Kaitou Kid VS Makoto Kyogoku

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Episode 746-747 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Kaitou Kid VS Makoto Kyogoku
Japanese title:	怪盗キッドVS京極真 (Kaitō Kiddo VS Kyōgoku Makoto)
Original airdate:	July 19, 2014 (Part 1) July 26, 2014 (Part 2)
Season:	23
Manga source:	Volume 82: Files 1-3 (862-864)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kaitou Kid Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku Shiro Suzuki Tomoko Suzuki Jirokichi Suzuki Ginzo Nakamori Shintaro Chaki Ayako Suzuki Yuzo Tomizawa Masumi Sera
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Makoto Kyogoku
Next Conan's Hint:	Unexpected security system (Part 1) Candle (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Yasuyuki Honda
Storyboard:	Yasuyuki Honda
Episode director:	746 Takanori Yano 747 Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	746 Seiji Muta (supervisor), Akio Kawamura, Masanori Hashimoto, Naoko Soeda (asst.) 747 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Chiemi Hironaka, Keiko Sasaki
Music
Opening song:	Greed
Closing song:	RAIN MAN
First episode to feature Kosei Tomita as the voice of Jirokichi Suzuki.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kaitou Kid Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku Shiro Suzuki Tomoko Suzuki Jirokichi Suzuki Ginzo Nakamori Shintaro Chaki Ayako Suzuki (background) Yuzo Tomizawa (background) Masumi Sera (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Wristwatch Flashlight Card Gun Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Hang Glider Cape

Case

Situation

Part 1

Sonoko has decided to introduce Makoto to her parents. But while her father wholly approves of Makoto, especially as he is a fan of martial arts competitions himself, her mother in turn is strictly against a union between her younger daughter, as the prospective heir of the Suzuki Corporation, and an (in her eyes) uneducated, fight-obsessed never-do-well. Just then Sonoko receives a phone call from Ran, who informs her of Kaitou Kid's newest intention of stealing a priceless jewel from his self-declared archnemesis Jirokichi Suzuki. But as she expresses her excitement to her uncle, Makoto hears Sonoko calling Kid by his honoric "-sama" - and becomes highly interested indeed...

A little while later, after many concluded simulation runs and scenario calculations, Jirokichi Suzuki has to face the bitter reality that all measures he and his technicians have thought of to apprehend Kaitou Kid will actually be less than sufficicent to prevent the young master thief from taking Jirokichi's latest bait, the Alexandrite Green Emperor.

Heist
	Thief: Kaitou Kid Target: Green Emperor Owner: Jirokichi Suzuki Location: Grand Suzuki Museum Advanced Notice: I'll get the Green Emperor.

Deeply depressed, Jirokichi considers cancelling the exhibition when a security guard (looking the worse for wear) announces the arrival of Makoto, who has spontaneously given up his return flight and smashed his way to the front of Jirokichi's mansion to request that Jirokichi lets him join the security force guarding the jewel. At first Jirokichi refuses, but when Sonoko calls him up to inquire about Makoto's exact whereabouts, and when Jirokichi learns of Makoto's victory record, he swiftly changes his mind about the young man's offer and sends a demonstration video to Superintendent Chaki and Inspector Nakamori. However, amidst the slack-jawed policemen witnessing Makoto's fighting prowess lurks Kaitou Kid in disguise, who merely shows amusement at this new, if unusual challenge.

Later on, as Makoto spends the night in the Suzuki Museum to familiarize himself with the battleground, Tomoko Suzuki shows up and suggests that they enter a bet. At the same time, Sonoko phones the great news of the impending clash between Makoto and Kid to Ran when Kid interrupts her conversation by appearing at her room's balcony - and he also offers her to enter a bet with him...

Resolution

Sonoko's mom Tomoko Suzuki had brought special designer-wear from Paris for Sonoko, Ran and herself so that Kid could not impersonate as them since it was known that Kid never strips off a girl and he could not duplicate those special dresses. Kid sends over a hundred letters written in invisible ink addressed to Makoto. As the arrival time of Kid approaches, there is a blackout and the security guards are knocked out with sleeping gas. Sonoko runs to Makoto, who is protecting the jewel by wearing it on his neck, for help. In the candlelight, they notice that the green jewel had gone from his neck and in its place was a fake red jewel. As they are bewildered, Sonoko intends to take the fake jewel off his neck to notify the theft to Jirokichi.

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Conan reveals that the red jewel is not a fake but the original one, since an Alexandrite glows green in fluorescent light sources but red under incandescent sources, such as candles. The objective of sending those letters written in invisible ink was to ensure that there would be candles in that room. But not only Conan, but also Makoto has realized that Sonoko is actually Kaitou Kid in disguise. Actually, there was a bet between Sonoko and Kaitou Kid whether Makoto will be able to tell his real girlfriend apart from the fake. As per the conditions of this bet, Sonoko handed over the special western designer-wear to Kid in the restroom.

As soon as Kid's identity is revealed, Conan tries to take him out with his Power Shoes/Ball Belt combination, but Kid slips out of Makoto's grip and pulls himself towards a skylight with his Card Gun. The ball smashes a column of the exhibition room, toppling it on top of the display plinth. Then Makoto tears down another column with his bare hands, using it as a falling weight and the first toppled column as a seesaw catapult to launch himself through the skylight, catching Kid before he can get away. Awestruck, Kid surrenders the jewel to him (since it is not the one he is interested in anyway), thus making Makoto win the bet he made with Sonoko's mother - that if he manages to protect the jewel from Kid, she will approve of him as Sonoko's partner; and if he fails, he has to give up on Sonoko forever.

Following this resolution, Sonoko tells everyone (following Kid's suggestions, in order to avoid being accused of complicity) that he stole the dress from her. Then Makoto reveals that he recognized the disguised Kid because, due of his habit of paying close attention to his opponents' body language, he had noticed that the supposed Sonoko's ring finger was longer than her index finger (unlike the real Sonoko's).

Trivia

• This is the first story in which Sonoko is actually addressed by Kaitou Kid in person, if only to raise the emotional stakes in this case. The balcony scene is actually a partial reenactment of Ayumi's encounter with Kid on her home balcony in the movie The Last Wizard of the Century.

See also

• Season 23