Conan and Megure's Two Hostages

Episode 1128-1129 (Int. Episode 1186-1187)
Information
Title:	Conan and Megure's Two Hostages
Japanese title:	コナンと目暮 2人の人質 (Konan to Megure Futari no Hitojichi)
Original airdate:	June 22, 2024 (Part 1) June 29, 2024 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	5.2% (Part 1) 4.6% (Part 2)
Filler case:	#422
Season:	TBD
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Miwako Sato Kamen Yaiba Detective Saitoh Detective Sugita
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Miniature car (Part 1) Mailbox (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Akatsuki Yamatoya
Storyboard:	Mitsuko Kase
Episode director:	1128: Masahiro Takada 1129: Tazumi Mukaiyama
Animation director:	1128: Akio Kawamura 1129: Kosei Takahashi Eiichi Tokura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Nariyuki Takahashi and Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	1128: BIG BANG 1129: Mouse
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Yuya Uchida as Masami Mimura Risa Hayamizu as Naho Mimura  Etsuko Kozakura as Kazuo Mimura  Megumi Toyoguchi as Chiaki Wakai Daisuke Kishio as Hayato Wakai Koji Seki as Security guard (Episode 1128) Katsuyuki Miura as Policeman (Episode 1129) Tatsuki Kobe as Policeman (Episode 1129)
Music
Opening song:	Unraveling Love ~Sukoshi no Yūki~
Closing song:	You & I
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Interrogation Room 2
List of episodes

Conan and Megure's Two Hostages (コナンと目暮 2人の人質 ,Konan to Megure Futari no Hitojichi) is the 1128th and 1129th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Miwako Sato Detective Saitoh (cameo) Detective Sugita (cameo) Kamen Yaiba (mini figurine)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Telescopic Lenses Detective Boys Badge

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan goes out to purchase popular mystery novels in a bookstore, and by chance, he encounters two people (a man named Hayato Wakai and a woman named Chiaki Wakai) carrying a child, whose name is Kazuo Mimura. As they gaze at each other, the child throws a gachapon towards Conan. Upon opening the toy capsule, Conan sees a tiny Kamen Yaiba figurine and a folded piece of paper. Unfolding it, Conan discovers that the child was being kidnapped, and written on the paper was "HELP" (たすけて).

Kidnapping
	Location: Aoyama Avenue, Hakuchu Victim: Kazuo Mimura Age: 5 years old Culprits: Chiaki Wakai & Hayato Wakai

After Conan interprets the signal of crisis, he tails the three into a hotel, where in the hall of the hotel he learns their room number. When he knocks on the door, he quickly dashes into the room. He pretends he's merely there to return the gachapon dropped by Kazuo. To understand the situation, Conan pulls the boy into the bathroom, where he asks Kazuo for information. He searches the bathroom and finds there are absolutely no exits to the exterior. Meanwhile, outside the bathroom, Ayatollah urges the two kids to get out. Conan, realizing they both have similar appearances, exchanges clothes with Kazuo. This was the best option to save Kazuo from the kidnappers.

And that's how Conan found himself sitting in the kidnappers' minivan. Conan persistently observes their behavior in the back seat. He deduces that the two kidnappers were a couple based on the rings on each of their ring fingers. Conan also notices some stains on the back of the front seat. The two kidnappers don't seem to be experienced in kidnapping; they act like amateurs. Instead of plotting the abduction themselves, they follow instructions printed on a notepad, possibly written by somebody else. Just after that, Conan witnesses Ayatollah calling Kazuo's father, Masami Mimura, on a public telephone, per commands printed on the notepad.

Conan deceiving Hayato with the voice-changing bowtie.

Since Conan brought the Voice-Changing Bowtie with him, when the kidnappers intended to communicate with the hostage "Kazuo", Conan was able to deceive them by imitating Kazuo's voice using the bow tie. All of a sudden, Conan proclaims that he is starving and wants dumplings and shumai. The couple go to a Chinese fast-food restaurant and let Conan eat. At the same time, Hayato calls Kazuo's father once again, demanding a three million yen ransom in cash. By reading the instructions, Hayato informs Mimura that the money must be available within an hour. Mimura, in turn, requests to hear Kazuo's voice through the telephone, and Conan, with the help of his bowtie, impersonates Kazuo.

At the Mimura Residence, the police from Investigation Division One are investigating the situation. After Mimura hangs up, he tells the police the "Kazuo" he heard from the phone called him "dad" rather than "papa", causing him to question the credibility of the voice. Megure learns that there are two kidnappers involved and has some composite sketches of their faces. By contacting Sato, Takagi now knows the names of the kidnappers as well as the vehicle they are driving. With this information, Inspector Megure organizes checkpoints on the roads that the two kidnappers are likely to drive through.

