The Mini Patrol Car Police's Big Chase

Chronology
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Episode 918 (Int. Episode 973)
Information
Title:	The Mini Patrol Car Police's Big Chase
Japanese title:	ミニパトポリス大追跡 (Minipato Porisu Daitsuiseki)
Original airdate:	October 27, 2018
Broadcast rating:	7.4%
Filler case:	#302
Season:	23
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Yumi Miyamoto Naeko Miike Detective Boys Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Rumi Wakasa
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Yumi and Naeko
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Yuko Okabe
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	Yoshihiro Sugai
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (Supervisor) Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo  Akiko Motoyoshi Kumiko Shishido (Design Works)
Production cooperation:	BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Yu Sugimoto as Yumi Miyamoto Rie Tanaka as Naeko Miike Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya  Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara  Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Hiro Shimono as Sho Iguchi Kosuke Goto as Mitsuo Kawamata Ken Uo as Shintaro Horikawa Takahiro Fujimoto as Shunpei Matsuno
Music
Opening song:	Timeline (song)
Closing song:	Aozolighter

The Mini Patrol Car Police's Big Chase (ミニパトポリス大追跡 ,Minipato Porisu Daitsuiseki) is the 918th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Yumi Miyamoto Naeko Miike Genta Kojima Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara (flashback) Rumi Wakasa (leg flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Detective Boys Badge Criminal Tracking Glasses Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt

Case

Situation

The Detective Boys went to an eel warehouse's exhibit where there was a huge country fair at Genta's recommendation. Professor Agasa had asked them to bring some eels back so he'll cook them but, at the fair, Genta goes to the washroom and disappears. The Detective Boys search for him until they go to the loading deck and see Genta in a van gagged and attached by two mysterious kidnappers. They run after it and just got by Yumi and Naeko's mini-patrol car and tell them to follow the truck since Genta is inside and has been kidnapped. Luckily, they are able to follow the truck with Conan's criminal tracking glasses and Genta's detective boys' badge. They were almost at the car's location when they found out it was stuck in a traffic jam. Yumi decides to use her megaphone to make all the cars move and then yells from her location to the kidnappers who understand they were followed and run away with the van with the mini-car chasing after not far away but, at a railway crossing, they get separated from the van so Conan uses his badge to contact Genta who had taken off the tape covering his mouth but, the kidnappers heard their conversation and break Genta's badge.

Kidnapping
	Location: Eel food exhibit Victim: Genta Kojima Age: 7 years old Culprits: Sho Iguchi and Mitsuo Kawamata As Genta went to the toilets of the exhibit, he witnessed the two kidnappers discussing and since he heard important clues, they kidnapped him.

They then think of a way to cut them off at their transactions' location place since they heard the kidnappers were in fact diamond sellers that made an illegal deal at the eel exhibit and that they'd conclude the deal at the harbor since the last known location of their car was towards the harbor before they lost track of them. They needed to do it quickly and save Genta since the kidnappers planned to kill Genta after the transaction. Conan then remembers the kidnappers were communicating in the exhibit using hand signs. Mitsuhiko thinks of the signs' meaning being a gun since they pointed towards a third member of the group, Shintaro Horikawa (probably the boss), with their thumb and their index finger. He remembers back the case of the counting system (burning tent case) and Haibara talking about the english counting system. Mitsuhiko then start another deduction and think about it being the european system so the fingers should be making "two" and "one" which means they were probably heading to warehouse 21 of the harbor. Still, as they were heading towards this direction, Conan was intrigued and thought something was wrong about the counting system thing.

