The Mysterious Passenger

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Episode 230-231 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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)
Season:	9
Manga source:	Volume 29: Files 3-5 (287-289)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Tomoaki Araide Jodie Saintemillion Shuichi Akai Miwako Sato Inspector Megure Detective Chiba Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Detective Kobayashi Akemi Miyano Gin Vodka Vermouth Pisco
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Rearview mirror (Part 1) Sandal (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Masato Sato
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	230 Minoru Tozawa 231 Masato Sato
Animation director:	230 Keiko Sasaki 231 Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Chafurin as Inspector 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 Detective Chiba, Boy Hideyuki Hori as Tomoaki Araide Miyuki Ichijou as Jodie Saintemillion Katsumi Chou 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 Yukitoshi Hori as Gin Fumihiko Tachiki as Vodka Mami Koyama as Vermouth
Music
Opening song:	Koi wa Thrill, Shock, Suspense
Closing song:	Start in my life

Characters introduced

Shuichi Akai
	Mysterious man

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Tomoaki Araide Jodie Saintemillion Miwako Sato Inspector Megure 100px Detective Chiba Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Detective Kobayashi 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 a bar discussing their plans with the Black Organization member, Vermouth to capture Sherry. Conan and the Detective Boys are taking the transit bus to a ski resort where they meet Araide and Jodie aboard the bus. 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 and demand the city to release their boss.

Busjack
	Location: Bus Suspects: Two hijackers

Conan attempts to search for a way to apprehend the men but is caught every time causing him to realize 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 investigates the ski bags the robbers placed in the center of the bus and realizes they contain explosives.

People

Man #1
	Hijacker

Man #2
	Hijacker

Kunio Yashima
	Leader of Robber Gang

Shuichi Akai
	Passenger

Yasuhiko Machida
	Passenger

Miharu Tomino
	Passenger

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. 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 as she 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.

The bus explodes.

Conan has Takagi take Haibara to the hospital in order to hide her from the Black Organization member. Later, Shuichi Akai is seen reporting to an unknown person and informing them that the target has not appeared.

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.

Gallery

• Episode 230-231 Titlecard.jpg
• Vermouth's disguise as a waiter.png
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See also

• Season 9