The Mysterious Passenger

Chronology
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Episode 230-231 (Int. Episode 249-250)
Information
Title:	The Mysterious Passenger
Japanese title:	謎めいた乗客 (Nazomeita Jōkyaku)
Original airdate:	April 16, 2001 (Part 1) April 23, 2001 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	18.40% 19.30%
Manga case:	#82
Season:	9
Manga source:	Volume 29: Files 3-5 (287-289)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Tomoaki Araide Jodie Starling Shuichi Akai Miwako Sato Juzo Megure Kazunobu Chiba Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Detective Kobayashi Detective Kojima Police detective Akemi Miyano Gin Vodka Vermouth Pisco
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Message (Part 1) Rearview mirror (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama (chief)
Organizer:	Masato Sato
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	230 Minoru Tozawa 231 Masato Sato
Animation director:	230 Keiko Sasaki 231 Atsushi Aono
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Junko Yamanaka and Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Kazuhiko Inoue as Ninzaburo Shiratori Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba, Boy (Episode 230) Hideyuki Hori as Tomoaki Araide Miyuki Ichijou as Jodie Starling Yukitoshi Hori as Gin Fumihiko Tachiki as Vodka Mami Koyama as Vermouth Katsumi Cho as Kunio Yashima Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Junichi Sugawara as Yasuhiko Machida Sayuri Sadaoka as Miharu Tomino Kazuhiro Nakata as Criminal A Masuo Amada as Criminal B Hiroshi Takemura as Kobayashi (Driver)
Music
Opening song:	Koi wa Thrill, Shock, Suspense destiny
Closing song:	Start in my life

The Mysterious Passenger (謎めいた乗客 ,Nazomeita Jōkyaku) is the 230th and 231st episodes of Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Shuichi Akai
	Mysterious man

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Tomoaki Araide Jodie Starling Miwako Sato Juzo Megure Kazunobu Chiba Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Detective Kobayashi Detective Yokoyama Detective Kojima Police detective Akemi Miyano (flashback) Gin Vodka Vermouth Pisco (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Detective Boys Badge Earring Cellphone

Case

Situation

Part 1

Gin and Vodka are at the "Polestar", a high end bar with a live music act. They just wrapped up a meeting with an unfortunate client who walked out with a happy face, not knowing he just had his final drink. Vodka notices that Gin seems enamored by the songstress onstage and praises her voice. At that moment, a waiter delivers two dry martinis to their table, stating that they were from the diva. Vodka accepts them with pleasure, but before he can drink, Gin snuffs his cigarette out in the martini and demands to know what kind of game the waiter is playing. Before the waiter can reply, Gin slams the waiter's head to the table and attempts to spear him with an icepick. The waiter jerks out from Gin's grip, leaving his latex mask behind. The waiter is actually a woman in disguise: the Black Organization agent Vermouth.

Vermouth explains that she was just teasing the two men who were besotted with the singer. Vodka worries that the commotion might have attracted unwanted attention because Vermouth is also a famous actress going by the alias Chris Vineyard. Vermouth reassures him that everyone is too focused on the diva to notice them.

Gin then asks Vermouth if she found "the one" she was searching for, and Vermouth replies that she hasn't. Vodka tries to ask for clarification, but Gin tells him it's useless because Vermouth loves keeping secrets. Her catchphrase is "a secret makes a woman, woman" because a touch of mystery gives a woman her allure. Gin finds her secret-keeping habit repulsive. In return, Vermouth asks if Gin has found Sherry. Gin says that no traitor can hide from him, and that soon enough he will make both Sherry and the man who protected her at the Haido City Hotel taste true fear.

Meanwhile, Conan and the Detective Boys are taking the transit bus to a ski resort where they meet Araide and Jodie aboard the bus. Conan felt bored and awaited encounters with Black Organization. Immediately afterward, a suspiciously looking man approached the back seat, but Haibara disregarded, saying the Black Organization members carry a unique smell, which prompted Conan to smell on Haibara herself and earned an annoyed look from her. However, afterwards, Haibara is able to sense that Vermouth is on the bus and hides herself to prevent her from being found. Soon after, the bus is hi-jacked by two armed men who use the passengers as hostages.

