Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case

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Information
Title:	The Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case
Japanese title:	社長令嬢誘拐事件 (Shachō Reijō Yūkai Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 15, 1996 April 11, 2009 (Remastered version)
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 1: Files 2-5 (002-005)
English version
English title:	The Kidnapped Debutante
Dubbed episode:	Episode 2
English airdate:	May 25, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Professor Agasa
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri
Next Conan's Hint:	Ice
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	Toshiya Shinohara
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Yuzuru Fujimoto as Tani Houchu Otsuka as Kidnapper Yukitoshi Hori as Man in Black A Kae Araki as Akiko Tani Takashi Naka as Asao Yoshiko Okamoto as Maid Isshin Chiba as Cop A Wataru Takagi as Cop B, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

The Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case resolves the situation left by the previous episode, and introduces the new status quo.

Characters introduced

Conan Edogawa
	6-7 years old Shinichi Kudo Detective

Cast

Characters
Shinichi Kudo (background) Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Professor Agasa

Case

Situation

Shinichi realizes that the poison shrunk him, and after making it home, asks Professor Agasa for help. Agasa warns that to stay safely hidden from the men in black, Shinichi can tell no one else, even Ran - who coincidentally shows up, intending to check on Shinichi. Agasa convinces her to look after Shinichi, who tells her his name is Conan Edogawa. On the way to her house, Ran confides to Conan that she really likes Shinichi, but Conan's reply is interrupted by Ran's father rushing outside on the trail of a case. He brags that he's been hired to find a CEO's daughter, who was kidnapped by a "man in black". Conan sneaks along in case it is a lead, followed by Ran, who explains Conan's situation to Kogoro. Kogoro can't kick them out of a moving taxi, so simply orders them to stay out of the way.

According to the butler, Asao, CEO Tani's daughter Akiko was taken from the house's garden by a man in black, who escaped without alerting any of the guard dogs on the premises. The kidnapper demands that the CEO shut down his company for a while, as well as deliver a large ransom.

Kidnapping
	Location: Tani household Victim: Akiko Tani Suspects: "A man dressed in black" Akiko was kidnapped from home, and the ransom demand is to shut down the company and pay 300 million yen.

People

Tani
	Company president

Akiko Tani
	Victim (kidnapped) 10 years old Daughter of company president

Asou
100px	Butler for the Tani family

Jumbo
	Tani family guard dog

Kidnapper
	Akiko's kidnapper

Resolution

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Evidence

Conan hints to Kogoro that it is strange that Jumbo the guarddog did not bark at the supposed man dressed in black kidnapping Akiko, since the kidnapper supposedly used the pine tree Jumbo was near to escape the household. Asao seems surprised when Tani claims the kidnapper is asking for ransom money in addition to shutting down his company temporarily.

• During a phone call with the kidnapper Akiko manages to say she thinks she's in the storeroom of a school and sees a chimney outside the window.

Conclusion

Kogoro, thanks to hints from Conan, figures out that Akiko's kidnapping is a fake and that she should be in a nearby hotel. Unfortunately, Akiko was kidnapped for real after the fake kidnapping by a man demanding ransom money in return for Akiko's safety.

After searching nearby schools using Jumbo as transportation and a guide, Conan determines that what Akiko saw outside the school window wasn't a chimney at all, but rather the side of a large skyscraper. Conan then finds Akiko but is unable to take down the kidnapper due to his shrunken size. Thankfully, Jumbo summoned the others and Ran uses her karate on the kidnapper in the nick of time.

Motive

Akiko's motive for getting Asao to cooperate with her "kidnapping" was that she wanted to spend more time with her father who is always at work and doesn't play with her very much anymore.

Episode Resolution: The New Status Quo

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On the way home, Ran reminds Kogoro about Conan's situation and asks if he can stay. Kogoro thinks that Conan acted like a good luck charm with how well the case turned out, and enthusiastically consents. The next scene shows Conan in his new elementary school classroom, introducing himself - though he privately wishes that being stuck back in first grade could be just a bad dream.

Manga to anime changes

• The younger Shinichi is in a medical center at Tropical Land whereas in the anime he runs off after being awoken by the police.
• In the manga, Tani immediately puts the vacation plans with Akiko on hold (much to the latter's disappointment). The anime leaves this scene out.
• Rather than showing Conan being introduced to his new class (with Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta as students), the manga version of the story end with Conan reflecting on how he is incapable of fighting the bad guys in his younger form.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Tani - Mr. Tanner
• Akiko Tani - Michelle Tanner

• In the English Dub, Ran pointed out that Kogoro did not have a case, with him responding that he polished off a case (a case of beer), whereas in the Japanese Version, Ran states that his messy office is why Eri left him and why Kogoro hasn't had work with him responding that he's selective with his job. In the dub, Eri / Eva Kaden is not mentioned until the Coffee Shop Murder Case.
• In the English Dub, Conan blushes during Ran's hug because his disguise worked, whereas in the Japanese Version he blushed because he felt her chest.

Remastered version

On April 11, 2009, a remastered version of the case was aired.

Gallery

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  Shinichi wonders what happened to his clothes, and why the security guard called him "little boy".

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  Shinichi escapes and catches sight of his reflection - he's been shrunk!

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  Shinichi can't get into his house, but luckily Professor Agasa can help, once Shinichi proves his identity via a brief deduction show.

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  "Those men are bound to come looking for you if they find out you're still alive! You must tell no one your true identity or what happened! Not even Ran!"

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  Ran's at the door! Agasa and Shinichi try not to panic and do their best to improvise.

Trivia

• The manga version of this story marks the debut of Professor Agasa and Kogoro Mouri.
• This is the first episode that the victim is kidnapped.

See also

• Season 1