Detective Conan Episode 406 – Trending & Recent

Yukie couldn’t kill him directly because she needed an alibi. So she tricked him. On the day of his disappearance, she asked him to meet her at the abandoned shrine at 7:30 PM, claiming she had discovered something important about his past. She gave him a bottle of water laced with sleeping pills. He drank it on the way, feeling drowsy.

Kogoro inspects the car. There are no signs of a struggle—no blood, no torn fabric. The keys are still in the ignition. In the back seat, they find a briefcase containing architectural blueprints and a lunchbox that has begun to spoil. However, something is missing: the silver locket. Yukie had specifically mentioned it, but it’s not in the car or on the ground around it.

Kogoro (via Conan) reveals that the locket is the key piece of evidence. It is not at the crime scene, and when the police search Yukie’s house, they will find it hidden in her jewelry box. Inside, besides Miyuki’s photo, there will be Keisuke’s fingerprints and, more importantly, traces of the sleeping pills from his system that transferred onto the locket when she removed it from his neck. Detective Conan Episode 406

Kogoro, excited by the prospect of a high-paying case, immediately puts on his serious face and invites her in.

Yukie breaks down. She admits to the murder but says, "He took my sister’s future. He deserved to die. And that locket... he didn’t deserve to wear her face." Yukie couldn’t kill him directly because she needed

She then went back to the car, smashed his watch to show 2:15 PM (the time she wanted to fake), took the locket as a trophy, and drove back to the city using a back road. Her alibi was airtight because she had carefully planned the timing—the drive from the mountain to her friend’s house and the supermarket was exactly 90 minutes, which she accounted for by leaving the shrine at 6:00 PM, not 7:30 PM. She had set Keisuke’s car clock forward by 5 hours earlier that morning, so he arrived at the shrine thinking it was 2:15 PM, but it was actually 7:15 PM.

Suddenly, the doorbell rings. Ran rushes to answer, hoping for a client. A well-dressed, distressed woman in her late twenties stands at the door. She introduces herself as . She explains that her husband, Keisuke Sonoda , a successful architect, has been missing for three days. She has already contacted the police, but since there’s no evidence of a crime, they have only issued a missing person notice and are not actively investigating. Desperate, she has come to the famous "Sleeping Kogoro" for help. She gave him a bottle of water laced with sleeping pills

The main suspect becomes Yukie Sonoda herself. But she has a solid alibi: she was at a friend’s house for tea from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM that day, and then at a supermarket (recorded by security cameras) from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. She couldn’t have driven to the mountain, killed him, and returned in that timeframe.

Ran, watching, has tears in her eyes. Conan, however, remains stoic but somber. He concludes: "The locket was supposed to be a memento of atonement, but it became a motive for murder. A coincidence of timing and hidden truths."

Kogoro, intrigued by the mystery of the locket and the disappearance, agrees to take the case. Conan, however, is already suspicious, noticing a slight hesitation in Yukie’s eyes whenever she mentions the locket.

The episode ends with Kogoro waking up, having no memory of the brilliant deduction. Ran is quiet, and Conan looks at a photograph of the Sonodas on their wedding day, wondering how something meant to heal could also destroy.