seem related.

Medicine, huh?

Speaking of medicine, Ran-kun, I have a question for you.

Does your boyfriend take any strange medicines?

What?

Boyfriend? You mean Shinichi?

You know, sometimes he seems really ill.

You're right.

He's frequently pale and seems to be on the brink of death,

but a short while later, he'll be fine again.

You think he's taking some kind of medicine?

Does that phrasing mean you've never seen him take anything?

No.

Then, to be blunt,

when Shinichi-kun is around...

Is Conan-kun absent?

Wh-What does that mean?

What does that mean?

It means exactly what it sounds like.

Isn't that right, Ran-kun?

Conan-kun and Shinichi-kun have never been in the same—

They've been in the same place before.

What? They have?

Yeah. Right, Sonoko?

They were there together at the school festival.

Yeah, I remember that.

Both during the play about the black knight

and when Shinichi-kun started solving the case,

the kid was there watching with a sour look on his face.

And when I went to get Shinichi for school the next day,

Conan-kun was with us.

That's when Haibara disguised herself as me

using the professor's mask-shaped voice changer.

Oh, I actually quite enjoy this.

Do you think Conan-kun and Shinichi are the same person?

What? Uh, yeah.

I thought the same thing a few times.

But I've changed my mind.

There's no such thing as magic.

Conan-kun is just Conan-kun.

Yeah!

I can't figure it out.

What did the culprit do to make the victim fall?

We know they plotted to make Tokuzono-san fall

by placing his phone outside the window,

but that wouldn't guarantee that he'd fall.

We're missing something essential.

No, wait.

When Tokuzono-san fell,

the rest of the staff were down here directly below the window.

It's possible that they waited for Tokuzono-san

to reach for his phone and called him then.

If they could choose different ringtones according to the caller,

they could have set it to some kind of loud noise

so that Tokuzono-san would be startled, lose his balance, and fall.

Kyogoku-kun did mention hearing a strange noise

just before Tokuzono-san fell.

I see.

In that case, we may be able to identify the culprit

if we look through that phone's call history.

Yeah.

Kyogoku-kun!

You said you heard a strange noise just before Tokuzono-san fell.

You're sure about that?

Yes.

And it was a noisy ringtone, right?

No.

If anything, it was like the flutter or buzz

of a bird of insect flapping its wings.

It was quiet.

A bird or insect?

Come to think of it, Tokuzono-chan hated bugs.

Right, Odori-kun?

Odori Daisaku (48) Assistant Director

Yeah, he was unusually terrified of them.

If a single bug flew his way while we were filming, he'd lose his mind.

Then was this just an accident that happened because he was startled by a bug?

Even then!

That doesn't change the fact that his phone was in an unnatural place.

Anyway, what are we going to do about the shoot?

It's obviously canceled.

We can't film under these circumstances.

Then could I remove these fake wounds?

I have a gravure shoot after this.

Sure. We don't know when we'll be able to film the rest, anyway.

Hideka-chan, could you?

Okay.

Aburai-san, you can make wounds with makeup?

Yeah, as long as it's simple.

My boyfriend liked special effects.

Don't touch the cut on my temple.

It's real.

Yeah, I kno—

Isn't it time for you to take your allergy medicine?

Yeah.

But I can't swallow capsules without water.

I can wait a little longer.

Then I'll go buy drinks at the nearby Welcome Burger.

I'd like to take my cold medicine, so I'll buy drinks for the staff.

Let's take a break for tea.

For the staff?

Can you carry all of that?

I'll be fine.

I'll go with Nishibe.

Oh, right. Nishibe isn't here.

Anyway, I'll buy the usual stuff.

Do you guys want anything in particular?

No.

Conan-kun, do you want anything to drink?

I'm good with anything.

I'm fine, thank you.

Then I'll get our regular order plus five more.

Takagi-kun, go with him.

Yes, sir.

Hey.

Is Nishibe the name of the dead AD?

You were listening to that?

Yeah, that's right.

Nishibe-kun was an AD.

Nishibe AD

His face was just my type.

I was pursuing him.

But Hideka-chan the makeup artist snagged him.

Then her boyfriend who liked special effects was...

Yeah.

He and Hoegi-kun the AD who just went to buy drinks loved special effects.

He and Director Tomioka grew up in the same place.

They'd check each other's Hiroshima dialect to make sure they hadn't forgotten it.

When I see this scar, I think of him.

Why?

Nishibe-kun was supposed to come pick me up from a certain on location shoot.

But he overslept.

I saw the news about that accident.

It was a drunk driver, right?

He didn't hit me, but I hit my head when I fell.

When I came to, I was in a hospital bed.

Nishibe-kun was asleep in a chair, his hands covered in blood.

Apparently he showed up late and did everything he could.

His hands were covered in blood?

The cut required four stitches, and I lost a lot of blood.

Nishibe-kun applied pressure with a handkerchief until the ambulance arrived.

I'm so sorry about that.

He overslept because he was up late watching DVDs with me.

It doesn't bother me anymore.

Besides, it didn't leave much of a scar.

But he really regretted scarring an actress's face.

And then he was pranked by that bleeding soap.

Tokuzono-chan had a messed up sense of humor.

No wonder Nishibe screamed like a dying man.

Oh, sorry.

Excuse me.

I got the drinks.