Just as flowing water has no form,
and the breeze is invisible,
deductions take all shapes and styles in each and every case to be solved.
It's what you've all been waiting for,
he makes his appearance after a long absence!
He sees through the one & only truth.
A child in appearance with the I.Q. of an adult,
no case is left unsolved with Detective Conan.
While we were exploring the cave,
we came upon a gang of bank robbers and I ended up getting shot
Ran's blood was used for the transfusion which luckily saved my life.
This makes me decide to tell Ran about everything....
but then Ai points a gun at me...
I came here to make things clear to you...
She'll certainly be one of those the organization gets rid of
You have 3 choices
The first is leave things as is, don't tell her any thing & keep your distance
Second, you cast your fates to the wind & tell her everything
Or your third choice is.....
Later, at Teitan High School on the day of their school fest,
during the play in the gymnasium,
a murder is committed right among the audience!
PERILOUS RETURN-THE BLACK KNIGHT
It's still not clear what trick the killer used to poison
Mr. Kamata's drink, but...
nonetheless,
it's clear one of you is the killer!!
Isn't that right, Inspector?
Uh, well....
Inspector!
We found unopened tubs of milk & gum syrup in Mr. Kamata's pocket!
Unopened?!Which could only mean....
Listen, did Mr. Kamata usually drink his iced coffee black?
No, I'm pretty sure he always used the milk & gum syrup....
Right?
Yeah, I'm sure he did too
Then why were both unopened!
His drink....
?
There was cola in his cup... not iced coffee...
Eh?
I thought that he'd come to the concession to change it if I did that...
I thought he might come to ask me why I broke off our engagement....
You were engaged?!
Yes...
we intended to get married after I graduated
...but I started to feel insecure and I called him last week to break it off...
I've gone to the hospital but he refused to see me...
Oh, so that's why.... there was cola in mine too...
I almost put this milk & gum syrup in it, you know...
I'm very sorry...
Well, let's take all their drinks & the milk & gum
syrup down to the lab & have it analyzed,
we'll continue this conversation later
Yessir!
Inspector....From the looks of things, you can't overlook “that" either...
What do you mean?
Suicide!
He must've taken quite a shock being
dumped by a girl 10 years younger than him,& he might've already
been thinking of suicide when he runs into her here.
So he decides to kill himself right in her presence, just out of spite....
And if things worked out right, she'd become the prime suspect....
I just remembered, wasn't Kohei looking around
for something on his car's dashboard?
Yeah, he said he was looking for his driver's license....
Huh? Did you remember something?
No, we all came here in Kohei's car but I thought he acted a little strange....
Like feeling around his dashboard....
Takagi, have someone take you to his car & check it out,
we might find something
Yessir!
This way
Hey Kudo....
I guess you've figured it out too, idn't you?
The person who poisoned the drink was more than likely, that person...
the lid was off the victim's cup the whole time and there was cola inside it,
not the iced coffee... And the strange things that person said...
The trick's been completely blown!!
All we need is the evidence, then our theory's perfect...
hey...hey...
Hey, wait! Come back!
Heiji and that kid are such good friends...
...Uh huh....
Good grief, what a bummer...
We get caught in a weird case and the play is called off
and now it's starting to rain
It's put a damper on everything... isn't that right, sir
There's nothing we can do,
not when something like this happens....
There'll always be a next time, let's just call it quits for today...
...If that's what you decided... thank you for your co-operation
Inspector!!
Huh? Oh Takagi
what is it?
We found these on the dashboard of he victim's car.....
I'm pretty sure it's potassium cyanide....
Good work!
The forensic lab just called me
there was no trace of poison in any of the drinks...
Th, then you mean....
Yes!
We'll close this as a case of suicide....
Just a minute Inspector!!
Huh?!
!?
This is no suicide...
It's a simple and elementary....
murder!!
No...don't do it...
you're not supposed to stand up front and be in the spotlight, it's not allowed
don't you understand that?!
...That's right...Mr. Kamata was poisoned....
right before this stage draped in darkness...
the killer knew the victim's habit & used it to commit the murder...
and I am certain the killer still has the weapon
like the risk I take, the crime was also bold & brazen....
...that is, if I am correct....
....Wh, who are you...?
It's been a long time,Inspector Megure...
...It's me, Shinichi Kudo...
...Shinichi?....
I don't believe it...it can't be...
Because Shinichi's...
Shinichi's....
This guy's Kudo....and so is that guy....
What's going on here?
...He's such a man....
Yes! That's our hero!!
Eeek, it's Shinichi Kudo!!
Show them what you can do Kudo!!
Kudo! Kudo! Kudo! Kudo!
Shh! Quiet please...
you can celebrate after we bring the curtain down on this murder...
