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The sniper that Conan saw was '''Koichi Yamabe''', a police officer and former rifle marksman of Japan's Olympic team. He and his girlfriend, Eri, were abducted by the criminals while on vacation.
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The sniper that Conan saw was '''Koichi Yamabe''', a police officer and former rifle marksman of Japan's Olympic team. He and his girlfriend, Eri, were abducted by the criminals while on vacation. The criminals held Eri hostage so that Koichi Yamabe would work for them.
  
 
When Conan and the group did not see the criminals and the victims in Saitama Route 162, they began decoding the numbers in the calculator again.  As Mitsuhiko was punching the numbers in his calculator, Conan accidentally saw that when upside down, the numbers can actually be read as "291 Heisei E". The decoded message means the one o'clock train on February 9th of the Heisei Express train. True enough, the shape of the river was similar to the train tracks that Heisei Express would take. The criminals wanted Koichi to shoot someone inside the train and the balloon was just an accuracy test.  
 
When Conan and the group did not see the criminals and the victims in Saitama Route 162, they began decoding the numbers in the calculator again.  As Mitsuhiko was punching the numbers in his calculator, Conan accidentally saw that when upside down, the numbers can actually be read as "291 Heisei E". The decoded message means the one o'clock train on February 9th of the Heisei Express train. True enough, the shape of the river was similar to the train tracks that Heisei Express would take. The criminals wanted Koichi to shoot someone inside the train and the balloon was just an accuracy test.  
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The criminals held Eri hostage so that Koichi Yamabe would work for them, that is, assassinate someone.
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The criminals were former members of a gang whose leaders were caught in a sting operation last year. They wanted revenge on the district attorney who set up the operation, that is, their target who was on his way back from a vacation with his family.
 
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Episode 14
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Information
Title: The Mysterious Shooting Message Case
Original airdate: April 29, 1996
Season: 1
Manga source: TV Original
English version
English title: The Shooter
English airdate: June 16, 2004
Case
Cast: Conan Edogawa
Detective Boys
Inspector Megure
Case solved by: Conan Edogawa
Detective Boys
Next Conan's Hint: Answering machine
Staff
Director: Kenji Kodama
Screenplay: Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard: Kuchiru Kazehara
Episode director: Masato Sato
Animation director: Akio Kawamura, Kumiko Shishido


Cast

Case

Situation

Missing Persons

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Victim: Koichi Yamabe, Eri
While fishing, Conan, with the Detective Boys, spots a sniper shooting a balloon tied to a remote controlled boat by the river. This sniper is held at gunpoint by other men. The gang went to find these men but when they get there, the gunmen have left.

Conan finds a calculator under a small boulder which he thought that the sniper left behind. They call the police and find out that the sniper, Koichi Yamabe, and his girlfriend, Eri, are recently reported missing.

People

  • Resolution

    See also