The Missing Girlfriend

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Episode 940 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Missing Girlfriend
Japanese title:	姿を消した恋人 (Sugata o Keshita Koibito)
Original airdate:	May 11, 2019
Broadcast rating:	6.6%
Filler case:	#315
Season:	28
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Necklace
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Tatsuro Inamoto
Storyboard:	Mitsuko Kase
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa and Koichiro Kuroda
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (Supervisor) Michitaka Yamamoto and Keiko Sasaki Miho Tanaka and Masanori Hashimoto (assistants)
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (Design works) Rei Masunaga
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Eiji Miyashita as Tetsuya Ushio Yuko Inoue as Landlady Hayato Fujii as Shop clerk Mikako Takahashi as Kaho Mizunuma Tomoko Naka as Maki Ohara Atsushi Kakehashi as Jun Naruse
Music
Opening song:	Barairo no Jinsei
Closing song:	Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai

The Missing Girlfriend (姿を消した恋人 ,Sugata o Keshita Koibito) is the 940th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Missing
	Location: Kaho's apartment Victim: Kaho Mizunuma Age: 24 years old Time: Saturday Jun Naruse, Kaho's boyfriend, went to Mouri Detective Agency to ask the great detective to help him find his girlfriend, with whom he wanted to by rings with but vanished.

Suicide?

Location: Bridge Victim: Kaho Mizunuma Age: 24 years old Time: 5:15 Cause of death: Drowning after falling Suspects: Herself, Jun Naruse, Tetsuya Ushio, and Maki Ohara At 5:30 AM, Tetsuya Ushio, a passerby, saw Kaho jumping off the bridge to commit suicide and recorded the video before calling the police. The video is mysteriously precise, which brings suspicions on Ushio, and Maki Ohara, a taxi driver, comes at the crime scene also raising suspicion instead on her.

Accident
	Location: Bridge Victim: Conan Edogawa Age: 6/7 years old Cause: Falling Culprit: Wataru Takagi While Kogoro grabbed Conan to teach him a lesson, Takagi fells on the sidewalk and pushes the great detective by accident who loses grip of Conan. Conan then falls into the river but hopefully is saved by Maki Ohara, who jumps into the river to save him.

Murder (Past)
	Location: Park near Kaho's house Victim: Girl Age: Around 20 years old Time: 3 months ago Cause of death: Falling Suspects: Mysterious tattooed man Three months ago, a man attacked a lady in a park by pushing her off the stairs. While the police ruled it as an accident, the family of the victim still believes the man exists.

People

Kaho Mizunuma
	Victim (fell?) 24 years old Birth date: March 31st Office worker

Jun Naruse
	27 years old Kaho's boyfriend

Tetsuya Ushio
	21 years old Witness Newspaper delivery boy/College student

Maki Ohara
	46 years old Birth date: March 22nd Taxi driver

Ms. Ohara
	Deceased (illness) Maki's only daughter

Mr. Mizunuma
	Deceased Kaho's father

Mrs. Mizunuma
	Deceased Kaho's mother

Man
	Shop clerk

Girl
	Deceased (fell) College student

Woman
	Kaho's building's manager

Criminal
	Man with tattoos Wanted for murder

Resolution

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Kaho Mizunuma did not commit a suicide or was murdered, but is actually hiding at Maki Ohara's house for her own safety.

Four months ago, Kaho witnessed a murder committed by Jun Naruse, who threatened to kill her should she reveal his crime. Kaho tried to contact the police, but was dismissed due them believing the case to be an accident. Driven to despair, Kaho attempted to commit suicide at the bridge after riding in Maki's taxi to the location.

Although Maki resented her at first for being weak-willed and wanting to die, unlike her daughter who fought her illness to her very last breath, and thought of killing Kaho herself, she had a change of heart and decided to protect Kaho. Being an ex-swimmer, Maki disguised herself as Kaho and pretended to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge during the time Tetsuya Ushio would be in the area. Conan realized that Kaho is still alive due to the following reasons: the shoelaces were tied differently, Maki was buying contact len cleaning solution despite having no vision problem along with two lunch boxes, and the woman who jumped off the bridge in the video was wearing a jewelry despite Kaho herself being allergic to metal accessories; with the last one used as an evidence that Naruse was pretending to be her boyfriend as he didn't know about her condition. Additionally, although Naruse cut and dyed his hair to differentiated himself from the wanted poster, the tattoos on both of his arms are the decisive evidence that he is the prime suspect from the murder case four months ago.

Full of gratitude for Maki's help, Kaho decides to not run away anymore and testifies against Naruse. Following Kaho's testimony, the college girl murder case is reopened by the police and Naruse is convicted for his crime.

Aftermath

At the end, Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are in the Detective Agency and receive cookies made by Kaho and Maki, who became best friends.

Trivia

• Maki Ohara's taxi is the same as the one owned by a taxi driver in Tokyo from Conan Kidnapped, and as the one owned by another one from Kyoto in The Scarlet School Trip. The license plate is similar to the one used by the Tokyo taxi driver.

See also

• Season 28