Takashi Date is the main antagonist of the Detective Conan episode "The Train Trick Murder Case" ("Train Trick" in the dub). Dr. Date is a respectable doctor, however his action in the past and his involvement in the present expose him as a villain.
He is voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue, who also voiced Goblin Lord from Goblin Slayer.
Biography[]
Takashi is first seen on a train when he was having an argument with a fellow doctor named Taizo Sato, where he left to go to another car as this caught the attention of Conan, Ran and Kogoro. He later appears again on the first stop, where he apologizes for his rude behavior, when Conan notice something about his button jacket, which he corrected it. Upon arriving at the last stop, he heard another doctor named Utsumi who was riding on a different train was found dead in one of the cars, which the cause of death was the result of a Heart attack, but with injected with potassium chloride.
In one of his failed deductions Kogoro believed that the killer injected a poison into the victim, then stole all of his money and disappeared. Of course, Conan didn't believe that as one piece of clue is that there was a rich woman on the chain and the killer could have robbed her too but didn't, meaning the killer only went after Utsumi and Conan believed that the killer is Takashi himeself.
After finding the right evidence, Conan (after knocking out Kogoro) revealed that the killer is none other than Takashi Date himself. However, Takashi deny the claim as he revealed that he was on a different train when Utsumi was killed but Conan revealed how he did it, from calling the train, saying he was a passenger that forgot something from the other train to wearing a disguise in order to kill Utsumi But Takashi still deny the claim, saying that he had nothing to do with the murder, until Conan revealed one piece of evidence, the coins in his wallet, which he said that he got it from Utsumi yesterday when he needed change, meaning that the fingerprints he will find is from Utsumi But Conan said the fingerprints he is talking about aren't his or Utsumi but rather the fingerprints from the snack vender (as it turns out that before his death, Utsumi gave the vender 10,000 yen bill, and only got coins back as changes), meaning that if her fingerprints are on one of those coins, then this proves that he did kill Utsumi and with his plan expose, Takashi fell to the ground in defeat. This also resulted in Taizo to believe that the rumors about Takashi and he admits that they were true and revealed his motive of killing Utsumi (exposing him as the villain)
Turn out his motive for killing Utsumi was that Takashi was receiving numerous kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies and that one day while meeting up with a someone from one of the companies, Utsumi took pictures of the event and later blackmail him into giving him money for the photos or else he would expose his actions towards the medical association and hospital and he agreed to, but after he paid for the photos, he would kill him afterwards.
While Conan (via Kogoro) told him that eventually those rumors would lead to a investigation and make them real. Takashi still couldn't believe that after his perfect planning, Kogoro still manage to figure it out, even comparing it as one of his operations.
Trivia[]
- In the FUNImation dub, it changed it so that Takashi was planning to pay for the photos, but Utsumi refused to sell them to it, making it look like Utsumi was more selfish.
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