People

Sho Iguchi
	24 years old Eel stand vendor Kidnapper

Mitsuo Kawamata
	35 years old Eel stand vendor Kidnapper

Shintaro Horikawa
	43 years old Eel vendor

Shunpei Matsuno
	38 years old Buyer

Resolution

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Upon thinking, Conan finds out it is not the European counting system the kidnappers were using but in fact, the secret hand signals used at auctions. They are used to indicate prices at auction sellings hence they were eel sellers. The sharp metallic object Conan found was in fact a punch used by eel vendors for butchering eels which really indicated they were in eel market. So, the correct warehouse was in fact warehouse 76 according to their counting system in Tokyo. Mean while, already at the hangar, the two kidnappers just met Shunpei Matsuno, a seller and sold a couple of ice coolers full of whitebait protected eels and got of loaf of money which they counted and were happy of gaining. They then decide to kill Genta and Kawamata takes out a butcher's knife from his coat but wasn't able to do so as he heard the mini-patrol car's sirens ringing.

Smuggling
	Location: Tokyo Harbor Warehouse 76 Items: Protected whitebait eels Culprits: Shunpei Matsuno, Sho Iguchi, Mitsuo Kawamata, and Shintaro Horikawa Contrary to Yumi's assumptions, the smuggled goods are not diamonds, but rare and protected young whitebait eels. Their rarity and resultant monetary value made the culprits reference them to as "white diamonds".

Hostage Situation
	Location: Tokyo Harbor Warehouse 76 Victim: Genta Kojima Age: 7 years old Offense weapons: Knife Culprits: Sho Iguchi and Mitsuo Kawamata After the illegal deal is completed, the two kidnappers decide to kill Genta since he was a witness, but he is saved by the mini patrol police car's team.

Yumi gets out with the others and threathen them to surrender and says they are diamond sellers and that she has proofs of their illegal market to which the kidnappers think is weird but they still decide to fight back. First, Naeko takes down a suspect using a karate throw and Yumi tries to do a german suplex on the other one but since he was overweight, she tells him he should go on a diet before definitely putting him down. She then puts them on custody and shows them a list of laws they didn't respect while the detective boys were proud of the officers' martial arts techniques. In fact, Yumi got it all wrong from the start since the things they sold were in fact eels which are protected and could be sold so high we nickname them diamonds. Thinking all the problems were finished, the two other gang members appear from Shunpei's car and take Genta hostage again.

Hostage situation
	Location: Tokyo Harbor Warehouse 76 Victim: Genta Kojima Age: 7 years old Offense weapons: Knife Culprits: Shunpei Matsuno and Shintaro Horikawa Even though succesfully securing the culprits, that's what they thought, the two other members get out of Matsuno's van and take Genta as a hostage again before definitely getting knocked out by Conan.

Finally, Conan throws his ball to them which knocks out both at the same time. Then, all are fighting to know who should get all the credit.

Aftermath

At night, the Detective Boys return to Agasa's house since he felicitates them for their heroism and will treat them with eel which they didn't manage to buy. Conan reminds them to eat consciously since eels are almost on extinction (of course, not because Genta ate too much of them). Then Agasa arrives and makes another pun about eels and everyone hurry to the kitchen. Yumi then makes another pun herself and Naeko replies she's being contaminated by Agasa. Yumi then joins the meal yelling she's gonna eat "Manyu" (Eel in chinese) and Conan notes that it wasn't necessary to mix chinese in it too.

Trivia

• The finger counting detail references about Mystery of the Burning Tent and The Blind Spot in the Dressing Room.
• Yumi and Naeko's car is a black and white police Mazda Demio 2010. The license plate is 新宿 880, ゆ 1-29 (Shinjuku 880, Yu 1-29).
• The kidnappers' car is a grey Suzuki Every Plus 2005. The license plate is 新宿 420, カ 12-41 (Shinjuku 420, Ka 12-41).
• Shunpei Matsuno's van is a white Nissan NV350 Caravan Premium GX (E26) 2012. The license plate is 新宿 330, い 8-10 (Shinjuku 330, I 8-10).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La gran persecució de la patrulla de trànsit	The traffic patrol great pursuit
French (Subbed)	Course poursuite en mini-voiture de patrouille	Mini patrol car chase race
Thai	การไล่ล่าของรถสายตรวจ	The patrol car's big chase
Vietnamese	Cuộc rượt đuổi hoành tráng nhất của xe cảnh sát

See also

• Season 23