The Small Eye-Witnesses

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Episode 281 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Small Eye-Witnesses
Japanese title:	小さな目撃者たち (Chiisana Mokugekisha-tachi)
Original airdate:	June 10, 2002
Season:	10
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Detective Boys
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys
Next Conan's Hint:	Kamen Yaiba's special move
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Michiru Shimada
Storyboard:	Masakazu Amiya
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Akiko Kawashima
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Shin Aomori as Eizo Kurata Aruno Tahara as Tatsuo Suzuki Yurika Hino as Kaori Yamagishi Sayaka Ohara as Megumi Ota Isshin Chiba as TV narration
Music
Opening song:	I can't stop my love for you♥
Closing song:	Yume Mita Ato de

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Detective Boys Badge Earring Cellphone

Case

Situation

In an abandoned house, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta are playing a horror game using store mannequins, but Ayumi repeatedly blows the mood because her fear always makes way for amusement at the sight of Mitsuhiko and Genta wielding mannequin arms. They become alarmed, however, when in one of the next rooms they hear glass shattering, and upon investigating, they witness two men calling each other Kurata and Suzuki arguing: Suzuki, apparently wishing to ditch the transportation company he's working for in favor of a better salary, has already diverted some of his company's loyal customers to their rival, Sanada Transportation. The argument quickly escalates into a fight, and while the Detective Boys are at a loss about what to do, one of the men quickly lies dead.

Murder
	Location: Abandoned house Victim: Tatsuo Suzuki Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Eizo Kurata

The Detective Boys waste no time calling up Conan at the Mouri Detective Agency, but while they do, the killer parks a truck outside and prepares to dispose of the body. Impulsively, they hitch a ride on the truck in order to find out where it will go and are able to escape the culprit's notice as he deposits the body inside, but in the excitement Ayumi has forgotten her Detective Badge, which she had just used to call Conan, and with no time to retrieve it before the killer departs from the scene (and it being the only Badge they had brought along), Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta have no way of telling Conan about the course of their ride and eventual point of destination.

The ride leads the Detective Boys through an unknown part of the city and out into the mountains, where they become ear witnesses of the culprit burying his victim's body, before they return back to the city. They abandon the truck when it is forced to stop at a red light, and while Mitsuhiko and Genta memorize the truck's license number as it drives away, Ayumi calls up Conan. The next day, Conan, his friends and Kogoro investigate the murder scene and trace the truck to the nearby Kurata Transportation Company, where Genta recognizes one of the men they have seen from a portrait of the company's president, Kurata, hanging in the reception area. The receptionists are also able to identify Suzuki as the company's director, and they also reveal that Suzuki had intentions of starting his own company and as a result had gotten into harsh arguments with Kurata, consolidating the Detective Boys' testimony. In addition, as of this morning, neither Kurata nor Suzuki has been accounted for.

The group finds the truck in question in the firm's parking lot, but a puddle of what the Detective Boys have taken for the victim's blood in the cargo section turns out to be red paint, which makes Kogoro abandon the children in disgust. Conan, however, continues the investigation and begins to backtrack the truck's route and the place where the body is buried from the few pieces of reliable information the Detective Boys have been able to gleam during their nocturnal ride: a branch establishment of a supermarket chain called "White Duck"; a number of certain gas stations they have gone past; a nearby train line; and the point of time at which the truck stopped at an appliance store, remembered by Genta through the climax of a Kamen Yaiba episode that was running on a TV screen inside the store's shop window. They proceed into the mountains and find the body's resting place, but are unaware that the killer has noticed their actions and followed them. And after they dig up the body, a major surprise awaits the Detective Boys...

People

Eizo Kurata
	President of the Kurata Transportation Company

Tatsuo Suzuki
	Victim (bludgeoned) Director and co-founder of the Kurata Transportation Company

Resolution

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Conan reveals that the victim is actually Kurata, not Suzuki. During their fight in the abandoned house, Suzuki had overpowered Kurata and bludgeoned him to death while Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta has momentarily taken their eyes off them. Evidence pointing to Suzuki's guilt is the truck's ashtray, which Conan found to be full of cigarette stumps of the same brand. Of the two men in question, only Suzuki is a smoker, and this is his favorite brand. In desperation, Suzuki prepares to attack the children, but is brought down by the combined efforts of Conan and his friends and surrendered to the police.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥
2	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
3	恋のトランプゲーム占い （世紀末ヴァージョン）	Koi no Toranpu Gēmu Uranai (Seikimatsu Vājon)	Love's Fortune-Telling Card Game (Last Century Version)	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
4	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
5	新一のテーマ	Shin'ichi no Tēma	Shinichi's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	ターゲット サスペンスＣ	Tāgetto Sasupensu C	Target Suspense C	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
8	新一のテーマ	Shin'ichi no Tēma	Shinichi's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	夜の探索	Yoru no Tansaku	Night Search	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
10	黒い影─挑戦	Kuroi Kage - Chōsen	Black Shadow - Challenge	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
11	新少年探偵団のテーマ	Shin Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma	The New Detective Boys' Theme	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
12	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	記憶喪失（影）	Kiokusōshitsu (Kage)	Amnesia (Shadow)	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
15	哀の予感～ジンのテーマＥ	Ai no Yokan ~ Jin no Tēma E	Ai's Premonition ~ Gin's Theme E	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
16	真相究明	Shinsō Kyūmei	Investigating the Truth	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
17	犯人のアジト	Hannin no Ajito	The Culprit's Hideout	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
18	殺意	Satsui	Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
19	漆黒の殺意	Shikkoku no Satsui	Jet Black Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
20	名探偵コナン メイン・テーマ （天国ヴァージョン）	Meitantei Konan Mein・Tēma (Tengoku Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Heaven Version)	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
21	夢みたあとで	Yume Mita Ato de	After I've Been Dreaming	Yume Mita Ato de
22	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

See also

• Season 10