Rainbow Color Kidnapping

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Episode 562 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Rainbow Color Kidnapping
Japanese title:	虹色の誘拐 (Reinbō Karā no Yūkai)
Original airdate:	January 16, 2010
Broadcast rating:	8,70%
Filler case:	#172
Season:	18
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Detective Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Cavan
Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Shigenori Kageyama
Episode director:	Masakazu Yamazaki
Animation director:	Kana Miyai
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Bin Sasaki as Kenzo Katsuragi Aki Sasaki as CM Voice Yū Asakawa as Clerk Aiko Hibi as Car Announcement Hiroshi Shirokuma as Investigator Yuu Shimaka as Shohei Nijimura Aya Hisakawa as Saki Nijimura
Music
Opening song:	MAGIC
Closing song:	Hello Mr. my yesterday

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Detective Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Kogoro is hired by the Nijimura company to investigate a counterfeit company who has been copying their styles in handbags. Kogoro, Ran, and Conan witness the president of Nijimura become kidnapped by an unknown culprit.

Kidnapping
	Location: Town Victim: Shohei Nijimura Suspects: Unknown culprit

The culprit sends the president's wife, Saki Nijimura, a ransom note demanding her to place the money in a water-proof Nijimura handbag and to meet with him on a train at a specific time. While the police spy Saki, she runs into a crowd and receives a note demanding her to throw the handbag into the river below the train. Saki does as demanded and the river carries the handbag away. The next day, the police discover the empty purse downstream and President Nijimura's body in the woods.

Murder
	Location: Woods Victim: Shohei Nijimura Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Unknown culprit

Conan notices something strange about the handbag they found and realizes it is a handbag from the company that has been counterfeiting Nijimura products.

People

Kenzo Katsuragi
	45 years old Inspector from Police HQ First Division Special Investigation Dept.

Saki Nijimura
	35 years old Nijimura vice president

Shohei Nijimura
	Victim (strangled) President of Nijimura Company

Resolution

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Conan gathers the police and Kogoro to the scene and tranquilizes Kogoro to reveal that the handbag actually sank to the bottom of the river and that Saki Nijimura had staged the kidnapping and the ransom note. Saki confesses and reveals that the president had been selling off her designs for the handbags to the counterfeit companies and that he had gambled their family into debt.

Trivia

• This is the first episode of the 2010s.

See also

• Season 18