Busjack
	Location: Bus Victim: All passengers Suspects: Two hijackers Two hijackers have placed bombs in their ski bags and have taken the passengers hostage.

Conan tries to coordinate with the others and use his gadgets, but is caught by the busjackers every time. He then realizes that one of the three passengers in the back seat is an accomplice of the armed men and is somehow informing them about the passengers' behavior. Conan observes them and notices that one woman is chewing bubble gum, the middle man has some sort of ear piece, and the final man is wearing a mask and coughing often.

Hijackers' Undercover Accomplice: Informant
	Location: Bus Suspects: The three passengers in the back seat: Miharu Tomino, Yasuhiko Machida, and Shuichi Akai One of the three passengers in the back is a secret informant of the two armed hijackers and is informing them when one of the passengers makes a suspicious move.

The bus hijackers demanded the police to release their boss Kunio Yashima, who was previously arrested from a jewelry robbery case. To project the hostages, the police conceded.

Robbery (Past)
	Suspects: Kunio Yashima and his three subordinates

Conan investigates the ski bags the robbers placed in the center of the bus and realizes they contain explosives. Conan then tries to call the police with the earring phone but the spy robbers catch him and take it away. Conan was surprised that the robbers notice and that robber couldn't have notice him with something would cover the view realize that the passenger in the back must be a accomplice.

People

Man #1
	Hijacker Robber gang member

Man #2
	Hijacker Robber gang second-in-command

Kunio Yashima
	Jewel broker Robber gang leader

Shuichi Akai
	Passenger

Yasuhiko Machida
	Passenger

Miharu Tomino
	Passenger

Masahito Yoshioka
	Deceased? 42 years old OK Trading Co., Ltd. Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Kobayashi
	Bus driver

Waiter
	"Polestar" waiter Vermouth in disguise

Resolution

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Conan figures out who the accomplice is. When the bus enters a tunnel, the armed men force Araide and a passenger named Shuichi Akai to wear the ski gear the hijackers were wearing. The hijackers then use Miharu Tomino, a woman chewing gum as a hostage and proceed to leave the bus.

Miharu Tomino is the hijacker's other accomplice.

Conan reveals that Miharu Tomino is an accomplice of theirs and that they plan to detonate the bombs in the ski bags once they are off the bus.

• Tomino, disguising herself as one of the passengers, played the role of watchwoman who notify her two fellow robbers of passenger with suspicious action on the bus. Whenever that happen, she pops her chewing gum balloon and uses her finger to remove the gum from her lip to point toward the person's seat position with the number of finger identifies the number of suspicious person. This is why the robbers always looked at the rear mirror, to see Tomino's action, and were able to notice Conan's attempt to call the police earlier.

• The robbers, pretending to leave the bus with Tomino as a "hostage" after ordering Dr. Araide and passenger Shuichi Akai to wear their ski outfits, would then denote the bomb inside the ski bag. Once the police arrive, they would pretend to be freed hostages and give false testimony regarding a fight on the bus which resulted in accidental death of the robbers (the remains of Dr. Araide and Akai in ski outfits) and the rest of the passengers.

• Tomino's watch is the detonator, as its time always remains at 1:00 pm.

Bus Bombing
290px	Location: Bus Victim: All passengers Suspects: Miharu Tomino with two hijackers Two hijackers with Miharu Tomino have taken the passengers hostage to explode the bus.

The Detective Boys are able to inform the driver to stop suddenly which allows Conan to apprehend the criminals. Tomino accidentally activates the bomb giving them a few minutes before it detonates. The passengers leave the bus but Haibara remains seated in the bus.

Attempted Suicide
	Location: The bus Victim: Ai Haibara

Haibara plans to die in the explosion and subsequently prevent the Black Organization from finding her and harming those around her. Conan rushes back in the bus, grabs Haibara, and escape through the back window of the bus before the explosion occurs.

