#Mouri Kogorou's Imposter

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Episode 244: Mouri Kogorou's Imposter (Part 2)

To start off, we should probably describe the three suspects: There’s the ryokan owner (a man with glasses and a mustache), his assistant, who looks exactly like him except he has no glasses or mustache, and Jinbo. The newspaper was an extremely convoluted riddle that led to money that was buried in the woods next to the Jizou statue. Jinbo was the culprit. He spends twenty minutes of the episode denying that he’s the culprit, but in the end he just randomly gives up. The most compelling evidence against him was a footprint from his bare feet on a shogi board. 

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Episode 243: Mouri Kogorou's Imposter (Part 1)

An imposter arrives at a ryokan, claiming to be Mouri Kogorou, and is given a brown attaché case at the front desk, which he takes away, smiling smugly with his twirly mustache. Meanwhile the real Mouri is tripping over a Jizou statue while walking in the woods with Ran and Conan. Yamamura drives by in a van, and tells them a creepy story about a man found dead in the woods, with 'large black hair.' Even though he died in the summertime, he was wearing a red coat. Even though he had cigarettes, he didn’t have a lighter. And even though he had car keys, he didn’t have a driver’s license. But he apparently committed suicide four years ago after leaving an attaché case at a ryokan. So for the rest of the episode, any time Ran sees or hears about Large Black Hair, she screams. At the ryokan, they find the imposter dead in his closet, apparently also a suicide. Mouri takes charge of the case, opening the attaché case, and based on a newspaper from five years ago found inside, he deduces that the imposter and the red coat man made a bet about sumo wrestlers, and were both wrong, so they hanged themselves. Conan disagrees because there’s some wet hair inside the newspaper, meaning someone must have taken it from the ryokan bath drain.