第596話: コナンが偽装自殺のアリバイを暴く中、小五郎がオリオン・プランニングでの転落事件を捜査する

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Kogoro Mouri is called to meet with Toshio Higashiyama at his company building called Orion Planning and takes Ran and Conan with him. Upon entering the building, they are asked to call his sectional number, 423. After getting in contact with him on the phone, they witness the employee Fujihiko Takahata, fall from the building to his death. The police are called to the scene and enter Takahata's office discovering a typed suicide note. Conan notices the window is open, a dry spot over the ledge of the window, and a piece of a theatrical property was found on the body and gives Kogoro hints allowing him to deduce Takahata's death. He reveals the prop is the one used in fictional children's show where when shot with a laser gun, deflates. The prop was used to keep Takahata's inert body from falling out the window, and was deflated resulting in his death and allowing the culprit to establish an alibi. Upon further investigation, Conan tranquilizes Kogoro and gathers the police to Takahata's room revealing the culprit to be Toshio Higashiyama. Conan reveals that Higashiyama used an extension cord from his office building to forge his alibi, evidenced by the cord found in his room. To convict him, Conan reveals a broken pen was found in the room where he actually was and that there is an ink stain at the back of his collar. Higashiyama confesses and reveals Takahata hired his brother for work and left him with a large amount of due to hidden addendums in his contract. (Source: Wikipedia)