The Moving Target

Chronology
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Episode 798 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Moving Target
Japanese title:	動く標的 (Ugoku Hyōteki?)
Original airdate:	November 7, 2015
Broadcast rating:	10.3%
Filler case:	#248
Season:	24
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Sakai
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Love letter
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Seiki Taichu
Episode director:	Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Masatomo Sudo (supervisor) Nobuyuki Iwai
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima and Wataru Takagi Chafurin as Juzo Megure Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Takahiro Fujimoto as Sadao Fukurokouji Noboru Yamaguchi as Hitoshi Komatsu Mahito Funaki as Daisuke Yukigaya Hiromi Konno as Sakiko Nagai
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso

The Moving Target (動く標的 ,Ugoku Hyōteki) is the 798th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Wataru Takagi Juzo Megure Kazunobu Chiba 100px Sakai (cameo)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt

Case

Situation

One night, Conan is racing to an appointment. Suddenly he hears a woman shrieking at the sight of someone falling off the top of a roof, directly down towards a man standing in a street at the building's side. Reacting quickly, Conan uses his Power Shoes and Ball Dispenser Belt to kick the falling man off his downward path, right into a nearby dumpster, where he makes a soft landing. However, the man is totally intoxicated and unconscious, so he remains completely unaware of what has happened to him. Due to the account of a witness, the man - by the name of Sadao Fukurokoji - evidently wanted to commit suicide because in his drunken state he had babbled out that things were not going according to his desires at his company.

The next morning, Conan takes his friends to the scene upon their insistence. To their surprise, they encounter a detachment of the Investigation Section One there, led by Megure and Takagi. Because of his involvement as an eye witness, Megure and Takagi confide in Conan that Fukurokoji's fall last night was apparently attempted murder, because Fukurokoji was far too drunk to undertake any actions on his own. Investigating the roof from which the man fell, Conan finds two sets of scrape marks on the roof's saftey railing, proving that someone must have carried him up and thrown him off the roof. But the marks suggest that the culprit must have switched position for the drop-down once, the reason for which remaining unknown... for the moment.

Attempted Murder
	Location: The roof and side street of Baker Building One Victim: Sadao Fukurokoji Suspects: None known Fukurokoji was deliberately thrown off a roof to his death on the street below, to make it look like suicide. Fortunately, due to Conan's intervention, he survives with none worse the wear but a few scrapes from his landing and the after-effects of his drunkeness.

As Conan looks down to the street, he spots the man on whose head Fukurokoji had almost fallen last night. This man, a somewhat slow-witted and unlucky, but ever-cheerful office worker named Hitoshi Komatsu, is showing his friend and colleague, Daisuke Yukigaya, the place where he was nearly killed. After a brief introduction to Conan as a fellow witness, Yukigaya takes his leave, and Komatsu bashfully comments on wondering how a overly successful person like Yukigaya could ever like an eight ball like him. Then he mentions that he was waiting in his place because he was expecting to meet an anonymous woman who had sent him a love letter, asking him to wait for her at the building at that time. This statement immediatley rouses Conan's suspicion that the killer's intention was to kill both Fukurokoji and Komatsu, making it look like an accident; however, Komatsu can't think of anyone bearing a grudge against him.

The Detective Boys ask Komatsu to show them the love letter he received, which he is keeping in his appartment for the day. As the Detective Boys scoff at the idea that Komatsu would meet a stranger who wouldn't provide her name, Komatsu declares that he merely went there to tell the writer that he couldn't go out with her, since he already has a crush on someone. Another puzzling clue is that the letter's writer asked Komatsu to bring the letter with him for their meeting, considering that following the murder attempt it would be hard to retrieve it, since it would be a crucial piece of evidence that the matter was in fact foul play.

Since Komatsu has gone hungry, he invites the kids to a restaurant he likes to frequent. There, the Detective Boys meet Sakiko Nagai, a pretty and happy-to-go young waitress who is Komatsu's secret love interest. Incidentally, the restaurant is quite near Komatsu's working place and was also frequented by Yukigaya, though he has not come by for the last two weeks. While Komatsu has to go to the toilet, Nagai tells the children that Yukigaya had actually asked her out for a date the last time he was here, but she had turned him down because she wasn't drawn to his success personality traits. In the course of that conversation, the Detective Boys are also surprised to learn that Nagai has her own crush on Komatsu, making this matter (as Komatsu believes) not a one-sided affair.

This is all Conan needs to suspect Yukigaya as the would-be murderer. However, as Takagi and Chiba later tell the Detective Boys, Yukigaya has had no previous affiliation with Fukurokoji, making his murder in addition to Komatsu's appear a rather pointless undertaking. But then Conan figures out the culprit's true identity and his modus operandi, and asks all concerned, as well as Megure, Takagi and Chiba, to meet the Detective Boys for a discussion of the case.

People

Sadao Fukurokoji
	Victim (fell - survived) 43 years old Office worker

Hitoshi Komatsu
	28 years old Office worker

Daisuke Yukigaya
	28 years old Office worker Komatsu's friend

Sakiko Nagai
	24 years old Waitress

Officer Hayashi
	Policeman

Resolution

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Daisuke Yukigaya committed the attempted murder because he has a complex which - as the direct opposite of the ever-unlucky, but ever-optimistic Komatsu - makes him unable to bear any kind of defeat or disappointment. After having been rejected by Nagai, Yukigawa decided to get revenge on her by crushing her heart - not just by merely murdering Komatsu, but also by sending him the anonymous love letter to make him appear a fickle womanizer. Yukigawa sought Fukurokoji's company merely to exploit him as his murder weapon against Komatsu, hoping to make it look like Komatsu just got unluckily mixed up in a suicide.

However, right after Yukigaya had brought Fukurokoji into position, Komatsu had switched positions after his wristwatch failed and he went looking for a clock to tell the time, which is the reason for the two different scrape marks on the roof's railing. In addition, the crucial evidence for Yukigawa's attempted misdeed is some of his hair which got stuck on Fukurokoji's jacket. When confronted with this fact, instead of breaking down, Yukigawa narcissistically boasts his self-perceived perfection, deepening the Detective Boys' and the police's dislike towards him even more.

The episode ends with Nagai furiously confronting Komatsu about why he would accept a love letter from another woman, with some shrewd comments thrown in by the Detective Boys. However, it is hinted that the blossoming love story will eventually come to a happy end.

See also

• Season 24