Chiba, half-joking, asks if the groom is a "handsome elite from headquarters." Takagi, pale and sweating, can’t bring himself to ask her directly. Even Megure notices Takagi’s distress but offers only a cryptic, “Love isn’t always straightforward.” Before the personal drama can escalate, the squad is called to a murder scene in the Edogawa ward. A 34-year-old bank employee, Kiyoshi Inoue, has been found dead in his apartment, strangled with a necktie. The victim’s left ring finger has a pale indentation where a ring was recently removed.
“Do you know why I became a police officer?”
Sato laughs—a real, unguarded laugh—and punches him lightly on the shoulder. Chiba, watching from behind a corner, gives a thumbs-up. That evening, Conan reports to Haibara over dinner at the Agasa residence. He concludes that Sato never intended to marry anyone else. The “wedding dress fitting” was actually a fitting for a bridesmaid’s dress for a friend’s wedding. The rumors were just gossip.
Original Air Date: August 20, 2007 (Japan) Manga Basis: Chapters 607-609 (Volume 59) Arc: Post-Desperate Revival / Clash of Red and Black (Precursor) Key Characters: Conan Edogawa, Inspector Megure, Detective Takagi, Detective Sato, Detective Chiba, Wataru Date (Flashback) Synopsis The episode opens on a tense morning at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District. Detective Takagi arrives to find his desk buried under a mountain of paperwork. But the real shock comes when he overhears a conversation: Detective Sato, the love of his life, is being fitted for a wedding dress. Detective Conan Episode 487
Sato explains that Date’s mother gave her the ring years later, asking her to wear it until she found someone who truly loved her. She admits she’s worn it through every relationship—not as a token of the past, but as a reminder not to settle.
Haibara smirks. “And here I thought even the Tokyo police force had lost its sense of romance.”
She tells him about Wataru Date. A respected detective from the same district. A decade ago, Date was killed in the line of duty while pursuing a robbery suspect. Before he died, he left behind an unfinished case file and a single note: “Tell Miwako to live happily. And tell her… I’m sorry I never got to give her this.” Chiba, half-joking, asks if the groom is a
The suspects are three women from the victim’s past: a bitter ex-wife, a spurned lover, and a current fiancée.
Before he can process this, Sato herself walks in — not in uniform, but in plain clothes. On her left ring finger gleams a modest but unmistakable diamond engagement ring.
“I was going to give this back to Date’s mother today,” she says. “Because I think… I’ve found someone.” The victim’s left ring finger has a pale
The “this” was a ring. The very ring now on Sato’s finger.
Takagi, red-faced and stammering, doesn’t say a word. Instead, he takes the ring from her palm, examines it briefly, and then—with more courage than he’s ever shown—slides it onto his own pinky finger.
The rumor spreads like wildfire: Sato is engaged to another man.