Detective Club Pursuit Case

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Episode 109 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Detective Club Pursuit Case
Japanese title:	探偵団大追跡事件 (Tantei-dan Daitsuiseki Jiken)
Original airdate:	July 13, 1998
Season:	5
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Hit and Run
Dubbed episode:	Episode 115
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Ice
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Kazuki Yao as Kenichi Shishido Rin Mizuhara as Old lady Isshin Chiba as Policeman
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Stun-Gun Wristwatch Detective Boys Badge Turbo Engine Skateboard

Case

While Conan, Ran, Kogoro, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta are walking down a narrow alley discussing a crime case, Conan notices a red sportscar coming up from behind. They prepare to move to the side, but suddenly the driver accelerates, clipping Ayumi and then bailing.

Hit and Run
	Location: Town streets Victim: Ayumi Yoshida Suspects: Kenichi Shishido

Shocked and outraged, Ran prepares to take care of Ayumi; Kogoro leaves to call the police and an ambulance; and Conan, Mitsuhiko, and Genta take up pursuit of the culprit on Conan's skateboard.

As they rush after the car driver, Conan notices to his puzzlement that the car constantly keeps stopping, then accelerating away as they come near it, as if deliberately wanting them to stay on his tail. They briefly lose their quarry near a closed-down sheet metal factory labelled Ishikura Industries, which sports a huge puddle and a lot of tire tracks at its rear entrances. As they begin to lose hope, the car suddenly appears in the street before them before taking off once more. But the greatest puzzle in this case is yet to come: The car suddenly stops on a public street, making Conan and company bump right into its tail, and then the driver gets out, goes off to a nearby police box ... and turns himself in!

Later, at the Beika Hospital, the Detective Boys recount that the driver had allegedly panicked after having hit Ayumi and that his conscience finally convinced him to turn himself in, but Conan does not trust that story. Fortunately, Ayumi was not seriously injured, but she lost her Detective Boys Badge in the accident, which is now nowhere to be found. When Conan promises to get her a new one from Professor Agasa, he earns himself Ayumi's gratitude and Mitsuhiko and Genta's jealous stares. But then Kogoro approaches, announcing that in the very same factory the boys have passed, a murder has taken place.

Murder
	Location: Ishikura Industries Victim: Hisashi Ishikura Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Kenichi Shishido

At the factory, Kogoro meets with Megure and Takagi, who inform him that the victim is the factory's manager, Hisashi Ishikura, who came to his closed facility for a check-up and apparently encountered a burglar in the process, which happened about an hour ago (the same time the Detective Boys had pased the place). Conan, however, notices immediately that Ishikura had been tied up with duct tape at or just before the time of his death, but the tape has been removed, and that the external entrance to his office, which opens to the building's back side, is in plain sight of a tobacco stand run by an old woman. Furthermore, Genta and Mitsuhiko find a photo on Ishikura's desk which depicts a number of people arranged for a group shot - among them the hit-and-runner they had chased!

At the Beika Police Station, the hit-and-runner, a man by the name of Kenichi Shishido and an employee of Ishikura's until a month ago, claims that after hitting Ayumi, he had passed by the factory by mere coincidence, and the police likewise dismiss him as a suspect, as committing a hit and run, not to mention his voluntary surrender to the police, seems atypical for a murderer's behavior. Further confounding is the tobacco saleslady's statement that nobody had ever entered from the rear, and the Detective Boy's testimony about having covered the front part, which apparently rules him out for the crime. Not convinced, and determined to find more evidence, Conan (with Mitsuhiko and Genta in tow) returns to the crime scene. But then Conan stumbles upon several clues which shed a new light upon that case, and with the help of his Voice-Changing Bowtie he arranges a meeting with Kogoro, Megure, Takagi and Shishido at the factory.

People

Hisashi Ishikura
	Victim (stabbed) 50 years old President of Ishikura Industries

Kenichi Shishido
	35 years old Former employee of Ishikura Industries

Old lady
	Tobacco store worker

Resolution

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Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, then presents the facts to the other arrivals that Shishiro did indeed murder Ishikura and he had arranged the hit-and-run offense to fake himself an alibi. It is implied that he murdered Ishikura because the latter had fired him for breaking into and stealing from the factory office's safe.

The evidence for Shishido's crime rests in the following facts. He had prepared a car identical to his own, with which he eventually committed the hit-and-run on Ayumi. He first incapacitated Ishikura, then, after having lured the Detective Boys to the factory, he hid the fake car in its empty warehouse, used his cellphone to call the tobacco saleswoman under the pretense of having dialled a wrong number, and made use of this diversion to get back into the office while her back was turned, and commit his deed. After diverting the saleswoman's attention with another call, he rushed to his own car parked in a recessed parking lot and came back into the open in order to let the boys see him again.

The list of evidence goes as follows:

• Since the Detective Boys had not seen Shishiro out front, he should have driven his car through the factory grounds and thus through the puddle at the backside. Ergo, if the car he drove to the police box was the one he hit Ayumi with, it should have mud splashes on its body. But it doesn't, whereas the fake car hidden in the warehouse clearly sports them.
• During the accident, Ayumi's missing Detective Badge got stuck in between the fake car's body and bumper, as Conan demonstrates by having Mitsuhiko call up Ayumi.

Later, when Conan returns the missing badge to Ayumi, he earns himself a kiss of gratitude and, immediately afterwards, a bout born of jealousy from Genta and Mitsuhiko.

See also

• Season 5