The Battle Game Trap

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Episode 226-227 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Battle Game Trap
Original airdate:	February 26, 2001 (Part 1) March 5, 2001 (Part 2)
Season:	9
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)

Characters introduced

Jodie Starling
	28-29 years old a.k.a. Jodie Santemillion

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Makoto Kyogoku (Flashback) Tomoaki Araide (Flashback)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are at the arcade where they meet their High School English teacher, Jodie Saintemillion who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Ran to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Ran loses to a gamer named Kengo Bito who taunts her in her lost. Bito plays the game again his rival, Takayasu Shimizu; The battle is projected on a large screen. Bito's avatar overwhelms Shimizu's but stops at the climax of the match. The people in the arcade realize Bito is dead and the police are called in.

Murder
	Victim: Kengo Bito Cause of death: Poison

The police investigate; after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people, a middle aged man, an employee, Shimizu, and Jodie.

Part 2

The autopsy reveals the poison to be Tetrodotoxin; a poison that causes instant paralysis and death soon after. Conan investigates and learns the method and the culprit who murdered Bito.

People

Kengo Bito
	Victim (poison) 21 years old Unemployed

Hitoshi Dejima
	22 years old Arcade staff

Toshitsugu Emori
	41 years old Taxi driver

Yasutaka Shimizu
100px	30 years old Game magazine writer

Resolution

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Conan tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her; declaring Shimizu to be the murderer. Conan reveals that Shimizu was the one playing Bito's avatar in order disguise the fact Bito was already dead. As for the weapon, Conan explains Shimizu hid a needle inside a cigarette, put gum around it, wrapped it around paper and had it stuck to the employee's shoes. As certain evidence, Conan reveals that a coin with Shimizu's fingerprints should be found in Bito's arcade machine. Shimizu confesses revealing Bito's gambling and debt caused his sister to develop Vitamin A deficiency and resulting in her blindness. As Sonoko, Ran, and Jodie leave the arcade, their discussion leads to Shinichi whom Jodie dubs as Cool Guy; She says goodbye whilst calling Conan Cool Guy and leaves. That night, Jodie calls an unknown person discussing how her target, the Rotten Apple has changed appearance.

See also

• Season 9