Conan covers Ai's leg with own his blood to trick Takagi into taking Haibara to the hospital and away from the Black Organization member who was on the bus while Conan told Ai not to run away from fate. Araide notices Conan's ruse and inspects his bleeding arm. Shuichi Akai is seen reporting to an unknown person and informing them that the target has not appeared.

Conan saves Haibara.

The bus explodes.

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga version of the jazz club scene, Vermouth never actually says the phrase "A secret makes a woman woman" out in English like she does in the anime version. Later, she propositions Gin. The anime changes the conversation to avoid the sexual references.

Manga version
Vermouth: (to Gin) So, how about tonight? Want to make some martini?
Vodka: Martini?
Vermouth: Don't you know? It's gin and vermouth mixed.
Gin: Heh. Mixing black and black will only give you black.

—Chapter 287 pg 5

Anime version
Vermouth: (to Gin) Hey, let me ask you one thing. Have you found the kitty that got away?
Gin: No, but I certainly will. My nose can always detect the scent of a traitor. I'll make her taste true fear... and it'll be the same for the guy she is with.

—Episode 230

• When Conan ran back into the bus to save Haibara, he broke the bus window with a hijacker's gun in the manga. The gunshot was replaced by a kicked fire extinguisher in the anime to reduce gun violence.

Trivia

• Jodie and Conan each compared the other one to James Bond after the incident was over.
• In the second part of the case, the opening was changed to destiny.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	恋はスリル、ショック、サスペンス	Koi wa Suriru, Shokku, Sasupensu	Love is Thrill, Shock, Suspense	Koi wa Thrill, Shock, Suspense
2	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
3	古城のテーマ	Kojō no Tēma	The Old Castle's Theme	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
4	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
5	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	ターゲット サスペンスＣ	Tāgetto Sasupensu C	Target Suspense C	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
7	古城の探索	Kojō no Tansaku	Exploration of the Old Castle	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
8	赤い光のスナイパー１	Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 1	The Sniper's Red Light 1	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
9	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	犯人の謎	Hannin no Nazo	The Mystery of the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	次のターゲット！	Tsugi no Tāgetto!	The Next Target!	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
13	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
14	古城のテーマ	Kojō no Tēma	The Old Castle's Theme	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
15	Start in my life	Start in my life	Start in my life	Start in my life

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	destiny	destiny	destiny	destiny
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	犯人の謎	Hannin no Nazo	The Mystery of the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
5	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
8	緊急指令	Kinkyū Shirei	Emergency Orders	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
9	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	殺意	Satsui	Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
11	ターゲット サスペンスＤ	Tāgetto Sasupensu D	Target Suspense D	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
13	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
14	時計じかけの摩天楼	Tokei Jikake no Mantenrō	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
15	哀のテーマ （TVヴァージョン）	Ai no Tēma (TV Vājon)	Ai's Theme (TV Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
16	蘭のテーマ （優しさver.）	Ran no Tēma (Yasashisa ver.)	Ran's Theme (Gentle ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
17	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
18	Start in my life	Start in my life	Start in my life	Start in my life
19	古城の探索	Kojō no Tansaku	Exploration of the Old Castle	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	لغز الإشارة
Bahasa Melayu	Penumpang miseri	Mysterious Passenger
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El viatger misteriós	The mysterious traveler
Spanish (American dub)	El pasajero misterioso	The mysterious passenger
Chinese (Simplified)	神秘的乘客	The mysterious passenger
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El passatger misteriós	The mysterious passenger
French	Le mystérieux passager	The mysterious passenger
Galician	O pasaxeiro misterioso	The mysterious passenger
German	Bombenstimmung	Tremendous Atmosphere
Bahasa Indonesia	Penumpang misterius	The Mysterious Passenger/The Bus Hijacking
Italian	Il dirottamento dell'autobus	The Bus Hijacking
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El pasajero misterioso	The mysterious passenger
Thai	ผู้โดยสารปริศนา	The Mysterious Passenger
Vietnamese	Vị hành khách bí ẩn	The Mysterious Passenger

See also

• Season 9