The Time-Bombed Skyscraper

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Movie 1
Official trailer
Information
Title:	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper
English Title:	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper
Japanese Title:	名探偵コナン　時計じかけの摩天楼 (Meitantei Konan Tokei-jikake no Matenrō)
Original airdate:	April 19, 1997
English airdate:	October 3, 2006
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Professor Agasa Sonoko Suzuki Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri
Staff
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Chafurin as Inspector Megure Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Kaneto Shiozawa as Ninzaburo Shiratori Taro Ishida as Teiji Moriya
Music
Theme song:	Happy Birthday
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Characters introduced

Ninzaburo Shiratori
	Police officer from Tokyo Police District Works with Inspector Megure

Teiji Moriya
	47 years old Architect

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Professor Agasa Sonoko Suzuki Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Shinichi Kudo (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Stun-Gun Wristwatch Detective Boys Badge Turbo Engine Skateboard

Case

Situation

The opening of the movie starts with a murder at Kurokawa Household.

Murder
	Location: Kurokawa Household Victim: Daizo Kurokawa Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Mina Kurokawa, Daisuke Kurokawa, and Manami Nagasawa

Kogoro deduced from the victim's dying message JUN that it points to Mina Kurokawa, as June is also the dry month (Minazuki) and that she was born in June which earn a scold from Mina herself. Conan then puts Kogoro to sleep and starts the deduction.

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Daizo Kurokawa is making the message "Ma-Na-Mi".

The culprit is Manami Nagasawa. The message isn't JUN but a hiragana of "Ma-Na-Mi" which points to Manami herself. The evidence is that the weird blood on the floor match the one on her sock. Manami confessed that Daizo was responsible for the failure of her husband's surgery and his death due to that Daizo was drunk before performing the surgery. She couldn't find any witness due to everyone was scared of Daizo. So Manami comes to work as housekeeper to murder him as today in her husband's death anniversary.

Conan finds a strange letter (an invitation to a tea party) which is addressed to Shinichi Kudo.

While sorting mail at Professor Agasa's house, Conan finds a strange letter (an invitation to a tea party) which is addressed to Shinichi Kudo. The letter was sent from a man named Teiji Moriya who is a famous architect. Conan calls Ran Mouri using his Voice-Changing Bowtie to mimic Shinichi's voice and tells her he can't go to this tea party and if she would go in his place. He tells her to bring her dad, Kogoro Mouri and "that kid" (referring to Conan).

Ran says she will do it only if he goes to a movie with her on Saturday; Conan tries to make her change the date but she is determined that it has to be on May 3rd. She then asks him whats his favorite color: Red or Blue to which he responds Red. Conan leaves the pay phone and while walking home trying to figure why she wants it to be on May 3rd. While on the way home he meets Inspector Megure who introduces him to Ninzaburo Shiratori.

While eating dinner with Ran and Kogoro, Ran tells Conan she's taking Shinichi to the movies on May 3rd and when it hits midnight she will give her gift to him (which is a red polo shirt). Conan then realizes that May the 4th is his birthday.

Kogoro is pondering Moriya's quiz.

Conan tricks Kogoro into going to the tea party as Kogoro doesn't want to go in the first place. They meet Teiji Moriya and tell him that Shinichi couldn't make it but that Kogoro is another famous detective. Moriya gives everyone a quiz and asks them to solve it. Conan is the first to solve it so he gets to go to see his gallery with Ran. While observing the pictures Ran tells Moriya that shes going to the movies with Shinichi and is going to be watching it in one of the buildings he designed.

The next day Ran goes out to get some food and Conan goes to Agasa's house. Trying to think of what to do for his movie "date" with Ran. A news station on T.V. reported that someone stole lots of octogen which is the main component for plastic explosives. Right after, Professor Agasa receives a phone call asking to talk to Shinichi, the man using a voice changing device tells Shinichi that he is the one who stole the Octogen and tells him to give his mobile phone number to him. Conan tells him his number and the man tells him to go to Greenbelt park or else the kids will die.

Conan uses his skateboard and rushes to Greenbelt park where he finds: Genta Kojima, Ayumi Yoshida, and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya playing with a remote controlled plane. Mitsuhiko tells Conan a man with a mustache and a beard gave it to them. Conan notices that there is a bomb on the plane so he takes the controller away from Mitsuhiko but he refuses to give it to him since its Genta's turn. Conan tells them there is a bomb on it and they drop it and the antenna breaks. The plane is now flying uncontrolled so Conan uses his Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes and kicks the Controller into the Plane blowing it up. Conan then realizes this isn't a prank and then gets another call telling him about another bomb.

Bombing
	Location: Park Suspects: Unknown Bomber Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko were given a toy plane attached with plastic bombs by a mysterious man! Luckily, Conan manages to destroy it in the air and prevent causalities.

