The Moving Target

Chronology
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Episode 798 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Moving Target
Japanese title:	動く標的 (Ugoku Hyōteki?)
Original airdate:	November 7, 2015
Broadcast rating:	10.3%
Filler case:	#248
Season:	24
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Inspector Megure Detective Takagi Detective Chiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Love letter
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Seiki Taichu
Episode director:	Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Masatomo Sudo (supervisor) Nobuyuki Iwai
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima and Detective Takagi Chafurin as Inspector Megure Isshin Chiba as Detective Chiba
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso

The Moving Target (動く標的 ,Ugoku Hyōteki) is the 798th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Detective Takagi Inspector Megure 100px Detective Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt

Case

Situation

One night, Conan is racing to an appointment, with time being short. Suddenly he hears a woman shrieking at the side of someone falling off the top of a roof, directly down towards a man standing in a street at the building's side. Reacting quickly, Conan uses his Power Shoes and Ball Dispenser Belt to kick the falling man off his downward path, right into a dumpster, where he makes a soft landing. However, the man is totally intoxicated and unconscious, so he remains completely unaware of what has happened to him. Due to the account of a witness, the man - by the name of Sadao Fukurokoji - evidently wanted to commit suicide because in his drunken state he had babbled out that things were not going according to his desires at his company.

The next morning, Conan takes his friends to the scene upon their insistence. To their surprise, they encounter a detachment of the Investigation Section One there, led by Megure and Takagi. Because of his involvement as an eye witness, Megure and Takagi confide in Conan that Fukurokoji's fall last night was apparently attempted murder, because Fukurokoji was far too drunk to undertake any actions on his own. Investigating the roof from which the man fell, Conan finds two sets of scrape marks on the roof's saftey railing, proving that someone must have carried him up and thrown him off the roof. But the marks suggest that the culprit must have switched position for the drop-down once, the reason for which remaining unknown... for the moment.

Attempted Murder
	Location: The roof and side street of a building Victim: Sadao Fukurokoji Suspects: none known Fukurokoji was deliberately thrown off a roof to his death on the street below, to make it look like suicide. Fortunately, due to Conan's intervention, he survives with none worse the wear but a few scrapes from his landing and the after-effects of his drunkeness.

People

Sadao Fukurokoji
	Victim (fell - survived) 43 years old Office worker

Hitoshi Komatsu
	28 years old Office worker

Daisuke Yukigaya
	28 years old Office worker Komatsu's friend

Sakiko Nagai
	24 years old Waitress

Officer Hayashi
	Policeman

Resolution

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Daisuke Yukigaya committed the attempted murder because he has a complex which - as the direct opposite of the ever-unlucky, but ever-optimistic Komatsu - makes him unable to bear any kind of defeat or disappointment. After having been rejected by Nagai, Yukigawa decided to get revenge on her by crushing her feelings for Komatsu - not just by murdering him, but also by sending him the anonymous love letter to make him appear a fickle womanizer. Yukigawa sought Fukurokoji's company merely to exploit him as his murder weapon against Komatsu, hoping to make it look like Komatsu just got unluckily mixed up in a suicide.

However, right after Yukigaya had brought Fukurokoji into position, Komatsu had switched positions after his wristwatch failed and he went looking for a clock to tell the time, which is the reason for the two different scrape marks on the roof's railing. In addition, the crucial evidence for Yukigawa's attempted misdeed is some of his hair which got stuck on Fukurokoji's jacket. When confronted with this fact, instead of breaking down, Yukigawa narcissistically boasts his self-perceived perfection, deepening the Detective Boys' and the police's dislike towards him even more.

The story ends with Nagai furiously confronting Komatsu about why he would accept a love letter from another woman, with some shrew comments from the Detective Boys. However, it is hinted that the blossoming love story will eventually come to a happy end.

See also

• Season 24