Shh!
Geez...he's as dramatic as always...
Shinichi...
Are you really Shinichi??
Huh?Silly...
you must still be sleepy....
I have something important to tell later so don't you go running off...
Eh?
And Hattori...
Uh, yeah....
Do you have any 10 yen coins on you?
Huh? Sure, I think I've got a couple but what are you going to do with them....!?
Ah ha....I get it now...
OK, can I borrow one for awhile?
Sure thing but it'll cost you....
You'll get it back soon....
Ku, Kudo...you've been away a long time and I appreciate you trying to help but
There was no trace of poison from the victim's cup nor his 3 friends'.
On top of that, the victim drank most of his drink
....no matter how you look at it,
Yes, at first glance it looks like suicide,
and Mr. Kamata took the poison himself but,
if you use a certain something, murder is also a possibility.....
A certain something?
That's right....it's a very basic trick....
Using ice....
Did you say ice!?
The poison used was potassium cyanide,
which doesn't dissolve easily in iced water...
a tiny hole was made in the ice and the poison was
poured in the center then a thin piece of ice was
used to plug the hole and refrozen
The ice cube was then put into the victim's cup,
by the time the ice melts and the poison seeps out,
Mr. Kamata would have finished up his drink...
But then there should be some trace of poison left in his cup....
The lid on the victim's cup...it was off, wasn't it?
Do you know why?
After he drank the poison, it probably fell off
when he crushed the cup because of the pain....
You fool, then why wasn't the cup crushed!
There's only one reason someone would take the lid off their cup
after finishing their drink...
The victim didn't drink the poison, he ATE it!
He ate it?
I get it!!
Inspector, you usually eat the ice in your drink too!
I see...
someone who knew the victim had this habit could have poisoned him
and nothing would be left in the cup...
And? So who put the poisoned ice in the victim's cup?
Mr. Mitani who just handed him the drink
and Miss Noda wouldn't have had the chance...
Miss Ninakawa who sold the drinks had the opportunity....
!!
But she deliberately put cola into the iced coffee he ordered...
She wouldn't poison his drink knowing he might he ordered...
Besides, there was another person who ordered iced coffee
so she wouldn't know who would get poisoned...
There was only a 50% chance of success, the risks were too high...
So you mean...
That's right...
the person who poisoned Mr. Kamata,
is the one who bought the drinks then delivered them to everyone...
Mai Kokami
...you're the only one who could have done it...
Ma, Mai....
You went to the concession to buy the drinks.
so you had the opportunity to open the drinks and
drop the poisoned ice cube in pretending to put milk and gum syrup in it...
Just a minute.
Mai didn't put milk or gum syrup in those drinks!
She's right, you found the unopened tubs in Kamata's pocket, didn't you!!
That's because when she dropped the ice in, she realized it was cola...
if she put the milk and gum syrup in it, there was the chance
Mr. Kamata wouldn't drink it...
The reason she brought you the drinks just before
the play was about to begin was so that he wouldn't bother to go change it....
after all, even if he realized it wasn't iced coffee,
once the room got dark, it would be too much of
a bother to get up and go to the concession....
But how did she go around carrying the poisoned ice cube?
Yes, the answer to that is this item that I found
in the trash can outside the restroom
when Officer Takagi left the room....
It's this vinyl pouch....
Get that to the lab, quick!
Yessir!
If you put the poisoned ice cube in here
with a tiny piece of dry ice,
it won't melt for quite a while....
Miss Kokami.... after you handed the poisoned drink
along with the others, you went to the restroom and
flushed the dry ice down then threw the pouch in the trash can.....
Well.....have I made a mistake?
......Mai.....
.....My hats off to you Shinichi Kudo You're as good as I heard......
But have you forgotten?
I also had iced coffee and I handed it to Mitani
along with the others.
I had no idea which cup he'd give Kohei, so how
could I poison his drink?
Or are you saying I took a 50/50
chance that he'd get it and if that's the case, then Ayako also....
No, you were covered 100%.....
Eh?
That's because you put poisoned ice cubes in both cups....
Th, that's ridiculous! She drank all the contents of her cup!
That can be accomplished if she gulped it all down before the ice melted....
But there'd still be traces of poison in her cup...
and if she tried to get the poisoned ice cube out,
the others around her would notice.....
Like Mr. Kamata, what if she put the ice cube in
her mouth pretending to eat it?
What!?
That's right...
then without anyone noticing,
she spit the ice out in her hand & hid in a certain place...
And I think that
Putting poisoned ice in your mouth is extremely
dangerous but if the poison is in the very center,
it is possible in getting the deed done
B, but are you sure it was in her hood....
It's not a lie....