Bombing
	Location: Road Victim: Conan Edogawa Suspects: Unknown Bomber A second bomb was planted in a cat box alongside a stray cat was taken by an old lady! Conan "borrows" a bicycle from a boy to catch up with her and manage to take the bomb to riverside. However, Conan also suffer several injuries from the explosion.

When Conan was searching for the second bomb, he only manages to bring it to a deserted place before it blows up which sends Conan flying into a tree. He wakes up in the hospital. They get another notice that there are more bombs planted on a train track. They also found that one case related to Shinichi might connect to this mass-bombing event.

Planted Bombs
	Location: Train tracks and a bridge Suspects: Unknown Bomber Several bombs were planted on the trail tracks with the culprit instruction to keep speeding up the trains or else the bombs will explode.

Megure reflects on a case that Shinichi solved in the past.

Accident (Past)
	Location: Nishitama City Victim: Office Lady Cause of death: Hit by a car Suspects: Kohei Okamoto, Mayor Okamoto While driving and smoking, Kohei Okamoto accidentally hit a young woman to death. However, something doesn't match...

Shinichi is called to explain this accident by Megure.

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The evidence does not indicate that Kohei was the driver of the car. It points to Mayor Okamoto as the driver.

Conan is able to figure out that the bombs use sunlight to reset the time and has the police navigate the trains out of the suspected area. All the bombs are then safely recovered. Later that day Conan, Megure, Shiratori and Kogoro go to Moriya's house.

People

Daizo Kurokawa
	Victim (bludgeoned) 62 years old Director of Kurokawa Clinic

Mina Kurokawa
	32 years old Daizo's second wife

Daisuke Kurokawa
	36 years old Daizo's eldest son Doctor of internal medicine

Manami Nakazawa
	27 years old Housemaid

Teiji Moriya
	47 years old Architect

Woman
	Victim (hit by a car) 25 years old Office worker

Kohei Okamoto
	21 years old Son of the mayor

Mayor Okamoto
	52 years old Mayor of Nishitama City

Sakaguchi
	52 years old Chief of operations from Touto Railway Control Center

Kusunoki
	45 years old Command center chief from Touto Railway Control Center

Resolution

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Conan figures out that the famous architect Teiji Moriya has been the bomber all along. He was driven to this due to his obsession with symmetry. His plan was to blow up his structures and replace them with symmetrical structures (all of the bomb targets were either at or near buildings he designed). His hatred to Shinichi is due to the fact that because of him Mayor Okamoto(who supported his "Perfect Nishita Town") failed to become Nishita Town's governor and the plan was stopped. With his crimes exposed, Moriya attempts to detonate the bombs inside his house but is stopped when Conan reveals that he removed the batteries earlier when he planted some fake evidences (Moriya's disguise outfits) to lure him into spills beans. However, Moriya taunts the group that he has one more place that he wants to destroy

Bombing
	Location: Beika City Building Victim: Ran Mouri and various people trapped inside the building Culprit: Teiji Moriya Large amount of bombs were planted throughout the building to destroy Moriya's "ultimate disgrace" and some of the explosions begins to seal all the entrances! With the last and most gigantic explosion will occur at 0:03, it's now up to Ran to disarm the bomb by herself!

Conan contacts Ran (using his tie to mimic his Shinichi voice) and tells her she must find and disarm the bomb.

Several bombs are revealed to be in the mall where Ran is. They explode and many civilians get trapped in the building. Conan (who enters the building after the first explosion) contacts Ran (using his tie to mimic his Shinichi voice) and tells her she must find and disarm the last and largest bomb. Ran finds the box with the bomb. Conan, who is now separated from Ran by a damaged door, guides her through cutting various wires using plans left by Moriya. Ran is down to 2 wires, a red one and a blue one. The plans do not include any instructions regarding these two wires. If the wrong one is cut, it would result in an detonation.

Conan loses hope since this means there's almost no way to keep the bomb from exploding and tells Ran to do as she likes, since they are going to die together at this rate. Conan is then found by rescue workers and taken out of the building while realizing then the red wire is booby-trapped. However, Ran can no longer hear Conan's instructions, so he believed her to be in trouble. To his surprise, Ran cuts the blue wire and saves everyone. Conan asks Ran why she didn't cut the red wire (her lucky color). She replies she didn't cut because she didn't want to sever the red string of fate between her and Shinichi.

The movie ends with Conan remarking that there is no "red string", and mentions that's because "it's no use... as long as I'm Conan".

Music

End credit music: Happy Birthday by Kyoko.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Daizo Kurokawa - Magnum Cornhouser
• Mina Kurokawa - Mina Cornhouser
• Daisuke Kurokawa - Mortimer Cornhouser
• Manami Nakazawa - Minami Goodsbe
• Teiji Moriya - Leo Joel

Gallery

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See also

• Movies