Kidnappers feeling perturbed when accepting the cross-examination.

On the road, Chiari and Ayatollah are intercepted by the police at one of the checkpoints. The two of them are nervous, as they will be discovered if Conan says anything in front of the police. Meanwhile, Conan finds a mini toy car stuck within the gap between two car seats, which has the name "Tetsuya" (てつや) written underneath. Conan smirks, now realizing what happened. The couple manages to conceal the kidnapping affairs happening within the minivan. The officers, seeing nothing out of sorts, let them go. As they drive away from the checkpoint, both kidnappers are puzzled with Conan's behavior; normally, any person would call for aid when a police officer was in front of them. Conan responds to their confused comments, but this time he uses his current voice. Conan mentions their anxieties as he surmises that their primary intent was not to carry out crimes but to save their own child, Tetsuya Wakai, who also got kidnapped. Conan deduced this because of the toy car that Tetsuya had lost a month ago. Conan reveals his identity to the couple.

Kidnapping
	Location: Unknown Victim: Tetsuya Wakai Age: Unknown Suspects: Unknown

As this unfolds, Kazuo, who exchanged clothes with Conan earlier, has been wandering around the tremendous city, lost and helpless. He remembers that Conan told him to find Detective Takagi from Investigation Division One; however, he has a difficult time finding the police on the street. Kazuo then attempts to go home; knowing that his home is located in the direction of Shibuya, he enters a metro station. Unluckily, he got on the train, which went in the opposite direction (South Tokyo). Will Kazuo be able to arrive home successfully and notify his family?

Part 2

Conan explained that he understood everything and knew they were forced to follow somebody's instructions with the desire of getting their child Tetsuya back, and he expressed very well his willingness to assist the two of them in bringing justice into light.

Kazuo was later being discovered and protected by Detective Chiba.

Consequently, Chiaki recounted the fact that yesterday evening, she abruptly received a phone call from an anonymous identity, threatening her to follow all commands for Tetsuya's life. After a thorough search and they were utterly convinced about Tetsuya's unknown whereabouts, they began to make use of the briefcase sent by the culprit and sprouted an idea of kidnapping Kazuo, as befit the culprit's longing. Conan demanded to examine the crime manual sent by the culprit, and swiftly realised that the ultimate intention of the plan was to heave the kidnapped Kazuo into the abyss of death - although not indicated explicitly, by "place the ransom and everything else go into the sea", it is as though snatching the life of Kazuo. Luckily, they met Conan, the detective who is able to overturn the stalemate. He suggested to conceive an act to twiddle with the culprit.

Conan contacted the Mimura family again, and decisively asserted to have Inspector Megure on the phone; this time, instead of the affected film-novel-alike style, he uttered in a wise tone: the Mimura side has to split the money into two, and load them on separate vehicles respectively, and the two vehicles have to be on stand-by at sharply 2 PM, in addition to the speed of 50kph in opposite directions.

Owing to the presence of APB within the parking lot, Conan proposed to abandon their van and purchase some disguise to evade the all-aspect inspection from the police. He especially urged them that their rival is Inspector Megure from Investigation Division One, who they cannot look down upon.

People

Chiaki Wakai
	28 years old Hayato's wife Tetsuya's mother Birthdate: January 2nd

Hayato Wakai
	26 years old Chiaki's husband Tetsuya's father Birthdate: March 28th

Kazuo Mimura
	Victim (kidnapped) 5 years old Masami & Naho's son

Masami Mimura
	46 years old Mimura Heavy Industry CEO Kazuo's father Naho's husband

Naho Mimura
	28 years old Housewife Masami's wife Kazuo's mother

Sakae Mimura
	3 years old Kazuo's younger brother

Tetsuya Wakai
	Victim (kidnapped) Hayato & Chiaki's son

Man
	Supermarket security guard

Resolution

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Megure's Deduction

The map of the region.