Take a look at this! All the tarnish is
gone from the coin, see how shiny it is
It's proof that it came in contact with
potassium cyanide and oxidation reduction reaction has occurred!
Oh, I see....
How did you know she put the poisoned
ice cube in the hood?
Oh, well that's.....
Because of the rain....
Eh?
It was raining but
when I went outside to show the officer to Kohei's car,
I didn't cover my head with the hood, that's what made you suspicious,
isn't that right?
Yes, I figured you the ice melted,
and you didn't want the poison all over your head....
So he's right,
Mai, you killed Kamata?
Yes, that's right...
I poisoned him....
He was a disgrace as a doctor!
What do you mean by that?
I'm sure you all know about it.
I'm talking about the doctrine he was going to present
at the next conference...
Yes....
But there was an unusual patient in our hospital
who would have overruled his theory...
unfortunately, his condition turned for the worse and he died...
almost as if an exception to the theory never existed!
Are you saying Kohei....
Yes...
He gave that patient the wrong medication,
and made his symptoms worse, killing him....
Just to protect his meaningless research...
Phew...
He told me himself last week,
Ayako broke off their engagemen and he was upset
so I went drinking with him and he got very drunk....
....He didn't even regret what he did,
instead, he disgustingly blurted out that...
He thought this world was unfair
when a man who held people's lives in his hands
should be upset over being jilted by a young girl in her teens
...I was horrified...
Th...that's terrible...
That's why I showed him...
I showed him it was even more unfair for a man like him to be a doctor...
Then the bottle of poison in Mr. Kamata's car...
Yes, I put it there....
I hid his driver's license
so he would look for it and arouse suspicions...
You were lucky weren't you, Mr. Detective?
That it rained.....
If it didn't, you wouldn't have any proof I did it
No...
even if it weren't for your hood,
I would have asked the police to check your clothes anyway.
That's because I already had you pegged as the killer when I saw that
you had the unopened tubs of milk and gum syrup in your pocket
Eh?
When you returned from the restroom,
you said the play had already started, isn't that right?
When the play began and the lights went out,
you wouldn't have been able to tell
if your drink was cola or iced coffee even if you took the lid off...
That's what convinced me.
It told me that you had already opened the lids
and seen that it wasn't iced coffee...
.....
Heh heh...
I give up...
As a fellow alumni of this high school,
I am proud of your brilliance...
We can continue this at the station...
All right...
Mr. Mitani, Miss Noda and Miss Ninakawa,
I'll need your statements too, could you please come with me to the station
Yes...
You know Heiji, today,
you seemed to be a mere assistant to a great magician...
Well that can't be helped.
We're in Tokyo,
I've got to make Kudo look good....
Well, well, well, you're as dependable as always!!
Oh, please......
But he's not still in the same league as me...
How about it?
Do you want to sit in on the interrogation, for old times sake?
No, I'll pass this time....
I have something I need to do...
I see...
And I'd like for you to not let it get out that I was involved in this case....
That's fine with me, but
you're certainly keeping a low profile these days....
Let's go, Mohri
Yessir, Inspector!
Hey Kudo....
why didn't you want to watch the interrogation?
Sorry....
A trick is merely a puzzle thought up by someone...
all you have to do is
give it enough thought andeventually, you'll come up with a logical explanation,
but...
!!
!? ....Hey, what's wrong!?
It's very frustrating,
no matter how many times it's explained,
I just don't know the rationalization behind one human being killing another...
...I can understand the emotion but I can't accept the action...
it's just beyond me...
ugh....
(Thud!)
Oh no...it's happening already
I thought I'd changed back into my old self...
I thought it was going to work out...
Here
...This is a test product,
it's a specially mixed antidote for the Apotoxin 4869...
...What're you going to do?
...It could kill you if you take it, you know...
Are you willing to give it a try?
Shinichi!?
What's wrong, Shinichi!?
Are you alright?
Does it hurt?
....Ran....
..It's all over
...if I turn back into Conan here...
ugh...
Ran will find out about me...
Oh, ugh...my body... I can't...move...
(Thud...)
Kudo!
....Shinichi...?
Shinichi?
Shinichi!!!
Uh...
what's this smell....
the school infirmary?
...oh I remember... I, was carried in here...
It's Ran...
she looks pale...
I can't blame her...
she just saw a person shrink right in front of her eyes...
Eh?
What's this?
Hey Kudo!!
So you're awake!!
I'm so glad you're awake!!
Don't worry us like that again!
What happened?
Ah....
There he is, it's Shinichi!
I wasn't dreaming!! Hehehe...
he's really come back!!
I hate to say this,
but this doesn't look like it was a hold-up
Eh!?
Inspector Megure...
Ku, Kudo!!!
PERILOUS RETURN -SHINICHI IS BACK