Professor Agasa takes Conan, Ai Haibara, and the Detective Boys to an abandoned mansion rumored to be haunted by a ghost with a bloody eye. While investigating, they find a hidden room with a computer logged into the Black Organization’s network. This is a trap—the Vermouth’s doing.
10/10 – A landmark in anime storytelling.
This episode is widely considered by fans to be one of the greatest and most pivotal episodes in the entire Detective Conan (Case Closed) series. Title: Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon Original Airdate: January 5, 2004 (Japan) Seasons Covered: 42 (Part 1) & 43 (Part 2) – often presented as a 1-hour special. The "Empire Strikes Back" of Detective Conan If the Detective Conan series is a long-running war of wits between Shinichi Kudo (Conan) and the Black Organization, Episode 345 is the Battle of Hoth. It’s a rare, 60-minute special where the cat-and-mouse game explodes into open confrontation. For years, Conan had been operating from the shadows, gathering intel. In this episode, he steps onto the battlefield—and loses. Plot Summary (Spoiler-Heavy – You Have Been Warned) The episode weaves together two seemingly separate mysteries:
