SOS! Messages from Ayumi

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Episode 140 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	SOS! Messages from Ayumi
Japanese title:	SOS! 歩美からのメッセージ (SOS! Ayumi kara no Messēji)
Original airdate:	April 12, 1999
Broadcast rating:	18.4%
Filler case:	#51
Season:	6
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Hiroshi Agasa Sumiko Kobayashi Mrs. Yoshida Kamen Yaiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Clock
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Yuko Kato as Sumiko Kobayashi Shinobu Sato as Mrs. Yoshida Hikaru Hanada as Minoru Nakagawa Mitsuki Saiga as Day shift Isshin Chiba as Kamen Yaiba
Music
Opening song:	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
Closing song:	Still for your love

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Hiroshi Agasa Sumiko Kobayashi Mrs. Yoshida (voice) Kamen Yaiba (alarm clock/playing cards)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Detective Boys Badge Earring Cellphone

Case

Situation

One day, Ayumi is sick. She takes a day off from school and while she naps, her mother nips out from their apartment to do some shopping. When Ayumi wakes up, she hears noises from the front door. Excitedly, she runs to the door to surprise her mother as she comes in, but when she peeks through the peep hole, she finds that it isnt her mother at all, but a strange man with a ponytail fiddling with the lock. Terrified, she runs for the phone and tries to call the police, but her fingers are too slow, and as the door handle turns, in a frenzy of motion, she dives for a hiding spot and drops the phone in the process.

The robber, disguised as a deliveryman, enters and immediately sees the phone lying on the floor. It's very suspicious, why would anyone with such a well-kept home, drop their phone on the ground and not bother to pick it up? And so, he stalks through the house, looking around for someone that could be hiding, and then he sees it. The sleeve of a yellow shirt caught outside of a closed closet, a hiding place cliched because it is so great for hiding people in. With a malicious smile, hoping to find the hiding one, he throws open the closet door and Ayumi is not in the aforementioned closet. He then turns back and starts searching other rooms, while Ayumi was still inside, hidden under the bed.

She relocates to a closet, to afford herself more materials to communicate a secret voiceless message to Conan and as Mitsuhiko and Genta discuss their plan to surprise visit Ayumi at her apartment, she alerts Conan through his Detective Boys' badge. They hear the Yaiba clock declaiming the date and time and then, using a clever system of taps, she communicates that she can't talk, nothing is wrong and she was essentially prank-walkie-talkie-ing them.

Robbery - Murder (past)
	Location: Restaurant l'Escargot Victim: Owner Cause of death: Stabbing Suspects: Minoru Nakagawa

Robbery - Kidnapping
	Location: Yoshida household Victim: Ayumi Yoshida Culprit: Minoru Nakagawa

Everyone is reassured, except for Conan. He thinks that prank-walkie-talkie-ing people is out of character for Ayumi and would be more of the kind of idiotic activity that Genta or Mitsuhiko would participate in. Haibara picks up on his worry for Ayumi, and she provides the key to the message that Ayumi was really communicating before being interrupted by Conan, who runs out of the classroom.

People

Minoru Nakagawa
	Robber Suspected of killing l'Escargot's owner

Mrs. Yamamoto
	Resident of Ayumi's mansion

Man
	Deceased (stabbed) Restaurant l'Escargot owner

Resolution

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• Conclusion

Conan yells for the teacher to call the police and then runs out of the classroom for Ayumi's house. So much time has passed since her message to them, that he fears that the robber will soon be killing and leaving the apartment. He recalls that the murdering robber in the paper had only killed just before he left and so he calls under the guise of Professor Agasa and offers to return 5,000,000 yen. Thats five million yen. Or so the materialistic robber thinks, and filled with the lucre of the opportunity, he decides to wait for this "old man".

True to form, Conan enters the apartment nonchalantly with a soccer ball and threatens the robber with it. Conan then kicks the ball very hard at the helmeted head of the robber. But, the head of the robber was helmeted! And so, the robber takes out his baton and tries to beat Conan. This time, the rest of the Detective Boys take the opportunity to take down the robber, Haibara spraying white foam into his eyes and then Mitsuhiko and Genta sitting on him.

• Epilogue

It turns out that Nakagawa wasn't the robber-killer in the Escargot restaurant case and that he was going to let Ayumi free after leaving her house. Professor Agasa tells the kids not to do anymore reckless stuff like running into an apartment housing a potentially murderous robber in it, including Conan in his remonstrations. Conan then agrees to not "behave like the other kids", and Professor Agasa admits he would love to have grandkids like Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi, before going towards them to held them push the swings.

Trivia

Yamamoto's room.

• Mrs. Yamamoto's room appears in Grabbing Karuta Cards in Dire Straits.
• This is the first case that Ayumi is sick.
• This case shows that Genta is lousy at cards, since it is obvious which card that he wants someone to take from his hand, such as the joker. He is so transparent that Conan cracked up, when Mitsuhiko took the other card.
• In this episode, Professor Agasa reprimanded the Detective Boys for discussing murder cases, instead of their dreams.
  • Apparently, he is unaware that Conan CANNOT talk with the 'real' kids at all then, since his ONLY dream is to become Shinichi Kudo again, be with Ran, and take down that evil organization.
  • Not to mention that the only things other things he wants to talk about are Sherlock Holmes and Soccer, plus Codes and Tricks, and Mysteries- non-stop.
  • and has zero interest on almost everything else unrelated.
• Ayumi lives in the Resident Tower on the 30th floor.
• This is an episode that Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Haibara used teamwork to rescue Ayumi and Conan.
• Although the Detective Boys have seen Conan speak in a Voice-Changing Bowtie once before, it has not donned on Ayumi, and probably the other 2 kids that it is simply Conan using their voices.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
2	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	ターゲット サスペンスＤ	Tāgetto Sasupensu D	Target Suspense D	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
6	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
7	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	ターゲット サスペンスＨ	Tāgetto Sasupensu H	Target Suspense H	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
9	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	ターゲット サスペンスＦ	Tāgetto Sasupensu F	Target Suspense F	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
11	殺意	Satsui	Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	何かが起きる…	Nanika ga Okiru...	Something Happened...	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
13	ターゲット サスペンスＧ	Tāgetto Sasupensu G	Target Suspense G	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
14	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma	Detective Conan Main Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love
16	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	رسالة من إيومي	A Message from Iyumi
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El missatge d'auxili de l'Ayumi	SOS message from Ayumi
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El missatge d'auxili d'Ayumi	SOS message from Ayumi
French	Mission: Sauver Ayumi	Mission: Save Ayumi
Galician	A mensaxe de socorro de Ayumi	SOS message from Ayumi
German	Ayumi in Gefahr	Ayumi in Danger
Italian	SOS, Ayumi è in pericolo!	SOS, Ayumi is in Danger!
Spanish (American dub)	¡SOS! Mensajes de Ayumi	SOS! Messages from Ayumi
Spanish (Castilian dub)	¡El mensaje de socorro de Ayumi!	SOS message from Ayumi!
Thai	คดี SOS ข้อความจากอายูมิ	The case of SOS - Message from Ayumi
Vietnamese	SOS! Thông điệp của Ayumi	SOS! Message from Ayumi

See also

• Season 6