After some time, Conan called Inspector Megure for one final time, and told him that the two vehicles would need to be placed on the highway by the Nishi-Sawabukuro exit. After the call had hanged up, everyone working in the case were rather anxious. Megure, on the other hand, remarked that he did not like the culprit's plan, because he realised this:

• At the outset kidnappers were using fairly amateur-ish language to conduct the abduction, ever since the stage of hostage exchanging, the tone of the culprit had changed drastically. As a result, Megure deduced that someone else had joined the criminal group for assistance.
• In addition to that, the "new" criminal was no amateur, as the manner of retrieving ransom looked extremely professional - suppose two vehicles one travel clockwise and the other anti-clockwise, this would divert the police's focus if it was on a looped highway.
• Since the two vehicles will be travelling at specified speed, it would be perfectly possible for the culprit to keep track of them in real-time.
• If the culprit had disclosed the plain location of the vehicles, it is possible that the money-hostage exchanging is a decoy or some sort; upon that, the culprit might not after the ransom completely.

Finally, Megure's instinct tells that the culprit are on the opposite side of the loop highway from Sawabukuro - Chiba Park.

Conan's Deduction

Adjusting the brightness of the photo.

From the anonymous phone call that Chiaki received yesterday, she sensed some low rumbling sound coming from the other side. After interpreting it, Conan related it with the construction noise - after the confirmation with Chiaki, they could narrow down the location of where Tetsuya was being kidnapped.

Conan then requested to check the photo of Kazuo sent by the kidnapper out again, he adjusted the brightness of the photo, making it lower with the editing software: Boom! They were able to see the outside buildings through the large windows in that photo. Apparently, a part of the Toto Tower was seen within the window, this shows that the building that Kazuo was at must be beside the tower.

The abnormal mailbox of Room 402.

By looking up the construction sites currently in operation online, Conan found the one located with the shortest displacement with respect to the Toto Tower. Rapidly rushing, they arrived at an apartment situated beside Toto Tower. Conan speculated that the room Kazuo was being held hostage is on the 4th floor as based on the altitude from the photo, it was pretty obvious to note. Simultaneously, within the mailbox of room 402 there were invariably full of unread letters; therefore, it is unoccupied and the best fit for a kidnapping room.

Rescuing Tetsuya!

Conan's deduction possessed absolutely no loopholes; as they force-broke the door of that room obstructed by wooden planks, they successfully saved Tetsuya.

The business man Masami Mimura's second wife is Naho Mimura.

The utmost thing to learn about was, who owned that room? Hence, Conan called Chiba to investigate the owner of the 402 room. As Chiba responded, the owner is the room is a company named Cybil, Ltd. The director name is Sakae Mimura (the 2nd son of Masami Mimura) and Naho Mimura is one of the executives.

According to that, Conan figured out almost everything: the culprit is Naho Mimura, without a doubt. The culprit must be some one who knows Chiaki and has her phone number, otherwise Chiaki would not be able to be directly called by the culprit. Being a college classmate with Naho, Chiaki recognises very well the smell that permeated the room Tetsuya got kidnapped, in which Naho always had fancied this type of fragrance.

As a result, letting Naho to "take Kazuo home" is yet to put Kazuo in danger.

Rescuing Kazuo!

Chiaki explained that Naho was a fairly popular student among their class and was pursed by many followers, the reason she plotted this double abduction case is only to leave dirty works to other people, just like her immutable personality she possessed throughout the years. Now, she is driving Kazuo to a cliff, Conan already got the police informed about it and everybody is willing to capture the culprit Naho.

Conan reached out to Megure and justified all the misconceptions between them, and obviously - got told off by him.

Naho attempting to end Kazuo.

Within the car, before ending Kazuo's life, Naho narrated the motive of doing all of those matters: Masami and she were on the verge of divorcing; however, Kazuo is not her son, but Sakae is. For Sakae to inherit the Mimura company legacy, all she could do was to murder Kazuo. In the nick of time, Conan and Megure arrived timely (thanks to the Detective Boys Badge that remained on Kazuo's clothes so Conan was able to locate his location) upon the helicopter to impede Naho's insane behaviours - and - Kazuo was saved!

Aftermath

Both Chiaki and Hayato have no criminal records, hence the police decided to suspend their indictment. Conan then surmised that the reason Naho chose her to execute the kidnapping case was probably that she respected Chiaki. After hearing this conjecture, Chiaki smiled at Conan and thanked him.

Trivia

• The logo of TMS Entertainment in the opening and ending was replaced with the exclusive 60th anniversary logo.
• The clothing shop "UNIKURO" is named after real-life Japanese brand Uniqlo while the beef restaurant Conan and the two kidnappers eat at has a logo similar to Yoshinoya's.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	الرهينتان وكونان وميغوري	Two Hostages, Conan and Megure
French (Subbed)	Conan et Megure: Les Deux Otages	Conan and Megure: The Two Hostages

See also

• Current Season